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The Adjustment continues the story of Jacob Cahill, the son of American missionaries in China who were killed during the great purges of Mao Tse-tung early in his reign. In Book One, Jacob survives through the goodwill and good graces of his Chinese godmother, Mu Ju, and her son, a former Buddhist monk, who cares for and trains the boy until he is old enough to flee China. To the shock of his caretakers, they realize that Jacob is a child prodigy, possessed of extraordinary intellectual abilities, which they struggle to help him realize. Now back in America, fifteen-year-old Jacob must...

Der Band zeigt die Chancen und Grenzen des Begriffs eines literarischen Primitivismus auf. Die Beitrage entwerfen Theorien des Primitivismus und rekonstruieren seine wissenschaftsgeschichtlichen Hintergrunde, sie erarbeiten anhand von Beispielen aus der Literatur die Konturen eines literarischen Primitivismus und beleuchten dessen Verhaltnis zum Primitivismus in der bildenden Kunst. Dabei erweist sich der Primitivismus als pragendes Moment in der Ausbildung der literarischen Moderne.

"Novelist Denise Gess and historian William Lutz brilliantly restore the event to its rightful place in the forefront of American historical imagination." --Chicago Sun-Times

On October 8, 1871--the same night as the Great Chicago Fire--the lumber town of Peshtigo, Wisconsin, was struck with a five-mile-wide wall of flames, borne on tornado-force winds of one hundred miles per hour that tore across more than 2,400 square miles of land, obliterating the town in less than one hour and killing more than two thousand people.

At the center of the blowout were...