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The Pioneer Chinese Of Utah, Don C. Conley

Theses and Dissertations

With the single exception of a survey of Chinese history in the Western United States written by the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, there exists no other documented history of the Chinese experience in Utah.

This paper offers an overview of Pioneer Chinese life in Utah territory from the Chinese railroad laborers in Box Elder County to the Chinatown settlement in Silver Reef mining camp in Washington County. Old Chinese customs, individual Chinese personalities and communities are rediscovered through the use of census data, newspaper editorials, and oral interviews. Chinese religion is analyzed from available data about pioneer Chinese funeral …

The Sterne Voyage Of The Pequod: The Tale Of A Tub In American Literature, Michael J. Pinker

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

Story telling long bore a stigma which, while not necessarily evil, still induced a great many artists to strive, amidst the uncertainty of time and opinion, to depict their fondness for the jaunty tale or absurd anecdote in an inoffensive yet richly expressive style. The above quotations all pivot upon nonsense and exaggeration, a favorite mode of many of the greatest writers in the language. The method these authors followed in creating their comic masterpieces is often clearly reflected by their treatment of such a phrase as "a tale of a tub.” Though now practically obsolete, this epithet, first traced …

Le Correspondant, 1880-1890: Literary And Social Tendencies, Mary Kenny

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

Several studies have been written on the treatment of literature in French periodicals. The importance of these studies has been stressed by Claude Pichois and André M. Rousseau in La Littérature comparée, although the authors were referring particularly to journals destined for the grand public. Still the Correspondant fits in with the reviews like L'Année littéraire, discussed by the text. The informative value of such periodicals is clearly emphasized with relation to the general knowledge of a writer and the period that is available there. In fact the authors will state later:

Au dix-neuvième siècle le certificat de …