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From The Country To The City: Southern Identity In The Stories Of Taylor And O'Connor, Catherine Anne Clark
From The Country To The City: Southern Identity In The Stories Of Taylor And O'Connor, Catherine Anne Clark
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Quest For Meaning In "The Waste Land" And "Sanctuary": A Comparative Study, Mary Katherine Compton
The Quest For Meaning In "The Waste Land" And "Sanctuary": A Comparative Study, Mary Katherine Compton
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Victorian Maternity And Edna Pontellier's Awakening, Shari Dean Schaffer
Victorian Maternity And Edna Pontellier's Awakening, Shari Dean Schaffer
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No abstract provided.
The Necessary Good: The "True Ethic" Of "Sister Carrie", David John Essex
The Necessary Good: The "True Ethic" Of "Sister Carrie", David John Essex
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A House Divided: Brothers And The Problem Of Balance In The Stories Of John Cheever, David Alan Raney
A House Divided: Brothers And The Problem Of Balance In The Stories Of John Cheever, David Alan Raney
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Joan Didion And The New Journalism, Jean Gillingwators
Joan Didion And The New Journalism, Jean Gillingwators
Theses Digitization Project
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Sherlock Holmes In Yoknapatawpha: Faulkner's "Knight's Gambit" And Detective Fiction, Kevin James Slattum
Sherlock Holmes In Yoknapatawpha: Faulkner's "Knight's Gambit" And Detective Fiction, Kevin James Slattum
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
When Southern Labor Stirred: The Literary Reaction To Gastonia, Robert Dale Bradford
When Southern Labor Stirred: The Literary Reaction To Gastonia, Robert Dale Bradford
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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Temperament As Destiny: A Study Of Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie" And "An American Tragedy", Christine H. Seifert
Temperament As Destiny: A Study Of Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie" And "An American Tragedy", Christine H. Seifert
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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Dream In The Fiction Of Nathanael West, James M. Caldwell
Dream In The Fiction Of Nathanael West, James M. Caldwell
Masters Theses
Since the publication of his first novel in 1931, Nathanael West has presented significant problems for critics in their attempts to arrive at conclusions about his work and to classify him among twentieth century novelists. Various critical approaches have helped to clarify some of the ambiguities in West's four novels, but the bibliographic, source, and psychological studies have often often neglected specifics of the texts in favor of finding West a niche in relation to his twentieth century contemporaries.
Most criticism of West's fiction discusses dreams to some extent. His fictions are considered dreamworlds, and each novel's ordering dream is …
"Absalom, Absalom!" And The Southern Code Of Honor, Kevin Gardner
"Absalom, Absalom!" And The Southern Code Of Honor, Kevin Gardner
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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An Application Of Mikhail Bakhtin’S Theory Of The Grotesque To The Fiction Of Flannery O’Connor, Holly Roberts
An Application Of Mikhail Bakhtin’S Theory Of The Grotesque To The Fiction Of Flannery O’Connor, Holly Roberts
Masters Theses
The grotesque in Flannery O'Connor's fiction has always been a central concern of her readers and critics, because it is such a prominent aspect of her work and is usually connected with the equally pervasive characteristics of violence, destruction, and death. Many of her critics see the grotesquerie of her characters and landscapes as indicative of humanity's fallen existence--that it serves only to reveal what is wrong with the human condition. Such views echo the premises of Wolfgang Kayser's theory of the grotesque presented in his well-known book, The Grotesque in Art and Literature, but as I point out, …