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From The Country To The City: Southern Identity In The Stories Of Taylor And O'Connor, Catherine Anne Clark Jan 1986

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 Jan 1986

The Quest For Meaning In "The Waste Land" And "Sanctuary": A Comparative Study, Mary Katherine Compton

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Victorian Maternity And Edna Pontellier's Awakening, Shari Dean Schaffer Jan 1986

Victorian Maternity And Edna Pontellier's Awakening, Shari Dean Schaffer

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Necessary Good: The "True Ethic" Of "Sister Carrie", David John Essex Jan 1986

The Necessary Good: The "True Ethic" Of "Sister Carrie", David John Essex

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


A House Divided: Brothers And The Problem Of Balance In The Stories Of John Cheever, David Alan Raney Jan 1986

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 Jan 1986

Joan Didion And The New Journalism, Jean Gillingwators

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


Sherlock Holmes In Yoknapatawpha: Faulkner's "Knight's Gambit" And Detective Fiction, Kevin James Slattum Jan 1986

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 Jan 1986

When Southern Labor Stirred: The Literary Reaction To Gastonia, Robert Dale Bradford

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Temperament As Destiny: A Study Of Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie" And "An American Tragedy", Christine H. Seifert Jan 1986

Temperament As Destiny: A Study Of Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie" And "An American Tragedy", Christine H. Seifert

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Dream In The Fiction Of Nathanael West, James M. Caldwell Jan 1986

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 Jan 1986

"Absalom, Absalom!" And The Southern Code Of Honor, Kevin Gardner

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


An Application Of Mikhail Bakhtin’S Theory Of The Grotesque To The Fiction Of Flannery O’Connor, Holly Roberts Jan 1986

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, …