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Writing The Young Adult Novel: Analysis And Process, Lucinda Boone Dec 1999

Writing The Young Adult Novel: Analysis And Process, Lucinda Boone

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The thesis consists of two sections: research and creative. The research section includes brief analyses of five young adult novels that received the Newbery Medal, awarded annually by the American Library Association to the author of the most distinguished contribution to children's literature. The creative section is an original young adult novel that incorporates some of the characteristics uncovered in the analysis of the Newbery novels. The Newbery Medal winners analyzed for this thesis are The High King by Lloyd Alexander; Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary; Missing Maxj by Cynthia Rylant; A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle; and …


Southern Post-Modernism, Anti-Romanticism And Gender Difference In Flannery O'Connor And Some Other Southern Contemporaries, Ada Skillern Aug 1999

Southern Post-Modernism, Anti-Romanticism And Gender Difference In Flannery O'Connor And Some Other Southern Contemporaries, Ada Skillern

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Flannery O' Connor has long been an established southern writer of the mid-twentieth century. This paper discusses briefly the tenets of both Modernism and Post-Modernism as literary movements of the twentieth-century, then looks specifically at how O'Connor's fiction makes her a key hallmark figure in the movement known as Post-Modernism, but also as one of the first female southern writers to utilize very anti-Romantic themes and style. Further, this paper attempts to examine through a discussion of various contemporary male and female southern writers the depth of O'Connor's influence on their own works. Attention is also given to the differences …


American Journey Toward Female Equality With And Through Adrienne Rich's Works, Shelby Scruggs May 1999

American Journey Toward Female Equality With And Through Adrienne Rich's Works, Shelby Scruggs

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

What initially triggered my writing a thesis on the feminist movement in America was the question, "Will women ever truly achieve equality?" Further, will all humanity ever achieve equality? I found through the movement toward equality for women that any movement toward equality progresses toward equality for all because if one group only wants to be equal with others, then they want others to have equality as well. This thesis surveys the feminist movement in America from the 1950's to the 1990's through the realm of the works of Adrienne Rich, American female poet. Rich's progression as a political feminist …


Ua68/6/1 Zephyrus, Western Kentucky University Jan 1999

Ua68/6/1 Zephyrus, Western Kentucky University

Student Creative Writing

The fine arts magazine of Western Kentucky University at Bowling Green.


Ua68/6/1 Zephyrus, Western Kentucky University Jan 1999

Ua68/6/1 Zephyrus, Western Kentucky University

Student Creative Writing

The fine arts magazine of Western Kentucky University at Bowling Green.


In Search Of A New Totality: Herman Hesse's Demian, Jeffrey Shannon Jan 1999

In Search Of A New Totality: Herman Hesse's Demian, Jeffrey Shannon

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

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Carothers Mccaslin's Progeny Tracing The Theme Of Redemption Chronologically Through The Multiracial Mccaslins, Christine Reiss Jan 1999

Carothers Mccaslin's Progeny Tracing The Theme Of Redemption Chronologically Through The Multiracial Mccaslins, Christine Reiss

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

William Faulkner' s Go Down, Moses (1942) is a novel that depicts the complicated family history of the McCaslins. There are primarily three branches of the family: the white, male-descended McCaslins, the white, female-descended Edmondses, and the multiracial, male-descended Beauchamps. The multiracial line of the family, the Beauchamps, are the progeny of the original McCaslin patriarch, old Carothers McCaslin. His act of miscegenation with one of his slaves produces a daughter, on whom he then fathers a son. This act of miscegenation and incest sets in motion a family line that struggles with the weight of its father's sin. The …