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Literature in English, North America

2007

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The Biblical Foundation Of James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues", James Tackach Dec 2007

The Biblical Foundation Of James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues", James Tackach

Arts & Sciences Faculty Publications

This article focuses on the critical analysis of two main biblical texts that form the foundation of Baldwin’s "Sonny's Bules": the Cain and Abel story from the Book of Genesis and the parable of the Prodigal Son from Luke’s gospel.


Picture Postcard, Anthony Fife Dec 2007

Picture Postcard, Anthony Fife

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the Caudill College of Humanities at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Anthony Fife on December 14, 2007.


How To Tell A Story: Mark Twain And The Short Story Genre, Richard Simpson Aug 2007

How To Tell A Story: Mark Twain And The Short Story Genre, Richard Simpson

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This study examines the short fiction of Mark Twain in relation to major theories concerning the short story genre. Despite his popularity as a novelist and historical figure, Twain has not been recognized as a major figure in the development of the short story genre. This study attempts to show that the short fiction produced by Twain deserves greater regard within studies specific to the short story, and calls for a reconsideration of Twain as a dynamic figure in the development of the genre. The introductory chapter lays the groundwork for understanding how the short story genre has developed since …


Museum-Making In Women's Poetry: How Sylvia Plath And Emily Dickinson Confront The Time Of History, Margaret Brown Aug 2007

Museum-Making In Women's Poetry: How Sylvia Plath And Emily Dickinson Confront The Time Of History, Margaret Brown

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

In The Newly Born Woman, Helene Cixous and Catherine Clement note that Michelet and Freud "both thought that the repressed past survives in woman; woman, more than anyone else, is dedicated to reminiscence" (5). Whether or not this is true of woman, that expectation of her—as keeper of the past—has perhaps subsisted in the deepest realms of the collective unconscious. From the work of Cixous and Clement, Julia Kristeva and Angela Leighton, I ultimately deduce that there are two perceptions of time: man's time has been associated with the straight, the linear, the historical, and the prosaic; woman's time has …


"What Man As Made Of Man": From British Romanticism To Neo-Romanticism, Melissa A. Pelletier May 2007

"What Man As Made Of Man": From British Romanticism To Neo-Romanticism, Melissa A. Pelletier

Theses & Honors Papers

This thesis analyzes the history of English literature as it evolves due to the changing thoughts and ways of poets. Discussing conventions of this literature such as innocence, escapism, and hope, it also analyzes the works of various different poets from these time periods and how they shaped literature into what it has become.


Suttree Stagger, J.C. Tumblin Apr 2007

Suttree Stagger, J.C. Tumblin

Cormac McCarthy Conference

No abstract provided.


“The Lingering Scent Of Divinity” In "The Sunset Limited" And "The Road", Susan Tyburski Apr 2007

“The Lingering Scent Of Divinity” In "The Sunset Limited" And "The Road", Susan Tyburski

Cormac McCarthy Conference

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"I Yearn For The Darkness": Epicurean Thoughts On Death In Mccarthy, Andrew Husband Apr 2007

"I Yearn For The Darkness": Epicurean Thoughts On Death In Mccarthy, Andrew Husband

Cormac McCarthy Conference

No abstract provided.


The End Of The Road: Pastoralism And The Post-Apocalyptic Waste Land In "The Road", Tim Edwards Apr 2007

The End Of The Road: Pastoralism And The Post-Apocalyptic Waste Land In "The Road", Tim Edwards

Cormac McCarthy Conference

No abstract provided.


The Post-Southern Sense Of Place In "The Road", Chris Walsh Apr 2007

The Post-Southern Sense Of Place In "The Road", Chris Walsh

Cormac McCarthy Conference

No abstract provided.


'Golden Chalice, Good To House A God': Still Life In "The Road", Randall Wilhelm Apr 2007

'Golden Chalice, Good To House A God': Still Life In "The Road", Randall Wilhelm

Cormac McCarthy Conference

No abstract provided.


Compassionate Mccarthy? "The Road" And Schopenhauerian Ethics, Euan Gallivan Apr 2007

Compassionate Mccarthy? "The Road" And Schopenhauerian Ethics, Euan Gallivan

Cormac McCarthy Conference

No abstract provided.


Hospitality In Cormac Mccarthy's "The Road", Phillip Snyder Apr 2007

Hospitality In Cormac Mccarthy's "The Road", Phillip Snyder

Cormac McCarthy Conference

No abstract provided.


The Route And Roots Of "The Road", Wesley G. Morgan Apr 2007

The Route And Roots Of "The Road", Wesley G. Morgan

Cormac McCarthy Conference

No abstract provided.


Full Circle: "The Road" Rewrites "The Orchard Keeper", Louis Palmer Apr 2007

Full Circle: "The Road" Rewrites "The Orchard Keeper", Louis Palmer

Cormac McCarthy Conference

No abstract provided.


Mccarthy’S Sense Of Ending, Jay Ellis Apr 2007

Mccarthy’S Sense Of Ending, Jay Ellis

Cormac McCarthy Conference

Keynote Address: McCarthy’s Sense of Ending


Balancing Rosie And June: A Study Of Lynchburg College Postwar Alumnae And The Impact Of The Feminine Mystique, Dinah Watson Mar 2007

Balancing Rosie And June: A Study Of Lynchburg College Postwar Alumnae And The Impact Of The Feminine Mystique, Dinah Watson

Undergraduate Theses and Capstone Projects

In 2003, the movie Mona Lisa Smile debuted describing the frustrations that many college women may have faced in the years after World War II. Wellesley College was the elite all-female institution that openly and proudly prepared its young women with the proper rules of etiquette and correctness. Despite Wellesley’s own excellent academic reputation, its close proximity to the prestigious single-sex male college, Harvard, made it even more appealing and convenient for the Wellesley girls to find a “suitable” husband. The novice young art instructor, Katherine Watson, was unique in that she wanted to offer her students not only a …


Placards: Mkr Society, Edna Saffy And Grady Johnson Mar 2007

Placards: Mkr Society, Edna Saffy And Grady Johnson

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Name cards for Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society event designating the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Farm a National Historic Landmark, March 3, 2007.


Contents, Tom Mack, Ph.D. Jan 2007

Contents, Tom Mack, Ph.D.

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.


“Send Me A Nice Little Letter All To Myself”: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’S Fan Mail And Antebellum Poetic Culture, Jill E. Anderson Jan 2007

“Send Me A Nice Little Letter All To Myself”: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’S Fan Mail And Antebellum Poetic Culture, Jill E. Anderson

University Library Faculty Publications

This paper examines fan mail written to poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow during the 1840s and 1850s, as he made the transition from emerging poet to being one of the best-known and most influential American poets of his time. Longfellow’s admirers wrote him letters praising his poetry, but also making requests for tokens of his presence and esteem: handwritten lines of his poetry, pencils, portraits, locks of hair, and in one case, his daughter’s hand in marriage. Claiming to “know” Longfellow through his poetry, admirers often also identified themselves as being in “debt” to Longfellow for his beautiful poetry, and sought …


Trauma And Sexual Inversion, Circa 1885: Oliver Wendell Holmes's A Mortal Antipathy And Maladies Of Representation, Randall Knoper Jan 2007

Trauma And Sexual Inversion, Circa 1885: Oliver Wendell Holmes's A Mortal Antipathy And Maladies Of Representation, Randall Knoper

Randall Knoper

No abstract provided.


Ellison's Rinehart And Count Basie's: Invisible Man And 'Harvard Blues', Brooke Conti Jan 2007

Ellison's Rinehart And Count Basie's: Invisible Man And 'Harvard Blues', Brooke Conti

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


From Man To Meteor: Nineteenth Century American Writers And The Figure Of John Brown, Amanda Benigni Jan 2007

From Man To Meteor: Nineteenth Century American Writers And The Figure Of John Brown, Amanda Benigni

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

On November 2, 1859, John Brown laid siege to the Federal Arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, then Virginia, in an effort to seize weaponry which he planned to employ in a full scale slave insurrection. From the moment he entered the public eye during his brief trial and execution, John Brown and his legacy were figured and refigured by prominent writers and thinkers of the time. The result of this refiguring was an image under constant metamorphosis. As the image of John Brown cycled through the Civil War, it moved further and further from the actual man and became a metaphor …


Appalachian Literature And The "Red-Headed Stepchild Of Publishing:" The Writings Of Victor Depta And The Cultural Work Of Independent Presses, Kristopher Clifford Jan 2007

Appalachian Literature And The "Red-Headed Stepchild Of Publishing:" The Writings Of Victor Depta And The Cultural Work Of Independent Presses, Kristopher Clifford

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Over the past couple of decades, Appalachian literature has developed a strong and close relationship with independent publishing, showing the latter to be an important medium for the expression for Appalachian voice. As the attempted consolidation of the book trade into a corporate, bottom-line oriented, high-profit industry minimizes the publication of books with mere "regional" appeal at the same time that the cultural products of Appalachia, as a region, continue to be marginalized through the continued deployment of stereotypes and attitudes of inferiority, Appalachian writers find it difficult to have their books published and distributed by major publishing houses. As …


I Am Prosper, I Am Ariel, I Am Caliban: A Metatheatrical Approach To Neil Gaiman’S The Sandman, Leah E. Haydu Jan 2007

I Am Prosper, I Am Ariel, I Am Caliban: A Metatheatrical Approach To Neil Gaiman’S The Sandman, Leah E. Haydu

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

In this paper, I use a primarily close-reading approach to examine the metatheatrical elements of William Shakespeare’s representation in Neil Gaiman’s comic book series The Sandman. This involves examinations of individual panels throughout three different issues of the series in order to uncover how Shakespeare is presented, as well as how he, in turn, affects the presentation of other characters, and how these both affect the view which the reader might form of not only Shakespeare, but of Gaiman himself. In doing so, I establish the existence of a new, related genre: metacomics. Similar to metatheatrics, this approach relates …


Front Matter, Tom Mack, Ph.D. Jan 2007

Front Matter, Tom Mack, Ph.D.

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.


Aristotle And Howells: Old And New Rules Of Storytelling, William Comfort Anderson Jan 2007

Aristotle And Howells: Old And New Rules Of Storytelling, William Comfort Anderson

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.


A Call To Climb, A Call For Consumption: The Role Of Place In Tim Gautreaux’S The Clearing, Heidi Martin Jan 2007

A Call To Climb, A Call For Consumption: The Role Of Place In Tim Gautreaux’S The Clearing, Heidi Martin

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.


Back Matter, Tom Mack, Ph.D. Jan 2007

Back Matter, Tom Mack, Ph.D.

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.


The Oswald Review Undergraduate Research And Criticism In The Discipline Of English: Volume 9 Fall 2007 Jan 2007

The Oswald Review Undergraduate Research And Criticism In The Discipline Of English: Volume 9 Fall 2007

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.