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J.F. Oberlin 1740-1826: An Example And Inspiration For Generations, Oberlin College Library

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Exhibition Dates: September to October 1990
This exhibition honors Johann Friedrich Oberlin, for whom Oberlin College was named.

"As If She Had No Secrets": Approach, Recognition, And Coming Of Age In Alice Munro's Lives Of Girls And Women, Catherine Laura Sweeney

Honors Papers

Munro's fiction contains these two elements at odds, in tension with one another, but they are, for her characters, part of the same process of reckoning with the world. Munro's protagonists, once inside the deep cave, find the familiar linoleum--and the cave itself becomes more mysterious because of this paradoxical discovery. Meanwhile, Munro herself seems to go through a similar process in the act of writing. Her likening of art to a pattern of approach and recognition is applicable to her work, and perhaps, to the work of many writers. Writers go into secret places, hoping to come out with …

An Antislavery Mission: Oberlin College Evangelicals In "Bleeding Kansas", John Edward Clayton

Honors Papers

This paper tells the story of four men. They are, by the standards of history, obscure individuals, not nationally known and their names will not be found in the texts on American history. Yet, their lives are important in the on-going attempt to understand the abolitionists' response to slavery.

Samuel Lyle Adair, John Huntington Byrd, Harvey Jones and Horatio N. Norton were tied to a common mission--the defeat of slavery in Kansas. Between 1854 and 1856 all four emigrated to Kansas as missionaries of the American Missionary Association. Upon arrival, they established churches and preached a message of Christian brotherhood …

In Pursuit Of "Our Heroine's Biographer": A Study Of Narrative Method In Henry James' The Portrait Of A Lady & The Ambassadors, James C. Davis

Honors Papers

Henry James' novels The Portrait of a Lady (1881) and The Ambassadors (1903) are highly psychological; they address the complexities of the human mind, from motives and morals to flaws and potentials. The author is far more concerned with the way his characters' minds respond to events than with the events themselves. If we enjoy reading James it is largely because of the fascinating tensions he creates which give rise to these responses. Whether these tensions arise between characters or between an individual and his or her external circumstances, James sounds the depths of his characters' responses, demanding through the …

Gravity's Rainbow: Modernist Discourse Vineland: Postmodernist Discourse, Ted Mouw

Honors Papers

To locate Gravity's Rainbow as a postmodern text within modernist discourse is probably sort of an odd thing. Obviously, the books' thematic depictions of linguistic colonialism and discourse of control (capitalism), suggest the inscription of power relations into formulations of truth and rationality, and a postmodern analysis of discursive operations and hierarchies. Yet, I want to stress here the ways in which we have been oriented to access and reproduce the text through modernist discourse.

The Evolution Of American Foreign Policy In Southeast Asia, Geoffrey Stephen Hudson

Honors Papers

American interests in Southeast Asia have received ample scholarly attention in the wake of the Vietnam War. Much of this material seeks to understand how policies in the first post-war years led to American military involvement in Vietnam. A sizable body of work is also devoted to U.S. policy in Indonesia in its first years of independence. But very few of these studies trace American interests in the region before 1940. Previous concerns for Southeast Asia are usually summed up in a few sentences that dismiss them as minor commercial interests of private companies. However, the development of American policy …

Frowning Babe Or Brightening Glance? Blake And Yeats's Particular Uses Of Metaphor, Daniel Muir

Honors Papers

The first significant evidence of Blake's influence on Yeats was the three volume edition of Blake's works published by Bernard Quarich and edited by Richard Ellis and W. B. Yeats in 1893. Within the history of Blakean criticism, the volume is unique. It is the product of Ellis and Yeats's occult viewpoints combined with enthusiastic but imperfect scholarship. The first two interpretative volumes of the edition, entitled "The System" and "The Meaning," include extreme restatements of other nineteenth-century interpretations, as well as several disposable ideas that reveal more about the editors' viewpoints than Blake's own. Among the most outlandish is …

The Fiction Of Truth: Intergenerational Conflict In The Life And Works Of Flannery O'Connor, Elizabeth Reed

Honors Papers

Aside from the fact that most of Flannery O'Connor's works are set in the South where she lived nearly her entire life, her idiosyncratic characters and the consistently horrifying fates that they meet could not seem further removed from the widely accepted image of the author herself.l This image, instigated by her loved ones and perpetuated by critics, is of a witty, intelligent, and above all else devout Catholic who was stoic in the face of a crippling disease that cut her life short. Despite the limits placed upon her by illness. O'Connor is described as having been socially receptive …

Touching The Sun: Contemporary Afro-American Women Writers, Oberlin College Library, Ward M. Canaday Center For Special Collections

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Exhibition Dates: January 15 to March 15, 1990
An exhibition designed to showcase twenty Black women novelists, poets, essayists, playwrights, and juvenile authors.