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Smith Wells: Stagecoach Inn On The Nine Mile Road, H. Bert Jenson
Smith Wells: Stagecoach Inn On The Nine Mile Road, H. Bert Jenson
English Faculty Publications
By THE MIDDLE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY the forging furnaces of western expansionism had wrought a tough breed of pioneers who were making their way into the Uintah Basin of eastern Utah. As early as October 3, 1861, the date President Lincoln established the Uintah Indian Reservation in that area, some white settlers were circumscribed by reservation boundaries. Other whites followed to establish trading posts among the Utes and to perform government service in connection with the newly named Indian lands.
Swift, Comedy, Evidentiality, Gene Washington
Swift, Comedy, Evidentiality, Gene Washington
English Faculty Publications
Examines the relationship between the comedy of Swift's A Tale of a Tub, the role of the speaker and satire on modern literature. The point made is that speaker reliability depends directly on the sources of "evidence" h/s presents. To clarify what this entails the author uses the linguistic notion of "evidentiality."