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Fiction As History: James Jones, From Here To Eternity., Penny Marie Sonnenburg
Fiction As History: James Jones, From Here To Eternity., Penny Marie Sonnenburg
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This study examines one of James Jones's novels, From Here to Eternity,as more than a fictionalization of historic events. Juxtaposing the correspondence between the author and his brother, begun when James Jones enlisted in 1939, and the novel allows an understanding of the extent that the novel was a distillation of Jones' personality and experience.
Jones felt fiction must be pieced from real experiences, but also contain original emotions disguised in the pages of a novel. Analyzing Jones's personal letters, interviews, and experiences offers, with some degree of certainty, the understanding that From Here to Eternity is more than …
Word Is Born: Critical Gaps And The Poetics Of Hip-Hop, Kabir Hamid
Word Is Born: Critical Gaps And The Poetics Of Hip-Hop, Kabir Hamid
Honors Papers
I grew up listening to hip-hop music. Although I lived across the country from its birthplace, I would immerse myself in its sounds during the day and especially at night when my brother would play tapes before we fell asleep in our bunk beds. At a certain point in high school, I became obsessed with the music's lyrics. I was continually astonished by the cleverness, rhyme ability and edginess of the emcees I listened to. My admiration for hip-hop music developed alongside my admiration for the great authors I was reading at that time: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Herman Hesse and …