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Pearl Buck Reconsidered: The House Of Earth Trilogy, Qishu Li

Theses & Honors Papers

No abstract provided.

Vol. 12, No. 4 (1992), Howard Bahr, William Boozer, Thomas M. Verich, Jane Isbell Haynes

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

Vol. 12, No. 3 (1992), Michael A. Crivello, Wendy Goldberg, Wiiliam Vlach, W. Kenneth Holditch, M. Thomas Inge

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

The Lost Tribalism Of Years Gone By: Function & Variation In Gay Folklore In Armistead Maupin's Tales Of The City Novels, Jimmy Browning

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This thesis intends to demonstrate that, because of the unusual circumstances of its writing - a semi-journalistic piece produced during a period of crisis in the real-life community fictionally depicted - Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City series stands as an unusually accurate and reliable ethnographic source for information concerning the gay male subculture of San Francisco in the late 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, not only the practice and behavior themselves, but also reflecting their personal and communal function. The methodology employed in demonstrating this thesis is necessarily subjective. Like gay folklore scholar Joseph P. Goodwin in More Man Than …

An Illumination Of The Damned: Psychoanalytic Exploration Of Character Through American Naturalism In Harold Frederic's The Damnation Of Theron Ware, Steve Randall Spain Jr.

Theses & Honors Papers

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Women Pioneer Diaries, 1820-1920: A Selected Annotated Bibliography, Sonia Alvarez Wilson

Theses & Honors Papers

The works of twenty women whom participated in the westward expansion at some time between 1820 and 1920 are represented. The women have participated by immigration, emigration, homesteading, or simply living a trans-Mississippi community during the aforementioned time period. The work as a whole provides a variety of examples of the lifestyle and challenges of the period, which may highlight the uniqueness of each woman, while at the same time showing some common experience. Diaries have been selected to represent as many states as possible, in as many time periods as possible within the one hundred year time span, in …

Lee Smith's Protagonists: Moving Beyond Stereotypes Of Southern And Appalachian Women, Roxie Amos Johnson

Theses & Honors Papers

No abstract provided.

Vol. 12, No. 2 (1992), Michel Gresset, William Boozer, Chester Mclarty

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

Reader, Take A Letter: The Reappearance Of The Epistolary Form In Alice Walker's The Color Purple And Lee Smith's Fair And Tender Ladies, Carla S. Huskey

Theses & Honors Papers

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Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl Of The Streets And Kate Chopin's The Awakening: A Study In Literary Naturalism, J. Katherin Huffman

Theses & Honors Papers

During the 1890’s, two American novels, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (A Story of New York) written by Stephen Crane and The Awakening written by Kate Choplin, deal with the lives and death of two surprisingly similar young women living in different social standing and regions. Even though the novels are written by opposite sexes with opposite setting and have quite culturally different protagonists, they share the Naturalistic themes of biological determinism, which is expressed through the use of animal imagery and animal symbolism. Crane does not allow Maggie to have positive aspirations, making her appear less human and …

San José Studies, Winter 1992, San José State University Foundation

San José Studies, 1990s

Volume 18, Issue 1

Vol. 12, No. 1 (1992), James Dahl, William Boozer

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Language In Constructing Consciousness In Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Tamra Elizabeth Dibenedetto

Theses Digitization Project

Relationship between thought and language -- Whorf's hypothesis of linguistic determinism -- Linguistic relativism -- Sociopolitics, oppression, and language.

Notes Toward An Aesthetics Of Legal Pragmatism, David A. Skeel Jr.

All Faculty Scholarship

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A New Reading Of Ruth Suckow, Judith Pierson

Masters Theses

By 1950, after three decades of writing, Ruth Suckow (1892-1960) was a well-respected writer whose work seemed headed for a permanent position in the canon of American literature. Instead, Suckow's fiction steadily became less known through the following decades. The question of why her work came to be ignored and why such a position is unwarranted is addressed in A New Reading of Ruth Suckow. The conclusion is that a regionalist categorization and a related gender bias in the literary canon have adversely affected Suckow's works.

Gender bias is reflected in the critical assumptions which ascribe an inferior position to …

The Fragmented World Of Djuna Barnes: A Kohutian And Bakhtinian Perspective, Rita M. Thomson

Dissertations

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Robin Becomes The Major: The Collision Between The Practical & The Ideal In Hawthorne's Life & Art, Daniel Shumer

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Nathaniel Hawthorne's life can be divided into four periods each containing a practical and ideal component. These components create a duality containing the dynamic Hawthorne confronted when moving between the practical world of work, family, and politics and the ideal world of art. This dynamic is used to explain the ambiguity of Hawthorne's works, particularly "My Kinsman, Major Molineaux," "The Artist of the Beautiful," and The Blithedale Romance. The movement present in these works between practical and ideal interests is connected to Hawthorne's view of the artist in society, the relationship of tradition and progress, and the issue of …

A Woman's Quest For Happiness: O'Neill's "Private Myth", Andrea Ximena CampañA Garcia

Masters Theses

Following the approach used by James Hurt in his book Catiline's Dream to determine Henrik Ibsen's "private myth" which he retold in play after play, I have delineated O'Neill's "private myth" in a narrower way concentrating on his female characters. Examining parallel motifs in the lives of the dominant women in Desire Under the Elms, Strange Interlude, and Mourning Becomes Electra, I have detected this mythic pattern involving the O'Neillian woman: She goes through an early innocent and submissive state guided by an initial vision of happiness which can be regarded as fairly conventional. But when her …