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Full-Text Articles in American Studies
Confronting Environmental And Social Crises: Octavia E. Butler’S Critique Of The Spiritual Roots Of Environmental Injustice In Her Parable Novels, Melissa Vargas
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
We are living in the midst of environmental and social crises. This fact was not lost on late African-American science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler, whose 1993 Parable of the Sower and 1998 Nebula Award-winning Parable of the Talents depict and critique the current environmental and social crises in the United States. Speaking of Sower in an interview with Essence magazine, Butler says that all she “did was look around at the problems we’re neglecting now and give them about 30 years to grow into full-fledged disasters” (“Brave New Worlds” 164). In another interview with Randall Kenan, Butler describes environmental …
"Blessed Are The Dead Which Die In The Lord": The Influence Of The American Tract Society On The Historical Evolution Of American Literary Sentimentalism, Joel Bridges Henderson
"Blessed Are The Dead Which Die In The Lord": The Influence Of The American Tract Society On The Historical Evolution Of American Literary Sentimentalism, Joel Bridges Henderson
Dissertations
Studies of American literary sentimentalism usually focus on either the genre's origins in the novels of the early republic or its zenith as represented by the midnineteenth- century bestsellers. Such a focus reveals two distinctly different versions of sentimentalism. While the novels of Susanna Rowson, Hannah Foster, and William Brown evidence a genre influenced by Calvinism, the bestsellers of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Maria Cummins, and Susan Warner represent a sentimentalism inextricably fused with nineteenth-century evangelicalism. The evolution of the genre is more clearly explained by the intervention of the American Tract Society (ATS). In its ongoing efforts to convert the …
The Dreamer Deepe: A Two-Act Play In The Lovecraft Horror Mythos, Nicholas Mazzuca
The Dreamer Deepe: A Two-Act Play In The Lovecraft Horror Mythos, Nicholas Mazzuca
All Theses
One full-length, two-act play comprises this creative thesis, which has been submitted in partial fulfillment for the degree of Master of Arts in English literature. This manuscript showcases a creative work that fuses two separate genres: literary horror and dramatic theory. I take my vocabulary from a preexisting body of work so that I may generate something vital and new. May the words I write honor those who have gone before me and inspire as I have been inspired.
Victims And Aggressors: Black And Jewish Interethnic Relationships In Contemporary American Literature, Jessica Martin
Victims And Aggressors: Black And Jewish Interethnic Relationships In Contemporary American Literature, Jessica Martin
All Theses
Though blacks and Jews are often portrayed together in African-American and Jewish-American writing, the reasons for the juxtapositions are curious. Contemporary authors have created a close relationship between blacks and Jews that, perhaps with the exception of their cooperation during the Civil Rights movement, historically did not exist. But, the relationship between these two groups in literature offers a unique perspective on American racial and ethnic social structures because both blacks and Jews are considered minority groups, yet they also maintain a hierarchical relationship with one another. By employing black and Jewish characters, American writers, especially Jewish-American writers, create a …
Girl Empowerment And Unspoken Discourses On Girl Sexuality In Stephanie Meyer's Twilight Saga, Caitlin Gulliford
Girl Empowerment And Unspoken Discourses On Girl Sexuality In Stephanie Meyer's Twilight Saga, Caitlin Gulliford
Honors College Theses
In this paper, I explore how Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight saga employs a form of girl sexual citizenship that recognizes girls as sexualized, but maintains unspoken structures of compulsory heterosexuality, regressive gender norms, and hyperconsumerism in order to police girls as a protection of patriarchy.
"Divine William" And The Master: The Influence Of Shakespeare On The Novels Of Henry James, Amy M. Green
"Divine William" And The Master: The Influence Of Shakespeare On The Novels Of Henry James, Amy M. Green
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
Henry James's most sustained commentary on Shakespeare comes in the form of an introduction to an edition of The Tempest that was published in 1907. In it, he remarks that the play is a reflection of Shakespeare "consciously tasting of the first and rarest of his gifts, that of imaged creative Expression...to show him as unresistingly aware" (1207). This praise ties unerringly back to James's praise of the artist as one who views the world through open eyes and can capture the nuance of experience. James himself worked at the craft of fiction, and writes extensively in his notebooks and …
The Sociology Of Scenes, The Sacramento Poetry Scene, Dana Nell Maher
The Sociology Of Scenes, The Sacramento Poetry Scene, Dana Nell Maher
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
For this ethnography, I use my feminist perspective, grounded theory, participant observation, and autoethnographic techniques to explore an urban poetry scene. I suggest that scene studies are a viable alternative to community studies and that we move our articulation of social experience to reflect it as it occurs, on a multitude of continuums. My goal with this project is to develop, use, and discuss the utility of a definition of scene that is intended to be useful to scene studies researchers. To this end, I both evaluate an outdated definition of scene (Irwin 1973 & 1977), and define the three …
Hancock, Elizabeth Ann (Moore), 1924-2019 (Sc 1900), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hancock, Elizabeth Ann (Moore), 1924-2019 (Sc 1900), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1900. Letters and portions of letters written by author Janice Holt Giles, Knifley, Adair County, Kentucky to her daughter Elizabeth, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Includes references to her family and friends, her daily life, and her writing habits.
Havighurst, Clark Canfield, B. 1933 (Sc 1897), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Havighurst, Clark Canfield, B. 1933 (Sc 1897), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Senior thesis: "The South and Robert Penn Warren" completed at Princeton University, 1955. Also includes typed comments by Princeton faculty and handwritten comments from Warren scholar Victor H. Strandberg.
Mr. Chipping And Mr. Hundert: Manliness, Media, And The Classical Education, Emily A. Mcdermott
Mr. Chipping And Mr. Hundert: Manliness, Media, And The Classical Education, Emily A. Mcdermott
Classics Faculty Publication Series
James Hilton’s genial portrayal of a Latin master in a turn-of-the-century British public school, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, was published as a magazine story in England in 1933, in book form in America a year later; it has inspired two film versions, one in 1939, one in 1969, and a full-length Masterpiece Theatre production for television in 2002. In 1994, Ethan Canin published his short story, “The Palace Thief,” presenting the unique tribulations of an ancient history teacher at an elite Virginia prep school; it was made into the 2002 film, The Emperor’s Club. Both stories are predicated on …
Walt Whitman: A Man Of Compassion, Kaitlyn Cyr
Walt Whitman: A Man Of Compassion, Kaitlyn Cyr
Excellence in Research Awards
Although Walt Whitman was such a complex man, I focused on his time in the Civil War which showed what a caring, compassionate man he was and proved that he was more than a poet
Come Tomorrow, Annemarie C. Messier
Come Tomorrow, Annemarie C. Messier
Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview
Collection of five short stories : Foo Foo, Like Father, Birthday Girl, Omens, and Come Tomorrow.
Bewilderment And Illumination: Catch-22 And The Dark Humor Of The 1960s, Kirsten Staaby
Bewilderment And Illumination: Catch-22 And The Dark Humor Of The 1960s, Kirsten Staaby
Masters Theses
It is often hard to deal with certain subjects in a way that would not be offensive or painful. Dark humor is a popular and powerful way to deal with serious issues in a manner that is both edifying and enjoyable. In his novel Catch-22, Joseph Heller deals with the atrocities of war, and the subsequent effects it has on people and society as a whole. Heller's novel incorporates the dark humor that became popular in the 1960s, and that was used by this generation to deal with the tensions they faced in the political and cultural realms. There is …
Mr. Chipping And Mr. Hundert: Manliness, Media, And The Classical Education, Emily A. Mcdermott
Mr. Chipping And Mr. Hundert: Manliness, Media, And The Classical Education, Emily A. Mcdermott
Emily A. McDermott
James Hilton’s genial portrayal of a Latin master in a turn-of-the-century British public school, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, was published as a magazine story in England in 1933, in book form in America a year later; it has inspired two film versions, one in 1939, one in 1969, and a full-length Masterpiece Theatre production for television in 2002. In 1994, Ethan Canin published his short story, “The Palace Thief,” presenting the unique tribulations of an ancient history teacher at an elite Virginia prep school; it was made into the 2002 film, The Emperor’s Club. Both stories are predicated on teachers’ attempts …
Persephone In The River Phlegethon; Or, The Women At Gettysburg, Brenda A. Ayres
Persephone In The River Phlegethon; Or, The Women At Gettysburg, Brenda A. Ayres
Faculty Publications and Presentations
This paper identifies the heroic women who participated in the Battle of Gettysburg, both on the homefront and on the battlefield.
Artistic Liberty And Slave Imagery: "Mark Twain's Illustrator," E. W. Kemble, Turns To Harriet Beecher Stowe, Adam Sonstegard
Artistic Liberty And Slave Imagery: "Mark Twain's Illustrator," E. W. Kemble, Turns To Harriet Beecher Stowe, Adam Sonstegard
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Hamilton, Weston A. - Collector (Sc 118), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hamilton, Weston A. - Collector (Sc 118), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 118. Militia drill meeting notice scheduled in Russellville, Kentucky, 1818; slave bill of sale, Logan County, Kentucky, 1860; a young woman’s letter to a friend, 1875; letter written by Kate Bosher, 1910; and letter written by Cale Young Rice, 1926, regarding biographical data, with a postscript by Alice Hegan Rice.
Ellis, James Tandy, 1868-1942 (Sc 110), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ellis, James Tandy, 1868-1942 (Sc 110), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 110. Letters, 1897-1939 (16 items), written to James Tandy Ellis, poet, humorist, columnist, and lecturer of Ghent, Kentucky. Also includes Ellis' poems and writings, 1891 (5); printed items; clippings; commissions as Assistant Adjutant and Adjutant General of Kentucky; and miscellaneous items.
Spence, Ruth Potts, 1894-1988 (Sc 1840), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Spence, Ruth Potts, 1894-1988 (Sc 1840), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1840. Letters from Alice Hegan Rice (4), Cale Young Rice (13) and Laban Lacy Rice (1) to Ruth Potts Spence, who met the Rices at Camp Nakanawa in Mayland, Tennessee and maintained a friendship with the couple. The letters discuss writing, current events, family matters, and grief.
Marcilliat, Gene (Fa 354), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Marcilliat, Gene (Fa 354), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of collection (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 354. "Books by Lucy Furman: [Folk Elements in Furman's Writings]" collected by Gene Marcilliat for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.
Cobb, Irvin Shrewsbury, 1876-1944 (Sc 82), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cobb, Irvin Shrewsbury, 1876-1944 (Sc 82), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 82. Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb's original manuscript of an editorial, "A Leaf From a Memory Book," which appeared in "Kentucky Progress Magazine" (Spring 1933), and two letters concerning the manuscript.
Allison, Young Ewing, Jr., 1890-1965 (Sc 80), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Allison, Young Ewing, Jr., 1890-1965 (Sc 80), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 80. Letter written by Young Ewing Allison, Jr., Louisville, Kentucky, to Miss Julia Neal, Auburn, Kentucky, in reply to an inquiry concerning Lucy Furman.
Front Matter, Tom Mack, Ph.D.
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.
Recontextualizing Guy Endore’S Babouk In The Shadow Of Orientalism, Nathan Sacks
Recontextualizing Guy Endore’S Babouk In The Shadow Of Orientalism, Nathan Sacks
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.
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 11 Fall 2009
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
The Willa Cather Archive In The Classroom, Andrew Jewell
The Willa Cather Archive In The Classroom, Andrew Jewell
UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications
This essay discusses many of the opportunities for teachers I believe are present in the Willa Cather Archive (http://cather.unl.edu), particularly in the way the Archive makes new materials available or older materials available in a new way. Additionally, this essay suggests some of the implications of the Archive’s digital presentation of resources. However, the place of digital scholarship in academic life is still evolving, and students and teachers are just getting accustomed to using the form. Given this circumstance, many of my thoughts are inconclusive, observations based upon preliminary understandings into how this resource affects our classrooms. I avoid confident …
African American Whiteness In Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills, Tim Engles
African American Whiteness In Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills, Tim Engles
Tim Engles
No abstract provided.
Location And Landscape In Literary Americanisms: H. L. Davis And F. Scott Fitzgerald, David T. Sumner
Location And Landscape In Literary Americanisms: H. L. Davis And F. Scott Fitzgerald, David T. Sumner
Faculty Publications
Well into the twentieth century, western American literature was still dismissed as regional or was boxed in by the genre expectations of pulp Westerns. This chapter focuses less on the causes of an eastern dismissal of western literature and more on what is unique about western literature, including how it reflects the larger western experience. Sumner looks at the particular Americanisms evident in the letters of the American West, using two short stories to make his argument: H. L. Davis’s Open Winter and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Babylon Revisited.
Ellen Glasgow: The “'Feminine' Façade” And The “'Masculine' Mind", Ashley Quaye Andrews Lear
Ellen Glasgow: The “'Feminine' Façade” And The “'Masculine' Mind", Ashley Quaye Andrews Lear
Humanities & Communication - Daytona Beach
No abstract provided.