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Dear Kit, Dear Skinny: The Letters Of Erskine Caldwell And Margaret Bourke-White, William L. Howard Oct 1988

Dear Kit, Dear Skinny: The Letters Of Erskine Caldwell And Margaret Bourke-White, William L. Howard

The Courier

This article highlights some of the material found in the Margaret Bourke-White Papers in the Syracuse University Special Collections. The collection contains a good deal of correspondence between Margaret, a journalist for Life magazine and her husband, the American author Erskine Caldwell. The collection provides indispensable documentation of the artists' personal lives in the years 1936 through 1942.


Vol. 8, No. 4 (1988), Various Authors Oct 1988

Vol. 8, No. 4 (1988), Various Authors

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.


The Radiant Core: Family, Village, Neighborhood, And Region In Literature, Eugene P. Nassar Sep 1988

The Radiant Core: Family, Village, Neighborhood, And Region In Literature, Eugene P. Nassar

Syracuse Scholar (1979-1991)

No abstract provided.


Vol. 8, No. 3 (1988), William Boozer, Jim Cleveland Jul 1988

Vol. 8, No. 3 (1988), William Boozer, Jim Cleveland

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.


Recommended Readings, 1988, Shaun O'Connell Jun 1988

Recommended Readings, 1988, Shaun O'Connell

New England Journal of Public Policy

Shaun O'Connell reviews a selection of readings for would-be presidents. None of our recent presidents — going back to Dwight Eisenhower — has been a reader of "imaginative literature." While this is not, perhaps, entirely unexpected and may be indicative of the pressures on their time rather than an intrinsic aversion to literature, it should nevertheless at least lead us to ask whether their visions of who we are and our possibilities are limited by their failure to "confront some of the implications raised by serious works of the imagination, works that force us to face mysteries in the world …


James Fenimore Cooper: Young Man To Author, Constantine Evans Apr 1988

James Fenimore Cooper: Young Man To Author, Constantine Evans

The Courier

This article provides a biographical look at the American author James Fenimore Cooper. It traces his roots from his youth in Cooperstown—named after his father William—to his ill-timed naval career, and on to his time as a self-conscious novelist.


Vol. 8, No. 2 (1988), William H. Pugh, William Boozer Apr 1988

Vol. 8, No. 2 (1988), William H. Pugh, William Boozer

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.


You Can't Go Home Again: James Baldwin And The South, Daryl Cumber Dance Jan 1988

You Can't Go Home Again: James Baldwin And The South, Daryl Cumber Dance

English Faculty Publications

James Baldwin, like innumerable other Black artists, has found that in his efforts to express the plight of the Black man in America, he has been forced to deal over and over again with that inescapable dilemma of the Black American - the lack of sense of a positive self-identity. Time after time in his writings he has shown an awareness of the fact that identity contains, as Erik Erikson so accurately indicates, "a complementarity of past and future both in the individual and in society." Baldwin wrote in "Many Thousands Gone," "We cannot escape our origins, however hard we …


Clyde Kenneth Hyder: Scholar, Teacher, Friend, Arthur A. Adrian Jan 1988

Clyde Kenneth Hyder: Scholar, Teacher, Friend, Arthur A. Adrian

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.


Death And Rebirth: Charles Brockden Brown And The Gothic Enclosure In Arthur Mervyn, Leonard W. Engel Jan 1988

Death And Rebirth: Charles Brockden Brown And The Gothic Enclosure In Arthur Mervyn, Leonard W. Engel

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.


Edgar Allan Poe’S “The Black Cat” On Film, Kenneth Von Gunden Jan 1988

Edgar Allan Poe’S “The Black Cat” On Film, Kenneth Von Gunden

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.


“The Constant Question Of Finances”: The Ordeal Of F. Marion Crawford, Neal R. Shipley Jan 1988

“The Constant Question Of Finances”: The Ordeal Of F. Marion Crawford, Neal R. Shipley

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.


“Dream Other Dreams And Better”: Mark Twain’S Developing Narrative Strategies, Martha A. Turner Jan 1988

“Dream Other Dreams And Better”: Mark Twain’S Developing Narrative Strategies, Martha A. Turner

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.


Maggie: Ingenue On The Urban Stage, C. J. Wershoven Jan 1988

Maggie: Ingenue On The Urban Stage, C. J. Wershoven

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.


Agrarian Angst: Katherine Anne Porter's The Old Order, Earl J. Wilcox Jan 1988

Agrarian Angst: Katherine Anne Porter's The Old Order, Earl J. Wilcox

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.


Confinement And Escape In John Cheever's Bullet Park, Kathryn Riley Jan 1988

Confinement And Escape In John Cheever's Bullet Park, Kathryn Riley

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.


Tyranny And Anguish: The Two Sides Of Fatherhood In The Father-Daughter Short Stories Of Joyce Carol Oats, Philip Jo Egan Jan 1988

Tyranny And Anguish: The Two Sides Of Fatherhood In The Father-Daughter Short Stories Of Joyce Carol Oats, Philip Jo Egan

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.


Montresor's Underlying Motive: Resampling The Cask Of Amontillado, Charlie Sweet Jan 1988

Montresor's Underlying Motive: Resampling The Cask Of Amontillado, Charlie Sweet

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.


Parody Of Hemingway In Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely, William P. Keen Jan 1988

Parody Of Hemingway In Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely, William P. Keen

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.


The Chivalric Narrator Of A Rose For Emily, Hal Blythe Jan 1988

The Chivalric Narrator Of A Rose For Emily, Hal Blythe

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.


David Simpson. The Politics Of American English, 1776-1850, Lance Schachterle Jan 1988

David Simpson. The Politics Of American English, 1776-1850, Lance Schachterle

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.


Edgar Allan Poe. Poetry And Tales, Ed. Patrick F. Quinn. Essays And Reviews, Ed. G. R. Thompson., Donald Barlow Stauffer Jan 1988

Edgar Allan Poe. Poetry And Tales, Ed. Patrick F. Quinn. Essays And Reviews, Ed. G. R. Thompson., Donald Barlow Stauffer

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.


Dwight Thomas And David K. Jackson. The Poe Log: A Documentary Life Of Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849., Richard Fusco Jan 1988

Dwight Thomas And David K. Jackson. The Poe Log: A Documentary Life Of Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849., Richard Fusco

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.


Kent Ljungquist. The Grand And The Fair: Poe’S Landscape Aesthetics And Pictorial Techniques., Donald Barlow Stauffer Jan 1988

Kent Ljungquist. The Grand And The Fair: Poe’S Landscape Aesthetics And Pictorial Techniques., Donald Barlow Stauffer

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.


Benjamin Franklin Fisher Iv, Ed. Poe And Our Times: Influences And Affinities., Richard Kopley Jan 1988

Benjamin Franklin Fisher Iv, Ed. Poe And Our Times: Influences And Affinities., Richard Kopley

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.


Joan Dayan. Fables Of Mind: An Inquiry Into Poe’S Fiction., Dennis W. Eddings Jan 1988

Joan Dayan. Fables Of Mind: An Inquiry Into Poe’S Fiction., Dennis W. Eddings

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.


Gloria C. Erlich. Family Themes And Hawthorne’S Fiction: The Tenacious Web., Lea Newman Jan 1988

Gloria C. Erlich. Family Themes And Hawthorne’S Fiction: The Tenacious Web., Lea Newman

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.


Herman Melville. The Confidence Man: His Masquerade, Ed. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, G. Thomas Tanselle. . The Piazza Tales And Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860, Ed. Harrison Hayford, Alma Macdougall, G. Thomas Tanselle., Benjamin Franklin Fisher Iv Jan 1988

Herman Melville. The Confidence Man: His Masquerade, Ed. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, G. Thomas Tanselle. . The Piazza Tales And Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860, Ed. Harrison Hayford, Alma Macdougall, G. Thomas Tanselle., Benjamin Franklin Fisher Iv

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.


James W. Gargano, Ed. Critical Reviews On Henry James: The Early Novels. Critical Reviews On Henry James: The Late Novels., Louis J. Budd Jan 1988

James W. Gargano, Ed. Critical Reviews On Henry James: The Early Novels. Critical Reviews On Henry James: The Late Novels., Louis J. Budd

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.


E. Kate Stewart, Arthur Sherburne Hardy: Man Of American Letters., Thomas Daniel Young Jan 1988

E. Kate Stewart, Arthur Sherburne Hardy: Man Of American Letters., Thomas Daniel Young

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.