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- <p>Silko, Leslie Marmon – 1948- -- Criticism and interpretation.</p> <p>Tricksters in literature.</p> <p>Coyote – (Mythological character) – Legends.</p> <p>Indians of North America – Folklore.</p> (1)
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Full-Text Articles in American Literature
Community Pride Reporter, 11/1997, Community Pride Reporter
Community Pride Reporter, 11/1997, Community Pride Reporter
Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)
No abstract provided.
Bern Porter International: Volume 1 Number 2 (Autumn, 1997), Bern Porter, Natasha Bernstein, Sheila Holtz
Bern Porter International: Volume 1 Number 2 (Autumn, 1997), Bern Porter, Natasha Bernstein, Sheila Holtz
Newsletters
Featuring a list of works by Bern Porter and a list of "scholars" of the Institute of Advanced Thinking.
Community Pride Reporter, 10/1997, Community Pride Reporter
Community Pride Reporter, 10/1997, Community Pride Reporter
Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)
No abstract provided.
Vol. 17, No. 4 (1997), Cynthia Shearer, William Boozer, Dean Faulkner Wells
Vol. 17, No. 4 (1997), Cynthia Shearer, William Boozer, Dean Faulkner Wells
Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review
No abstract provided.
Community Pride Reporter, 09/1997, Community Pride Reporter
Community Pride Reporter, 09/1997, Community Pride Reporter
Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)
No abstract provided.
Exploring African American Identity In Harlem: Carl Van Vechten's Nigger Heaven, Michelle Lynn Simone
Exploring African American Identity In Harlem: Carl Van Vechten's Nigger Heaven, Michelle Lynn Simone
Theses & Honors Papers
Carl Van Vechten became a predominant figure within Harlem Renaissance literary circles because of his patronage of black artists and his 1926 novel Nigger Heaven. The novel depicts scenes of cabarets and Harlem night life, emphasizing themes of racial prejudice and the struggle for identity in the black culture. Van Vechten's fictional portrayal of Harlem received mixed reviews--to say the least. Many black authors and critics aligned themselves with W.E.B. Du Bois and lambasted the bawdy scenes and racially derogatory title. Others, including James Weldon Johnson and Langston Hughes, defended Van Vechten' s astute observations of Harlem and his skillful …
Review Of Soulfires: Young Black Men On Love And Violence, Amilcar Shabazz
Review Of Soulfires: Young Black Men On Love And Violence, Amilcar Shabazz
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
A review of a literary and cultural anthology on African American males on love and violence.
Bern Porter International: Volume 1 Number 1 (Summer, 1997), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein
Bern Porter International: Volume 1 Number 1 (Summer, 1997), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein
Newsletters
A Literary Newspaper
Featuring the Bern Porter International mission statement with an introduction to the Institute of Advanced Thinking and Porter's literary philosophy.
Community Pride Reporter, 07/1997 (Summer), Community Pride Reporter
Community Pride Reporter, 07/1997 (Summer), Community Pride Reporter
Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)
No abstract provided.
Vol. 17, No. 3 (1997), Jennifer Byron Owen, Wendy Goldberg, Michael A. Crivello, Walter G. Watkins Jr.
Vol. 17, No. 3 (1997), Jennifer Byron Owen, Wendy Goldberg, Michael A. Crivello, Walter G. Watkins Jr.
Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review
No abstract provided.
Community Pride Reporter, 06/1997, Community Pride Reporter
Community Pride Reporter, 06/1997, Community Pride Reporter
Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)
No abstract provided.
Community Pride Reporter, 05/1997, Community Pride Reporter
Community Pride Reporter, 05/1997, Community Pride Reporter
Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)
No abstract provided.
Anne Sexton's Poetic Quest For God, Heather Lee Lustig
Anne Sexton's Poetic Quest For God, Heather Lee Lustig
Theses & Honors Papers
Critics including Alicia Ostriker and Diana Hume George believe Anne Sexton's poetic quest for God to be a failure. Ostriker asserts that Sexton's pursuit of a loving God in whom she can have faith ends merely as "a heroic failure." Her statement echoes George's description of the "pathetic end of Anne Sexton's quest for the Father." These critics view Sexton's quest through the perspective of orthodox Christianity's patriarchal system. However, while sexton seeks a Father figure who will not oppress her but rather save her from self destruction, she redefines her "religion" and God to include women. She merges with …
Community Pride Reporter, 04/1997, Community Pride Reporter
Community Pride Reporter, 04/1997, Community Pride Reporter
Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)
No abstract provided.
Vol. 17, No. 2 (1997), William Boozer, Lawrence Wells
Vol. 17, No. 2 (1997), William Boozer, Lawrence Wells
Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review
No abstract provided.
Community Pride Reporter, 03/1997, Community Pride Reporter
Community Pride Reporter, 03/1997, Community Pride Reporter
Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)
No abstract provided.
Community Pride Reporter, 02/1997, Community Pride Reporter
Community Pride Reporter, 02/1997, Community Pride Reporter
Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)
No abstract provided.
Sex/Textual Conflicts In The Bell Jar: Sylvia Plath's Doubling Negatives, Renée C. Hoogland
Sex/Textual Conflicts In The Bell Jar: Sylvia Plath's Doubling Negatives, Renée C. Hoogland
English Faculty Research Publications
No abstract provided.
Conquering A Wilderness: Destruction And Development On The Great Plains In Mari Sandoz's Old Jules, Lisa Lindell
Conquering A Wilderness: Destruction And Development On The Great Plains In Mari Sandoz's Old Jules, Lisa Lindell
Hilton M. Briggs Library Faculty Publications
Jules Ami Sandoz came to America in 1881 at the age of 22. Following a three-year sojourn in northeastern Nebraska, he headed further west, settling in the recently surveyed region northwest of the Nebraska Sandhills. In Old Jules, the biography of her pioneer father, Mari Sandoz presented a character filled with conflicts and contradictions. Pitted against Jules's dynamic vision of community growth was his self-centered and destructive nature. Well aware of the more unsavory qualities exhibited by her father. Sandoz nonetheless maintained that he and others like him were necessary to the development of the West. This recognition did not …
Coyote Tracks: Examining The Trickster In The Works Of Leslie Marmon Silko, Jeffrey A. Green
Coyote Tracks: Examining The Trickster In The Works Of Leslie Marmon Silko, Jeffrey A. Green
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
The purpose of the current work is to extrapolate an understanding of the trickster figure as it is used in the literary works of Leslie Marmon Silko, a contemporary Laguna Pueblo author. Trickster analysis in Native American literature is primarily relegated to the study of traditional myths and stories, and only a few scholars approach the topic in contemporary Native American literature. Of those who do, none have chosen Silko’s works as the primary focus of their analysis. An examination of this type will contribute to and expand the existing literary criticism of Silko’s writings. Leslie Silko utilizes the traditional …
Edith Wharton's "Secret Sensitiveness" The Decoration Of Houses, And Her Fiction, Suzanne W. Jones
Edith Wharton's "Secret Sensitiveness" The Decoration Of Houses, And Her Fiction, Suzanne W. Jones
English Faculty Publications
Surely one of the reasons that Edith Wharton lived most of her life in France was that she greatly admired the way the French "instinctively applies to living the same rules that they applies to artistic creation." Wharton believed that the French had an eye for beauty, or what she called "the seeing eye," in contrast to Americans whose sight had been dimmed by the puritanism of their Anglo-Saxon heritage. However, in her last and unfinished novel, The Buccaneers (1938), Wharton suggests through her American protagonist's relationship with her European governess, Laura Testvalley, that the art of seeing can be …
Moore, Opal, Daryl Cumber Dance
Moore, Opal, Daryl Cumber Dance
English Faculty Publications
Moore, Opal (b. 1953), poet, short story writer, essayist, educator, and critic of children's literature. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Opal Moore was influenced from childhood by the particular dynamics of the Pentecostal church; echoes of that institution reverberate in her plots, themes, characters, tone, and language. When Moore entered Illinois Wesleyan University's School of Art in 1970, she was so shocked by her first real encounter with racism and her sens~ of powerlessness in the face of it that she sought some control over what was happening to her by writing, thus initiating her first journals. She also …
New Narratives Of Southern Manhood: Race, Masculinity, And Closure In Ernest Gaines's Fiction, Suzanne W. Jones
New Narratives Of Southern Manhood: Race, Masculinity, And Closure In Ernest Gaines's Fiction, Suzanne W. Jones
English Faculty Publications
In his fiction Ernest Gaines is interested not only in deconstructing stereotypes but also in presenting new models of southern manhood, for both black and white men. While Gaines has employed traditional definitions of manhood in his fiction, the vision he presents in his most recent novel, A Lesson Before Dying, is similar to that of Cooper Thompson and other contemporary theorists of masculinity, who believe that young men must learn 'traditional masculinity is life threatening' and that being men in a modern world means accepting their vulnerability, expressing a range of emotions, asking for help and support, learning non-violent …
[Introduction To] The Viper On The Hearth: Mormons, Myths, And The Construction Of Heresy, Terryl Givens
[Introduction To] The Viper On The Hearth: Mormons, Myths, And The Construction Of Heresy, Terryl Givens
Bookshelf
Nineteenth-century American writers frequently cast the Mormon as a stock villain in such fictional genres as mysteries, westerns, and popular romances. The Mormons were depicted as a violent and perverse people--the "viper on the hearth"--who sought to violate the domestic sphere of the mainstream. While other critics have mined the socio-political sources of anti-Mormonism, Givens is the first to reveal how popular fiction, in its attempt to deal with the sources and nature of this conflict, constructed an image of the Mormon as a religious and social "Other."
In Our Very Bones: Poems By Twyla Hansen, Twyla Hansen
In Our Very Bones: Poems By Twyla Hansen, Twyla Hansen
Nebraskiana Publications
DISTANCES
1 Midwestern Autumn, 2 Going to the Graves, 3 Memorial Day, 4 On the Screen Porch, 5 Gophers, 6 Lilac Tripping, 7 The Separator, 9 Conspiracy, 11 My Neighbor's Daughter Learning To Drive, 12 Platte River State Park, Late January, 13 Spring Equinox, 14 When You Leave, 15 My Husband Snoring, 16 Full Moon, Total Eclipse, 17 My Father's Miniatures, 18 Wind, 20 If My Father Were Still Alive
ON THE PRAIRIE
23 Song of the Pasque Flower, 24 Blue Moon, 25 Crane River, 26 Nine-Mile Prairie, 27 Late May, 29 Prairie Trout, 30 Vines, 31 Building a Bat …
A Certain Threatening Picture: Images Of Rape In Eudora Welty's "The Golden Apples", Laura A. Hannett
A Certain Threatening Picture: Images Of Rape In Eudora Welty's "The Golden Apples", Laura A. Hannett
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"Recurring In This Body": James Dickey And The Quest For Transcendence, Stephen R. Hawkins
"Recurring In This Body": James Dickey And The Quest For Transcendence, Stephen R. Hawkins
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"Pudd'nhead Wilson", Ambiguity, And Enslavement By Language, John Andrew Lyman
"Pudd'nhead Wilson", Ambiguity, And Enslavement By Language, John Andrew Lyman
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Hooks, Malinda (Cunningham), 1853-1948 (Sc 1440), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hooks, Malinda (Cunningham), 1853-1948 (Sc 1440), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1440. "Recollections and Thoughts", 1930, written for her family by Malinda Hooks, Trigg County, Kentucky. She writes of her childhood, family, and the Civil War. Includes her poetry and two unidentified photographs.
Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken's American Odyssey, Renee M. Sentilles
Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken's American Odyssey, Renee M. Sentilles
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This dissertation explores notions of self-invention and performance in mid-nineteenth century America by examining the life and writings of actress and poet, Adah Isaacs Menken, from roughly 1835 to 1868. During America's Civil War years, Menken became an international star in the controversial title role of Mazeppa, an equestrian play. at the climax, soldiers forcibly stripped Mazeppa (Menken) to reveal her body in a costume suggestive of nudity. The soldiers tied her to a horse and sent her careening up a steep mountain into the theatre rafters. This provocative "breeches part" allowed Menken to pursue unusual freedoms for a woman …