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The Writer's Digest Character Naming Sourcebook, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe, Sheerilyn Kenyon

Hal Blythe

Call your characters by their right names. This book will help you. Now you won't have to use baby name books or your teelphone directory for ideas for character names. More than 20,000 character names are included right here, along with valuable instruction for selecting names, and how those names will affect your story.

Insanity As Escape: A Kristevan Reading Of Shirley Jackson’S Novels, Bess L. Fox

Honors Theses

No abstract provided.

Surrey (For Joan And Tony), Craig Williamson

English Literature Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Social Commentary In Three Novels By Edith Wharton, Michael A. Gillespie

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the Caudill College of Humanities at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Michael A. Gillespie on December 8, 1994.

1994 Forces, Peggy Brown

Forces

No abstract provided.

Romancing Visual Women: From Canon To Console, Roberta Sabbath

English Faculty Research

This dissertation juxtaposes the romantic modal treatment of powerful, admired women which canonical male authors and feminist authors and critics construct with those constructed by contemporary women for the visual mass media of video, broadcast television, and computer. The discourse of the former produces the figure of a fragmented woman who is rare, supernatural, marginalized, and impossible. The discourse of the latter produces the figure of a psychologized woman who is typical, natural, mainstream, and possible. To examine the discourse of impossibility, I use three canonical works: Augustine's Confessions; Chretien de Troyes' Perceval; and Dante's Divine Comedy. I also survey …

Index 1 (1981-1994), Lawrence Wells

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

A Study Of The Linguistic Semantic And Sociolinguistic Components Of The English Modal System, Jeffery Hutcheson

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

In this thesis I examine the linguistic, semantic and sociolinguistic components of the English modal system and the difficulty the system presents to both instructors and learners of English as a second language (ESL). The purpose of this study was to determine what these components are and how they affect communication. I begin by defining what modality is and how it is manifested in English. The focus is upon the one-word modals and not the phrasal modals; however, some phrasal modals are explicated when a contrast exists between the meaning of the one-word modal and its phrasal equivalent. After the …

Ruby Bayou, December 1994, Issue 2, Ruby Bayou Staff

Ruby Bayou

3.....MEDUSA ..... Kathryn Drury
4.....In Defense of Sororities .... Carolyn Mosca
6.....education ....Jennifer Murphy
7.....Yet Another Lesson In Diversity .... William Taylor
8.....Noteworthy quotes from Dorothy Sayer's address to a Women's Society, 1938, entitled "Are Women Human?"
9.....poetry by Seth Rostan
- Tree
- Jettisoned
- Lunch
- Party
10.....From the Editor's Space .... Jodi Perelman

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Professing Multiculturalism : The Politics Of Style In The Contact Zone., Min-Zhan Lu

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Strategies In Theodore Dreiser's Trilogy Of Desire To Resolve The Division Between The Material And The Spiritual, Claas Riese

Dissertations and Theses

A study of strategies and attempts in Theodore Dreiser's novels The Financier, The Titan and The Stoic to resolve the conflict between the material and the spiritual. The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate that conflicts in Dreiser criticism reflect unresolved conflicts between these issues in his "Trilogy". Having outlined and shown the division in the literary criticism of the "Trilogy", in the first chapter of this thesis, I will discuss the three main themes, finance, art and women, which can be seen as strategies to bridge the division between the material and the spiritual. I will attempt to …

Ruby Bayou, November 1994, Issue I, Womyn's Action Coalition

Ruby Bayou

3......From The Center for Reproductive Law and Policy
4...... As I was walking down the stairs...
5......blood of ancestors
6......Cultural Diversity: Theory vs. Application ..... William Taylor
8..... A collectio of poems by Aisha Bonner
- I Wish
- Untitled
- Before Now
- Neglecting You
9......Mindfuck: The Hidden Side of Sexual Violence .... Becky Mehring
11.... poetry by Greg Campbell
- In Honor of A One-night Stand
- Homosexual Angst Released
12.....FEMINISM 101

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The Zea Mexican Dairy: 7 Sept 1926 - 7 Sept 1986. By Kamau Brathwaite (Book Review), Daryl Cumber Dance

English Faculty Publications

I may be hard put to classify the latest work of noted poet, historian, literary critic, linguist, and Africanist Kamau (Eddie) Brathwaite, but I have no problem describing it - compelling, riveting, unforgettable! Begun when Brathwaite received the devastating news that his wife Doris (his Zea Mexican) was dying of cancer, it is a paean to her, a record of his efforts to deal with her dying, death, and absence, an account of their relationship, and an autobiographical confessional. The Zea Mexican Diary includes diary entries, letters, memorates, an epigraph, expressions of sympathy, confessions, autobiographical narrative, poems - but whatever …

We Wretched Of The Earth: The Search For A Language Of Justice, John C. Hawley

English

"In the beginning was the Word," writes John-God's revealing utterance that "was made flesh and lived among us." This incarnational character of the Word, this "living among us," has demanded of Christians in each age a reinterpretation of its original and ongoing meaning. If the protean nature of God's self-expression has seen a continuing "translation" in each age, though, it is becoming increasingly evident among church members that a similar task is also required in each ethnic milieu. The "us" among whom the Word lives is made up of many communities of discourse, and a logocentric theology like Christianity must …

Casual Discourse Lost: The Separation Of Adam And Eve, Jay Curlin

Articles

The critical separation scene between Adam and Eve in Book IX of Paradise Lost has long been something of a crux for Milton's readers. Recent critical opinion of the passage has seen in it chiefly an indictment of Adam: for one group of readers, he ls the overbearing husband trying to suppress the burgeoning independence of his wife; for another, he fails as a spiritual leader in not suppressing that independence enough. I would like to offer an alternative reading of the passage by redirecting our attention to the simple dynamics of what we must remember is ultimately a pre …

Hotel Room With My Brother, Fred G. Leebron

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Vol. 14, No. 4 (1994), John Egerton

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

Revising Lives: Bernard Shaw And His Biographer, Sarah Wadsworth

English Faculty Research and Publications

Shaw's galley revisions of Archibald Henderson's 1932 biography, Bernard Shaw: Playboy and Prophet, reveal a unique collaboration between biographer and subject. The result is a subversion of biographical conventions, in which the assumed voice of the biographer lends credence and authority to the disguised voice of the subject.

Mirrors, Pluggers, And Flashlights: The Women Of Lee Smith's Fiction, Elizabeth Guthrie Talley

Theses & Honors Papers

No abstract provided.

Mythcon 25 - The Language Of Myth, The Mythopoeic Society

Mythcon Programs

I would like to welcome you all to Mythcon 25. This is a special occasion for the Mythopoeic Society - it's the twenty-fifth Mythcon and the first to be held on the east coast of the United States.

Jesse B. Semple And The Black Press : The Voice Of Black People, Mary A. Massey

Master's Theses

Black newspapers play a vital role in keeping people up-to-date with what's happening in the Black community. This study will show how Black newspapers play a vital role in reporting news and comments from an Afro-American perspective. It will provide a historical overview of Black news as well as a close examination of Langston Hughes' columns and his character of Jesse B. Semple within the context of the Black press, particularly the Chicago Defender.

The results of this study will reveal the joys and concerns that Afro-Americans shared with each other through the Black newspapers and show how the character …

Mythlore Issue 77, Glen H. Goodknight

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Why is this issue of Mythlore only one sheet?

Because of the above, with extreme discomfort we must put out this one sheet issue of Mythlore in an attempt to comply with Second Class (Periodicals) mailing requirements. This issue will not count against the number of issues due to be received by subscribers. This means that if you were due to expire with this numbered issue, your subscription will be extended to the next issue. If you were due to expire with the next issue, your subscription will be extended to the one following the next one, etc.

-------Glen GoodKnight

"That Reason Wonder May Diminish": As You Like It, Androgyny, And The Theater Wars, Grace C. Tiffany

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Vol. 14, No. 3 (1994), Samuel M. Turney, Thomas M. Verich, M. Thomas Inge, John Ruemmler, Wendy Goldberg

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

Montana Montage (Book Review), Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

Review of the book "One Sweet Quarrel," by Deirdre McNamer. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.

A Writer's Palette: Developing A Color Vocabulary, Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

No abstract provided.

Editorial, Tina Cooper, C.I.S. Lowentrout

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.

Gypsy Melody And Some Lines From Rilke, David Sparenberg

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.

The Person From Porlock, Paul Edwin Zimmer

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.

Keltic Dream, David Sparenberg

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.