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Southern Africa And The Themes Of Madness: Novels By Doris Lessing, Bessie Head, And Nadine Gordimer, Nancy Topping Bazin Jan 1995

Southern Africa And The Themes Of Madness: Novels By Doris Lessing, Bessie Head, And Nadine Gordimer, Nancy Topping Bazin

English Faculty Publications

However different their lives, Doris Lessing, Bessie Head, and Nadine Gordimer share the common heritage of having grown up in southern Africa. All three were profoundly affected by that experience. Their responses to the colonialist, racist, and sexist attitudes that permeated their lives have determined, to a major extent. the nature of their fiction. Their novels reflect the grotesque situations and bizarre human relationships created by prejudice, injustice, and the desire to dominate. These three authors focus on the mad nature of this social and political situation in southern Africa. In their works, dystopian and utopian visions of the future …

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Betrayals Of The Body Politic: The Literary Commitments Of Nadine Gordimer, Nancy Topping Bazin Jan 1995

Betrayals Of The Body Politic: The Literary Commitments Of Nadine Gordimer, Nancy Topping Bazin

English Faculty Publications

Reviews the book `Betrayals of the Body Politic: The Literary Commitments of Nadine Gordimer,' by Andrew Vogel Ettin.

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"Proving A Thing Even While You Contradict It": Fictions, Beliefs, And Legitimation In The Memoirs Of Barry Lyndon, Esq., Robert P. Fletcher Jan 1995

"Proving A Thing Even While You Contradict It": Fictions, Beliefs, And Legitimation In The Memoirs Of Barry Lyndon, Esq., Robert P. Fletcher

English Faculty Publications

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How Crows Talk And Willows Walk, Gary Esarey Jan 1995

How Crows Talk And Willows Walk, Gary Esarey

Ahsahta Press

Though the preface to Gary Esarey’s volume claims “this little book [is] not art and craft but a parody of art, a grim bouffe stiffened by hard weather and cold,” it is a fitting introduction to the playful and often hilarious poems within. With titles such as “Pinch ruddy those cheeks of slumber” (“Pastel-gray on black/ the streaks of May do jog awake,/ the clouding night the day/ doth disendarkle...”) and “Trixi leaves town behind” (“Tacoma—/ it rebuffs improvement/ with time its smell diminishes/ its virtue is not overpraised...”), Esarey tips off the reader: expect parody, musical language, and humor …

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Prayers For The Dead Ventriloquist, D.J. Smith Jan 1995

Prayers For The Dead Ventriloquist, D.J. Smith

Ahsahta Press

In Prayers for the Dead Ventriloquist, his first collection of poems, Smith mines childhood memories—snapshots not only of family, but of a mischievous youth—with a precise poetic vision. “This harsh, particular light,” writes Dorianne Laux in her introduction to Smith’s book, “falls first on the people who pass through his small world.” Smith relates episodes of a reality unclean and unpolished, even at times horrific, yet always strangely beautiful. It is this beauty alone that offers reconciliation—the rising hair of woman in an automobile slowly consumed by flames, the metallic body of a hummingbird, the delicate bones of a …

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The Battle Rages On: The Psychomachia And The Faerie Queene, Book I, Aparajita Nanda Jan 1995

The Battle Rages On: The Psychomachia And The Faerie Queene, Book I, Aparajita Nanda

English

The conception of Christian life as a pilgrimage towards God, a war against the forces of evil, has been reiterated right through the literature of late antiquity and the Middle Ages well into the Renaissance. This 'war' between Virtues and Vices, who fight for dominion over the Christian soul, possibly found its first poetic representation in Prudentius' Psychomachia. The action of this personification-allegory is fairly simple. The Christian Virtues led by Faith, despite certain initial reversals, ultimately triumph over the Vices in a series of combats and move on to build a holy city (in man's soul) in which will …

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2. Research Materials For Novel, Finding Moon (Ii), Tony Hillerman Jan 1995

2. Research Materials For Novel, Finding Moon (Ii), Tony Hillerman

Finding Moon Research Materials

This file contains articles, papers and notes that Tony Hillerman compiled in preparation for writing Finding Moon. There are 8 articles in this file, totaling 132 pages.

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1. Research Materials For Novel, Finding Moon (I), Tony Hillerman Jan 1995

1. Research Materials For Novel, Finding Moon (I), Tony Hillerman

Finding Moon Research Materials

This file contains articles, papers and notes that Tony Hillerman compiled in preparation for writing Finding Moon. There are 11 articles in this file, totaling 76 pages.

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"Why Don't He Like My Hair?": Constructing African-American Standards Of Beauty In Toni Morrison's "Song Of Solomon" And Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God", Bertram D. Ashe Jan 1995

"Why Don't He Like My Hair?": Constructing African-American Standards Of Beauty In Toni Morrison's "Song Of Solomon" And Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God", Bertram D. Ashe

English Faculty Publications

African-Americans, with their traditionally African features, have always had an uneasy coexistence with the European (white) ideal of beauty. According to Angela M. Neal and Midge L. Wilson, "Compared to Black males, Black females have been more profoundly affected by the prejudicial fallout surrounding issues of skin color, facial features, and hair. Such impact can be attributed in large part to the importance of physical attractiveness for all women" (328). For black women, the most easily controlled feature is hair. While contemporary black women sometimes opt for cosmetic surgery or colored contact lenses, hair alteration (i.e., hair-straightening "permanents," hair weaves, …

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Morning Glory, Joan Mcmillan Jan 1995

Morning Glory, Joan Mcmillan

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 15

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Untitled, Jenifer Nostrand Jan 1995

Untitled, Jenifer Nostrand

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 21

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Est. 1846, Jennifer Horne Jan 1995

Est. 1846, Jennifer Horne

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 11-12

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Cricket, Willow, First Moon After Easter, R T. Smith Jan 1995

Cricket, Willow, First Moon After Easter, R T. Smith

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 33-34

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Lights And Shadows - 1995, University Of North Alabama Jan 1995

Lights And Shadows - 1995, University Of North Alabama

Lights and Shadows

Art and Literature Magazine

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The Earthly Paradise In Tolkien’S The Lord Of The Rings, Gwenyth Hood Jan 1995

The Earthly Paradise In Tolkien’S The Lord Of The Rings, Gwenyth Hood

English Faculty Research

Valinor, modelled on the Earthly Paradise, is described more fully in Tolkien's posthumously published works than in The Lord of the Rings. Yet the fleeting Valinorean images within the trilogy have a powerful impact, heightening and simultaneously providing consolation for the horrors of Mordor.

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Thomas Bernhard: Der Sprachbesessene (The Language Fanatic), Jeffrey Heynen Jan 1995

Thomas Bernhard: Der Sprachbesessene (The Language Fanatic), Jeffrey Heynen

Whittier Scholars Program

This project surrounds an in depth analysis of Thomas Bernhard’s prose and drama, more specifically the language he uses. This study examines his most popular drama, Die Jagdgesellschaft (The Hunting Community) where the influences of his theatrical language will be examined and compared to the languages utilized in his autobiographical pieces. This study also considers Bernhard’s political and social commentary as extensions of his childhood war experiences.

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The Sexual Identities Of Moll Cutpurse In Dekker And Middleton's The Roaring Girl And In London, Susan Krantz Jan 1995

The Sexual Identities Of Moll Cutpurse In Dekker And Middleton's The Roaring Girl And In London, Susan Krantz

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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The Chorus In Elizabeth Cary's 'Tragedy Of Mariam', Viona Falk Jan 1995

The Chorus In Elizabeth Cary's 'Tragedy Of Mariam', Viona Falk

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

This thesis examines Elizabeth Cary’s use of the Chorus in The Tragedy of Mariam (pub. 1613). Imitating classical dramatists, Cary portrays the Chorus as a specific cultural group. Mariam’s Chorus consists of “a company of Jews” whose commentary on the play’s events is informed by its participations in patriarchal culture. The Chorus’s prescriptions for wifely virtue and judgements of Mariam’s moral standing frequently contain contradictions. Comparing the contradictions in the Chorus’s statements with similar contradictions in early modern domestic conduct guides, I argue that Cary uses the Chorus to interrogate patriarchal ideology. I consider Cary’s employment of the Chorus in …

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Speaking Magic Realism: Selected Short Stories Of Peter Carey, Raymond Driehuis Jan 1995

Speaking Magic Realism: Selected Short Stories Of Peter Carey, Raymond Driehuis

Theses : Honours

This thesis is an analysis determined by the investigative proposition, what is a magic realist speech act? Of the schools of thought available to any philosophical undertaking in literature, this thesis makes particular use of the principles of speech act theory, genre theory, and poststructuralism. With genre theory, the emphasis is on the subgeneric construction of the narrative structure, and this thesis will incorporate three short stories from Peter Carey's The Fat Man in History as the most overt evidence for what the thesis is proposing to analyse and illuminate. But on the whole, readers will understand that, while …

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Flight And Hand Imagery, Jennifer L. Fosnough-Osburn Jan 1995

Flight And Hand Imagery, Jennifer L. Fosnough-Osburn

Graduate Thesis Collection

This paper will fill in the gaps in the current criticism regarding Toni Morrison's use of flight imagery and will also introduce a parallel line of criticism regarding Morrison's narrative focus on hands and hand gestures, an important and overlapping phenomenon in her novels. This phenomenon serves to elucidate Morrison's larger ideological project, in which she points out the core of one's life is creativity. Flight imagery and hand gestures work together to show a progression in Morrison's novels; thus, they must be considered together in order to completely comprehend characters and their actions as Morrison had intended.

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A Genetic Model Of Duality In Latin American Magical Realism, Keith Spear Jan 1995

A Genetic Model Of Duality In Latin American Magical Realism, Keith Spear

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

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An Analysis Of Personal Pronouns In Middle English Literary Texts, Melissa Jill Bennett Jan 1995

An Analysis Of Personal Pronouns In Middle English Literary Texts, Melissa Jill Bennett

Masters Theses

This thesis examines the evolution of personal pronouns from the tenth to the fourteenth centuries, with a particular focus upon the southern literary dialects of that era. The baseline text for this analysis is the Anglo-Saxon poem The Dream of the Rood, although Bright's paradigm of Anglo-Saxon pronouns is also employed. The Owl and the Nightingale (circa 1200), The Fox and the Wolf (circa 1275), Piers Plowman (circa 1375), and Parliament of Fowls (circa 1375) are used to illustrate the changes in the forms of the pronouns over four centuries, Chaucer's Parliament serving to represent the emerging London standard. …

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Mary Mccarthy, Mary Gordon, And The Irish-American Literary Tradition, Stacey Lee Donohue Jan 1995

Mary Mccarthy, Mary Gordon, And The Irish-American Literary Tradition, Stacey Lee Donohue

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

There is a distinct literary canon in the United States, composed of Irish-Catholic-American writers, which requires different modes of criticism or evaluation than other U.S. literatures, particularly the dominant, largely Protestant or Protestant-influenced, American literary canon. In addition, as a recently recognized literary tradition, many women writers have either been ignored or unnoticed because their works do not immediately fit into the evolving criteria of evaluation for the Irish-American literary tradition. My purpose in this study is not to survey the Irish-American literary canon, but to examine two women writers who have not always been admitted to an innately misogynistic …

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(Self)Critical Thinking: Toward A New Pedagogy Of Compostition And Literature, Brian R. Beamer Jan 1995

(Self)Critical Thinking: Toward A New Pedagogy Of Compostition And Literature, Brian R. Beamer

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Phalanx On A Hill: Responses To Fourierism In The Transcendentalist Circle, William Hall Brock Jan 1995

Phalanx On A Hill: Responses To Fourierism In The Transcendentalist Circle, William Hall Brock

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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A "Re-Vision" Of Selected American Women's Realist Novels, 1880-1917: Political And Psychological Issues Of Gender And Canonicity, Luann Swartzlander-Kraus Jan 1995

A "Re-Vision" Of Selected American Women's Realist Novels, 1880-1917: Political And Psychological Issues Of Gender And Canonicity, Luann Swartzlander-Kraus

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Rejecting The Fruits Of Action: The Regeneration Of The Waste Land’S Legal System, Phillip J. Closius Jan 1995

Rejecting The Fruits Of Action: The Regeneration Of The Waste Land’S Legal System, Phillip J. Closius

All Faculty Scholarship

In his greatest work, The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot presents a picture of twentieth century Western civilization as a culture which has lost its essential values and has come undone from its historical moorings. Material wealth has become the focal point of society and its inhabitants. In such a value distorted context, human relationships are devoid of meaning. Honest communication and a meaningful life for the soul and intellect are lost in a dehumanizing daily grind. Religious, communal, and even familial values are subverted to a culturally encouraged drive for personal gain. In this respect, modern Western civilization in …

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Promoting Attitude And Amount Of Leisure Reading By Selected Fourth Grade Students, Barbara Navin Jan 1995

Promoting Attitude And Amount Of Leisure Reading By Selected Fourth Grade Students, Barbara Navin

Graduate Research Papers

In an effort to determine if media specialists can influence in a positive way the amount of leisure time reading elementary school students do, a study was designed which would test that hypothesis while involving students in two fourth grade classrooms, one of which was the control group and the other the experimental group. Specific activities such as booktalks, story and poetry breaks were performed only for the experimental group. This group also kept a list of books read in gaily decorated reading logs. Both groups kept a count of actual pages read, and actual books completed. Both groups were …

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Tillie’S Christmas: Exposition Of A Children’S Book, Jeanne Anderson Jan 1995

Tillie’S Christmas: Exposition Of A Children’S Book, Jeanne Anderson

Graduate Research Papers

TILLIE'S CHRISTMAS: EXPOSITION OF A CHILDREN'S BOOK, by Jeanne Anderson. In preparation for writing the children's book, Tillie's Christmas, this study explores the craft of writing in general, as well as the process of writing children's books in particular. Since the resulting book intentionally reflects Christmas traditions as celebrated by second-generation German immigrants on the Iowa prairie in 1900, this paper researches those customs. To confirm the commonality of such ethnic experiences on the Iowa prairie in 1900, several interviews with second-generation German immigrants are included in the study.

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Development Of An English For Gospel Purposes Vocabulary List: The Latter-Day Saint Lexicon As A Second Language, Jennifer H. Burrill Jan 1995

Development Of An English For Gospel Purposes Vocabulary List: The Latter-Day Saint Lexicon As A Second Language, Jennifer H. Burrill

Theses and Dissertations

This study sought to explore the non-native English-speaking LDS adult's comprehension of the English LDS lexicon. Stahle (1981) conducted a study of the LDS lexicon which established at least 249 words as "basic" vocabulary. The current study had two foci: it first sought to determine how difficult these words were in both English and Spanish for native Spanish-speaking LDS adults living in the U.S. To assess this, a dual-language vocabulary instrument was administered to 245 subjects from Texas, California, and Utah. Item Response Theory (IRT) analysis was used to calculate difficulty levels of words and these values were plotted two-dimensionally …

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