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Order And Orderlessness In Gravity's Rainbow: A Dialectic, Richard A. House '94

Honors Projects

Gravity's Rainbow is a notoriously unreliable text. The perspectives of the strange narrator and various characters give an account of the novel's events that is clearly problematic in terms of the degree of "reality" that can be ascribed to various episodes: fantasies, hallucinations, and paranoid delusions are often indistinguishable from the events which may cause them or to which they may refer. To an unusual degree, then, the fundamental plot-question-"What happens?"-becomes a point of depa.rt"u!e for a sort of textual metaphysics. Often, arguments about the significance of passages may be upstaged by arguments about the plot itself: what "really" happens …

Fragments Of Shattered Idols, Lawrence Collins

Whittier Scholars Program

This project is an experiment which primarily revolves around two autobiographies.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's Female Characters An Author's Changing Perspective, Todd Dykes

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

No abstract provided.

Poem No. 71, May 1994, Huntsville Literary Association (Huntsvile, Ala.)

POEM

The Huntsville Literary Association was founded in 1967 to provide a community for writers, readers, and artists through workshops, readings, and educational programs. One of their key contributions is the literary magazine titled POEM which showcases original writings from both established and emerging writers. This issue features poems from various writers.

The Question Of Free Will In James Joyce's Exiles And William Faulkner's Requiem For A Nun, Robin Hume Brownhill

Master's Theses

Joyce's Exiles and Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun are both unsuccessful naturalistic dramas written by novelists. This study compares the two texts, applying the question, "Is free will possible?" to four common themes within each work: the past, religion, marriage and politics. Within these four contexts, the two plays exhibit similarities of language and content; however, they consistently distinguish themselves on the question of free will. Joyce's work shows a protagonist who "frees" himself, through sacrifice, from the bonds of tradition. Faulkner's work shows a protagonist "doomed" and "damned" to suffer endlessly for her past. Despite their opposing presentations of …

The Representation Of Tabooed Love In Lillian Smith's Fiction, Jane Elizabeth Payne

Master's Theses

My study explores Lillian Smith's autobiographical relationship to her fiction, particularly two novels, Strange Fruit, and One Hour. The focus of this work is Smith's challenge to the category of sexual orientation and her related use of fiction as a source of social commentary and self-reflection. Smith's uses veiled and encoded language and other kinds of tabooed love to study her own lesbian love. She also assumes a male persona to understand and express her erotic attraction to women. I approach Smith's life and literature in chronological order with an emphasis upon characterization, symbolism, narrative technique, and metaphors of nature. …

1994 Literary Review (No. 8), Sigma Tau Delta

The Greenleaf Review

No abstract provided.

Legend: The Song Of The Family, The Voice Of A Woman, Kimberly Roth Shumway

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

The Song of the Family

I do not believe that lives are lived in isolation, but rather are connected by ties of humanity and of family. For me because of this intimate human connection, every life experience, trivial or tremendous, is a poem. The poems blend into one--a great symphony of the human condition. An experience, even if left unverbalized, shapes the minds of both the one experiencing it and those connected to him or her by either close or distant ties.

In this collection I combine the poetic experiences most relevant in shaping me. They are the songs of …

The Nature Of The Brontes, Ruth Kathryn Davidson

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

“I Must Be Cruel Only To Be Kind:” Displays Of Anger And Doubling In Hamlet Prince Of Denmark, Christi Keating

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

The Clergy In The Novels And Short Stories Of Thomas Hardy, Jennifer Lynn Facchine

Theses & Honors Papers

No abstract provided.

Vol. 14, No. 2 (1994), Tina H. Hahn, William E. Strickland, M. Thomas Inge

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

Laguardia Literary Magazine: Indigo, Spring, 1994, Laguardia Community College

LaGuardia Community College Publications

Editor-in-chief: Vanesa Yi-Perez, Associate Editor: Humaira Qureshi, Assistant Editor: Russell Alvarez, Editors: Ivy Gosine, Tanya Naiken, Verai Ramsammy Faculty Advisor: Dr. Tom Fink

A Simple Matter, Deborah Adelman

English Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The Price, Kevin Clark

English

No abstract provided.

Et Cetera, Marshall University

Et Cetera

No abstract provided.

The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 2, The Sinclair Lewis Society

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter

Abstracts from Papers Presented at the Symposium on American Realism and Naturalism:

“‘A Scarlet Tanager on an Ice-Floe’: Women, Men, and History on Main Street,” by Caren J. Town, Georgia Southern University

“American Voices in Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here,” by Robert L. McLaughlin, Illinois State University

“Boundary Ambiguity and Abortion: Women’s Choices in Sinclair Lewis’s Ann Vickers and Kingsblood Royal,” by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University

“Teaching Sinclair Lewis: From Resentment to Recognition: Babbitt in the Classroom,” by Clare Virginia Eby, University of Connecticut-Hartford

“The Life of Babbitt,” Review of Babbitt: An American Life …

Review Of Our Ladies Of Darkness: Feminine Daemonology In Male Gothic Fiction By Joseph Adriano, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

It takes a brave soul to publish a "post-Jungian" study of female archetypes in fiction written by nineteenth-century men these days. Let's face it: if the neo-Freudians do not aim first, the feminists will. And then, of course, the Foucaultians will not be far behind. As a critic who has subscribed at various times to all three of those discourse systems, I want to state at the outset that I learned something from reading Joseph Andriano's book, even if I ultimately did not find his methodology persuasive or convincing.

An Interview With Armand Schwerner, Willard Gingerich

Department of English Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Armand Schwemer was born in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1927 and came to the United States in 1936. He has worked as a performance artist and musician with Jackson MacLow, Jerome Rothenberg, Gum Velez and others, and has published over fifteen books of poetry. His The Tablets, an ongoing work begun in the 1960s, remains one of the most protean and provocative, though underacknowledged, explorations of open composition to have emer­ged since mid-century. The following interview, conducted by Willard Gingerich, is excerpted from a longer series of exchanges which took place between April 4 and June 29, 1993.

The Laissez Faire Political Vision Of John Milton In Paradise Lost, Gerald Keith Delles

English Theses & Dissertations

John Milton's Paradise Lost, a work subject to an indefinite variety of readings, is here dissected to reveal the nature of Milton's political epistemology. Using his prose as the soil from which his ideas sprang and the whirlwind political climate of seventeenth century England as the catalyst of these ideas, the goal is to connect the implied political content of Paradise Lost with corresponding points in the prose and actual events of Milton's time, with the intent to form a blueprint of Milton's "political vision." Eden and Heaven from Paradise Lost offer a link between labor without constraints and the …

The Vital Life: D.H. Lawrence's Response To A Dehumanized World, Rebecca Recce White

English Theses & Dissertations

As D.H. Lawrence experienced World War I and the Industrial Revolution, he recognized the inner spirits of men and women being valued less in the midst of war and industrialism. Lawrence's novels, short stories, and other works dramatize this dehumanizing process. Of his novels, five will be examined in this study: Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, The Plumed Serpent, and Lady Chatterley's Lover. Pivotal relationships between men and women are outlined by Lawrence to illustrate the ways in which they either reflect or challenge society.

Lawrence gives the readers a view of the modern age torn apart …

Female-Made Order In The Works Of Kaye Gibbons, Lee Ann Dugan

Honors Theses

Kaye Gibbons, a contemporary Southern writer, attracted almost immediate attention with the publication of her first novel Ellen Foster in 1987. Awarded the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters' Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, Ellen Foster was warmly received by both the critics and the public. According to Alice Hoffman, readers trust Ellen Foster even though her misfortunes border on the Gothic, and they anxiously follow her adventures because Gibbons "focuses on Ellen's strengths rather than her victimization, presenting a heroine who rescues herself" (13). Telling her story as if she were "her own maker and redeemer," …

The Mythical Method Of Descent Into Hell, Evans Lansing Smith

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

Considers Williams’s Descent Into Hell as an excellent “example of the use of the mythical method [as defined by T.S. Eliot] as a metaphor of poesis, by which the fundamental forms of the imagination are catalyzed.” Geometrical symbolism and the underworld journey link it to many modernist works.

The Illusion Of Control: Narrative Authority In Robin Mckinley's Beauty And The Blue Sword, Michael Cadden

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

Examines the narrative structure of Beauty and The Blue Sword in terms of Ganette’s distinction between mimetic authority and diegetic authority. Notes that both protagonists have little control over events and once their function is served, the patriarchal character of their world persists.

Letters, Nancy-Lou Patterson

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

No abstract provided.

Reviews, Glen Goodknight, Nancy-Lou Patterson, William H. Stoddard

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

Poems by J.R.R. Tolkien. J.R.R. Tolkien. Reviewed by Glen GoodKnight.

Tolkien's Middle-Earth: A Book of 20 Postcards. Art by John Howe, Roger Garland, Alan Lee, and Ted Nasmith. Reviewed by Glen GoodKnight.

Tolkien's Dragons & Monsters: A Book of 20 Postcards. Art by Alan Lee, John Howe, Ted Nasmith, Roger Garland, Inger Edelfeldt, and Carol Emery Phenix. Reviewed by Glen GoodKnight.

Morgoth's Ring: the Later Silmarillion, Part One, The Legends of Aman. J.R.R. Tolkien; Edited by Christopher Tolkien. Reviewed by Glen GoodKnight.

Planets in Peril: A Critical Study of C.S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy. David C. Downing. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson. …

The Ecology Of Middle Earth, Marcella Juhren

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

Analysis of Middle-earth’s environmental equivalents to our world, by climate and dominant vegetation. Notes that Tolkien’s descriptions of the ecology of his Secondary World must be based on “years of close and thoughtful observation of nature”—particularly when describing transitions from one ecological niche to another. Concludes with an “ecological report” on Middle-earth. Covers geography, geology, and plant life in great detail.

The Mythology Of Out Of The Silent Planet, Margaret Hannay

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

Discussion of Out of the Silent Planet focusing on the religious and theological aspects of Lewis’ mythopoeic imagination and the creation of his “cosmic mythology.” Describes how OSP establishes the “basis for [Lewis’s] cosmic mythology, which is further developed in later books of the series.”

Tarot Card Symbolism In The Star Wars Films, Coralee Grebe

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

A Jungian interpretation of the first three Star Wars films through the lens of Tarot imagery.

Cuchulainn And Women: A Jungian Perspective, Marian Davis O.S.B.

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

A Jungian interpretation of the Irish mythological cycle featuring the hero Cuchulainn, with particular attention to the prominent role of women.