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James Dickey's To The White Sea: A Critical Controversy, Douglas Keesey

English

No abstract provided.

The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 1, The Sinclair Lewis Society

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter

Abstracts from Papers Presented at the 1993 American Literature Association Conference:

“Lewis on Authorship,” by Martin Bucco, Colorado State University

“‘All of Us Americans at 46’: The Making of Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt,” by James M. Hutchisson, The Citadel

“Babbitt as Veblenian Critique of Manliness,” by Clare Eby, University of Connecticut-Hartford

“Sinclair Lewis’s ‘Minnesota Diary’ and His Devotion to Thoreau,” by George Killough, College of St. Scholastica

“A Romance of Manners and Class,” rev. of Free Air, by Sinclair Lewis, edited by Robert E. Fleming, by Roger Forseth, University of Wisconsin-Superior

“The Reviewers Reviewed: Part II,” by Robert …

Matriarchs, Doves, And Nymphos: Prevalent Images Of Black, Indian, And White Women In Caribbean Literature, Daryl Cumber Dance

English Faculty Publications

Universally, male writers have tended to create images of women which reveal the familiar male tendency to view women merely as functionaries whose role basically is determined by male needs, male motivations, male fears, and male fantasies. When woman is submissive, docile and pure, she is to be protected and revered; then, she is the virgin/goddess. When she is assertive and strong, she is to be avoided and despised; then, she is the bitch/shrew. When she is passionate and active, she is to be resisted and feared; she is the whore/temptress. While this genera] categorizing of women characters carries over …

Lovelock, Fred G. Leebron

English Faculty Publications

Presents a short story about Benjamin Scott, an ex-convict whose life turned a different course after a one-night stand with a retarded woman in Lovelock, Nevada. Promise of a job in San Francisco; Memories of traveling from state to state to get to his destination; Meeting Ana and her sister Lisa; Feelings of guilt for sleeping with Ana; Apologizing to the sisters; Decision to follow Ana to San Diego.

Résumé, Fred G. Leebron

English Faculty Publications

I sat at the back of a pale classroom and watched my father teach. "Creative Inspiration," my father lectured, "is what you have as soon as you are born and the doctor slaps you on your bottom. That first cry, because you're hungry or tired or just glad to be breathing, is your first creative inspiration." I leaned back in my chair to ease the heat rising in my face. "Incidentally," my father said, grinning at the under graduates, "I've read the Sexual Harassment pamphlet, and I want you all to know I don't slap bottoms." [excerpt]

The Harpe's Head: A Legend Of Kentucky: James Hall's Passionate Innovation, Eric Atherton

The Kentucky Review

No abstract provided.

The Poor Girl And The Bad Man: Fairytales Of Feminine Power, Elisabeth Panttaja

The Kentucky Review

No abstract provided.

Errands Of Love: A Study In Black And White, Joseph H. Gardner

The Kentucky Review

No abstract provided.

The Native American Presence Ln Mary Oliver's Poetry, Robin Riley Fast

The Kentucky Review

No abstract provided.

Sidney's Astrophil And Stella, Sonnet 108, Jeffrey P. Cain

English Faculty Publications

Contends that although sonnet 108 is now considered to represent Sir Philip Sidney's final statement on the relationship of the two lovers, it remains largely ignored in most critical treatments of `Astrophil and Stella.' Need for a thorough understanding of its unique alchemical and emblematic imagery; Strong evocation of esoteric Renaissance science of alchemy; Sidney's reference to the `wretch'; Horizontal axis along which Stella's thoughts pass to Astrophil.

Delicate Subjects: Romanticism, Gender, And The Ethics Of Understanding [Review], Michael Fischer

English Faculty Research

We are still trying to sort out the complex legacy of romanticism. "We" here includes philosophers Stanley Cavell and Richard Rorty, feminist critics Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, and a remarkable variety of literary theorists, from Northrop Frye, M. H. Abrams, Paul de Man, and Harold Bloom through Hazard Adams and Jerome J. McGann. Julie Ellison's important book, Delicate Subjects, focuses on an especially difficult problem we have inherited from the romantics: the problem of defining the ethics of interpretation. According to Ellison, male romantic writers worry that in literary interpretation, we murder to dissect (to paraphrase Wordsworth). Criticism, from …

Ezra Pound's Encounter With Wang Wei: Toward The 'Ideogrammic Method' Of The Cantos, Zhaoming Qian

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Past And The Family Experience: Traditional Southern Themes In The Work Of Lee Smith, Theresa Martin

Theses & Honors Papers

No abstract provided.

A Problem In Rhetoric: Teaching Writing With Western Culture, Steven Marx

English

But rather than the large theoretical questions of canon revision that grabbed national headlines last year, I want to talk about a more mundane and limited question that I tried to deal with while teaching at Stanford between 1984 and June 1988. That question addresses one of the practical concerns of this conference on core curriculum: how does one effectively combine a course in English Composition with a course in Western Culture? The problem delegated to me was to work out a curriculum that would adapt the topics of English Comp to the readings and lectures-a curriculum for a course …

Madness And Hope: Military Experience As Theme And Symbol In Contemporary African-American Drama, Ashley Reed Warren

Theses & Honors Papers

No abstract provided.

Mythcon 24 - Down The Hobbit-Hole & Through The Wardrobe: Fantasy In Children's Literature, The Mythopoeic Society

Mythcon Programs

Mythcon XXIV is pleased to offer you a wide selection of daytime programming, including scholarly papers, panel discussions, readings, storytelling, and other events, beginning at 1:00 p.m. on Friday. We recommend studying our Pocket Program to choose the events you wish to attend each hour and to plan when to visit our Art Show and Dealers' Room.

Jesse B. Semple And The Black Press : The Voice Of Black People, Mary Ann 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 …

Bidding For Distinction : John Wade's Gerogia Review, Anne Rittenburg

Honors Theses

Hailed today as one of the leading literary journal quarterlies in the nation, the Georgia Review is venerable on the eve of its golden anniversary. The quarterly's rich beginning bears investigation; so to understand this beginning, I have studied the man, John Donald Wade, who originated the Review and have observed firsthand through his correspondence, his pre-publication publicity, and his editorials the scope and standard he set for the quarterly. I have read of Wade's life and works in dissertations, essays written on him, and a published collection of his writings. Interviewing some of his smviving colleagues, I have gained …

Bidding For Distinction : John Wade's Georgia Review, Anne Rittenburg

Honors Theses

Hailed today as one of the leading literary journal quarterlies in the nation, the Georgia Review is venerable on the eve of its golden anniversary. The quarterly's rich beginning bears investigation; so to understand this beginning, I have studied the man, John Donald Wade, who originated the Review and have observed firsthand through his correspondence, his pre-publication publicity, and his editorials the scope and standard he set for the quarterly. I have read of Wade's life and works in dissertations, essays written on him, and a published collection of his writings. Interviewing some of his smviving colleagues, I have gained …

Marsha Norman's Ghosts: The Embodiment Of The Past On The Stage, Jennifer Anne Workman

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study focuses on the role of the ghost figure in Marsha Norman's drama. In order to understand how this ghost figure is unique to her drama, but at the same time has roots in the American theater, I first examine her relationship to her American predecessors and their portrayal of the past in order to later show how the ghost figure is Norman's "device" that she uses to explore the past on the stage. I then attempt to determine her relationship to the current movements with which she is most often associated: new realism and feminism. Because new realism …

Silko And Erdrich: Paradigm For Multicultural Education, Jean Kathryn Como Sando

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Multicultural education is one of the most challenging issues for modern scholars. This thesis studies the issue of ethnicity in teaching, using the works of Leslie Marmon Silko and Louise Erdrich and the theory of R. Radhakrishnan which outlines "programmatic" and "radical" ethnicity. Louise Erdrich and Leslie Silko are women about the same age, of mixed-race heritage, but they represent very different agendas within the Native American community and the American community as a whole. They are not interchangeable; Erdrich focuses on individuals, Native and non-Native, inside a bizarre community. Her concept involves radical ethnicity. Silko's characters are more important …

Saint Tiffany And The Dragon, Bruce Mccandless Iii

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.

The Last Paragraph, C. R. Schabel

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.

The Two Bridegrooms, Angelee Sailer Anderson

The Mythic Circle

There was a maid to love inclined; Cared not where she might linger, If one fair circlet she could find To set around her finger.

The White Geese, D. Lynn Smith

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.

The First King Of The Island, Erin Lale

The Mythic Circle

Out of the north came a bitter wind, And with it long, long ships. Out of the north with a frosty cry, Pale gold sailors slipped.

Shore Song, Barbara Jarvik

The Mythic Circle

Drayley Dray came on a Thursday Where Lacey Lamb sang starry-eyed, "Tell a story now till Friday, While I sift stones left by the tide."

Skull Grip / Circle Way, Janet Elliott Waters

The Mythic Circle

Skull Grip: But then, Athena sprang from a headache. This stabbing pain, like slivers of glass flints, could be birth pangs. Circle Way: I, Hunter, arrow cast I know your magic ways I track your secret ways

Letters Of Comment, Charles De Lint, Thomas Egan, Gwenyth E. Hood, Erin Lale, Ron Blizzard

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.

Artorius Wyvernis, Amy Wolf

The Mythic Circle

Leigh squinted as she rounded a grassy corner, dazzled by the brightness of another L.A. day.