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The Eugene O'Neill Newsletter, Vol. 5, No.1, 1981, Eugene O'Neill Society

Eugene O’Neill Newsletter

The Eugene O’Neill Newsletter is the official newsletter of the Eugene O’Neill Society, an organization of scholars, theater professionals, and enthusiasts, which began meeting in 1978. This publication, created by Suffolk University Professor Fred Wilkins in 1977, started off as part newsletter and part academic journal. In 1989, the publication name was changed to the Eugene O'Neill Review to denote its focus on scholarship. In recent years, the O'Neill Society re-started publication of the newsletter. This site includes newsletter issues from 1977-1989. Newer issues are available on the Eugene O'Neill Society website: https://www.eugeneoneillsociety.org/newsletters.html

Satire On Mankind: The Nature Of The Beast, Thomas Patrick Tierney

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Kaleidoscopic Vision: Multiple Perspectives In Four Plays By Thomas Middleton, Harry Robert Burke

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Songs Of The April Hills, Rufus Reed

Rufus Reed Literary Works

poetry

An Interview With Sylvia Wilkinson, Jane Gentry Vance

The Kentucky Review

No abstract provided.

Rpw At Lsu: Some Reminiscences, Robert B. Heilman

The Kentucky Review

No abstract provided.

Some Observations On Robert Penn Warren's Bibliography, James A. Grimshaw Jr.

The Kentucky Review

No abstract provided.

The Myth Of Lesbian Impunity Capital Laws From 1270 To 1791, Louis Crompton

Department of English: Faculty Publications

The standard history of antihomosexual legislation states that lesbian acts were not punished by medieval or later laws. This essay challenges this view by documenting capital laws since 1270 in Europe and America. A major influence was Paul's condemnation in Romans I, 26. By 1400, the lex foedissimam, an edict of the Emperors Diocletian and Maximianus, issued in 287, was interpreted to justify the death penalty. Executions took place in Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, and Spain. A brief survey of presently known male deaths in Europe and the Americas, which number about 400, also is included. This study draws on …

The Theme Of Rebirth In Modern Poetry, Cherien S Lennie

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Of Publishing, Polkas, And Prudery: A Restored Letter By Thomas Hood, John Spalding Gatton

The Kentucky Review

No abstract provided.

Robert Penn Warren 75th Birthday Symposium Introduction, J. A. Bryant Jr.

The Kentucky Review

No abstract provided.

A Tribute To Robert Penn Warren, J. A. Bryant Jr.

The Kentucky Review

No abstract provided.

Seventy-Five Years Of American Literature: A Panel Discussion, Mary Byrd Davis

The Kentucky Review

No abstract provided.

Robert Penn Warren On His Writing, Susan Emily Allen, Robert Penn Warren, David Farrell

The Kentucky Review

No abstract provided.

Some Inferences About Literary History From The John Milton Collection In The Margaret I. King Library, John T. Shawcross

The Kentucky Review

No abstract provided.

Jesse Stuart: An Appreciation, William Boozer

The Kentucky Review

No abstract provided.

The Endlessly Elaborating Poem: A Comparative Study Of Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, And The American Experimental, Long Narrative Poem, Paul Freidinger

Masters Theses

Up to the middle of the nineteenth century, British and American poetry was expected to employ rigid metrical and rhythmical patterns. Any verse that did not conform was considered devoid of aesthetic merit. In addition, some critics, Edgar Allan Poe being one of those, argued that there was no place for a long poem in poetry. Walt Whitman and Wallace Stevens, two proponents of the long narrative poem, both wrote in free verse and, thus, directly confronted these traditional theories.

This study demonstrates that the verse of Whitman and Stevens constitutes a new approach to poetic style and structure. A …

Go Down, Moses: Experience And The Forms Of Understanding, John Earl Bassett

The Kentucky Review

No abstract provided.

Contemporary Appalachian Poetry: Sources And Directions, George Ella Lyon

The Kentucky Review

No abstract provided.

Agua Negra, Leo Romero

Ahsahta Press

The poems of Leo Romero’s Agua Negra are set in a small Northern New Mexico village whose name means “black water”—or “dangerous water.” The site of a miracle (the image of Christ appearing on a wall), Agua Negra's people and customs, as Keith Wilson says in his introduction, are “as much 17th Century Spanish as they are anything resembling ‘American.’ ” The stories related in these poems have the ring of folktales and village gossip; after reading them one feels slowly returned to the present world, like the speaker in “End of the Columbus Day Weekend” driving home after his …

To Touch The Water, Gretel Ehrlich

Ahsahta Press

At the time To Touch the Water was published, Gretel Ehrlich was a filmmaker, essayist, editor, cow- and sheepherder, part of both the West and New York, as well as a poet. The poems here speak deeply of personal experience. They are portraits of the people who have pressed their lives on hers; strong open images of the landscapes that are the West, complete with storms, drought, sun and wind; love poems as large and grainy as the landscapes. Death is never far away. Although her poems are personal in detail, they speak to all about the truths love and …

Laws Of The Land, David Baker

Ahsahta Press

This 1981 collection has a meditative, memoir-like quality that is soothing and compelling, rich and austere. Baker is adept at capturing the placeless place, the timeless time, as in such poems as “Small Confession by the River: A Love Poem,” “Front Porch,” or “Return to the Pond.” The landscape, history, family—past and present—all cast light and reflect off each other under Baker’s elegant hand.

Threshing Day At Hilltop Farm, Evelyn June Wishman

Graduate Research Papers

The proposal and manuscript for Threshing Days at Hilltop Farm were the result of the creative process. The manuscript was written for children ages 9-11 to enlighten their concept of Iowa farm life in the early 1940's. It was based upon the childhood experiences of the author and her sister and derived from interviews with farm people of the 1940's. The setting was the then average size farm of 160 acres. The theme centered on the activities of a typical threshing day before the impact of mechanization made drastic changes in rural life. The net result of the author's creative …

An Annotated Bibliography On Divorce In Children's Books, Lilith J. Dorr

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this study was to investigate books about divorce which can be used with elementary children. Results of this investigation were compiled in an annotated bibliography of fiction books to be used by students, teachers, guidance counselors, and media specialists in elementary schools. A comprehensive chart of readability, child of divorce, and divorce related problems was compiled and some interesting comparisons and conclusions were made. The number of books located was not as many as expected. The majority of books were located in Fry readability level three. The many feelings and emotions experienced by children of divorce, as …

Structures Of Ritual Sacrifice In Abraham And Isaac And Afore Night Come, Misty Baumann

Honors Papers

In part, this study is a response to a frightening reality-- humans acting to take human life. It is an attempt to understand better how, why and when that act is deemed holy. It is an examination of ritual sacrifice, its symbolic structure, its use and its perversions in two very different dramatic works, the Brome version of the medieval Abraham and Isaac and David Rudkin's modern, British Afore Night. In respect for the eldest, I begin with the former.

The Interweaving Of Poetry And Dance In Ben Jonson's Masques, Ted Gradman

Honors Papers

The masked noblemen prepare to preform one of their intricate dances for King James I and his court; they aim to make the complex floor patterns and body movements appear ordered, adroit, and effortless. Their dances are just one element of the highly elaborate Stuart court masque with integrates dance, poetry, scenic design, costume design and music into a three-hour dramatic spectacle. All that remains today of the lavish event is a text of twelve pages, some short descriptions of the choreography, a handful of sketches, and several short pieces of music. Although we can never fully reconstruct Pleasure Reconciled …

The Homecoming And The Cherry Orchard: Pinter's Inversion Of Chekhov's Subtextual Method, Art Borreca

Honors Papers

The ever-present tension between literary criticism and performance analysis makes one wary about suggesting a cause and effect link between the work of a single dramatist and the development of a major acting method. And yet, it is impossible to separate the original concept of subtext, which emerged upon Stanislavsky's stage, from Anton Chekhov's revolutionary dramaturgy, which made startling demands upon that stage. Chekhov wanted specifically to narrow the gap between real life and stage life--to do away with the worn-out well made play formula that permitted actors to declaim and gesticulate broadly, shouting incredible passions and externalizing larger-than-life desires. …

Lights And Shadows - 1981, University Of North Alabama

Lights and Shadows

Art and Literature Magazine

Front Matter

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

Scottish Nationalism In The Weekly Magazine, Ian C. Walker

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.