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Women Characters In The Plays By Tennessee Williams, Marina V. Zakharova

Graduate Research Papers

Tennessee Williams is one of the most important figures in American dramaturgy of the twentieth century. His drama expresses the main points of American contemporary culture. The complex dramatic world created by Williams consists of many levels and components. One of the fundamental themes on which Williams' theater is based is a theme of the dying "noble" tradition of the Southern life style and its conflict with the rigid and pragmatic modern world.

This conflict is presented from the point of view of action and characters as a conflict between reality and illusion, the collision of sensitive and brutal and …

Portrayal Of Homelessness In Children’S And Young Adult Fiction, Susan J. Myers

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this study was to compare the portrayal of homelessness in children's and young adult fiction books to the findings in known research. This study was a content analysis using a checklist to record the presence of individual characteristics, family background traits, and diversity among the homeless leading characters in each selected book. The portrayal of the homeless leading characters was found to be consistent with known research in the areas of individual characteristics and family backgrounds. Although the data concerning the diversity of gender was found to be consistent with known research, the data representing the diversity …

The Portrayal Of Abandonment By Mothers In Young Adult Literature, Bernie M. Hawley

Graduate Research Papers

This study used content analysis of a selected sample of 33 young adult fiction books published between 1980-1995, to determine if the portrayal of abandonment of children by their mothers is realistic according to social research of those populations. Findings indicate that in a majority of the titles the abandonment is caused by the mother's need to establish her own identity and the abandoned child(ren)'s reactions are characterized by negative behaviors. These findings support the premise that contemporary young adult fiction presents mother abandonment in a realistic manner. It was found, however, that the majority of mothers in these books …

Bat Boy: A Novel For Grades 3-6, Ryan Basye

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this graduate project was to write Bat Boy, a beginning novel for readers in grades three through six. The main character in the story is Ryan Basye, who takes a trip to his great grandmother's house in a small Iowa town during the Fourth of July holiday. On this holiday, the town (Holland, Iowa), has a celebration that includes a fastpitch softball tournament, games of chance, rides, lots of barbecuing and fireworks after the championship softball game. Ryan is the bat boy tor his father's team and learns a lot about camaraderie between teammates and about the …

For Gerty Had Her Dreams That No-One Knew Of, Philip M. Weinstein

English Literature Faculty Works

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Mister: The Drama Of Black Manhood In Faulkner And Morrison, Philip M. Weinstein

English Literature Faculty Works

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No Longer Children, Not Yet Adults: Adolescence In The Fiction Of L.M. Montgomery, Cathlin M. Davis

Honors Papers

Lucy Maud Montgomery was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, in 1874. She did not live there her whole life, but it held an important place in her life. The Island was a constant presence in her fiction, and only one of her 23 novels is set completely away from it. Montgomery has long been considered solely a children's writer, though two of her books were written for an adult audience, and the majority of her work holds appeal for a general audience. She remains largely unknown by scholars, but has come under some critical scrutiny with the recent growth …

(En)Gendered Performances And The Problematics Of Identity Construction In Contemporary Gay Literature, William Paul Banks

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations (1964–2006)

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Buddy, Towards Summer, Susan Littlefield

Birmingham Poetry Review

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Equinox Deer, Anne C. Bromley

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 5-6

Harfleur General, Casualene Meyer

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 32

The Doll's Face, Liz Walsh-Boyd

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 43

First Cold Autumn Night, Jan Hayhurst

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 23

Birmingham Poetry Review 15 (End Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 36-42

Lessons In Graphite, Richard Fein

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 14

1933 And Muriel, Earl Coleman

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 6

Jack's New Chameleon, Chris Forhan

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 7

Counting Survivors, Robert Collins

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 45-46

July Morning, Claudia Mangel

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 31

Birmingham Poetry Review 14 (Complete Issue), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

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(En)Gendering Romanticism: A Study Of Charlotte Bronte's Novels, Ariella Bechhofer Brown

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Through her writing, Charlotte Bronte takes issue both with the masculinist assumption of Romanticism and the limitations of the conventional woman's novel. Bronte was drawn to Romanticism for its elevation of subjectivity, the poet's creative imagination, and emotional intensity, as well as its representation of the questing spirit in pursuit of self-definition and transcendence. She also appreciated the Romantics' recognition of the limits of expression and the fields of interpretation opened up by the lack of fixity which is emphasized by Romantic irony. Yet, writing as a Romantic also presented an obstacle to Bronte as a woman writer, for the …

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Studies in Scottish Literature

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Peter Lithgow: New Fiction By Thomas Carlyle, Ian Campbell

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Tobias Smollett: The Scot In England, Jerry C. Beasley

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Odds On Treasure Island, William H. Hardesty Iii., David D. Mann

Studies in Scottish Literature

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John Gibson Lockhart's Memoirs Of The Life Of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Or The Absent Author, Isabelle Bour

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Edwin Morgan - Two Interviews, Marco Fazzini

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Speaking The Colonized Subject In Walter Scott's Malachi Malagrowther Letters, Caroline Mccracken-Flesher

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Some Present-Day Trends In Gaelic Writing In Scotland, Roderick Macdonald

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Choosing A Play: A Critical Survey Of Neil M. Gunn's Drama, Richard Price

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.