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Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

1998

American Literature

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Carnival Morality: The Freedom Of Hawthorne's "The Marble Faun", Stephen Clawson Robertson Jan 1998

Carnival Morality: The Freedom Of Hawthorne's "The Marble Faun", Stephen Clawson Robertson

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Ralph And Lily: Victims In A Boundary World, Regina Marie Lucas Jan 1998

Ralph And Lily: Victims In A Boundary World, Regina Marie Lucas

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A War Of Words: Satire And Song In The Pre-Revolutionary Virginia Gazettes, Mark Hunter Howell Jan 1998

A War Of Words: Satire And Song In The Pre-Revolutionary Virginia Gazettes, Mark Hunter Howell

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Katherine Anne Porter's "Old Mortality" And Virginia Woolf: A Study In Feminism, Rebecca S. L. Waite Jan 1998

Katherine Anne Porter's "Old Mortality" And Virginia Woolf: A Study In Feminism, Rebecca S. L. Waite

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From Within The Frame: Storytelling In African-American Fiction, Bertram Duane Ashe Jan 1998

From Within The Frame: Storytelling In African-American Fiction, Bertram Duane Ashe

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The purpose of this study is to explore the written representation of African-American spoken-voice storytelling in five fictional narratives published between the late nineteenth century and the late twentieth century: Charles W. Chesnutt's "Hot-Foot Hannibal," Zora Neale Hurston's their Eyes Were Watching God, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, Toni Cade Bambara's "My Man Bovanne," and John Edgar Wideman's "Doc's Story.".;Using Walter Ong's suggestion that the relationship between storyteller and inside-the-text listener mirrors the hoped-for relationship between writer and readership, this study examines the way these writers grappled with these factors as they generated their texts.;By paying attention to the teller/listener-writer/readership relationship, …