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Breaking And Connecting In The Short Stories Of Flannery O'Connor: "The Look Of This Fiction Is Going To Be Wild" (Grace Minus Nature Equals Mystery), John Benjamin Schwartz
Breaking And Connecting In The Short Stories Of Flannery O'Connor: "The Look Of This Fiction Is Going To Be Wild" (Grace Minus Nature Equals Mystery), John Benjamin Schwartz
Honors Papers
Flannery O'Connor was not an author who was afraid to take drastic measures, or to be on familiar terms with a deep mystery. She, like the great mathematicians, had points she wanted to connect,. and was willing to tear her fabric to connect them. In her fiction, the disruption she uses to forge her paths has many incarnations. The generating forces of that disruption, and the forces generated by that disruption, can be focused into three immediately identifiable categories: comedy, violence, and the grotesque. In order to better understand O'Connor's fiction and the connections between the taxed analogy of complex …
Multiple Identities/Multiple Narrative Strategies: Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, Gabrielle N. Dean
Multiple Identities/Multiple Narrative Strategies: Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, Gabrielle N. Dean
Honors Papers
The Chinese never meant to stay in America. The eventual integration -- or lack thereof -- of those sojourners, fortune seekers, and refugees into mainstream America was for many an economic accident, a cruel mishap twice as bitter to swallow when longing for Home was burdened with racism and ignorance of the American barbarians. Some did return (and had their American nest eggs confiscated by the Communists) but for those unfortunates who had to stay, the dream of going back to China was a taste in the mouth, verbalized and daily pressed upon the palates of offspring and kin.
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The Reinscription And Qualification Of The Feminine In Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons, Jeffrey Mihok
The Reinscription And Qualification Of The Feminine In Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons, Jeffrey Mihok
Honors Papers
My concern in this paper is primarily with Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons, though I will close with a few observations about the canonization and exclusion of literary works. Stoddard's novel, published in 1862, holds great interest because, among other things, it is in the position of possibly attaining a wider readership, if not canonization, and yet its success is hardly assured. Independent of its particular fictive character, it is a rewarding and strange work to read because of its positioning. Its 1984 republishing, edited and with an introduction by Lawrence Buell and Sandra Zagarell, has been variously received, achieving a …