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Narratives Of Survival: Linda Niemann Interviews Leslie Marmon Silko, Linda Niemann Jun 1992

Narratives Of Survival: Linda Niemann Interviews Leslie Marmon Silko, Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

Interview with Leslie Marmon Silko.


Bronto, Brunto, Or Brontolone: Brontës In The `Museyroom' Of Finnegans Wake, Thomas Burkdall, Colleen Jaurretche May 1992

Bronto, Brunto, Or Brontolone: Brontës In The `Museyroom' Of Finnegans Wake, Thomas Burkdall, Colleen Jaurretche

Thomas Burkdall

No abstract provided.


Railroading Sisters: Two Women Run The U.S. Gypsum Short Line North Of Reno, Linda Niemann Mar 1992

Railroading Sisters: Two Women Run The U.S. Gypsum Short Line North Of Reno, Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

No abstract provided.


Choosing Strangers, Linda Niemann Feb 1992

Choosing Strangers, Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

No abstract provided.


New World Disorder (Book Review), Linda Niemann Feb 1992

New World Disorder (Book Review), Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

Reviews the book, "Almanac of the Dead," by Leslie Marmon Silko. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.


Santiago And The Drinking Party, Clay Morgan Dec 1991

Santiago And The Drinking Party, Clay Morgan

Clay Morgan

Meet Daniel Cooper, a young American searching for a way to escape the predictability of life in the United States. Lured by wanderlust, Daniel travels to the Amazonian village of Los Puentes Caidos - a seductive hamlet of magical realities where human nature, Mother Nature, and the nature of truth converge in tropical excess.

There, old Santiago, a philosophic seeker, has formed his Drinking and Thinking Club. This curious "Thinkery" includes a skeptical war veteran, a noble dwarf, a far-seeing blind man, and assorted other questioners who spend their time drinking beer, sucking lemons, and reflecting - quite imaginatively and …


On Tradition: Essays On The Use And Valuation Of The Past, Clifford Davidson Dec 1991

On Tradition: Essays On The Use And Valuation Of The Past, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Contains previously published articles in revised or abbreviated form: “The Sociology of Visual Forms, Tradition, and the Late Medieval Theater,” “What hempen homespuns have we swagg’ring here?” “Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair, Stage Plays, and Anti-Traditionalism,” “George Herbert and Painted Glass Windows,” and “T. S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral: Reviving the Saint Play Tradition.”


Bloody Ground, Hal Charles Dec 1991

Bloody Ground, Hal Charles

Charlie Sweet

No abstract provided.


“He Nothing Common Did Or Mean”: Marvell’S Charles I And Horace’S Non Humilis Mulier.”, M. Stapleton Dec 1991

“He Nothing Common Did Or Mean”: Marvell’S Charles I And Horace’S Non Humilis Mulier.”, M. Stapleton

M. L. Stapleton

No abstract provided.


Mystery Lives Even In New Jersey (Prose Poem), Jan Wellington Dec 1991

Mystery Lives Even In New Jersey (Prose Poem), Jan Wellington

Jan Wellington

No abstract provided.


The Monster, Melanie Sumner Dec 1991

The Monster, Melanie Sumner

Melanie Sumner

Abstract forthcoming


William Godwin’S Fleetwood: The Epistemology Of The Tortured Body, Steven Bruhm Dec 1991

William Godwin’S Fleetwood: The Epistemology Of The Tortured Body, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


The Development Of Written Igbo Literature (Chapter 27), Chukwuma Azuonye Dec 1991

The Development Of Written Igbo Literature (Chapter 27), Chukwuma Azuonye

Chukwuma Azuonye

Against the background of the existence of indigenous writing systems (such as Nsibidi pictographic-ideographic signs and the Nwagu Aneke or Umuleri syllabary), this chapter surveys of the emergence of written literature in Igbo from the 19th century "linguistic labors" of the Christian missions (including collections and transcriptions of Igbo oral literature and translations of European classics into Igbo) and the promotion of supplementary readers in the first quarter of the 20th century which ushered in the first modern Igbo novel, Omenuko by Pita Nwana (1933). Modernist writing in Igbo is represented by the poetry collected in Aka Weta (From Different …