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Ludington, John Dos Passos: A Twentieth Century Odyssey, Craig Werner

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Minter, William Faulkner: His Life And Work, Evans Harrington

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Dollarhide, Of Art And Artists, Jeffrey T. Gross

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Vol. 1, No. 1 (1981), William Boozer, Dean Faulkner Wells, Willie Morris

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

Advisory Board, Journal Editors

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Another Reprint Of Poe’S “The Oblong Box”, David K. Jackson

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Dollarhide And Abadie, Eudora Welty: A Form Of Thanks, Louis J. Budd

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Pilkington, The Heart Of Yoknapatawpha, E. Stanly Godbold Jr.

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Letter From Sharon Wotherell, Sharon Wotherell

James Hearst Documents

Memories of James Hearst as a teacher an after written by Sharon Wotherell.

American Authors And Their Critics, Benjamin Franklin Fisher Iv

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Hughes, The Maniac In The Cellar: Sensation Novels Of The 1860’S, Natalie Schroeder

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

“Song Of Myself’: The Touch Of Consciousness, William S. Haney Ii

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Thompson And Lokke, Ruined Eden Of The Present: Hawthorne, Melville, And Poe — Critical Essays In Honor Of Darrel Abel, Kent Ljungquist

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

A Modern Mephistopheles: Mcteague And The Faust Legend, Bill Stewart

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Vol. 2 (1981): Full Issue, Journal Editors

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

George Washington Harris’S Newspaper Grotesques, Milton Rickels

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Mark Twain And The Magazine World, Louis J. Budd

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Scandinavian Immigrant Literature, Christer Lennart Mossberg

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

When today’s "Midwest” opened to settlers in the nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of European immigrants joined Americans streaming into the area. Eventually, these immigrants constituted almost half the population of the plains and prairies. Although many old country habits and traditions disappeared quickly under the pressure to assimilate, several immigrant groups persisted in using their own languages to record their lives. Scandinavian immigrants left one of the richest records of Western farmlife in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, not only in their diaries, journals, and ethnic histories, but particularly in their literature. Over eighty novels and short story …

George R. Stewart, John Caldwell

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

When George Stewart's father, looking for better health and a new start, moved his family from western Pennsylvania to southern California, he placed them into the great stream of emigrants that crossed America in search of a better life in the West. This Western living experience has had a strong shaping influence upon George Stewart, both as a scholar and as a writer. Although his interests have been very broad, a major part of his work has been Western, centering on the San Francisco Bay area and the valleys, mountains, and plains that lead to it.

Clarence King, Peter Wild

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

“The young men were scattering in all directions,” says Van Wyck Brooks of the United States in the 1870s (New England: Indian Summer, 1865-1915, p. 184). Having survived the Civil War, the Union appeared vital in body and spirit. Railroads and telegraph lines spread across the country, binding the resource-rich territories of the American West with the rapidly industrializing East. Armed with the confidence that we now call "nineteenth-century optimism," and justified by what the Andrew Carnegies and John D. Rockefellers of the day thought of as "progress” shored by Social Darwinism, men scrambled for their share of nature’s …

Benjamin Capps, Ernest B. Speck

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

One might assume that a requisite for becoming a successful novelist about the Southwest is to be born in Archer County, Texas. Both Benjamin Capps and Larry McMurtry were born there, but their interests are different. Capps has been concerned with the background of his region, while McMurtry treats contemporary themes. Capps has now published eight novels, plus three pieces of non-fiction, about the West.

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 …

The Biblical View Of The Fall Of Man In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun, Lois Darlene Hanson

Masters Theses

"The story of the fall of man!" One can easily tell that The Fall is the main topic in The Marble Faun. Hawthorne, in this romance, is asking whether man's fall in the Garden of Eden was for man's betterment or not. He is also asking if sin is our power of regeneration, for without the sin of Adam and Eve there would have been no need for a savior. This theory is known as the Fortunate Fall of Man.

Hawthorne is suggesting within The Marble Faun that our sin is both original and renewable--it is something that we …

The Influence Of Women In Vardis Fisher’S Western Literature, Sylvia L. Alderton

Masters Theses

Vardis Fisher, a writer who wrote about the early west, uses his life experiences and extensive historical research as a basis for his western novels. With his background in the Antelope region and his historical research, Fisher presents both women in the Antelope hills and women in the hazardous far west surroundings. He instills in the reader a panoramic view of the pioneer women as they experience life in the old west.

The Antelope women are isolated in their environment with little social contact. They are effected physically, psychologically, and economically in this remote area. Most of the women overcome …

Howells' Debate With Himself About God, Mike Vanden Bosch

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.

Roethke’S "Meditations Of An Old Woman": A Myth And Ritual For Dying, Christopher K. Bennett

Masters Theses

In "Meditations of an Old Woman," Theodore Roethke poetically encountered death, speaking through the persona of an old woman approaching the end of life. The pattern she follows, wandering through her memory in search of the maiden she once was, is also found in the myth of Demeter and Persephone, which was ritualized in the Eleusinian Mysteries of ancient Greece. The poem, myth, and ritual taken together reflect a single archetypal pattern for approaching death; comparing them will reveal the essence of each. Through recollection, the old woman finally unites with her lost youthful self in an epiphany similar to …

The Wilders In Louisiana, Mary Evelyn Thurman

Publications

No abstract provided.

Spring Rites On The Farm, James Hearst

James Hearst Documents

Recollections of James Hearst of spring activities on his parent's farm published in the spring 1980 issue of Kansas Quarterly.

What Killed Mcmurphy, Roger A. Lohmann

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

Despite the generally optimistic and hopeful tone of organizational goals and public policy, the general record of residential treatment institutions, or asylums, and of efforts to reform them have been equally unsuccessful. In this paper, it is argued that the lack of success in basic institutional reform over much of the past two centuries is, itself, a part of the tragic cycle of institutionalization. A principle factor in the failure of reforms (the tragic flaw, as it were) is the naive rationalism, which forms the psychological and sociological basis of the dominant model of institutional life used by institutional officials …

Arlin Turner, Benjamin Franklin Fisher Iv

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.