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Bright Lights Fade Fast: The Beat Influences Of Thomas Pynchon's V., Daniel Grassian Dec 2020

Bright Lights Fade Fast: The Beat Influences Of Thomas Pynchon's V., Daniel Grassian

Journal X

No abstract provided.


Choosing The Past: Agency And Ethnicity In Sidney Luska / Henry Harland's As It Was Written, Loren Glass Dec 2020

Choosing The Past: Agency And Ethnicity In Sidney Luska / Henry Harland's As It Was Written, Loren Glass

Journal X

No abstract provided.


The Pleasures Of Passing And The Real Of Race, Christopher Hanlon Dec 2020

The Pleasures Of Passing And The Real Of Race, Christopher Hanlon

Journal X

No abstract provided.


Alice Is Not Hysterical Anymore: Revision And History In Joan Schenkar's Signs Of Life, C. E. Atkins Dec 2020

Alice Is Not Hysterical Anymore: Revision And History In Joan Schenkar's Signs Of Life, C. E. Atkins

Journal X

No abstract provided.


"Betwixt And Between": Dismantling Race In My Great, Wide, Beautiful World, Cathryn Halverson Dec 2020

"Betwixt And Between": Dismantling Race In My Great, Wide, Beautiful World, Cathryn Halverson

Journal X

No abstract provided.


Narrative Desire In Ann Petry's The Street, Kari J. Winter Dec 2020

Narrative Desire In Ann Petry's The Street, Kari J. Winter

Journal X

No abstract provided.


The One That Got Away: Elizabeth Bishop's "Damned 'Fish'", Anne Colwell Dec 2020

The One That Got Away: Elizabeth Bishop's "Damned 'Fish'", Anne Colwell

Journal X

No abstract provided.


Notes From Underground, Kevin Kopelson Dec 2020

Notes From Underground, Kevin Kopelson

Journal X

No abstract provided.


Billy Budd On A Phallos Ship: Melville's Challenge To The Dominant Order, Darrell G. H. Schramm Dec 2020

Billy Budd On A Phallos Ship: Melville's Challenge To The Dominant Order, Darrell G. H. Schramm

Journal X

No abstract provided.


From The Dream To The Womb: Visionary Impulse And Political Ambivalence In The Great Gatsby, Chris Fitter Dec 2020

From The Dream To The Womb: Visionary Impulse And Political Ambivalence In The Great Gatsby, Chris Fitter

Journal X

No abstract provided.


The Reviser In The Word Forest: Susan Howe And The American Typology Of Wilderness, Erika Nanes Dec 2020

The Reviser In The Word Forest: Susan Howe And The American Typology Of Wilderness, Erika Nanes

Journal X

No abstract provided.


The Whipping Boy Of Love: Atonement And Aggression In Alcott's Fiction, Elizabeth Barnes Dec 2020

The Whipping Boy Of Love: Atonement And Aggression In Alcott's Fiction, Elizabeth Barnes

Journal X

No abstract provided.


Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring 1997): Full Issue, Journal Editors Dec 2020

Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring 1997): Full Issue, Journal Editors

Journal X

No abstract provided.


Electing A Department: Differences, Fictions, And A Narrative, Terry Caesar Dec 2020

Electing A Department: Differences, Fictions, And A Narrative, Terry Caesar

Journal X

No abstract provided.


Cover Pages, Journal Editors Dec 2020

Cover Pages, Journal Editors

Journal X

Includes table of contents and advisory board.


Vol. 1, No. 1 (Autumn 1996): Full Issue, Journal Editors Dec 2020

Vol. 1, No. 1 (Autumn 1996): Full Issue, Journal Editors

Journal X

No abstract provided.


"Living Curiosities" And "The Wonder Of America": The Primitive, The Freakish, And The Construction Of National Identities In Civil-War America, Linda Frost Dec 2020

"Living Curiosities" And "The Wonder Of America": The Primitive, The Freakish, And The Construction Of National Identities In Civil-War America, Linda Frost

Journal X

No abstract provided.


Hejinian Meditations: Lives Of The Cell, John Shoptaw Dec 2020

Hejinian Meditations: Lives Of The Cell, John Shoptaw

Journal X

No abstract provided.


Editor's Preface, Journal Editors Dec 2020

Editor's Preface, Journal Editors

Journal X

No abstract provided.


Cover Pages, Journal Editors Dec 2020

Cover Pages, Journal Editors

Journal X

Includes table of contents and advisory board.


To Reach The Unreachable Stars: Reexamining The Shared Arthurian Vision Of C. S. Lewis's Science Fiction Trilogy And Raymond Chandler's Marlowe Novels, Hollis Thompson Dec 2020

To Reach The Unreachable Stars: Reexamining The Shared Arthurian Vision Of C. S. Lewis's Science Fiction Trilogy And Raymond Chandler's Marlowe Novels, Hollis Thompson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Although Raymond Chandler and C. S. Lewis seem to be a rather strange pairing, the ways in which they both borrow from Arthurian literature and use the myth to speak to their cultural moment are strikingly similar. Following T. S. Eliot’s use of the Grail quest in The Waste Land (which set a standard for the use of such material in Modern literature), these authors use Arthurian elements as a means of exposing hidden connections between the fragments of the literary past and the present within Chandler’s Marlowe novels and Lewis’s science fiction trilogy. Both men present Western identity as …


“Fetch M’Dear”: Healers, Midwives, Witches, And Conjuring Women In Select Ya And Toni Morrison Novels, Diane Mallett-Birkitt Dec 2020

“Fetch M’Dear”: Healers, Midwives, Witches, And Conjuring Women In Select Ya And Toni Morrison Novels, Diane Mallett-Birkitt

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Accusations and persecution of witchcraft have been embedded in global culture for centuries. For as long as these persecutions have occurred, women have found themselves accused most frequently. Older women with herbal knowledge were often called on to assist with childbirth or termination of pregnancies and this “secret knowledge” often led them to be suspected of supernatural abilities, often of a satanic nature. Intrigued by these wise women who appeared to have mysterious powers and a penchant for arousing the ire of men in the legal, medical, and religious communities, I began to notice their frequent appearance in novels. Does …


The Case Of Limbo: The Search For Identity In Sylvia Plath’S Short Fiction And The Bell Jar, Kristin Lyons Dec 2020

The Case Of Limbo: The Search For Identity In Sylvia Plath’S Short Fiction And The Bell Jar, Kristin Lyons

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Though Sylvia Plath’s poems and novel undergo frequent scholarly research, her short fiction is often overlooked. Plath’s journals influenced her short fiction writing, and her stories reflected Plath’s lived experiences. Plath’s short fiction, like her other works, explore themes of identity and detachment. Each of her protagonists exist in a personal limbo, and they strive to find their identities and to fit the roles in which they occupy. This thesis focuses on “Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom,” stories from Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams, and additional research from scholarly journals and biographies, with comparisons to identity struggles …


The Transformation Of Edgar Huntly: An American Awakening, Willie C. Sosa Dec 2020

The Transformation Of Edgar Huntly: An American Awakening, Willie C. Sosa

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Since Charles Brockden Brown published his first novels in the late eighteenth century, he has subsequently shifted back and forth, in importance, from the center to the periphery of the American literary canon. In recent years however, a dramatic increase in scholarship on Brown shows his significance is once again trending back toward the center of importance in this field. Scholarship has tended to coalesce around four topics which can be categorized as postcolonial expansion, the wild city, the distinction between the city and wildness, and identity. Looking closely at identity, although the discourse has done a thorough job of …


Providence Lost: Natural And Urban Landscapes In H. P. Lovecraft's Fiction, Dylan Henderson Dec 2020

Providence Lost: Natural And Urban Landscapes In H. P. Lovecraft's Fiction, Dylan Henderson

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

S. T. Joshi, the preeminent scholar of weird fiction, considers H. P. Lovecraft a “topographical realist,” noting that, in his later fiction, Lovecraft creates realistic and painstakingly detailed settings. In “Providence Lost: Natural and Urban Landscapes in H. P. Lovecraft’s fiction,” I explore the significance of Lovecraft’s topographical realism and trace its evolution through Lovecraft’s career. I argue that Lovecraft’s early fiction, the tales, that is, that he wrote from 1917 to 1924 under the influence of Edgar Allan Poe and Lord Dunsany, pays little attention to the natural landscape, though Lovecraft does, in story after story, allude to fabulous, …


“We Developed Solidarity”: Family, Race, Identity, And Space-Time In Recent Multiethnic U.S. American Fiction, Kimber L. Wiggs Nov 2020

“We Developed Solidarity”: Family, Race, Identity, And Space-Time In Recent Multiethnic U.S. American Fiction, Kimber L. Wiggs

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In Diversity in Families, sociologists Maxine Baca Zinn, D. Stanley Eitzen, and Barbara Wells assert, “At a very personal level, families are crucial shapers of who we are and what our opportunities have been and will be” (xvii). The novels in this dissertation—Octavia Butler’s Kindred (1979), Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange (1997), and Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita’s Lunar Braceros 2125-2148 (2009)—examine the role of family in the development of individual identity and the practice of social justice. These authors foreground characters from various ethnic backgrounds and depict how the characters form new, multiethnic families. My dissertation explores the …


The Forest, The Trees, The Bark, The Pith: An Intensive Look At The Circulation Rates Of Primary Texts In Ten Major Literature Areas At The University Of Oregon Libraries, Jeff D. Staiger Oct 2020

The Forest, The Trees, The Bark, The Pith: An Intensive Look At The Circulation Rates Of Primary Texts In Ten Major Literature Areas At The University Of Oregon Libraries, Jeff D. Staiger

Charleston Library Conference

This poster looks at the circulation rate for literary primary texts, which constitute a unique area of collecting in academic libraries: while they do not in most cases meet immediate research needs, it is assumed that libraries ought to acquire them, for reasons including future research needs, preservation of the cultural record, and the ability of members of the intellectual community to stay current, those these remain primarily tacit. The circulation trends of contemporary literary works in ten areas of literature (English, American, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Latin American, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian) over the past twenty years at the …


Green Thumbs: Cultivating Greenery And Personal Freedoms In Miné Okubo’S Citizen 13660 And Lorraine Hansberry’S A Raisin In The Sun, Akasha L. Khalsa Oct 2020

Green Thumbs: Cultivating Greenery And Personal Freedoms In Miné Okubo’S Citizen 13660 And Lorraine Hansberry’S A Raisin In The Sun, Akasha L. Khalsa

Conspectus Borealis

In her classic 1959 play, A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry explores the impacts of generations of violence, exploitation, and discrimination on an African American family in Chicago’s Southside. Throughout the play, a family house plant comes to symbolize the matriarch's hopes for her children, and her ability to nourish the plant reflects on her ability to fulfil her own modest dreams and provide for the dreams of her progeny. Similarly, we see plants fulfilling the same role in another tale of American racial injustice, namely Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660, an illustrated personal account of the artist’s experience …


Bodily Evidence: Racism, Slavery, And Maternal Power In The Novels Of Toni Morrison, Jonathan Garren Oct 2020

Bodily Evidence: Racism, Slavery, And Maternal Power In The Novels Of Toni Morrison, Jonathan Garren

South Carolina Libraries

Jonathan Garren reviews Bodily Evidence: Racism, Slavery, and Maternal Power in the Novels of Toni Morrison by Geneva Cobb Moore.


Ed Chapman: In Memoriam, Victor Strandberg Oct 2020

Ed Chapman: In Memoriam, Victor Strandberg

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.