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Fall 1995, 90.9 Wmpg Fm

WMPG Program Guides

No abstract provided.

Summer 1995, 90.9 Wmpg Fm

WMPG Program Guides

No abstract provided.

Southern Register. 1995.1 (Winter 1995), University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture.

Southern Register

No abstract provided.

Mississippi Folklife. Volume 28, Number 1 (Winter/Spring 1995), Mississippi Folklore Society, University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture

Mississippi Folklife

No abstract provided.

Matlovich Society (Winter 1995), Matlovich Society

Matlovich Society (1991-1997)

No abstract provided.

Giles, Janice Holt, 1905-1979 (Mss 39), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Manuscripts, galley proofs and research material for janice Holt Giles's books; published and unpublished articles and short stories; poems; reviews and clippings relating to Giles's work; correspondence of Giles, her husband (Henry Earl Giles) and daughter (Elizabeth Moore Hancock); correspondence of Giles, her literary agent, and publisher; Holt and Giles family material.

The Female Body As Icon: Edna Millay Wears A Plaid Dress, Cheryl Walker

Scripps Faculty Publications and Research

The female body has never been so prominently displayed or so critically examined as it is today under the dominance of late capitalism. The results of this display, we can now see, have been mostly negative: women regard themselves at best self-consciously, at worst with disgust. Given this emphasis on self-scrutiny, it comes as no surprise that middle-aged women experience a reduction of self-confidence regarding their physical presences and a concomitant increase in self-dissatisfaction. It is also worth noting that a querulous tone often afflicts them as they grow older, suggesting that they are at odds not only with others …

Mark Medoff, Rudolf Erben

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

Mark Medoff grew up in the East, lives in the New West, but dreams of the Old West. In his essay “Adios, Old West,” he nostalgically calls himself a “child of the Old West” (1). Medoffs protagonists likewise romanticize the Western American past because they associate it with their own youthful innocence. But they learn to live with the far less romantic realities of an increasingly eastemized West. Like Medoff, they know that cowboys can no longer be role models. While they regret the decline of the heroic tradition, they realize that they cannot emulate outdated stereotypes. In his drama, …

Jane Gilmore Rushing, Lou H. Rodenberger

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

Jane Gilmore Rushing begins an article entitled “People and Place,” commissioned by The Writer (September 1969) after publication of her second novel, with this self-assessment: “I think I am what you call a regional writer.” Such candid acknowledgement by a writer of what she perceives her role to be in the literary world is rare. Most writers steer clear of the designation of “regionalist,” even those whose works convey a powerful sense of place. Nevertheless, Jane Rushing’s explanation of her authorial selfimage dispels any doubt that she does indeed see herself as a regionalist, whose mission is to share with …

Vol. 15, No. 1 (1995), Arthur F. Kinney, Dean Faulkner Wells

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

American Irish Newsletter - January 1995, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

No abstract provided.

The Shanachie Volume 7, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society

The Shanachie (CTIAHS)

No abstract provided.

Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program

WKU Administration Documents

The WKU Student Honors Research Bulletin is dedicated to scholarly involvement and student research. These papers are representative of work done by students from throughout the university.

• Allen, Melody. Women in Control of Courtship in As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice and All's Well That Ends Well
• Amlani, Islamshah. Electron Stimulated Desorption of Alkali Halides
• Brillhart, Kelly. Women Without Men: Hemingway's Female Characters
• Burton, Lori. Financial Statements with Environmental Concerns: An Exploratory Study of the Impact on the Auditor's Role and Responsibilities
• Combs, Vicki. Dancing the Descent: Energy and Entrophy in William Carlos Williams
• Davis, Julie. Prelude to …

Tess Gallagher, Ron Mcfarland

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

The voice of the poet may be one or polyvocal: bardic, prophetic, political, satiric, meditative, bucolic, sentimental, nostalgic. The voice of the poet may be deep or shallow, profound or silly, complex or easy, loud or soft. Nothing guarantees that we will like the work of any given poet except our own direct engagement with the poems. If some of our friends tell us we will like, or dislike, Tess Gallagher’s poems, it is probably because of something they know about us or about the poems themselves, and that something is most likely the voice they hear, whether consciously or …

Theodore Strong Van Dyke, Peter Wild

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

Few writers, no matter how popular in their day, can point to “firsts” in their literary careers. As to Theodore Strong Van Dyke, in the midst of the booming land sales of the 1880s, when trainloads of Midwesterners crowded into southern California to be fleeced by ready hucksters, Van Dyke sowed doubts about the direction which was applauded as progress. Particularly through his lightly sardonic novel Millionaires of a Day (1890), this friend of John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt initiated an American uneasiness that the hoopla over the region, and over the American West generally, was false, “. . . …

White County Heritage 1995, White County Historical Society

White County Heritage Journal

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Dedication
Mayor's Proclamation
Letter, Arkansas Historic Preservation
Searcy' First Armistice Day by Elbert "Flywheel" Morgan
WWII Veteran 50th Anniversary
Obituary: Maurice "Footsie" Britt (reprint from Ark. Democrat Gazette)
Letter from Lecil Brown
Toll Was Great on Merchant Ships by L.E. Brown
WW II Scrapbook (Property of Leister Presley)

• G.C. Davis Return Visit
• First GI's in Germany
• Also the Bulge
• Billy Angel Recalls Holocaust
• Rembering V-E Day by Modean Lowe
• He Can't Recall All by Dean Hunter
• Victory Division News
• Drake Spur Men in World War II by L. Presley

Secession Convention by Jesse Cypert (reprint from Arkansas …

A Different Destination: The American Journey Theme In The Novels Of Toni Morrison, Jill Holbrook

Honors Theses, 1963-2015

The mythic form of the American journey in American literature, which developed from the frontier experience of white male settlers, embraces separatism, escape and isolation as valid options for the exploration of personal identity. For people who are neither white nor male, this definition of journey and this exploration of identity prove an impossibly destructive dream. In her novels, Toni Morrison develops a different idea of journey, one which leads the journeyer back to his or her community and to the discovery of identity in relationship, rather than isolation. The journey back to the community is explored in Sula, Song …

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 44, No. 2, Susan Kalcik, June Granatir Alexander, M. Mark Stolarik, Corinne Earnest, Klaus Stopp, Jobie E. Riley

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Fortune's Stepchildren: Slovaks in Pennsylvania
• Slovak Churches: Religious Diversity and Ethnic Communities
• Slovak Fraternal-Benefit Societies in Pennsylvania
• Early Fraktur Referring to Birth and Baptism in Pennsylvania: A Taufpatenbrief from Berks County for a Child Born in 1751
• The Solitary Sisters of Saron

Cowboy Wonderland, History, And Myth: 'It Ain't All That Different Than Real Life, William G. Simon, Louise Spence

Communication, Media & The Arts Faculty Publications

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson was Robert Altman's bicentennial film. Released for the Fourth of July weekend in 1976, the film examines the western both as a national myth and as a commercial entertainment form; indeed, one might see the film's project as an expos? of the ideological functioning of the western, its white male hero, and the Native American in nearly 100 years of American popular culture.

Thomas And Elizabeth Savage, Sue Hart

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

Although Elizabeth Fitzgerald and Thomas Savage were born on opposite sides of the country, from early on it seemed as if they were as destined for each other as they were for careers in writing.

Diners In America : An Evolutionary Process, Jill Gardner

Honors Theses

A diner is now, as it has always been, a restful spot. It is a restful spot that is currently branching out into chains to capitalize on this same sentiment all over the nation. It focuses on the caricature like qualities that people recognize in a diner. People are willing to pay a little more, not much more, but a little more, to get away from McDonald's. These restaurants have been built with old memories but with new conveniences and some new menus. Finally, with health food on the march, I have to ask--where else can you eat a big …

Pynchon, Dionysus And America: In Search Of The Pig That Got Away, Andreas Gerling

Masters Theses

This work seeks to analyze Western thought as a system. As a case study representative of this system, I have chosen the United States of America, as it started as a strange experiment in purely Apollonian thought, which has largely remained a closed system and has become the primary engine of cultural change in the twentieth century. As the tools for my analysis, I have chosen the dialectic represented in the mythical opposites Dionysus and Apollo and the counter cultural reaction by a number of post World War II authors, most notably Thomas Pynchon, to the "American Dream."

America began …

Uncoverings: The Research Papers Of The American Quilt Study Group, Volume 16 (1995), Virginia Gunn, Kathryn W. Berenson, Ricky Clark, Naida Treadway Patterson, Merikay Waldvogel, Xenia E. Cord, Marlene O'Bryant-Seabrook, Carol Williams Gebel, Judy Elsley

Uncoverings Journal

Preface by Virginia Gunn

Research Papers

Origins and Traditions of Marseilles Needlework by Kathryn W. Berenson

Ruth Finley and the Colonial Revival Era by Ricky Clark

Marion Cheever Whiteside Newton: Designer of Story Book Quilts, 1940-1965 by Naida Treadway Patterson

The Origin of Mountain Mist Patterns by Merikay Waldvogel

Marketing Quilt Kits in the 1920s and 1930s by Xenia E. Cord

Symbiotic Stitches: The Quilts of Maggie McFarland Gillispie and John Gillispie, Jr. by Marlene O'Bryant-Seabrook

Quilts in the Final Rite of Passage: A Multicultural Study by Carol Williams Gebel

Making Critical Connections in Quilt Scholarship by Judy Eisley

Authors …

"Murder And Mystery Mormon Style": Violence As Mediation In American Popular Culture, Terryl Givens

English Faculty Publications

Terryl Givens's discussion of popular representations of Mormonism ("'Murder and Mystery Mormon Style': Violence and Mediation in American Popular Culture ) is a case in point, emphasizing the violence inherent in the acts of sociocultural and fictional mediation that have tried to contain the heretical challenge of Mormon theocracy. Mormonism has a complex cultural identity, as a religious group clearly outside the American mainstream and yet historically and ethnically American to the core. Nineteenth-century fictional representations of Mormonism tended to demonize the religion while at the same time deploring the violence of anti-Mormon bigotry; such representations mediated social violence …

Steinbeck Newsletter Winter-Spring 1995, San Jose State University

Center for Steinbeck Studies Newsletter

Winter-Spring 1995. Includes: Of Mice and Men: Steinbeck's Speculations on Manhood / Leland S. Person Jr.; Frank Norris and John Steinbeck: The Critical Reception of Naturalistic Art / Jesse Crisler

"Properly Presented": The Autobiography Of Parley P. Pratt, Taunalyn Ford Rutherford

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is an examination of the autobiography of Parley P. Pratt in light of current American autobiography research, intended to assert its worthiness for greater consideration by scholars of American culture. The findings suggest that the Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt is comparable to other works now included in the canon of American autobiography such as Jonathan Edward's "Personal Narrative," Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography and Henry David Thoreau's Walden. Critical theories on the above autobiographies are applied to the Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt in order to show its applicability to the current dialogue of American autobiography. Finally, the …

John Muir Newsletter, Winter 1994/1995, John Muir Center For Regional Studies

Muir Center Newsletters (1981-2015)

John Muir Newsletter winter 19i4-9a university of the pacific volume 5, number 1 FOLLOWING MUIR'S FIRST SUMMER ROUTE by John Fiske (Editor's note: John Fiske, retired engineer and Muir aficionado, lives near Coulterville and has thoroughly explored the region, tracking Muir's 1869 route as described in My First Summer in the Sierra. A year ago he accompanied a group of Muir enthusiasts from Japan on an excursion that began near Snelling and ended in Tuolumne Meadows. Fiske's trail notes are reprinted below. His meticulous research, and his careful delineation of the current topography and nomenclature, are valuable contributions to modern …

Northern Lambda Nord Communique, Vol.15/16, No.10/1 (December/January 1994-1995), Northern Lambda Nord, Jim Fotter, Dick Harrison

Communiqué / Northern Lambda Nord (1981-1999)

No abstract provided.

Community Pride Reporter, 12/1994, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

No abstract provided.

10% 12/1994, 10% Enterprises

10% : Maine's monthly newspaper for lesbians & gay men (1994-1995)

No abstract provided.