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Vol. 16, No. 3 (1996), Lance P. Martin, Robert F. James, Joseph Zaitchik

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

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Vol. 16, No. 2 (1996), Dean Faulkner Wells, Norman Mailer

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Expressions Of Oppression Or Power? Reconsidering The Texts Of Hannah Webster Foster And Tabitha Gilman Tenney, Debra Anne Akgun

English Theses & Dissertations

Hannah Webster Foster and Tabitha Gilman Tenney were early American novelists writing in the latter part of the eighteenth century. Each author wrote a sentimental novel and a traditional conduct book. The Coquette and The Boarding School by Foster and Female Quixotism and The New Pleasing Instructor by Tenney, have scarcely been understood in relation to each other. This project attempts to view these texts as in the eighteenth-century society might have.

The introductory chapter identifies the problem with the typical feminist critical reading. It also explores many of the popular genres of literature during the eighteenth-century. Included are explorations …

Antimodern, Modern, And Postmodern Millay: Contexts Of Revaluation, Cheryl Walker

Scripps Faculty Publications and Research

In this chapter, Walker examines questions concerning renewed scholarly interest in Edna St. Vincent Millay toward the end of the twentieth century. Specifically, these questions center on whether to rethink the principles of establishing the canon of American literature--indeed, whether the poet changes literary fashions or literary fashions change the poet. Walker's answer is the latter, and her essay examines how Millay is different received through three different periods: antimodern, modern, and postmodern. She argues that whether a poet becomes central to literary study has less to do with the "quality" of the poetry than with complex cultural factors that …

Vol. 16, No. 1 (1996), William Pratt

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Vol. 15, No. 4 (1995), Peter Stoicheff, William E. Strickland

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Vol. 15, No. 3 (1995), Peter Stoicheff, Michael A. Crivello, Wendy Goldberg

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"Old Christmas And Other Kentucky Tales In Verse" And "Singing Carr And Other Song Ballads Of The Kentucky Cumberlands": William Aspenwall Bradley's Versified Views Of Turn-Of-The-Century Appalachia, Patricia Jarvis Webb

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the Caudill College of Humanities at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Patricia Jarvis Webb on April 10, 1995.

Vol. 15, No. 2 (1995), William Boozer, W. Kenneth Holditch

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The Inner Voice, Janis Ruth Bagnall Cochrane

Institute for the Humanities Theses

The scope of this project is two-fold. The key purpose is to demonstrate the relationship between the voice of Lee Smith, a Southern writer from Appalachia and the voice of the author, another Southern writer from the Outer Banks. The foremost conclusion that has been drawn is that a writer's voice comes from deep inside the writer's unconscious. It is a product of generations of experiences that have embedded themselves in the writer's psyche. Some of the assumptions and prejudices surrounding southern women are discussed to some degree.

The second purpose is for this writer to show her work. This …

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 …

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

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Index 1 (1981-1994), Lawrence Wells

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Vol. 14, No. 4 (1994), John Egerton

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Vol. 14, No. 3 (1994), Samuel M. Turney, Thomas M. Verich, M. Thomas Inge, John Ruemmler, Wendy Goldberg

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Vol. 14, No. 2 (1994), Tina H. Hahn, William E. Strickland, M. Thomas Inge

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Vol. 14, No. 1 (1994), Tommy Covington, Seymour Lawrence

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The Faulkner Newsletter Collected Issues, William Boozer, Dean Faulkner Wells, Lawrence Wells

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

Introductory material to accompany the 1994 publication of The Faulkner Newsletter Collected Issues by Yoknapatawpha Press (ISBN 0916242668). The volume reprinted the first 54 issues of the publication along with an index compiled by the publishers. Includes a "Letter from the Publishers", their bios, and an introduction by William Boozer.

Vol. 13, No. 4 (1993), Lawrence Wells, William Boozer, Nancy Hall, Connie Erickson

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Marsha Norman's Ghosts: The Embodiment Of The Past On The Stage, Jennifer Anne Workman

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study focuses on the role of the ghost figure in Marsha Norman's drama. In order to understand how this ghost figure is unique to her drama, but at the same time has roots in the American theater, I first examine her relationship to her American predecessors and their portrayal of the past in order to later show how the ghost figure is Norman's "device" that she uses to explore the past on the stage. I then attempt to determine her relationship to the current movements with which she is most often associated: new realism and feminism. Because new realism …

Vol. 13, No. 3 (1993), Jane Hill, Peter Stoicheff, Bruce A. Jacobs, Theresa Towner, M. Thomas Inge

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Vol. 13, No. 2 (1993), Gene Roper Jr.

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Teaching Dickinson As A Gen(I)Us: Emily Among The Women, Cheryl Walker

Scripps Faculty Publications and Research

In this article, Walker argues that those who teach the poetry of Emily Dickinson should not only compare her to other recognized and lauded American poets, such as Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, and Marianne Moore. This method offers no cultural context to provide ligature. It views high art as to be only about language and, on the score of tropological discourse, any two poets could be connected, even across vast expanses of time and distance. While it's useful for students to see how elements of her work connect her not only …

Vol. 13, No. 1 (1993), Keith Fudge, Howard Bahr

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Vol. 12, No. 4 (1992), Howard Bahr, William Boozer, Thomas M. Verich, Jane Isbell Haynes

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Vol. 12, No. 3 (1992), Michael A. Crivello, Wendy Goldberg, Wiiliam Vlach, W. Kenneth Holditch, M. Thomas Inge

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Vol. 12, No. 2 (1992), Michel Gresset, William Boozer, Chester Mclarty

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San José Studies, Winter 1992, San José State University Foundation

San José Studies, 1990s

Volume 18, Issue 1

Vol. 12, No. 1 (1992), James Dahl, William Boozer

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A New Reading Of Ruth Suckow, Judith Pierson

Masters Theses

By 1950, after three decades of writing, Ruth Suckow (1892-1960) was a well-respected writer whose work seemed headed for a permanent position in the canon of American literature. Instead, Suckow's fiction steadily became less known through the following decades. The question of why her work came to be ignored and why such a position is unwarranted is addressed in A New Reading of Ruth Suckow. The conclusion is that a regionalist categorization and a related gender bias in the literary canon have adversely affected Suckow's works.

Gender bias is reflected in the critical assumptions which ascribe an inferior position to …