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An Afternoon With Maya Angelou, Maya Angelou

James R. Thompson Leadership Lectures

Maya Angelou, a nationally renowned poet, educator, historian and author, is one of the great voices of contemporary literature. In addition, she is an accomplished actress, playwright, producer, and director. Dr. Angelou received an emmy nomination for best supporting actress in the television series Roots and received the coveted Golden Eagle Award for the PBS documentary "Afro-American in the Arts." However, she is perhaps best known for the public for her autobiographies and books of poetry.

Maya Angelou has authored more than 10 best selling books and numerous articles in publications such as Life, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar and The New …

Community Pride Reporter, 12/1993, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 11/1993, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Poems And Songs Of The Cuicapicqueh, Contemporary Nahuatl Poets, Willard Gingerich

Department of English Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

No abstract provided.

San José Studies, Fall 1993, San José State University Foundation

San José Studies, 1990s

Volume 19, Issue 3

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

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

Community Pride Reporter, 10/1993, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 09/1993, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 08/1993, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 07/1993, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

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From Exile To Affirmation: The Poetry Of Joseph Brodsky, David Patterson

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

This article examines the relation between the exile of the poet from his homeland and the "exile of the word." The notion of the exile of the word pertains to the poet's problem of re-introducing meaning to the word—an excess of meaning that conveys more than the word can normally convey—through his poetry. Showing how the poet in exile becomes a poet of exile, the article examines what poetry has to do with a larger difficulty of exile and homelessness in human life. Brodsky's poetry, the article argues, addresses this very difficulty. The article concludes that the human capacity to …

Whirling Darkness: Witchery's Ascent In The Writings Of Leslie Marmon Silko, Kristin Monahan

Theses & Dissertations

Apocalyptic imagery spirals throughout Leslie Marmon Silko's works. The destruction of individuals, cultures, and eventually the Earth are purported by the grand plan of witchery. Evil has existed among Native American's in the form of witchery since time began. Its forces reside within all things. Yet with the tools provided by the spirits, namely the oral tradition and ceremonies, witchery can be controlled: the stories explain its origin and its power, showing how witchery has been overcome in the past, while the ceremonies provide a means of healing those who have been afflicted. By maintaining connections to the universe, past, …

Paintings And Drawings In Willa Cather's Prose: A Catalogue Raisonné, Polly P. Duryea

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Paintings and Drawings in Willa Cather's Prose: A Catalogue Raisonné considers the specific artists and their visual art that greatly influenced Willa Cather's textual compositions. The Catalogue draws upon the author's research of Cather-related art from both American and European libraries and art museums. This art includes painting, drawing, illustration, and tapestry. A detailed and alphabetized list of selected artists and paintings that Cather preferred is provided. The artists are cross-referenced with Cather's own statements about their work or style. Included is biographical data for each artist, the named work of art, and often the date executed, the location then …

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

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

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The Impact Of The Sexually Vital Woman In Willa Cather's My Antonia And A Lost Lady, Amy Beth Rafferty

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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Visionaries Of The American West : Mari Sandoz And Her Four Plains Protagonists, Lisa R. Lindell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The authorial reputation of Mari Sandoz has long rested in the shadow of other writers of her era. First of all, Sandoz wrote from and about a relatively remote region of the United States. In addition, she firmly refused to produce popular works at the expense of sacrificing the truth she perceived and wished to express. Consequently, Sandoz has often been classified as a regional writer and her works have been overlooked by many readers and critics. Her status as a woman, her unconventional writing style, point of view, and subject matter, and the blending of historical and fictional elements …

Reading The Endings In Katherine Anne Porter's "Old Mortality", Suzanne W. Jones

English Faculty Publications

With these final sentences of "Old Mortality" (1937), Katherine Anne Porter qualifies the progress eighteen-year-old Miranda has made toward self-knowledge and sophisticated reading strategies. This long story is a bildungsroman of sorts, tracing Miranda's development from childhood to young adulthood, but focusing particularly on her apprenticeship as a reader. Porter links Miranda's quest for self-discovery with her attempts to determine fact from fiction in the stories her family tells about the love affairs, brief marriage, and early death of her beautiful Aunt Amy. By dismissing both her father's romantic legend and her Cousin Eva's feminist critique as untrue--by focusing on …

Patricia Highsmith, Nicholas Blake, And The Case Of The Duplicate Murder, Mary Kay Mahoney

Studies in English, New Series

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Gearing Up: Compositional Order In Vandover And The Brute, Ethan Lewis

Studies in English, New Series

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Friendship And Idolatry In Esther Edwards’ Burr’S Letters, William J. Scheick

Studies in English, New Series

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Wendell Berry’S Metaphysics Of Sabbath, Tom Pynn

Studies in English, New Series

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Plath’S Poem For A Birthday: Forging A New Self, Nancy D. Hargrove

Studies in English, New Series

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The Male Threat In Beloved, N. Teeter

Studies in English, New Series

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Katherine Anne Porter’S Early Stories: Successful Narrators And Unsuccessful Characters, Philip Page

Studies in English, New Series

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Faulkner’S As I Lay Dying: The Coffin Pictogram And The Function Of Form, Barry R. Mccann

Studies in English, New Series

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Failed Quests For Ideal Love: Jude The Obscure As A Paradigm For The Wild Palms, Margaret D. Bauer

Studies in English, New Series

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Mythic Images In Charles Brockden Brown’S Ormond, Marietta Patrick

Studies in English, New Series

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Texts And Other Fictions In Gore Vidal’S Burr, Thomas Gladsky

Studies in English, New Series

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Creating A Self, Personal And National, In Richard Nelson’S Trilogy, Robert J. Andreach

Studies in English, New Series

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