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Facts, Shapes, Our Relationship With The Landscape: A Conversation With David Quammen, David Thomas Sumner Jan 2001

Facts, Shapes, Our Relationship With The Landscape: A Conversation With David Quammen, David Thomas Sumner

Faculty Publications

This interview with David Quammen is part of a series of conversations with contemporary western writers about the ethical and cultural implications of nature writing.


Nature Writing, American Literature, And The Idea Of Community: A Conversation With Barry Lopez, David Thomas Sumner Jan 2001

Nature Writing, American Literature, And The Idea Of Community: A Conversation With Barry Lopez, David Thomas Sumner

Faculty Publications

This interview with Barry Lopez is part of a series of conversations with contemporary western writers about the ethical and cultural implications of nature writing.


Table Of Contents Jan 2001

Table Of Contents

The Dark Man: The Journal of Robert E. Howard & Pulp Studies

Editor's Welcome, by Frank Coffman

When Kull Rode the Range, by Fred Blosser

All Fled, All Done, by Rusty Burke

The Tower of the Elephant: A Modern Fable, by Gary Romeo

Escape from Eden: Genesis Subverted in the "Garden of Fear," by Charles Hoffman

James Allison's Incarnations, by Joe Marek

Soldiering for Fortune: Robert E. Howard's Kirby O'Donnell and "The Treasures of Tartary," by Dr. Gary Hoppenstand

Dating "Wolfshead," by Edward Waterman

"Ghor Kin-Slayer," review by Fred Blosser

The Cairn (Letters from Contributors), Introduced by Frank Coffman

Lock Box 313 (Letters from Contributors), Introduced by Frank Coffman

A Previously Unpublished …


Desert Literature: The Early Period, Peter Wild Jan 2001

Desert Literature: The Early Period, Peter Wild

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

Although not entirely free, ours is a fairly easy ride when it comes to living on deserts. Today, in order to survive, few people out in the lands of the giant cactus and the Gila monster eat grasshoppers or spend day after day hoeing beans in the punishing 110° heat. Instead, today’s residents enjoy a created world of air-conditioned homes, schools, and shopping malls. The point is that few people live in the desert anymore. They live on it. Theirs is a colonial society, imposed on the land, fed from the outside, and infused with the life-giving juice of energy …


Reading Wallace Stegner's Angle Of Repose, Russell Burrows Jan 2001

Reading Wallace Stegner's Angle Of Repose, Russell Burrows

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

Wallace Stegner must have felt he was gambling as he settled on Angle of Repose (1971) as the title for his most important novel—the one that would go on to win a Pulitzer Prize (1972). “Angle of repose” happens to be a bit of technical jargon from mining, and Stegner meant to extend it to marriage. This unlikely metaphor begins with the practical understanding that mine debris will tumble downhill only so far, because as a slope levels out, the rocks and the gravels and the like will start to pile up at their respective “angles of repose.” And so, …


Walt Whitman: The Optimism Of An Evolutionary Pantheist, Katherine R. Hults Jan 2001

Walt Whitman: The Optimism Of An Evolutionary Pantheist, Katherine R. Hults

Masters Theses

E.M. Forster may have best described Walt Whitman's prevailing optimism in the following passage:

He is the true optimist—not the professional optimist who shuts his eyes and shirks ... but one who has seen and suffered much and yet rejoices. He is not a philosopher or theologian; he cannot answer the ultimate question and tell us what life is. But he is absolutely certain that it is grand, that it is happiness, and that 'wherever life and force are manifested, beauty is manifested.' (Allen, World 52)

Whitman was aware of the social taboos and social evils of his time, witnessing …


Journey To The Frontiers Of Perception: How Women Wrote About The Westward Movement During The Nineteenth Century In Relation To Land, Animals, And The Domestic Sphere, Brandi Dale Spelbring Jan 2001

Journey To The Frontiers Of Perception: How Women Wrote About The Westward Movement During The Nineteenth Century In Relation To Land, Animals, And The Domestic Sphere, Brandi Dale Spelbring

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


Pirsig's Phaedrus: The Journey Of The Shaman, Joseph E. Levora Jan 2001

Pirsig's Phaedrus: The Journey Of The Shaman, Joseph E. Levora

Masters Theses

Robert Pirsig, in both his novels Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and Lila, explores the conflict one man has with the beliefs and values of the culture he is living in. This conflict leads him to mental collapse and eventually a kind of rebirth into a new outlook and way of viewing the cultural values and beliefs of the society he is living in. In this thesis, I propose that Phaedrus, the central character of both of Pirsig's novels, can be compared to a shaman. I am not suggesting that Pirsig deliberately intended the reader to view …


Epic, The Oral Community, And The Memory Of Emancipation In Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth, Patrice Rankine Jan 2001

Epic, The Oral Community, And The Memory Of Emancipation In Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth, Patrice Rankine

Classical Studies Faculty Publications

As the recently published epistolary collection reveals, Ralph Ellison was an unabashed Americanist, for better and for worse. Ellison's faith in American identity and the democratic process, which is evident at the end of Invisible Man in the protagonist's determination to "affirm the principle on which the country was built [and not the men who did the violence]" (574), is again manifest in the posthumous novel, Juneteenth. According to John F. Callahan, Ellison's litearary executor, the novel celebrates "the indivisibility of the American experience" (Juneteeth xvi). James Alan McPherson (the African-American writer to whom Ellison showed a portion …


Contents, Tom Mack, Ph.D. Jan 2001

Contents, Tom Mack, Ph.D.

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.


To Barchester And Beyond: Entering The World Of A Novel Today, Michael R. Allen Jan 2001

To Barchester And Beyond: Entering The World Of A Novel Today, Michael R. Allen

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.


Foregrounding Motherhood In Toni Morrison's Sula And Beloved, Lindsay Green Jan 2001

Foregrounding Motherhood In Toni Morrison's Sula And Beloved, Lindsay Green

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.


The Oswald Review Undergraduate Research And Criticism In The Discipline Of English: Volume 3 Fall 2001 Jan 2001

The Oswald Review Undergraduate Research And Criticism In The Discipline Of English: Volume 3 Fall 2001

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.


Multicultural Literature: A Study Of A Berks County, Pa High School, Amy Mcfeaters, Sara Smith, Lucy Chen, Rose Thoma Jan 2001

Multicultural Literature: A Study Of A Berks County, Pa High School, Amy Mcfeaters, Sara Smith, Lucy Chen, Rose Thoma

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.


Back Matter, Tom Mack, Ph.D. Jan 2001

Back Matter, Tom Mack, Ph.D.

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.


Front Matter, Tom Mack, Ph.D. Jan 2001

Front Matter, Tom Mack, Ph.D.

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.


Steinbeck Newsletter Winter 2001, San Jose State University Jan 2001

Steinbeck Newsletter Winter 2001, San Jose State University

Center for Steinbeck Studies Newsletter

Winter 2001. Includes: Two Fishes with One Hook: The Ecological Perspectives of John Steinbeck and Joseph Mathews / Louis Owens; Steinbeck and Kaufman at Cherchez La Farm / Don Swain; A Study of the Symbolism of the Name Rose of Sharon / Ikuko Kawata