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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, “. . . …

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 …

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.

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 …

"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

Community Pride Reporter, 12/1994, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Index 1 (1981-1994), Lawrence Wells

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

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Community Pride Reporter, 11/1994, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 10/1994, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

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Community Pride Reporter, 09/1994, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 08/1994, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 07/1994, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

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It's A Family Affair: Choices In Kinship Configurations As Represented In Fried Green Tomatoes And Bastard Out Of Carolina, Mary Elizabeth Wright

English Theses & Dissertations

Fictional representations of familial paradigms are changing. This discussion charts the variations that occur in family makeup; such as the single-parent, the lesbian parent, and the guardian parent households. While the nuclear family situation is missing from this selection, it is not absent from these novels. What is different in both Fried Green Tomatoes and Bastard out of Carolina is choice. People make choices concerning who they want to live with. Writers, like Flagg and Allison, make choices concerning their characters' familial configurations, but they do· not require their characters or their readers to determine that one should eradicate the …

Steinbeck Newsletter Summer 1994, San Jose State University

Center for Steinbeck Studies Newsletter

Summer 1994. Includes: Fruchte de Zorns: The Grapes of Wrath in wartime Germany / Arthur Krim; Sturges and The Grapes of Wrath / Kevin Hearle; Burning Bright Burns Brightly as an Opera / Robert Morsberger

A Literary Evaluation Of Black Female Interaction In Toni Morrison's "Beloved", "Sula," "Jazz", Carol Ann Davenport

English Theses & Dissertations

This Master's thesis consists of three chapters that examine the roles, circumstances and effects of racism and sexism on the black female characters in three of Toni Morrison's novels, Beloved, Sula and Jazz. I propose that the elements of racism and sexism have left the female characters, Sethe, Denver, Ella, etc. in Beloved with few choices in life. Further, I suggest that the theme of "choice versus no choice" perpetuates hatred and self-hatred among black women and results in "metaphoric scarring." I explore in the characters, Sula, Eva, Hannah, Nel, and the black Bottom women, the damage inflicted on black …

Community Pride Reporter, 06/1994, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 05/1994, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Women Without Men: Hemingway's Female Characters, Kelly Brillhart

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Ernest Hemingway wrote four major novels and dozens of short stories during his long career as one of America's preeminent twentieth century writers. Both during his lifetime and after his death, critics have written extensively about his work, analyzing it, interpreting it, and evaluating it. Perhaps the most debated aspect of the canon is Hemingway's treatment of female characters. In the past, critics tended to arrange Hemingway's heroines into categories, frequently dividing them into two groups: the bitches and the goddesses. More recent criticism eschews the restrictions of categories, focusing on the women as individuals and attempting to explain their …

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

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

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Community Pride Reporter, 04/1994, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 03/1994, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 02/1994, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 01/1994, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Harold Bell Wright, Lawrence V. Tagg

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

In 1894 a penniless and ailing twenty-two-year-old man went into the Ozark Mountains near the town of Branson in southwestern Missouri in the hope of regaining his health. While his efforts were successful, the trip also set in motion the experiences that led to the writing of some of the most popular Western novels of the period, best sellers that brought fame and fortune to their author—Harold Bell Wright. He spent the next fifty years in the American West, and when he died he left behind a legacy of epic stories about the Ozarks, California, and Arizona.

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

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

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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.