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Caroly Ryrie Brink, Mary E. Reed

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

For a gifted storyteller with the ability to pluck the extraordinary from the ordinary, the occasion of Carol Ryrie Brink’s birth would give her the opportunity to introduce herself into a particular place and time. Her life tentatively began on 28 December 1895. She grew up hearing the story of that winter evening from her grandmother until it became her own. Her grandfather, Dr. William W. Watkins, arrived at the Ryries' house on a sleigh pulled through the snow by his high-stepping horse. As the doctor pumped the baby’s small arms up and down and blew his tobacco-scented breath into …

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.

• Alkolibi, Fahad. Bowling Green Urban Heat Island
• Chattin, John. John Grimes' Abandoning of Religion in James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain
• Clark, Michelle. Abortion and the Moral Status of the Fetus
• Garrett, Kristy. The Making of a Serial Killer
• Lilley, Elizabeth. Is Environmental Recovery Possible in Prince William Sound Following the Alaskan Oil Spill?
• McMurtry, Brian. Biblical Imagery and Symbols in El Arbol De Oro
• Metzger, Kim. The Rise and Fall …

Jeanne Williams, Judy Alter

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

Author of fifty books, all but two of them fiction, Jeanne Williams is a prolific and versatile novelist. She has over ten million books in print and has three times won the Spur Award for fiction from Western Writers of America and once the prestigious Levi Strauss Golden Saddleman Award for the Best Western Book of the Year. She writes convincingly of England, Medieval Wales, Norway, Mexico, and the United States, especially the frontier in Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. In spite of this wide-ranging subject matter, the American West and its history remain an enduring interest, and Williams …

Alvar Núñez Cabeza De Vaca, Peter Wild

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

Recounting his adventures on an unknown continent, Cabeza de Vaca passes on a story he heard in an Indian village:
They said that a little man wandered through the region whom they called Badthing [Mala Cosa]. He had a beard and they never saw his features distinctly. When he came to a house, the inhabitants trembled and their hair stood on end. A blazing brand would suddenly shine at the door as he rushed in and seized whom he chose, deeply gashing him in the side with a very sharp flint two palms long and a hand wide. …

James D. Houston, Jonah Raskin

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

Wallace Stegner defined one of the dilemmas facing the Western American regional writer when he observed, “The moment we segregate a writer and put the tag ‘Western’ on him we have implicitly downgraded him into some secondary category. If he's a writer we truly admire, we more often than not forget the regional limitation and think of him simply as a contemporary writer” (Stegner and Etulain 137). James D. Houston—a student of Stegner's at Stanford University and a long-time admirer of Stegner's work—has wrestled with this dilemma and has expressed a deep-seated ambivalence about his own identity and place as …

Americans Define Themselves In The New World, Judith Richards

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study is to show how the different groups who settled in the English American colonies which later became the United States described themselves during the colonial period. The focal work is Letters from an American Farmer by Hector St. John de Crevecoeur. In his chapter "What is an American?" Crevecoeur goes into detail in his descriptions of settlers living in the American colonies just before the Revolutionary War.

Crevecoeur's descriptions are compared with those of earlier writers who wrote at the time of settlement. These writers are selected to be representative of their colony or region. …

The Perpetual Journey: Jonathan Edwards' "Personal Narrative" And Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, Pamela A. Masden

Masters Theses

Scholarly readers seem to have avoided a comparison of the writings of Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) and Benjamin Franklin (1706-90). Although they were born three years apart, they are rarely represented in anthologies as having been contemporaries, primarily because Edwards was a Puritan preacher and Franklin was an "Enlightenment" politician and inventor. However, when we disregard these critical constraints and assumptions, we find that as writers and thinkers, they have a great deal in common.

In my thesis, I have examined the autobiographies of these contemporary works: Edwards' "Personal Narrative" (c. 1739-42) and Franklin's Autobiography (1771-88). The theoretical approaches of Jane …

Marge Piercy's Small Changes: Welcome To The Sexual Revolution, Nancy Topping Bazin

English Faculty Publications

Marge Piercy's novel Small Changes is encyclopedic in its incredibly detailed, all-encompassing feminist analysis of female and male behavior in the late 60's and early 70's. The behavior of the younger generation is compared and contrasted with that of their parents. The overall impression given by the novel is that, despite the very different life-styles of the two generations, very little change has, in fact, occurred. At the end of the novel, sexism prevails and no significant threat to male control of the power structure has developed. From examination of the title, Piercy seems to place her emphasis not upon …

Killer Trees And Homicidal Grass: The Anthropomorphic Landscape In The American Prose Narrative Of The Vietnam War, Timothy F. Poremba

Masters Theses

Reading the landscape of Vietnam (the climate, the jungle, the topography) as an anthropomorphic character in the American prose narrative of the war provides a unique insight into the inner landscapes of the men who fought there and now write about it. William V. Spanos writes that the urge to name--to anthropomorphize--is man's method for dealing with the existential nothingness of being. Zohreh T. Sullivan, in discussing the landscape of Joseph Conrad, perceives landscape as a projection of the author's own psychic turmoil. Furthermore, Gaston Bachelard in The Poetics of Space recognizes the imaginative value that man places on space, …

Steinbeck Newsletter Winter 1991, San Jose State University

Center for Steinbeck Studies Newsletter

Winter 1991. Includes: Elmer Hader and the Grapes of Wrath book jacket / Arthur Krim; Hemingway Scholars visit the USSR / Bernice Kert; Mac and Ava Motion Picture Productions / Susan Shillinglaw

Steinbeck Newsletter Summer 1991, San Jose State University

Center for Steinbeck Studies Newsletter

Summer 1990. Includes: Eric H. Thomsen and John Steinbeck / Alice Barnard Thomsen; Staging Steinbeck: Dramatizing The Grapes of Wrath by Peter Whitebrook / review by Lee Richard Hayman.

Vol. 10, No. 4 (1990), Jan H. Robertson

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

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Table Of Contents

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

Articles:

Editorial, by Rusty Burke

Swords at the Academy Gates; or, Robert E. Howard Is There, Where are the Critics?, by Don Herron

King Conan and the Aquilonian Dream, by Steven R. Trout

Toward Other Lands. An Approach to Robert E. Howard, by Rusty Burke

The Howard Complex, by Dan Stumpf

Herbert Klatt, by Glenn Lord

Short Story:

“The Frost Giant’s Daughter”, an Early Draft, by Robert E. Howard

Registration, Conference Attendees

Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference

No abstract provided.

Vol. 10, No. 3 (1990), Lawrence Wells, Dean Faulkner Wells, Saul Rosenberg, Jeffrey E. Simpson, Michael A. Crivello, William Boozer

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

Steinbeck Newsletter Summer 1990, San Jose State University

Center for Steinbeck Studies Newsletter

Summer 1990. Includes: Eric H. Thomsen and John Steinbeck / Alice Barnard Thomsen; Staging Steinbeck: Dramatizing The Grapes of Wrath by Peter Whitebrook / review by Lee Richard Hayman.

"I Want To Do This Job": More Margaret Bourke-White Letters To Erskine Caldwell, William L. Howard

The Courier

Eleven letters have recently been added to the George Arents Research Library's collection of Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Bourke-White correspondence. In the possession of Caldwell's first wife, Helen Caldwell Cushman, until her death in 1986, these letters were bought from a North Carolina bookdealer acting on behalf of Helen and Erskine's granddaughter. The entire group was written by Bourke-White in 1936, just prior to and immediately after her first tour of the South with Caldwell, during which they gathered material for You Have Seen Their Faces. A page of unsigned journal entries chronicling Bourke-White's behavior on the trip accompanies the …

Vol. 10, No. 2 (1990), Forrest Shivers, William Boozer

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

Melville And The Question Of Camôes, George Monteiro

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

The Radicalness Of These Differences: Reading “The Purloined Letter”, Peter A. Muckley

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

The Vampire In Nineteenth Century Literature, Gwendolyn Whitehead

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Recent Developments In Kate Chopin Studies, Deborah Pope

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Saving Face/Saving France—Edith Wharton, Shame And The Marne, Lev Raphael

Studies in English, New Series

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Chester Himes: A Primary Bibliography, Robert Skinner, Michel Fabre

Studies in English, New Series

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Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Stylistic Analysis And Its Application To The Teaching Of Writing, Joseph Stanley Klepadlo

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Marxist Allegory In Jack London's Alaskan Tales, Amy Elizabeth Tavidian

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

The Dialectic Of Discourse In The Sun Also Rises, Louise K. Barnett

Studies in English, New Series

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Death, Darkness, Desolation: Negative House-Imagery In The Poems Of E. A. Robinson, Carol Cedar Amelinckx

Studies in English, New Series

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Another View Of Faulkner's Narrator In "A Rose For Emily", Michael L. Burduck

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

The Tales Of The Folio Club And The Humoristic Vocation Of Edgar Allan Poe, Claude Richard, Mark L. Mitchell

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.