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Transforming The Monomyth: The Female Quest For Self In The Color Purple, Malin Lavon Walther

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Pregnant Thoughts On “The Fall Of The House Of Usher”, Robert Hoggard

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Black Images In Faulkner’S As I Lay Dying, Georgiann Potts

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

H. D. And Time, Cheryl Walker

Scripps Faculty Publications and Research

From the introduction to the volume:

"Cheryl Walker presents the work of poet H.D. as a paradigm for the changed relationship to history women have undergone during the modern period: H.D.'s early period is characterized by an avoidance of chronological time..."

"As The Stereopticon Condenses Into One Instantaneous Field": The Reader's Holographic Reality In Part Iv Of Faulkner's The Bear, Sandra Kay Alps

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

David Wagoner, Ron Mcfarland

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

Writing for Mademoiselle in the spring of 1971, David Wagoner described his introduction to the Northwest as an ordeal lasting some five minutes. He had grown up in Whiting, Indiana, where his father had worked as a smelter at the steel mills in the industrial wasteland between Gary, Indiana, and Chicago, Illinois. Those images from his childhood are recorded in his first collection of poems, Dry Sun, Dry Wind (1953), and in five novels which are centered in the urban Midwest. But in 1971 the forty-five-year-old poet and novelist could speak not as a Midwesterner, but as a Westerner: “I …

Notes On The Novels Of Ernest Hebert, Allen Shepherd

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Tennyson’S “Ulysses” Via Lacan And The Bible: A Deconstructionist View, Gretchen Kay Lutz

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Vol. 7 (1989): Full Issue, Journal Editors

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Cover Pages, Journal Editors

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

A Feminist Critic Responds To Recurring Student Questions About Dickinson, Cheryl Walker

Scripps Faculty Publications and Research

Book abstract:

The life and the range of topics and tones of Emily Dickinson suit her to be included in such courses as American literature, Romanticism, realism, nineteenth-century culture, and women’s literary traditions. Her poetry poses numerous challenges for readers because of its compressed style, indeterminacy, and constant surprises; her biography fascinates students and critics alike.

This volume emphasizes instruction of Dickinson’s poetry at the undergraduate level. Like other volumes in the MLA’s Approaches to Teaching World Literature series, it is divided into two parts. The first, “Materials,” discusses editions of Dickinson’s poetry, aids to teaching, reference works, biographies, critical …

"How This Took Place He Couldn't Have Said Exactly": A Stylistic Analysis Of The Prose Of Don Delillo, Richard Ronald Sisk

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Marcus Lafayette Byrn: Southwest Humorist In New York City, Michael J. Pettengell

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

John Graves, Dorys Crow Grover

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

John Graves, a Texas-born naturalist, visited the Brazos River in north-central Texas in 1957, after a decade of world wandering, and wrote a farewell to a river, a book that has become a pastoral classic in American belles-lettres. Goodbye to a River has since been joined by two other nature volumes, and all three have earned for Graves a considerable reputation for his literary style. M. E. Bradford writes that Graves’s voice is “deceptively simple and disarmingly personal in its flavor” (“John Graves” 142). In his craft, he joins fellow Texans Roy Bedichek and J. Frank Dobie, and his …

David Henry Hwang, Douglas Street

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

I am much better now .... My parents—they don’t know nothing about the world, about watching Benson at the Roxy, . . . downshifting onto the Ventura Freeway at midnight. They’re yellow ghosts and they’ve tried to cage me up with Chinese-ness when all the time we were in America. So, I’ve had to work real hard—real hard—to be myself. To not be a Chinese, a yellow, a slant, a gook. To be just a human being, like everyone else. I’ve paid my dues. And that’s why I am much better now. I’m making it, you know? I’m making it …

Tony Hillerman, Fred Erisman

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

Readers quickly discover that there are three Tony Hillermans. One is the reporter, the streetwise observer of all the grandeur and all the depravity of the human race. Another is the storyteller, the person who sees in life’s events an endless source of entertainment. The third is the Southwestemer, a native of the region acutely aware of the locale’s complex uniqueness and the strata of human history that it embraces. All three personae merge in Hillerman’s writings, placing him solidly in the veritistic tradition established almost a century ago by Hamlin Garland. Writing in Crumbling Idols (1894), Garland calls for …

Joseph Wood Krutch, Paul N. Pavich

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

Joseph Wood Krutch’s first encounter with the West was a turning point in his life. In his autobiography, More Lives Than One, he says, “No sooner were we speeding along the roller coaster road which leads across the undulating desert towards Albuquerque than I felt a sudden lifting of the heart. It seemed almost as though I had lived there in some happier previous existence and was coming back home” (308). This sense of being at home was to lead him to abandon his academic life at Columbia University as well as his position as prominent critic of the …

[Review Of] Afro-American Writers, 1940-1955, Robert A. Aken

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

The Basil And Josephine Stories: Fitzgerald's Incompatible Worlds, Marcia S. Schneiter

Presidential Scholars Theses (1990 – 2006)

Typically, members of the middle-class of American society are fascinated by the extremely wealthy people of the upper-class. One can spend hours lost in daydreams about the lifestyles of the rich -- the intriguing and even famous people they encounter, the costly, luxurious garments they wear, or the delicacies they relish. To imagine such a life seems to lighten the drudgery of one's own, possibly acting as a stimulus and driving one towards seemingly unattainable goals. The lives of the extremely wealthy are virtually impossible for most middle-class people to imagine, and likewise life in middle America may be difficult …

Vantage Points: Prose Parables Of The Republic, Shaun O'Connell

New England Journal of Public Policy

Shaun O'Connell brings his usual insights to his book review essay. "Our novelists," he concludes, "have served us better than our politicians in classifying our condition" — an accomplishment that is somewhat less grand than it seems when we remember that the recent competition came from George Bush's "Read my lips" and "A thousand points of light" and Michael Dukakis's "Good jobs at good wages" and "I'm on your side."

Among the works discussed in this essay: Firebird, by James Carroll; Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories, by Raymond Carver; Paris Trout, by Pete Dexter; …

Vol. 8, No. 4 (1988), Various Authors

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

Dear Kit, Dear Skinny: The Letters Of Erskine Caldwell And Margaret Bourke-White, William L. Howard

The Courier

This article highlights some of the material found in the Margaret Bourke-White Papers in the Syracuse University Special Collections. The collection contains a good deal of correspondence between Margaret, a journalist for Life magazine and her husband, the American author Erskine Caldwell. The collection provides indispensable documentation of the artists' personal lives in the years 1936 through 1942.

Steinbecknewsletter Fall 1988, San Jose State University

Center for Steinbeck Studies Newsletter

Recent Acquisitions: Carol's Library and papers / Editor; Cannery Row memorabilia/ Editor.

The Radiant Core: Family, Village, Neighborhood, And Region In Literature, Eugene P. Nassar

Syracuse Scholar (1979-1991)

No abstract provided.

Vol. 8, No. 3 (1988), William Boozer, Jim Cleveland

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

Recommended Readings, 1988, Shaun O'Connell

New England Journal of Public Policy

Shaun O'Connell reviews a selection of readings for would-be presidents. None of our recent presidents — going back to Dwight Eisenhower — has been a reader of "imaginative literature." While this is not, perhaps, entirely unexpected and may be indicative of the pressures on their time rather than an intrinsic aversion to literature, it should nevertheless at least lead us to ask whether their visions of who we are and our possibilities are limited by their failure to "confront some of the implications raised by serious works of the imagination, works that force us to face mysteries in the world …

Vol. 8, No. 2 (1988), William H. Pugh, William Boozer

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

Steinbeck Newsletter Spring 1988, San Jose State University

Center for Steinbeck Studies Newsletter

Thomas Hart Benton and John Steinbeck / Robert B. Harmon; Carol Henning Steinbeck / Jack Douglas

James Fenimore Cooper: Young Man To Author, Constantine Evans

The Courier

This article provides a biographical look at the American author James Fenimore Cooper. It traces his roots from his youth in Cooperstown—named after his father William—to his ill-timed naval career, and on to his time as a self-conscious novelist.

Faulkner: Misogynist Or Philogynist?, Imane Nejjar

English Theses & Dissertations

No abstract.