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Vol. 3, No. 1 (1983), Paul Flowers, Stuart Purser

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

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Barickman, Macdonald, And Stark, Corrupt Relations: Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope, Collins, And The Victorian Sexual System, Natalie Schroeder

Studies in English, New Series

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How The Screw Is Turned: Henry James’S Amusette, James B. Scott

Studies in English, New Series

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Riehl, Charles Lamb’S Children's Literature, John F. Schell

Studies in English, New Series

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Richard Hugo, Donna Gerstenberger

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

Of the Pacific Northwest’s four major modern poets—Richard Hugo, Theodore Roethke, William Stafford, and David Wagoner—only Richard Hugo was born and reared in the region, a fact which significantly marks the experience of his poems. In fact, if one set out to imagine Northwest lives spanning the last sixty years, one of those imagined lives ought to look very much like Hugo’s, except, of course, that out of his life he made poetry.

Zora Neale Hurston, Daryl Cumber Dance

English Faculty Publications

Some new information is occasionally being ferreted out that may help to cast additional light on some of these issues, but quite clearly Zora Neale Hurston will remain something of an enigma - too complex a figure to reach any easy conclusions about, except perhaps that she defies simple characterization. People responded to her (and still do) very emotionally: her detractors despise her bitterly; her defenders love her passionately. All agree that she was eccentric, colorful, entertaining, humorous, and unforgettable.

Perhaps the most crucial question to pose about her is why one of the most important figures in the Harlem …

Sophus K. Winther, Barbara Howard Meldrum

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

Like Wallace Stegner, Sophus Keith Winther feels uncomfortable with the label “Western writer.” For Stegner, the label too often smacks of horse-opera: outworn myths that lacked historical basis to begin with. Winther’s objection has less to do with subject matter, more to do with theme and character: regionalism—whether Western or Southern, or Wessex—too often exploits superficial traits of a locality, whereas enduring literature reveals the universal drama of the human condition (“The Limits of Regionalism”). Stegner and Winther agree, however, that a writer should begin with what he or she knows best; if one’s experience is Western, then Western regionalism …

Struthers Burt, Raymond C. Phillips Jr.

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

If the pen is mightier than the sword, Maxwell Struthers Burt was a stalwart warrior. Poet, essayist, novelist, short story writer, librettist, reviewer, author of a literary manifesto, contributor to letter-to-the-editor columns, and personal letter writer, Burt seems never to have stopped writing over a career of a half-century. His principal publisher was Charles Scribner’s Sons, which, under the editorial leadership of Maxwell Perkins, published the work of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, and a variety of other respected writers. Burt’s articles, essays, poems, and stories appeared in many of the most successful magazines in America: Scribner's Magazine, …

James Welch, Peter Wild

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

On their way to work, Americans hurried past disciples of Hare Krishna, orange-robed and seemingly from another planet, chanting in the streets. Home again that night they watched Neil Armstrong tread the lunar rubble, or they gaped at villages swelling up in instant clouds of napalm. In a land that idolized youth, college students were “trashing” their own campuses, while young blacks, in a strange counterpart to the war in far-off Asia, were setting fire to their own ghettos. The greatest scandal since Teapot Dome was about to give yet another violent shake to Americans’ confidence in who they were …

Preston Jones, Mark Busby

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

When Preston Jones burst upon the national scene, it was like an unknown store clerk strapping on a .45 to take on the established gunslinger in the middle of the street. Suddenly Jones was famous. His picture appeared on the covers of Smithsonian and Saturday Review. He was the subject of a PBS television special. He was compared with Tennessee Williams and Eugene O’Neill. (Saturday Review’s cover asked: “Has Texas Spawned a New O’Neill?”) His three plays, collectively titled A Texas Trilogy, enjoyed a great deal of success after they opened at the Dallas Theater Center …

Tickets At Door For Hearst Fete

James Hearst Documents

A newspaper clipping concerning a Tribute to James Hearst stating that the funds raised would endow a scholarship to UNI.

Freedom At Midday: Elements Of Existentialism In The Works Of Ambrose Bierce, Sharon A. Winn

Masters Theses

Ambrose Bierce exhibited a number of elements of existential thinking both in his life and in his writing. But he was ambivalent about his philosophical stance, and it is difficult to know whether he was the utter pessimist he has been called, or whether his attitude toward the universe admitted a certain optimism.

Much of Bierce's thought parallels modern existentialism, which has three main tenets: a belief that there is no God and the universe is, therefore, irrational; a descent into despair; and a choice of life or death.

Bierce insisted that the universe is irrational, and he repeatedly discussed …

Vol. 2, No. 4 (1982), William Boozer, Louis Daniel Brodsky, Robert W. Hamblin

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

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Vol. 2, No. 3 (1982), Paul Flowers

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

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Witnesses, James Hearst

James Hearst Documents

A short poem about autumn published in the Spring 1982 issue of South Dakota review.

Vol. 2, No. 2 (1982), Noel Polk, Carl Petersen, Christine Liska, Robert Liska

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

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Despite Obstacles, James Hearst Makes His Life Bloom, Scott Cawelti

James Hearst Documents

A review of James Hearst's autobiography My shadow below me, along with a brief biographical essay written by Scott Cawelti.

"Preface" To Vision And Refuge: Essays On The Literature Of The Great Plains, Frederick C. Luebke

Department of History: Faculty Publications

SEVEN OF THE EIGHT ESSAYS in this volume were prepared originally for the first and second annual symposia sponsored by the Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Those by Barbara Meldrum, John Milton, Paul Reigstad, and Bernice Slote were presented at the conference on "The Cultural Heritage of the Plains," held in April 1977; the essays by Chester Fontenot, Tomas Rivera, and Dorothy Burton Skardal were prepared for the symposium on "Ethnicity on the Great Plains," held a year later. The contribution by Paul Olson was written especially for this volume. Selected essays from the 1977 and 1978 …

Cover Pages, Journal Editors

Studies in English, New Series

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Vol. 3 (1982): Full Issue, Journal Editors

Studies in English, New Series

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Advisory Board, Journal Editors

Studies in English, New Series

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Poe And The Art Of Suggestion, Richard Wilbur

Studies in English, New Series

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Poe And The Picturesque: Theory And Practice, Kent Ljungquist

Studies in English, New Series

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Poe, Duane And Duffee, W. T. Bandy

Studies in English, New Series

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Sarah Helen Whitman As A Critic Of Poe, John E. Reilly

Studies in English, New Series

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A Ten-Year Shelf Of Poe Books, Benjamin Franklin Fisher Iv

Studies in English, New Series

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Vol. 2, No. 1 (1982), William Boozer, Dean Faulkner Wells

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

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Arthur Hobson Quinn, Son Of Pennsylvania, Neda M. Westlake

Studies in English, New Series

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“The Fall Of The House Of Usher”: An Apocalyptic Vision, James W. Gargano

Studies in English, New Series

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A Note On Poe’S “Berenice”: A Classical Source For The Narrator’S Fantasy, Hal Blythe, Charlie Sweet

Studies in English, New Series

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