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Reading “The Raven”, Maureen Cobb Mabbott

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

The Road To “Landor’S Cottage”: Poe’S Landscape Of Effect, Joan C. Dayan

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Key To Recurrent References, Journal Editors

Studies in English, New Series

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Introduction: Some Remarks On Poe And His Critics, Richard P. Benton

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

William E. Burton And His Premium Scheme: New Light On Poe Biography, Dwight Thomas

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Poe, Dupin And The Reader, Dennis W. Eddings

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Table Of Contents, Journal Editors

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Poe’S Criticism Of Women Writers, Ashby Bland Crowder

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Poe’S “Metzengerstein” As A Tale Of The Subconscious, David H. Hirsch

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Poe’S Influence On Modern Chinese Literature, Shen Ning, Donald B. Stauffer

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Five Poems (Poet And Critic), James Hearst

James Hearst Documents

The poems Taking the bull to water, Not the last goodbye, Not really a quarrel, The Weed cutter, and Balance sheet published in volume 13, number 2 of Poet and critic.

Mariann Russell: Melvin B. Tolson's Harlem Gallery: A Literary Analysis, Grace Farrell

English Faculty Publications

Book Review by Grace Farrell Lee.

Russell, Mariann. Melvin B. Tolson's Harlem gallery: a literary analysis. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1980.

Horace Mccoy, Mark Royden Winchell

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

Upon returning from Paris in 1946, Vogue editor Allene Talmey observed: “Everyone in the knowledgeable world talks about American writers, about a curious trinity: Hemingway, Faulkner, and McCoy” ("Paris Quick Notes/About Sartre, Gide, Cocteau, Politics,/The Theatre, and Inflation," Vogue, January 15, 1947, p. 92). Although he has long had an enthusiastic following overseas, the California novelist Horace McCoy (1897-1955) is virtually unknown in the United States. Here, all five of his novels are out of print and the published scholarship on those novels is minimal. Nevertheless, McCoy was a serious artist who helped extend the boundaries of the indigenously …

Will Henry / Clay Fisher, Robert L. Gale

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

Henry Wilson Allen is a controversial and exciting Western author. He is also perhaps the most underrated, persistently overlooked of the major writers of the American West. He has used two pen names —"Clay Fisher" and "Will Henry" —and his own name in two forms (Henry Wilson Allen and Henry W. Allen) to sign a total of more than fifty books, almost all of them novels, from 1950 to the present.

Mabel Dodge Luhan, Jane V. Nelson

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

Mabel Dodge Luhan is best known for her social affairs in Florence, New York City, and Taos, and for her remarkable ability to meet and court influential people such as Gertrude Stein, Isadora Duncan, John Reed, and D.H. Lawrence. Her activities in Taos, comprising the second half of her life, have attracted the most attention. There she married a Pueblo Indian and persuaded several writers and artists to visit her, helping to establish the basis for a lively community of artists. She is an acknowledged influence on such writers as Willa Gather, Mary Austin, D.H. Lawrence, and Frank Waters. In …

Charles Simic: Trends Toward An International Poetry, Denise Clark

Masters Theses

In his article "Wrong Turning in American Poetry," Robert Bly believes that American poetry has been lead astray by the likes of Eliot, Pound, Moore, and Williams. He feels that the main failing of American poetry is its lack of inward, spiritual life. It is the Spanish speaking poets that Bly looks to as the true path-finders of spiritual poetry. If Bly believes that poets like Eliot and Williams were responsible for steering American poetry down the wrong path, it is a foreigner, Charles Simic, who will give American poetry the right turn it needs.

What Simic has been able …

There's No Place Like Home: The Haunted House As Literary Motif, Mary Catherine Mcdaniel

Masters Theses

This thesis traces the development of the haunted house in British and American literature and covers a time span of roughly two hundred years. Its approach is chronological: beginning with Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, it examines the use of the Bad Place as a literary motif, emphasizing the consistencies in its development while noting the inconsistencies as well. From Walpole to Stephen King, we see that the haunted house has continuously represented two things. On one hand, it may serve as a repository for unexpiated sin. The traditional haunted house, in fact, is nothing more than the …

A Room Of One's Own: The Women's Room, Lou Ellen Crawford

Masters Theses

The recent resurgence of feminism has been accompanied by the development of feminist fiction. Identifying those characteristics by which feminist fiction adds to the American novel a new and valid perspective, feminist criticism has also flourished. Feminist critics agree that fiction with a new perspective demands critical evaluation from that same perspective; and Cheri Register provides a concise, thorough list of five elements which comprise effective feminist fiction. Of Register's five criteria, Carol Heilbrun stresses the equalizing, conciliatory influence of androgyny. Recent feminist authors have written many novels which perform one or more of the functions prescribed by Register. Three …

The Pessimistic Themes Of The Mysterious Stranger As Reflected In Mark Twain's Previous Novels, Judy Dale Hill Walker

Masters Theses

The purpose of the thesis is to demonstrate that the pessimism exhibited in the themes of The Mysterious Stranger is evident in the themes of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1874-1876), The Prince and the Pauper (1877-1882), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1876-1885), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1888-1889), and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1891-1894). The thesis also demonstrates that the pessimism becomes more dominate as the novels progress chronologically through the repetition of the themes and the increasing number of themes being treated.

The introduction briefly discusses the arguments over the origins of Twain's pessimism as set forth by …

Letter From Mayor Douglas C. Sharp, Douglas C. Sharp

James Hearst Documents

A letter from Mayor Sharp thanking James Hearst for his work as honorary chairman of the Fund Drive for the Cedar Falls Public Library.

Note From Ann Phelps, Ann Phelps

James Hearst Documents

A thank you note to James Hearst for his poetry and friendship from Ann Phelps, written in 1981.

Vol. 1, No. 4 (1981), Lawrence Wells, William Boozer

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

Vol. 1, No. 3 (1981), William Boozer, Thomas E. Lamar, Jack Ewing

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

The Wilders In Louisiana -- Part Ii, Mary Evelyn Thurman

Publications

No abstract provided.

Vol. 1, No. 2 (1981), Phil Mullen, Howard L. Bahr, M. Thomas Inge

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

At The Crossroad: A Visit By Larry Woiwode, Randall Vandermey

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.

Table Of Contents, Journal Editors

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Cover Pages, Journal Editors

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Budd, Cady, And Anderson, Toward A New American Literary History: Essays In Honor Of Arlin Turner, James E. Rocks

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Newman, A Reader’S Guide To The Short Stories Of Nathaniel Hawthorne And Pollin, Poe, Creator Of Words, Benjamin Franklin Fisher Iv

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.