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"Bold Hawthorne" And Rufus W. Griswold, J. Lasley Dameron

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Emily Dickinson And "Dimity Convictions", Roche Whittington Lawes

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Fisher, Poe At Work: Seven Textual Studies And The Very Spirit Of Cordiality; Ketterer, The Rationale Of Deception In Poe, Bruce Ira Weiner

Studies in English, New Series

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Sloane, Mark Twain As A Literary Comedian, Tom Brown

Studies in English, New Series

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Vol. 1 (1980): Full Issue, Journal Editors

Studies in English, New Series

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Some Recollections Of Jay B. Hubbell, Clarence Gohdes

Studies in English, New Series

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An Alternative Reading Of Poe's "The Bells", Richard Fusco

Studies in English, New Series

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Turner, Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Biography, Benjamin Franklin Fisher Iv

Studies in English, New Series

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Vendler, Part Of Nature, Part Of Us, Charles Sanders

Studies in English, New Series

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Plater, The Grim Phoenix: Reconstructing Thomas Pynchon; Siegel, Pynchon: Creative Paranoia In "Gravity's Rainbow"; Cowart, Thomas Pynchon: The Art Of Allusion, Craig Werner

Studies in English, New Series

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Table Of Contents, Journal Editors

Studies in English, New Series

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Dedication, Journal Editors

Studies in English, New Series

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Editorial, Benjamin Franklin Fisher Iv

Studies in English, New Series

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Carlson, Emerson's Literary Criticism, John Pilkington

Studies in English, New Series

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Warren's "Blackberry Winter": A Reading, James E. Rocks

Studies in English, New Series

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Dorothy Johnson, Judy Alter

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

Although her work is primarily rooted in her home state of Montana, Dorothy Johnson was not born a Westerner. Her birthplace was a farm in McGregor, Iowa, a town in the heart of the Midwest. Born on December 19, 1905, she was christened Dorothy Marie Johnson and called Marie by friends and family until she went to college.

Joaquin Miller, Benjamin S. Lawson

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

When Joaquin Miller died in 1913, he had been conspicuous on the American literary scene for over forty years. Given to seeing his literary career as an analogue to the actual exploration and settling of the West, he conceived, enacted, and recorded an eventful life in which he himself figures most prominently. Miller had created a public image, which was probably a self-image as well, of himself as writer and as Westerner. His prose and poetry are sometimes marked by the romantic excesses of Byron or Swinburne; and his life and work include picturesque posings as the Wild Westerner. But …

Cover Pages, Journal Editors

Studies in English, New Series

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Miller, Building Poe Biography, Benjamin Franklin Fisher Iv

Studies in English, New Series

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Will Allen Dromgoole: Forgotten Pioneer Of Tennessee Mountain Fiction, Kathy Lyday-Lee

Studies in English, New Series

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Janet Lewis, Charles L. Crow

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

Janet Lewis’s writing career has spanned nearly sixty years, long enough for her to reflect, were she interested in the subject, on the disparity between excellence and fame. She has published poetry, short stories, essays, children’s books, opera libretti, and novels. She has been praised by distinguished writers and critics, including Theodore Roethke and Donald Davie. Two of her novels, The Wife of Martin Guerre and The Trial of Soren Quist, have been hailed as masterpieces. She remains little known, however, even though she has a circle of enthusiastic admirers.

Herman Melville And Paul Tillich: An Ontological Interpretation Of Billy Budd, Michael E. Gress

Masters Theses

The traditional approaches to Herman Melville's Billy Budd focus upon the question of whether or not the story was Melville's final statement of acceptance or irony. Both arguments are sociological in nature in that the different sides argue that Melville either finally accepts or continues to reject by irony, the forms of society. The acceptance critics contend that Melville ends by seeing value in the forms because of their use for maintaining order in society; the irony critics claim that Melville was taking a final satirical poke at society's limiting forms and authority.

My thesis differs from these traditional arguments …

The Innocent Narrator In Mark Twain's Roughing It, John R. Fisher

Masters Theses

Mark Twain in his travel narrative Roughing It presents a naive, innocent narrator from the East who ventures forth into the largely uncivilized Western frontier during the exciting silver mining boom of the 1860's. In his sojourn the innocent narrator encounters many people, places, customs, values, and experiences that are unfamiliar to him, and because of his status as a tenderfoot unacquainted with the frontier, he is often made a dupe by the mischievous old-timers in the West.

The innocent narrator must go through numerous initiations before he is accepted as a member of the vernacular community. In these various …

Letter From James Laughlin To Mittie Elizabeth Creekmore Welty (10 August 1979), James Laughlin, Mittie Elizabeth Creekmore Welty

Hubert Creekmore Collection

Laughlin writes from New York City on New Directions Publishing Corporation letterhead to Mrs. Walter A. Welty in Jackson, Mississippi, to thank her and Eudora Welty for finding Hubert Creekmore's translations of Stéphane Mallarmé. Laughlin states that John Valentine Schaffner found and sent a box of Creekmore's translations. Laughlin states that [Mary Ann?] Caws may want to use the translations for her anthology. Includes envelope.

Letter From James Laughlin To Mittie Elizabeth Creekmore Welty (10 August 1979), James Laughlin, Mittie Elizabeth Creekmore Welty

Hubert Creekmore Collection

Laughlin writes from New York City on New Directions Publishing Corporation letterhead to Mrs. Walter A. Welty in Jackson, Mississippi, to ask if she has any of Hubert Creekmore's translations of Stéphane Mallarmé. Laughlin states that Eudora Welty said that Mrs. Welty may have them. Includes envelope.

The North Star, By Altabelle W. Milgram, Atlabelle W. Milgram

James Hearst Documents

The poem The North Star written in a letter to James Hearst by Altabelle W. Milgram.

Bonesetter's Brawl Cover, Carmelita Calderwood, James Hearst

James Hearst Documents

The book jacket of the novel Bonesetter's brawl, a novel written by Carmelita Calderwood and James Hearst.

C.L. Sonnichsen, Joyce Gibson Roach

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

El Paso is located at almost the farthest point of West Texas, where the Rio Grande River begins its sweep into the Big Bend country. Strangers find it a region extreme in its limitless supply of nothing. Even natives joke about the area. It is a place where “every living thing seems prepared to fight for its life. Even the plants go armed and hardly a shrub can be found without a spine or fang somewhere" (Roy Bean, p. 71). Texans do not expect a man from Minnesota with a Ph.D. from Harvard to write affectionately about the sand, …

From Selflessness To Selfishness: Various Types Of Deception In Four Of Twain's Novels, Kay L. Smith

Masters Theses

An interesting feature of Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson is the use of disguise and deception. The basis of much of the novels' actions concerns people who, for varied reasons, set out to fool other people. Other individuals or groups of people are self-deceived.

Motivations for the deception vary. Some entail selfless concerns of protecting a loved one. Some illustrate desires to maintain one's own safety and well-being. Still others involve negative, base qualities such as greed, …

Following In Zora Neale Hurston's Dust Tracks: Autobiographical Notes By The Author Of Shuckin' And Jivin', Daryl Cumber Dance

English Faculty Publications

As I began to peruse collections and studies of black folklore, I found that although considerable work had been done from which I was l earning a great deal, there were some aspects of black folklore with which I was personally familiar (from my childhood in Charles City, Virginia, my college days in Petersburg, and my adult life in Richmond) that I had observed as influence in numerous literary works, particularly on temporary works, that were not included in the material was finding, or were not presented in anything even vaguely resembling the versions I knew and saw represented in …