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Lessons In Graphite, Richard Fein

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 14

1933 And Muriel, Earl Coleman

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 6

Jack's New Chameleon, Chris Forhan

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 7

Counting Survivors, Robert Collins

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 45-46

July Morning, Claudia Mangel

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 31

Birmingham Poetry Review 14 (Complete Issue), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

No abstract provided.

Birth And After Birth And Painting Churches: Tina Howe's Examination Of Love And Savagery In The American Family, Sarah Ennis-Chambers

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Playwright Tina Howe has been quoted as saying that "family life has been over-romanticized; the savagery has not been seen enough in the theatre and in movies . . ." (Moore 101). In two of her plays, Birth and After Birth (1973) and Painting Churches (1983), that savagery appears in the form of name-calling, jealousy, apathy, disregard, and physical and mental abuse. A juxtaposition of the similarities in Birth and After Birth and Painting Churches will explain the "savagery" Howe is examining. The earlier play is written in the surrealistic style of lonesco and Beckett, playwrights who have been a …

Poem No. 74, November 1995, Huntsville Literary Association (Huntsvile, Ala.)

POEM

The Huntsville Literary Association was founded in 1967 to provide a community for writers, readers, and artists through workshops, readings, and educational programs. One of their key contributions is the literary magazine titled POEM which showcases original writings from both established and emerging writers. This issue features poems from various writers.

The Postmodern Improvisor, Paul Caraher

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This thesis represents a revitalization of the thesis form because it has organically blossomed from an integrated consciousness. Instead of the pre-existing thesis form for a Master of Arts Degree in English bending, limiting, and shaping the content, I have shaped the form according to my own synthetic ambition, resulting in a fusion of elements from both a researched and a creative thesis. This strategy is justified since the very subject of the thesis stresses the improviser's ongoing urge to create as the spontaneous moment/impulse requires while simultaneously creating an organic frame or unique inner logic. Above all, this project …

A Palette Of Unconventional Symbolism: Color Imagery In Three Margaret Atwood Novels, Shannon Martin

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

In this thesis, the writer examines the color imagery in three Margaret Atwood novels: Surfacing, Cat's Eye, and The Handmaid's Tale. Atwood uses color in unconventional ways by forcing colors to symbolize the opposite of their common meanings, by allowing colors to represent simultaneously two opposing ideas, and by disregarding traditional color meanings by creating her own unique associations. Atwood's color imagery supports her thematic concerns in that through her themes--as with her use of color--she challenges the reader's expectations by throwing into question many conventional ideas about progress, religion, and the sex-gender system.

Female Characterization In The Novels Of Robert Penn Warren: Variations On A Cinderella Theme, Martha Brent

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The psychological construction of Robert Penn Warren's characters is an established tenet among Warren critics as is the influence of Sigmund Freud's work upon Warren's fiction. Specifically the oedipal nature of Warren's male characters has been widely discussed especially in regard to plots culminating in patricide. Based upon this criticism of Robert Penn Warren's novels to date, Warren's female characters are revealed to be developed likewise upon an oedipal paradigm. The female paradigm which corresponds to Freud's Oedipus complex in women is the Cinderella tale. These stories, some at least a thousand years old, were critically divided into three main …

Poem No. 73, May 1995, Huntsville Literary Association (Huntsvile, Ala.)

POEM

The Huntsville Literary Association was founded in 1967 to provide a community for writers, readers, and artists through workshops, readings, and educational programs. One of their key contributions is the literary magazine titled POEM which showcases original writings from both established and emerging writers. This issue features poems from various writers.

The Inner Voice, Janis Ruth Bagnall Cochrane

Institute for the Humanities Theses

The scope of this project is two-fold. The key purpose is to demonstrate the relationship between the voice of Lee Smith, a Southern writer from Appalachia and the voice of the author, another Southern writer from the Outer Banks. The foremost conclusion that has been drawn is that a writer's voice comes from deep inside the writer's unconscious. It is a product of generations of experiences that have embedded themselves in the writer's psyche. Some of the assumptions and prejudices surrounding southern women are discussed to some degree.

The second purpose is for this writer to show her work. This …

1995 Literary Review (No. 9), Sigma Tau Delta

The Greenleaf Review

No abstract provided.

Figs And Thistles, Nathan Sawyer, Diane Sunar, Barbara Pettijohn, Susan Dahl, Donna Beijer, William Mayer, Gilbert Mcewen, Roberta Forsberg

Literary Reviews Through the Ages

No abstract provided.

Reflections 1995, Mandy Moonyham, Heather Love, Kevin Binfield

Reflections

The 1995 issue of Reflections is edited by Mandy Moonyham and Heather Love with Kevin Binfield serving as faculty adviser. Cover art is by Sabrina Barnes. Award winners of the student poetry contest include: Karne Brower and Charles Freeman. Award winners of the student art contest include: Sabrina Barnes, Mickie Norman, and Yasuhiro Mori. This year the Communications Department has sponsored a photography contest; winners include: Jason Kerr, Brenda Ledford, and Shawn Childress.

Road, Pam Bernard

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 3

Envoy, S R. Tomanek

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 41

The Night Café, 1888, L L. Harper

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 8

Untitled, Jenifer Nostrand

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 25

Burn, Jeanie Thompson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 38

Deep Red, Kyle Grimes

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 45

Fire Season, Joan Mcmillan

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 16

Paradise Refunded, Kevin Griffith

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 7

The Meaning Of The Birds, Andrea King Kelly

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 13

Legends Of The West, Melinda Mueller

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 19

Who's Going To Walk It?, Eric Nelson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 20

Sting, R T. Smith

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 35

Hothouse Babies, Dale Tietjen

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 39-40

June Elegy, Joan Mcmillan

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 17