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Conquering A Wilderness: Destruction And Development On The Great Plains In Mari Sandoz's Old Jules, Lisa Lindell Jan 2016

Conquering A Wilderness: Destruction And Development On The Great Plains In Mari Sandoz's Old Jules, Lisa Lindell

Lisa R. Lindell

Jules Ami Sandoz came to America in 1881 at the age of 22. Following a three-year sojourn in northeastern Nebraska, he headed further west, settling in the recently surveyed region northwest of the Nebraska Sandhills. In Old Jules, the biography of her pioneer father, Mari Sandoz presented a character filled with conflicts and contradictions. Pitted against Jules's dynamic vision of community growth was his self-centered and destructive nature. Well aware of the more unsavory qualities exhibited by her father. Sandoz nonetheless maintained that he and others like him were necessary to the development of the West. This recognition did not …


Stalking Glory, H. Rice Dec 2014

Stalking Glory, H. Rice

H. William Rice

No abstract provided.


My Father's Dogs, H. Rice Dec 2014

My Father's Dogs, H. Rice

H. William Rice

No abstract provided.


Myriad Mirrors: Doppelgangers And Doubling In The Vampire Diaries, Kimberley Mcmahon-Coleman Nov 2013

Myriad Mirrors: Doppelgangers And Doubling In The Vampire Diaries, Kimberley Mcmahon-Coleman

Kimberley McMahon-Coleman

Mirroring is of fundamental importance in Gothic literature and filmic texts generally, and is a prevalent trope in the CW network teen drama, The Vampire Diaries. The television series is itself a “doubling” in that it is an adaptation of a series of novels by L.J. Smith, creating a situation wherein the same central characters inhabit the parallel townships of the novels’ Fells Church and television’s Mystic Falls, and thus have histories which are, at times, contradictory. The television version also explicitly explores the concept of the doppelganger, and thus the idea of reflection, even as it manipulates the historical …


Melville And The Trope Of The Starving American Artist In Rome, Erika Schneider Feb 2013

Melville And The Trope Of The Starving American Artist In Rome, Erika Schneider

Erika Schneider

No abstract provided.


Rahna Mckey Carusi Cv, Rahna M. Carusi Jan 2013

Rahna Mckey Carusi Cv, Rahna M. Carusi

Rahna M Carusi

No abstract provided.


"Radiance To The White Wax": The Imagist Contradiction Between Logopoeia And Phanopoeia, John Gery Dec 2012

"Radiance To The White Wax": The Imagist Contradiction Between Logopoeia And Phanopoeia, John Gery

John R O Gery

No abstract provided.


Now We Want Our Funk Cut: Janelle Monáe’S Neo-Afrofuturism, Daylanne English, Alvin Kim Dec 2012

Now We Want Our Funk Cut: Janelle Monáe’S Neo-Afrofuturism, Daylanne English, Alvin Kim

Daylanne English

No abstract provided.


A Pinnacle Of Feeling: American Literature And Presidential Government, Sean Mccann Dec 2007

A Pinnacle Of Feeling: American Literature And Presidential Government, Sean Mccann

Sean McCann

No abstract provided.


Politics And Language, Max Skidmore, Andrew Cline Dec 2006

Politics And Language, Max Skidmore, Andrew Cline

Max J. Skidmore

A collection of essays dealing from various points of view with the political effects of language usage


Theory’S Empire—Wrestling The Fogbank, Sean Mccann Dec 2006

Theory’S Empire—Wrestling The Fogbank, Sean Mccann

Sean McCann

No abstract provided.


Vernacular Literacy, Peter Elbow Dec 2006

Vernacular Literacy, Peter Elbow

Peter Elbow

No abstract provided.


Exploring Problems With “Personal Writing” And “Expressivism”, Peter Elbow Dec 2001

Exploring Problems With “Personal Writing” And “Expressivism”, Peter Elbow

Peter Elbow

No abstract provided.


Narratives Of Survival, Linda Niemann Dec 1999

Narratives Of Survival, Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

No abstract provided.


Why I'Ll Never Teach Rock 'N' Roll Again, Sean Mccann Dec 1995

Why I'Ll Never Teach Rock 'N' Roll Again, Sean Mccann

Sean McCann

No abstract provided.