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San José Studies, Winter 1985, San José State University Foundation

San José Studies, 1980s

Volume 11, Issue 1

Vol. 5, No. 1 (1985), William Boozer, Jane E. Allen

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

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"Failed Love" In The Drama Of Edward Albee, Steven Leonard Long

Masters Theses

The plays of Edward Albee are frequently examinations of characters who are unable to love or to be loved. A central and recurring conflict which runs through many of Albee's plays is the conflict which stems from the lack of success which the characters often experience as they strive to find love. The uncertainty and ambiguity which surround the abstraction called "love" leave the characters with feelings of unhappiness, frustration, fear, self-hatred, and despondency. Though the individuals in Albee's plays are aware that love is the ingredient which is missing from their lives, none knows how to go about alleviating …

Mark Twain's Confidence Men, Sharon K. Scruton

Masters Theses

In Mark Twain's literature the confidence man has special talents, but he is also subject to human failings. Through the characters of Huck Finn and Hank Morgan (A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court) Twain exposes the traps into which a con artist, as a creative talent, can fall. Twain knows these traps, both from experience and from fears of what the future holds. Hank Morgan becomes an extension of Huckleberry Finn. He is a figure who, as he progresses, leaves the best talent of a con artist behind--the talent of instinct. The natural abilities of insight and …

The Law And Mark Twain, Jeff Andrew Weigel

Masters Theses

Varying concepts of law are an essential part in many of Mark Twain's works. Twain's position as an observer and critic of society is often reflected by the way he represents law and justice in his stories. His dislike of injustice and cruelty caused him to focus on these "legal" problems as a way of revealing and attacking various injustices in society. My thesis examines Twain's perception of law as he exposes it in Roughing It, Pudd'nhead Wilson, The Prince and the Pauper, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. The general objective of my …

E. Taylor's Use Of Canticles, Clella J. Camp

Masters Theses

In Sermon IV of the Christographia Edward Taylor makes the following statement.

Man, the last in the creation, is the glory of all elementary nature. The image of God in man, the last draught of God upon him, is the glory of Man. Come to artifical instinces, and here it holds; All things of less considerations are first touched on, but that which is last entered on is of the greatest concern…And so it is in the things of God!

Because those things that are constantly fixed in “the last place” are the most complete and the most valued of …

Nature Vs Society In The Works Of Stephen Crane, Rodney R. Parker

Masters Theses

The five works of Stephen Crane I chose to discuss in this thesis are: "The Open Boat," "A Mystery of Heroism," "The Blue Hotel," Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, and The Red Badge of Courage. All of these works are representative of the fictional vision of Stephen Crane. A persistent theme that Crane uses in virtually all of his stories is the relationship between the human and the natural worlds. The world of nature is one of indifference. It shows no interest in the activies of mankind, and is, in fact, incapable of doing so. But Crane's …

Ratiocination, Romanticism And Realism In The Detective Story: A Study Of Poe, Doyle And Hammet, Timothy Jay Roberts

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the School of Humanities at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Timothy Jay Roberts on December 3, 1984.

Vol. 4, No. 4 (1984), W. Mcneil Reed, Kenzaburo Ohashi

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

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The Quest That Failed: Jack London's Last Tales Of The South Seas, David A. Moreland

Pacific Studies

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Vol. 4, No. 3 (1984), William Boozer

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

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Vol. 4, No. 2 (1984), Jack Ewing

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

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Reminiscences About A “Compleat” Scholar: Clarence Gohdes, Ima Honaker Herron

Studies in English, New Series

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Dedication, Journal Editors

Studies in English, New Series

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Cover Pages, Journal Editors

Studies in English, New Series

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Table Of Contents, Journal Editors

Studies in English, New Series

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Vol. 5 (1984-1987): Full Issue, Journal Editors

Studies in English, New Series

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Vol. 4, No. 1 (1984), William Boozer, Evans Harrington

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

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Advisory Board, Journal Editors

Studies in English, New Series

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Bosom Buddies And Lonely Hearts, Daryl Cumber Dance

English Faculty Publications

In Ossie Davis' Purlie Victorius, Ol' Cap'n nostalgically reminisces about the good old days when he enjoyed what he recollects as close loving relationships with Blacks. He recalls to Gitlow "how you and me growed up together. Had the same mammy - my mammy was your mother." And Gitlow responds, "Yessir! Bosom buddies." Despite the satire and irony with which Ossie Davis consciously invests this scene, it suggest to me another irony - one which Davis certainly did not intend - and that is that one of the images of the Black woman which has frequently been shared by …

Time In John Cheever's The Housebreaker Of Shady Hill, Charles M. Elliott

Masters Theses

The problem of time is a central concern in John Cheever's short story collection The Housebreaker of Shady Hill. The characters in these stories--upper-middle class suburbanites--live in a sometimes chaotic and disconnected world in which they find it difficult to attain some sense of continuity in their relationships with time. In trying to come to grips with their time and space, many of Cheever's characters express an immoderate devotion to their past, present, or future and neglect to see the bits and pieces of their experiences as interrelated. The characters who are happy and whole in these stories, however, …

"Training" And Twain's Discovery Of Its Role In His Major Novels, Gary Dale Ervin

Masters Theses

Twain's career as a novelist began with The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Before that time he wrote pieces for newspapers and magazines and short stories. The success of Tom Sawyer inspired Twain to write further novels. The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn took seven years to compose, During that time, Twain was forced to face several pitfalls that often confront a writer. One of those pitfalls was a concept he called "training."

The training of an individual in effect is the raising of that individual--the instillation of values and beliefs in a person as he is raised. The process applies …

Vol. 3, No. 4 (1983), William Boozer, Michel Gresset

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

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Vol. 3, No. 3 (1983), Cary Wilkins, Rollin Woodyatt, James W. Silver

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

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Vol. 3, No. 2 (1983), William Boozer, Orin Borsten

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

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Vol. 4 (1983): Full Issue, Journal Editors

Studies in English, New Series

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Touching Of Love And Death In Ursula Le Guin With Comparisons To Jane Austen, Donald M. Hassler

Studies in English, New Series

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Yannella, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jerome Loving

Studies in English, New Series

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Beetz, Algernon Charles Swinburne: A Bibliography Of Secondary Works, 1861-1980, George F. Horneker

Studies in English, New Series

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Melville, Israel Potter: His Fifty Years Of Exile; Sealts, Pursuing Melville, 1940-1980: Chapters And Essays, Benjamin Franklin Fisher Iv

Studies in English, New Series

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