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- American short stories;American literature;creative writing;fiction (1)
- Literary Criticism; Middle Passage; Charles Johnson; identity; appropriation; African American experience; (1)
- Petromodernity; oil; film studies; literature; Upton Sinclair; Paul Thomas Anderson; Oil!; There Will Be Blood; (1)
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There Will Be Oil: The Celebration And Inevitability Of Petroleum Through Upton Sinclair And Paul Thomas Anderson, Sarah Mae Fleming
There Will Be Oil: The Celebration And Inevitability Of Petroleum Through Upton Sinclair And Paul Thomas Anderson, Sarah Mae Fleming
Honors Projects
An analysis of the novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair and the film There Will Be Blood, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, with a focus on the presence of oil in these texts.
Fontana Hall And Other Stories, Vincenzo Lucciola
Fontana Hall And Other Stories, Vincenzo Lucciola
Honors Projects
Collection of short stories, including three pieces of flash fiction, three short stories, and one longer story. The author aims at developing a wider grasp of the craft of fiction writing and uses as a running theme the ways by which we choose to negotiate the imperfect life situations in which we find ourselves.
Interrogating Identity, Daniel M. Scott
Interrogating Identity, Daniel M. Scott
Faculty Publications
Discusses the structures of identity and the role writing plays in the reconfiguration of the self in Charles Johnson's novel `Middle Passage.' Fundamental assumptions about human and literary identity; Allusion and appropriation of textual authority; Novel's debt to preceding Western writing; Complications of Afro-American experience; Johnson's reconfiguration of writing..