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Laguardia Literary Magazine: Indigo Spring 1992, Laguardia Community College

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EDITOR-IN CHIEF: FARAH FAROOQi, ASSOCIATE EDITOR: OFELIA CHI HAM, FICTION EDITOR: LIZETTE FLORES, P0ETRY EDITOR: SAIFUL MITHU, SHARON GARCIA, SANDRA PUENTE, FACULTY ADVISOR: DR. TOM FINK

The Changing Face Of Fortune In Six English Versions Of The Tragedy Of Antony And Cleopatra, Mary Aileen Mallery

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This study traces the development and changes in the depiction of the goddess Fortune in a selected group of dramas written between 1592 and 1678: the six English versions of the tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra. The concepts surrounding the goddess Fortune and her place in any culture change with the idea of the individual's ability to shape his own destiny. In the seventeenth century in particular Fortune becomes increasingly connected to questions of personal identity and what Stephen Greenblatt has called "self-fashioning," so that by 1678 the subject of John Dryden's All for Love is not the quest for …

Escaping The Alphabet: The Reading Of Silence In The Novels Of Virginia Woolf, Patricia Laurence

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

The exploration of the theme and narration of silence in Virginia Woolf's novels in this dissertation brings under scrutiny nothing less than her perceptions of the nature of gender, being, mind, knowledge and language. Woolf, searching for a language of mind amid changing concepts of mind in the twentieth century, creates a new rhetoric of silence. In defining silence as a "presence" and not just an "absence" in life and narration, Woolf displaces the privileged place of the "speaking subject" and speech or dialogue in the novel. In Chapter 1, there is an attempt to define what "silence" is in …

Mrs. Trollope's American Novels, Linda Abess Ellis

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Frances Milton Trollope (1779-1863) was one of the most popular novelists and travel writers of her generation. Her visit to the United States (1827-32) provided her with material for her first and most famous book, Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), and for four novels set in America (The Refugee in America, 1832; Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw, 1836; The Barnabys in America, 1842; and The Old World and the New, 1849).

This study treats all four American novels, examining them against a background of other travellers' accounts and against other fiction of the early nineteenth century in order to show how …

Laguardia Literary Magazine: The Window Spring 1988 Vol. 2, No. 2, Laguardia Community College

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Editor-in-Chief: Tanya Pamphile, Associate Editor: Sharon Madison, Staff: Mabel Bermudez, Terri Busso, Tasha Staggers, Neli Stinga, Faculty Advisor: Dr. Thomas Fink

Laguardia Literary Magazine: The Window, Laguardia Community College

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Editor-in-Chief: Denise Winston, Associate Editor: Tanya Pamphile, Staff: Carolyn Cofie, Peggy Diaz, Sharon Madison, Artist: Terri Busso, Extended Day Liaison: Arlene Alvarado, Faculty Advisor: Dr. Tom Fink

Laguardia Literary Magazine: Brainstorm, Laguardia Community College

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Fall 1984, Vol. 1, No. 2 - Brainstorm - Editor-in-Chief: Ishmeal Cooper; Associate Editor: Anita Penino; Associate Editor: William Gumbs; Staff: Ephraim Moore; Tasha Staggers; Carolyn Young; Dr. Thomas Fink, Faculty Advisor

Sin And Guilt In The Fiction Of John Gregory Dunne, Michael Adams

Publications and Research

John Gregory Dunne depicts his characters' obsession with guilt in his first two novels: True Confessions (1977) and Dutch Shea, Jr. (1982).

"How Come Everybody Down Here Has Three Names?": Martin Ritt's Southern Films, Michael Adams

Publications and Research

The treatment of the American South in six films by director Martin Ritt (1914-1990) from 1958 to 1979 reveals an emphasis on outsiders, family dynamics, and race relations.

Laguardia Literary Magazine: Brain-Storm, Laguardia Community College

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Editor-in-Chief: Regina Karen Young, Associate Editor: Mario Arreaga, Associate Editor: William Gumbs, Staff: Michelle Agate, Michalis Andreou, Irene D'Emilio, Norma Earle, Stephanie Gooding, Ephraim Moore, Dr. Thomas Fink, Faculty Advisor

Wilkie Collins And His Victorian Readers: A Study In The Rhetoric Of Authorship, Sue Lonoff

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

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Chaucer And The Gods, Barbara Apstein

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

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Chaucer And The Gods, Barbara Apstein

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

No abstract provided.