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The Wild Coast, Cyril Dabydeen

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Different Girl, Erin Hill Littlefield

Short Story

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Robert Coover's "Cartoon": A Fiction About The Postmodern Problem Of Authenticity, Glenda Conway

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Joyce Carol Oates' "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?": The True Identity Of Ellie Oscar, Anthony Ellis

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Moving Beyond The Feminine: Feminist Critical Interpretation And The Short Story, Caryn Maureen Voskuil

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Review Of James Nagel's The Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle: The Ethnic Resonance Of Genre, Robert Beuka

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Notes On Contributors

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Sequence Or Novel? Fran Zell's The Marcy Stories, Suzanne Ferguson

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Race And Artistic Freedom In Langston Hughes' "Home", Stephen Cooper

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Notes On Contributors

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Back Matter - Back Cover

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Trends, Patterns, And Characteristics Of Young Adult Horror Fiction, Melissa A. Buelow

Graduate Research Papers

The characteristics of young adult horror fiction include literary conventions, incidents and patterns that are unique to the genre and appealing to the reader. This researcher investigated the trends, patterns, and conventions of young adult novels which make these novels appealing to the reader. This researcher made this investigation using a quantitative content analysis of the young adult horror literature. The researcher chose the books based on the availability of the book, by using the keywords horror, supernatural, occult, gothic, and vampire. The whole book was then analyzed for the trends, patterns, and conventions which it contained.

The Portrayal Of Grandparents In Young Adult Fiction, Sherri L. Imoehl

Graduate Research Papers

This study used content analysis to examine contemporary young adult fiction to see how the grandparent-grandchild relationship was portrayed. The titles were randomly chosen books taken from the American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults annual lists 1990-2000. Simple perceptions of grandparents as older adults who see their grandchildren on special occasions are no longer realistic. There is statistical evidence that many grandparents have a significant effect on the lives of young adults. Grandparents are becoming more active in the family household. Novels read by young adults may not mirror these new changes. Findings revealed that in the majority …

"Good Stuff For Wise Men To Laugh At Or Honest Men To Take Pleasure At": The Arthurian Tradition During The Renaissance, Crystal Stallman

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Contrary to the commonly held view that the English Renaissance abandoned the realm of Arthuriana as an inspiration for literary and other cultural texts, I demonstrate in my thesis that Arthurian texts from this period took on new forms and shifted their focus. Although a decline in the overall amount of Arthuriana produced during the Renaissance occurred, as opposed to the Middle Ages, interest in Arthur certainly did not die out. When comparing the amount of Arthuriana of the Middle Ages to that of the Renaissance, it is necessary to remember that the Middle Ages covered nearly a millennium, whereas …

Feminist Issues And Concerns In The Fictions Of Two Egyptian Women Writers: Alifa Rifaat And Nawal El-Saadawi, Shafiqa Anwar Fakir

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

This thesis involves an examination of feminist issues and concerns in the fictions of two contemporary Egyptian women writers: Alifa Rifaat and Nawal el-Saadawi. The main focus will be on illuminating the social, sexual, economical problems that the literary female characters encounter and how they deal with these various forms of oppressions. Examination of these author's lives and works illustrates the complexity of women within the boundaries of the same nation in matters of gender justice and equality. This further, implicitly, illustrates the complexity of Arab women who tend to be viewed as a cohesive whole.

A Christian Parent’S Guide To Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’S Stone, Gina Louise Burkart

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

A Christian Parent's Guide to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone provides parents with a variety of activities and opportunities for discussing Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone through the Christian lens. The guide is founded and supported by educational theorists such as Kohlberg and Piaget and is built on the principle that parents can help their children sort out fantasy and reality and moral issues by discussing literature with their children. Each chapter is broken down into four sections: Bridging the Gap, Talking About It at Home, Scripture Connection, and Activities. Bridging the Gap allows parents and children to …

Hazards, Marc Dickinson

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Hazards is a collection of seven stories that looks into the mystery of relationships in which emotions are discovered, but in the end, never fully realized. Often through a series of flashbacks triggered by a singe event, these characters collide and struggle with the boundaries between love and friendship. Occupying various point of views that span gender and sexual preference, these narrators often fall into situations too complicated for blame with feelings too new and sincere to be cautious. By not always passing judgement on other characters, these sensitive individuals tend to leave themselves exposed to harsh realities, sometimes arresting …

Raising Cultural Awareness In The Elementary Classroom Through African-American Children's Literature, Kirsten Seebeck

Graduate Research Papers

This research project topic was selected because of the need for raised cultural awareness in elementary classrooms, as indicated in current research findings. I chose African-American literature because in this region of the United States, Iowa in particular, the classrooms tend to be largely homogenous. Children who are from African-American descent find themselves to be in the minority in their classroom settings.

These children are not seeing many other children like themselves in their school community. It is therefore important that they see themselves in the literature shared within this community, in order to help them to relate to their …

The Portrayal Of Mentally Ill Characters In Young Adult Fiction, Marilyn E. Olson

Graduate Research Papers

Interaction with mentally and emotionally disabled classmates creates a need for students to better understand their fellow adolescents. They need to be able to read about peers with mental illness. Mentally ill students must also be able to read about others that experience their same or similar conditions. What they read needs to be accurate. It was the purpose of this research to investigate whether adolescents with mental or emotional disabilities were accurately portrayed in contemporary fiction books for readers ages 12- 18. This problem was addressed through content analysis in a quantitative study. The population contained 25 randomly selected …

Political, National, Racial, And Imperial Unconscious In James Fenimore Cooper’S The Pioneers, Nizar Farouk Hermes

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Liberal humanist critics of James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers have for a long time relegated this politically packed nineteenth-century novel to the realms of the romantic. In the course of this study, I intend to show that Cooper's romantic discourse in The Pioneers is not "innocently romantic" as these critics have postulated. To argue for the political, national, racial, and imperial unconscious of The Pioneers as the latent, but active discourse throughout this text, I rely upon the materialist theories of Fredric Jameson, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Terry Eagleton, Homi Bhabha, Benedict Anderson, and Edward Said.

The Effects Of Reading Poetry In Library Classes On Circulation Of The Library’S Poetry Collection, Mary Musselman

Graduate Research Papers

Many of the elementary poetry books on the shelves of the Manson Northwest Webster Barnum Center library in Barnum, Iowa were not being checked out by students. By reading poetry from those books to third and fourth graders during library time the librarian hoped to stimulate interest in those poetry books and increase circulation of them. After keeping track of the poetry book circulation before and after reading poetry to the groups, the reading did in fact increase the circulation of the poetry books significantly at the .05 level.

To Be Or Not To Be: A Portrayal Of William Shakespeare In Children's Literature, Kathy S. Grout

Graduate Research Papers

This study analyzed how accurately authors of historical fiction portray William Shakespeare, the man and events of his life. An attempt was made to locate 25 books that contained Shakespeare as a character or dealt with events from his life. Twenty-two books were chosen that were written for children, young adults and adults with recommendations for young adults. Each book was read, summarized, reread and examined by completing a content analysis checklist designed to evaluate the portrayal of William Shakespeare and events of his life. Four hypotheses relating to known facts about Shakespeare's life, the fictionalization of his character, the …

The Vineyard, Where The Grapes Of Wrath Are Stored, Tom Chiarella

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Bad Things, Charlotte Morgan

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Notes On Contributors

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The Westward Inn, J. M. Ferguson Jr.

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Sweetheart Of The Song Tra Bong: Tim O'Brien's (Feminist?) Heart Of Darkness, Terry J. Martin, Margaret Stiner

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Front Matter - Table Of Contents

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More Rigor, More Rigor, Lucas Carpenter

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Bags And Baskets, Geoffrey Kain

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