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Short Stories Don't Sell: British Short Story Collections, 1919-1939, Dean Baldwin Jan 1991

Short Stories Don't Sell: British Short Story Collections, 1919-1939, Dean Baldwin

Short Story

No abstract provided.


Review Of Interim In The Desert, Robert F. Gish Jan 1991

Review Of Interim In The Desert, Robert F. Gish

Short Story

No abstract provided.


Review: Jerome Klinkowitz's Short Season And Other Stories, Robert Luscher Jan 1991

Review: Jerome Klinkowitz's Short Season And Other Stories, Robert Luscher

Short Story

No abstract provided.


Notes On Contributors Jan 1991

Notes On Contributors

Short Story

No abstract provided.


Back Cover Jan 1991

Back Cover

Short Story

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A Note From The Editor, Mary Rohrberger Jan 1991

A Note From The Editor, Mary Rohrberger

Short Story

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Thurber's "Catbird Seat": The Fable Of A Sheep In Wolf's Clothing, Eli Merchant Jan 1991

Thurber's "Catbird Seat": The Fable Of A Sheep In Wolf's Clothing, Eli Merchant

Short Story

No abstract provided.


The Portrayal Of Characters With Physical Disabilities In Children’S Literature, Marilyn Newhouse Jan 1991

The Portrayal Of Characters With Physical Disabilities In Children’S Literature, Marilyn Newhouse

Graduate Research Papers

This research study used a content analysis technique to analyze 25 fiction books which featured a character having a physical disability. All books were published between 1980-1990 and were at a fourth through sixth grade reading level. A comparison was made to determine if the portrayal of physically disabled characters has changed from their portrayal in books written prior to 1980.

In the books chosen for this study the physically disabled characters were typically juvenile, Caucasian, and male. Orthopedic disorders were most frequently portrayed. The majority of the physically disabled characters were portrayed in important family and societal roles, and …


Community, History, And Individual Wholeness In The Novels Of Toni Morrison: Recasting The Myth Of Self, Richard L. Campbell Jan 1991

Community, History, And Individual Wholeness In The Novels Of Toni Morrison: Recasting The Myth Of Self, Richard L. Campbell

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The wholeness of the fictional characters of Toni Morrison is linked with their relationship to historical and communal values. Those characters who move toward a feeling of authenticity or psychological completeness are those who realize the value of the past to their present existence and the importance of significant relationships with those around them. Characters who are distanced from these values, however, are unable to realize a sense of wholeness. Though no character in The Bluest Eye achieves authenticity, the novel does suggest the values which its characters lack, and which might have allowed them to experience growth. Sula, on …


The Crowning Fool, Robert Henry Fuerste Jan 1991

The Crowning Fool, Robert Henry Fuerste

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The beginning of the social season in the summer of 1968 at the Hollisbrook mansion in Ridgeport, New York, was marked by a graduation party for Doyle Hollisbrook, youngest of the small, eastern American family. The action of the play centers on the preparation for the party. Doyle, feeling his graduation lacks personal significance, plans extra honors and exaltations. Eavesdropping on his mother and sister, he learns his achievements are minimized. His response is to carry out his plan to hire actors to support his view that he is prince of Wales. Through the innocent encouragement of his Aunt Abby, …


"Ego, Scriptor Cantilenae": The Cantos And Ezra Pound, Steven R. Gulick Jan 1991

"Ego, Scriptor Cantilenae": The Cantos And Ezra Pound, Steven R. Gulick

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Can poetry "make new" the world? Ezra Pound thought so. In "Cantico del Sole" he said: "The thought of what America would be like/ If the Classics had a wide circulation/ Troubles me in my sleep" (Personae 183). He came to write an 815 page poem called The Cantos in which he presents "fragments" drawn from the literature and documents of the past in an attempt to build a new world, "a paradiso terreste" (The Cantos 802). This may be seen as either a noble gesture or sheer egotism.

Pound once called The Cantos the "tale of the …


Resolving The Paradox: Thomas Merton, Antipoetry, And The Language Of Silence In The Geography Of Lograire, Barbara J. Hemann Jan 1991

Resolving The Paradox: Thomas Merton, Antipoetry, And The Language Of Silence In The Geography Of Lograire, Barbara J. Hemann

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The paradox in Thomas Merton's life, that of being both poet and priest, has often been studied. Merton himself was torn by this paradox, the need to keep his vow of silence and the need to express himself through language. It is this paradox, the paradox of language and silence and how Merton resolves it in antipoetry, that is examined in this study. Antipoetry provides an answer to many paradoxes Merton finds in his life. Merton, in his autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain, first believed that one must reject the world to embrace God, but later in his life recants …


The Blue And The Gray In Young Adult Fiction: A Selected Annotated Bibliography, Kent Brewer Jan 1991

The Blue And The Gray In Young Adult Fiction: A Selected Annotated Bibliography, Kent Brewer

Graduate Research Papers

Even after more than 125 years since its conclusion, interest in the Civil War remains high. Historical fiction based on the Clvil War continues to appear frequently. Much historical fiction about the Civil War could be used to positive effect in high school history classes.


The Portrayal Of Single-Parent Families In Young Adult Fiction, Elaine M. Reicks Jan 1990

The Portrayal Of Single-Parent Families In Young Adult Fiction, Elaine M. Reicks

Graduate Research Papers

A content analysis was used to examine 19 young adult novels to determine whether single-parent families were realistically portrayed.

Books published between 1985-1989 were selected from "Booklist", "School Library Journal", and "Junior High Library Catalog." Hypotheses dealt with the status of single-parent units and the effect on the parent and the child in making the adjustment to the new family structure. Six of the hypotheses were accepted; seven were rejected. The researcher concluded that young adult fiction was realistically portraying the status of single-adoptive units, the single parent's financial stress and problems in household management, as well as the adolescent's …


The Image Of The Adolescent Girl In Recommended Romantic Fiction For Young Adults, 1979-1989, Judy Elaine Mcclure Jan 1990

The Image Of The Adolescent Girl In Recommended Romantic Fiction For Young Adults, 1979-1989, Judy Elaine Mcclure

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this content analysis was to investigate how realistically novelists portrayed the image of the teenage girl in fiction written for young adults. The researcher analyzed twenty-two books with copyrights from 1979 to 1989, novels identified in Booklist which had one additional review and were. still in print at the time of the study. A checklist adapted from Offer's Self-Image Questionnaire was used in analyzing the psychological self, social self, sexual self, familial self, and coping self.

With the use of the checklist the following hypotheses were accepted:

1. The majority of the romantic fiction of the 1980's …


Review Of Joseph Flora's Ernest Hemingway: A Study Of The Short Fiction; Robert Gish's William Carlos Williams: A Study Of The Short Fiction; And James O'Hara's John Cheever: A Study Of The Short Fiction, E. P. Walkiewicz Jan 1990

Review Of Joseph Flora's Ernest Hemingway: A Study Of The Short Fiction; Robert Gish's William Carlos Williams: A Study Of The Short Fiction; And James O'Hara's John Cheever: A Study Of The Short Fiction, E. P. Walkiewicz

Short Story

No abstract provided.


A Cognitive Approach To Storyness, Susan Lohafer Jan 1990

A Cognitive Approach To Storyness, Susan Lohafer

Short Story

No abstract provided.


Notes On Contributors Jan 1990

Notes On Contributors

Short Story

No abstract provided.


Artifice And Artificiality In The Short Story, Charles E. May Jan 1990

Artifice And Artificiality In The Short Story, Charles E. May

Short Story

No abstract provided.


Laboratory For Narrative: The One-Sentence Fictions Of Richard Kostelanetz, John Gerlach Jan 1990

Laboratory For Narrative: The One-Sentence Fictions Of Richard Kostelanetz, John Gerlach

Short Story

No abstract provided.


Chamber, Victor Walter Jan 1990

Chamber, Victor Walter

Short Story

No abstract provided.


Robbery, Mark Spencer Jan 1990

Robbery, Mark Spencer

Short Story

No abstract provided.


Realistic Depiction Of Symptoms And Consequences Of Parental Problem Drinking In Young Adult Novels, Teresa A. Bunday Jan 1990

Realistic Depiction Of Symptoms And Consequences Of Parental Problem Drinking In Young Adult Novels, Teresa A. Bunday

Graduate Research Papers

This research was a content analysis study of young adult novels that contained a parent with a drinking problem. The researcher wanted to determine the level of real ism regarding the characterizations of the child of an alcoholic, the drinker, and the spouse of the drinker. The hypothese predicted that a majority of the books would include: 1. three or more consequence of drinking on the child, 2. four or more consequences or symptoms on the drinker, and 3. one or more consequences suffered by the spouse. A checklist that listed known consequences and symptoms of alcohol abuse was developed. …


Framing Mansfield, Ian Reid Jan 1990

Framing Mansfield, Ian Reid

Short Story

No abstract provided.


Front Matter - Table Of Contents - Preface Jan 1990

Front Matter - Table Of Contents - Preface

Short Story

No abstract provided.


Short Story, Volume 1, Number 1, Spring 1990 [Download Entire Issue] Jan 1990

Short Story, Volume 1, Number 1, Spring 1990 [Download Entire Issue]

Short Story

No abstract provided.


Footsteps, Thomas E. Kennedy Jan 1990

Footsteps, Thomas E. Kennedy

Short Story

No abstract provided.


Wyeth Drama: The Missing Scenes, Pamela Painter Jan 1990

Wyeth Drama: The Missing Scenes, Pamela Painter

Short Story

No abstract provided.


Power To Pickens, W. D. Wetherell Jan 1990

Power To Pickens, W. D. Wetherell

Short Story

No abstract provided.


Defining The Short Story And Certain Limitations Of Reader-Oriented Theory, Norman Friedman Jan 1990

Defining The Short Story And Certain Limitations Of Reader-Oriented Theory, Norman Friedman

Short Story

No abstract provided.