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Full-Text Articles in Literature in English, North America

Vol. 9, No. 4 (1989), A. A. Akopyan, William Boozer, W. S. Shipman Jr. Oct 1989

Vol. 9, No. 4 (1989), A. A. Akopyan, William Boozer, W. S. Shipman Jr.

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.


Vol. 9, No. 3 (1989), William Boozer, Dean Faulkner Wells Jul 1989

Vol. 9, No. 3 (1989), William Boozer, Dean Faulkner Wells

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.


Vol. 9, No. 2 (1989), Shozo Kajima, Regina Engelken Apr 1989

Vol. 9, No. 2 (1989), Shozo Kajima, Regina Engelken

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.


Vol. 9, No. 1 (1989), William Boozer, Lawrence Wells Jan 1989

Vol. 9, No. 1 (1989), William Boozer, Lawrence Wells

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.


H. D. And Time, Cheryl Walker Jan 1989

H. D. And Time, Cheryl Walker

Scripps Faculty Publications and Research

From the introduction to the volume:

"Cheryl Walker presents the work of poet H.D. as a paradigm for the changed relationship to history women have undergone during the modern period: H.D.'s early period is characterized by an avoidance of chronological time..."


A Feminist Critic Responds To Recurring Student Questions About Dickinson, Cheryl Walker Jan 1989

A Feminist Critic Responds To Recurring Student Questions About Dickinson, Cheryl Walker

Scripps Faculty Publications and Research

Book abstract:

The life and the range of topics and tones of Emily Dickinson suit her to be included in such courses as American literature, Romanticism, realism, nineteenth-century culture, and women’s literary traditions. Her poetry poses numerous challenges for readers because of its compressed style, indeterminacy, and constant surprises; her biography fascinates students and critics alike.

This volume emphasizes instruction of Dickinson’s poetry at the undergraduate level. Like other volumes in the MLA’s Approaches to Teaching World Literature series, it is divided into two parts. The first, “Materials,” discusses editions of Dickinson’s poetry, aids to teaching, reference works, biographies, critical …


Vol. 8, No. 4 (1988), Various Authors Oct 1988

Vol. 8, No. 4 (1988), Various Authors

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.


Vol. 8, No. 3 (1988), William Boozer, Jim Cleveland Jul 1988

Vol. 8, No. 3 (1988), William Boozer, Jim Cleveland

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.


Vol. 8, No. 2 (1988), William H. Pugh, William Boozer Apr 1988

Vol. 8, No. 2 (1988), William H. Pugh, William Boozer

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

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Vol. 8, No. 1 (1988), Joan C. St. Crane, Jack Ewing, Charles Chappell, Kiyoyuki Ono Jan 1988

Vol. 8, No. 1 (1988), Joan C. St. Crane, Jack Ewing, Charles Chappell, Kiyoyuki Ono

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

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Pilar And Brett: Female Heroes In Hemingway, Jean Kover Chandler Jan 1988

Pilar And Brett: Female Heroes In Hemingway, Jean Kover Chandler

Masters Theses

The significant works on the hero have always assumed that the hero is male. However, feminist writers, such as Carol Pearson and Katherine Pope, have recently shown many women who are, in fact, heroic in both American and British literature. The main problem is that both cultures have often been unable to recognize female heroism, primarily because of their long-conditioned patriarchal perspectives.

Men go on heroic quests; women either help or hinder them along their paths. Thus, women have been considered as supporting characters only, and they are called heroines. But some authors have created female heroes who are not …


Zora Neale Hurston’S Search For Identity In Moses, Man Of The Mountain, Joan E. Sebastian Jan 1988

Zora Neale Hurston’S Search For Identity In Moses, Man Of The Mountain, Joan E. Sebastian

Masters Theses

Zora Neale Hurston, Afro-American writer of the 1920s and 1930s, has gained critical recognition for her novels and studies about the Afro-American masses. Hurston, also an anthropologist and folklorist, worked directly with southern Afro-Americans through her research in both of these fields. Her folklore collecting journeys enabled her to see and to capture the cultural traditions and oral heritage of Afro-Americans. It was her search into the cultural traditions, moreover, that led her to find her own identity. Hurston, therefore, depicted her protagonists as searching for an identity in most of her novels, with this quest especially apparent in Moses, …


Jean Toomer's Cane: A Work In The American Grotesque Genre, Kathryn M. Olsen Dec 1987

Jean Toomer's Cane: A Work In The American Grotesque Genre, Kathryn M. Olsen

Masters Theses

In my thesis I will discuss the fact that Jean Toomer’s Cane is a grotesque work, one which in several ways resembles Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio. While Jean Toomer never specifically alludes to any of the characters in Cane as grotesques, they consistently exhibit three of the strongest, most characteristic elements of the grotesque: physical and/or psychic deformities, alienation from the reader/viewer, and, most importantly, unrelenting conflict from two opposing elements. In fact, the figures in Cane show even more development of grotesque themes than the characters in Winesburg, Ohio, a collection known for its portrayals of modern …


San José Studies, Fall 1987, San José State University Foundation Oct 1987

San José Studies, Fall 1987, San José State University Foundation

San José Studies, 1980s

Volume 13, Issue 3


Vol. 7, No. 3 (1987), William Boozer, M. Thomas Inge Jul 1987

Vol. 7, No. 3 (1987), William Boozer, M. Thomas Inge

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.


Vol. 7, No. 4 (1987), Carole Conklin, William Boozer Jul 1987

Vol. 7, No. 4 (1987), Carole Conklin, William Boozer

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.


Vol. 7, No. 2 (1987), Beverley E. Smith, Doreen Fowler Apr 1987

Vol. 7, No. 2 (1987), Beverley E. Smith, Doreen Fowler

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.


Vol. 7, No. 1 (1987), William Boozer, Karl J. Leone Jan 1987

Vol. 7, No. 1 (1987), William Boozer, Karl J. Leone

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.


San José Studies, Fall 1986, San José State University Foundation Oct 1986

San José Studies, Fall 1986, San José State University Foundation

San José Studies, 1980s

Volume 12, Issue 3


Vol. 6, No. 4 (1986), Ellen M. Surber, Charles Chappell, Linda Lindeen Raiteri Oct 1986

Vol. 6, No. 4 (1986), Ellen M. Surber, Charles Chappell, Linda Lindeen Raiteri

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.


Vol. 6, No. 3 (1986), Ed Meek, George Harmon, William Boozer Jul 1986

Vol. 6, No. 3 (1986), Ed Meek, George Harmon, William Boozer

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.


Vol. 6, No. 2 (1986), David Morris Apr 1986

Vol. 6, No. 2 (1986), David Morris

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.


Vol. 6, No. 1 (1986), Hunter Cole, Jane Isbell Haynes Jan 1986

Vol. 6, No. 1 (1986), Hunter Cole, Jane Isbell Haynes

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.


An Application Of Mikhail Bakhtin’S Theory Of The Grotesque To The Fiction Of Flannery O’Connor, Holly Roberts Jan 1986

An Application Of Mikhail Bakhtin’S Theory Of The Grotesque To The Fiction Of Flannery O’Connor, Holly Roberts

Masters Theses

The grotesque in Flannery O'Connor's fiction has always been a central concern of her readers and critics, because it is such a prominent aspect of her work and is usually connected with the equally pervasive characteristics of violence, destruction, and death. Many of her critics see the grotesquerie of her characters and landscapes as indicative of humanity's fallen existence--that it serves only to reveal what is wrong with the human condition. Such views echo the premises of Wolfgang Kayser's theory of the grotesque presented in his well-known book, The Grotesque in Art and Literature, but as I point out, …


Dream In The Fiction Of Nathanael West, James M. Caldwell Jan 1986

Dream In The Fiction Of Nathanael West, James M. Caldwell

Masters Theses

Since the publication of his first novel in 1931, Nathanael West has presented significant problems for critics in their attempts to arrive at conclusions about his work and to classify him among twentieth century novelists. Various critical approaches have helped to clarify some of the ambiguities in West's four novels, but the bibliographic, source, and psychological studies have often often neglected specifics of the texts in favor of finding West a niche in relation to his twentieth century contemporaries.

Most criticism of West's fiction discusses dreams to some extent. His fictions are considered dreamworlds, and each novel's ordering dream is …


Vol. 5, No. 4 (1985), Carl Petersen, Carolyn Blakemore Oct 1985

Vol. 5, No. 4 (1985), Carl Petersen, Carolyn Blakemore

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.


Vol. 5, No. 3 (1985), Richard A. Shine, M. B. Mayfield, Barry Hannah Jr. Jul 1985

Vol. 5, No. 3 (1985), Richard A. Shine, M. B. Mayfield, Barry Hannah Jr.

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.


Vol. 5, No. 2 (1985), Carl Petersen Apr 1985

Vol. 5, No. 2 (1985), Carl Petersen

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.


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

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 Jan 1985

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

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.