Literature in English, North America Commons^™

Ice, Dave Hoing, Jan Spivey Johnson (Illustration By)

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Watching The Huntress Leave, John R. Turner

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The Hero, Judy Ireland

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The Valley Of The Vye-Vye, Rufus Reed

Rufus Reed Literary Works

Jack Van Arden, spoiled and rebellious scion of a wealthy and socially prominent Chicago family, gasps at the vision before him on his television screen. The announcer has called Miss Violet Crenshaw to accept the title of beauty queen, and rightly so--for she is beautiful in a breathtaking fashion. Incredibly, before the wispy, blond girl can accept, she is forcefully led away by a stern, forbidding man--her father. Moved by the girl's unearthly beauty, Jack determines on the spot that he will find her and make her is bride.

Conqueror Of The Dark Hills, Rufus Reed

Rufus Reed Literary Works

From the author: Here is the story of the miraculous transformation of Martin County, Kentucky, from a state of abject poverty to a rise to unparalleled prosperity. It's the story of the brave and hardy men who stuck with it, who eked out a bare living, finally passing their hardiness and heartiness to the future residents, those who got it where it is today.

The Minstrel, Philip Marlow, Jim Engelkes (Illustration By)

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From Selflessness To Selfishness: Various Types Of Deception In Four Of Twain's Novels, Kay L. Smith

Masters Theses

An interesting feature of Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson is the use of disguise and deception. The basis of much of the novels' actions concerns people who, for varied reasons, set out to fool other people. Other individuals or groups of people are self-deceived.

Motivations for the deception vary. Some entail selfless concerns of protecting a loved one. Some illustrate desires to maintain one's own safety and well-being. Still others involve negative, base qualities such as greed, …

Lights And Shadows - 1979, University Of North Alabama

Lights and Shadows

Art and Literature Magazine

Fitzgerald's Use Of The Four Elements In The Great Gatsby, John Philip Hawkins

Masters Theses

A great deal has been written about the conscientious effort that went into the design of F. Scott Fitzgerald's popular novel, The Great Gatsby, with its various allusions and numerous symbols. A careful reading of this novel will unveil the author's preoccupation with numerous metaphysical images, particularly the four elements--air, earth, water, and fire--which are considered to be the essential components of all matter.

Fitzgerald uses the four elements in The Great Gatsby to coordinate mood and physical settings, to give dimension to the settings, and to bring characters into sharper focus. The novel employs four settings, each one …

Saul Bellow's Henderson The Rain King: A Fusion Of The Comic And The Serious, George William Russo

Masters Theses

Bellow's comic vision points to a compromise between the romantic notion that self-perfection is attainable and the pessimistic notion that man is ultimately impotent and thus destined to fail. Through Henderson, Bellow shows that although man does not--and ultimately cannot--completely free himself of somatic demands and limitations, he is nevertheless not defeated by them and thus not left a victim of emotionless observations.

Bellow draws upon four sources in Henderson's nature to create the humor in the novel and highlights Eugene Henderson as a comic hero by dramatizing that Henderson proves to be his own ironist. These sources can be …