Literature in English, North America Commons^™

The Inner Voice, Janis Ruth Bagnall Cochrane

Institute for the Humanities Theses

The scope of this project is two-fold. The key purpose is to demonstrate the relationship between the voice of Lee Smith, a Southern writer from Appalachia and the voice of the author, another Southern writer from the Outer Banks. The foremost conclusion that has been drawn is that a writer's voice comes from deep inside the writer's unconscious. It is a product of generations of experiences that have embedded themselves in the writer's psyche. Some of the assumptions and prejudices surrounding southern women are discussed to some degree.

The second purpose is for this writer to show her work. This …

The Female Body As Icon: Edna Millay Wears A Plaid Dress, Cheryl Walker

Scripps Faculty Publications and Research

The female body has never been so prominently displayed or so critically examined as it is today under the dominance of late capitalism. The results of this display, we can now see, have been mostly negative: women regard themselves at best self-consciously, at worst with disgust. Given this emphasis on self-scrutiny, it comes as no surprise that middle-aged women experience a reduction of self-confidence regarding their physical presences and a concomitant increase in self-dissatisfaction. It is also worth noting that a querulous tone often afflicts them as they grow older, suggesting that they are at odds not only with others …

Rhetorical Tropes From The Black English Oral Tradition In The Works Of Toni Morrison, Yvonne Kay Atkinson

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

A Rhetorical Aspect Of Edgar Allan Poe's Short Fiction: A Reader Response Approach, James Philip Lehan

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Vol. 15, No. 1 (1995), Arthur F. Kinney, Dean Faulkner Wells

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

Multiculturalism And The American Identity: A Student Oriented Approach, Robert A. Slayton

History Faculty Articles and Research

Faced with questions of how to teach multicultural American History, Robert Slayton challenges his students to reach their own conclusions about what it means to be American after reading Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi.

Tell Me A Story: Fairy Tales And The Feminist Conflict, Kathleen M. Noonan

Honors Theses, 1963-2015

Although the feminist critique of fairy tales is a legitimate and necessary step toward equality for women in modern society, the traditional fairy tale genre is also a critical factor in the happiness and enjoyment of the audience. Elements of traditional fairy tales such as love, adventure, or beauty do not only place women in submissive and passive roles, but they also provide the entertainment which makes fairy tales appealing. Many feminist readers also want to read and enjoy traditional fairy tales, but are caught in a self-imposed conflict between the desire for elements which they know will oppress women …

Michael North, The Political Aesthetic Of Yeats, Eliot, And Pound, Robert Spoo

Articles, Chapters in Books and Other Contributions to Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.

A New Sense Of Time In Female Development: Linearity And Cyclicity In Atwood's Surfacing And Cat's Eye, Diana L. Unes

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Grupo Ubú: El Edificio De La Identidad En Barriendo Sombras, Cesar Valverde

Scholarship

No abstract provided.

"The Power To Hurt": Lincoln's Early Use Of Satire And Invective, Robert Bray

Scholarship

How did Abraham Lincoln become a great speaker and writer? How did he get from doggerel in a copybook to the mastery of the Lincoln-Douglas debates and the speeches of the presidential years? This is an abiding mystery in Lincoln biography, and its obscurity will probably never be dispelled fully.1Still, we cannot help wondering, and so we look for early signs of precocity and power in the boy "back home in Indiana" during the 1820s and the young man of the New Salem, Illinois, years from 1831 to 1837. We continue to search and speculate despite few and questionable sources …

Criminal Artists And Artisans In Mysteries By E.T.A. Hoffman, Dorothy Sayers, Ernesto Sábato, Patrick Süskind, And Thomas Harris, Edith Borchardt

German Publications

Much has been written on the subject of genius and neurosis, and psychobiographies of the artistic personality are numerous; however, literature on the artist as criminal is scarce. In real life, there are probably no artists who murder for their art or whose art is murder. In literature, such figures are also relatively rare. There are, however, several fictional artists with psychopathic disorders that cause them to murder. E.T.A. Hoffmann's Cardillac in Das Fraulein von Scuderi is a goldsmith in seventeenth-century Paris who kills the recipients of the jewelry he creates. Loder in "The Abominable History of the Man with …

Lights And Shadows - 1995, University Of North Alabama

Lights and Shadows

Art and Literature Magazine

Social Commentary In Three Novels By Edith Wharton, Michael A. Gillespie

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the Caudill College of Humanities at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Michael A. Gillespie on December 8, 1994.

Index 1 (1981-1994), Lawrence Wells

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

Vol. 14, No. 4 (1994), John Egerton

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

Vol. 14, No. 3 (1994), Samuel M. Turney, Thomas M. Verich, M. Thomas Inge, John Ruemmler, Wendy Goldberg

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's Female Characters An Author's Changing Perspective, Todd Dykes

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

No abstract provided.

Vol. 14, No. 2 (1994), Tina H. Hahn, William E. Strickland, M. Thomas Inge

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

Female-Made Order In The Works Of Kaye Gibbons, Lee Ann Dugan

Honors Theses

Kaye Gibbons, a contemporary Southern writer, attracted almost immediate attention with the publication of her first novel Ellen Foster in 1987. Awarded the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters' Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, Ellen Foster was warmly received by both the critics and the public. According to Alice Hoffman, readers trust Ellen Foster even though her misfortunes border on the Gothic, and they anxiously follow her adventures because Gibbons "focuses on Ellen's strengths rather than her victimization, presenting a heroine who rescues herself" (13). Telling her story as if she were "her own maker and redeemer," …

Burdens And Blessings: An Examination Of The Works Of Ernest J. Gaines From An Agrarian Perspective, Ellen Gray M. Hogan

Theses & Honors Papers

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/1 Hillside, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Special magazine edition of the College Heights Herald:

• Anna, Cara. Keeping the Balance – Ralph Willard, Kevin Willard, Basketball
• Armes, Anya. Giving the Gift to Others – Jim Wayne Miller

The Two Handles Of Israel Potter, Kris Lackey

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Vol. 14, No. 1 (1994), Tommy Covington, Seymour Lawrence

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

The Faulkner Newsletter Collected Issues, William Boozer, Dean Faulkner Wells, Lawrence Wells

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

Introductory material to accompany the 1994 publication of The Faulkner Newsletter Collected Issues by Yoknapatawpha Press (ISBN 0916242668). The volume reprinted the first 54 issues of the publication along with an index compiled by the publishers. Includes a "Letter from the Publishers", their bios, and an introduction by William Boozer.

Vilifying The Enemy: The Christian Right And The Novels Of Frank Peretti, Jay R. Howard

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Peretti's novels provide a clear statement of the worldview of conservative Christians who hold the Bible to be literally true and without error. Not only is the reader presented with doctrinal positions, but the implications of those positions for life in modern society are spelled out as well. In this essay, I analyze Peretti's views of the modern world, its heroes and villains, and argue they are representative of the views of the New Christian Right (Liebman and Wuthnow) in the late 1980s and the 1990s.

Reed Way Dasenbrock, Imitating The Italians: Wyatt, Spenser, Synge, Pound, Joyce, Robert Spoo

Articles, Chapters in Books and Other Contributions to Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.

Shared Lives: Women Who Wrote For Women, Andrea Kempf

Sabbatical Projects

The author studies the literature of Janet Lambert, Georgette Heyer, Francis Parkinson Keyes, and Inez Haynes Gillmore Irwin, and posits that frequent events within their works are not fantasy, but re-tellings of real experiences these authors lived.

Reading Between The Texts: Benjamin Thomas's 'Abraham Lincoln' And Stephen Oates's 'With Malice Toward None', Robert Bray

Scholarship

This essay, previously published in the 'Journal of Information Ethics' (1994) is the one that ignited the Stephen B. Oates plagiarism scandal; that story is fully told in the companion book, 'Dishonest Abe Scholarship.' 'Reading between the Texts' is an analysis of parallels between the two Lincoln biographies of the title, arguing that Oates's book was in parts written out of Thomas's, without acknowledgement of the former's work.

Lights And Shadows - 1994, University Of North Alabama

Lights and Shadows

Art and Literature Magazine