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Vol. 10, No. 3 (1990), Lawrence Wells, Dean Faulkner Wells, Saul Rosenberg, Jeffrey E. Simpson, Michael A. Crivello, William Boozer

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

Wendell Berry’S Cyclic Vision: Traditional Farming As Metaphor, Morris Allen Grubbs

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Although Wendell Berry’s first book, a novel, appeared in 1960, he did not gain significant national attention until the publication of his nonfiction manifesto, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture, in 1977. Since its publication, Berry has moved increasingly toward the prose of persuasion as he continues to sharpen his argument in support of a practical, continuous harmony between the human economy and Nature. His canon as a whole – the poems, essays, and novels – is an ongoing and thorough exploration of man’s use of and relationship to the land.

Arguing that the health of a culture …

The Short Fiction Of Bobbie Ann Mason: Exposing The Problems In American Society & Searching For Some Solutions, Melanie Allen

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Bobbie Ann Mason uses her fiction to portray the problems in American society. She devotes most of her time to average persons who are suffering from the rapid changes that society is going through. These characters at times seem lost and helpless, but ultimately they do not give up hope for a brighter future. Through social problems such as divorce, lack of communication, loss of identity and place, obsession with the past, submersion in rock music and TV, loss of ritual, proliferation of objects, lack of education, and the need to face mortality, these characters still seem to have hope …

Vol. 10, No. 2 (1990), Forrest Shivers, William Boozer

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

The Scarlet Letter And The Red Star: Hawthorne's Appeal To China's Students Of American Literature, Geoffrey Kain

Publications

Having taught numerous works of American literature -- novels, short stories, essays, poems -- for two and a half years to junior and senior undergraduates and graduate students of English literature and language in two Chinese universities (Fuzhou University and Xiamen University, both in the southeastern coastal province of Fujian, during 1984-1985 and 1986-1988), I have been struck by the almost unanimous recognition of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter as the students' "number one." Other major works have their own peculiar merits, but none measures up to Hawthorne's novel. Huckleberry Finn? Noteworthy chiefly because of Huck's daring involvement in Black emancipation, …

Vol. 10, No. 1 (1990), James A. Dahl, Thomas M. Verich, Toby Holtzman

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

Lights And Shadows - 1990, University Of North Alabama

Lights and Shadows

Art and Literature Magazine

Selective Methods Of Teaching Secondary English: The Scarlet Letter: A Study And Application Of The Collaborative And Mastery Learning Methods, Janine M. Kardas

Masters Theses

This study is about the relationship of content in teaching to the process in teaching for the purpose of helping students to become better readers of literature. This study investigates two selected teaching strategies supported by research to be effective, and applies them to the teaching of a canonical piece of literature, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This study employs literary theory in the development of the objectives and applies both cooperative learning and mastery learning methods to the teaching of this novel. Two sets of lesson plans are developed from the objectives and subsequently analyzed for their effectiveness …

The Irish-American Experience In The Novels Of William Kennedy: Ethnicity And Narrative Method, James B. Denigan

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

San José Studies, Winter 1990, San José State University Foundation

San José Studies, 1990s

Volume 16, Issue 1

Gender And The Search For Identity In Gwendolyn Macewan’S Julian And Noman Stories, Anne Marie Martin

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

This thesis looks at the theme of gender and the search for identity in three fictional works of Canadian poet and novelist Gwendolyn MacEwen. The works considered are her first novel Julian the Magician (1963) and her two collections of short stories Noman (1972) and Noman’s Land (1985).

The thesis examines the way self-identity is characterized and considers the way gender is presented in relation to the self. The work shows the development of MacEwen’s idea of self from a creative eternal force equivalent to the Christ image in Julian the Magician to an eternal force that finds its expression …

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

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Selfhood In Maxine Hong Kingston's Major Works, Moses Mi

Theses & Honors Papers

No abstract provided.

Review: W. Barker, Lunacy Of Light - Emily Dickinson And The Experience Of Metaphor (Carbondale, Il, 1987), Wendy Martin

CGU Faculty Publications and Research

Book review.

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

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

River People, Ruth Madden

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

In the introduction to The World of the Short Story, Kay Boyle challenges the short story writer "to invest a brief sequence of events with reverberating human significance by means of style, selection and ordering of detail, and -- most important -- to present the whole action in such a way that it is at once a parable and a slice of life, at once symbolic and real, both a valid picture of some phase of experience, and a sudden illumination of one of the perennial moral and psychological paradoxes which lie at the heart of la condition humaine." …

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

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

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

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 …

Lights And Shadows - 1989, University Of North Alabama

Lights and Shadows

Art and Literature Magazine

Desire: An Essential Element In Wallace Stevens' Poetry, Barry Gary

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Man naturally pursues that which brings pleasure, and Wallace Stevens recognizes this inescapable desire, exploring it fully in his poetry, prose, and letters and depending upon it to build the foundation for many, if not most, of his major themes. For Stevens, one's world evolves through the use of poetry, and this world, complete with jubilations of fulfilled desire and frequent despair as illusions of fulfillment are destroyed, chronicles the life of every man. As a result, different kinds of desire and different attempts at satisfying these desires emerge as one reads Stevens--three of which will be advanced in this …

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

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

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

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

Cheever's Signs : A Semiotic Approach To Thirteen Stories By John Cheever, Laurent Ditmann

Dissertations and Theses

Literary criticism dealing with John Cheever focuses on the social implications of Cheever's description of suburban America. The purpose of this thesis is to propose a new approach to Cheever's short stories, and to apply the concepts developed by French literary critics Jacques Derrida and Roland Barthes to thirteen short stories by Cheever.

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

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

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

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

"Words Moving Secretly Toward Some Goal Of Their Own": The Rhetorical Use Of The "As If" In The Fiction Of Flannery O’Connor, Kellie Renee Rayburn

Theses Digitization Project

In an effort to reach readers who do not share her strict Roman Catholic beliefs, Flannery O'Connor employs a number of persuasive devices. Prominent among those devices is her rhetorical use of the "as if" construction. As a theoretical joining of the "reality" of this world with the "unknown" of the supernatural, the "as if" introduces "mystery," a vital part of the reader's experience with any of O'Connor's fictional works. By closely examining O'Connor's various uses of the construction in her short stories, the "as if's" differing effects on the reader become apparent. These effects are further demonstrated by a …

Self Myths And The Autobiography Of Renunciation In 20th Century North America, John D. Hazlett

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Lights And Shadows - 1988, University Of North Alabama

Lights and Shadows

Art and Literature Magazine