Literature in English, North America Commons^™

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

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

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 …

Soul Scenes: A Clay Collection, Robin Douglas Clay

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the Department of English, Foreign Languages and Philosophy at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in English by Robin Douglas Clay in November of 1987.

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

San José Studies, 1980s

Volume 13, Issue 3

Emily Dickinson: "The Face We Choose To Miss", Donna Marie Stephens

Theses & Honors Papers

The majority of Emily Dickinson’s poems deal with love, immortality, and death. There is no doubt that she was preoccupied with two distinct subjects, death and immortality. An important point that this thesis stresses is the fact that Emily’s preoccupation did not muffle her senses, but instead enlivened them. It is essential that one must consider the biographical influences that affected Emily throughout her life, but even more importantly, one must also recognize the correlation between Emily’s preoccupation with these two subjects and the deaths of so many of her closest friends. Due to this, her death and immortality poems …

The Role Of Narrator In Selected Works Of Edgar Allan Poe, Frances M. Smith

Theses & Honors Papers

This thesis focuses on the role of narrator in selected works of Edgar Allan Poe. The thesis finds that Poe exerts a lot of effort fashioning the narrator. He discredits his reliability to discourage a face-value credibility. He puts him in a dream state to give him access to his subconscious mind. He makes himself and other characters representative of the functioning of the inner mind. He creates deceptiveness in his nature and then makes him alert the reader to the deceptiveness in his nature and then makes him alert the reader to the deception so that the reader will …

Mark Twain's Uses Of Suffering In The Writer-Character-Reader Triad, Virginia Armiger Grant

Theses & Honors Papers

This thesis studies Mark Twain’s uses of suffering in the writer character reader triad. In the book Huckleberry Finn, Twain himself seems to identify more closely with Huck than he does with Tom, as evidenced by the first person narrative in Finn and the more serious, more carefully developed autobiographical incidents in that book. Perhaps because Twain’s later life was so bleak and unhappy, he poured all of his self-defeat and pessimism into his thoughts for Huck’s old age.

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

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

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Waste Land Or Promised Land: T.S. Eliot's The Idea Of A Christian Society, Amy Wallace

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

In T. S. Eliot's The Idea of a Christian Society, the poet questions the nature of our society's foundations; he believes that Western culture is moving dangerously closer to the liberal and secular and that this shift could be disastrous. Instead, Eliot suggests that we return to what is at the very roots of Western tradition: Christianity. To facilitate this change in direction, Eliot stresses the importance of an educational system which takes a Christian perspective. Also important in his thinking is a Community of Christians, who would act as leaders, and the Christian community (encompassing most of the …

James A. Michener: Social Historian, Elizabeth Conrad

Theses & Honors Papers

This thesis studies the works of James A. Michener as a social historian. Six of his novels, three international and three American, have been examined and shown to be reflections of his deep interest in our country and other lands. His works contain a vast amount of information about the regions or topics. Additionally, they provide the reader with a record of historical events in the manner expected of a historical work. The mind of James Michener has, indeed, created works that ring with beauty and truth. The novels examined in this thesis are infused with the moral sense of …

Surfacing And The Diviners: A Comparative Study, Helen Beach Cannon

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This paper explores religio-folkloric connections in two works of Canadian fiction--Surfacing, by Margaret Atwood, and The Diviners, by Margaret Laurence. On several levels these books have striking parallels. They are here treated as novels of quest and in terms of elemental symbology.

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

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

Dead Letter, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1987 [Download Entire Issue]

dead letter: uni magazine of the arts

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Dream Series [3 Photographs], Cheryl Roth

dead letter: uni magazine of the arts

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Untitled 1 [Threw Away Two Yellowed Roses, Poem], Michael Swanson

dead letter: uni magazine of the arts

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Lake Topelo, New Zealand With Mt. Cook [Photograph], Irving Herman

dead letter: uni magazine of the arts

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Untitled 3 [I Sat At Your Desk Today, Poem], Sandy Reno

dead letter: uni magazine of the arts

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Untitled 6 [Two Birds, Photograph], Linda Anderson

dead letter: uni magazine of the arts

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Scraps For A Thesis, Craig Vala

dead letter: uni magazine of the arts

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Mothers' Day In The District, Craig Vala

dead letter: uni magazine of the arts

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Untitled 4 [Speaking Loudly, Poem], Michael Swanson

dead letter: uni magazine of the arts

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Untitled 7 [Shadow Figure, Photograph], Pam Bunkofske

dead letter: uni magazine of the arts

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Bone Shadow I [Photograph], Tim M. Mcaninch

dead letter: uni magazine of the arts

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Reflections On The "In-Between:" A Romanian Expatriate In America, Michael J. Mckinlay

dead letter: uni magazine of the arts

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Extinction [Photograph], Cheryl Roth

dead letter: uni magazine of the arts

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Man Entering Body Bag [Drawing], Wes Yeoman

dead letter: uni magazine of the arts

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Untitled 8 [R.I.P] [Photograph], Elizabeth Wheeler

dead letter: uni magazine of the arts

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