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Selected Correspondence From The Horton Foote Collection, 1912-1991
(English, 2008-09-17)
This dissertation includes a discussion of archival research and editorial procedures employed in the study, introductory essays on the private correspondence of the family of Horton Foote, and transcriptions of one hundred ...
"Black Sounds": Hemingway And Duende
(English, 2007-08-23)
Along with his efforts to revitalize the Spanish arts in the 1920's and 1930's, Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca gave an address entitled "Play and Theory of Duende" in which he claims duende as a distinctly ...
The Magical Sublime: A New-old Lens On Magical Realism
(English, 2007-08-23)
While magical realist critics often refer to magical realism's generic heritage of primitive cultures and indigenous mythology, Franz Roh's magischer realismus, and Surrealism, I will point to the sublime as a less recognized ...
Ladies And Loners: A Comparative Gender Study Of The Romance And Popular Western
(English, 2007-08-23)
Despite the efforts of readers, writers and cultural critics, the fact remains that romance and the Western genres are considered low art. The real impetus behind this paper is not whether or not or even why they are ...
"The Curse Never Fell Upon Our Nation Till Now": History And Fear In Philip Roth's The Plot Against America
(English, 2007-08-23)
In The Plot Against America, Philip Roth questions the common perception of historic "inevitability" by creating a counter-factual history, placing himself and his childhood family into a fictional World War II America. ...
Hold Your Tongue: Female Speech And Male Anxieties In Early Modern England
(English, 2007-08-23)
For early Modern England, containing female speech was essential to maintaining order. Through their speech, women could raise questions about and subvert patriarchal power. The frequency of this trope shows that there ...
Misreading Justice: The Rhetoric Of Revenge In Feminist Texts About Domestic Violence
(English, 2008-08-08)
Feminist legal theories of battering homicides pose a challenge to feminist critics of American literature. Legal theorists argue that many women who are tried for killing their abusive partners should be acquitted on the ...
Marriage Or Career? Domestic Ideology In George Gissing's The Odd Women
(English, 2007-08-23)
Although George Gissing is acclaimed for his progressive thoughts on liberating women from patriarchy by establishing financial independence, some critics challenge such praise for Gissing by arguing that he is still ...
The American Tradition in Literature, 10th ed., Shorter ed.
(McGraw Hill, 2002)
Teilhard De Chardin's View Of Diminishment And The Late Stories Of Flannery O'connor
(English, 2007-08-23)
ABSTRACT
Scholars have used different approaches to study and interpret the work of Flannery O'Connor; those approaches have ranged from Feminism to New Criticism to religious (Christian and non-Christian) to ...