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Killing the Father and the Father Lives On: The Literary Influence of Richard Wright on James Baldwin

Creator:

Stoneberg, Michael R.

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This thesis discusses the African American authors Richard Wright and James Baldwin, and their views regarding how literature should be written. These views are examined as laid out in a selection of each author‟s essays, as well as through an analysis of the characters Bigger Thomas and Rufus Scott in...

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author‟s essays, as well as through an analysis of the characters Bigger Thomas and Rufus Scott in the
Under the Shadow of this Red Rock: Reading T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land for its Places, Persons, and Poetics

Creator:

Summers, Stephen James

Abstract:

Thomas Stearns Eliot’s 1922 modernist poem The Waste Land presents itself as an alternative to the decaying society Eliot found himself inhabiting. It begins as a personal means of pulling together one’s fragmented consciousness, but in doing so Eliot manages to present a solution to a world of selfishness—looking beyond...

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: __________________________________________________ Kerry D. Ahearn Thomas Stearns Eliot’s 1922 modernist poem The Waste Land presents