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  • Sound and death in John Haines's poetry

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    Noble, Darren L.
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    Poet John Haines is best known for his first book of poetry, Winter News, which was published in 1966. The book contains poems about the Alaskan landscape that surrounded Haines during his many years of living in Richardson, Alaska. The recurring motifs in his poems include hunting, trapping, the Arctic...
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    . Noble for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on May 11, 2001. Title: Sound and Death in

  • Primal Matter : Deep Objects in Historical Accounts of the Glanton Gang

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    Schauer, Austin A.
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    The question of deep time has been widely debated in the field of American Literature, with scholar Wai Chee Dimock arguing that a deep time perspective puts the chronology of different nations against one another. However, this argument has not adequately addressed the issue of how deep time theories would...
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    The question of deep time has been widely debated in the field of American Literature, with scholar

  • Bright lights, big city : electrified female desire in Edith Wharton and Theodore Dreiser

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    Larsen, Haley A.
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    This thesis explores the electrified female subject in two novels, Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie (1900) and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth (1905). As cultural touchstones, two literary works that prominently feature electricity -- Henry James' story "In the Cage" and Henry Adams' biography The Education of Henry Adams --...
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    desires. In many instances during the modern era in literature, charged boundaries have tragic

  • Patriarchal power and punishment : the trickster figure in the short fiction of Shirley Jackson, Flannery O'Connor, and Joyce Carol Oates

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    Strempke-Durgin, Heather D.
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    This thesis is an exploration of how male trickster figures operate in the Gothic fiction of 20th century American female authors. Specifically, I look at the short stories “The Daemon Lover” by Shirley Jackson, “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor, and “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by...
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    You Going, Where Have You Been?” in an introduction to literature class taken during my first year

  • Fighting tradition : Hemingway’s Nick Adams and shell shock

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    McGrath, Cole P.
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    In his Nick Adams stories, Ernest Hemingway traces the life of a single man as he moves from boyhood to adolescence to adulthood to fatherhood. From the beginning of Nick Adam’s life, it is clear that he does not fit into the role of the traditional hero. In addition, Nick...
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    the Chimera. On a looser level, many adversaries in epic literature are not clearly defined