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Writing Now, Reading Now Series
Video recordings from the Poetry and Fiction Reading Series at Ablah Library.
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John Steinbeck, "Va pasando por aqui" : A critical study of Steinbeck in the mid-course of his career as an American novelist
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Francis Kirkman, theatrical historian
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022-09-01)The authors staged most frequently during the first decade of the Restoration were John Fletcher, William Shakespeare, and Ben Jonson, codifying the post-Restoration critical history of the English theater around the ... -
The Southwesterner, a novel of New Mexico, 1829-1847
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The sociolinguistics of heritage language education
(Taylor and Francis, 2022-03-30)Sociolinguistics are of paramount importance in heritage language (HL) education because the macro-sociolinguistic context shapes HL speakers’ language experiences, knowledge, and use, as well as their socioaffective ... -
A critical study of the material of James Fenimore Cooper's Leather-stocking series
(Wichita State University, 1951-06)The following chapters will be a study of the novels within the skeleton of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leather Stocking Series. By this, it is meant that the novels included in the series will be individually examined in an ... -
Eternal rivers : An historical novel of southern Kansas, 1865- 1974
(Wichita State University, 1951-06)It has been my purpose, in completing this thesis, to write an historical novel of southern Kansas, dealing with the period of 1865 to 1874. For a study of the life of this period, and the events which actually took place, ... -
Herman Melville: Realist
(Wichita State University, 1949-05)It seems to have been decreed that there are two broad groups into which all literature, and hence, all writers, must fall, the Realistic and the Romantic. In contrast to the romancer who creates a vision or interpretation ... -
A study of the attitude of United States fiction toward the Mexican
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A study of the religious imagery in the poetry of Richard Crashaw
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An analysis of the influence of the Quakers on Daniel Defoe
(Wichita State University, 1943-03)Every biographer of Daniel Defoe has something to say concerning his relations to the Quakers. Yet all are so vague that the reader interested in pursuing the question as to just what was Defoe's relationship to this ... -
A study of the development of counterpoint in the narrative technique of modern fiction
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From the eyes of monsters: Literary transformative monsters as agents of empathy
(Wichita State University, 2022-05)Literary monsters, the embodiments of human fear and anxiety, have existed in narratives for as long as stories have been told. Traditionally the monster is an antagonistic force, but what happens when the audience begins ... -
Poetic accomplishment of Langston Hughes
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The social protest novel of the twentieth century
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The influence of Landor's Imaginary conversations on the development of Browning's dramatic monologues
(Wichita State University, 1939-05)The friendship of Walter Savage Landor and Robert Browning has been of considerable literary significance. Even though a wide difference in age existed--thirty-seven years-- they were attracted to each other. Greater ... -
An analysis of the literary importance of Gerard Manley Hopkins
(Wichita State University, 1937-06)It is only in recent years that the attention of students of literature has been directed to the merit s of the poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, a poet who, paradoxical as it may seem, is rightly classified as the ... -
Catholic imagery in the poetry of Francis Thompson
(Wichita State University, 1937-06)In this study an attempt will be made to explain allusions drawn from Catholic sources; to clarify the underlying thought implied in the imagery; furthermore, to illustrate the qualifying effect ot this imagery upon ... -
Kansas in American poetry, by Mildred Aldridge Turner
(Wichita State University, 1935-07)In this dissertation, Kansas in American Poetry, only poems which are written about Kansas have been considered. Some of them were written by native born Kansans, some by men and women who have adopted Kansas as their ... -
The success of Edwin Arlington Robinson's failures: A treatment of his poetry
(Wichita State University, 1933-06)Several authors have treated Robinson’s failures as failures, but they have failed to show that behind every failure is a gleam of light; that these poor specimens of humanity have some sort of a place in the world. My ... -
Rupert Brooke: A bibliographical study with annotations
(Wichita State University, 1933-06)