Browsing English by Author "Engber, Kimberly"
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Convenient disguise: Engaging Lee in John Steinbeck’s East of Eden
Wyse, Lowell D. (Wichita State University, 2010-05)East of Eden (1952), which John Steinbeck considered his masterpiece, constitutes a decidedly strange narrative universe, with characters residing simultaneously in the seemingly contradictory worlds of fiction/myth and ... -
The handmaidens' plight: an investigation of survivor ideologies of marginalized Asian women
Kwa, Gladys Siok-Hian (Wichita State University. Graduate School., 2012-04-18)Despite the traumatic ordeals experienced by marginalized Asian women, many have emerged triumphant despite inconceivable odds to proclaim their tragic narratives. Such desperate struggles beg the question: "What sustainable ... -
Home and abroad: Elizabeth Bishop’s poetics of placement in Questions of Travel
Fortman, Brandon (Wichita State University, 2010-05)Who is Elizabeth Bishop? In spite of the vast number of studies done on Bishop and her work over the last twenty-five years, cohering Bishop the poet with Bishop the person is hardly any less difficult than it was upon the ... -
New World literature? Crossing borders with Isabella Bird and Winnifred Eaton
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The silences of Annie Dillard
Sims, Robynn (Wichita State University, 2014-05)This research began as an investigation into Annie Dillard's An American Childhood with the intention of discovering if her memoir could be considered nature writing. Though I had intended to limit myself to her memoir, ... -
Toward a more perfect Union
Engber, Kimberly (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012-06)Review of the books: David Wyatt. Secret Histories: Reading Twentieth-Century American Literature. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. + pages. Notes, works cited, and index. $35.00. Jennifer Rae Greeson. ... -
Walden and A New Home, Who'll Follow?: Recovering Eve in nineteenth-century nature writing
Wynn, Victoria Leigh (Wichita State University, 2015-05)Canonization of nineteenth-century American authors often separates Caroline Kirkland's A New Home, Who'll Follow? and Henry David Thoreau's Walden into diverse literary genres. Although the authors wrote in different but ...