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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 ... -
A study of the archaisms and neologisms from the British press of 1933
(Wichita State University, 1934-06)Words persist in popular print and in spoken language long after they disappear form the page of the literary writer. They are likely to persist longest in isolated places, away from cultural centers, among people of the ... -
A study of the attitude of United States fiction toward the Mexican
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A study of the development of counterpoint in the narrative technique of modern fiction
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A study of the religious imagery in the poetry of Richard Crashaw
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A study of the treatment of Arthurian legends since the eighteenth century in the literature of Great Britain and America
(Wichita State University, 1934-06)The treatment of the old legends by modern authors differs widely from that of Malory or Tennyson. It is my purpose to show the variation in this treatment by comparing the modern development with that of Tennyson ... -
Alice McDermott, Fiction Reading
(2013-11-05)Alice McDermott, author of Someone, reads from her work. -
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 ... -
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 ... -
An analysis of the influence of the Quakers on Daniel Defoe
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Anime’s ancestry: Kawabata’s The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa and Oe’s Help Us to Outgrow Our Madness as a prelude to Japanese animation
(Wichita State University, 2012-12)Much research exists on the considerable influence of American and European culture on the newly opened borders of Japan in the 1920’s, yet there is very little recognition of French influences beyond the acknowledgement ... -
Antebellum law and visions from a true daughter of Albion : an analysis of antebellum perceptions of society and law
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Art, literature, and the Harlem Renaissance: the messages of "God's Trombones"
(West Chester University, 2005-06)This essay uses "God's Trombones" as an example to draw attention to the relations among literature and other arts in the Harlem Renaissance. Analyzing the relations among Johnson's essay, his poems, the titles, and ... -
The aspectual structure of the adjective Spanish ser and estar
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020-05-13)This paper argues that the stage-level and individual-level distinctions for adjectival predicates, diagnosed in Spanish by the copulas ser and estar, can be derived by positing a sortal distinction in the temporal arguments ... -
A black hole moved into the neighborhood
(Department of English at Loyola University New Orleans, 2015)I took with me everywhere else I’d been before. I’d bought a house on a corner and dismantled it like a stage-hand. When I spoke, my voice sounded like everything. When my neighbors asked if they should be worried, I said ... -
Blood (and other things) in the gutter: deconstructing McCloud's "pleasure in closure" for intersectional exploration
(Wichita State University, 2018-05)This research explores gutter theory in comics and graphic novels. While many regard Scott McCloud's theoretical work as the gold standard, others such as Theirry Groenstein, Theresa Tensuan, and Hannah Miodrag believe ... -
Book review: "Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors: Edith Wharton and Material Culture" (Ed. Gary Totten) and "Edith Wharton and the Making of Fashion" (by Katherine Joslin)
(University of Illinois Press, 2012)Book review of: (1)Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors: Edith Wharton and Material Culture. Ed. Gary Totten. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press, 2007. 408 pp. and (2) Edith Wharton and the Making of Fashion. By Katherine ... -
Book review: April London, Literary History Writing, 1770–1820. (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). Pp. ix, 225. $80.00.
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Book review: Bluestockings displayed: portraiture, performance and patronage, 1730-1830
(Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2014)The twenty-first century has witnessed a surge of interest in eighteenth-century women’s intellectual life. Propelled by such books as Harriet Guest’s Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750–1810 and Anne Mellor’s ... -
Book review: Poe's Silent Music
(JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PRESS, 2018)That scarce awake, thy soul shall deem / My words the music of a dream," proclaims the speaker of Poe's "Serenade" to his love, Adeline [Works, 1:223]. In so doing, "Serenade," titled after a type of nocturnal music, ...