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"Because the Southern Authors' Award concerned books about the Southern region, this writer sought to evaluate their contribution to Southern literature through the reviews appearing in the Book Review Digest. This medium was chosen,...
This dissertation asks new questions about the figure of the demagogue as cultural production. How did the concept of the demagogue emerge and manifest itself in the public imagination during the American Revolution and what relationship...
This novel, whose title is The Fall, attempts to tell a modern day story of the fall of man (traditionally found in the Book of Genesis), from a greater, more humane and moral state characterized by goodness toward himself and others, to...
Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by a lack of empathy, manipulativeness, the inability to feel remorse and regret, and a glib, superficial charm. It is estimated that psychopaths make up anywhere from...
In SALVATION PHILOSOPHY FOR TODAY, Melinda Wilson explores questions and grievances regarding feminism, everyday sexism, motherhood, fertility, marriage, love and domesticity. The poems approach and unearth our darkest appetites in...
The poems of Willing draw on my personal experience and family history to explore the metaphors, mythologies, and lived experiences of Mormonism. As a whole, the book is framed by Joseph Smith's declaration that one must "search into and...
This study first briefly discusses the Rivers of America series as a whole, with regard to its origin, its plan, and its public acceptance. Next there is a discussion of the volumes about Southern rivers, including an analysis of the...
"Representation and the Modern Female Subject" examines the socio-cultural work of the fictional woman painter in novels by women authors writing in or about the United States between the years 1870-1930. I focus on representations of...
In this novel, a small Kansas town sits in the shadow of a corrupt meatpacking plant called Pig City, the region's only major employer. The town is reliant on the plant to give them a living, but resentful of it for sending them home...
This project establishes a critical framework for the examination of a recently emerged trend in speculative fictions texts, which I have dubbed "fantasy remix." Through close examination of two exemplary texts that exhibit the...
James Fenimore Cooper’s work as a political activist is the underlying subject of this monograph. This study looks at how Cooper used his political writing to disseminate the ideology of the radical enlightenment. Cooper’s specific...
A growing impulse in American black female fiction is the reclamation of black female sexuality due to slavery's proliferation of sexual stereotypes about black women. Because of slave law's silencing of rape culture, issues of consent, ...
"Since an award is an indication that someone believes a book is superior or significant in some respect, knowledge of literary prizes is of obvious value to a librarian responsible for the selection of suitable books to meet patrons'...
The poems in Dear Bright explore the possibly of love in a deeply anxious world. They are often epistolary, addressing the eponymous Bright through a series of imagined universes in which the speaker and Bright can create and recreate...
This novel tells the story of Sinatra Hawkins, a combat veteran of the Afghanistan War, who quests north as a personal favor to his drug-dealing, pornographer boss, Major Dufresne. In Chicago, Sinatra's narrative weaves with that of a...
Traitor, Traitor is a collection of poetry combining Celtic selkie myths with the Caribbean Nanny figure to construct a narrative about a widower living in the foothills of the Appalachians during the mid-20th Century. Grounded in the...
"In writing the organized report of the findings an effort will be made, first, to present a historical sketch of the Review with background information explaining some of its whys and wherefores; secondly to introduce its editors, their...
In this dissertation that discusses the American novels by William Faulkner, Nathanael West, and Richard Wright, I delineate the concept of modernist empathy as a radical urge for intersubjective immediacy, while adjusting the concept of...
“The dislocation of man in the modern age”: The Pilgrim Condition and Mid-Twentieth Century American Catholic Literature highlights the ways in which the major Catholic voices in mid-twentieth century America—Flannery O’Connor, Walker...
"This paper is an attempt to familiarize librarians and others with William L. Shirer, an author in the field of history and foreign affairs, both subjects of great concern to anyone wishing to understand the problems confronting the...
"The purpose of this paper is to give a history and an analysis of the Southern Observer, a magazine devoted to book reviews of works by Southern authors, books about the South and articles of general interest to Southerners. The...
The purpose of this paper is to present background information related to the establishment of the American Library Association Liberty and Justice Book Awards program; to give a factual description of the awards program including...
The power of Confessional poetry derives in large part from its reputation for telling the truth. Indeed, the very term “confessional” indicates the genre’s status as a discourse of truth. Recent scholarship on Confessional poetry has...
This project seeks to examine the way in which modernist novelists John Dos Passos, Claude McKay, Louis Aragon, and Virginia Woolf depict urban spaces in the early-twentieth century metropolises of New York, Paris, and London. These...
The literature of American author Kurt Vonnegut, from the idyllic society of 1950s post-war America in his earliest unpublished stories to his ultimate confrontation with an America run by "sickies" in 2005's A Man Without a Country, ...
"The purpose of this paper is to bring together information about the life of Nancy Hale, one of the superior story-tellers among writers today, and about the published books that she has written. In spite of the rather extensive...
This manuscript by Susan B. Eppes includes a hand-drawn mockup for the book cover, the typescript with marginalia to prepare the document for editing and printing, and an introduction by the author. The body of the work reflects the...
Susan B. Eppes provides her views on plantation life of the Old South in what she terms as a "Period History." Topics include enslaved persons and their transition to freedom post-Civil War, plantation life, the fall of the Old South, ...
Susan B. Eppes writes of how her family and Thomas Jefferson were related by marriage, includes an introduction containing biographical details surrounding her marriage to Nicholas Ware Eppes, and outlines her familial lineage.
This 1869 catalog documents popular Southern story books by The J.W. Burke Company and includes a brief narrative summary and selling price for each work.
Joseph Hamilton addresses the lack of Southern representation in American literature and history during the late ninteenth- and early twentieth-centuries.
At the nexus of Black feminist theory, geography, and literature this multidisciplinary project investigates the politics of space and the problem of dwelling in Toni Morrison’s socio-spatial quartette. Collectively, A Mercy, Beloved, ...
Part coming of age, part battle cry, this debut poetry collection explores the many roles women play, for themselves, for others, and traces one woman’s struggle to emerge and transform herself, while navigating the expectations and...
During the twentieth century, American literature witnessed a transformation in representations of apocalypticism and nature. The apocalypse changed from a theological, divine force to a secular, manmade crisis and nature was no longer...
I urge here for a reconceptualization of such female protagonists’ embodiments of the trope of strong black womanhood that shows the benefit of troubling these rigid narratives of inclusion which have underwritten and, to wit, regulated...
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