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The art that will not die: The story-telling of Greg Sarris and Thomas King.
(2001)
This study addresses the importance of the continuance of storytelling through the written medium in the understanding of one's individuality in relationship to place the community. More importantly, it investigates the ...
Holy terror: The vampire as numinous experience in British and American literature.
(2000)
This dissertation investigates the experience of the numinous in a specific category of Gothic literature, which employs a vampire as the primary focus of its action, regardless of whether that figure is literal or metaphoric. ...
Dissent: Detroit and the underground press, 1965--1969.
(2001)
The relationship between Detroit's underground presses---which included The Fifth Estate, Creem, Sun, the Artists' Workshop Press , the Inner City Voice, the South End Press, The Broadside Press, and Guerrilla---and the ...
Irony and the self in the lyric poetry of James Merrill.
(1982)
The paper also discusses Merrill's use of form and formal poetic convention in his early lyric poetry, as well as the function of form in his two novels. His use of form suggests that it is a distancing device so that the ...
Dangerous eloquence: Hate speech tactics in the discourse of Asa/Forrest Carter from 1954--1974.
(2004)
This study takes as its subject the political life and writings of Asa Earl Carter and the literary writings he produced under the name Forrest Carter during the period of 1954 through 1974. As part of this study, I offer ...
The feminist imaginary in the early writings of the poet/critic Susan Howe.
(2003)
Susan Howe's early work---the poetry collected in Frame Structures, Europe of Trusts, and My Emily Dickinson, reveals the emergence of a feminist imaginary. The feminist imaginary is writing which participates in the rupture ...
Hacking away with an ax: Henry Miller and modernity.
(1999)
Miller attacks his world as fundamentally flawed. The world he critiques, however, still exists. The shape it was taking in the early part of the century has only become clearer with an urban crisis and mass lay-offs of ...
Ashes Over the Southwest.
(2005)
Ashes Over the Southwest was a dissertation written in fulfillment of an interdisciplinary PhD between the English and Journalism departments at the University of Oklahoma. The key areas of concentration within the departments ...