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Time Past and Time Present: Hawthorne and Warren in the American Literary Continuum

Description: Although Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) and Robert Penn Warren (1905- ) belong to different periods of American literary history, the thematic parallels in their fiction indicate their close association in the American tradition of the romance and demonstrate ideological correspondences between writers of the New England Renaissance and the Southern Renaissance. Hawthorne and Warren are appropriate subjects for comparison not only because they represent the two greatest periods of American lit… more
Date: August 1980
Creator: Harris, F. Janet (Frances Janet)
Partner: UNT Libraries
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In the Beginning was the Word: Hebraic Intertextuality and Critical Inquiry of Ambrose Bierce

Description: This study corroborates theories that ordinary representation of narrative time as a linear series of "nows" hides the true constitution of time and that it is advantageous for us as readers and critics to consider alternatives to progressive reality and linear discourse in order to comprehend many of Ambrose Bierce's stories, for his discourse is fluid and metonymic and defies explication within traditional western language concepts. The Hebraic theory of intertextuality encourages limitless c… more
Date: August 1990
Creator: Streng, Rodney L. (Rodney Lin)
Partner: UNT Libraries
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