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[News Clip: Dick Schaap]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 5:00 P.M.
Date: January 22, 1979
Duration: 2 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Tolbert]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a autograph session by Dallas author Frank X. Tolbert, promoting his book "The Staked Plain."
Date: January 13, 1958
Duration: 59 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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La Sátira en las Novelas de Ramón Pérez de Ayala

Description: This thesis has as its purpose to make a study of the satirical vein that is revealed in the novels of Ramón Pérez de Ayala. It will be the goal to discover in these works the human habits and weaknesses that receive the censure of the author and to determine the means by which the novelist expresses his disapproval.
Date: January 1967
Creator: Cortez, Emiliano Carlos
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The Image of Germany in the Novels of Günter Grass

Description: This thesis will attempt to scrutinize Günter Grass's message to his people and show his concern for the spiritual health of his country. Each of his three novels bears directly upon political, religious, and moral issues vital to Germany and to the world. The examination is based upon the assumption that Grass as an author is more concerned that Germans see themselves as they are and as they have been than he is concerned with the image of Germany which his novels present to the world. It is, … more
Date: January 1968
Creator: Boyar, Billy T.
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The Role of History in Kenneth Roberts' Novels

Description: The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate Kenneth Roberts' transmutation of American history into living literature. This examination will cover the following novels: Arundel (1929), The Lively Lady (1931), Rabble in Arms (1933), Captain Caution (1934), Northwest Passage (1937), Oliver Wiswell (1940), and Lydia Bailey (1947).
Date: January 1969
Creator: Harris, F. Janet
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The South in Faulkner's Novels: Myth and History

Description: The purpose of this paper is to view Faulkner's use of history from a different perspective by examining in detail the myths and historical facts with which Faulkner dealt. First, several of the prevailing myths about the Old South and the Civil War will be examined. Second, the actual historical facts will be compared and contrasted with legendary tradition. Third, and most important, several of Faulkner's works will be examined to show how he uses both the myths and historical facts to create… more
Date: January 1969
Creator: Lee, Barbara Yates
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The Treatment of Nature in Thomas Hardy's Six Major Novels

Description: The purpose of this thesis is to examine Thomas Hardy's treatment of nature in his major works. His interpretation of nature was sharply divergent from the traditional viewpoint regarding the natural world, and it was the direct antithesis of those interpretations of nature made by the writers who had preceded him.
Date: January 1959
Creator: Spann, Marjorie Williams
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[Roundtable Writer's Breakfast: Open Dialogue Between African Americans and Jews]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their Roundtable Writer's Breakfast event in 2009. This video shows featured speakers Rev. Peter Johnson and Elliot Dlin seated at the head of a large table with founder Curtis King leading a discussion on the history of civil rights, psychology, distrust and recrimination between African Americans and Jews. This video begins with introductions.
Date: January 10, 2009
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 37 seconds
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[Roundtable Writer's Breakfast]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their Roundtable Writer's Breakfast event in 2005. This video features a discussion between authors, like Bernestine Singley, and writers around the table about their experiences and work.
Date: January 29, 2005
Duration: 58 minutes 09 seconds
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