Browsing by Subject "History and criticism"
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1984)Literature written for children and set in Texas began in 1855 and continues to the present, but consideration of it as literature has been confined to cataloging and brief, annotated bibliographies. This study concerns ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1982)The literary aesthetic conventions and innovations practiced in American fiction writers' recourse to historical documentary materials falls within a documentary tradition associated with the generic development of the ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)The primary purpose of this study was to determine if students' aesthetic involvement or preference would be influenced by the culture of the student or the culture portrayed in the text. Subjects included 122 fifth-grade ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1978)Prom approximately 1675 until 1700, John Dryden and John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave were allied as poet and patron. Dryden received financial assistance as well as encouragement from his patron. More important, Dryden and ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1982)This dissertation examines the role of research in the novel. The "researched novel" is defined as a work of fiction founded upon a particular area of information that illuminates or explores a particular "truth" that is ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1979)Serious baseball fiction has been narrated from several different perspectives. Among the best American baseball novels are Ring Lardner's "You Know Me Al," a first person epistolary novel; Mark Harris' "The Southpaw," ...