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Naturalism in the Work of Stephen Crane

A critical study of naturalism and its influence in the works of Stephen Crane.

Date: August 1952

Creator: Conerly, Mary Scruggs

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Animals-as-Trope in the Selected Fiction of Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison

In this dissertation, I show how 20th century African-American women writers such as Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison utilize animals-as-trope in order to illustrate the writers' humanity and literary vision. In the texts that I have selected, I have found that animals-as-trope functions in two important ways: the first function of animal as trope is a pragmatic one, which serves to express the humanity of African Americans; and the second function of animal tropes in African… more

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Date: August 1999

Creator: Erickson, Stacy M.