Recollections of Arna Bontemps, author and head librarian of Fisk University 1943-64. (PF)

Approximately 5100 Wisconsin authors--defined as having had residence in the state and having published one or more books--are listed in this bibliography. The list is alphabetical by name of author; each author entry includes, where possible, birth and death dates, state locations with which the author was most frequently associated, and a record…

Contains "The Greatest Americanest Novel," a conglomerate of the first and last lines of a number of great American novels; provides a scorecard on which readers can attempt to identify the quotations. (DD)

Barbara Bennett explains the tenets behind ecofeminism and why it is a useful and appropriate method of literary analysis for today's world. By applying the theory to Le Guin's story, she helps her students relate the issues of ecofeminism to their American lifestyle.

Literary critics and historians have long attempted to define what is authentic in western literature, praising those works that come closest to presenting a true picture of western life. When read through this lens, Molly Gloss' "The Jump Off Creek" and Nancy E. Turner's "These Is My Words" could be considered praiseworthy.…

Focuses on the imagery, the inserted anecdotes, and the bildungsroman" nature of the novel in discussing its dark dimension." (RD)

Cane...represents the apotheosis of one man's attempt to bear witness to the reality and the power of an idea . . . that the Negro is not an apprentice to equality but a journeyman in suffering." (Author)

As former Cultural Attache to the American Embassy in Caracas, the author was often consulted by exchange students as to what American Literature would be most helpful in understanding the U.S. and its history. A letter written in reply to one such inquiry is presented. (RW)

Discusses Willa Cather's novel "Lucy Gayheart," which provides the only public access to Cather's sense of connection to Virginia Woolf, a writer she admired. Uses Cather's "provocative" placement of Mrs. Ramsay as a way to re-frame thinking about this novel. Considers it as an experimental modernist novel. (PA)

In this article, the author contends that the vast majority of American historians no longer regard American culture--whether high culture or mainstream popular culture--as an essential area of study. The much-vaunted culture turn in the humanities has run its course in one of the first disciplines it influenced. Indeed, most of the books today…

This article discusses the author's experience of teaching Edgar Allan Poe as part of the American literature survey at Elmira College in Elmira, New York. While his specialty is Mark Twain, his students would be much happier if they could skip the colonial and national period, and move directly to studying Poe. In this article, the author…

This annotated bibliography lists works by several sports historians and essayists, as well as sociologists and sports journalists who address the question, "Why baseball?", and examine the reasons for our national love of the game, the myths, and the legends. Annotations have been excerpted from summaries and reviews in the "Book Review Digest."…

This issue of the United States Military Academy Library Bulletin reviews the reported facts of Poe's biography from his enlistment at the age of 15 to the termination of his military sojourn. The 1831 and the 1966 Corps of Cadets' subscriptions for Poe's "Poems" are also discussed, and a long-term inaccuracy regarding the poet's West…

Contends that arguments against New Criticism should place the movement in historical context. Suggests that historians of American criticism rethink the institutionalization of New Criticism as the work of both liberal intellectuals and pragmatic neoconservatives for whom both traditional liberalism and right-wing ideology were part of the…