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Essays |
Essays on Drama:
"African-American Drama from
the
"Arthur Miller's Sojourn in
the Heartland." American Drama 16:2 (Summer 2007): 28-45.
"Back to the (Plutonian)
"Center
Stage: Midwestern Plays and Playwrights."
----------. Rpt. Agora, www.eiu.edu/~agora, May 2004.
"Collapsing Male Myths: Rabe's Tragicomic Hurlyburly." American Drama 3:1
(Fall 1993): 1-16.
----------. Rpt. New
"Dramatizing the
“The Heartland of Susan
Glaspell’s Plays.” MidAmerica XXXVII
(2010): 81-94.
“The Incredible Shrinking
Theatre."
The Dramatists Guild Quarterly 33:4 (Winter 1997): 37-39.
----------. Rpt. Curtain Call IV:2
(Oct.-Nov. 1997): 4.
"Insurrection et désir dans La Folle de Chaillot." La Folle
de Chaillot 1945-1995: Lectures et
métamorphoses.
Les Cahiers Jean Giraudoux 25 (1997): 119-130.
“’Living Fifty-Fifty’: Gender Dynamics
in the Plays of Rachel Crothers.” Forthcoming in MidAmerica.
"Man among Men: David Mamet's Homosocial
Order." American Drama 1:1 (Fall 1991): 46-60.
----------. Rpt. Fictions of Masculinity: Literary Constructions of Manhood . Ed. Peter F. Murphy.
----------. Rpt. David Mamet. Ed. Harold Bloom.
“Marsha Norman’s Bi-Regional Vision in ‘night, Mother.”
"[Midwestern] Drama." The
"Midwestern Dramas." In the Middle of the
"The Midwestern Plays of
"The Playwright's Vision in
'The Process.'" The Dramatists Guild Quarterly 29:4 (Winter 1993):
13-14.
"The Psychology of
Coriolanus."
Penumbra 2:1 (Fall-Winter 1978): 19-28.
"Rabe,
Mamet, Shepard, and Wilson: Mid-American Male
Dramatists of the 1970s and '80s." The
"Regional Tensions in
"Signature Motifs in
Midwestern Drama." Forthcoming in Dictionary of Midwestern
Literature.
“’A Stone, a Leaf, a Door’: The Narrative Poetics of Thomas
Wolfe.” The Thomas Wolfe Review 35:1-2 (2011): 7-21. Winner of the Zelda and Paul Gitlin Literary Prize for best essay published on Thomas
Wolfe in 2011.
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"Twain, Howells, and the
Origins of Midwestern Drama." MidAmerica XXXI
(2004): 25-42.
"Using Drama in the
Composition Class."
"War of the Wests:
Saroyan's Dramatic Landscape." American Drama 9:2 (Spring 2000):
29-49.
"Western Drama and the New
Frontier."
American Drama 7:1 (Fall 1997): 99-120.
"Wilder's Dramatic Landscape: Alienation Effect
Meets the
"William Inge's
Dramatic Mindscape." South Dakota Review 42:3 (Fall 2004):
49-69.
"You Can Go Home Again:
"On Poetry and Pain
." A View from the Loft 24:6: 3-6, 17.
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Rpt. The Muse Apprentice Guild
(on-line), August 2002.
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Rpt. Agora (on-line) XXVIII (Sept. 2002).
"On Poetry
"Poetry, Beginnings to
1820." The Companion to Southern Literature.
Eds. Joseph M. Flora and Lucinda H. MacKethan.
"Poetry as Play." Poet and Critic Winter
1983-84: 37-40.
"Recycling Poems." Orbis
(
“Returning to Rhyme.”
Red Room, www.redroom.com, May 2012.
"Toward a Less Primitive
Prosody: Some Propositions." Series of five
articles. Counterpoint (
"Unity of Vision in T.S. Eliot's
"What's
Wrong with Contemporary American Poetry?" A View from the Loft
11:2 (Sept. 1988): 1, 16-17.
“Authors Wanted (Inquire Within). Vocabula,
www.vocabula.com, June 2011.
"Beyond Self-Expression." A
View from the Loft 21:1 (August 1998): 4, 10.
"Caveat
Emptor: A Comment on Creative Writing Programs." A View from the
Loft 9:3 (Nov. 1986): 8-9.
"Comment"
on creative writing programs. College English 56:2 (Feb. 1994):
219-220.
"Creative
Writing in the Academy." Profession 1999: 106-112.
"The Literary Grants Climate in
"The New Regionalism." A View from the Loft 13:3 (Oct. 1990):
5, 16.
"On Poetry and Religion." IWI Newsletter May 1992: 1.
"On Writing and Wisdom." A View from the Loft
10:1 (Aug. 1987): 1, 6.
"Patronage and the Arts." A View from the Loft 12:4 (Nov. 1989):
6, 14-15.
"Publishing's
Publishing for A' That." A View from the Loft 14:9 (April
1992): 7, 20-21.
"Rethinking Creative Writing."
Electronic Book Review (on-line), May 2001.
"Species of
Literary Fraud." A
View from the Loft 15:10 (May 1993): 6-7, 17.
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Rpt. Carousel , Vol. 16, No. 6, Nov./Dec. 1993,
pp. 1, 10. Rpt. Author World (on-line), 2000.
"Writing and the Self-Expression Industry."
A View from the Loft12:1 (Aug. 1989): 3, 18.
"A Catalogue of Works Based
on the Apocryphal Book of Judith: From the Mediaeval Period to the
Present." Bulletin of
Bibliography 44:3 (Sept. 1987): 89-92.
"Graduate
student unions won't destroy higher education." Champaign
News-Gazette 14 March 2001.
"The Hidden Enemy." Journeyman l: 1 (Winter 1991): 8-10.
"The Other Side of Cancer." Touch:
Healing in the Arts 1 (Fall 2006): 10-14.
"The Proud Virtues of Defeat."
Review of The Man and the World: Selected Essays and
All Tables of Contents from the Thomas Wolfe Newsletter and Review 1977-2000.
Eds. Takashi Kodeira and Hiroshi Tsunemoto.
The Thomas Wolfe Review 29:1-2 (2005): 108-111.
Review of My Father’s Hands, by Thomas
Wolfe. Ed. David Strange. The Thomas
Wolfe Review 30:1-2 (2006): 153-55.
Review of The Napkin
Manuscripts: Selected Essays and an Interview, by Michael McFee.
Review of Oktoberfest, by Thomas Wolfe. Trans. Irma Wehrli. The
Thomas Wolfe Review 34:1-2 (2010): 159-62.
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