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Horton Foote: A Casebook

Horton Foote: A Casebook

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... with the town becoming a kind of extended family. As in Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha saga, Foote's cycle extends beyond the story of the Robedauxs and Harrison, Texas, to the entire South, tapping finally 112 Laurin Porter LAURIN PORTER.
Orphans' Home: The Voice and Vision of Horton Foote

Orphans' Home: The Voice and Vision of Horton Foote

Laurin Porter

In comparing the cycle with the works of William Faulkner and Eugene O'Neill, Porter positions Foote at the intersection of southern literature and American drama.
Nightwood Theatre: A Woman's Work is Always Done

Nightwood Theatre: A Woman's Work is Always Done

Shelley Scott

But as Laurin Porter observes, “While these scenes are played tongue-in-cheek, Mac- Donald uses Juliet in a more serious fashion to awaken Constance to her own sexuality.”24 Romeo, too, desires indiscriminately, male and female, with ...
Theatre survey

Theatre survey

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This tendency is exacerbated by the production history of the nine plays in The Orphans 'Home, the subject of Laurin Porter's book. Staged over twenty years, from readings of the first plays in 1977 to the premiere of the final one, The Death of ...
Making Home: Orphanhood, Kinship and Cultural Memory in ...

Making Home: Orphanhood, Kinship and Cultural Memory in ...

Maria Troy

As Laurin Porter observes in Orphan's Home: 'The word 'orphan' suggests being cut off from society, abandoned and alone; its opposite conjures visions of family, connectedness, roots, belonging – all subsumed in the image of home' ...
Space, Time, and Presence in the Icon: Seeing the World with ...

Space, Time, and Presence in the Icon: Seeing the World with ...

Clemena Antonova

103 Laurin porter, 'Bakhtin's chronotope: Time and Space in 'a Touch of the poet' and 'more Stately mansions', Modern Drama, 43/3. (1991): 369–82. 104 Ladin, ' Fleshing out the chronotope', p. 230. 105 important recent works on Bakhtin, his ...
The Eugene O'Neill Review

The Eugene O'Neill Review

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Literary Allusions and Gendered Space in Long Day's Journey into Night Laurin Porter University of Texas, Arlington Eugene O'Neill wrote Long Day's Journey into Night, the play that in some sense he had been preparing for his entire career, ...
Tales Round a Winter Hearth

Tales Round a Winter Hearth

Jane Porter

Jane Porter, Anna Maria Porter. prodigies of valour, Eustace and Baldwin de Bouillon gained the walls in one quar-' ter; and Godfrey, with De Bourg, and their followers on the other. My Baron and his, were with the latter. The town was carried ...
Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night

Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night

Eugene O'Neill

Eugene O'Neill Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom, Harold Bloom . LAURIN PORTER. Long. Day's. Journey. into. Night: Descent. into. Darkness. G. eorge Cram Cook, a close friend of O'Neill, once remarked upon the ...
General Edward Porter Alexander at First Bull Run: Account ...

General Edward Porter Alexander at First Bull Run: Account ...

Edward Porter Alexander

In the narrative of the Civil War, Edward Porter Alexander has loomed larger in death than in life.
General Edward Porter Alexander at Antietam: Account of the ...

General Edward Porter Alexander at Antietam: Account of the ...

Edward Porter Alexander

In the narrative of the Civil War, Edward Porter Alexander has loomed larger in death than in life.
Robertson Report

Robertson Report

E. Dale Hastin Smith

Lester Franklin Saffell. 2. Ruth Harriet Porter b 5 Jun 1900 Union Co, IA; m. 23 Jul 1917 George Anderson. 3. Edith Leota Porter b 31 Aug 1901 Union Co, IA; m 12 Feb 1927 Phil E. Petty. 4. Gladys Alona Porter b 29 Mar 1904 Union Co, IA; ...
The Media and Financial Crises: Comparative and Historical ...

The Media and Financial Crises: Comparative and Historical ...

Steve Schifferes

Notes 1 Dilwyn Porter pioneered research into the history of the financial press: Dilwyn Porter, '“A Trusted Guide of the Investing Public”: Harry Marks and the Financial News, 1884–1916', Business History, 28 (1986), pp. 1–17; Dilwyn Porter, ...
The Alcoholysis of Some Amine Salts

The Alcoholysis of Some Amine Salts

Frances Porter Stewart

Frances Porter Stewart. UC-NRLF HIINIHIWIHHMH lli) llHHlilNVIIHIHIIIV В 5 BDC ] ULB The alooholysis of some amine salts By Frances Porter Stewart. Front Cover.
Sport and National Identity in the Post-War World

Sport and National Identity in the Post-War World

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Senior Research Fellow Department of Historical and International Studies Dilwyn Porter, Dilwyn Porter, Adrian Smith. Contents. List of contributors vii Introduction 1 ADRIAN SMITH AND DILWYN PORTER 1 Sport and national identity in ...
Peace and Security: Implications for Women

Peace and Security: Implications for Women

Elizabeth Porter

Implications for Women Elizabeth Porter, Anuradha Mundkur. NEW APPROACHES TO PEACE AND CONFLICT PEACE AND SECURITY: implications for Women Elisabeth Porter & Anuradha Mundkur Professor Elisabeth Porter teaches ...
The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter

The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter

Cole Porter

From "Begin the Beguine" to "It's Delovely" to "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" and "I Get a Kick Out of You", here are the complete lyrics to the much-loved songs of Cole Porter--800 songs meant to be hummed, sung, danced to, and remembered.
Rhetorical Ethics and Internetworked Writing

Rhetorical Ethics and Internetworked Writing

James E. Porter

In the second half of the book, Porter considers special cases involving electronic discourse on the networks that challenge or undermine conventional print-based law and ethics.
My Hand Will Write what My Heart Dictates: The Unsettled ...

My Hand Will Write what My Heart Dictates: The Unsettled ...

Frances Porter

From these rich, diverse (and largely unpublished) sources, Frances Porter and Charlotte Macdonald have built up a portrait of 'life as it happens' in nineteenth-century New Zealand. The women of this book are mainly Pakeha.
London: A Social History

London: A Social History

Roy Porter

Roy Porter touches the pulse of his hometown and makes it our own, capturing London's fortunes, people, and imperial glory with vigor and wit. 58 photos.
Feminist Perspectives on Ethics

Feminist Perspectives on Ethics

Elizabeth Porter

In addressing the issue of ethics, Elisabeth Porter goesto the heart of some ofthemost heated debates in contemporary Western civilization. Issues suchasabortion, reproductive technology, pornography, loveand friendship are ones which ...
Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of ...

Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of ...

Edward Porter Alexander

Alexander was involved in nearly all of the great battles of the East, from First Manass Rescued from an archive and published only eight years ago, this private memoir by Confederate General Porter Alexander is now recognized as one of the ...
One's Self I Sing, and Other Poems by Elizabeth Porter Gould

One's Self I Sing, and Other Poems by Elizabeth Porter Gould

Elizabeth Porter Gould

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World

Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World

Roy Porter

Porter immerses the reader in a society which, recovering from the horrors of the Civil War and decisively reinvigorated by the revolution of 1688, had emerged as something new and extraordinary - a society unlike any other in the world.
Recovery of Virtue

Recovery of Virtue

Jean Porter

By developing a philosophical reconstruction of the moral philosophy that underlies the Secunda Pars of the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas, Jean Porter illuminates Aquinas' theory of morality and shows its relevance to contemporary ...
Her One and Only (A Porter Family Novel Book #4)

Her One and Only (A Porter Family Novel Book #4)

Becky Wade

This is a must-read for anyone testing the balance between autonomy and faith."--Booklist "Romance readers will find this a satisfying conclusion to the Porter Family series."--Christian Retailers + Resources
The Scottish Chiefs

The Scottish Chiefs

Jane Porter

The Scottish Chiefs By Jane Porter. Originally published in 1931. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.
Cultures of Selling: Perspectives on Consumption and Society ...

Cultures of Selling: Perspectives on Consumption and Society ...

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Dilwyn Porter Dilwyn Porter is Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Sport History and Culture, De Montfort University, Leicester. He has worked mainly on topics that link business and cultural history, and more recently on the  ...

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