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Two Scribner's-excised passages from the manuscript of the posthumously published 'The Last Good Country' reinforce the importance of the Indian girl Trudy in Hemingway's fiction and of Prudence Boulton in his life. Both passages underline Nick's depth of feeling for Trudy and the pain of her loss--a metaphor for the fate of Indians, who 'all ended the same way. Long time ago good. Now no good.' But the theme of Indian extinction is itself a metaphor for the power, prominence, and even prevalence of loss in Hemingway's fiction. Excepting the positive portrayals of Nick Adams and Jake Barnes, Hemingway's earliest protagonists, loss dominates--in at least half the In Our Time stories, in the bitter conclusion of A Farewell to Arms, and in the four new tales of defeat and death that open The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories. Hemingway agrees with Jig that 'once they take it away, you never get it back.' KEY WORDS: Loss, Extinction, Indian, Manuscripts, When the editors at Scribner's were preparing the manuscript of 'The Last Good Country' for publication in The Nick Adams Stories in 1972, (1) they chose to silently excise two [...]

SCENES OF CULTURAL CONSUMPTION are common in Frances Burney's debut novel, Evelina (1778). Such moments contrast proper taste with improper or outmoded judgments, drawing attention to inherited and class-conscious assessments [...]

Abstract The natural world behaves in unexpected ways in twentieth-century Irish women's fiction about girlhood. Girls are at once reduced to natural resources, ripe for exploitation, and instructed relentlessly in [...]

Hurston's masterpiece, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and its protagonist, Janie Crawford, have mostly been studied under the rubrics of African American culture. That is why the readings are typically concerned with the analysis of the protagonist's personality in her African American society, e.g., the study of such issues as language, racial discrimination, and male authority, to name but few. Emphasizing the protagonist's connection with the pear tree as a synecdoche for nature, the authors endeavor to examine the novel and its heroine in a romantic context. It will be argued that Janie's personality is subject to a tri-partite development. A connection will be drawn between her infatuation with the pear tree as her source of inspiration and the three stages of her life to demonstrate her growth from innocence to experience to organized innocence. Analyzing Hurston's masterpiece from this perspective provides a better understanding of the mechanism that leads to the protagonist's development., Author(s): Leila Hajjari[sup.1] , Hossein Aliakbari Harehdasht[sup.1] , Parvin Ghasemi[sup.2] Author Affiliations: (1) English Department, Faculty of Humanities, Persian Gulf University of Bushehr, Bushehr, Iran (2) Department of Foreign Languages [...]

NARRATIVE PERSPECTIVE Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series, is the most up-to-date picture of Hermione that author J.K. Rowling has [...]