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  • Author: Driedger, Derek

Date: 2007

Publication: Journal of Narrative Theory

Volume: 37

Language: English

Find in a Library: 54663119

Essay on American author Willa Cather's critiques of journalism and realist writing as evidenced in her 1931 novel, "Shadows on the Rock" - a storied portrayal of historical French Canadian resistance to assimilation. How Cather portrays in her…

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  • Author: Schryer, Stephen

Date: 2011 Spring

Publication: Modern Fiction Studies (MFS)

Volume: 57

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1645443, 31871426

Essay considering the relationship of middle twentieth-century delinquency and poverty with the explorations of class and culture that take place in the literature of Jack Kerouac. How actors in the Beat Movement, especially Kerouac, interrogated…

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  • Author: Myers, Mitzi

Date: 2000 September

Publication: The Lion and the Unicorn

Volume: 24

Language: English

Find in a Library: 31871270, 3134351

Print of an interview with novelist and Leominster, Massachusetts, native, Robert Cormier, as conducted by a UCLA professor of literature. A discussion of Cormier's novels' literary themes, his resistance to the label "Young Adult (YA)" writer, his…

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  • Author: Bishop, Jim

Date: 1984

Publication: Puckerbrush Review

Volume: 6

Language: English

Find in a Library: 10990654

Short fiction piece on a Franco American man - his name, his puzzles, his teeth, his temper, and how they were lost - as characterized in the narrations of his son.

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  • Author: Nichols, Jim

Date: 2002

Language: English

Find in a Library: 51044695

A collection of short stories largely set in Maine with local characters, written by Maine native and author of the 2011 novel, "Hull Creek."

Features the following stories, in order of appearance:
Magic
The Dilly
C'est La Vie (originally…

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  • Author: Labbé, Yvon A. (editor)

Date: 1978 janvier

Publication: Le F.A.R.O.G. Forum

Volume: 5

Language: Bilingual/bilingue

Find in a Library: 6881976, b2728209

January 1978 issue of the bilingual periodical publication of the Franco-American Centre (formerly the Franco-American Office), University of Maine, Orono, Maine. Contains art and articles on Franco American life. This issue also contains a four-page…

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  • Author: Kistler, Ruth Barthold

Date: 1947

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Education

Institution: New York University

Language: en

Find in a Library: 53768425

Dissertation on the cultural life of French Canada, from the 16th century until the middle 20th, and the specific roles that religion, education, and language have played in its minority preservation in and outside of Quebec. Historical background of…

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  • Author: Massey, Lucy Alice

Date: 1961

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Education

Institution: New York University

Language: en

Find in a Library: 6634706, 58668868

Historiography of Acadia up to 1755. Analysis of writings on the Acadian people as they were thought to have lived in Atlantic Canada before their 18th-century expulsion. Presentation of pre-expulsion Acadian customs, behaviors, and social life as…

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  • Author: Muro, Mark

Date: 1987 February 2

Publication: Boston Daily Globe

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1536853

Article part 1 of 2 on the recent Lowell, Massachusetts, city council vote to commemorate author Jack Kerouac with a park bearing his name. Full article title includes the line: "Moves under way to rehabilitate a not-so-favorite son." Introduces us…

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  • Author: Muro, Mark

Date: 1987 February 3

Publication: Boston Daily Globe

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1536853

Article part 2 of 2 on the recent Lowell, Massachusetts, city council vote to commemorate author Jack Kerouac with a park bearing his name. Full article title includes the line: "After years of indifference, Lowell votes to build a park." Charts…

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  • Author: Blowen, Michael

Date: 1987 February 6

Publication: Boston Daily Globe

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1536853

Review of the documentary film on Jack Kerouac, entitled, "Whatever Happened to Kerouac?" (Richard Lerner and Lewis McAdam, 1987). Film is a biographical portrait of the Lowell, Massachusetts, writer, featuring interviews with Allen Ginsberg, Gregory…

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  • Author: Allamand, Carole

Date: 2004

Publication: Études françaises

Volume: 40

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 60626108, 1781853

Une lecture critique de deux romans de Jack Kerouac - On the Road (1957) et Visions of Gerard (1958). Comment le québécitude et son christianisme, son messianisme, sont visibles dans ces oeuvres, et sa signification pour notre compréhension…

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  • Author: Miller, John M.

Date: 2001

Language: English

Find in a Library: 47965924

Combination photo book and short fiction collection. A storytelling that is both pictorial and literary: black and white scenic photographs and character portraits from the 1970s, written out with intermittent segments of Vermont regional prose set…

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  • Author: Conforti, Joseph A.

Date: 2001

Language: en

Find in a Library: 45909198

Find Online: OL7972726M

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The shape of regional identity in New England, from its Puritan origins, to its Yankee iterations, to its immigrant diversity. How popular conceptions of the New England region were created, established, and communicated, and how these conceptions…

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  • Author: Martin, Robert K.

Date: 1993 June

Publication: American Literature

Volume: 65

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1480320, 17450247

Brief piece arguing that the inclusion of Canadian and North American French cultures into the scope of consideration for the discipline of "American Studies" appears just an extension of the subject's methodological scope, and too little attentive…

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  • Author: Smith, David C.

Date: 1971

Language: English

Find in a Library: 658331

Bibliography of texts related to lumbering, woodcutters, and their environments in Maine from the middle 19th century to the 20th. Contains lists of manuscript collections, articles, comprehensive historical texts, town histories, unpublished theses,…

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  • Author: Schwartzwald, Robert

Date: 1994

Book Title: Langue, espace, société : les variétés du français en Amérique du Nord

Language: French

Find in a Library: 34478167

Des pensées sur les défis culturelles, politiques, et scolaires auxquels sont confrontés les études québécoises et les études franco-américaines dans les universités américaines. L'état actuel des cultures…

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  • Author: Murray, John O'Kane

Date: 1876

Language: en

Find in a Library: 6910728

Find Online: OL5916517W

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A single volume on the history of the Catholic Church in North America: from Columbus' arrival in 1492 to the French Jesuits and Native Americans of the 16th and 17th centuries, to the Irish of the 18th and 19th, up to the America of the period of…

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  • Author: Duke Alumni Association

Date: 2010 August 31

Language: English

Find in a Library: Unknown

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Waterville, Maine, writer, Ron Currie, Jr., discusses his book "Everything Matters!," his life, and his writing, and takes questions from Duke University's class of 2014. Currie's novel was chosen to be read and discussed by the entire first-year…

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  • Author: Ménard, Jean-Sébastien

Date: 2005 mai

Language: Français

Find in a Library: Inconnu

Document de conférence sur la langue (anglaise et française) de l'écrivain Jack Kerouac - son oralité, son poèsie écrite, son mélange littéraire de langages. L'auteur déclare la primauté de Kerouac le francophone,…

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  • Author: Imbert, Patrick

Date: 1991 Winter

Publication: Poetics Today

Volume: 12

Language: English

Find in a Library: 6301422

Origins and evolution of the Québec novel - its concerns, its scope, its structure. The novel's relationship to the social, linguistic, and economic landscapes of the society from which it springs. Reflections on this relationship as concerning…

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  • Author: Langlois, Simon (rédacteur)

Date: 1995

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 32091322

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Une collection d'essais sur l'évolution du fait français en Amérique du Nord. La langue, les histoires, et les cultures de communautés francophones au Canada et aux États-Unis. Origines des expressions culturelles…

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  • Author: Melançon, Joseph

Date: 1983

Publication: Yale French Studies

Volume: 65

Language: English (traduction du français)

Find in a Library: 1770272

Essay on Québec literature, the collusion of nation and language, and the impact of determining either of one's own in consideration of its contrast from the model form. The author describes the "nationalization" of literature in Québec as the…

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  • Author: Hebert, Ernest

Date: 2005

Language: English

Find in a Library: 59755997

The most recent novel in Hebert's acclaimed "Darby Series," depicting realities of family and class in a fictional New Hampshire town. After the death of a young mother in childbirth, and with her wealthy parents seeking custody for the newborn son,…

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  • Author: Brown, Becky

Date: 1993-03

Publication: Language in Society

Volume: 22

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 484389948

The status of French language in Louisiana over time - diversity, amalgamation, decay, revival, and current modes of expression. How the written French word in the context of Louisiana French language revival has taken on special political and social…

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  • Author: Rivard, Adjutor

Date: 1924 (1914)

Language: en (trans.)

Find in a Library: 1962661

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A series of graphic and sentimental depictions of different elements significant to home and community in rural Quebec. 21 chapters for as many subjects - some of simple descriptions with warmth in detail, others related as narrative in the manner of…

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  • Author: Saucier, Roxanne Moore

Date: 2000 October 26

Publication: Bangor Daily News

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8818350

Article about fiction writer Denis Ledoux of Lewiston, Maine, who has turned to helping others write their own personal histories. Ledoux's workshop, "Turning Memories into Memoirs," has sparked international interest from writers, genealogists,…

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  • Author: Maslin, Janet

Date: 2009 June 18

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1645522, 1760220

New York Times book review of Waterville, Maine native, Ron Currie, Jr.'s latest novel, "Everything Matters!"

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  • Author: Kellogg, Carolyn

Date: 2010 July 30

Publication: Los Angeles Times

Language: English

Find in a Library: 10379910

From the Los Angeles Times literature blog, "Jacket Copy." Transcript of a brief interview with a novelist from Waterville, Maine, centered around his one-time choice of a book for summer reading. Includes bits about Currie's youth, his father,…

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  • Author: Currie, Ron, Jr.

Date: 2010 July 26

Language: English

Find in a Library: 268958614

Short essay by a writer from Waterville, Maine, in support of his recent novel, "Everything Matters!" The topic of this piece, reflected in its title, lends to the sharing of a few personal anecdotes that relate some of his experiences with family,…

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