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• Seymour: A Clarification

  From: Renascence

  Spring 19717,262 words Critical essay [(essay date 1971) In the following essay, Slethaug describes “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” as “an enigma or a parable” that is clarified in Salinger’s later novellas and short stories about Seymour.] In “A Perfect...

• Hurricanes and Fires: Chaotics in Sherman Alexie's Smoke Signals and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

  From: Literature/Film Quarterly

  20037,747 words Critical essay [(essay date 2003) In the following essay, Slethaug compares Alexie's film Smoke Signals with the portions of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Reservation Blues upon which the film is based.]...

• The Play of the Double in A Separate Peace

  From: Canadian Review of American Studies

  Fall 19845,973 words Critical essay [(essay date fall 1984) In the following essay, Slethaug maintains that A Separate Peace attempts to embody and contrast the two conceptions of play--that of agon and paidia--in the two main characters of Gene and...

• The Buried Stream: Stochastic Narration and A River Runs through It

  From: English Studies in Canada

  Sept. 19977,263 words Critical essay [(essay date September 1997) In the following essay, Slethaug argues that the narrator of A River Runs through It follows neither his father's logocentric theological view of reality nor his brother's chaotic tendencies,...

• Hurricanes and Fires: Chaotics in Sherman Alexie's Smoke Signals and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

  From: Literature/Film Quarterly

  20037,753 words Critical essay [(essay date 2003) In the following essay, Slethaug contends that in Smoke Signals Alexie overcomes stereotypes of Indians far better than he does in The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.] ... every little...

• No Exit: The Hero as Victim in Donaldson

  From: Mythlore

  Autumn 19845,529 words Critical essay [(essay date Autumn 1984) In the following essay, Slethaug argues that the Covenant novels defy the traditional modes of "escapism" related with fantasy, as his protagonist is never truly allowed to "escape."] And he...

• Hurricanes and Fires: Chaotics in Sherman Alexie's Smoke Signals and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

  From: Literature Film Quarterly

  20037,745 words Critical essay [(essay date 2003) In the following essay, Slethaug compares Alexie's short story collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven with its film version, Smoke Signals, focusing on metaphors of chaos.]...

• 'The Discourse of Arrogance,' Popular Power, and Anarchy: The (First) Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever

  From: Extrapolation

  19937,191 words Critical essay [(essay date 1993) In the following essay, Slethaug explores Donaldson's "systematic, and very complex, explorations of various social systems of power" in The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.] One of the first epic...