Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff -- Reading and Discussion Questions
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Questions by Students in English 171, Sages, Satirists, and New Journalists, Brown University, 2005
- Write the Stuff: Authorship in Tom Wolfe's
The Right Stuff - Tom Wolfe Versus the Great Colonial Animal
- Tom Wolfe's exclaiming personalities
- Wolfe the Respectful Joker
- Repeat Repeat in Tom Wolfe's
The Right Stuff - Wolfe's Machine-Gun Prose
- Heroes Exposed in
The Right Stuff - Which sucks more? The press or the networks?
- Tom Wolfe Repeats Himself
- Making Heroes in
The Right Stuff
Questions by Students in English 156, Victorians and Moderns, Brown University, 2004
- A Row of Little Indians
- The Press: Marking Differences in Wolfe's
The Right Stuff - The Dual Lives of Heroes in
The Right Stuff - John Glenn: Prophet, Poet, or Astronaut?
- Heroes, Speech, and the Media
- Hero Creation in
The Right Stuff - Right Stuff, according to whom?
- The Hero as Pilot in
The Right Stuff - Tom Wolfe's
The Right Stuff and the idea of the Hero - "A Good Presbyterian:" Religion and Heroism in Wolfe
- John Glenn and The Hero as Prophet
- The Makings of a Hero within the Media's Gaze
- Single Combat as Sacrifice: Modern Heroism in Tom Wolfe's
The Right Stuff - Novel Non-Fiction
Questions by Students in English 171, Sages and Satirists, Brown University, 2003
- Yeager's Drawl: Contagious Language in
The Right Stuff - Meet the Press
- Pilots are bigger than Jesus
- Of One Nation?
- Wolfe vs. the Victorian Gent
- There's No "I" in Wolfe (But There is a "We")
- Wolfe's Truth Behind the Hardy Boys in Outer Space
- Authenticity and
The Right Stuff - Performance in
The Right Stuff - An Outsider on the Inside in "The Thrones"
- Describing Wolfe's Descriptions: Does he have the right stuff?
- Monkeys Included
- New Journalism Lifts Off: Non-Fiction at 0 G's
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Last modified 26 April 2005