Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Retrospective Theses and Dissertations Dissertations 1981 Pastoral and mythic patterns in Mark Harris's The Southpaw Dennis (Dennis Michael) Healy Iowa State University Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Healy, Dennis (Dennis Michael), "Pastoral and mythic patterns in Mark Harris's The outhpS aw" (1981). Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. 16177. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/16177 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Dissertations at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Retrospective Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Pastoral and mythic patterns in Mark Harris's The Southpaw by Dennis Michael Healy A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS Major: English Signatures have been redacted for privacy Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 1981 ii TABLE OF CONTENTS Page INTRODUCTION 1 BASEBALL AS A SUITABLE MEDIUM 3 FOR THE &'1ERICAN PASTORAL BASEBALL AND LITERARY REGIONALISM 6 BASEBALL AS A VERSION OF PASTORAL 9 IN AMERICAN LITERATURE: NINETEENTH CENTURY RESISTANCE AND TWENTIETH CENTURY ACCEPTANCE THE SOUTHPAW, THE ADVENTURES OF 15 HUCKLEBERRY FINN, AND THE KID FROM TOMKINS VILLE : YOUNG ADAM IN THE GARDEN CONCLUSION 34 BIBLIOGRAPHY 40 1 INTRODUCTION Mark Harris has written four baseball novels which have as narrator and protagonist Henry Wiggen, a left-handed pitcher.