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Anita Desai's Fasting, Feasting And The Condition Of Women, Ludmila Volná Purdue University

Anita Desai's Fasting, Feasting And The Condition Of Women, Ludmila Volná

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In her paper, "Anita Desai's Fasting, Feasting and the Condition of Women," Ludmila Volná presents a critical culture-based reading of Desai's novel Fasting, Feasting, a work that deals with the condition of women (not only) in India. Volná analyses both the female and the male sensitivity in the novel where Desai makes use of a double symbolic of food expressed throughout the novel by (not only literal) hunger. In Volná's view, Desai's Hindu imagery of sun/fire as patriarchal power and water, which, as the counterpart of the sun and fire, represents recognition of women’s ...

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Comparative Literature: Theory, Method, Application, Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek Purdue University

Comparative Literature: Theory, Method, Application, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

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Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven. Comparative Literature: Theory, Method, Application. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998. ISBN 90-420-0534-3 299 pages, bibliography, index. The book presents a framework of comparative literature based on a contextual (systemic and empirical) approach for the study of culture and literature and applied in audience studies, film and literature, women's literature, translation studies, new media and scholarship in the humanities, and in the analyses of English, French, German, Austrian, Hungarian, Romanian, and English-Canadian modern, contemporary, and ethnic minority texts. Copyright release to the author in 2006.

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Bibliography For Work In Travel Studies, Carlo Salzani, Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek Purdue University

Bibliography For Work In Travel Studies, Carlo Salzani, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

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The Cognitive Construction Of The Self In Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Patrick S. Bernard Purdue University

The Cognitive Construction Of The Self In Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Patrick S. Bernard

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In his article, "The Cognitive Construction of the Self in Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God," Patrick S. explores the conception and representation of the self as a cognitive construct in Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. By this approach, Bernard proposes that cognitive paradigms, such as knowing, seeing, thinking, and speaking, for example, and their capacities to engender knowledge and perception, identity and consciousness, memory and narrative, language and speech, are central to the novel's exploration of the self as an epistemological and ideological product. Using tools of interpretation adapted from cognitive psychology ...

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"Lord Of The Flies": The Educational Value Of Golding's Text, Erin M. Frank Salve Regina University

"Lord Of The Flies": The Educational Value Of Golding's Text, Erin M. Frank

Pell Scholars and Senior Theses

This paper takes a careful look at the content of Lord of the Flies often questioned by censorship advocates. Next, an exploration of the import behind William Golding’s symbolic objects and characters reveals the specifics of the literary and human value of the novel. Finally, insight from case studies helps further demonstrate the appropriateness and effectiveness of the novel in high school English curriculums while also revealing student responses in regard to Golding’s work and the worldly issues informed by it.

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Women And War: Power Play From Lysistrata To The Present, Shuyang Cynthia Luo University of Connecticut

Women And War: Power Play From Lysistrata To The Present, Shuyang Cynthia Luo

Honors Scholar Theses

"Women and War: Power Play from Lysistrata to the Present" is a three-fold project intent on analyzing the role of women in war and comedy. The intentions are: demonstrating how Aristophanes’ famed comedy, Lysistrata, was a subversive text for its time, as it presented a challenge to men’s authority that otherwise remained unchallenged, creating a modernized retelling of Lysistrata, which she holds would still be a subversive text, because men still have nearly absolute authority in war, and finally, analyzing the comedic nature of Lysistrata in a modern text; namely, why women’s choices constitute a comedy, and the ...

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Race And Othello On Film, Laura Reitz-Wilson Purdue University

Race And Othello On Film, Laura Reitz-Wilson

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In her article "Race and Othello on Film," Laura Reitz-Wilson discusses Shakespeare's treatment of race in Othello and compares it to what Hollywood as a producer of culture has done. Reitz-Wilson looks at nine different film versions and analyzes their approaches to Othello's race and character. She parses the historical and textual evidence for racism in Shakespeare's and concludes that it exists and should not be overlooked. Othello's otherness is, in fact, directly connected to his blackness, but Hollywood has rarely captured the tenuous line Shakespeare creates between barbarian and civilized Venetian. Her analysis of the ...

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From Commonwealth To Postcolonial Literature, Edward O. Ako Purdue University

From Commonwealth To Postcolonial Literature, Edward O. Ako

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In his paper,"From Commonwealth to Postcolonial Literature," Edward O.Ako begins by establishing the link between Empire and English-language literature. Drawing on Elleke Boehmer, Gauri Viswanath, and Terry Eagleton, Ako discusses the ideological uses of literature and argues that the textual forms that emerged as "resistance" to imperial domination were referred to by a multiplicity of terms: Commonwealth Literature, New English Literature, Literature in English, Third World Literature, World Fiction, Minority Literature, Multicultural Literature, or Postcolonial Literature. Ako examines the merits and handicaps of each designation and explains why, in his view, the term "postcolonial" is the more appropriate ...

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Affect, History, And Race And Ellison's Invisible Man, Alan Bourassa Purdue University

Affect, History, And Race And Ellison's Invisible Man, Alan Bourassa

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In his article "Affect, History, and Race and Ellison's Invisible Man" Alan Bourassa explores the implications of the Deleuze and Guattarian concept of "affect" for a reading of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. In the novel's most problematic relationship -- that between race and history -- there is a third term that transforms the problematic. Invisible Man is simultaneously a conventional novel that establishes emotional individuality as the third term between history and race, and an "underground" novel that sets up "affect" as the third term. If Invisible Man is only about the emotional movements of the individual, race becomes ...

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Language And Culture In African Postcolonial Literature, Kwaku Asante-Darko Purdue University

Language And Culture In African Postcolonial Literature, Kwaku Asante-Darko

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In his article, "Language and Culture in African Postcolonial Literature," Kwaku Asante-Darko offers both conceptual basis and empirical evidence in support of the fact that critical issues concerning protest, authenticity, and hybridity in African post-colonial literature have often been heavily laden with nationalist and leftist ideological encumbrances, which tended to advocate the rejection of Western standards of aesthetics. One of the literary ramifications of nationalist/anti-colonial mobilization was a racially based aesthetics which saw even the new product of literary hybridity born of cultural exchange as a mark of Western imposition and servile imitation by Africa in their literary endeavour ...

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Setting As Character In Dickens And Dostoevsky, Allegra Wozniak 2014 Lake Forest College

Setting As Character In Dickens And Dostoevsky, Allegra Wozniak

First-Year Writing Contest

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Tim Key And Gogol's Overcoat: Review 2, Kari Hesthamar 2014 University of Wollongong

Tim Key And Gogol's Overcoat: Review 2, Kari Hesthamar

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Tim Key - poet, comedian, and crumpled polymath - is obsessed with Nikolai Gogol's short story The Overcoat. Written in 1842, it's a fable of a simple clerk whose desire for a new coat to keep the St Petersburg winter at bay forever changes his life... and ultimately destroys him.

Tim's off to find out what - if anything - Gogol's mysterious story can tell us... and why The Overcoat feels even more relevant in the 21st century. Is this fable the seed of alternative comedy? Should more of us pay heed to this bizarre morality tale? And above all ...

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Best Integrated Writing 2014 - Complete Edition, 2014 Wright State University

Best Integrated Writing 2014 - Complete Edition

Best Integrated Writing

Best Integrated Writing includes excellent student writing from Integrated Writing courses taught at Wright State University. The journal is published annually by the Wright State University Department of English Language and Literatures.

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Tim Key And Gogol's Overcoat: Review 1, Michelle Rayner 2014 University of Wollongong

Tim Key And Gogol's Overcoat: Review 1, Michelle Rayner

RadioDoc Review

Tim Key - poet, comedian, and crumpled polymath - is obsessed with Nikolai Gogol's short story The Overcoat. Written in 1842, it's a fable of a simple clerk whose desire for a new coat to keep the St Petersburg winter at bay forever changes his life... and ultimately destroys him.

Tim's off to find out what - if anything - Gogol's mysterious story can tell us... and why The Overcoat feels even more relevant in the 21st century. Is this fable the seed of alternative comedy? Should more of us pay heed to this bizarre morality tale? And above all ...

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Multiple Generations In Today’S Workplace, Nicole Ritter 2014 Wright State University

Multiple Generations In Today’S Workplace, Nicole Ritter

Best Integrated Writing

Nicole Ritter explores how to manage differences between Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Generation X’ers, and Millennials in the workplace in this essay written for MGT 3110: Business Ethics & Leadership Development, taught by Mrs. Donna Back at Wright State University.

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A Review Of Anatomical Presentation And Treatment In True Hermaphroditism, Jodie Heier 2014 Wright State University

A Review Of Anatomical Presentation And Treatment In True Hermaphroditism, Jodie Heier

Best Integrated Writing

Jodie Heier studies genetic and hormonal contributors to gender identity in hermaphroditism in this essay written for PSY 4950: Sexuality and Endocrinology Capstone, taught by Dr. Patricia Schiml at Wright State University.

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The Global Market And The Status Of Women, Khadija Kirksey 2014 Wright State University

The Global Market And The Status Of Women, Khadija Kirksey

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Khadija Kirksey examines the exploitation of women working in textile factories in India in this essay written for SOC 4090-03/WMS 4000: Gender and Sexuality: Global Issues, taught by Dr. Julianne Weinzimmer at Wright State University.

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Health Program Planning/Evaluation 2012-2013 Grant Application, Tyler Begley 2014 Wright State University

Health Program Planning/Evaluation 2012-2013 Grant Application, Tyler Begley

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Tyler Begley proposes a plan to get junior high and high school students to eat more fruits and vegetables in this essay written for HED 4430: Health Program Planning and Evaluation, taught by Dr. Mary Chace at Wright State University.

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Successful Strategies: Marketing For Tomorrow, Benjamin Banning, John Breyer, Candice Turner 2014 Wright State University

Successful Strategies: Marketing For Tomorrow, Benjamin Banning, John Breyer, Candice Turner

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Benjamin Banning, John Breyer, and Candice Turner generate a marketing campaign for a tricycle using three different aspects of psychology in this essay written for PSY 4100: Applied Psychology Capstone, taught by Dr. Gina F. Thomas at Wright State University.

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End Of Life Ethical Dilemma, Gregory Heiser 2014 Wright State University

End Of Life Ethical Dilemma, Gregory Heiser

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Gregory Heiser explores the options and dilemmas involved in deciding on care for a 93-year-old female patient with Alzheimer’s disease in this essay written for NUR 4800: Transition to the Role of the Professional Nurse, taught by Dr. Ann M. Stalter at Wright State University.

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Classicism And Humanist Ideology In Donatello’S Gattamelata And David, Shayla Wheat 2014 Wright State University

Classicism And Humanist Ideology In Donatello’S Gattamelata And David, Shayla Wheat

Best Integrated Writing

Shayla Wheat traces Classical and Humanist influences on Donatello and his works Gattamelata and David in this essay written for ART 3130: Early Italian Renaissance, taught by Dr. Caroline Hillard at Wright State University.

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Chandara’S Power, Amy Kasten 2014 Wright State University

Chandara’S Power, Amy Kasten

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Amy Kasten analyzes the struggles of women against oppression in Rabindranath Tagore’s short story “Punishment” in this essay written for ENG 2040: Great Books: Literature, taught by Ms. Carolyn Stoermer at Wright State University.

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Reflection On Pema Chödrön’S When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice For Difficult Times, Carol Jones 2014 Wright State University

Reflection On Pema Chödrön’S When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice For Difficult Times, Carol Jones

Best Integrated Writing

Carol Jones reflects on suffering, self-knowledge, and enlightenment as presented in Pema Chödrön’s When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times in this essay written for CST 2320: Non-Western Religions, taught by Dr. Sharon A. Showman at Wright State University’s Lake campus.

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Reflection On Michael Coogan’S God And Sex, Sierra Garwood 2014 Wright State University

Reflection On Michael Coogan’S God And Sex, Sierra Garwood

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Sierra Garwood reflects on themes of love, sex, and the bible in Michael Coogan’s God and Sex in this essay written for REL 2040: Great Books: Bible and Western Culture, taught by Dr. Sharon A. Showman at Wright State University’s Lake campus.

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The Conflict Of Time: Tradition Vs. Modernity In Love In The Time Of Cholera, Rachel Smith 2014 Wright State University

The Conflict Of Time: Tradition Vs. Modernity In Love In The Time Of Cholera, Rachel Smith

Best Integrated Writing

Rachel Smith analyzes themes of time, tradition, and modernity in Gabriel García Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera, in this essay written for the Integrated Writing course CST 2310: Non-Western Cultures, taught by Dr. Alpana Sharma at Wright State University.

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Trends Of The Portrayal Of Yahweh In The Hebrew Bible, Kenneth Price 2014 Wright State University

Trends Of The Portrayal Of Yahweh In The Hebrew Bible, Kenneth Price

Best Integrated Writing

Kenneth Price explores trends of the portrayal of Yahweh in the Hebrew bible in this essay written for the Integrated Writing course ENG 2040: Great Books, Bible and Western Culture, taught by Dr. Heidi Wendt at Wright State University.

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Contents And Acknowledgements, 2014 Wright State University

Contents And Acknowledgements

Best Integrated Writing

Table of Contents and acknowledgements for Best Integrated Writing: Journal of Excellence in Integrated Writing Courses at Wright State. Fall 2014. 1st Edition. Wright State University Department of English Language and Literatures.

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Intertextuality In Beckett's And Ağaoğlu's Work, Elmas Şahín 2014 Purdue University

Intertextuality In Beckett's And Ağaoğlu's Work, Elmas Şahín

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In her article "Intertextuality in Beckett's and Ağaoğlu's Work" Elmas Şahín discusses Adalet Ağaoğlu's 1973 novel Ölmeye Yatmak (Lying Down to Die) and Samuel Beckett's 1950 Malone Dies in terms of intertextuality. Şahín employs tenets of comparative literature in order to analyze the two texts with regard to form and content and focuses on the on protagonists' worlds. In Şahín's interpretation, Ağaoğlu's protagonist Aysel is narrated in postmodern intertextuality as an individual of our days alienated from society, searching for her self/selves as she cannot succeed in dying. Both Beckett's and Ağaoğlu ...

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Blanchot's "Impossible" Kafka, Antoine J. Polgar 2014 Purdue University

Blanchot's "Impossible" Kafka, Antoine J. Polgar

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In his article "Blanchot's Impossible Kafka" Antoine J. Polgar challenges Maurice Blanchot's theory of the impossibility and futility of writing as applied to Kafka's struggles with the demands of writing and life. Polgar questions Blanchot's claims on the basis of close readings of the texts of Kafka's texts and explores traces of correspondence between the life and the texts yet unmentioned in Kafka scholarship. Referring to Blanchot's focus on survival as a metaphor for writing in a meta-commentary on the writer's facticity and the contingency to which literary creation is consigned, Polgar comments ...

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Sisyphus In Kertész's Fatelessness, Eric Beck Rubin 2014 Purdue University

Sisyphus In Kertész's Fatelessness, Eric Beck Rubin

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In his article "Sisyphus in Kertész's Fatelessness" Eric Beck Rubin discusses Imre Kertész's novel in relation to the philosophy of eternal recurrence, namely the notion that an individual inhabits a universe made of finite possibilities experienced and re-experienced without variation or end. Early explorations of eternal recurrence by Friedrich Nietzsche were taken up by Albert Camus, and Beck Rubin argues that certain works by both authors are fundamental to any reading of Fatelessness. Further, Beck Rubin argues that Kertész's contribution to the debate can be viewed from two perspectives: one sees Kertész as an author in conversation ...

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