University of Massachusetts Amherst
Iowa State University
Middle Georgia State University
University of Alberta
Eastern Illinois University
Western Kentucky University
University of Connecticut
CUNY Queens College
University of Iowa
Troublesome Minorities: Questioning Assimilation In The Reluctant Fundamentalist And Home Fire,
2020
University of California, Los Angeles
Troublesome Minorities: Questioning Assimilation In The Reluctant Fundamentalist And Home Fire, Nida Choudary
The Macksey Journal
Cultural discourse has long proposed assimilation as the method for the successful social and political incorporation of immigrant populations in the West. The model minority myth is perpetuated as a success story of the immigrant (particularly the Asian immigrant) achieving the American Dream, of finding success through hard work and trademark American determination, while marketing the perceived silence and patience of the minority as honorable traits. However, these ideals are insufficient and problematic as they ignore the challenges immigrants and their descendants face in the post-9/11 era and promote deep set notions of race and associated categories. In order ...
Happy The People: The Use Of Classical Literature In John Dickinson's Letters From A Farmer In Pennsylvania,
2020
St. Ambrose University
Happy The People: The Use Of Classical Literature In John Dickinson's Letters From A Farmer In Pennsylvania, Rachel E. Wiedman
The Macksey Journal
John Dickinson is well noted as an influential writer of the American Revolution, particularly in his series of twelve letters known as the Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania. While previous scholarship has noted the significant effect these widely circulated letters had upon the colonies and has further explored the purpose for the pseudonym “Farmer,” it has overlooked one major feature of the writings: the inclusion of a Latin quotation at the end of each letter, pulled from various Roman authors. Though the classics at that time were often employed in pamphlet writing to invoke a sense of kinship with ...
Examining Diversity In School Stories,
2020
State University of New York College at Brockport
Examining Diversity In School Stories, Ellie Lauren Pauly
Senior Honors Theses
A simple Google search for texts ordinarily studied in a high school English classroom generates a list of works written by, and featuring, white men. Currently, the texts taught in English classrooms in the United States are generally written by white men and feature middle-class white, cisgender, able-bodied, heterosexual men as protagonists. There are of course a few exceptions, such as Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) or Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), but they are exceptions. Most is protagonists of stories read in schools are not representative of other kinds of ...
Hegelian Agency And Communication In William Gaddis’ Jr,
2020
Purdue University
Hegelian Agency And Communication In William Gaddis’ Jr, Ryan Andrew P. Hacek
The Macksey Journal
This paper analyzes the relation between different forms of agency (as conceptualized by GWF Hegel) in the capitalist systems presented in postmodern literature. The subject of my paper is William Gaddis’ JR and its usage of postmodern techniques (from telephone conversations to clashing dialogue snippets) to express the chaos of late-stage capitalism. This paper argues that one can use Gaddis’ narrative to extrapolate the significance of Hegel's account of agency for our own contemporary world, because Gaddis depicts individuals in capitalism having different forms of agency within different spheres and through different projects. This multiplicity can be understood through ...
Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography,
2020
University of Iowa
Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Ed Folsom
Walt Whitman Quarterly Review
No abstract provided.
Fellow Journeyers Walt Whitman And Jesse Talbot: Painting, Poetry, And Puffery In 1850s New York,
2020
Independent Researcher
Fellow Journeyers Walt Whitman And Jesse Talbot: Painting, Poetry, And Puffery In 1850s New York, Jessica Skwire Routhier
Walt Whitman Quarterly Review
No abstract provided.
Back Matter,
2020
University of Iowa
"A Hastily Corrected Slip": Literary And Democratic Collectivity In A New Whitmanian Artifact,
2020
University of Iowa
"A Hastily Corrected Slip": Literary And Democratic Collectivity In A New Whitmanian Artifact, Nathan Schmidt
Walt Whitman Quarterly Review
No abstract provided.
Front Matter,
2020
University of Iowa
Material Witness: Occult Affects In The Mystery Fiction Of The Fin De Siècle,
2020
The University of Western Ontario
Material Witness: Occult Affects In The Mystery Fiction Of The Fin De Siècle, Thomas Matthew Stuart
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
As the nineteenth century progressed, Spiritualism blossomed from a religious movement to a cultural moment. While it remained an object of faith or ancillary faith, Spiritualism became as well a voice for radical reform, parlour entertainment, means of negotiating an increasingly mediated world, and so forth. Combined with enthusiasm for occult knowledge, Spiritualism offered intricately interrelated modes of narrating our relation to a consistently present past, in light of a rapidly approaching future. My project reads this fin-de-siècle fascination as a sensibility. Occult figures and spiritualist impulses, I argue, provide a vocabulary of feelings evoked in encounters with the mysterious ...
Critiquing Psychiatry, Narrating Trauma: Madness In Twentieth-Century North American Literature And Film,
2020
The University of Western Ontario
Critiquing Psychiatry, Narrating Trauma: Madness In Twentieth-Century North American Literature And Film, Sarah Blanchette
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
This dissertation explores representations of trauma and mental distress in twentieth-century novels and films. Drawn on research that emphasizes the ways that marginalized communities—in particular women-coded, racialized, and Indigenous persons—have historically been pathologized, the thesis considers how select novels and films query biomedical approaches to mental illness and critique psychiatric contexts, which prioritize social control more than they provide substantive and humane forms of support and care. How might representations of trauma and mental distress be understood without confirming regimes of psy-authority or psy-power? The thesis takes up this core issue by building on theories drawn from Mad ...
Atmosphere And Religious Experience In American Transcendentalism,
2020
The University of Western Ontario
Atmosphere And Religious Experience In American Transcendentalism, Thomas Sorensen
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
I propose a new intellectual history of how the aesthetic obtains religious value in the American literary tradition. According to the account that prevails from Perry Miller to Tracy Fessenden, the Transcendentalists collapse scripture and literature into a single secular category. I argue instead that the Transcendentalists redraw the distinction along aesthetic criteria. A text’s sacred status has little to do with who wrote it when, and everything to do with a particular aesthetic quality expressive of divine inspiration. Scholarship has neglected two concepts instrumental to this development: the religious sentiment and atmosphere. Unitarian and Calvinist norms held all ...
Clawing For Power: Merricat And Constance's Struggle Over Patriarchal Oppression,
2020
Davis & Elkins College
Clawing For Power: Merricat And Constance's Struggle Over Patriarchal Oppression, Savannah F. Gregg
The Macksey Journal
In this essay, I explore the ways Shirley Jackson’s revision of the traditional gothic in We Have Always Lived in the Castle provides the illusion of matriarchal dominance. Critics typically read this novel as a celebration of female power, which the women hijack from male authority figures, but I argue that by analyzing the feminine objects in the novel, we can see that the illusion of matriarchal power actually supports a patriarchal society. Historical and cultural contexts, including Shirley Jackson’s biography, allow us to see the psychological oppression placed on women in twentieth-century American society. This background moreover ...
Seeking The Feminine Divine: Mormon Women's Religious Authority And Power In Rachel Hunt Steenblik's Poetry,
2020
Brigham Young University
Seeking The Feminine Divine: Mormon Women's Religious Authority And Power In Rachel Hunt Steenblik's Poetry, Kaitlin Hoelzer
The Macksey Journal
Literary theorists like Hélène Cixous and other French feminists have written about l’écriture feminine, a deconstructive force which allows female writers more freedom from male-dominated areas. Because Christianity has been historically male-dominated, Christian women have long used this idea to great effect, using their writing as a space in which they are free to assert power and authority. Mormonism, which arose in the 1830s during the Second Great Awakening, has grown to reinforce a patriarchal model for both family and church leadership, making Cixous’ separate space of writing necessary for Mormon women of the twenty-first century. The Mormon poet ...
Trauma Begetting Trauma: Fukú, Masks, And Implicit Forgiveness In The Works Of Junot Díaz,
2020
Chapman University
Trauma Begetting Trauma: Fukú, Masks, And Implicit Forgiveness In The Works Of Junot Díaz, Jacob Vanwormer
English (MA) Theses
This essay began as an examination of Junot Díaz’s combination of “low” and “high” culture art and literature in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.In the wake of Díaz publishing “The Silence: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma,” and the subsequent accusations of abuse against him, it seemed irresponsible to examine the text in such a way without considering this new information. It was both more topical and relevant to re-examine the portrayal of Díaz’s recurring tragic playboy narrator through two short story collections and a novel, making note of the character’s proximity to Díaz’s ...
Muriel Rukeyser : The Contemporary Reviews, 1935-1980,
2020
Washington University in St. Louis
Muriel Rukeyser : The Contemporary Reviews, 1935-1980, Vivian R. Pollak
Books and Monographs
Muriel Rukeyser: The Contemporary Reviews, 1935-1980 is an open access bibliography with electronic links when available. It documents the reception of sixteen books of poetry and five books of prose, from Theory of Flight (1935) to The Collected Poems (1978). A set of “Additional Notices” includes reviews that are less tethered to individual publications, such as “Grandeur and Misery of a Poster Girl,” which appeared in the Partisan Review in the fall of 1943. The bibliography excludes reviews of Rukeyser’s children’s books, of her 1945 play The Middle of the Air, and of her translations. Prominent reviewers include ...
Sacrifice, Magic, And Age: The Young Adult’S Burden (A Study Of Ya Fantasy),
2020
The Johns Hopkins University
Sacrifice, Magic, And Age: The Young Adult’S Burden (A Study Of Ya Fantasy), Angelamarie Malkoun
The Macksey Journal
“Young adult,” coined in the 1960s by the Young Adult Library Services Association, holds immense meaning though it has had a much shorter lifetime than “child” and “adult.” The young adult (“adolescent” or “teenager”) continues to as a grey area between the duality of child and adult, an area that tends to be disregarded due to stereotypes and clichés. In working extensively on Fantasy/Young Adult Fantasy literature from the 19th century to the present, my research has focused on the evolution of the adolescent/adolescence and how magic and temptation are used to argue the human inability to ...
Choke,
2020
Fayetteville State University
The Library Of Appalachian Preaching: A Digital-Humanities Project At Marshall University,
2020
Marshall University
The Library Of Appalachian Preaching: A Digital-Humanities Project At Marshall University, Robert H. Ellison, Larry Sheret
English Faculty Research
This article provides an overview of the sermons in the Special Collections Department at Marshall and a description of the Library of Appalachian Preaching, a project that will make these materials universally discoverable and accessible online. In addition to the sermons themselves, the Library will include biographical sketches of each preacher featured in the project and a robust User Guide, a Google sheet which users can search, sort, and download to help make their research as efficient and productive as possible
Debility And Disability In Edith Wharton's Novels,
2020
CUNY Queens College
Debility And Disability In Edith Wharton's Novels, Karen Weingarten
Publications and Research
No abstract provided.
