Hawthorne’S “The Minister’S Black Veil”: Group Activities And Interpretations,
2015
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Hawthorne’S “The Minister’S Black Veil”: Group Activities And Interpretations, Adam Kotlarczyk
Adam Kotlarczyk
Although the better-known The Scarlet Letter (1850) still draws more attention from many high school English teachers, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s darkly enigmatic short story “The Minister’s Black Veil” (1836) touches on similar themes and provides readers with diverse avenues for exploration, discussion, and analysis. Containing dramatic, psychological, and moral elements, in addition to its literary ones, it is a complex text that can confound teachers and students alike with its range of interpretations and ambiguity. This lesson allows students in small groups to choose and focus on one interpretive element. It also accommodates different learning styles, offering both creative and analytical …
Tolkien And Gifted Students: Blending Creative And Critical Thinking,
2015
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Tolkien And Gifted Students: Blending Creative And Critical Thinking, Adam Kotlarczyk
Adam Kotlarczyk
In “The American Scholar,” Emerson warns against letting books become tyrants. As education “reformers,” political forces, and other special interests continue to pull modern teachers in so many different pedagogical directions, Emerson’s warning is increasingly powerful. Books tyrannize, Emerson says, when we use them passively by simply absorbing information from them, rather than actively by catalyzing our own thinking and actions with them. In effect, he claims that books are not something simply to be learned, memorized, or analyzed, but should help us to create. Today’s gifted student, her schedule usually overflowing with work and co-curriculars in an environment often …
The Commodification Of Queer Virgins In Shakespeare, Spenser, And Keats,
2015
Florida International University
The Commodification Of Queer Virgins In Shakespeare, Spenser, And Keats, Laura M. Ortega
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this thesis was to explore selected works from William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, and John Keats, in order to expose textual instances of feminist thought. This analysis was aided with feminist theorists falling under the main strains of queer theory, materialism, and gender performance. Specifically, this thesis focused on the ways in which women, particularly virgin daughters, were viewed as property by their male kin. It also looked at how these women engaged in various symbolic masquerades and/or actual cross-dressing as a response to the aforementioned phenomenon. Finally, the thesis exposed how these masquerades can be construed as …
Applications For Dummies,
2015
Loyola Marymount University
Applications For Dummies, Carla M. Sanchez
First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience
This poem discusses the overwhelming pressure that is put on students to justify their right to be admitted into universities or to receive scholarships based on their extracurricular activities. Many working-class, first-generation college students are unable to participate in organizations and programs that offer students a more well-rounded college experience. This can lead first-gen students, like the author, to feel isolated, inadequate, or illegitimate. "Applications for Dummies" expresses Sanchez's incessant fear that she will never be able to compete with other students who were given the opportunity to build more worldly resumes, despite her strong academic commitment and intellectual potential.
Revelation,
2015
Loyola Marymount University
Revelation, Tanya Diaz
First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience
There can sometimes be a gap between first-gen students and parents who have not experienced the stress of higher education. Children may believe this stress to be a necessary sacrifice for their future wellness; however, they often cannot feel their parents' sacrifices, just as their parents cannot feel their child's mental strain. Diaz creates this poem in an effort to examine her relationship with her mother from an outsider's point of view, in the end realizing that although her parents cannot always understand her experiences, they care and will support her decisions.
Faculty Author Series-Dr. Brenda Ayres,
2015
Liberty University
Faculty Author Series-Dr. Brenda Ayres
Honorable Mention
Announcement about Dr. Brenda Ayres' presentation on Feminism and Christian Scholarship. This is a lecture event for the JFL Faculty Authors Series.
Sanaaq: An Inuit Novel By Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk, Translated By Bernard Saladin D’Anglure,
2015
University of Aberdeen
Sanaaq: An Inuit Novel By Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk, Translated By Bernard Saladin D’Anglure, Zoe Todd
The Goose
Review of Sanaaq: An Inuit Novel by Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk and translated by Bernard Saladin d’Anglure.
Hyperobjects: Philosophy And Ecology After The End Of The World By Timothy Morton,
2015
University of North Florida
Hyperobjects: Philosophy And Ecology After The End Of The World By Timothy Morton, Bart H. Welling
The Goose
Welling reviews Timothy Morton's book Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2013).
February 18, 2015: Jericho Brown Reading At Wmu: Thurs., 2/26 @8:00pm, Little Theater,
2015
Western Michigan University
February 18, 2015: Jericho Brown Reading At Wmu: Thurs., 2/26 @8:00pm, Little Theater, Department Of English
Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive
No abstract provided.
Whiteness As Cursed Property: An Interdisciplinary Intervention With Joyce Carol Oates’S Bellefleur And Cheryl Harris’S “Whiteness As Property”,
2015
Raritan Valley Community College
Whiteness As Cursed Property: An Interdisciplinary Intervention With Joyce Carol Oates’S Bellefleur And Cheryl Harris’S “Whiteness As Property”, Karen Gaffney
Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies
This article begins with the assertion that now more than ever, in the aftermath of Ferguson and in a time when many believe our society to be post-racial, we need to bring together scholars and activists who care about racial justice, regardless of discipline, and build interdisciplinary tools for fighting racism. Furthermore, we need to understand and reveal how whiteness has been socially constructed because the power of whiteness lies in its invisibility, and that fuels the perpetuation of systemic racism. In making whiteness visible, we can see how it has been wielded as a weapon, which in turn will …
Digital Demonstrations: Examinations Of Protests And Politics In Cory Doctorow’S Young Adult Fiction,
2015
Bowling Green State University
Digital Demonstrations: Examinations Of Protests And Politics In Cory Doctorow’S Young Adult Fiction, Jacob Brown
Ray Browne Conference on Cultural and Critical Studies
Within this paper, I intend to examine the manner by which author and blogger Cory Doctorow utilizes complex themes of digital labor exploitation and intellectual property law within his young adult fiction in order to bring about positive social change, with particular attention paid to the 2008 novel Little Brother and its 2013 sequel Homeland, the 2010 novel For the Win, the 2012 novel Pirate Cinema, and 2014’s In Real Life, a graphic novel written by Doctorow and illustrated by Jen Wang. Throughout Doctorow’s realistic depictions of slightly-fictionalized versions of contemporary life and embellishments of near-future …
The Politics Of The Pantry: Stories, Food, And Social Change By Michael Mikulak,
2015
McGill University
The Politics Of The Pantry: Stories, Food, And Social Change By Michael Mikulak, Mariève Isabel
The Goose
Review of Michael Mikulak's Politics of the Pantry: Stories, Food, and Social Change.
Another Country: When Your Nation Doesn’T Consider You To Be A Citizen,
2015
Eastern Michigan University
Another Country: When Your Nation Doesn’T Consider You To Be A Citizen, William B. Daniels Ii
Ray Browne Conference on Cultural and Critical Studies
I plan to show how the characters in Another Country uncover the inherently racist and homophobic requirements for citizenship in a nation. The novel Another Country by African American author James Baldwin (1924-1987) exposes the fallible nature of hetero-normative and racial ideals that narrowly define a model citizen of a nation-state. The queer interracial relationships in the novel, particularly between the main character Rufus and his lover Eric, transgress the boundaries of nation, race, and sexuality, thus revealing the illusionary nature of categorizations that are defined and applied by nation-state apparatuses in order to discriminate and maintain uniformity. In addition …
Postcolonial Disability In Mohesen Makhmalbaf’S Kandahar,
2015
George Washington University
Postcolonial Disability In Mohesen Makhmalbaf’S Kandahar, Sukshma Vedere
Ray Browne Conference on Cultural and Critical Studies
Kandahar (2001), an Iranian film directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, details the journey of the protagonist, Nafas, to Kandahar to save her sister from committing suicide on the day of the solar eclipse. The film has gained recent attention by disability studies scholars for the representation of disability in Afghanistan; scholars have discussed the significance of prosthetics and international aid for the disabled in post-war zones of the Third World, but little has been said about disability as a postcolonial embodiment. I argue that Kandahar represents the postcolonial state as a disabled space both literally and metaphorically. It projects the veil …
The Rise And Fall Of Female Stereotypes In Looking For Alaska,
2015
Augustana College - Rock Island
The Rise And Fall Of Female Stereotypes In Looking For Alaska, Alina Zabolotico
Audre Lorde Writing Prize
No abstract provided.
Born Naked By Farley Mowat,
2015
University of California, Davis
Born Naked By Farley Mowat, Ted Geier
The Goose
Farley Mowat's charming childhood memoir covers the usual Mowat terrain: riotous humour, humble reverence, and a meticulous accounting of the little things that make life--all life--dear to us. Mowat's work deserves regular attention in animal studies and environmental literary studies. His autobiographical techniques, as this review suggests, can be both assets and occasional impediments. But there is no replacing or replicating a Farley Mowat, and Born Naked deserves to be read immediately and repeatedly as one of the lasting legacies of a long life, well-lived.
Grains. Monsanto Contre Schmeiser D'Annabel Soutar,
2015
McGill University
Grains. Monsanto Contre Schmeiser D'Annabel Soutar, Mariève Isabel
The Goose
Compte-rendu de Grains. Monsanto contre Schmeiser d'Annabel Soutar.
Thinking With Water Edited By Cecilia Ming Si Chen, Janine Macleod And Astrida Neimanis,
2015
Uppsala Universitet
Thinking With Water Edited By Cecilia Ming Si Chen, Janine Macleod And Astrida Neimanis, Ryan Palmer
The Goose
A review of the edited collection Thinking with Water (Chen, MacLeod, Neimanis) which addresses the place of water in our daily lives, cultural imagination, and ecological systems.
The Liberation Of The Heroine In Red Riding Hood : A Study On Feminist And Postfeminist Discourses,
2015
Lingnan University
The Liberation Of The Heroine In Red Riding Hood : A Study On Feminist And Postfeminist Discourses, Hiu Yan Cheng
Theses & Dissertations
Fairy tales’ magic is powerful because it has the potential to enter different cultures at different times. They teleport readers and displace them in alternative realities to shock them with a profoundly different world where there are possibilities they have not seen and impossibilities to be accepted. However, despite the clichéd opening of most fairy tales— “once upon a time”, the lack of a traceable origin and the arbitrariness of the tales’ contextualization, they are not ‘timeless’ or ‘universal’. These tales have a history. They evolve with new plots, characterizations and morals in response to the dominant discourses in different …
Masculindians: Conversations About Indigenous Manhood By Sam Mckegney,
2015
University of British Columbia, Okangan
Masculindians: Conversations About Indigenous Manhood By Sam Mckegney, P. Kelly Mitton
The Goose
Review of Sam McKegney’s Masculindians: Conversations About Indigenous Manhood.
