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Very Like A Whale, Richard A. Card Mar 2001

Very Like A Whale, Richard A. Card

New England Journal of Public Policy

The author talks about his visit to Herman Melville's house and the experiences he had while there.


Parnassus 2001 Jan 2001

Parnassus 2001

Parnassus

The 2001 edition of the student literary journal, Parnassus, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.


The Mockingbird, Department Of Art And Design, East Tennessee State University, Department Of Literature And Language, East Tennessee State University Jan 2001

The Mockingbird, Department Of Art And Design, East Tennessee State University, Department Of Literature And Language, East Tennessee State University

The Mockingbird

Devon Koren Asdell [Amateur Astronomy]; Bonnie Boochard [Striped Donkey]; Jessica Brise [Something Golden]; lsaac Denton [Ty Cobb]; Nancy Jane Earnest [Untitled Poem]; Jessica Heschong [Untitled~1]; Monet LaClair [Dysfunctional]; Shanda Miller [Arrested Impasse; The Bridge That Dad Built]; Tonya Moreno [The Dance of Days]; Meghan O'Connor [Chaotic Confusion; Still There]; Craig Bradley Owens [The Great Plains Incident]; Sherri Pugh [Guess What Just Flew Inside My Mouth; Katydid's Bubbles]; Rhonda Richards [Thirteen Views of a Flourescent Light]; Melissa Stallard [Untitled Photograph]; Kevin Stephenson [Two For One Special; Poor Little Thing; Burden; Wake]; Lacey Stewart [Oak Ridge's Forgotten History]; Amelia Stuetzel [Figure]; Pam …


Wrestling With Religion: Pullman, Pratchett, And The Uses Of Story, Elisabeth Rose Gruner Jan 2001

Wrestling With Religion: Pullman, Pratchett, And The Uses Of Story, Elisabeth Rose Gruner

English Faculty Publications

While children's and young adult fantasy literature is often concerned with "first things," with the struggle between good and evil, or with the fate of the cosmos, still it is rarely overtly religious in the sense of direct engagement with "faith, religion and church(es)" (Ghesquiere 307). Perhaps it is children's literature's vexed relationship with didacticism that keeps fantasy writers for children from engaging directly with religious language and concepts, or perhaps it is the setting in an alternate world that enables allegorizing impulse rather than direct engagement. In either case, despite a tradition of fables, parables, and allegorical treatments of …