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'The Romance Of Araby', Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe Jan 2012

'The Romance Of Araby', Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Hal Blythe

No abstract provided.


Financial Partnering And Other Strategies To Help Centers Of Teaching And Learning Thrive In Hard Times, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe, B. Philips Nov 2011

Financial Partnering And Other Strategies To Help Centers Of Teaching And Learning Thrive In Hard Times, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe, B. Philips

Hal Blythe

With Centers for Teaching and Learning (CTLs) entering a period of economic downturn, the authors demonstrate how their Center has survived hard times through financial partnering with on- and off-campus groups. They also explain how to develop successful strategies for partnering (both financial and otherwise), analyze the dynamics of such collaborations, and offer some useful guidelines.


Nullilfying The Barbay Effect: Connecting With Your Students, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe Nov 2011

Nullilfying The Barbay Effect: Connecting With Your Students, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Hal Blythe

Of course reaching students has always involved more than logistics. They always live in a newer world than those of their teachers, and speaking their language in order to wed the valuable past with the hip present remains an ongoing challenge. Barbay Effect? It’s a reference to the movie “Back to School” (1986) starring Rodney Dangerfield.


Story Story Night, Clay Morgan Dec 2009

Story Story Night, Clay Morgan

Clay Morgan

No abstract provided.


Poetry, Drama, And The Postmodern Novel, Ian Rae Oct 2009

Poetry, Drama, And The Postmodern Novel, Ian Rae

Ian Rae

No abstract provided.


Is There A Case For Dummies-Downed Technical Journals? Some Nurses Say Yes, Russell Willerton Oct 2009

Is There A Case For Dummies-Downed Technical Journals? Some Nurses Say Yes, Russell Willerton

Russell Willerton

[No abstract available.]


An Interview With Sheryl St. Germain, Allison Schuette Sep 2009

An Interview With Sheryl St. Germain, Allison Schuette

Allison Schuette

No abstract provided.


Collaborative Inquiry Projects That Enhance Everyone’S Professional Development, Bruce Robbins Jun 2009

Collaborative Inquiry Projects That Enhance Everyone’S Professional Development, Bruce Robbins

Bruce Robbins

No abstract provided.


“The Ungraspable Phantom: Death And Nature In Melville’S Later Poetry”, Tom Hillard May 2009

“The Ungraspable Phantom: Death And Nature In Melville’S Later Poetry”, Tom Hillard

Tom J. Hillard

No abstract provided.


The Tournament Of Tottenham, Linda Marie Zaerr May 2009

The Tournament Of Tottenham, Linda Marie Zaerr

Linda Marie Zaerr

No abstract provided.


'Fiddling With Middle English Romance: Tuning, Timbre, And Rhythm' And 'AlterIng Sir Bevis: Precipitating Otherness In Medieval Romance', Linda Marie Zaerr May 2009

'Fiddling With Middle English Romance: Tuning, Timbre, And Rhythm' And 'AlterIng Sir Bevis: Precipitating Otherness In Medieval Romance', Linda Marie Zaerr

Linda Marie Zaerr

No abstract provided.


Beet Inspector, Linda Niemann Feb 2009

Beet Inspector, Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

Part of the "Biography, Autobiography, Memoir and Personal Narrative" presentation series.


Organized Booming, Linda Niemann Jan 2009

Organized Booming, Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

No abstract provided.


“Mary Rowlandson, Ecocriticism, And The Puritan Gothic Frontier”, Tom Hillard Dec 2008

“Mary Rowlandson, Ecocriticism, And The Puritan Gothic Frontier”, Tom Hillard

Tom J. Hillard

No abstract provided.


Review Of The Edinburgh History Of The Book In Scotland. Vol. 4, Professionalism And Diversity, 1880–2000, D. Finkelstein And A. Mccleery Eds., Rachel Buurma Dec 2008

Review Of The Edinburgh History Of The Book In Scotland. Vol. 4, Professionalism And Diversity, 1880–2000, D. Finkelstein And A. Mccleery Eds., Rachel Buurma

Rachel S Buurma

No abstract provided.


Poetic Translation Of Verses In Grettis Saga, With Commentary, Russell Poole Dec 2008

Poetic Translation Of Verses In Grettis Saga, With Commentary, Russell Poole

Russell Poole

No abstract provided.


In Quest Of Saga Styles In Merlínússpá, Russell Poole Dec 2008

In Quest Of Saga Styles In Merlínússpá, Russell Poole

Russell Poole

No abstract provided.


T.S. Eliot Bibliography 2008. Time Present 68, Jayme Stayer, Andrew Powers, Rhiannon Lathy Dec 2008

T.S. Eliot Bibliography 2008. Time Present 68, Jayme Stayer, Andrew Powers, Rhiannon Lathy

Jayme Stayer

No abstract provided.


Of Animals And Transgression In Kurosawa’S Dreams, Servanne Woodward Dec 2008

Of Animals And Transgression In Kurosawa’S Dreams, Servanne Woodward

Servanne Woodward

No abstract provided.


Women At War In Mrs. Dalloway, Anne Fernald Dec 2008

Women At War In Mrs. Dalloway, Anne Fernald

Anne E Fernald

No abstract provided.


Nullilfying The Barbay Effect: Connecting With Your Students, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe Dec 2008

Nullilfying The Barbay Effect: Connecting With Your Students, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Charlie Sweet

Of course reaching students has always involved more than logistics. They always live in a newer world than those of their teachers, and speaking their language in order to wed the valuable past with the hip present remains an ongoing challenge. Barbay Effect? It’s a reference to the movie “Back to School” (1986) starring Rodney Dangerfield.


Verses Of Halli Stirði, Russell Poole Dec 2008

Verses Of Halli Stirði, Russell Poole

Russell Poole

No abstract provided.


The Cleavage Commotion: How The Press Covered Senator Hillary Clinton’S Campaign, Karen Stein Dec 2008

The Cleavage Commotion: How The Press Covered Senator Hillary Clinton’S Campaign, Karen Stein

Karen F Stein

No abstract provided.


'The Romance Of Araby', Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe Dec 2008

'The Romance Of Araby', Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Charlie Sweet

No abstract provided.


Pica, Julie Hensley Dec 2008

Pica, Julie Hensley

Julie Hensley

No abstract provided.


Financial Partnering And Other Strategies To Help Centers Of Teaching And Learning Thrive In Hard Times, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe, B. Philips Dec 2008

Financial Partnering And Other Strategies To Help Centers Of Teaching And Learning Thrive In Hard Times, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe, B. Philips

Charlie Sweet

With Centers for Teaching and Learning (CTLs) entering a period of economic downturn, the authors demonstrate how their Center has survived hard times through financial partnering with on- and off-campus groups. They also explain how to develop successful strategies for partnering (both financial and otherwise), analyze the dynamics of such collaborations, and offer some useful guidelines.


Thinking Through Crisis : 1930s African American Literature And Politics, James Ford Dec 2008

Thinking Through Crisis : 1930s African American Literature And Politics, James Ford

James Ford

No abstract provided.


Lincoln's In Town (A Play), Robert Bray, Nancy Steele Brokaw Dec 2008

Lincoln's In Town (A Play), Robert Bray, Nancy Steele Brokaw

Robert Bray

The play was produced in Bloomington, Illinois, February 13-15, 2009, at the Bloomington Performing Arts Center as part of the celebration of the bicentenary of Abraham Lincoln's birth.


"Can No Prayers Pierce Thee?": Re-Imagining Marian Intercession In The Merchant Of Venice, Ruben Espinosa Dec 2008

"Can No Prayers Pierce Thee?": Re-Imagining Marian Intercession In The Merchant Of Venice, Ruben Espinosa

Ruben Espinosa

In post-Reformation England, anti-Catholic polemics delineated Marian devotion as dangerous, if not idolatrous, and attacked the Virgin Mary’s influence by contending that belief in her intercessory power posed a threat to God’s authority. But the very existence of these polemics indicates that prayer to, and desire for, the Virgin Mary’s intercession endured the Reformation. This article addresses Shakespeare’s attention to this Marian strength in The Merchant of Venice to demonstrate how he draws on Mary’s “lost” intercessory power in his development of Portia as a character reminiscent of the compassionate Virgin Mary of Catholic tradition. By casting Marian intercession in …


The Spanish Tragedy As Intertext For Orhan Pamuk's Kar (Snow), Rachel Hile Dec 2008

The Spanish Tragedy As Intertext For Orhan Pamuk's Kar (Snow), Rachel Hile

Rachel E. Hile

In Kar (2002; English version Snow, 2004), Orhan Pamuk uses the genre of early modern English revenge tragedy, specifically Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, to emphasize the theme of revenge and to illuminate his ideas about women's agency within Islamic culture. Through his departures from the generic expectations of revenge tragedy, Pamuk conveys a sense of the moral complexity of the many acts of revenge in the novel. In another important alteration of this intertext, during the play-within-the-novel performance of The Spanish Tragedy, Kadife, who plays the Bel-imperia role, goes “off script” by not committing suicide on …