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Jack Of All Genres: A Brief Analysis Of C.S. Lewis's Works, Kimberly Day-Camp

Capstone Research Projects

No abstract provided.

Birth And After Birth And Painting Churches: Tina Howe's Examination Of Love And Savagery In The American Family, Sarah Ennis-Chambers

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Playwright Tina Howe has been quoted as saying that "family life has been over-romanticized; the savagery has not been seen enough in the theatre and in movies . . ." (Moore 101). In two of her plays, Birth and After Birth (1973) and Painting Churches (1983), that savagery appears in the form of name-calling, jealousy, apathy, disregard, and physical and mental abuse. A juxtaposition of the similarities in Birth and After Birth and Painting Churches will explain the "savagery" Howe is examining. The earlier play is written in the surrealistic style of lonesco and Beckett, playwrights who have been a …

Holy War In Henry Fifth, Steven Marx

English

No abstract provided.

The Blessings Of A Good Thick Skirt: Issues Of Dress In Women's Travel Narratives, Lila Marz Harper

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of Arts and Humanities

This paper argues that as illustration became expected in travel accounts between 1870-1900, the visual image produced a constraint on how women presented their dress and general appearance in their narratives.

On Purchasing A Second Case Of R. W. Knudsen Family Pomegranate Juice, Nathalie Anderson

English Literature Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

"Exploring The Boundaries Of Academic Freedom", Jayme Stayer

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

A review of the article "Exploring the Boundaries of Academic Freedom" by Mary R. Lefkowitz.

Bringing Bakhtin To Beethoven: The Ninth Symphony And The Limits Of Formalism, Jayme Stayer

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Jayme Stayer returns to the question of the meaning and form of the ode "To Joy."

My South, Nathalie Anderson

English Literature Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Listening To Cassandra: A Materialist-Feminist Exposé Of The Necessary Relations Between Rhetoric And Hermeneutics, Krista Ratcliffe

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Breaking And Entering: An Italian American's Literary Odyssey, Fred L. Gardaphé

Publications and Research

In this personalized account, Gardaphe presents audiences with his own-first person story of the meaning of ethnic identity in America. Gardaphe relates his story of how his own adventures, on the streets of Chicago and in the libraries and school, shaped his views on becoming an intellectual and fashioned his career as a writer and professor of Italian American culture.

Armand Schwerner: An Interview, Willard Gingerich

Department of English Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

In an interview, writer and educator Armand Schwerner discusses his recent and earlier Tablets, the creation of the icons in them, and his Scholar/Translator. Schwerner projects another 21 Tablets.

Part 2 of a 2-part interview. Part 1 is published in Hambone, no.11, Spring 1994, pp. 28-51

Mythcon 26 - Fairies In The Garden, Monsters At The Mall: Fantasy In The World Around Us, The Mythopoeic Society

Mythcon Programs

A few novels on our conference theme, especially those taking place in Northern California, but also extending across a wide variety of settings, recommended by the Mythcon committee.

The Postmodern Improvisor, Paul Caraher

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This thesis represents a revitalization of the thesis form because it has organically blossomed from an integrated consciousness. Instead of the pre-existing thesis form for a Master of Arts Degree in English bending, limiting, and shaping the content, I have shaped the form according to my own synthetic ambition, resulting in a fusion of elements from both a researched and a creative thesis. This strategy is justified since the very subject of the thesis stresses the improviser's ongoing urge to create as the spontaneous moment/impulse requires while simultaneously creating an organic frame or unique inner logic. Above all, this project …

A Palette Of Unconventional Symbolism: Color Imagery In Three Margaret Atwood Novels, Shannon Martin

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

In this thesis, the writer examines the color imagery in three Margaret Atwood novels: Surfacing, Cat's Eye, and The Handmaid's Tale. Atwood uses color in unconventional ways by forcing colors to symbolize the opposite of their common meanings, by allowing colors to represent simultaneously two opposing ideas, and by disregarding traditional color meanings by creating her own unique associations. Atwood's color imagery supports her thematic concerns in that through her themes--as with her use of color--she challenges the reader's expectations by throwing into question many conventional ideas about progress, religion, and the sex-gender system.

Kings And Counselors: The Politics Of Francis Bacon's Rhetorical Theory, Christopher Holcomb

Faculty Publications

English author Francis Bacon's letters to the courtiers of King James VI before the monarch succeeded Elizabeth I reveals his concept of rhetoric as a tool for political advancement. Bacon wrote several letters to gain the king's confidence, in which he expressed his intent to portray the king in the most positive light to his subjects once he enters England and assumes the throne. The letters are remarkable in the way they suggest that Bacon can create a persona for the king through the power of rhetoric, since Bacon includes the draft of a speech which he hoped would be …

Martha Gellhorn: The Hemingway Years, Tracy Freeman

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Martha Gellhorn, third wife of Ernest Hemingway, experiences criticism early in her writing career--critics claiming her journalism is superior to her fiction. Gellhorn meets Hemingway in December 1936 after the publication of her critically acclaimed novel, The Trouble I've Seen. The years between 1936 and 1945, the period Gellhorn is involved with Hemingway, represent an exploration for Gellhorn--a voyage of self-discovery and growing independence as a writer--years during which Gellhorn establishes a literary identity. During the early years of her war-time writing, Gellhorn establishes a unique narrative format which will come to be called the New Journalism. While her journalism …

Review Of Imagination Transformed: The Evolution Of Female Characters In Keats’S Poetry By Karla Alwes, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

The Living Metaphor Of Orlando: Duration, Gender, And The Artistic Self, Michele L. Herrman '95

Honors Projects

Virginia Woolf knows from the beginning what Orlando learns in the end: to be an artist is to be a living metaphor-a self which is not static and discrete, but evolving and "capable of others," to quote Cixous (Laugh, 345). In Orlando, Woolf represents the realization of the artistic self as a "creative evolution" through time; Orlando experiences time as a duration, unlike her peers, which separates her from society and its moment-to-moment constitution of self through gender, allowing her to experiment-with gender masquerade and develop the sensibility with which she can create metaphor.

Being An I-Witness—My Life As A Lesbian Teacher, Barbara Dibernard

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Afterword: It has been four years since I first wrote this essay. I came out as a lesbian to a sophomore-level class for the first time the semester after I wrote it, in circumstances much like those detailed here, while we were discussing Zami. The very next semester, I came out to all my classes in a letter at the beginning of the semester. Initially, being out from the start was a real liberation for me; in addition, I felt that having my lesbianism as a given affected the classes positively in ways I couldn't begin to know about during …

Female Characterization In The Novels Of Robert Penn Warren: Variations On A Cinderella Theme, Martha Brent

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The psychological construction of Robert Penn Warren's characters is an established tenet among Warren critics as is the influence of Sigmund Freud's work upon Warren's fiction. Specifically the oedipal nature of Warren's male characters has been widely discussed especially in regard to plots culminating in patricide. Based upon this criticism of Robert Penn Warren's novels to date, Warren's female characters are revealed to be developed likewise upon an oedipal paradigm. The female paradigm which corresponds to Freud's Oedipus complex in women is the Cinderella tale. These stories, some at least a thousand years old, were critically divided into three main …

Twelve, Kevin Clark

English

No abstract provided.

"Being A Half-Breed" Discourses Of Race And Cultural Syncreticity In The Works Of Three Metis Women Writers, Jodi Lundgren

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.

Ben Okri’S Spirit Child: Abiku Migration And Postmodernity, John C. Hawley

English

The widespread notion of the abiku in Nigerian culture says volumes about the heartrending deaths of countless newborns throughout the region's history. It also testifies to a belief in the permeability of the membrane separating the spirit world from "our" world. As the abiku puts it, in his family he is surrounded by people "who are seeded in rich lands, who still believe in mysteries" (F am 6), people who hold that "one world contains glimpses of others" (F am 1 0), and people who acknowledge a personal relationship with these spirits in the course of daily life. In western …

Transfigured Rites In Seventeenth Century Poetry (Book Review), Sidney Gottlieb

Communication, Media & The Arts Faculty Publications

Book review by Sidney Gottlieb.

Chambers, A. B. Transfigured Rites in Seventeenth Century Poetry. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1992. ISBN 9780826208088

Found: Swinburne’S Copyright, Terry L. Meyers

Arts & Sciences Articles

"Scholars working with unpublished material by Swinburne or with works by him still covered by copyright will be interested to know that the copyright remains in the hands of its presumptive owner, the successor firm to William Heinemann Ltd..."

Asses And Wits: The Homoerotics Of Mastery In Satiric Comedy, Mario Digangi

Publications and Research

This essay explores master-servant homoeroticism in three seventeenth-century satiric comedies: Ben Jonson's Epicoene and Volpone and George Chapman's The Gentleman Usher. Whereas "sodomy" always signifies social disorder, "homoerotic" useful for describing same-sex relations that are socially normative or orderly. Thus homoerotic master-servant relations become "sodomitical" only when they are perceived to threaten social order. In Epicoene, the character associated with the disorder of "sodomy" is neither Dauphine or Epicoene, but the "unnatural" Morose, even though he has not literally had sex with the boy he marries. The erotic master-servant relationship in Volpone is sodomitical because it transgresses against …

The Philanderer's Rebuttal, Robert A. Zordani

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

No abstract provided.

"Unmarkt, Unknown": The Return Of The Expressed In Paradise Regained, Douglas M. Lanier

English

No abstract provided.

Reading One Poet In Light Of Another: Herbert And Frost, James Boyd White

Articles

In this paper I wish both to draw certain connections between Herbert and Frost and at the same time to say something in a general way about the process by which such connections can be made. It is with the latter question that I begin. Once the relation between two writers would have been thought of mainly in terms of "influence." And one might indeed argue that Herbert did have significant influence on Frost's poetic practice — if not directly, for Frost was not a great reader of Herbert, then indirectly, through Emerson, who was in many ways Frost's master …

[Review Of] Motif-Index Of Folk Literature: New Enl. And Rev Ed.; Cd-Rom Ed., Robert A. Aken

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.