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What Archives Reveal: The Hidden Poems Of Amelia Earhart, Sammie L. Morris
What Archives Reveal: The Hidden Poems Of Amelia Earhart, Sammie L. Morris
Libraries Research Publications
The importance of primary source materials to scholarship is undeniable. Primary source materials can verify or contradict information accepted as true in history books and other secondary sources. They can tell the whole, or at least more complete, story of events. Unlike secondary sources, primary source materials offer first-hand accounts from the past, bringing history closer and making it feel more real. It can even be argued that primary source materials are less susceptible to the loss or misinterpretation of information over time in subsequent edition revisions. In particular among primary source materials, manuscripts such as diaries and letters offer …
Defending Donne: ‘The Flea’ And “Elegy Xix’ As Compliments To Womankind, Karley Adney
Defending Donne: ‘The Flea’ And “Elegy Xix’ As Compliments To Womankind, Karley Adney
Scholarship and Professional Work of the Provost's Staff
The Wife of Bath is one of Geoffrey Chaucer’s most famous characters; she was a woman strong enough to govern her own life. One may assume that this woman, penned by a man, could be labeled now as a feminist. It is possible, though, that Chaucer created this boisterous, opinionated woman not simply to assert that women are capable of being independent, but merely to show that women who attempt to do so are all as rude and coarse as she. So, her statements about life, love, and marriage may not be her own sentiments, but merely an echo of …
Allusion As Form: The Waste Land And Moulin Rouge!, Stacy Magedanz
Allusion As Form: The Waste Land And Moulin Rouge!, Stacy Magedanz
Library Faculty Publications & Presentations
Allusion is usually considered a literary technique, but relatively little attention has been paid to the notion of allusion as a literary form. In this essay, I attempt to describe the allusive form based on two prominent examples, T. S. Eliot’s Waste Land and Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! Though radically different, the two works embody distinguishing characteristics of the allusive form. These are intertextuality, or a dependence upon outside sources for sense and significance; heightened and self-conscious artificiality; a confrontational attitude toward the audience; elitism, based on the exclusivity of allusions; appropriation of multiple cultures; and pervasive anachronism. Though prone …
Et Cetera, Marshall University
Et Cetera, Marshall University
Et Cetera
Founded in 1953, Et Cetera is an annual literary magazine that publishes the creative writing and artwork of Marshall University students and affiliates. Et Cetera is free to the Marshall University community.
Et Cetera welcomes submissions in literary and film criticism, poetry, short stories, drama, all types of creative non-fiction, photography, and art.
Women, Literary Annuals, And The Evidence Of Inscriptions, Paula R. Feldman
Women, Literary Annuals, And The Evidence Of Inscriptions, Paula R. Feldman
Faculty Publications
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Electronic Textual Editing: The Poem And The Network: Editing Poetry Electronically, Steven Jones, Neil Fraistat
Electronic Textual Editing: The Poem And The Network: Editing Poetry Electronically, Steven Jones, Neil Fraistat
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
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Symmetrical Womanhood: Poetry In The Woman's Building Library, Angela Sorby
Symmetrical Womanhood: Poetry In The Woman's Building Library, Angela Sorby
English Faculty Research and Publications
Late-nineteenth-century women poets shed midcentury sentimentality unevenly and at some cost, losing a sense of privacy, a (Christian) frame of reference, and an "imagined community" of women who shared their worldview. They also gained more public, secular, and professional sources of identity. The exact nature of this postsentimental self was unclear. Postsentimental poets often wrote in the "genteel tradition," which trumpeted eternal truth and beauty while working from a position of subjective instability. Ultimately, their verses must be seen as powerfully fluid and transitional, registering (like the Woman's Building Library) women's struggle to inhabit more public forms of authority.