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Haunted Collections: Vernon Lee And Ethical Consumption, Kristin Mary Mahoney Jan 2006

Haunted Collections: Vernon Lee And Ethical Consumption, Kristin Mary Mahoney

English Faculty and Staff Publications

Vernon Lee's "The Doll" is the story of a collector's reformation. The thing (which perhaps should not be called a thing) that is responsible for putting the collector "out of conceit with ferreting about among dead people's properties" is a doll that once belonged to a widowed count. The count had spent hours each day holding this life-sized mannequin, which had been dressed in his wife's clothing and a wig fashioned from her hair. When the count died, the doll was cast into a closet. The collector encounters the doll while shopping for bric-a brac and presses her curiosity dealer …


Structure And Surprise: A New Paradigm For Teaching Poetry, Michael Theune Jan 2006

Structure And Surprise: A New Paradigm For Teaching Poetry, Michael Theune

Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Some Considerations Of (Untitled), Michael Theune Jan 2006

Some Considerations Of (Untitled), Michael Theune

Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Wit's Worth: A Reflection On Contemporary American Poetry On Created In Darkness By Troubled Americans, Michael Theune Jan 2006

Wit's Worth: A Reflection On Contemporary American Poetry On Created In Darkness By Troubled Americans, Michael Theune

Scholarship

Near the beginning of last century, Ezra Pound proclaimed that poetry should be at least as well-written as prose. Near the end of that same century, Charles Bernstein declared that poetry should be at least as interesting as TV. The start of a new century brings with it a new demand for poetry: poetry must be at least as witty, as knowing and as surprising as Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans. And, though it may not seem so at first, this silly—and disturbing, and wonderful—book offers serious lessons for and challenges to contemporary American poetry at all levels: from …


Hallowmas, Michael Theune Jan 2006

Hallowmas, Michael Theune

Scholarship

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Robert Scholes. Paradoxy Of Modernism, Alan Blackstock Jan 2006

Robert Scholes. Paradoxy Of Modernism, Alan Blackstock

English Faculty Publications

Readers familiar with Scholes' The Rise and Fall o/English should find his latest book equally engaging. Cyril Connolly's characterization of the work of Dornford Yates, quoted with admiration by Scholes in Chapter Six of this book, might apply equally well to Scholes' own work, as it exhibits "a wit that is ageless united to a courtesy that is extinct." What Scholes finds so admirable in the phrase is "not merely its elegant syntax, but the way that the syntax balances against each other and thus emphasizes the words 'ageless' and 'extinct'-suggesting that the admirable quality of Yates' work derives from …


The Footnote, In Theory, Anne H. Stevens, Jay Williams Jan 2006

The Footnote, In Theory, Anne H. Stevens, Jay Williams

English Faculty Research

And, so, when Richard Stern published his private dialogue with himself about the physical appearance of certain writers at the 1986 International PEN conference, Joyce Carol Oates insisted on not only an angry rebuttal-punctuated by constant page referencing to Stern's "pig-souled sexism"-but photographic evidence-a kind of footnote in itself-dismissing his physical characterization of her. When Susan Gubar published "What Ails Feminist Criticism?" her essay provoked an immediate, critical, and heavily documented response from Robyn Weigman, several letters to the editor, and Gubar's own footnoted rejoinder. Jane Gallop's defense of a sexual act she engaged in with one of her students …


Currents And Eddies In The Discourse Of Assessment: A Learning-Focused Interpretation, Pauline Rea-Dickins Jan 2006

Currents And Eddies In The Discourse Of Assessment: A Learning-Focused Interpretation, Pauline Rea-Dickins

Institute for Educational Development, East Africa

This article explores processes of classroom assessment, in particular ways in which learners using English as an additional language engage in formative assessment within a primary school setting. Transcript evidence of teacher and learner interactions during activities viewed by teachers as formative or summative assessment opportunities are presented as the basis for an analysis of teacher feedback, learner responses to this feedback, as well as learner-initiated talk. The analyses suggest that there are different teacher orientations within assessment and highlight the potential that assessment dialogues might offer for assessment as a resource for language learning, thus situating this work at …


Review Of Macbeth, Michael Adams Jan 2006

Review Of Macbeth, Michael Adams

Publications and Research

Review of Geoffrey Wright's Macbeth: http://www.media-party.com/discland/2007/12/macbeth-2006.html


Preface [To Libraries And Culture, Winter 2006], Sarah Wadsworth Jan 2006

Preface [To Libraries And Culture, Winter 2006], Sarah Wadsworth

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Introduction [To Eliza Parson's "The Castle Of Wolfenbach: A German Story"], Diane Hoeveler Jan 2006

Introduction [To Eliza Parson's "The Castle Of Wolfenbach: A German Story"], Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Review Of Encyclopedia Of The Romantic Era, 1760-1850, Edited By Christopher John Murray; And A Companion To European Romanticism, Edited By Michael Ferber, Diane Hoeveler Jan 2006

Review Of Encyclopedia Of The Romantic Era, 1760-1850, Edited By Christopher John Murray; And A Companion To European Romanticism, Edited By Michael Ferber, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

Few students of Coleridge know the dark, mysterious poetry of the later years better than Eric Wilson. And even fewer have a stronger command of the scholarship on this poetry. Understandably, the work of the pre-1800 years, especially the great trio of the imaginative and the supernatural—The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christabel, Kubla Khan—and the earlier conversation poems, have received major critical attention. Yet although these poems bring to the fore the troubling presence of Sara in “Eolian Harp” and the distressing violations of the Mariner and of the innocent Christabel by the serpent-woman Geraldine, …


Mapping Orientalism: Representations And Pedagogies, Diane Hoeveler, Jeffrey Cass Jan 2006

Mapping Orientalism: Representations And Pedagogies, Diane Hoeveler, Jeffrey Cass

English Faculty Research and Publications

In order to understand Orientalism it is necessary to realize, as Vincent T. Harlow has noted, that there were “two British empires.” The first empire consisted of the colonies in America and the West Indies and was established in the seventeenth century, with the explorations in the Pacific, and the trading networks that developed with Asia and Africa. The “second British empire” dates from 1783 and resulted from the loss of America, which in turn forced Britain to formulate new ideas about and approaches to its empire. The Colonial Office was set up in 1801, and, as Harlow observed, Britain …


The Female Captivity Narrative: Blood, Water, And Orientalism, Diane Hoeveler Jan 2006

The Female Captivity Narrative: Blood, Water, And Orientalism, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

The story of how Europeans institutionalized, commodified, and controlled their anxious projections about Muslim "Others" is a long, complex, and ultimately tragic saga that the term "Orientalism" only partially conveys. Historians as well as literary, religious, political, and cultural critics have attempted for close to four hundred years to come to terms with the meaning of Islam and more broadly with the challenges that the Eastern world presents to the West. More importantly for the purposes of this essay, it is necessary to recognize that the binary model (Self/Other) adopted by Edward Said to define Orientalism has been challenged and …


Breathing Out Smoke, Angela Sorby Jan 2006

Breathing Out Smoke, Angela Sorby

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Review [Of Reading The Brontë Body: Disease, Desire, And The Constraints Of Culture By Beth Torgerson], Diane Hoeveler Jan 2006

Review [Of Reading The Brontë Body: Disease, Desire, And The Constraints Of Culture By Beth Torgerson], Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Our So-Called Illustrious Past, Kathryn Rhett Jan 2006

Our So-Called Illustrious Past, Kathryn Rhett

English Faculty Publications

I went to London not to see the queen, but to find the Dutch baronet from whom we were all descended. I went as my father and forefathers and foremothers had done, to turn the crackling pages of a parish register and put my finger on our name. I went with an image of Gualter de Raedt, a young Dutchman in 1660, boarding a ship to accompany Charles the Second back to England, where monarchy would be restored. The fleet of thirteen ships sailed from Schevinengen on a flat gray sea as fifty thousand people stood on the beach to …


Trouble No More, Anthony Grooms Jan 2006

Trouble No More, Anthony Grooms

Faculty and Research Publications

Second Edition of Anthony Groom's award-winning collection of short stories, Trouble No More, set throughout the American South, presents stories that engage with history, politics, class, race, childhood, and life. They are the personal and public troubles of the African American middle class. These stories are about families, intact and estranged, about ordinary lives in extraordinary times.


Plain Broad Narratives Of Substantial Facts”: Credibility, Narrative, And Hakluyt’S Principall Navigations, Julia Schleck Jan 2006

“Plain Broad Narratives Of Substantial Facts”: Credibility, Narrative, And Hakluyt’S Principall Navigations, Julia Schleck

Department of English: Faculty Publications

This article compares voyage narratives printed in Richard Hakluyt’s 1589 Principall Navigations to contemporaneous travel histories in an effort to contextualize the epistemological status of each group of texts and debunk the former’s reputation for greater factuality. It critiques the use commonly made of Hakluyt’s narratives in literary studies, arguing that the privileging of these texts over other sources results in postcolonial studies that ironically valorize a type of writing which promoted the colonial mindset these studies seek to expose.


Land, Labor, And Colonial Economics In Thomas Morton's "New English Canaan", Michelle Burnham Jan 2006

Land, Labor, And Colonial Economics In Thomas Morton's "New English Canaan", Michelle Burnham

English

As long as critics have written about it, Thomas Morton's New English Canaan has been positioned as a counterhistory to William Brad ford's canonical Of Plymouth Plantation. One vein of critical reception has dismissed Morton's text as a flawed literary anomaly, effectively re peating Bradford's own befuddled and anxious response to Morton's aes thetics.1 A smaller but impassioned vein of literary criticism has, in turn, elevated Morton over Bradford on the basis of his egalitarianism, proto environmentalism, or multiculturalism avant la lettre?essentially cele brating Morton as a more laudable expression of individualism and free dom than that represented by the …


Connecting White Noise To Critical Whiteness Studies, Tim Engles Jan 2006

Connecting White Noise To Critical Whiteness Studies, Tim Engles

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

No abstract provided.


Review Of Lorna Jowett’S Sex And The Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer For The Buffy Fan, Terri Fredrick Jan 2006

Review Of Lorna Jowett’S Sex And The Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer For The Buffy Fan, Terri Fredrick

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

No abstract provided.


Connecting White Noise To Critical Whiteness Studies, Tim Engles Jan 2006

Connecting White Noise To Critical Whiteness Studies, Tim Engles

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

No abstract provided.


Memoirs Of A Bathroom Stall: The Women’S Lavatory As Crying Room, Confessional, And Sanctuary, Melissa R. Ames Jan 2006

Memoirs Of A Bathroom Stall: The Women’S Lavatory As Crying Room, Confessional, And Sanctuary, Melissa R. Ames

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

This article studies literary works that feature gender performance scenes that take place in women's restrooms. The ways in which female characters in Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak, J.D. Salinger's Franny & Zooey, and Clare Luce Boothe's The Women utilize the private space of the women's bathroom.


Review Of Dangerous Motherhood: Insanity And Childbirth In Victorian Britain, By Hilary Marland, Kristine Swenson Jan 2006

Review Of Dangerous Motherhood: Insanity And Childbirth In Victorian Britain, By Hilary Marland, Kristine Swenson

English and Technical Communication Faculty Research & Creative Works

The article reviews the book "Dangerous Motherhood: Insanity and Childbirth in Victorian Britain," by Hilary Marland.


English Ethnicity And Race In Early Modern Drama, By Mary Floyd-Wilson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003 (Book Review), Imtiaz Habib Jan 2006

English Ethnicity And Race In Early Modern Drama, By Mary Floyd-Wilson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003 (Book Review), Imtiaz Habib

English Faculty Publications

The article reviews the book "English Ethnicity and Race in Early Modern Drama," by Mary Floyd-Wilson.


Women, Literary Annuals, And The Evidence Of Inscriptions, Paula R. Feldman Jan 2006

Women, Literary Annuals, And The Evidence Of Inscriptions, Paula R. Feldman

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


In A Pig's Eye: Masculinity, Mastery, And The Returned Gaze Of The Blithedale Romance, David Greven Jan 2006

In A Pig's Eye: Masculinity, Mastery, And The Returned Gaze Of The Blithedale Romance, David Greven

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


The Faerie Queene (1590), David Lee Miller Jan 2006

The Faerie Queene (1590), David Lee Miller

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Liberation Theology And Liberatory Pedagogies: Renewing The Dialogue, Shari J. Stenberg Jan 2006

Liberation Theology And Liberatory Pedagogies: Renewing The Dialogue, Shari J. Stenberg

Department of English: Faculty Publications

recent Chronicle of Higher Education column, Stanley Fish describes a phone call he received after the death of Jacques Derrida from a reporter who was curious as to what would succeed high theory as the "center of energy in the academy." "I answered like a shot," Fish writes, "religion" (1). For many, Fish's prophecy might create a feeling of uneasiness; after all, in academic culture, religious ideologies are often considered hindrances to-not vehicles for-critical thought. This feeling may be especially true in regard to Christianity, which is often conflated with conservative politics and fundamentalism both in and outside of the …