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It’S Not A Matter Of Message But Of Messenger: Miltonic Principles In Thomas Hardy’S Jude The Obscure, Karley Adney
It’S Not A Matter Of Message But Of Messenger: Miltonic Principles In Thomas Hardy’S Jude The Obscure, Karley Adney
Scholarship and Professional Work of the Provost's Staff
Thomas Hardy once referred to his masterpiece Jude the Obscure as 'tragedy, told for its own sake as a presentation of particulars containing a good deal that was universal. Although the novel was roundly criticized upon its publication for dealing explicitly with issues like divorce and adultery, it was through these issues that the novel dealt with the universal, as Hardy would have put it.
The Necessity Of Disability In Flannery O’Connor’S ‘Good Country People’ And ‘The Lame Shall Enter First', Laura L. Behling
The Necessity Of Disability In Flannery O’Connor’S ‘Good Country People’ And ‘The Lame Shall Enter First', Laura L. Behling
Scholarship and Professional Work of the Associate Provosts
Yet there is incongruence in O'Connor's portrayals. As A. R. Coulthard suggests, "Good Country People" and "The Lame Shall Enter First" both "leave the question of salvation unanswered" (55), and the disabled who embody the imperfect human form are rarely saved. I would like to redeem Hulga Hopewell and Rufus Johnson, however, and to use their disability to do so. Specifically, I suggest that the non-disabled humanity in these texts is, in fact, corrupt, selfish, and unforgiving, and that this view arises because of characters such as Hulga and Rufus. The disabled are, in fact, necessary in order to expose …
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 …
Hulme Among The Progressives, Lee Garver
Hulme Among The Progressives, Lee Garver
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Dr. Lee Garver's contribution to: Comentale, Edward P., and Andrzej Gąsiorek. T.E. Hulme and the Question of Modernism. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2006.
The Promiscuity Of Print: John Clare’S ‘Don Juan’ And The Culture Of Romantic Celebrity, Jason N. Goldsmith
The Promiscuity Of Print: John Clare’S ‘Don Juan’ And The Culture Of Romantic Celebrity, Jason N. Goldsmith
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
This essay offers a new reading of John Clare's "Don Juan," a hard-hitting and deliberately vulgar denunciation of English society and letters. In his extended Byronic performance, Clare harnesses Byron's famed sexual appetite and strong Romantic irony to dramatic effect, defiantly redeploying the machinery of literary celebrity that had produced him as "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet." Tracing Clare's imaginative and textual investments in prostitutes and boxers, figures located at the margins of London's criminal underworld, I show how the compulsive misogyny of "Don Juan" and its obscene sexual punning form part of a concerted, if not entirely coherent, response to …