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V.S. Naipaul And A Journey To Trinidad, Arnold Girdharry Dec 2004

V.S. Naipaul And A Journey To Trinidad, Arnold Girdharry

Bridgewater Review

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More Borrowing From Bellegarde In Delarivier Manley's Queen Zarah And The Zarazians, Rachel Carnell Dec 2004

More Borrowing From Bellegarde In Delarivier Manley's Queen Zarah And The Zarazians, Rachel Carnell

English Faculty Publications

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The Valuation Of Literature: Triangulating The Rhetorical With The Economic Metaphor, Melissa Brown Gustafson Jul 2004

The Valuation Of Literature: Triangulating The Rhetorical With The Economic Metaphor, Melissa Brown Gustafson

Theses and Dissertations

Several theorists, including the Marxist theorists Trevor Ross, Walter Benjamin, and M.H. Abrams, have proposed theories to explain the eighteenth-century shift from functional to aesthetic conceptions of literature. Their explanations attribute the change to an increasingly consumer-based society (and the resulting commoditization of books), the development of the press, the rise of the middle class, and increased access to books. When we apply the cause-effect relationships which these theorists propose to the contexts of nineteenth-century America, Communist East Germany, WWII America, and 9/11 America, however, the causes don't correlate with the effects they theoretically predict. This disjunction suggests a re-examination …


The "Beyondness Of Things" In The Buccaneers: Vernon Lee's Influence On Edith Wharton's Sense Of Places, Suzanne W. Jones Mar 2004

The "Beyondness Of Things" In The Buccaneers: Vernon Lee's Influence On Edith Wharton's Sense Of Places, Suzanne W. Jones

English Faculty Publications

Since its publication in 1938, readers have been at odds in their assessment of The Buccaneers, Edith Wharton's only novel set in England. While her literary executor, Gaillard Lapsley, and many early reviewers on both sides of the Atlantic saw great promise in the unfinished novel, a few critics like Edmund Wilson wrote the work off as 'an old-fashioned story for girls' and judged Wharton's skill 'dulled' in this her last book. In the 1980's, however, feminist critics found much to value in the novel: from protagonist Annabel St. George's self-actualization to the comradeship of the American girls and the …


Parnassus 2004 Jan 2004

Parnassus 2004

Parnassus

The 2004 edition of the student literary journal, Parnassus, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.


Frankenstein Meets Lacan: Desire And Discourse In Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", Laura Hamblin Dec 2003

Frankenstein Meets Lacan: Desire And Discourse In Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", Laura Hamblin

Laura Hamblin

This presentation looks at Frankenstein's creature and his predicament by analyzing three manifestations of the creature: the creature as demon; the creature as the Other; and the creature as the Shadow. In each of these instances, language and the lack of fulfillment of desire function as the medium through which the creature becomes a monster.