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Portrait Of Lucifer As A Young Man, Bryan M. Furuness Jul 2009

Portrait Of Lucifer As A Young Man, Bryan M. Furuness

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

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Man Of Steel, Bryan M. Furuness Apr 2009

Man Of Steel, Bryan M. Furuness

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

No abstract available.


Using Literature In Learning Contexts To Address Contentious Issues Of Difference, Culture, Power, And Privilege In The Classroom, Susan M. Holloway Mar 2009

Using Literature In Learning Contexts To Address Contentious Issues Of Difference, Culture, Power, And Privilege In The Classroom, Susan M. Holloway

Education Publications

Fictional literature provides a vehicle for students to discuss power issues and thus achieve a better understanding of identity politics and systemic barriers that shape people‟s lives. This paper examines the use of fiction to explore difficult issues such as race, gender, culture, power, and privilege, and ways to promote these kinds of discussions amongst teacher candidates. The kinds of ethical dilemmas often posed in works of fiction complicate what our notion of power is, who produces it, and how it is disseminated or regulated. My argument characterizes the kinds of subtle and more explicit rhetoric used by teacher candidates …


A Test Of The Effects Of Fictional Framing On Attitudes, Ken Mulligan, Philip Habel Jan 2009

A Test Of The Effects Of Fictional Framing On Attitudes, Ken Mulligan, Philip Habel

Working Papers

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Location And Landscape In Literary Americanisms: H. L. Davis And F. Scott Fitzgerald, David T. Sumner Jan 2009

Location And Landscape In Literary Americanisms: H. L. Davis And F. Scott Fitzgerald, David T. Sumner

Faculty Publications

Well into the twentieth century, western American literature was still dismissed as regional or was boxed in by the genre expectations of pulp Westerns. This chapter focuses less on the causes of an eastern dismissal of western literature and more on what is unique about western literature, including how it reflects the larger western experience. Sumner looks at the particular Americanisms evident in the letters of the American West, using two short stories to make his argument: H. L. Davis’s Open Winter and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Babylon Revisited.


We're One And Many: Remembering Auto/Biographically: The Year's Work In Non-Fiction 2008-2009, Antonio J. Simoes Da Silva Jan 2009

We're One And Many: Remembering Auto/Biographically: The Year's Work In Non-Fiction 2008-2009, Antonio J. Simoes Da Silva

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

This year as in years past, the story of self told by self or other is strongly represented in this article review, and ranges from Brian Dibble’s impressive and endlessly fascinating biography of Elizabeth Jolley, to the earnest memoir of Paul Crittenden, crafted with integrity but a little too much attention to the dross of life, to Kim E. Beazley Sr. monotonous but historically worthy recording of his time as a politician who attained high office at state and federal level.