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Revisiting Missions: Decolonizing Public Memories In California, Brenda M. Helmbrecht
Revisiting Missions: Decolonizing Public Memories In California, Brenda M. Helmbrecht
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Living in California seems to require interaction with the state’s twenty-one historic Spanish missions, either by visiting them as a tourist, driving by a mission in one’s neighborhood, or learning about them as a schoolchild. While the missions ostensibly celebrate California’s history, many promote an anachronistic and dishonest re-telling of history that elides the devastating impact of the missions on Native communities (both historically and today). The missions operate as largely uncontested tourist attractions that promote self-serving collective memories about California’s founding narrative. Rhetorical analysis, I argue, can lead to a more honest engagement with the “hard truths” of their …
The Spectrum Of Service: Refocusing Academic Work Through A Military Lens, Brenda M. Helmbrecht, Dan Reno
The Spectrum Of Service: Refocusing Academic Work Through A Military Lens, Brenda M. Helmbrecht, Dan Reno
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In higher education, faculty, administrators, and students often use the term “work” casually: we go to work, we do our work, and we always have work left to finish. Thus, we appreciate the journal’s editors asking us to slow down and fully consider our work as instructors and scholars in the field of composition studies. Here we explore what it means to approach work through the lens of service. While service is an essential component of academic work, we seldom explore how the two concepts inform one another. As a WPA and an Army veteran, we decided to join our …
Shakespeare Reading Paul: Heavenly Fraud In The Winter's Tale, Steven Marx
Shakespeare Reading Paul: Heavenly Fraud In The Winter's Tale, Steven Marx
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Review Of Get Out, Directed By Jordan Peele, Douglas Keesey
Review Of Get Out, Directed By Jordan Peele, Douglas Keesey
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No abstract provided.
Dharma And Darwin, Steven Marx
Philip Ridley, Douglas Keesey
The Ideology Of Formlessness?, Douglas Keesey
Blow Out (1981), Douglas Keesey
Essay Review Of David G. Schuster, Neurasthenic Nation (Routeledge), J. Bradford Campbell
Essay Review Of David G. Schuster, Neurasthenic Nation (Routeledge), J. Bradford Campbell
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Beatnik Buddhism In Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums, Steven Marx
Beatnik Buddhism In Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums, Steven Marx
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The Dharma Bums, Kerouac's 1962 novelistic memoir, offers portraits of Alan Ginsberg, Gary Snyder and Kerouac himself as jolly bodhisatvas.
Looking Outside The Image: Trusting A "Few Bad Apples" In Errol Morris's Standard Operating Procedure (2008), Brenda Helmbrecht
Looking Outside The Image: Trusting A "Few Bad Apples" In Errol Morris's Standard Operating Procedure (2008), Brenda Helmbrecht
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Genes In Genesis: Evolutionary Psychology And The Bible As Literature, Steven Marx
Genes In Genesis: Evolutionary Psychology And The Bible As Literature, Steven Marx
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No abstract provided.
Forming University And Teacher Partnerships In An Effort To Reframe And Rethink Mentoring Programs, Megan Guise
Forming University And Teacher Partnerships In An Effort To Reframe And Rethink Mentoring Programs, Megan Guise
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Instead of thinking about teacher development as a series of discrete stages, mentors in schools and universities might re-conceptualize the process as a continuum, with the faculty involved in the preparation continuing a partnership to support the development of beginners in the schools.
Exploring The Significance Of Social Class Identity Performance In The English Classroom: A Case Study Analysis Of A Literature Circle Discussion, Amanda Haertling Thein, Megan Guise, Deann Long Sloan
Exploring The Significance Of Social Class Identity Performance In The English Classroom: A Case Study Analysis Of A Literature Circle Discussion, Amanda Haertling Thein, Megan Guise, Deann Long Sloan
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English educators at all levels have endeavored to understand difference in their classrooms both in terms of the content that they teach and in terms of the social and cultural identities of students in their classrooms. However, although educators have come a long way in understanding identity as it is constituted by race and gender, much work is needed for social class identity to be understood with nuance and complexity. This article explores the salience of class identity as it affects one aspect of learning in the English classroom--literary interpretation. Specifically, this article draws on data from a six-week literature …
Problematizing Literature Circles As Forums For Discussion Of Multicultural And Political Texts, Amanda Haertling Thein, Megan Guise, Deann Long Sloan
Problematizing Literature Circles As Forums For Discussion Of Multicultural And Political Texts, Amanda Haertling Thein, Megan Guise, Deann Long Sloan
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In a six-week literature circle unit in a tenth-grade classroom, one group of students discussed Dorothy Allison's novel Bastard out of Carolina. By criteria frequently used to judge the quality of discussion, this literature circle was successful. However, several key moments are highlighted that point to the limits of literature circles as they are typically implemented for engaging students in the full critical depth of multicultural and political texts. Finally, suggestions are offered for rethinking literature circle pedagogy with the goal of offering students a more nuanced and robust experience with such texts.
The Poetics Of James Dickey: The Early Motion, Douglas Keesey
The Poetics Of James Dickey: The Early Motion, Douglas Keesey
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No abstract provided.
Review Of Super 8, Directed By J.J. Abrams, Douglas Keesey
Review Of Super 8, Directed By J.J. Abrams, Douglas Keesey
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No abstract provided.
Review Of The Killer Inside Me, Directed By Michael Winterbottom, Douglas Keesey
Review Of The Killer Inside Me, Directed By Michael Winterbottom, Douglas Keesey
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Black Magic And White Guilt: Voodoo In Angel Heart, Douglas Keesey
Black Magic And White Guilt: Voodoo In Angel Heart, Douglas Keesey
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On first viewing, Alan Parker’s 1987 film Angel Heart may seem like just another in a long line of films that equate voodoo with Satanism, blacks with the black arts. However, the film also struggles toward an acknowledgment of white guilt, an admission that evil resides within the self. Evil’s repression and projection onto the “black other” must be understood as a defensive strategy for denying one’s own guilt. The difference between good whites and bad blacks must be redefined as a difference within, the capacity for good and evil inherent in each of us, regardless of skin color or …
Intertwinings Of Death And Desire In Michele Soavi’S Dellamorte Dellamore, Douglas Keesey
Intertwinings Of Death And Desire In Michele Soavi’S Dellamorte Dellamore, Douglas Keesey
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This article engages in an in-depth discussion of Michele Soavi's Dellamorte Dellamore/Cemetery Man, a 1993 film based on a bestselling novel and on Italy's most popular comic-book series (Dylan Dog). Close analysis reveals that, rather than being just another forgettable splatter movie or ridiculous horror comedy, this zombie thriller is a film of great psychosexual complexity, along the lines of Edgar Allan Poe's 'Ligeia' (1838) and Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958). In Dellamorte Dellamore, horror becomes the vehicle for the female character's struggle with guilt over infidelity to her deceased husband, with fear of phallic sexuality and with masochistic …
Review Of Shutter Island, Directed By Martin Scorsese, Douglas Keesey
Review Of Shutter Island, Directed By Martin Scorsese, Douglas Keesey
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Review Of Mikko Tuhkanen, The American Optic: Psychoanalysis, Critical Race Theory, And Richard Wright, J. Bradford Campbell
Review Of Mikko Tuhkanen, The American Optic: Psychoanalysis, Critical Race Theory, And Richard Wright, J. Bradford Campbell
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Review Of Inception, Directed By Christopher Nolan, Douglas Keesey
Review Of Inception, Directed By Christopher Nolan, Douglas Keesey
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Split Identification: Representations Of Rape In Gaspar Noé’S Irréversible And Catherine Breillat’S A Masoeur!/Fat Girl, Douglas Keesey
Split Identification: Representations Of Rape In Gaspar Noé’S Irréversible And Catherine Breillat’S A Masoeur!/Fat Girl, Douglas Keesey
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This article critically examines rape scenes in two films of the new extreme cinema, Gaspar No's Irrversible (2002) and Catherine Breillat's A ma sur!/Fat Girl (2001). On the surface, No's disturbing long-take rape scene is clearly designed to foster empathy with the woman's experience and to induce a physical aversion to rape. However, a deeper examination of the scene's ambiguous techniques reveals that they actually work to split the viewer's identification between the rapist and the woman he attacks. One function of this split is to lead the viewer who is presumed to be male along an emotional path from …
The Schizophrenic Solution: Dialectics Of Neurosis And Anti-Psychiatric Animus In Ralph Ellison’S Invisible Man, J. Bradford Campbell
The Schizophrenic Solution: Dialectics Of Neurosis And Anti-Psychiatric Animus In Ralph Ellison’S Invisible Man, J. Bradford Campbell
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This essay argues that Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (1952)provides promising ground and a certain imperative to investigatethe underexamined intersections between literature and the historyof psychiatry. Especially where African American literatureis concerned, there has been a general reluctance to approachthese categories together, even while anecdotally history recordsnumerous engagements between the two. Ellison, for example,worked closely with Richard Wright and Dr. Fredric Wertham toestablish Harlem's LaFargue Clinic, the first and, in its time,only such institution committed to providing modern psychiatricservices to any and all who needed them. Ellison found in theclinic's practices a model of social psychiatry that did muchto address the …
Book Review: Adam N. Mckeown. Soldier Poets In The Age Of Shakespeare, Steven Marx
Book Review: Adam N. Mckeown. Soldier Poets In The Age Of Shakespeare, Steven Marx
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Degrees Of Emotion: Judicial Responses To Victim Impact Statements, Mary Lay Schuster, Amy Propen
Degrees Of Emotion: Judicial Responses To Victim Impact Statements, Mary Lay Schuster, Amy Propen
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Emotional standards and hierarchies in the courtroom may affect judicial reactions to victim impact statements. Based on judicial conversations and courtroom observations in two judicial districts in Minnesota, we suggest that judges contrast emotion with reason in order to maintain control of their courtrooms; when faced with emotional expressions in victim impact statements, judges appreciate expressions of compassion and tolerate expressions of grief but are uncomfortable with expressions of anger. These judicial responses to emotional expression, however, must be contextualized; for example, the judges we spoke with often articulated different reactions to impact statements given by victims of sexual assault, …
Neither A Wife Nor A Whore: Deconstructing Feminine Icons In Catherine Breillat's Une Vieille Maîtresse, Douglas Keesey
Neither A Wife Nor A Whore: Deconstructing Feminine Icons In Catherine Breillat's Une Vieille Maîtresse, Douglas Keesey
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This article undertakes a close reading of Catherine Breillat’s recent film Une vieille maîtresse (2007) to show why this, her first heritage film, is nevertheless strongly relevant to the gender politics of today. The author argues that Breillat’s cinematic deconstruction of differences between women is designed to undo the polarising effect of patriarchal representations of women as madonnas or whores — media images still prevalent even in these days of mixité and parité. Despite a tendency on the part of some reviewers to take the film’s gender images at face value, the author argues that Breillat’s interest lies not …
Understanding Genre Through The Lens Of Advocacy: The Rhetorical Work Of The Victim Impact Statement, Amy D. Propen, Mary Lay Schuster
Understanding Genre Through The Lens Of Advocacy: The Rhetorical Work Of The Victim Impact Statement, Amy D. Propen, Mary Lay Schuster
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Through interviews with judges and victim advocates, courtroom observations, and rhetorical analyses of victims’ reactions to proposed sentences, the authors examine the features that judges and advocates think make victims’ arguments persuasive. The authors conclude that this genre, recently imposed upon the court, functions as a mediating device through which advocates push for collective change, particularly for judicial acceptance of personal and emotional appeals. This study understands genres as responsive to changes within the activity systems in which they work and extends knowledge about genres that function as advocacy tools within internal institutional systems.
Psychoanalysis Of A Sequel: The Disinterment Of Pet Sematary Two, Douglas Keesey
Psychoanalysis Of A Sequel: The Disinterment Of Pet Sematary Two, Douglas Keesey
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No abstract provided.