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‘Jesus, Me’: ‘Suggestive Apposition In Cowper’S ‘Lines Written During A Period Of Insanity’, Thomas Dilworth

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Allusive Stanza Ten Of Dylan Thomas’S ‘Poem On His Birthday’, Thomas Dilworth

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‘Amazing’, ‘Forsaken’: Allusive Meanings In Auden’S ‘Musée Des Beaux Arts’, Thomas Dilworth

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Mcluhan As Medium, Thomas Dilworth

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Hell And Unhappiness In Larkins’S ‘High Windows’, Thomas Dilworth

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[This essay is a revision of an article entitled ‘Larkin’s “High Windows”, published in The Explicator 60:4 (Summer 2002), 221-3]

The Hidden Date In Yeats’S ‘Easter 1916’, Thomas Dilworth

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[This essay is a revised version of one with the same title published in Explicator 67:4 (Summer 2000), 236-7, copyright T.D]

Rhetorical And Symbolic Form In Hopkins’S ‘To What Serves Mortal Beauty’, Thomas Dilworth

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[This essay is a revision of an article entitled ‘Hopkins’s “To What Serves Mortal Beauty,” which was published in The Explicator 48:4 (Summer1990), 264-6.]

Death And Pleasure In Wallace Stevens’ ‘The Emperor Of Ice-Cream', Thomas Dilworth

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Unconcerned with preparations for a wake or funeral, ‘The Emperor of Ice-Cream’ is a general statement about life and in particular pleasure, which the speaker enthusiastically endorses and celebrates in stanza one. A pervasive motif of contained pleasureables and the presence of a corpse in stanza two support the speaker’s implication that pleasure sometimes deviates from morality and sanity.

Civilization And Culture: Imagery In Williams’ ‘The Red Wheelbarrow’, Thomas Dilworth

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Conrad's Secret Sharer At The Gate Of Hell, Thomas Dilworth

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The Fall Of Troy And The Slaughter Of The Suitors: Ultimate Symbolic Correspondence In The Odysssey, Thomas Dilworth

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The slaughter of the suitors in the Odysssey corresponds symbolically but antithetically to the fall of Troy. The correspondence implies an emotional dynamics in Homer and his audiences for which cultural anthropologists provide verification. As these dynamics imply, the recitation of the Odysssey achieved psychological reparation.

Comics And Public History: The True Story Of The 1934 Chatham Coloured All-Stars, Dale Jacobs, Heidi Lm Jacobs

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This essay examines how the Harding Project, a digital and oral history project at the University of Windsor, decided to use comics as one way to tell the story of the 1934 Chatham Coloured All-Stars. It is a story of collaboration and what can happen when conversation is allowed to develop organically as connections are created with the community. This essay details one such collaboration, between individual community members, community groups, and researchers from History, Leddy Library, and English at the University of Windsor, and the resulting cross-pollination of public history, digital librarianship, and comics studies. In telling this story, …

Tom Wolfe’S Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test As Bergsonian Satire, Andre Narbonne

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Arriving in the San Francisco garage where the Pranksters are waiting for Ken Kesey in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968), Tom Wolfe engages in a discussion on metaphysics with “Hassler” (Ron Bivert). What follows is Bergsonian. Henri Bergson’s theory of Aristotlean comedy in Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic (1901) states that “Society will…be suspicious of all inelasticity of character, of mind and even of body, because it is the possible sign of a slumbering activity as well as of an activity with separatist tendencies, that inclines to swerve from the common centre round which society …

The L.M. Montgomery Reader: Volume One: A Life In Print / The L.M. Montgomery Reader: Volume Two: A Critical Heritage / The L.M. Montgomery Reader: Volume Three: A Legacy In Review, Andre Narbonne

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'There Are No Rules. And Here They Are": Scott Mccloud's Making Comics As A Multimodal Rhetoric, Dale Jacobs

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Erotic Dream To Nightmare: Ominous Problems And Subliminal Suggestion In Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Thomas Dilworth

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Review Of Roberts, Gillian, Prizing Literature: Celebration And Circulation Of National Culture, Andre Narbonne

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Gillian Roberts’s Prizing Literature: The Celebration and Circulation of National Culture examines the role of literary prizes in the perception of Canadian authors and in evaluations of their contributions to Canadian cultural capital. The book is six chapters in length, of which the first frames the terms and the scope of Roberts’s analysis. In it, she positions national and international literary prizes in terms of the roles they play in hospitality. The next four chapters are dedicated to each of the study’s authors, whose canonical texts (paradoxically or not) es- chew nationalistic narratives. In the last chapter, “Con- clusion, or …

An Aesthetic Of Companionship:The Champlain Myth Inearly Canadian Literature, Andre Narbonne

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In a letter to William Douw Lighthall on November 18, 1888, Charles G.D. Roberts describes the activities at the Haliburton Society at King’s College in Windsor, Nova Scotia. “I talk Canadianism all the time to the members,” he writes. “We have a literary programme, of Canadian color each night, & we smoke, & drink lime juice & raspberry vinegar, all thro[ugh] the meeting. I am sort of permanent Pres[iden]t, as it were” (Collected Letters 96; italics in original). In the letter’s postscript, Roberts asks Lighthall if he would like to join the society and names Bliss Carman as one of …

Thomas Carlyle's Inverse Sublime And Early Canadian Humor, Andre Narbonne

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Don Harron, Andre Narbonne

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Lucy Maud Montgomery, Andre Narbonne

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Multimodal Constructions Of Self: Autobiographical Comics And The Case Of Joe Matt's Peepshow, Dale Jacobs

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As we think about autobiography, it becomes necessary to broaden our ways of thinking about texts. In order to do so, we need to consider how creators of autobiographical comics use words and images to produce meanings at the intersection of multiple modal systems—meanings unavailable in either pictures or words alone. Working through the theoretical and practical connections between multimodality and theories of autobiography, this article explores the ways in which questions of autobiography are addressed in the comics form through an examination of Joe Matt's Peepshow, an autobiographical comic that has been published at varying intervals since 1992.

More Than Words: Comics As A Means Of Teaching Multiple Literacies, Dale Jacobs

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Symbolic Spatial Form In The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner And The Problem Of God, Thomas Dilworth

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'No Christians Thirst For Gold!': Religion And Colonialism In Pope, Katherine Quinsey

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What's Hope Got To Do With It?: Theorizing Hope In Education, Dale Jacobs

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Edward Sherburne (18 September 1616 - 4 November 1702), Katherine Quinsey

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The Dissolving Jail-Break In Margaret Avison, Katherine Quinsey

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Margaret Avison's most concise statement on the faculty of imaginative vision appears in the early and darker stages of her mature career, in her most controversial poem; the thought embodied by this statement, however, flows through most of her poetry in various channels, undergoing various transformations.

Nobody stuffs the world in at your eyes.
The optic heart must venture: a jail-break
and re-creation.

The central principles here — the equation of seeing with being; the bursting of generally-accepted boundaries of perception; and "the imagination's re-creation of the world of experience" — are fairly general and underlie equally the intellectual twists …