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Turning Seventy, Rowan Cahill
Turning Seventy, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
The author's ruminations on the occasion of him reaching the age of 70 years old.
A Flag Is Flipped And A Nation Flaps: The Politics And Patriotism Of The First International World Series, Todd J. Wiebe
A Flag Is Flipped And A Nation Flaps: The Politics And Patriotism Of The First International World Series, Todd J. Wiebe
Todd J Wiebe
No abstract provided.
History: The Birth Of "America" In 1882, Robert H.I. Dale
History: The Birth Of "America" In 1882, Robert H.I. Dale
Robert H. I. Dale
This article concerns a New York Times story about the birth of the female Asian elephant calf, named America, at the winter headquarters of the "Greatest Show on Earth" in Bridgeport, Connecticut on February 2, 1882. Phineas T. Barnum, one of the owners of the show, and one prone to self-aggrandizing bluster, claimed that America was the second elephant ever born in captivity. America was born only to months before the arrival in New York of the most famous circus elephant of all time, Jumbo, on Easter Sunday, 1882, and only two years before the origin of a small wagon …
“What Did She See?” The White Gaze And Postmodern Triple Consciousness In Walter Dean Myers’S Monster, Tim Engles, Fern Kory
“What Did She See?” The White Gaze And Postmodern Triple Consciousness In Walter Dean Myers’S Monster, Tim Engles, Fern Kory
Tim Engles
No abstract provided.
Going Graphic: Understanding What Graphic Novels Are -- And Aren't -- Can Help Teachers Make The Best Use Of This Literary Form, James Carter
James B Carter
Best practice information for considering graphic novels in the k-12 classroom
African American Whiteness In Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills, Tim Engles
African American Whiteness In Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills, Tim Engles
Tim Engles
No abstract provided.
Die A Graphic Death:" Revisiting The Death Of Genre With Graphic Novels, James Carter
Die A Graphic Death:" Revisiting The Death Of Genre With Graphic Novels, James Carter
James B Carter
A revisitation of the concept of genre as it applies to graphica. I argue, as have others, that comics is a medium or art form rather than a genre. But, I also illustrate the concept for rhetoric's sake.
Transforming English With Graphic Novels: Moving Toward Our "Optimus Prime", James Carter
Transforming English With Graphic Novels: Moving Toward Our "Optimus Prime", James Carter
James B Carter
I argue for the transformative potential of graphic novels in the English classroom.
Imagetext In The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, James Carter
Imagetext In The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, James Carter
James B Carter
Notions of WJT Mitchell's imagetext are explored as they are revealed in Mark Haddon's young adult novel *The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time*. Christopher Boone's particular way of reading the world illuminates imagetext relationships.
Princes, Beasts, Or Royal Pains: Men And Masculinity In The Revisionist Fairy Tales Of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, James Carter
Princes, Beasts, Or Royal Pains: Men And Masculinity In The Revisionist Fairy Tales Of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, James Carter
James B Carter
An examination of the roles men fulfill in select short stories of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman.
Alan Moore And The Graphic Novel: Confronting The Fourth Dimension, Mark Bernard, James Carter
Alan Moore And The Graphic Novel: Confronting The Fourth Dimension, Mark Bernard, James Carter
James B Carter
Comics, especially the works of Alan Moore, are examined as meeting the goals of modernist artists and writers due to their combination of image and text, succeedeing where neither form of expression could independently of one another.
The Perils Of Disembodied Readership, Tim Engles
"Who Are You, Literally?": Fantasies Of The White Self In White Noise, Tim Engles
"Who Are You, Literally?": Fantasies Of The White Self In White Noise, Tim Engles
Tim Engles
No abstract provided.