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Starting To Work The California Garden In Winter, Leeann Bartolini

LeeAnn Bartolini

French Kissing The Earth, Leeann Bartolini

LeeAnn Bartolini

"Coyotes At The Mall" (Reading From Cabin Fever), Tom Montgomery Fate

Tom Montgomery Fate

No abstract provided.

Her Eyes, Leeann Bartolini

LeeAnn Bartolini

Slouching Toward Assessment: One Department's Journey Toward Accountability Bliss, Stevens Amidon, Hardin Aasand, Debra Huffman

Stevens R. Amidon Dr.

A reflection on the department's efforts at improving the assessment of student learning outcomes.

Sixteenth- And Seventeenth-Century Falconry Manuals: Technical Writing With A Classical Rhetorical Influence, John Battalio

John T. Battalio

This study traces Renaissance and post-Renaissance technical writers' use of classical rhetoric in English instruction manuals on the sport of falconry. A study of the period's five prominent falconry manuals written by four authors—George Turberville, Simon Latham, Edmund Bert, and Richard Blome—reveals these technical writers' conscious use of classical rhetoric as an important technique to persuade readers to accept these authors' authority and trust the information they were disseminating. These manuals employed several classical rhetorical techniques: invention by using ethos and several classical topics, classical arrangement, the plain style, and adaptation of the orator's duties. The explanation for this classical …

Schoolroom Poets: Childhood, Performance, And The Place Of American Poetry, 1865-1917 [Book Review], Mary Loeffelholz

Mary Loeffelholz

No abstract provided.

"A Strange Medley-Book": Lucy Larcom's An Idyl Of Work, Mary Loeffelholz

Mary Loeffelholz

No abstract provided.

The Incidental Dickinson, Mary Loeffelholz

Mary Loeffelholz

No abstract provided.

"Long, Long Disappointment": Maternal Failure And Masculine Exhaustion In Margaret Oliphant’S Autobiography, Laura Green

Laura Green

No abstract provided.

Wishing To Be Fictional, Laura Green

Laura Green

No abstract provided.

Parable Of The Lost Finger, Bryan Furuness

Bryan M. Furuness

No abstract available

Ecclesiastes For Writers: A Furunessay In Six Answers, Bryan Furuness

Bryan M. Furuness

No abstract available

Nodal Humor In Comic Narrative: A Semantic Analysis Of Two Stories By Twain And Wodehouse, Christopher Holcomb

Christopher Holcomb

This paper shows that a semantic theory of humor offers, despite assertions to the contrary, an adequate description of how particular instances of humor are linked to the narrative in which they appear. After Victor Raskin's script-based semantic theory of humor is summarized, and adopted as the starting point of the analysis in this paper, the humor in two short stories is described in terms of their semantic properties. In this paper, humor is said to reside not simply in jokes but in joke-like constructions, for which the term "nodal points of humor" is used. These nodes can be identified …

Kings And Counselors: The Politics Of Francis Bacon's Rhetorical Theory, Christopher Holcomb

Christopher Holcomb

English author Francis Bacon's letters to the courtiers of King James VI before the monarch succeeded Elizabeth I reveals his concept of rhetoric as a tool for political advancement. Bacon wrote several letters to gain the king's confidence, in which he expressed his intent to portray the king in the most positive light to his subjects once he enters England and assumes the throne. The letters are remarkable in the way they suggest that Bacon can create a persona for the king through the power of rhetoric, since Bacon includes the draft of a speech which he hoped would be …

"A Man In A Painted Garment:" The Social Functions Of Jesting In Elizabethan Rhetoric And Courtesy Manuals, Christopher Holcomb

Christopher Holcomb

Many Elizabethan rhetoric and courtesy manuals offer jesting as a powerful rhetorical strategy for managing specific situations. Although highly pragmatic, the manuals' treatments of the subject imply a sociology of humor that classifies jests according to the broader social functions they serve: jests which preserve existing social relations and jests which disrupt, or even challenge, them. What eludes this classificatory scheme, however, are the properties of jesting itself. Jesting is always a flirtation with disorder and often serves conservative and disruptive functions simultaneously. If this is so, then the manuals' discussions of jesting replay (and magnify) ambiguities and anxieties characteristic …

Review Of Elizabeth Cooke Hoby Russell. The Writings Of An English Sappho. Ed. Patricia Phillippy, Elaine Beilin

Elaine V. Beilin

A review of the book "The Writings of an English Sappho," by Elizabeth Cooke Hoby Russell, edited by Patricia Phillippy, and translated by Jaime Goodrich, volume 14 in the book series entitled "The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series," is presented.

Pilgrimage For Love: New Essays On Renaissance Literature In Honor Of Josephine Roberts, Elaine Beilin

Elaine V. Beilin

No abstract provided.

Review Of Harriette Andreadis, Sappho In Early Modern England: Female Same-Sex Literary Erotics 1550-1714, Elaine Beilin

Elaine V. Beilin

Reviews books on women authors in Modern England. 'Sappho in Early Modern England: Female Same-Sex Literary Erotics 1550-1714,' by Harriete Andreadis; 'Early Modern Women's Letter Writing, 1450-1700,' edited by James Daybell; 'Women Writing 1550-1750,' edited by Jo Wallwork and Paul Salzman.

Writing Public Poetry: Humanism And The Woman Writer, Elaine Beilin

Elaine V. Beilin

Describes how three middle-class poets, Isabella Whitney, Anne Dowriche and Rachel Speght, revise the humanist concept of the learned lady by repositioning her and her work in the domain of public poetry. Writings on social, moral, political, and historical topics; Challenged the limitations set by men who supported and provided a humanist education for women; Effectively revised the humanist dogma on the place of women's work; More.

Reflections Of A Pious Margery In The Book Of Margery Kempe, Melodie Rodgers

mrodgers5@student.gsu.edu

No abstract provided.

Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato, Pamela Benson

Pamela J Benson

Cavallo's provocative title suggests the essence of her argument: the Orlando Innamoratois a didactic poem in which the poet "presents a coherent moral vision of love as well as a program for a humanist use of literature" (10).

Chaucerian Polity, Pamela Benson

Pamela J Benson

In Chaucerian Polity David Wallace makes "visible, through an expansion of temporal and spatial parametersr, elations and developments that would otherwise remain obscured or unconnected"( xvii). Specifically, through examination of the political structures of fourteenth-century Florence and Milan, to which Chaucer was exposed on his travels, Wallace makes Chaucer's political thought visible.

Translating Troy: Provincial Politics In Alliterative Romance, Alex Mueller

Alex Mueller

For Geoffrey Chaucer and many of his contemporaries, the literary life of England began in ancient Troy. In Translating Troy: Provincial Politics in Alliterative Romance, Alex Mueller explores Middle English alliterative romances that challenge this genealogical fantasy and decentralize Troy as the eastern origin of western authority.

Until the sixteenth century, the Trojans were widely believed to be the ancestors of the English people: the destruction of Troy led to the birth of Rome and eventually the foundation of a New Troy in Britain. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the fall of Troy was such a popular subject that …

Review Of "Reading Jane Austen" By Mona Scheuermann, "Why Jane Austen?" By Rachel Brownstein, Karen Gevirtz

Karen Bloom Gevirtz

No abstract provided.

The Moving Targets Of Teaching And Technology: Virtual Reference As Information Literacy Intermediary, Melanie Mills, Jennifer Robinson

Melanie Mills

Trends In Industry Supervisor Feedback On Business Communication Internships, David Sapp, Qin Zhang

David Alan Sapp

The purpose of this empirical study is to explore expectations of industry insiders and identify how student interns are performing in relation to those expectations as defined by 11 performance areas. The results of a survey of 238 industry supervisors were collected over a 5-year period in the departments of English and communication at a private university in the Northeast. While the results suggest that student interns tend to meet their supervisors’ expectations in many areas, performance categories such as initiative, writing skills, and oral communication skills require increased attention in the ways we prepare students for their internships and …

Global Partnerships In Business Communication: An Institutional Collaboration Between The U.S. And Cuba, David Sapp

David Alan Sapp

Many U.S. universities are developing interinstitutional partnerships in global business communication. Benefits include preparing students for the workplace by immersing them in intercultural projects and increasing the complexity of their understanding of the global economy. Challenges can range from technological constraints and scarce resources to geopolitical factors and varying disciplinary norms. However, global partnerships make faculty and students more aware of and engaged in the global business environment as they learn to communicate more effectively across cultures, critique current business practices, and produce new ways of being in global relation to each other. An interinstitutional partnership between a U.S. university …

Teaching Business Communication In Nicaragua, David Sapp

David Alan Sapp

Global partnerships between educational institutions are one mechanism for building a capacity to educate students and prepare them for the global economy. In this article, the author describes a seminar on business communication he taught to the faculty members of Universidad Centroamerica de Managua (UCA) in Managua, Nicaragua. The purpose of the seminar was to introduce the study of business writing as applied to global communication and contemporary situations in multinational corporations. The author describes how this partnership between his university and UCA allows students and faculty to be exposed to the structures of globalization that frame Nicaragua's historical experience …

The Lone Ranger As Technical Writing Program Administrator, David Sapp

David Alan Sapp

The popularity of technical writing and communication has caused many colleges and universities to scramble to hire qualified tenure-track faculty members. So-called lone ranger candidates are often lured to workplaces in which they are the sole technical writing faculty members by promises of autonomy and the ability to develop programs in ways, and at a pace, that would not necessarily be possible at other institutions. This article explores challenges faced by several such lone ranger faculty members and outlines survival strategies that may help lone rangers sustain and build their technical writing programs.