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Coming In From The Margins: Reappraising And Recentering Katherine Mansfield, Lee Garver
Coming In From The Margins: Reappraising And Recentering Katherine Mansfield, Lee Garver
Lee Garver
Review essay of three volumes pertaining to the works of Katherine Mansfield.
The Political Katherine Mansfield, Lee Garver
The Political Katherine Mansfield, Lee Garver
Lee Garver
Ideologies that have been superseded by more enduring political discourses and literary figures who have been succeeded by greater authors are frequently relegated to the footnotes of cultural scholarship. But sometimes these lesser-known subjects of literary history, properly attended to, provide unique opportunities for a richer understanding of aesthetic developments. The study of British modernism, in particular, can benefit from a willingness to examine forgotten political-cultural relationships. Indeed, the period's extreme ideological complexity and cross-fertilization has served to mask the important political roles played by less celebrated artists in the formulation of modernist aesthetic doctrine. This is particularly true of …
Whitman, Walt. Franklin Evans, Or The Inebriate: A Tale Of The Times., Ed. Christopher Castiglia And Glenn Hendler [Review], Jon Miller
Jon Miller
No abstract provided.
"Father Walt": Frances Willard And Walt Whitman, Jon Miller
"Father Walt": Frances Willard And Walt Whitman, Jon Miller
Jon Miller
No abstract provided.
Petroleum V. Nasby, Poet Of Democracy, And His "Psalm Of Gladness", Jon Miller
Petroleum V. Nasby, Poet Of Democracy, And His "Psalm Of Gladness", Jon Miller
Jon Miller
Reprints David Ross Locke’s parodic letter-poem (written in the persona of “whiskey-addicted Copperhead” Petroleum V. Nasby), “A Psalm of Gladness—The Veto of the Civil Rights Bill, and other Matters, occasioning a Feeling of Thankfulness in the Minds of the Democracy,” and analyzes how the satire “associates Nasby’s style of ‘jubilation’ with the poetry of Walt Whitman,” showing how “the satire does not attack Whitman’s verse so much as it condemns it by association with the style of Nasby.”
"Dear Miss Ella": George L. Chase's Whitman-Inspired Love Letters, Jon Miller
"Dear Miss Ella": George L. Chase's Whitman-Inspired Love Letters, Jon Miller
Jon Miller
Analyzes and reprints Minnesota minister Chase's 1872 courtship letters to Ella Wheeler, in which Chase, who knew Whitman, writes at length about Whitman and his work.
Owning A Virus: The Rhetoric Of Scientific Discovery Accounts, Carol Reeves
Owning A Virus: The Rhetoric Of Scientific Discovery Accounts, Carol Reeves
Carol Reeves
No Abstract Available
"I Knew There Was Something Wrong With That Paper": Scientific Rhetorical Styles And Scientific Misunderstandings, Carol Reeves
"I Knew There Was Something Wrong With That Paper": Scientific Rhetorical Styles And Scientific Misunderstandings, Carol Reeves
Carol Reeves
This selection unpacks scientific prose and claim substantiation for Nobel Prize winner, Stan Prusiner, in the transmissible spongiform encephlopathies field (i.e., mad cow disease). Applying linguistic strategies such as M. A. K. Halliday's "favorite clause type," the author examines argumentative strategies in dense scientific prose both in bold and cautious rhetorical styles and invented lexical changes in new scientific development.
Visual Rhetoric And The Promotion Of Scientific Ideas: The Strange Case Of The Prion, Carol Reeves
Visual Rhetoric And The Promotion Of Scientific Ideas: The Strange Case Of The Prion, Carol Reeves
Carol Reeves
In the field that investigates infectious brain diseases such as mad cow disease, the verbal and visual packaging of scientific visuals associated with identifying the agent, prion, its processes, and structure served the community ritual of establishing belief in a highly unorthodox phenomenon. Visual promotion fed into cultural expectations of single agents and simple processes, even though the actual agency and disease process have proven highly complex and perhaps unknowable.
An Orthodox Heresy: Scientific Rhetoric And The Science Of Prions., Carol Reeves
An Orthodox Heresy: Scientific Rhetoric And The Science Of Prions., Carol Reeves
Carol Reeves
A significant theoretical shift in the research community examining a class of terminal, infectious neurological disorders that includes Mad Cow Disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and Kuru was assisted by rhetorical production. The local rhetoric of one laboratory, that of Professor Stanley B. Prusiner, involved first situating an heretical hypothesis within the framework of the orthodox narrative and then audaciously promoting that heresy. Another aspect of rhetorical production in this case involved situating a new language associated with the heretical hypothesis. To promote their new lexicon, the Prusiner team evoked orthodox values of consistency, efficiency, and collective ratification. Eventually, what was once …
Rhetoric And The Aids Virus Hunt, Carol Reeves
Rhetoric And The Aids Virus Hunt, Carol Reeves
Carol Reeves
By comparing the papers produced by the laboratory teams of Robert Gallo and Jean Luc Montagnier during the AIDS virus hunt, we have an opportunity to discern the fine line between a bold, explicit rhetoric that may convince as well as offend and a bald, reserved rhetoric that may actually conceal important implications. Going too far in either direction may create misunderstandings and ethical dilemmas as will be demonstrated in a textual analysis deepened by an exploration of historical context and interviews with key participants. Since a public health crisis calls upon communication that thwarts misunderstandings, scientists should understand the …
Establishing The Phenomenon: The Rhetoric Of Early Research Reports On Aids, Carol Reeves
Establishing The Phenomenon: The Rhetoric Of Early Research Reports On Aids, Carol Reeves
Carol Reeves
In the first three medical reports on AIDS which were published in 1981 in the New England Journal of Medicine, the writers' primary rhetorical agenda was to argue that a new medical discovery had been made. A secondary agenda was to offer etiological explanations for the new problem. To establish the new disease entity as deserving serious attention, the writers built a sense of mystery by confronting established medical knowledge about immunodeficiency and emphasizing the inability of modern medicine to diagnose and treat the problem. When they explained the phenomenon in etiological terms, rather than confronting the disciplinary matrix, the …
Denis Kevans: Poet, Rowan Cahill
Denis Kevans: Poet, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
A brief account of the poetry of Australian social movement poet Denis Kevans (1939-2005).
Between Theory And Reality: Cosmopolitanism Of Nodal Cities In Pawel Huelle's Castorp, Ania Spyra
Between Theory And Reality: Cosmopolitanism Of Nodal Cities In Pawel Huelle's Castorp, Ania Spyra
Ania Spyra
FIVE YEARS BEFORE the publication of his novel Castorp, the Gdansk writer Pawel Huelle published a short piece of the same title in the essay collection Inne historie (1999), the title of which-translated as either "other stories" or "other histories"-consciously plays with the difficulty of writing a history of Gdansk, a theme to which almost all of the short pieces in this collection somehow return.The essay tells the story of a literary correspondence between a Lvov pastor and the writer Thomas Mann, in which Mann voices regret over some unelaborated ideas and abandoned storylines in The Magic Mountain. When Huelle …
Fabulating Romania: Review Of Filip Florian’S Little Fingers And Alta Ifland’S Elegy For A Fabulous World, Ania Spyra
Fabulating Romania: Review Of Filip Florian’S Little Fingers And Alta Ifland’S Elegy For A Fabulous World, Ania Spyra
Ania Spyra
In 2007 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania launched a public image campaign in an effort to create a new brand for the country, a brand that would build a positive image, rather than only counteract – defensively – negative stereotypes. An advertising agency created the new brand by merging the words fabulous and spirit into “fabulouspirit” – a word, which ended up sounding better in Romanian than it does in English even though it was intended for an Anglophone audience. The campaign encountered so much criticism that despite the plans to implement it over several years, the word …
“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.
Incarceration, Identity Formation, And Race In Young Adult Literature: The Case Of Monster Versus Hole In My Life, Tim Engles, Fern Kory
Incarceration, Identity Formation, And Race In Young Adult Literature: The Case Of Monster Versus Hole In My Life, Tim Engles, Fern Kory
Tim Engles
No abstract provided.
Barth, Barthes, And Bergson: Postmodern Aesthetics And The Imperative Of The New, Paul Douglass
Barth, Barthes, And Bergson: Postmodern Aesthetics And The Imperative Of The New, Paul Douglass
Paul Douglass
No abstract provided.
A 'Foundation In Nature': New Economic Criticism And The Problem Of Money In 1690s England, Courtney Smith
A 'Foundation In Nature': New Economic Criticism And The Problem Of Money In 1690s England, Courtney Smith
Courtney Weiss Smith
This essay reconsiders new economic criticism’s assumptions about the role of nature in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century economic thought. I take the debates surrounding the English recoinage crisis as a test case. As I read economic tracts by John Locke, William Lowndes, Nicholas Barbon, and James Hodges alongside an array of anonymous polemical policy pamphlets, I demonstrate that many writers addressed the recoinage problem by turning with urgency to the created natural world. They believed that close attention to the material properties of silver bullion, for example, could access encoded clues about God’s will for human economic institutions. I …
Political Individuals And Providential Nature In Locke And Pope, Courtney Weiss Smith
Political Individuals And Providential Nature In Locke And Pope, Courtney Weiss Smith
Courtney Weiss Smith
While John Locke and Alexander Pope are often treated as political opposites, this essay contends that Locke's Two Treatises shares important conceptual ground with Pope's Essay on Man. Both writers give consenting individuals agency and the social contract transformative power, even as both also insist that the created world offers clues about how God wants societies to work. I propose that these unexpected similarities confirm recent work in ecocriticism and the history of science that suggests that eighteenth-century nature could have moral or political content. Indeed, the similarities raise far-reaching questions about the contours of the consent-giving subject in the …
Intentionally Adrift: What The Pathways Project Can Teach Us About Teaching And Learning, Bonnie Irwin
Intentionally Adrift: What The Pathways Project Can Teach Us About Teaching And Learning, Bonnie Irwin
Bonnie Irwin
Recent generations of college students, brought up in a digital world of short bytes of information and nonlinear patterns of reading, often present a particular challenge to professors of text-heavy disciplines such as literature, history, and English. This essay explores recent theories of learning and the scholarship of oral tradition, especially that of John Miles Foley, in an attempt to discover how an understanding of pathways in the oWorld and eWorld can provide us with better ways to teach texts of all types.
Self-Indulgence Is The American Word For Flair, Ania Spyra
Jean Rhys’S Voyage In The Dark As A Trans-Atlantic Tragic Mulatta Narrative, Ania Spyra
Jean Rhys’S Voyage In The Dark As A Trans-Atlantic Tragic Mulatta Narrative, Ania Spyra
Ania Spyra
Abstract not available
Three Romanian Postcards, Ania Spyra
Three Romanian Postcards, Ania Spyra
Ania Spyra
Whether in memory of some ancient fertility rites, or because of the International Women‟s Day on the eight of the month, March is considered women‟s month in Romania.
Unreading William Blake's Marginalia, Jason A. Snart
Unreading William Blake's Marginalia, Jason A. Snart
Jason A Snart
No abstract provided.
Recursivity: Navigating Composition And Space, Jason A. Snart
Recursivity: Navigating Composition And Space, Jason A. Snart
Jason A Snart
No abstract provided.
Review Of Edward Young's 'Night Thoughts, With Illustrations By William Blake', Jason A. Snart
Review Of Edward Young's 'Night Thoughts, With Illustrations By William Blake', Jason A. Snart
Jason A Snart
No abstract provided.
Review Of Kathleen Lundeen's 'Knight Of The Living Dead: William Blake And The Problem Of Ontology', Jason A. Snart
Review Of Kathleen Lundeen's 'Knight Of The Living Dead: William Blake And The Problem Of Ontology', Jason A. Snart
Jason A Snart
No abstract provided.
Over-Reading, Overreading, Over Reading: Implications For Teaching And Learning, Jason A. Snart
Over-Reading, Overreading, Over Reading: Implications For Teaching And Learning, Jason A. Snart
Jason A Snart
No abstract provided.
Recentering Blake's Marginalia, Jason A. Snart