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My Psychologist, My Psychiatrist, Fred G. Leebron
My Psychologist, My Psychiatrist, Fred G. Leebron
English Faculty Publications
I could not distinguish between them except by what we did. I was ten, then eleven. I would not ride the school bus. I always slunk home saying I missed it. I made my mother come to school with me every day, and sit in the lobby so I could wave to her during recess and class changes. In the evenings my father would come home from work, hear my mother's report, and storm upstairs, his weight pounding on the hardwood steps. I would be out of breath with crying, my head in the pillow, waiting to feel what he …
'Judith' And The Rhetoric Of Heroism In Anglo‐Saxon England, Christopher R. Fee
'Judith' And The Rhetoric Of Heroism In Anglo‐Saxon England, Christopher R. Fee
English Faculty Publications
The Old English Judith differs from the Liber Judith of the Vulgate at several crucial points, and in one particularly important way. In the Vulgate version of the story, Judith is a heroine in every sense of the word: she is a tropological symbol of Chastity at battle with Licentiousness, an allegorical symbol of the Church in its constant and eventually triumphant battle with Satan, and an inspirational figure who infuses her warriors with much needed courage and confidence; but the Vulgate Judith is also, in a very real sense, the agent by which God's will is executed and the …