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Joy! Rapture! I’Ve Got A Brain!, Thomas Hallock Apr 2017

Joy! Rapture! I’Ve Got A Brain!, Thomas Hallock

Thomas Hallock

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Mobility And Academic Literacies : An Epistolary Conversation., Jan Blommaert, Bruce Horner Apr 2017

Mobility And Academic Literacies : An Epistolary Conversation., Jan Blommaert, Bruce Horner

Bruce Horner

In what follows, we explore the implications of a mobilities perspective for the conceptualization, teaching, and study of academic literacies. Mobility has come to serve as a catalyst for rethinking scholarly work in a variety of fields – most provocatively, the assumed stability as well as uniformity of what is studied and the location and products of acts and actors of study. The concept of academic literacies aligns with a mobilities perspective in its challenge to a still-dominant conception of ‘literacy’ as singular, universal, uniform, and stable. However, in recognition that any attempt to define mobility, academic literacies, or ‘mobility …

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Writing Language : Composition, The Academy, And Work., Bruce Horner Apr 2017

Writing Language : Composition, The Academy, And Work., Bruce Horner

Bruce Horner

This paper argues that while college composition courses are commonly charged with remediating students by providing them with the literacy skills they lack, they may instead be redefined as providing the occasion for rewriting language and knowledge. By bringing to the fore the dependence of language and knowledge on the labor of writing, a pedagogy of recursion, mediation, and translation of knowledge through writing and revision counters neoliberalism’s commodification of knowledge and language, and offers an alternative justification for continuing education as the occasion for students to remediate language and knowledge through writing.

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"Not In Egerer"? (Some Of) What We Still Don't Know About Burns Bibliography Mar 2017

"Not In Egerer"? (Some Of) What We Still Don't Know About Burns Bibliography

Patrick Scott

A talk written for the planning workshop on Burns bibliography at the National Library of Scotland, March 16, 2017, convened by Gerard Carruthers and Robert Betteridge, in association with the University of Glasgow's Centre for Robert Burns Studies and the AHRC-funded project Editing Burns for the 21st Century.

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Don Quixote In Russia In The Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries: The Problem Of Perception And Interpretation, Slav N. Gratchev Phd Mar 2017

Don Quixote In Russia In The Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries: The Problem Of Perception And Interpretation, Slav N. Gratchev Phd

Dr. Slav N. Gratchev

This study examines the problem of the perception of Don Quixote in Russia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. By using materials inaccessible to English-speaking scholars, I want to demonstrate that this process of appropriation was a long and a complex one, and there were specific reasons for that. The first modern novel, upon arrival in Russia, received minimal attention and was perceived as a simple, comical book; then, gradually, it started to gain significance. The majority of the materials that are used throughout this text are only available in Russian, are kept in the scientific libraries of Saint Petersburg …

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‘How Little I Cared For Fame’: T. Sparrow And Women’S Investigative Journalism At The Fin De Siècle, Laura Vorachek Mar 2017

‘How Little I Cared For Fame’: T. Sparrow And Women’S Investigative Journalism At The Fin De Siècle, Laura Vorachek

Laura Vorachek

This article analyzes the work of an overlooked female journalist, T. Sparrow, arguing that her career reveals the difficulties female journalists faced when negotiating between the expectations of middle-class gentility and the demands of investigative journalism.

Sparrow asserted her gentility rhetorically, in part because female reporters who took up investigative reporting were vulnerable to criticism for assaying beyond domestic subjects. Moreover, incognito investigative reporting often brought celebrity to its practitioners, which challenged the convention of middle-class female modesty.

Sparrow, therefore, strove for a delicate balance in her career—assuming the stance of a middle-class woman who lived among the poor, someone …

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Poetic Science: Wonder And The Seas Of Cognition In Bacon And Pericles, Jean E. Feerick Dec 2016

Poetic Science: Wonder And The Seas Of Cognition In Bacon And Pericles, Jean E. Feerick

Jean Feerick

This book is about the complex ways in which science and literature are mutually-informing and mutually-sustaining. It does not cast the literary and the scientific as distinct, but rather as productively in-distinct cultural practices: for the two dozen new essays collected here, the presiding concern is no longer to ask how literary writers react to scientific writers, but rather to study how literary and scientific practices are imbricated. These specially-commissioned essays from top scholars in the area range across vast territories and produce seemingly unlikely unions: between physics and rhetoric, math and Milton, Boyle and the Bible, plague and plays, among …

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"And Palate Call Judicious": Paradise Lost And The Question Of Taste, Eric B. Song Dec 2016

"And Palate Call Judicious": Paradise Lost And The Question Of Taste, Eric B. Song

Eric B. Song

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Shakespeare And Classical Cosmology, Jean E. Feerick Dec 2016

Shakespeare And Classical Cosmology, Jean E. Feerick

Jean Feerick

In this wide-ranging and ambitiously conceived Research Companion, contributors explore Shakespeare’s relationship to the classic in two broad senses. The essays analyze Shakespeare’s specific debts to classical works and weigh his classicism’s likeness and unlikeness to that of others in his time; they also evaluate the effects of that classical influence to assess the extent to which it is connected with whatever qualities still make Shakespeare, himself, a classic (arguably the classic) of modern world literature and drama. The first sense of the classic which the volume addresses is the classical culture of Latin and Greek reading, translation, and imitation. …

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Pulling Strings: Transatlantic Influence Of Marionettes On American Women Writers Dec 2016

Pulling Strings: Transatlantic Influence Of Marionettes On American Women Writers

Debra Rosenthal

This unique interdisciplinary essay collection offers a fresh perspective on the active involvement of American women authors in the nineteenth-century transatlantic world. Internationally diverse contributors explore topics ranging from women’s social and political mobility to their authorship and activism. While a number of essays focus on such well-known writers as Margaret Fuller, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, Louisa May Alcott, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, other, perhaps lesser-known authors are also included, such as E. D. E. N. Southworth, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Elizabeth Peabody, Jeannette Hart, and Laura Richards.

These essays show the spectrum of interests and activities …

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The Role Of The Compiler In The Paris Psalter, Emily Butler Dec 2016

The Role Of The Compiler In The Paris Psalter, Emily Butler

Emily Butler

The so-called Paris Psalter is best known for the Old English Prose Psalms and their vernacular introductions, but the Latin tituli that run through both the prose and verse potions of the psalter reveal much about the compilation of the manuscript and the way its sources were used. The compiler has been sufficiently attentive to the Latin tituli introductions to the first fifty psalms to be able to draw on their source, the pseudo-Bedan In psalmorum librum exegesis, in composing the tituli. In some cases, the compiler has incorporated material to fill gaps where the introductions did not utilize historical …

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Charles Williams’S Theology Of Publishing, Michael J. Paulus Jr. Dec 2016

Charles Williams’S Theology Of Publishing, Michael J. Paulus Jr.

Michael J. Paulus, Jr.

The British author Charles Williams (1886-1945), who is best known for his literary work as a poet, novelist, biographer, dramatist, literary critic, and lay theologian, was also an editor with Oxford University Press for nearly forty years. But Williams’s work in publishing was not incidental to his sense of vocation; it was an integral part of it. This is most clearly manifested in a trilogy of plays Williams created and performed with his colleagues at the midpoint of his career at OUP. These plays further reveal that Williams had a distinctive and robust theological view of the work of publishing. 

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The Image Of The Library In The Life And Work Of Charles Williams, Michael J. Paulus Jr. Dec 2016

The Image Of The Library In The Life And Work Of Charles Williams, Michael J. Paulus Jr.

Michael J. Paulus, Jr.

Charles Williams, the “third” or “oddest” Inkling, was an author and a publisher whose life was significantly shaped by books. But every book he read, wrote, published, or discussed was a compromise—of meaning, form, or craft. Yet each book participated in the hope of redemption and reconciliation through its connections with other books. The way these connections co-inhere suggests an important image for understanding Williams’s books as well as his life: the library.
 
Focusing on the Masques of Amen House, a trilogy of plays set in the library of the Oxford University Press London office, this paper explores the …

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Immoral Science In The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Suzanne Raitt Dec 2016

Immoral Science In The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Suzanne Raitt

Suzanne Raitt

Near the beginning of The Picture of Dorian Gray, the painter Basil Hallward explains to Lord Henry Wotton exactly what it is about Dorian Gray that inspired him to paint such an exquisitely beautiful portrait. Basil explains, “[Dorian] defines for me the lines of a fresh school” of art, and his “personality has suggested to me an entirely new manner in art, an entirely new mode of style. I see things differently, I think of them differently.
I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden from me before.”1
In the course of the narrative, Hallward’s phrase “recreate …

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"Orsamus Charles Dake: Nebraska's First Published Poet", Stephen C. Behrendt Dec 2016

"Orsamus Charles Dake: Nebraska's First Published Poet", Stephen C. Behrendt

Stephen C Behrendt

No abstract provided.

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Down The Rabbit Hole: Challenges And Methodological Recommendations In Researching Writing-Related Student Dispositions, Dana Lynn Driscoll Dec 2016

Down The Rabbit Hole: Challenges And Methodological Recommendations In Researching Writing-Related Student Dispositions, Dana Lynn Driscoll

Dana Driscoll

Researching writing-related dispositions is of critical concern for understanding writing transfer and writing development. However, as a field we need better tools and methods for identifying, tracking, and analyzing dispositions. This article describes a failed attempt to code for five key dispositions (attribution, selfefficacy, persistence, value, and self-regulation) in a longitudinal, mixed methods, multi-institutional study that otherwise successfully coded for other writing transfer factors. We present a “study of a study” that examines our coders’ attempts to identify and code dispositions and describes broader understandings from those findings. Our findings suggest that each disposition presents a distinct challenge for coding …

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Race And Colonization, Jean E. Feerick Dec 2016

Race And Colonization, Jean E. Feerick

Jean Feerick

A Handbook of English Renaissance Literary Studies is a groundbreaking guide to the contemporary engagement with critical theory within the larger disciplinary area of Renaissance and Early Modern studies. Comprising commissioned contributions from leading international scholars, it provides an overview of literary theory, beyond Shakespeare, focusing on most major figures, as well as some lesser-known writers of the period.

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Addressing Coherence In English-Arabic Subtitling By Amateur Aficionados, Mohammad Ahmad Thawabteh Mat, Sulafa Musallam Dec 2016

Addressing Coherence In English-Arabic Subtitling By Amateur Aficionados, Mohammad Ahmad Thawabteh Mat, Sulafa Musallam

Mohammad Ahmad Thawabteh MAT


The present article discusses coherence in terms of linguistic, culture and polysemiotic channels. Subtitlers are often faced with major stumbling blocks to get the message across in a cohesive and coherent fashion in the light of various semiotic modalities, underpinning the construction of meaning. The data of the present study comprises of a famous American sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel Air first aired in 1990, subtitled by two amateur subtitling aficionados and one MA translation student (who will be referred to as student subtitler) enrolled on Audiovisual Translation course at Al-Quds University for the school year 2014/2015. The article …

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The Ethics Of Plain Language: A Technical Communicator's Perspective, Russell Willerton Dec 2016

The Ethics Of Plain Language: A Technical Communicator's Perspective, Russell Willerton

Russell Willerton

I appreciate the opportunity to write to lawyers about the ethics of plain language from a technical-communication perspective. I am a professor of technical communication and, formerly, a full-time technical writer. In this article, I’ll view the ethics of plain language through the lens of the literature on ethics in the field of technical communication.

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Twelfth Night And The Philology Of Nonsense, Adam Zucker Nov 2016

Twelfth Night And The Philology Of Nonsense, Adam Zucker

Adam Zucker

No abstract provided.

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"Fragments That Remain: 'A Verse By Burns,' The Tarbolton Bachelors' Club, And David Sillar's Manuscript Rules", Patrick G. Scott Nov 2016

"Fragments That Remain: 'A Verse By Burns,' The Tarbolton Bachelors' Club, And David Sillar's Manuscript Rules", Patrick G. Scott

Patrick Scott

Identifies two surviving fragments of David Sillar's manuscript rules for the Tarbolton Bachelors' Club, transcribes the two fragments of verse associated with them (one in Robert Burns's handwriting), and examines the evidence for Burns's authorship of one of these verse fragments.

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Remembering Mom, Joan Baranow Nov 2016

Remembering Mom, Joan Baranow

Joan Baranow

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Review: Sylvia Martin, 'Ink In Her Veins: The Troubled Life Of Aileen Palmer', (Crawley: Uwa Publishing, 2016)., Rowan Cahill Oct 2016

Review: Sylvia Martin, 'Ink In Her Veins: The Troubled Life Of Aileen Palmer', (Crawley: Uwa Publishing, 2016)., Rowan Cahill

Rowan Cahill

Review of Sylvia Martin's study (2016) of Australian poet, Spanish Civil War veteran, WW11 Ambulance driver, translator, Aileen Palmer and her life and times. 

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Review: Sylvia Martin, 'Ink In Her Veins: The Troubled Life Of Aileen Palmer', (Crawley: Uwa Publishing, 2016)., Rowan Cahill Oct 2016

Review: Sylvia Martin, 'Ink In Her Veins: The Troubled Life Of Aileen Palmer', (Crawley: Uwa Publishing, 2016)., Rowan Cahill

Rowan Cahill

Review of Sylvia Martin's study (2016) of Australian poet, Spanish Civil War veteran, WW11 Ambulance driver, translator, Aileen Palmer and her life and times. 

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To Knytte Up Al This Feeste: The Parson's Rhetoric And The Ending Of The Canterbury Tales, Laurie A. Finke Oct 2016

To Knytte Up Al This Feeste: The Parson's Rhetoric And The Ending Of The Canterbury Tales, Laurie A. Finke

Laurie Finke

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Visionaries Of The American West : Mari Sandoz And Her Four Plains Protagonists, Lisa Rae Lindell Oct 2016

Visionaries Of The American West : Mari Sandoz And Her Four Plains Protagonists, Lisa Rae Lindell

Lisa R. Lindell

The authorial reputation of Mari Sandoz has long rested in the shadow of other writers of her era. First of all, Sandoz wrote from and about a relatively remote region of the United States. In addition, she firmly refused to produce popular works at the expense of sacrificing the truth she perceived and wished to express. Consequently, Sandoz has often been classified as a regional writer and her works have been overlooked by many readers and critics. Her status as a woman, her unconventional writing style, point of view, and subject matter, and the blending of historical and fictional elements …

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Mapping Errors And Expectations For Basic Writing : From The "Frontier Field" To "Border Country"., Bruce Horner Sep 2016

Mapping Errors And Expectations For Basic Writing : From The "Frontier Field" To "Border Country"., Bruce Horner

Bruce Horner

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Expectations, Interpretations And Contributions Of Basic Writing., Min-Zhan Lu, Bruce Horner Sep 2016

Expectations, Interpretations And Contributions Of Basic Writing., Min-Zhan Lu, Bruce Horner

Bruce Horner

This essay argues that Basic Writing students, teachers, and scholarship are crucial to enabling colleges and universities to live up to their ideals of diversity, interdisciplinarity, and student-centered learning. BW scholars and teachers have developed ways to work with students to better understand the different perspectives they bring to their writing and learning, and to use those perspectives to break down barriers between academic and non-academic worlds and develop "borderland" knowledge and perspectives. The authors call for more research exploring the potential of basic writing students to develop such perspectives, and for research exploring the implications of BW scholarship for …

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English Only And U.S. College Composition., Bruce Horner, John Trimbur Sep 2016

English Only And U.S. College Composition., Bruce Horner, John Trimbur

Bruce Horner

In this article, we identify in the formation of U.S. college composition courses a tacit policy of English monolingualism based on a chain of reifications of languages and social identity. We show this policy continuing in assumptions underlying arguments for and against English Only legislation and basic writers. And we call for an internationalist perspective on written English in relation to other languages and the dynamics of globalization.

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Maria Susanna Cummins' London Letters: April 1860, Heidi Lm Jacobs Sep 2016

Maria Susanna Cummins' London Letters: April 1860, Heidi Lm Jacobs

Heidi LM Jacobs

Within scholarship on Maria Susanna Cummins (1827-1866), there are two recurrent phrases: "author of the best-selling novel The Lamplighter" and "little is known about her life." Despite the early contextualization of Cummins by various scholars, most of the recent critical work on Cummins has centered on her first and best-known novel, The Lamplighter (1854). Very little critical attention has been paid to Cummins's life, her career as a publishing author, her lesser known novels, her periodical publications, and her archived letters. Written in the weeks preceding the publication in the United States and Britain of her third novel, El …

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