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In Another Country, Fred G. Leebron
In Another Country, Fred G. Leebron
English Faculty Publications
That summer we lived in an icebox of a house, where nothing worked. The gas stove was stuck in a chimney that had no fireplace, plaid linoleum covered the chipped and rotting floor, a cold wet wind blew through the cracks in the doors and windows, the light bulbs hummed and fluttered, the clock struck at odd and unwarranted times, and we weren't allowed to drink the water from the sink because it came from an impure place. [excerpt]
Carnival And Loitering In The Waggoner, Gary Dyer
Carnival And Loitering In The Waggoner, Gary Dyer
English Faculty Publications
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"'Flight' And 'Pursuit': Fugitive Identity In Bleak House,", Cynthia N. Malone
"'Flight' And 'Pursuit': Fugitive Identity In Bleak House,", Cynthia N. Malone
English Faculty Publications
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Go Eena Kumbla: A Comparison Of Erna Brodber's Jane And Louisa Will Soon Come Home And Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters, Daryl Cumber Dance
Go Eena Kumbla: A Comparison Of Erna Brodber's Jane And Louisa Will Soon Come Home And Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters, Daryl Cumber Dance
English Faculty Publications
When I returned to Jamaica in July 1982, I took as gifts for friends some recent novels by black American writers, including Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters. Upon my arrival, Erna Brodber gave me a copy of her new book, Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home. As I read it, I was struck by another instance of how similar experiences (in this case, being black and female in the Americas of the civil rights, black awareness, Rastafarian, and feminist movements) had inspired such strikingly similar expressions in books published the same year (1980) by an American …
Browning And His Audience: 'A Battle With The Age', Leslie T. White
Browning And His Audience: 'A Battle With The Age', Leslie T. White
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Translation Or Invention: Three Cathay Poems Reconsidered, Zhaoming Qian
Translation Or Invention: Three Cathay Poems Reconsidered, Zhaoming Qian
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Usher’S Nervous Fever: The Meaning Of Medicine In Poe’S ‘The Fall Of The House Of Usher, David E.E. Sloane
Usher’S Nervous Fever: The Meaning Of Medicine In Poe’S ‘The Fall Of The House Of Usher, David E.E. Sloane
English Faculty Publications
"Poe translates medical descriptions into Gothic apparatus and establishes a double motif, for the narrator in telling us about these symptoms seems to ascribe them to mind and imagination even while noting the physicality of his surroundings with almost clinical detail." -- p. 147
Milton And The Fascists, David Boocker
Milton And The Fascists, David Boocker
English Faculty Publications
ln August 1925 the Italians placed a memorial tablet honoring Milton on the wall of the Paradisino at Vallombrosa, where he is said to have stayed during his tour of ltaly. Actual evidence that Milton was at Vallombrosa is scant; all we really have are lines 302-4 of Book I of Paradise Lost. Nevertheless, the Italians did place the memorial tablet in his honor. The question is why.