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At Risk In The Writing Classroom: Negotiating A Lesbian Teacher Identity, Irene G. Meaker

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

"Education is a fearful enterprise," says teacher and philosopher, Parker Palmer. Student-centered/ processoriented pedagogy asks teachers to step out from behind the relative safety of the teacher mask and to enter the risky arena of learning. For the writing teacher, a special challenge is to help students negotiate the risks inherent in the act of writing and in sharing writing with the "Other."

To prevent fears from dominating our students, teachers must model risk-taking and risk negotiation. In my own teaching, my fears around students' reactions to learning my sexual identity meant that I more often reinforced fears than dispelled …

From Literal Path To Transcendent Journey: The Pilgrim's Movement Throughout Inferno, Shelley Manning '99

Honors Projects

In his "Letter to Can Grande," Dante attributes the concept of polysemy, which means "many levels," to his poem. l In the letter, Dante states: "For the clarification of what I am going to say, then, it should be understood that there is not just a single sense in this work: it might rather be called polysemous, that is having several senses" ("Letter" 99). This concept not only applies to the mUlti-layered construction of the Divine Comedy but also to its interpretation. Although most critics rely upon the "Letter," I find his defense of hierarchical interpretation in the "Four Levels …

The Boy Who Would Have Been, Deborah Adelman

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

"Undivided Loves": Coordination And Coherence In Shakespeare's Sonnets, Jay Curlin

Articles

This article analyses the structure of Shakespeare's "Procreation Sonnets" (1-17), showing how an awareness of the transitions and connections that link the first seventeen sonnets into a coherent whole prepares readers to see similar units throughout the whole of Shakespeare's Sonnets.

Review Of Feminism And Composition Studies: In Other Words By Susan Jarrett & Lynn Worsham, Krista Ratcliffe

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Orality In Writing: Its Cultural And Political Function In Anglophone African, African-Caribbean, And African-Canadian Poetry, Yaw Adu-Gyamfi

Faculty Dissertations

For years, critics have used Black writers' interweaving of African-derived oral textual features and European written forms to reject the concept of the Great Divide between orality and writing in literacy studies. These critics primarily see the hybridized texts of writers of African descent as a model that assists in the complex union of writing and orality. My argument is that the integrationist model is not the only way, perhaps not even the most fruitful way, to read the hybridized texts of writers of African descent. I develop a reading of Anglophone African, African-Caribbean, and African-Canadian literature that sees the …

Obstacle Or Opportunity: Journeys In The Odyssey, Heather Kaschmitter

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

The final leg of Odysseus’journey home occurs nearly halfway through the poem, serving as a transitional point. Odysseus, having related his adventures to the Phaeacians, can move on from them. It is Athena who guided Odysseus, still trembling from all he has experienced, to the palace of King Alcinods in Scheria. The goddess knew that the healing process would begin there.

In writing of the sadness, rage, and tears that Odysseus displays at a banquet given for him by Alcinoos, Homer makes some of the initial "observations as to the effects of combat on men,” (Schwartz, 26) which we might …

Family Names, Gayle Greene

Scripps Faculty Publications and Research

I was ten when my mother changed our name from Greenberg to Greene. I had no idea why she did this, nor, presumably, did she. It had to do with the breakup of her marriage, that was clear-she no longer wanted his name. But why, I asked later, when I was old enough to wonder about such things, didn't she go back to her maiden name?

Andrews University’S First Lady, Beverly Matiko

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Literature Of Contemporary Witchcraft: Formalists, Femininsts, And Free Spirits, Marilyn R. Pukkila

Faculty Scholarship

A bibliographic essay on the writings of contemporary Witchcraft, from the late 1890s to 1998.

It's Not Easy Being Green: Gender And Friendship In Eliza Haywood's Political Periodicals, Rachel Carnell

English Faculty Publications

British writer Eliza Haywood's two periodicals, 'The Female Spectator' (1744-46) and 'The Parrot' (1746), protested against the gendered split between political and domestic literary genres, showing that British novels and periodicals written by or addressed to women did engage in political discourse. Through her periodicals, Haywood presented a model for female-female friendship that portrayed women engaging in rational and polite political debate. Furthermore, she argued that this same debate could occur between a woman and a man apart from an apolitical, romantic relationship. Finally, she gave opportunity for friendship to be expressed between those who had been excluded from the …

Contents Of Purdue University Press Clcweb Library Series, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

No abstract provided.

Selected And Annotated Bibliography Of German-Canadian Literature And Criticism, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

No abstract provided.

Selected Bibliography Of Works For The Study Of Film And Literature 1985-1999, Roumiana Deltcheva

CLCWeb Library

No abstract provided.

Pre-1900 German-Canadian Ethnic Minority Writing, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

No abstract provided.

Multilingual Bibliography Of (Text)Books In Comparative Literature, World Literature(S), And Comparative Cultural Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

No abstract provided.

Aims & Scope Of Clcweb: Comparative Literature And Culture, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

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Regional Aspects Of Miami Crime Fiction, Heidi Lee Alvarez

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis argues that forces of literary regionalism and postmodern culture are behind the explosion of crime fiction being written in and about South Florida by a growing number of resident authors.

Research included four methods of investigation: 1. A critical reading of many of the novels that make up the sub-genre. 2. A study of the theories of regionalism, postmodernism and the genre of the crime fiction. 3. Interviews with a number of the authors and a prominent Miami book seller. 4. Sociological studies of Miami in terms of historical events and their cultural significance.

Today's South Florida crime …

Eng 1092c-097: Composition And Literature, Mccormick

Spring 1999

No abstract provided.

Eng 2205-001: Introduction To Literary Studies, Gregg A. Hecimovich

Spring 1999

No abstract provided.

Eng 3010c-003: Literary Masterworks, Richard Sylvia

Spring 1999

No abstract provided.

Eng 3600-001: The Bible As Literature, David Raybin

Spring 1999

No abstract provided.

Eng 1002c-036: Literature And Composition, Michael Kuo

Spring 1999

No abstract provided.

Eng Schedule, English Department

Spring 1999

No abstract provided.

Eng 1000-001-002, Anita Beaman, Brian Langford

Spring 1999

No abstract provided.

Eng 1001-001: Composition And Language, Nancy Britton

Spring 1999

No abstract provided.

Eng 1001-004: Composition And Language, Denise Clark

Spring 1999

No abstract provided.

Eng 1001-009: Composition And Language, Graham Lewis

Spring 1999

No abstract provided.

Eng 1001-012: Composition And Language, Thom Schnarre

Spring 1999

No abstract provided.

Eng 1002c-004-018-033: Literature And Composition, Steve Cloud

Spring 1999

No abstract provided.