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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Gettysburg: An Exhibit For The First-Year Reading Experience, Patrick G. Scott
Gettysburg: An Exhibit For The First-Year Reading Experience, Patrick G. Scott
Faculty Publications
Based on an exhibition for University of South Carolina students reading Michael Shaara's bestselling book The Killer Angels, this catalogue recounts the story of the battle of Gettysburg day by day, with an opening section introducing the major participants and a final section dealing with the commemoration of the battle and its treatment in later American literature. All the items in the exhibition are drawn from the Francis A. Lord Civil War Collection and the Robert S. Chamberlain Military History Collection, both in Rare Books & Special Collections, University of South Carolina Libraries.
The Father's Witness: Patriarchal Images Of Boys, David Lee Miller
The Father's Witness: Patriarchal Images Of Boys, David Lee Miller
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Contents, Tom Mack, Ph.D.
Contents, Tom Mack, Ph.D.
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
Back Matter, Tom Mack,
Back Matter, Tom Mack,
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
"Sleeping With One Eye Open": · Fear And Ontology In The Poetry Of Mark Strand, James Hoff
"Sleeping With One Eye Open": · Fear And Ontology In The Poetry Of Mark Strand, James Hoff
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
The Power Of Hoodoo: African Relic Symbolism In Amistad And The Narrative Of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Alicia M. Simmons
The Power Of Hoodoo: African Relic Symbolism In Amistad And The Narrative Of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Alicia M. Simmons
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
The Postmodern Joyce Emerging In Ulysses: Joyce's Sirens Of Words, Renee E. Springman
The Postmodern Joyce Emerging In Ulysses: Joyce's Sirens Of Words, Renee E. Springman
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
Front Matter, Douglas Higbee Ph.D.
Front Matter, Douglas Higbee Ph.D.
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
Prince Hal: Reformation Or Calculated Education?, Jennifer Drouin
Prince Hal: Reformation Or Calculated Education?, Jennifer Drouin
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
A Reader's Response To Go Tell It On The Mountain, Sally Higbee
A Reader's Response To Go Tell It On The Mountain, Sally Higbee
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
The Oswald Review Undergraduate Research And Criticism In The Discipline Of English: Volume 2 Fall 2000
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
"A Man In A Painted Garment:" The Social Functions Of Jesting In Elizabethan Rhetoric And Courtesy Manuals, Christopher Holcomb
"A Man In A Painted Garment:" The Social Functions Of Jesting In Elizabethan Rhetoric And Courtesy Manuals, Christopher Holcomb
Faculty Publications
Many Elizabethan rhetoric and courtesy manuals offer jesting as a powerful rhetorical strategy for managing specific situations. Although highly pragmatic, the manuals' treatments of the subject imply a sociology of humor that classifies jests according to the broader social functions they serve: jests which preserve existing social relations and jests which disrupt, or even challenge, them. What eludes this classificatory scheme, however, are the properties of jesting itself. Jesting is always a flirtation with disorder and often serves conservative and disruptive functions simultaneously. If this is so, then the manuals' discussions of jesting replay (and magnify) ambiguities and anxieties characteristic …