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Gathering Leadership Momentum Across Great Distances: Creating An Online Community Of Practice, Erin L. Davis, Danielle Theiss-White

Erin Davis

At the 2007 Mountain Plains Library Association Leadership (MPLA) Institute, held in New Mexico, USA, eight academic librarians formed an online multi-state, multigenerational community of practice. MPLA is a twelve-state library association within the United States. Using Google Groups™, the members formed an online environment called the MPLA Community of Practice for continuing development of the leadership skills presented at the Institute. These early-career librarians represent diverse educational backgrounds and work in libraries serving varied populations with differing disciplinary emphases.

The group meets monthly with each member preparing and facilitating online discussions, complete with personal assessments, topical readings, and questions. …

A. Bristow And The Maniac: A Bio-Critical Essay, Katherine D. Harris

Katherine D. Harris

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Review Of The Edinburgh History Of The Book In Scotland. Vol. 4, Professionalism And Diversity, 1880–2000, D. Finkelstein And A. Mccleery Eds., Rachel Buurma

Rachel S Buurma

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Disability And The Characterization Of Katherine In The Taming Of The Shrew, Rachel Hile

Rachel E. Hile

Despite numerous studies of the origins and meanings of Katherine's shrewishness in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, no scholar has analyzed the role of disability in Katherine's feelings of alienation and her ultimate transformation. In the wooing scene, we learn by indirection that Katherine has a limp through the references to the way she walks. This article analyzes the references to Katherine's limp in adaptations of the play during the 17th and 18th centuries, considering the significance of retaining these references even when stage productions of the plays have not included representation of a disabled Katherine. The article then …

Webmaster And Newsletter Editor, Marlowe Society Of America, M. Stapleton

M. L. Stapleton

Website for Marlowe Society of America, Webmaster since 2009

Women At War In Mrs. Dalloway, Anne Fernald

Anne E Fernald

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Spenser’S Ovidian Poetics, M. Stapleton

M. L. Stapleton

No history of the longstanding critical tradition of exploring the Spenser-Ovid relationship has been written. In this book Professor Stapleton constructs such a critical history: the annotations of E. K. in The Shepheardes Calender (1579), the Enlightenment editions of The Faerie Queene, the philological mode of the Spenser Variorum (1932-57), and the recent, innovative work of Harry Berger and Colin Burrow. Aside from occasional articles, no truly comprehensive analysis of their kinship as love poets exists, either. The author explores Spenser's emulation of Ovid's amatory poetics. His humanist education trained him to find or construct analogues and etiological patterns in …

"Can No Prayers Pierce Thee?": Re-Imagining Marian Intercession In The Merchant Of Venice, Ruben Espinosa

Ruben Espinosa

In post-Reformation England, anti-Catholic polemics delineated Marian devotion as dangerous, if not idolatrous, and attacked the Virgin Mary’s influence by contending that belief in her intercessory power posed a threat to God’s authority. But the very existence of these polemics indicates that prayer to, and desire for, the Virgin Mary’s intercession endured the Reformation. This article addresses Shakespeare’s attention to this Marian strength in The Merchant of Venice to demonstrate how he draws on Mary’s “lost” intercessory power in his development of Portia as a character reminiscent of the compassionate Virgin Mary of Catholic tradition. By casting Marian intercession in …

100 Years Ago: By The North Sea, Christy Allen, Julie Mckuras

Christy Allen

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Review Of Commodity Culture In Dickens’S Household Words By C. Waters, Rachel Buurma

Rachel S Buurma

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