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The Apple Among The Trees: To Abraham (Pbodmer 30) And The Apple At The Sacrifice Of Isaac, Kevin J. Kalish

English Faculty Publications

The poem from the Bodmer Papyrus (PBodmer 30) To Abraham contains a number of perplexing phrases and images—one in particular is the ambiguous word μῆλον, which appears in no other known text on the Sacrifice of Isaac. In this poem Abraham, in place of his son Isaac, chooses the μῆλον. I contribute to our understanding of how the poem works by demonstrating what μῆλον signifies in this context. I argue that the poem deliberately uses the ambiguous word μῆλον precisely because it can mean both sheep and apple. Moreover, when the apple is understood in the context of patristic interpretations …

Contract Grading In A Technical Writing Classroom: A Case Study, Lisa M. Litterio

English Faculty Publications

The subjectivity of assessing writing has long been an issue for instructors, who carefully craft rubrics and other indicators of assessment while students grapple with understanding what constitutes an "A" and how to meet instructor-generated criteria. Based on student frustration with traditional grading practices, this case study of a 20-student technical writing classroom employed teacher-as-researcher observation and student surveys to examine how students in a technical writing classroom in the Northeast collaborated together to generate criteria relating to the quality of their writing assignments. The study indicates that although students perceive more involvement in the grading process, they resist participation …

[Review Of The Book "Other People's Diasporas": Negotiating Race In Contemporary Irish And Irish American Culture By Sinead Moynihan], Kathleen Vejvoda

English Faculty Publications

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[Review Of The Book: Migrant Modernism: Postwar London And The West Indian Novel, By J. Dillon Brown], Allyson Salinger Ferrante

English Faculty Publications

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The Man I Killed, Brian Duchaney

English Faculty Publications

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"Call Her Calamity Electrifies Man": Alp And The Movement Of Archive In Finnegan’S Wake, Ellen Scheible

English Faculty Publications

The existence of characters in Joyce’s dream world of Finnegans Wake rarely proves their singular presence in the text. As readers we are led to incorporate different characters into our interpretation of any one character; the temporal and historical circularity of the Wake is then personified in a whirlpool of characterization. Comprising both the motion and consistency of this whirlpool, Anna Livia is most certainly the nexus of activity for the otherwise sleepy Earwicker narrative. Yet, recognizing the textual motion of both the character and concept of ALP, (or even simply the potential for signifying motion within the text) as …

[Review Of The Book: Milton’S Messiah: The Son Of God In The Works Of John Milton By Russell M. Hillier], Gregory Chaplin

English Faculty Publications

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[Review Of The Book Suzan-Lori Parks: Essays On The Plays And Other Works Edited By Philip C. Kolin], Heidi R. Bean

English Faculty Publications

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The Icelandic Sagas As A Subject For Undergraduate Study, John P. Sexton

English Faculty Publications

While medieval studies has dramatically expanded its scope and the texts taught as part of its subject over the past few decades, the study of Icelandic saga literature is still a fringe discipline, particularly in North American academe. Rarer still is undergraduate exposure to the sagas, despite their appeal as texts and the rich possibilities they offer to students trained in Anglo-Saxon literature (or at least Beowulf) and familiar with Norse myth and legend through Tolkien or Marvel comics. The insular nature of the culture from which the literature springs is a contributing factor, of course—there is the undeniable …

[Review Of The Book: Deception And Detection In Eighteenth-Century Britain By Jack Lynch], Thomas M. Curley

English Faculty Publications

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[Review Of The Books: The Kenning Anthology Of Poets Theater: 1945–1985 And Poets At Play: An Anthology Of Modernist Drama], Heidi R. Bean

English Faculty Publications

Review of the books:

• The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater: 1945–1985. Edited by Kevin Killian and David Brazil. Chicago: Kenning Editions, 2010.
• Poets at Play: An Anthology of Modernist Drama. Edited by Sarah Bay-Cheng and Barbara Cole. Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna University Press, 2010.

Beyond Sacrifice: Milton And The Atonement, Gregory Chaplin

English Faculty Publications

In Paradise Lost, Milton imagines a cosmos at odds with orthodox theology, making a heretical departure that parallels his reluctance to dwell on the Crucifixion and his Arian Christology. Belief in a plurality of worlds threatens the integrity of the Trinity: it exalts the omnipotence of the creator, while it limits the significance of the redeemer. In effect, it produces a tension best resolved by Milton’s position that the Father and the Son are two distinct beings—the former uncreated, infinite, and immutable and the latter created, finite, and changeable. This distinction enables Milton to fashion a theory of salvation …

In Praise Of The Saints: Introducing Medieval Hagiography Into The British Literature Survey, John P. Sexton

English Faculty Publications

Despite increased interest in hagiographic writing among scholars of early literature in the last few decades, serious study of saints’ lives in the undergraduate classroom remains rare. To some degree, this is a result of poor representation in the leading anthologies,^[1]but another contributing factor has been the perception of a distinction between hagiographic and other medieval writing it terms of genre or of literary value. Such distinctions, however, are modern inventions, and do not accurately reflect the medieval reader or writer’s view. Nor is the inclusion of the literature alongside the expected “great works” difficult or jarring; a …