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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Stump (Poem), John Gery
Discourse Knowledge And Activity Type In Social Service Interview Openings: ‘Okay Miss Debby Girl Tell Me What’S Going On.’, Frank Bramlett
Discourse Knowledge And Activity Type In Social Service Interview Openings: ‘Okay Miss Debby Girl Tell Me What’S Going On.’, Frank Bramlett
English Faculty Publications
The purpose of this study is to investigate the nature of interview styles at a privately funded social service agency. At this agency, which helps people in a financial emergency, clients are interviewed by volunteers to determine the clients' eligibility for financial assistance. In this paper, I test Levinson' s (1992) definition of activity type through an examination of how interviewers, within the beginning moments, share knowledge of the social service interview with the clients. Specifically, I explore how two volunteer interviewers open sessions with their clients. Three different interviews were recorded for each of eleven interviewers at the agency. …
Revising Tragic Conventions: Aphra Behn's Turn To The Novel, Rachel Carnell
Revising Tragic Conventions: Aphra Behn's Turn To The Novel, Rachel Carnell
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Students’ Perceptions Of Written Teacher Comments: What Do They Say About How We Respond To Them?, Bryan Bardine
Students’ Perceptions Of Written Teacher Comments: What Do They Say About How We Respond To Them?, Bryan Bardine
English Faculty Publications
We teachers believe the written responses we put on our students' papers are as clear, concise, and focused as they can be. Most of us assume that students understand what we write on their papers, and if the students choose to use them for future writing, then the comments will assist with successive drafts. However, how many of us have asked our students what they think about the ways that we respond to their writing? Or how many of us have even thought about the role that our comments play in our students' writing? Scenarios like Tim and Angie's above …
It's Not Easy Being Green: Gender And Friendship In Eliza Haywood's Political Periodicals, Rachel Carnell
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 …
"Permanently Blacked": Julia Frankau's Jewish Race, Michael Galchinsky
"Permanently Blacked": Julia Frankau's Jewish Race, Michael Galchinsky
English Faculty Publications
If there is to be a challenge to the increasingly prevalent impulse to recover Anglo-Jewish texts from the silences of the archives, the challenge will undoubtedly arise in relation to the novels of Julia Frankau. Frankau’s late Victorian novels on Jewish subjects, Dr. Phillips: A Maida Vale Idyll (1887) and Pigs in Clover (1903), explore and authorize a particular set of attitudes known as “Jewish self-hatred” and legitimate these attitudes by recourse to an idiosyncratic form of scientific racism. Moreover, these texts have served as spurs to the production of racial anti-Semitism. In such a case, what does it mean …
Grace Aguilar’S Correspondence, Michael Galchinsky
Grace Aguilar’S Correspondence, Michael Galchinsky
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Representation Of Female Desire In Early Modern Pornographic Texts, 1660-1745, Manuela MourãO
The Representation Of Female Desire In Early Modern Pornographic Texts, 1660-1745, Manuela MourãO
English Faculty Publications
Analyzes the process through which female and male sexual objectification is constructed in early modern pornographic texts released between 1660 and 1745.
The Psychology Of Uncertainty: (Re)Inscribing Indeterminacy In Rudolph Fisher's The Conjure-Man Dies, Adrienne Gosselin
The Psychology Of Uncertainty: (Re)Inscribing Indeterminacy In Rudolph Fisher's The Conjure-Man Dies, Adrienne Gosselin
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Europe And Violence: Some Contemporary Reflections On Walter Benjamin's "Theories Of German Fascism", Graham Macphee
Europe And Violence: Some Contemporary Reflections On Walter Benjamin's "Theories Of German Fascism", Graham Macphee
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Refighting Old Wars: Race Relations And Masculine Conventions In Fiction By Larry Brown And Madison Smartt Bell, Suzanne W. Jones
Refighting Old Wars: Race Relations And Masculine Conventions In Fiction By Larry Brown And Madison Smartt Bell, Suzanne W. Jones
English Faculty Publications
Since the Civil War white male writers of the American South have created fond fictions about childhood friendships that crossed the color line. For example, much of the poignancy of Faulkner's The Unvanquished (1938) comes from Bayard Sartoris's description of the close relationship he had with a black servant boy Ringo in the Mississippi small town that will separate them as they grow older and that from the beginning marked them as different, based on race. After their boyhood games and real Civil War adventures together, Bayard and Ringo grow up to be, not close friends, but master and faithful …
Born And Made: Sisters, Brothers, And The Deceased Wife's Sister Bill, Elisabeth Rose Gruner
Born And Made: Sisters, Brothers, And The Deceased Wife's Sister Bill, Elisabeth Rose Gruner
English Faculty Publications
We are--almost all--born into families, born into relationship. Like Mary Ann Evans, I was born a little sister--but had I encountered her "Brother and Sister" sonnets at twelve, I might have thrown the book across the room. George Eliot's fantasy of a perfected brother-sister relationship in these sonnets rings hollow and yet resonates profoundly with me. As a little sister myself, I wonder what could make the relationship--so often fraught with competition, envy, and neglect, yet potentially so richly rewarding--seem so powerfully right, so important to and adult woman's self-identification? For the narrator of the sonnets is certainly an adult …
The Shell Seekers And Working Women Readers’ Search For Serenity, Suzanne W. Jones
The Shell Seekers And Working Women Readers’ Search For Serenity, Suzanne W. Jones
English Faculty Publications
For the last decade feminist literary critics have convincingly argued that bestselling novels from Gone with the Wind (1936) and Forever Amber (1944) to The Valley of the Dolls (1966) and The Flame and the Flower (1972) reveal the psychic needs of twentieth-century middle-class American women, and that these needs have as much to do with desire for the emotional sustenance they once received from their mothers as with desire for heterosexual romance. However, as more and more women have moved from the private to the public workplace, their psychic needs have changed somewhat. Based on the American popularity of …
On The Jazz Musician's Love/Hate Relationship With The Audience, Bertram D. Ashe
On The Jazz Musician's Love/Hate Relationship With The Audience, Bertram D. Ashe
English Faculty Publications
An assistant professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross, Bertram D. Ashe discusses how the intersection of an African American cool style with a black vernacular tradition and multi-racial audiences complicates audience-performer relations. In the vernacular tradition, performers play not "to" but "with" an audience, drawing on the call-response patterns that characterize the black aesthetic. Ashe notes that the vernacular tradition is not racial but cultural, and class can be as important a marker as race in determining audience expectations. Differing cultural backgrounds create, in Ashe's words, "competing realities," distinct sets of expectations that can shape a …
The Aporetic Witness, Susan L. Trollinger
The Aporetic Witness, Susan L. Trollinger
English Faculty Publications
The opportunity that this shift from modernity to postmodernity may have opened for faith to speak to reason has not gone unnoticed by theologians. Indeed a number of what we might call poshnodern theologians have advocated various ways that Christians ought to wihless in their contemporary context. However, because these theologians have tended to mistake our postmodern world for a pluralistic world, they also have tended to write theologies that promote cultural security over faithful witness.
The Crime Of The Sign: Dashiell Hammett's Detective Fiction, Carl D. Malmgren
The Crime Of The Sign: Dashiell Hammett's Detective Fiction, Carl D. Malmgren
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Charles Chesnutt's Southern Black Jew: Rena Walden's Masquerade In The House Behind The Cedars, Earle V. Bryant
Charles Chesnutt's Southern Black Jew: Rena Walden's Masquerade In The House Behind The Cedars, Earle V. Bryant
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Grief (Poem), John Gery
Coyote And The Strawberries: Cultural Drama And Intercultural Collaboration, Barre Toelken, Gorge Wasson
Coyote And The Strawberries: Cultural Drama And Intercultural Collaboration, Barre Toelken, Gorge Wasson
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Minority Job-Seekers Don't Fare As Well, Ted Pease
Minority Job-Seekers Don't Fare As Well, Ted Pease
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Edge Of House, Dzvinia Orlowsky
Edge Of House, Dzvinia Orlowsky
English Faculty Publications
Joseph Brodsky, in one of the essays in On Grief and Reason, writes that the twentieth century is the century of the displaced person. Writers in this century more than any other—from James Joyce and Ernest Hemingway to Paul Celan and Czeslaw Milosz to Seamus Heaney and Brodsky himself—have explored the ordeal of abandoning, voluntarily or involuntarily, a home that had become culturally or socially oppressive. Ukrainian-American poet Dzvinia Orlowsky, in Edge of House and Cuban-American poet Aleida Rodriguez, in Garden of Exile, while eschewing the political concerns of many of these writers, similarly draw on the impact of displacement …
The Self In ‘Fieldwork’: A Methodological Concern, Christie L. Fox, Beverly Stoeltje, Stephen Olbrys
The Self In ‘Fieldwork’: A Methodological Concern, Christie L. Fox, Beverly Stoeltje, Stephen Olbrys
English Faculty Publications
As concepts of reflexivity and postcolonial perspectives have advanced our understandings of the way we represent those we study, they have also introduced a consciousness of the role of the self in research. This article reviews the history of the field of folklore with regard to the method of obtaining data or texts and demonstrates that collecting material contrasts with the practice of conducting research in the field. Pointing to a moment of transition, it shows that theories of folklore had to undergo significant change before methods of research would acknowledge the identity of the fieldworker and its significance.
Alcoholism In Third-World Literature: Buchi Emecheta, Athol Fugard, And Anita Desai, Nancy Topping Bazin
Alcoholism In Third-World Literature: Buchi Emecheta, Athol Fugard, And Anita Desai, Nancy Topping Bazin
English Faculty Publications
ALCOHOLISM IS A MAJOR PROBLEM IN MOST COUNTRIES; yet in only a few countries has it become a social issue and a topic to be discussed seriously and openly. Within universities, substantive knowledge about alcoholism appears co be confined mainly to medical and sociology departments. Certainly, alcoholism is a neglected topic in literary studies. Almost all critics and teachers of literature are blind to its impact on a surprising number of characters and their relationships- even when alcoholism is the primary cause of suffering. Unless a teacher is a recovering alcoholic or knows well someone who is, ignorance or self-censorship …
Androgyny Or Catastrophe: Doris Lessing's Vision In The Early 1970s, Nancy Topping Bazin
Androgyny Or Catastrophe: Doris Lessing's Vision In The Early 1970s, Nancy Topping Bazin
English Faculty Publications
Doris Lessing's novels of the early 1970s offer readers a rare kind of wisdom one which has been nourished by Sufism, a form of Islamic mysticism, which she admires. Unlike Lessing's earlier fiction which was simply influenced by the ideas of Sufism, three of her novels-Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971), The Summer Before the Dark (1973), and The Memoirs of a Survivor (1974)-are literally Sufi fables-that is, symbolic stories, each of which "illuminates truth" (qtd. in Shah, The Sufis 14). The Sufi truth illuminated by these novels is that "life is One," and that because we have …