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In Another Country, Fred G. Leebron Sep 1990

In Another Country, Fred G. Leebron

English Faculty Publications

That summer we lived in an icebox of a house, where nothing worked. The gas stove was stuck in a chimney that had no fireplace, plaid linoleum covered the chipped and rotting floor, a cold wet wind blew through the cracks in the doors and windows, the light bulbs hummed and fluttered, the clock struck at odd and unwarranted times, and we weren't allowed to drink the water from the sink because it came from an impure place. [excerpt]


Feminist Criticism Of Classical Rhetoric Texts: A Case Study Of Gorgias' Helen, Susan L. Trollinger May 1990

Feminist Criticism Of Classical Rhetoric Texts: A Case Study Of Gorgias' Helen, Susan L. Trollinger

English Faculty Publications

Despite the diversity of claims feminist scholars of antiquity advance, they share at least one preoccupation: the critique of patriarchy. That is, they challenge "the manifestation and institutionalization of male dominance over women" (Lerner 239) enacted in primary and secondary texts. The particular methods by which they make their critiques of women's subjugation vary as much as their claims, but most can be classified into one of two categories according to their broad interests in woman as a reader or as a writer of classical texts. Using Elaine Showalter's classifications, for example, we can group most of this scholarship under …


Carnival And Loitering In The Waggoner, Gary Dyer Apr 1990

Carnival And Loitering In The Waggoner, Gary Dyer

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


"'Flight' And 'Pursuit': Fugitive Identity In Bleak House,", Cynthia N. Malone Apr 1990

"'Flight' And 'Pursuit': Fugitive Identity In Bleak House,", Cynthia N. Malone

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Go Eena Kumbla: A Comparison Of Erna Brodber's Jane And Louisa Will Soon Come Home And Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters, Daryl Cumber Dance Jan 1990

Go Eena Kumbla: A Comparison Of Erna Brodber's Jane And Louisa Will Soon Come Home And Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters, Daryl Cumber Dance

English Faculty Publications

When I returned to Jamaica in July 1982, I took as gifts for friends some recent novels by black American writers, including Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters. Upon my arrival, Erna Brodber gave me a copy of her new book, Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home. As I read it, I was struck by another instance of how similar experiences (in this case, being black and female in the Americas of the civil rights, black awareness, Rastafarian, and feminist movements) had inspired such strikingly similar expressions in books published the same year (1980) by an American …


Browning And His Audience: 'A Battle With The Age', Leslie T. White Jan 1990

Browning And His Audience: 'A Battle With The Age', Leslie T. White

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Translation Or Invention: Three Cathay Poems Reconsidered, Zhaoming Qian Jan 1990

Translation Or Invention: Three Cathay Poems Reconsidered, Zhaoming Qian

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Usher’S Nervous Fever: The Meaning Of Medicine In Poe’S ‘The Fall Of The House Of Usher, David E.E. Sloane Jan 1990

Usher’S Nervous Fever: The Meaning Of Medicine In Poe’S ‘The Fall Of The House Of Usher, David E.E. Sloane

English Faculty Publications

"Poe translates medical descriptions into Gothic apparatus and establishes a double motif, for the narrator in telling us about these symptoms seems to ascribe them to mind and imagination even while noting the physicality of his surroundings with almost clinical detail." -- p. 147


Teaching Literature In The 1990'S: Meeting The Challenge, Nancy Topping Bazin Jan 1990

Teaching Literature In The 1990'S: Meeting The Challenge, Nancy Topping Bazin

English Faculty Publications

English teachers are currently beset by a variety of political forces vying for their attention. Education has become big news again for the first time since October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union inaugurated the Space Age by launching Sputnik, the first man-made satellite. In 1957, astonished at the Russians' success, Americans panicked and decided that their math science, and foreign language training was inadequate. Recent survey~ showing the superiority of Japanese and European students over American students have provoked serious concern about the quality of education going on in American public schools and in our colleges and universities. The …


Milton And The Fascists, David Boocker Jan 1990

Milton And The Fascists, David Boocker

English Faculty Publications

ln August 1925 the Italians placed a memorial tablet honoring Milton on the wall of the Paradisino at Vallombrosa, where he is said to have stayed during his tour of ltaly. Actual evidence that Milton was at Vallombrosa is scant; all we really have are lines 302-4 of Book I of Paradise Lost. Nevertheless, the Italians did place the memorial tablet in his honor. The question is why.