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The Representation Of Samson's Eyes In Samson Agonistes, Timothy J. Burbery Dec 1997

The Representation Of Samson's Eyes In Samson Agonistes, Timothy J. Burbery

English Faculty Research

Everyone knows that in Samson Agonistes Milton altered many details in the judges narrative of Samson, changing Dalila from a concubine to a wife, for instance, and inventing the characters of Harapha and the Public Officer. Yet one alteration that has gone unnoticed is the fact that Samson's eyeballs remain intact and his face looks normal and uninjured even after his being violently blinded by the Philistines.


Annotated Bibliography Of Research In The Teaching Of English, Deborah Brown, Richard L. Larson, Melissa Whiting Dec 1997

Annotated Bibliography Of Research In The Teaching Of English, Deborah Brown, Richard L. Larson, Melissa Whiting

Faculty Publications

Twice a year, in the May and December issues, RTE publishes a selected bibliography Of recent research in the teaching of English. Most of the studies listed appeared during the six-month period preceding the complication of the bibliography (January through lune, 1997, for the present bibliography), but some studies that appeared earlier are occasionally included. The listing is selective; it makes no attempt to include all research and research-related studies that appeared in the period under review. Comments on the bibliography and suggestions about items for inclusion may be directed to the bibliography editors. We encourage you to send your …


Reflection/Reflected The Construction Of Female Subjectivity In Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September And The Death Of The Heart, Laura Bartlett Dec 1997

Reflection/Reflected The Construction Of Female Subjectivity In Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September And The Death Of The Heart, Laura Bartlett

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

As I read Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September and The Death of the Heart, questions arose, persisted, and remained unanswered until I undertook the project of applying poststructuralist theories to these novels. Reading The Last September, I puzzled over the female protagonist's relationship to an ancillary character, which Bowen repeatedly represents in terms of the father-daughter relationship. Reading both The Last September and The Death of the Heart, I was struck by the fact that although Bowen is typically categorized as a "classical realist," she embarks upon the quest of depicting the identity construction of two female adolescents but abandons …


Moses And Machiavellism, Steven Marx Oct 1997

Moses And Machiavellism, Steven Marx

English

No abstract provided.


Knowledge And Representation In The Ambassadors: Strether's Discriminating Gaze, Phyllis E. Vanslyck Oct 1997

Knowledge And Representation In The Ambassadors: Strether's Discriminating Gaze, Phyllis E. Vanslyck

Publications and Research

I propose a radically new reading of Lambert Strether's subjectivity in Henry James's The Ambassadors, one that challenges critical readings to date and suggests that Strether's journey reflects a tacit but very definite confrontation with the fundamental illusion of the core self. As he follows the trajectory of his desire, initially through identification with the "masculine" identity of Chad Newsome, Strether comes to see the limitations of conventional notions of masculinity. He discovers that the freedom he seeks is not to be found in the illusion of power characterized by masculine control and repression but rather in the vulnerable acceptance …


Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language And The Strangeness Of The Ordinary, Michael Fischer Oct 1997

Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language And The Strangeness Of The Ordinary, Michael Fischer

English Faculty Research

In a frequently quoted remark from Philosophical Investigations. Wittgenstein comments on our overlooking things because they are familiar, or right in front of us every day: "One is unable to notice something-because it is always before one's eyes" (§129). We take these things for granted instead of appreciating their strangeness. For readers of this journal, one of these familiar things might be the very project of drawing on philosophy while discussing works of literature. Not every critic does this; the New Critics, for instance, hardly ever did. From a certain point of view, turning to philosophy feels forced or odd, …


African-American Proverbs In Context By Sw. Anand Prahlad (Book Review), Daryl Cumber Dance Oct 1997

African-American Proverbs In Context By Sw. Anand Prahlad (Book Review), Daryl Cumber Dance

English Faculty Publications

Growing up in Hanover, Virginia, "surrounded by people who cast the world in vibrant and poetic colors," Sw. Anand Prahlad "fell in love with proverbs at an early age" (ix). This lifelong love affair has resulted in a rich collection of African American proverbs that expanded as Prahlad went through college and graduate school, and did postgraduate research. All the while, he was sharpening his critical skills and developing the theoretical framework to establish a model for use in examining the varied components of proverbial speech in the African American community, proceeding on the assumption that in order to understand …


Chinese Landscape Painting In Stevens's 'Six Significant Landscapes', Zhaoming Qian Oct 1997

Chinese Landscape Painting In Stevens's 'Six Significant Landscapes', Zhaoming Qian

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


"I'M Gonna Git Medieval On Your Ass": Pulp Fiction For The 90s--The 1190s, Daniel Terkla, Thomas Reed, Jr. Oct 1997

"I'M Gonna Git Medieval On Your Ass": Pulp Fiction For The 90s--The 1190s, Daniel Terkla, Thomas Reed, Jr.

Scholarship

Rarely does contemporary film offer any zippy ephemera to grace the office doors of medievalists, since film-makers like Quentin Tarantino do not often look to our discipline's corpus for inspiration. Imagine, then, the mix of incredulity and delight we two professors felt while taking in the pawn-shop scene in Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. After being painfully violated--anally raped, to be precise--and then rescued in a most chivalric manner by one of his minions, Marsellus Wallace swears an oath to Zed, his "hillbilly boy" rapist: "I'm gonna git Medieval on your ass" (Pulp Fiction 131). What? we thought: "Medieval"? Why, we asked, …


Body And Spirit, Stage And Sexuality In "The Tempest", Nora Johnson Oct 1997

Body And Spirit, Stage And Sexuality In "The Tempest", Nora Johnson

English Literature Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Formic Acid, Nathalie Anderson Oct 1997

Formic Acid, Nathalie Anderson

English Literature Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Review Of "Carnal Rhetoric: Milton's Iconoclasm And The Poetics Of Desire" By L. Cable, Thomas H. Blackburn Oct 1997

Review Of "Carnal Rhetoric: Milton's Iconoclasm And The Poetics Of Desire" By L. Cable, Thomas H. Blackburn

English Literature Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Mrs. Noah, Nathalie Anderson Oct 1997

Mrs. Noah, Nathalie Anderson

English Literature Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Floating Gardens, Nathalie Anderson Oct 1997

Floating Gardens, Nathalie Anderson

English Literature Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Two Sorceries, Nathalie Anderson Oct 1997

Two Sorceries, Nathalie Anderson

English Literature Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Review Of: Conversations With Ralph Ellison, Maryemma Graham And Amritjit Singh, Eds., Bill Lyne Oct 1997

Review Of: Conversations With Ralph Ellison, Maryemma Graham And Amritjit Singh, Eds., Bill Lyne

English Faculty and Staff Publications

A review of the book Conversations with Ralph Ellison edited by Maryemma Graham and Amritjit Singh.


Romancing The Stone: "Perdita" Robinson In Wordsworth's London, Betsy Bolton Oct 1997

Romancing The Stone: "Perdita" Robinson In Wordsworth's London, Betsy Bolton

English Literature Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Notes On Charles Simic's New "White" (1997), Peter Schmidt Oct 1997

Notes On Charles Simic's New "White" (1997), Peter Schmidt

English Literature Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


The "Domestic Air" Of Wilderness: Henry Thoreau And Joe Polis In The Maine Woods, Thomas Lynch Oct 1997

The "Domestic Air" Of Wilderness: Henry Thoreau And Joe Polis In The Maine Woods, Thomas Lynch

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Thoreau's "Allegash and the East Branch," from the Maine Woods collection, provides a particularly useful excursion on which to examine his wilderness ideology. It is one of the final works in the Thoreau corpus and hence suggests his mature vision. On ths trip he spent significant time in intimate contact with what he considered to be wild nature; and he did so in the company of Joe Polis, a sophisticated Penobscot Indian who was literate in white culture as well as an expert in his own culture's ways of being at home in nature. Polis lived on Indian Island in …


Wole Soyinka's "Dawn" And The Cults Of Ogun, Yaw Adu-Gyamfi Oct 1997

Wole Soyinka's "Dawn" And The Cults Of Ogun, Yaw Adu-Gyamfi

Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.


Review Of The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers Of The Romantic Age By Jonathan Wordsworth; And Closet Stages: Joanna Baillie And The Theater Theory Of The British Romantic Women Writers By Catherine R. Burroughs, Diane Hoeveler Oct 1997

Review Of The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers Of The Romantic Age By Jonathan Wordsworth; And Closet Stages: Joanna Baillie And The Theater Theory Of The British Romantic Women Writers By Catherine R. Burroughs, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Students, Authorship, And The Work Of Composition., Bruce Horner Sep 1997

Students, Authorship, And The Work Of Composition., Bruce Horner

Faculty Scholarship

Reviews the dominant pedagogical strategies compositionists have devised in response to the dilemma posed by the author/student writer binary. Reviews Raymond Williams's analysis of the approaches to the "sociality" of authorship. Describes the contradictions in which dominant composition pedagogies have become entangled.


Eng 1001-063: Composition And Language, Robert Zordani Aug 1997

Eng 1001-063: Composition And Language, Robert Zordani

Fall 1997

No abstract provided.


Eng 2901-001: Structures Of English, John Simpson Aug 1997

Eng 2901-001: Structures Of English, John Simpson

Fall 1997

No abstract provided.


Eng 2003-001: Introduction To Poetry Writing, Bruce Guernsey Aug 1997

Eng 2003-001: Introduction To Poetry Writing, Bruce Guernsey

Fall 1997

No abstract provided.


Eng 3001-005: Advanced Composition, Richard Sylvia Aug 1997

Eng 3001-005: Advanced Composition, Richard Sylvia

Fall 1997

No abstract provided.


Eng 3009-005-014, Christhilf Aug 1997

Eng 3009-005-014, Christhilf

Fall 1997

No abstract provided.


Eng 3009-001-004: Myth And Culture, Martone Aug 1997

Eng 3009-001-004: Myth And Culture, Martone

Fall 1997

No abstract provided.


Eng 3001-010: Advanced Composition, Roger Whitlow Aug 1997

Eng 3001-010: Advanced Composition, Roger Whitlow

Fall 1997

No abstract provided.


Eng 3009c-008: Myth And Culture, Michael Leddy Aug 1997

Eng 3009c-008: Myth And Culture, Michael Leddy

Fall 1997

No abstract provided.