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A Becoming Habit, Joseph L. Zornado

Faculty Publications

Much of Flannery O'Connor's fiction undermines the notion that her texts, or any text for that matter, offers the reader a chance at fixed comprehensibility In fact, O'Connor's fiction often clears itself away as a meaning-bearing icon in order to introduce the reader to something other, to the mystery latent and invisible in the manners. O'Connor remains remarkable as an avowed Catholic and as a writer because she resisted spelling out that mystery though her Catholic faith offered much in the way of dogma that might have sufficed. Even so, there is an indissoluble link between the writer and the …

Review: David Lyle Jeffrey, People Of The Book: Christian Identity And Literary Culture (Eerdman's, 1996), James Shields

Other Faculty Research and Publications

Book Review: David Lyle Jeffrey, People of the Book: Christian Identity and Literary Culture (Eerdman's, 1996)

A Poetics Of History: Karen Cushman's Medieval World, Joseph L. Zornado

Faculty Publications

Historical fiction occupies an uncertain space in the field of children's literature. Offer a teacher or scholar a work of historical fiction in any genre, from picture book to novel, and you are sure to get a varied, contentious response about what makes historical fiction work. Why? Because historical fiction has ambitious, ambiguous aims. For instance, should historical fiction be good history, even if this means the story might be, say, a little dull? Or, on the other hand, should the author take liberties with setting, dialogue, and character in order to provide the audience with "a good read?" What …

Plotting The Mother: Caroline Norton, Helen Huntingdon, And Isabel Vane, Elisabeth Rose Gruner

English Faculty Publications

The proper Victorian heroine neither acts nor plots. Heroines as disparate as Fanny Price of Mansfield Park and Gwendolen Harleth of Daniel Deronda prove their virtue by failing as actresses. When Fanny protests, “Indeed, I cannot act,” we know that it is because she cannot be other than what she is: virtuous. Gwendolen Harleth’s aborted attempt to make a career as an actress seems, in Daniel Deronda, to signal her essential difference from the Princess Halm-Eberstein, the mother who has abandoned Daniel in order to pursue her acting career. Gwendolen is flawed, but at least she is not an …

New Narratives Of Southern Manhood: Race, Masculinity, And Closure In Ernest Gaines's Fiction, Suzanne W. Jones

English Faculty Publications

In his fiction Ernest Gaines is interested not only in deconstructing stereotypes but also in presenting new models of southern manhood, for both black and white men. While Gaines has employed traditional definitions of manhood in his fiction, the vision he presents in his most recent novel, A Lesson Before Dying, is similar to that of Cooper Thompson and other contemporary theorists of masculinity, who believe that young men must learn 'traditional masculinity is life threatening' and that being men in a modern world means accepting their vulnerability, expressing a range of emotions, asking for help and support, learning non-violent …

Classicism And Romanticism (Fall 1997) (Whitman College), Robert D. Tobin

Syllabi

This course was taught by Robert Tobin at Whitman College. Professor Tobin worked at Whitman for 18 years as associate dean of the faculty and chair of the humanities, and was named Cushing Eells Professor of the Humanities.

"Classicism and Romanticism attempts to provide an overview of the European literature in translation that arose in the so-called classical and romantic periods. Very roughly speaking, one could say that Classical literature was written in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, while Romantic literature was written in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries."

Words And Images 1997, University Of Southern Maine

Words and Images

Director and Designer: Bethany Vogt

Cover photograph by Hugh Chatfield, ©1997.

Parnassus 1997

Parnassus

The 1997 edition of the student literary journal, Parnassus, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

Deracialized Discourse: Temperance And Racial Ambiguity In Harper's 'The Two Offers' And And Sowing And Reaping

English

No abstract provided.

Old Poet Remembered: The Case For The Poetry Of C.S. Lewis, David Landrum

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

Though well known for his fiction and essays, C.S. Lewis also wrote in poetry. Often forgotten or considered less than his prose, his poems are rich with meaning and pleasure. The author offers some perspectives on how those who love Lewis’s prose might learn to love his poetry as well.

Presented at the 1997 Frances White Ewbank Colloquium.

Who Is Afraid Of The Canon?, Marie-Denise Shelton

CMC Faculty Publications and Research

The Canon: Who loads it? Who fires it? Why? These questions have been posed, I believe, to challenge the universalist claims of a eurocentric intellectual tradition in American universities. In the ludic conflation of the homophones: canon and cannon, the organizers of this forum sought, no doubt, to uncover the power politics underlying the intense debate on educational ideology in recent years.

Primo Levi, Ilona Klein

Faculty Publications

Chemistry and literature, viewed by most people as widely different subjects, come together in the works of Primo Levi, an Italian Jew who was both a professional chemist and a professional writer. Levi said that he wanted to fill the gap between the imaginative world of literature and the analytical world of science. Believing such a gap absurd, he was never daunted by the purported incompatibility between the two fields of knowledge. Levi's literary work is also marked by his experience in Auschwitz's concentration camp, where he was interned from February 1944 to January 1945. Through his characteristically clear and …

The Mockingbird, Department Of Art And Design, East Tennessee State University, Department Of Literature And Language, East Tennessee State University

The Mockingbird

Bill Abbott [Philadelphia; Mall Romance]; David Ayers [Bones: A Celebration;]; Roger Blanton [Projectorhead???]; M.R. Brickell [My Last War]; Margarita Casanova [Acanthus; Untitled Photograph]; Sharon Clark [Autumn’s Valiant Flight]; Mike Durham [The Committee]; Eric R. Fish [Fireflies; Her Nap Time]; Brian Fletcher [Anxiety]; Shanda Hayes [Life or Death]; Jeanette Henry [Untitled Photograph]; Scott Honeycutt [Incubus Night]; Jason Johnson [Talkin’ It Out; Echoes In Time]; Sierra Merrell [Uninvited Guest]; Jeff McAfee [To Rosa]; Lori McCallister [The Experiment]; Karen Phelps [Attachments]; Lisa Rogers [Interview With John Bowers]; Michael Roller [Untitled Photograph]; Vince Singleton [Dead Lines]; Bev Steele [Untitled Drawing]; Tiffany Stewart [Wrapped Bird …

Deracialized Discourse: Temperance And Racial Ambiguity In Harper's 'The Two Offers' And And Sowing And Reaping

Debra Rosenthal

No abstract provided.