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Parnassus 2008 Jan 2008

Parnassus 2008

Parnassus

The 2008 edition of the student literary journal, Parnassus, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.


A Review Of The Empirical Literature On The Design Of Physical Environments For People With Dementia, Richard Fleming, Patrick A. Crookes, Shima Sum Jan 2008

A Review Of The Empirical Literature On The Design Of Physical Environments For People With Dementia, Richard Fleming, Patrick A. Crookes, Shima Sum

Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)

No abstract provided.


Shirley Hazzard And I: The Self, The Writer, The Nation And The World At 'Australian Literature In A Global World', Anne Collett Jan 2008

Shirley Hazzard And I: The Self, The Writer, The Nation And The World At 'Australian Literature In A Global World', Anne Collett

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

"I don't believe that the best of this country's writers will wish to rest on 'identity': that is, to invite the risk that a work will be praised, and even over-valued, for its Australian associations - however striking their effects - rather than for its greater human truth." (Hazzard, Boyoer Lectures, 28)


Compensations For Exile: A Lacanian Analysis Of Aeneas's Destiny And Dido's Tragedy In Virgil's Aeneid, Jessica Marie Hayes Jan 2008

Compensations For Exile: A Lacanian Analysis Of Aeneas's Destiny And Dido's Tragedy In Virgil's Aeneid, Jessica Marie Hayes

Theses Digitization Project

This thesis will attempt to show that Dido's Tragedy, rather than reinforcing or celebrating a patriotic version of Homer's heroic code, offers a critical view of the suffering involved in the founding of a new nation, and thus of Aeneas's Destiny.


Fontana Hall And Other Stories, Vincenzo Lucciola Jan 2008

Fontana Hall And Other Stories, Vincenzo Lucciola

Honors Projects

Collection of short stories, including three pieces of flash fiction, three short stories, and one longer story. The author aims at developing a wider grasp of the craft of fiction writing and uses as a running theme the ways by which we choose to negotiate the imperfect life situations in which we find ourselves.


Asides As Discourse: The Pendulum Of Power Between The Sexes In Shakespeare's Richard Iii And Titus Andronicus, Rosalinda Simone Jan 2008

Asides As Discourse: The Pendulum Of Power Between The Sexes In Shakespeare's Richard Iii And Titus Andronicus, Rosalinda Simone

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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Elements Of Mythmaking In Witness Accounts Of Colonial Piracy, Plamen Ivanov Arnaudov Jan 2008

Elements Of Mythmaking In Witness Accounts Of Colonial Piracy, Plamen Ivanov Arnaudov

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Focusing on historical accounts (1684-1734) by English, French, and Spanish witnesses, this dissertation establishes a continuity in fictionalized representations of anti-heroic pirates from the buccaneering period to the Golden Age of Piracy. Informed by history, literary, myth, and performance theory, the analysis identifies significant distortions in reports by observers and participants. The distortions that pertain to mythmaking patterns are classified and analyzed further. Conflicting and ambivalent representations of the pirate as an anti-hero are resolved through the positing of a literary scapegoat hypothesis drawing from René Girard and Joseph Roach. While demonstrating mythical archetypes at work in the construction of …


The Mockingbird, Department Of Art And Design, East Tennessee State University, Department Of Literature And Language, East Tennessee State University Jan 2008

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

The Mockingbird

David Mazure [Questionable Moral Action 261 & Sacred Geometry (Face #1] ]; Reese Chamness [Object #11]; Christine Buchanan [Figure No. 1]; Daniel Marinelli [And the Birds of Appetite ]; Jennifer Osborne [ The Azores]; John Simmons [Tall Bottles]; Jessica Augier[ Pushed Over, Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.]; T. M. Williams [A Diner]; Marshall Parrent [The Corpse of Anthony Edlemeyer]; Amber Nixon [Desert Sand Blows Away Army Wife's Dreams of Marriage, A Cat's Eye ]; Jeri Allison [Ganesha]; K. Hawkins [Beyond the Gate]; Fletcher Dyer [Health Care (Kinetic]]; Fletcher Dyer[ Tree of Life]; Mary Tapp …


Learning To Transgress: Embedded Pedagogies Of The Gothic, Jan Wellington Dec 2007

Learning To Transgress: Embedded Pedagogies Of The Gothic, Jan Wellington

Jan Wellington

No abstract provided.