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Training Graduate Assistants, Bryan Bardine Mar 2016

Training Graduate Assistants, Bryan Bardine

Bryan Bardine

This article was featured in the journal's '4Sites Post-secondary' section. Overall, the goals for summer training are threefold:

TAs need to become familiar with each other.
TAs need to be knowledgeable about the material.
TAs should be somewhat at ease in a classroom environment.

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Hermann Hesse’S 'Siddhartha' As Divine Comedy, Bryan Bardine Mar 2016

Hermann Hesse’S 'Siddhartha' As Divine Comedy, Bryan Bardine

Bryan Bardine

Comedy has always been more difficult to define and pin down than tragedy. Part of the difficulty may be that comedy is, by its very nature, more protean than tragedy: comedy often takes delight in breaking the rules. Moreover, tragedy has been so memorably described in The Poetics that Aristotle may have unintentionally molded the shape of tragedy through the ages. There are different kinds of tragedy, to be sure, but they are usually variations of a similar theme and form. Perhaps because Aristotle's treatise on comedy has been lost, comedy was left free to develop in numerous ways. In …

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Violence And Beauty: Jacques Lacan's 'Antigone', Andrew Slade Nov 2015

Violence And Beauty: Jacques Lacan's 'Antigone', Andrew Slade

Andrew R. Slade

If Jean-Luc Nancy was able to write in "The Sublime Offering," in 1993, that the sublime was fashionable (25), then academic and theoretical tastes have changed, and beauty has come back in style. Throughout the late 1990s, cultural critics and theorists undertook a return to beauty against the fashion for the sublime that returned in twentieth-century theory and philosophy of art in works by Jean-François Lyotard and Theodor Adorno, among others. The interest in the sublime has been grounded in violent historical experience. Not that violence was new, or that the kinds of violence that the twentieth century bequeathed us …

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Father's Philosophy : Poems, Patrick Randolph Mar 2015

Father's Philosophy : Poems, Patrick Randolph

Patrick T. Randolph

In this collection of poems, Patrick T. Randolph achieves something all too few writers are able accomplish: He conveys honest joy, and he does so deeply, convincingly, and sustainedly. The book is a true pleasure to read. Lester Smith, president, Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets has said: "If I could bequeath one book of poetry to my grandchildren and great grandchildren, it would be Father "s Philosophy by Patrick T. Randolph. Randolph's poems are written with such love and sunshine that more than one generation should have the pleasure and privilege of reading them. ” Joanne Flemming, editor of Irish Stew.

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Empty Shoes: Poems On The Hungry And The Homeless, Patrick Randolph Mar 2015

Empty Shoes: Poems On The Hungry And The Homeless, Patrick Randolph

Patrick T. Randolph

151 poems about hunger and homelessness, from 80 poets, many with direct experience, such as: Dori Appel, a Red Cross disaster volunteer; Mary L. Downs, a volunteer at LEAVEN; Barbara Flaherty, former treatment center supervisor; Nancy Gauquier, formerly homeless in NY; Randall Horton, a Ph.D. candidate who advocates for the homeless and prison reform, having been homeless and in prison; Michele Leavitt, a teenage runaway in the 1970s, who later worked as a public defender; John J. Quirk, a member of Chicago's Homeless Action Committee; Nancy Scott, a social worker who helps find housing; and Julian I. Taber, who treated …

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North Of Kowloon, Pamela Herron Dec 2014

North Of Kowloon, Pamela Herron

Pamela Herron

No abstract provided.

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Local Memory And Karma (The Buddha Correspondence, Vol. 2), Frank Pommersheim Dec 2014

Local Memory And Karma (The Buddha Correspondence, Vol. 2), Frank Pommersheim

Frank Pommersheim

Poetry chapbook by Frank Pommersheim.

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Schooled, Brad Jackel May 2014

Schooled, Brad Jackel

Dr Brad Jackel

No abstract provided.

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Hadrian's Beard, A Poem 2/19/2014, Charles Kay Smith Feb 2014

Hadrian's Beard, A Poem 2/19/2014, Charles Kay Smith

Charles Kay Smith

No abstract provided.

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Is Today A Good Day To Die?, Pamela Herron Dec 2013

Is Today A Good Day To Die?, Pamela Herron

Pamela Herron

Dog Days: A Celebration of Dogs is a beautiful poetic journey through the lives of dogs. The resounding theme throughout this anthology is our love of dogs and their love for the humans in their lives. The poems have been carefully collected from around the world resulting in a dynamic, exciting poetic voyage around the world through the eyes of dogs. The poems in this book will make you laugh, wince. ponder and occasionally cry. A must read for all dog lovers!

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América Her Destroyer: Poems Of Cynthia Cruz, Kristin Naca Dec 2013

América Her Destroyer: Poems Of Cynthia Cruz, Kristin Naca

Kristin Naca

No abstract provided.

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En L'Air: A Collection Of Poetry Written In The Air, Pamela Herron Oct 2013

En L'Air: A Collection Of Poetry Written In The Air, Pamela Herron

Pamela Herron

En l'air is Herron's first poetry collection and grew out of many sleepless flights looking down on the earth below. The poems intertwine the world of a destructive species and the environment that suffers through such destruction.

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Tea In Heliopolis, Hedy Habra Dec 2012