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Jaepl, Vol. 7, Winter 2001-2002, Linda T. Calendrillo, Editor, Kristie S. Fleckenstein, Editor

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Morris Berman tells the story of his maternal grandfather, who, when he was five years old in 1883 or 1884, was sent to a Jewish elementary school in Belorussia. On the first day of class, the teacher startled the young boy by taking each child's slate and smearing the first two letters of the Hebrew alphabet—aleph and beys—on it in honey. His grandfather's first lesson consisted of eating the letters off the slate. The symbolism of this act is complex, Berman muses, but central to the ritual is the belief that what is real must be taken into oneself, ingested: …

Tin Can Tourist, Scott Hightower

Poetry

A world of history is a world of destinations and possibilities. In Tin Can Tourist Scott Hightower draws from a legacy larger than the limits of personal history, body, and brand. From the harsh Protestant landscape of his native central Texas to the pageantry of the historical architecture of St. Maria in Trastevere, Rome, he persues the limit of the poet. Where exactly does one begin and the world start? Hightower reflects a world containing AIDS and cancer, Caravaggio and van der Werff. Nature, interpersonal relationships, and the culture of the world—from simple to extraordinary—are all fair game. His partaking, …

Linda Grace Hoyer Updike: Woman, Author, And Mother, Leslie Hoffman

Library Summer Fellows

Linda Grace Hoyer was a brilliant individual. She graduated from Ursinus College at the age of nineteen, received a master's from Cornell University, and after many years of diligent work, published two novels and a myriad of short stories. She lived an unusual life: reflective, feminine in her thought processes, but nevertheless somewhat stubborn in a time when women were meant to fill a subordinate role. I have found through my research that Hoyer's brilliance did not lie in her intellect and writing alone. In fact, as demonstrated by her literature's autobiographical nature, her brilliance as a writer seemed to …

"How Should One Love?": Alternative Love Plots And Their Ethical Implications In The Victorian Novel, Jennifer J. Carpentier

Dissertations

In reading Victorian fiction through an ethical lens, I am attentive to questions of what constitutes the good, loving, w ell-lived life. It is my contention that Victorian writers turned to fiction - specifically, the rapidly emerging novel form - to explore the ethical implications of being in love, and the problem s occasioned by erotic love. The writers I examine modify the basic Aristotelian search for a specification of the good life for human beings: they used novels as testing grounds for the ethical question, "How should one love?"

My study of 19th-century British fiction reveals a strain of …

Wonder Window Series: My Guardian Angel, My Fairy Godmother, My Magical Mermaid, Samara Anjelae

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the College of Humanities at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in English by Samara Anjelae on May 7, 2001

2001 Literary Review (No. 15), Sigma Tau Delta

Greenleaf Review

No abstract provided.

Et Cetera, Marshall University

Et Cetera

Founded in 1953, Et Cetera is an annual literary magazine that publishes the creative writing and artwork of Marshall University students and affiliates. Et Cetera is free to the Marshall University community.

Et Cetera welcomes submissions in literary and film criticism, poetry, short stories, drama, all types of creative non-fiction, photography, and art.

Stay With Me, Susan Steinberg

English

No abstract provided.

Disintegration And Despair In The Early Fiction Of John Mcgahern, Eamon Maher

Articles

No abstract provided.

The Narratology Of Jennifer Johnston's Novels, Robert N. Hutton

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Irish novelist Jennifer Johnston has published twelve novels to date, from The Captains and the Kings in 1972 to The Gingerbread Woman in 2000. Eileen Battersby's recent Irish Times article “Making Sense of Life” called her “the quiet woman of Irish fiction, “ referring to her understated, sophisticated writing style. All of her novels are short (Joseph Connelly and others have called them “novellas”), and she has become known for her ability to describe a complex situation in a direct, compact way.

This discussion is intended to investigate the narratology of several Johnston novels: to explore narrative voice, narrative chronology, …

Roots And Wings, Charles Eugene Hughes Jr.

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Certain experiences happen to you during your early teen years. Some of them you never think of again, others affect for the rest of your life. It’s the awkward time between childhood and adulthood, when your body and mind begin to develop into whatever it is you will become. The friends you make during these years will be your oldest and dearest. They will share both your innocence and your awakening, and you theirs. I passed through this period in the late 1960s and early 1970s, an era of remarkable social, political, and moral change. But at the time, I …

Zephyrus, Western Kentucky University

Student Creative Writing

No abstract provided.

Reflections 2001, Jason Whisnant, Jennifer Carlile

Reflections

The 2001 issue of Reflections is edited by Jason Whisnant with Jennifer Carlile serving as faculty adviser. Award winners of the student poetry contest include: Kelly Harrison, Sarah Donaldson, Abby Wolford. Award winners of the student art contest include: Denise Azzopardi, James Colwell, Gabrielle Donaldson, and Erick Wince. Award winners of the student photography contest include: Kelly Harrison and Anna Marie Martin.

Parnassus 2001

Parnassus

The 2001 edition of the student literary journal, Parnassus, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

Back Matter

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Back Matter

We Are Not Friends, Fred G. Leebron

English Faculty Publications

There is something about the way the phone rings that lets you know it's Them - a kind of glitter in the chime, a certain je ne sais quoi to the cadence, which seems to skip a beat as if it can't believe that They are calling. You pick up, heart throbbing, getting ready to move your mouth, a sly frisson of sweat striking your palms.

"They asked me to call," Their assistant says. "They want you at the house next Thursday. And then you'll all go somewhere. A plane will be involved. You'll want to bring a passport. Until …

Editor's Note

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.

Inky Went Down To The Well, K. S. Phillips

Bryant Literary Review

None of us knew how pure Inky was until we drank her. Sadly, our awareness came three summers too late.

Index: Retrospectives Issue

Rampike

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Cover: Retrospectives Issue

Rampike

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12.1 Retrospectives

Rampike

Robert Moorehead, David Antin, Manuel Brito, Theo Breuer, Michael Basinski, Lawrence Upton, Fernando Aguiar, Steven Venright, Nobuo Kubota, Eldon Garnet, Joy Kogawa, Christopher Dewdney, Vera Frenkel, Philippe Sollers, Elaine Corts, bp Nichol, Geoff Hancock, Sorel Etrog, Paul Dutton, Jaap Blonk, Bryan Sentes, Stan Fogel, Karl Jirgens, Reid Diamond, Serge Segay, Philip Monk, Brian Edwards, Rolland Nadjiwon, Jeanette Lynes, Norman Lock, W.M. Sutherland, Alan Lord, Sean Lefebvre, Louise Bak, Hartmut Andryczuk, June Mills, Meredith L. Ramsey-Kakapshe, William S. Eldridge, Rea Nikonova, Rachel Yellowman, Richard Frankland, Clemente Padin, Geary Hobson, César Figueiredo, Bill Cowen, Carol Stetser, Burke Paterson, Alan Weiss, Vittore Baroni, …

Back Matter

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

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Reviews, Sandi Albertson-Shea, Susan A. Schiller, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Sandi Alberston-Shea. Letters for the Living: Teaching Writing in a Violent Age. (Michael Blitz and C. Mark Huribert, 1999).

Susan A. Schiller. Education and the Soul: Toward a Spiritual Curriculum. (John P. Miller, 2000).

Jeffrey D. Wilhelm. Radical Presence: Teaching as Contemplative Practice. (Mary Rose O'Reilly, 1998).

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Being There: Revising The Discourse Of Emotion And Teaching, Dale Jacobs

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

This essay explores the fine line that exists between teacher engagement and teacher burnout and suggests strategies for teachers and mentors of teachers to help negotiate this line.

Connecting, Helen Walker, Laura Milner, Candace Walworth, Dave Waddell, Vic Kryston, Richard L. Graves

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Laura Milner—Steve's Story.

Candace Walworth—War & Peace in a Two-Car Garage.

Dave Waddell—Caring.

Vic Kryston—Ralph and the Unexpected Fix.

Richard L. Graves—The Abraham Dream.

Felt Sensing Of Speech Acts In Written Genre Acquisition, Randall Popken

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

This paper theorizes about the experiential dimension of acquiring rhetorical genres—specifically the way developing writers rely on felt sensing when they encounter the "core" of genres: illocutionary speech acts.

A Poetics Of Student Writing, Dennis Young

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Focusing on student reflective essays about learning writing, I rely on depth psychology and hermeneutics to illustrate the image-making, poetic dimension of student work.

Discredited Metaphors Of Mind Limit Our Vision, Marilyn Middendorf

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Teachers will be intrigued by recent discoveries in "the brain sciences" and the new metaphors of consciousness they suggest.

Teacher Growing Pains, Carolina Mancuso

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Reflecting on a teacher education course which incorporated experiential learning in an exploratory pedagogy, the author examines how the relationship between teachers and students can affect both personal and professional lives, particularly in periods of individual transition.

Imperfection: The Will-To-Control And The Struggle Of Letting Go, W. Keith Duffy

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

As I found myself beginning to appropriate my students' writing more and more, I wondered if this was evidence of a spiritual imbalance—an unwillingness to acknowledge my own imperfection as a teacher and human being.