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English Literature Faculty Works

2012

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Matthew Henson And The Antinomies Of Racial Uplift, Anthony S. Foy Jul 2012

Matthew Henson And The Antinomies Of Racial Uplift, Anthony S. Foy

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No abstract provided.


The Common Reader And The Archival Classroom: Disciplinary History For The Twenty-First Century, Rachel Sagner Buurma, L. Heffernan Jan 2012

The Common Reader And The Archival Classroom: Disciplinary History For The Twenty-First Century, Rachel Sagner Buurma, L. Heffernan

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The essay draws on archival research to reconstruct the midcentury classrooms of Cleanth Brooks and Edmund Wilson. Our description of these classrooms - the participants, texts, and the exemplary as well as the undertheorized moments gathered within them - dissolves the divisions between research and teaching, historicist and formalist methods, skeptical critics and invested common readers, disciplinary spaces and public ones, that have particularly plagued the discipline of English in recent years. In Brooks's classroom - long figured as a foundational site for our discipline - we draw out, alongside Brooks's strong theory of the marginal and rarified status of …


Swarthmore College: The Early Novels Database And Undergraduate Research: A Case Study, Rachel Sagner Buurma, Anna T. Levine , '12, Richard Li , '11 Jan 2012

Swarthmore College: The Early Novels Database And Undergraduate Research: A Case Study, Rachel Sagner Buurma, Anna T. Levine , '12, Richard Li , '11

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No abstract provided.


Novel/Cinema/Photo: Intertextual Readings Of “The Namesake”, Bakirathi Mani Jan 2012

Novel/Cinema/Photo: Intertextual Readings Of “The Namesake”, Bakirathi Mani

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No abstract provided.