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Past Griefs, Lara Langer Cohen

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Lesson Plan For Teaching Steve Martin's "Patter For The Floating Lady", Abhinav Tiku , '18, Peter Schmidt

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Developed by a Swarthmore College student, Abhinav Tiku, with feedback from Professor Peter Schmidt, as a final assignment in English 9H, "Portraits of the Artist," fall 2014.

Lesson Plan For Teaching Tobias Wolff's "That Room", Kate L. Crowley , '16, Peter Schmidt

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Developed by a Swarthmore College student, Kate Crowley, with feedback from Professor Peter Schmidt, as a final assignment in English 71D, "The Short Story in the U.S.," fall 2014.

Lesson Plan For Teaching Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard To Find", Adriana M. Obiols Roca , '16, Peter Schmidt

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Suitable for high school and college and university classes. Developed by a Swarthmore College student, Adriana Obiols Roca, with feedback from Professor Peter Schmidt, as a final assignment in English 71D, "The Short Story in the U.S.," spring 2014.

Learning Objectives. Students will: understand the differences between direct and indirect characterization and be able to identify examples of each; understand the uses of irony and foreshadowing in the story as well as more generally in literature; become acquainted with Flannery O’Connor and her writing style, particularly with her use of the grotesque; explore the complexity of the themes present …

Beauty, Nathalie Anderson

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Rough, Nathalie Anderson

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Cold Hands, Nathalie Anderson

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Concourse, Nathalie Anderson

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Lawn Boys, Nathalie Anderson

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Emily Dickinson’S Teenage Fanclub, Lara Langer Cohen

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This essay explores the 1882 publication of “Success is counted sweetest” in the Amateur Journal, a newspaper edited by eighteen-year-old Albert E. Barker of Judsonia, Arkansas. The Amateur Journal was part of a fad that swept the United States after the Civil War, when thousands of teenage boys began publishing their own newspapers on diminutive printing presses. At its height in the 1880s, amateur journalism linked boys across the country into tightly knit virtual communities with their own distribution methods, literary conventions, social customs, and vernaculars. Barker likely reprinted “Success is counted sweetest” from the anonymous anthology A Masque of …

“And You Are ——?”: Faulkner’S Mysteries Of Race And Identity, Philip M. Weinstein

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The Perils Of Authorship: Literary Propoerty And Nineteenth-Century American Fiction, Lara Langer Cohen, M. L. Mcgill

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This chapter examines the perils associated with American authorship during the early nineteenth century, with particular reference to issue of intellectual property and copyright. It begins with an analysis of the impact of intellectual property rights on publishing and the culture of reprinting, along with the influence of copyright on the American novel. It then considers the problem concerning the definition of “American authorship” and how the unstable nature of American authorship subjected writers who wished to promote it to charges of fraudulence. It also explores the question of originality among writers before concluding with a discussion of the radical …

Grand, Nathalie Anderson

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Review Of "The Textual Condition Of Nineteenth-Century Literature" By J. M. Guy And I. Small, Rachel Sagner Buurma

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Notation After “The Reality Effect”: Remaking Reference With Roland Barthes And Sheila Heti, Rachel Sagner Buurma, L. Heffernan

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In “The Reality Effect,” Roland Barthes reveals notation’s ideological function within the realist novel; a decade later in Preparation of the Novel, Barthes reconsiders notation as the practice by which the writer provisionally makes literary meaning. Barthes’s revision of his claims for the reality effect helps us see how an emerging genre—the novel of commission—pulls referential, preparatory materials into the novel in order to reimagine the sociality and institutionality of the writing process.

Theorizing Audience And Spectatorial Agency, Betsy Bolton

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This chapter analyses Georgian audiences and spectatorial agency through several lenses: psychoanalytic film theory, theories of the public sphere and of mass publicity, and media studies of cultural convergence. The first section reads Georgian theatre’s heterogeneous playbills as a syntactical rendering of the audience, the imaginary community of the nation in process of negotiation. The second section shows theatrical paratexts blurring the boundary between theatre and coffee house, creating a theatrical public sphere in which the audience exercises daily public agency in saving or damning the play. The third section highlights the mingling of vulnerability and charisma in the celebrity …