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Review Of "The Elizabethan Country House Entertainment: Print, Performance, And Gender" By E. Z. Kolkovich, Eric B. Song

English Literature Faculty Works

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Solomon Northup’S Singing Book, Lara Langer Cohen

English Literature Faculty Works

This essay examines the musical score included at the end of Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave (1853), a setting of a song called “Roaring River” that Northup earlier recounted enslaved people singing as they patted juba. I argue that “Roaring River” stages questions that the narrative itself cannot ask about how to represent the experience of slavery once one is outside of it. In particular, it asks how to love what’s made in the shadow of slavery—the intimacies forged, and especially the music borne of them.

The Preparation Of The Topic Model, Rachel Sagner Buurma

English Literature Faculty Works

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Dead Doll, Nathalie Anderson

English Literature Faculty Works

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Optional Online Research Projects On Four Stories In Sandra Cisneros' "Woman Hollering Creek And Other Stories", Peter Schmidt

English Literature Faculty Works

For high school and college and university students and their teachers. These online and print research projects are optional, but they will supplement and deepen students' engagement with Cisneros' stories. They have been classroom tested with Swarthmore College students. Intended to be used in conjunction with Lesson Plan For Teaching Four Stories From Sandra Cisneros' "Woman Hollering Creek And Other Stories."

"And Palate Call Judicious": Paradise Lost And The Question Of Taste, Eric B. Song

English Literature Faculty Works

Paradise Lost repeatedly emphasizes the taste of the forbidden fruit. This essay argues that the poem averts, for discernible religious reasons, any binding judgment concerning whether the fruit is genuinely delicious or delicious only to a palate on the brink of corruption. The divine creator's participation in sensory delight would suggest his unseemly pleasure in sacrifice. This essay argues that John Milton advances a warning against grounding shared knowledge in taste. Although this lesson would go unheeded by Edmund Burke in his project of theistic empiricism, it speaks to problems within the Kantian account of aesthetic judgment and collective reason.

Wave Or Particle?: Crossing Borders In Ruth Ozeki’S Novel A Tale For The Time Being (2013), Peter Schmidt

English Literature Faculty Works

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Lesson Plan For Teaching Nicholasa Mohr's "The English Lesson", A. Lecuona, Peter Schmidt

English Literature Faculty Works

A lesson plan for teaching this story to junior high, high school, and/or college and university students including English Language Learning (ELL) students with a variety of learning objectives, backgrounds, and challenge levels. Developed by Adriana Lecuona and Professor Peter Schmidt.

Lesson Plan For Teaching Four Stories From Sandra Cisneros' "Woman Hollering Creek And Other Stories", Peter Schmidt

English Literature Faculty Works

Sandra Cisneros’ Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991) is assigned frequently in high school and undergraduate courses in English and American literature, Latinx literature, and other classes. This essay presents teaching strategies for Cisneros’ short fiction by focusing on two stories that explore childhood—“Eleven” and “Barbie-Q”—and two that treat difficult passages into adulthood, “Woman Hollering Creek” and “Little Miracles, Kept Promises.”

Intended to be used in conjunction with Optional Online Research Projects On Four Stories In Sandra Cisneros' "Woman Hollering Creek And Other Stories."