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Full-Text Articles in English Language and Literature
Shallow Literacy, Timid Teaching, And Cultural Impotence, David L. Wallace
Shallow Literacy, Timid Teaching, And Cultural Impotence, David L. Wallace
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Any attempt to move to a deeper notion of literacy in our theory and pedagogy must—among other things—involve us facing our own self interest and expecting disruption in our own classrooms, departments, and universities.
The Meaning Of The Meaningless In The Plays Of Suzan-Lori Parks, Andrea J. Goto
The Meaning Of The Meaningless In The Plays Of Suzan-Lori Parks, Andrea J. Goto
Legacy ETDs
No abstract provided.
"Creating Power:" Social Mobility And The Transformative Vision In Hugh Henry Brackenridge's Modern Chivalry, Jon D. Blackstock
"Creating Power:" Social Mobility And The Transformative Vision In Hugh Henry Brackenridge's Modern Chivalry, Jon D. Blackstock
Legacy ETDs
No abstract provided.
Routes Of Freedom: Slave Resistance And The Politics Of Literary Geography, Judith Louise Kemerait
Routes Of Freedom: Slave Resistance And The Politics Of Literary Geography, Judith Louise Kemerait
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation integrates rhetorical, historical, and spatial analysis in an effort to expand our understanding of the cultural work performed by antebellum narratives that take slavery in the United States as their subject matter. Specifically, it focuses on the complicated relationship between place and human praxis as revealed in five texts: The Confessions of Nat Turner, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Dred, Martin R. Delany’s Blake, Frederick Douglass’s “The Heroic Slave,” and Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno. In my attention to literary geographies, I trace spatial patterns in which considerations of organized resistance and slave rebellion are repeatedly placed in “wild-spaces” such as …
Against Biopoetics: On The Use And Misuse Of The Concept Of Evolution In Contemporary Literary Theory, Bradley Bankston
Against Biopoetics: On The Use And Misuse Of The Concept Of Evolution In Contemporary Literary Theory, Bradley Bankston
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation is a critical assessment of "biopoetics:" a new literary theory that attempts to import ideas from evolutionary science to the study of literature. Borrowing from the field of evolutionary psychology, the biopoeticists argue that some literary forms and themes are particularly valuable because they result from our innate and evolved cognitive structure; they also attempt to create a normative aesthetic from the idea that evolution is progressive. In its first half, this study examines the claims of evolutionary psychology and their application by the biopoeticists; in the second half, it examines the idea that evolution is progressive, and …
Young Learners Of Modern Foreign Languages And Their Transition To The Secondary Phase: A Lost Opportunity?, Allison Bolster, Christine Balandier-Brown, Pauline Rea-Dickins
Young Learners Of Modern Foreign Languages And Their Transition To The Secondary Phase: A Lost Opportunity?, Allison Bolster, Christine Balandier-Brown, Pauline Rea-Dickins
Institute for Educational Development, East Africa
Following publication of the National Languages Strategy on 18 December 2002 the teaching of foreign languages (FL) in the primary school is again high on the agenda in England as in other parts of Europe. Research has shown in the past (Burstall et al., 1974) that an early start in FL does not necessarily result in any long-term advantage in terms of proficiency. However, the above study also draws other conclusions, less widely reported, which remain significant. These include insufficient liaison between primary and secondary schools, lack of continuity in foreign language learning across phases, inadequate training of teachers, …
A Lesson In The Garden Of Good And Evil, Lisa Parker
A Lesson In The Garden Of Good And Evil, Lisa Parker
The Corinthian
Flannery O'Connor's second novel, The Violent Bear It Away, revolves around a young boy named Tarwater. Throughout the novel, Tarwater struggles to choose between the old domineering ways of his backwoods, ignorant, great-uncle Mason Tarwater, and the more modern ideology of his city dwelling, well educated, uncle George Rayber.
Feminizing The Text, Feminizing The Reader? The Mirror Of "Feminitie" In The Testament Of Cresseid, Sarah M. Dunnigan
Feminizing The Text, Feminizing The Reader? The Mirror Of "Feminitie" In The Testament Of Cresseid, Sarah M. Dunnigan
Studies in Scottish Literature
No abstract provided.
Take Your Flag And Shove It! Nationalistic Humor In Fergusson And Burns, Steven R. Mckenna
Take Your Flag And Shove It! Nationalistic Humor In Fergusson And Burns, Steven R. Mckenna
Studies in Scottish Literature
No abstract provided.
Burns's Other Poem For Jean The "Blue-Eyed Lassie", Andrew M. Stauffer
Burns's Other Poem For Jean The "Blue-Eyed Lassie", Andrew M. Stauffer
Studies in Scottish Literature
No abstract provided.
A Discography Of Robert Burns 1948 To 2002, Thomas Keith
A Discography Of Robert Burns 1948 To 2002, Thomas Keith
Studies in Scottish Literature
No abstract provided.
Chinoiserie In The Novels Of Robert Hans Van Gulik, Daniel Franklin Wright
Chinoiserie In The Novels Of Robert Hans Van Gulik, Daniel Franklin Wright
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
This thesis considers the cultural transactions that occur in Robert Hans van Gulik's Judge Dee stories, a set of "Chinese" investigative fiction works written by a Dutchman in English. These works are investigated through the interpretive lens of chinoiserie --an extension of Edward Said's Orientalism, named for a design aesthetic that featured the creation of "Chinese" goods by European artisans who were less interested in closely emulating Chinese styles than in creating fashionable exotica for the domestic market. Chinoiserie investigates the alterations done to foreign cultural products as they are changed to meet the domestic culture's preferences and expectations. The …
All That We Have To Cling To" : Mothers And Motherhood In The Plays Of Tennessee Williams, Trina Di Crescenzo
All That We Have To Cling To" : Mothers And Motherhood In The Plays Of Tennessee Williams, Trina Di Crescenzo
Theses : Honours
This thesis explores the characterisation of motherhood within the plays of American playwright. Tennessee Williams. A central part to my argument is that these mothers are abandoned and left alone because of their own personal complexities. After investigating the life of Edwina Dakin Williams and the influence that she had on her son's life and work. I will proceed to examine the nature of the mother in the Following plays: • The Glass Menagerie • The Rose Tattoo • Battle of Angels • Orpheus Descending • Suddenly Last Summer. All of the plays are “major” works of the writer, with …
Color (Sub)Conscious: African American Women, Authors, And The Color Line In Their Literature, Dikeita N. Eley
Color (Sub)Conscious: African American Women, Authors, And The Color Line In Their Literature, Dikeita N. Eley
Theses and Dissertations
Color (sub)Conscious explores the African American female's experience with colorism. Divided into three distinct sections. The first section is a literary analysis of such works as Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place, Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Alice Walker's "If the Present Looks Like the Past, What Does the Future Look Like?" an essay from her collection In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens. The second section is a research project based on data gathered from 12 African American females willing to share their own experiences and insights on colorism. …
Women And Novelistic Authority, Diane Hoeveler
Women And Novelistic Authority, Diane Hoeveler
English Faculty Research and Publications
Hoeveler reviews Women and the Rise of the Novel, 1405-1726 by Josephine Donovan, Chivalric Fiction and the History of the Novel by Caroline A. Jewers, and Women, Revolution, and the Novels of the 1790s edited by Linda Lang-Peralta.
Fantasies Of (Re)Collection: Collecting And Imagination In A.S. Byatt's Possession: A Romance, John J. Su
Fantasies Of (Re)Collection: Collecting And Imagination In A.S. Byatt's Possession: A Romance, John J. Su
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
The Shifting Frontiers Of Belonging In The Fiction Of J. M. Coetzee, Dawn Grieve
The Shifting Frontiers Of Belonging In The Fiction Of J. M. Coetzee, Dawn Grieve
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
This thesis is an examination of the fictional works of J.M. Coetzee to date. There are two aspects to my argument. First I posit that Coetzee adumbrates the prevailing crisis of belonging in the world and the universal yearning for a sense of connectedness. Secondly, I maintain that Coetzee prompts a review of the demarcation lines that divide and alienate in two ways. He installs boundaries that are shifting and. unstable. He also represents numerous frontier transgressions that expose the permeability of these finite conceptual constructions and reveals their potential for revision. It is my contention that Coetzee exploits the …
Black Women Writing Black Mother Figures: Reading Black Motherhood In Their Eyes Were Watching God And Meridian, Alexis Durell Powe
Black Women Writing Black Mother Figures: Reading Black Motherhood In Their Eyes Were Watching God And Meridian, Alexis Durell Powe
LSU Master's Theses
This research explores connections between Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Alice Walker's Meridian, two important novels in the African American canon rarely studied in conjunction. I examine the novels' portrayals of Black mothers, comparing and contrasting Nanny Crawford and Mrs. Hill as central mother figures. I also examine Leafy Crawford, Meridian Hill, and other minor Black mother/women characters. Though Hurston's and Walker's presentations of Black mothers differ, both authors work toward dismantling traditional stereotypes of Black motherhood, particularly the Black superwoman stereotype, and, thereby, ultimately redefining Black womanhood. In defending this claim, I explore Hurston's …
Keeping The Money Under The Soap : Constructions Of The English And English Migrants In Australian Nationalist Texts, Ann Rule
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
Where does an Englishman hide his money?' 'I don't know. Where does an Englishman hide his money?' 'Under the soap'. This thesis interrogates representations of ‘Englishness’and by extension, English migrants, in a variety of Australian cultural texts, including film, television, newspapers and academic publications. Underlying this investigation are two major research questions: What are the factors informing the ambivalent place accorded 'Englishness' in Australian cultural texts? and What can this form of investigation tell us about Australian culture and associated national myths? I have attempted to reinterpret these national myths through the texts/ narratives of Englishness and class. One of …
Donne And Herbert: Constructing A Religious Identity Amidst Powerful Cultural Forces, Jeffrey J. Fathauer
Donne And Herbert: Constructing A Religious Identity Amidst Powerful Cultural Forces, Jeffrey J. Fathauer
Masters Theses
No abstract provided.
Witness: Literary Representations Of Slave Insurrection In The West Indies And America, 1781-1861, Joshua Sopiarz
Witness: Literary Representations Of Slave Insurrection In The West Indies And America, 1781-1861, Joshua Sopiarz
Masters Theses
No abstract provided.
National Writing, Personal Journey: Shifting Moral Ideas In The Gothic Novels Of Charles Brockden Brown, Stanley Eugene Weiss
National Writing, Personal Journey: Shifting Moral Ideas In The Gothic Novels Of Charles Brockden Brown, Stanley Eugene Weiss
Masters Theses
No abstract provided.
Poem Written In Revlon's "Fire And Ice" Lipstick, Marie Harris
Poem Written In Revlon's "Fire And Ice" Lipstick, Marie Harris
Bryant Literary Review
I secretly wanted to be the girl
you dreamed about as you stood
staring at the phone number
Palden Gyatso Comes To Town, Anne Hanley
Palden Gyatso Comes To Town, Anne Hanley
Bryant Literary Review
I always go to hear
Tibetan monks
Even though
I cannot understand
Their words.
The Snow Moon, Rebecca Lilly
The Snow Moon, Rebecca Lilly
Bryant Literary Review
A full moon sheared the tip of a pine. Lying in bed, a woodsman and
his wife saw it one December night. "Something must be done," said
his wife. "I know it's a sign."
In A Field Near Sardis Dam, Louis Bourgeois
In A Field Near Sardis Dam, Louis Bourgeois
Bryant Literary Review
Silence. A scarecrow flickers in the wind.
The corn is dead. Geese speckle the horizon,
followed by crows and herons.