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Full-Text Articles in Children's and Young Adult Literature
Afterlife: Exploring And Accepting Ideas Through Children's Literature, Kiley Vandevelde
Afterlife: Exploring And Accepting Ideas Through Children's Literature, Kiley Vandevelde
Honors Projects
This project is a written and illustrated book for children to assist with the grieving process by exploring different cultural representations of the afterlife. Death is an inescapable part of the human condition. Belief in an afterlife can help children retain a connection to the deceased and can be a useful tool for healing. While very young children (age four to five) inherently believe in existence after death, this decreases after the age of ten. This book targets children aged seven to ten and explains the benefit to believing in an afterlife. It explores different ideas surrounding the afterlife and …
Parent And Child Cookbook For Parental Involvement, Natali Juarez
Parent And Child Cookbook For Parental Involvement, Natali Juarez
Capstone Projects and Master's Theses
The agency with the internship opportunity is the Greenfield Branch Library. The purpose of this capstone project is to address the problem of lack of parental involvement. The lack of parental involvement in the community could have major consequences like low academic achievement, low literacy rates, and childhood obesity. The project is a cookbook with healthy recipes consisting of both meals and snacks. The recipes are made specifically for children to be able to make with their parents. The capstone project is a 6 week program. Every Wednesday there is a grab and go bag with a copy of a …
Through Critique And Beyond: Speculative Fiction As A Tool Of Critical Pedagogy, Syd Thorne
Through Critique And Beyond: Speculative Fiction As A Tool Of Critical Pedagogy, Syd Thorne
Master's Projects and Capstones
This field projects centers around the issue of hopelessness among teachers and students and examines the genre of speculative fiction as a potential tool for cultivating critical hope in the classroom and as an asset to critical pedagogy. Utopian pedagogy and critical pedagogy make up the theoretical framework of this research and project development. The research explores the use of speculative fiction in three areas: activism and identity, student engagement, and utopian performance. The review of the literature demonstrates that the use of speculative fiction in the classroom has the potential to engage students in conversations about social justice and …
The Best Children's Books Of 2021: Holiday Gift Edition, Bank Street College Of Education. Children's Book Committee
The Best Children's Books Of 2021: Holiday Gift Edition, Bank Street College Of Education. Children's Book Committee
The Center for Children's Literature
Notable titles that have captured the attention of Children's Book Committee members just in time for the holidays!
The Legacy Book In America, 1664–1792, Roxanne Harde, Lindsay Yakimyshyn
The Legacy Book In America, 1664–1792, Roxanne Harde, Lindsay Yakimyshyn
Zea E-Books Collection
Legacy books in colonial America were instruments for the transmission of cultural values between generations: the dying mother (usually) instructing and advising children on the path to salvation and heavenly reunions. They were a popular and influential form of women’s discourse that distilled the ideologies of the religious establishment into practical and emotional lessons for lay persons, especially the young.
This collection draws together legacy texts written by colonial American women and girls: five mother’s legacy books and two legacies by children, organized here chronologically. These legacies were written in anticipation of dying, making awareness of death central to the …
The Conscience Of Solomon Kane: Robert E. Howard’S Rhetorics Of Motive, World, And Race, Gabriel Mamola
The Conscience Of Solomon Kane: Robert E. Howard’S Rhetorics Of Motive, World, And Race, Gabriel Mamola
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
In this article I use key definitions from the writings of C. S. Lewis and Hannah Arendt to analyze the portrayal of "conscience as motive" in Robert E. Howard's Solomon Kane stories. I propose a reading of "Kane Saga" as unified by a single underlying fantasy narrative structured around the development of Kane’s conscience across several adventures set in Europe and Africa. In doing so, I attempt to construe these stories of Howard’s earliest “Sword and Sorcery” hero as a fruitful place for critical engagement with Howard’s rhetorics of race, motive, conscience, and action. In doing so, I push back …
The Flight Of The Wild Gander By Joseph Campbell, Phillip Fitzsimmons
The Flight Of The Wild Gander By Joseph Campbell, Phillip Fitzsimmons
Faculty Articles & Research
The Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimension - Selected Essays, 1944-1968 is a 2018 addition to The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell series. This volume of essays begins with a history of the Grimm brothers and fairy tales, moves on to the author’s ideas on the role of society to the development of mythologies, and ends with the secularization of the sacred. This book would go nicely with his The Mythic Dimension: Selected Essays 1959–1987, a 2017 reissue of the volume, also for The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell series. Both books develop similar themes …
The Saga Of The Volsungs: With The Saga Of Ragnar Lothbrok, Translated By Jackson Crawford, Phillip Fitzsimmons
The Saga Of The Volsungs: With The Saga Of Ragnar Lothbrok, Translated By Jackson Crawford, Phillip Fitzsimmons
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
The Saga of the Volsungs: With the Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok is a treat. Both compositions in the volume contain larger than life heroes and heroines who engage in adventures and who fight for the survival and wealth of their clans. They are also consumed--generation after generation--by the blood-feud and by the compulsion to fulfill, to the letter-of-the-word, their unwise vows, and executing them to their last logical and bitter consequences. The stories consist of heart wrenching episodes of treachery, violence, incest, and infanticide. But, both sagas can grow on a reader. They are also tales about an action-oriented people …
The Saga Of The Volsungs: With The Saga Of Ragnar Lothbrok, Translated By Jackson Crawford, Phillip Fitzsimmons
The Saga Of The Volsungs: With The Saga Of Ragnar Lothbrok, Translated By Jackson Crawford, Phillip Fitzsimmons
Faculty Articles & Research
The Saga of the Volsungs: With the Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok is a treat. Both compositions in the volume contain larger than life heroes and heroines who engage in adventures and who fight for the survival and wealth of their clans. They are also consumed--generation after generation--by the blood-feud and by the compulsion to fulfill, to the letter-of-the-word, their unwise vows, and executing them to their last logical and bitter consequences. The stories consist of heart wrenching episodes of treachery, violence, incest, and infanticide. But, both sagas can grow on a reader. They are also tales about an action-oriented people …
My Brain Is All The Super-Power I Need’: Examining Black Girls In Stem And Schooling Spaces In Marvel Comics, Christian Hines
My Brain Is All The Super-Power I Need’: Examining Black Girls In Stem And Schooling Spaces In Marvel Comics, Christian Hines
Research on Diversity in Youth Literature
No abstract provided.
There Are No Rewards For Girls Who Are Too Spirited’: Schools As Gaslighting Mechanisms In Girls With Sharp Sticks, Kathleen Colantonio-Yurko, Shelby Boehm, Kathleen Olmstead
There Are No Rewards For Girls Who Are Too Spirited’: Schools As Gaslighting Mechanisms In Girls With Sharp Sticks, Kathleen Colantonio-Yurko, Shelby Boehm, Kathleen Olmstead
Research on Diversity in Youth Literature
No abstract provided.
Ni Keehtwawmi Mooshahkinitounawn: Lifting Up Representations Of Indigenous Education And Futures In The Marrow Thieves, Melissa Horner, Joaquin Muñoz, Robert Petrone
Ni Keehtwawmi Mooshahkinitounawn: Lifting Up Representations Of Indigenous Education And Futures In The Marrow Thieves, Melissa Horner, Joaquin Muñoz, Robert Petrone
Research on Diversity in Youth Literature
No abstract provided.
Youth Athletes’ Activism And Coaches: Representations In Sports-Related Young Adult Literature, Mark Lewis, Luke Rodesiler
Youth Athletes’ Activism And Coaches: Representations In Sports-Related Young Adult Literature, Mark Lewis, Luke Rodesiler
Research on Diversity in Youth Literature
No abstract provided.
Chinese Children’S School Experiences Represented In Picture Books, Lin Gou, Eun Hye Son
Chinese Children’S School Experiences Represented In Picture Books, Lin Gou, Eun Hye Son
Research on Diversity in Youth Literature
No abstract provided.
Champagne Problems & Popular Feminism: Naming White Feminism In Young Adult Literature, Nicole Amato, Katie Priske
Champagne Problems & Popular Feminism: Naming White Feminism In Young Adult Literature, Nicole Amato, Katie Priske
Research on Diversity in Youth Literature
No abstract provided.
From Bottom Bitch To Top Literacy Scholar: Academic Othermothering Depicted In A Young Adult Street Literature Memoir Text, Delicia Tiera Greene
From Bottom Bitch To Top Literacy Scholar: Academic Othermothering Depicted In A Young Adult Street Literature Memoir Text, Delicia Tiera Greene
Research on Diversity in Youth Literature
No abstract provided.
What Do We Do With The White [Cis] Women?: Juliet Takes A Breath As The Blueprint For Reimagining Allyship In Literacy Instruction, Shea Wesley Martin
What Do We Do With The White [Cis] Women?: Juliet Takes A Breath As The Blueprint For Reimagining Allyship In Literacy Instruction, Shea Wesley Martin
Research on Diversity in Youth Literature
No abstract provided.
Editors' Introduction: Educational Systems In Youth Literature, Henry "Cody" Miller, Mario Worlds, Tianna Dowie-Chin
Editors' Introduction: Educational Systems In Youth Literature, Henry "Cody" Miller, Mario Worlds, Tianna Dowie-Chin
Research on Diversity in Youth Literature
No abstract provided.
On The Theory And Praxis Of Nonsense Poetry As Dialogic Scrum; Or, The Poetical Hermeneutics Of A Retro-Teleological, Post-Diegetic Transom (Notes Towards An Investigation), Michael Heyman, Joseph Thomas
On The Theory And Praxis Of Nonsense Poetry As Dialogic Scrum; Or, The Poetical Hermeneutics Of A Retro-Teleological, Post-Diegetic Transom (Notes Towards An Investigation), Michael Heyman, Joseph Thomas
Faculty Works
This essay explores the nonsensical elements of the composition and staging of “A Short Program of Poems for Young People, in Four Chapters,” a fifty-minute poetry reading by Michael Heyman and Joseph T. Thomas, Jr. prepared for the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association’s 2019 annual conference, “Send in the Clowns,” focusing primarily on the theory and practice of nonsense in relation to the writing and staging of “A Short Program of Poems for Young People, in Four Chapters,” which was performed in San Diego by Joseph T. Thomas, Jr. and Michael Heyman at the 2019 Pacific Ancient and Modern …
The Merits Of Young Adult Literature: Examining The Mental States Of The Protagonists In The Catcher In The Rye, The Outsiders, The Book Thief, And The Perks Of Being A Wallflower, Timothy P. Kelly Jr.
The Merits Of Young Adult Literature: Examining The Mental States Of The Protagonists In The Catcher In The Rye, The Outsiders, The Book Thief, And The Perks Of Being A Wallflower, Timothy P. Kelly Jr.
HON499 projects
Young adult literature, a genre of literature made to appeal to adolescents, has been a success within its target demographic for decades. Because of its intended audience and resulting subject matter, there are many who are either dismissive or ignorant of the genre, seeing it as inherently below other genres in terms of complexity or simply never bothering to give it the time of day. However, this paper argues that it is this effort to relate to this intended audience and their lives, most notably from a mental perspective, that grants the genre depth that is equal to more traditional …
Stories Grow Larger In The Night, Sarah Berti
Stories Grow Larger In The Night, Sarah Berti
The Mythic Circle
in the morning fold your wings but in the dark go out
C.S. Lewis's Meditation Over "The Book Of The Leoun", Joe R. Christopher
C.S. Lewis's Meditation Over "The Book Of The Leoun", Joe R. Christopher
The Mythic Circle
One wonders what did Chaucer mean to make?! A version out of French, for versing’s sake?
The Black Eyes Of Ulspruth-Dimot, Lee Clark Zumpe
The Black Eyes Of Ulspruth-Dimot, Lee Clark Zumpe
The Mythic Circle
A misty morning met the awakening village of Madichi. Dawn made pale the cloudy skies, and upon the breeze cascading down from the mountains was a subtle chill.
Editors' Introductions, The Editors
Two In One, David A. Sparenberg
Two In One, David A. Sparenberg
The Mythic Circle
As I looked to the high ground, which was indeed shaped in the semblance of a sublime albeit miniature mountain, imagine my amazement to hold in view the monumental figure of a curious two-headed deity.
You Passed Me The Story, Sarah Berti
You Passed Me The Story, Sarah Berti
The Mythic Circle
in the dark! you passed me the story
Mythic Circle #43, The Editors
Mythic Circle #43, The Editors
The Mythic Circle
Is it just us, or was 2020-2021 the worst year of the past hundred years? Infections, deaths, lockdowns, and quarantines too long for human endurance just kept on keeping on, intensified by squabbles between proponents of collective health measures (masks, vaccines, social distancing) on one side and of individual personal liberties, regardless of the social and health impact, on the other. But through it all, artists continued to think, dream, and produce new work.
The Tale Of The Troll Maiden And The Cobbler, David Gilman Frederick
The Tale Of The Troll Maiden And The Cobbler, David Gilman Frederick
The Mythic Circle
Once, in the lands across the sea, there was a cobbler. Unremarkable as such an occupation may be here, in those lands it is one of high esteem. They have rugged cliffs to scale, unknown steppes to cross, jagged boulders, spiny hedgehogs, mudflats, cacti, flints, vines, thorns— much of that land, I have heard, is picturesque, with sweeping vistas and forests that anticipate the colors of the sunset.
Welcome To The Busty Wench, E. Clarence Peterson
Welcome To The Busty Wench, E. Clarence Peterson
The Mythic Circle
Toby’s step down from the coach was greeted by the damp embrace of cobblestone puddles. Deceptively deep and cold, they were none too fresh, either.
Emhain Ablach, Joshua S. Fullman
Emhain Ablach, Joshua S. Fullman
The Mythic Circle
A slate horizon keeps captive none who’d gaze with eyes eternal,