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Review Essay: "America's Hometown" Revisited, Drew Lopenzina
Review Essay: "America's Hometown" Revisited, Drew Lopenzina
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Sky Of Our Manufacture: The London Fog In British Fiction From Dickens To Woolf, Margaret Konkol
The Sky Of Our Manufacture: The London Fog In British Fiction From Dickens To Woolf, Margaret Konkol
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
I Need A Prince To Watch Over Me. Really?! Re-Visioning "Happily Ever After" In Gloria Naylor's Women Of Brewster Place, Anita August
I Need A Prince To Watch Over Me. Really?! Re-Visioning "Happily Ever After" In Gloria Naylor's Women Of Brewster Place, Anita August
English Faculty Publications
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I Need a Prince to Watch Over Me. Really?! Re-Visioning ‘Happily Ever After’ in Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place
Aging Athletes, Broken Bodies, And Disability In Jack London's Prizefighting Prose, Cara E. Kilgallen
Aging Athletes, Broken Bodies, And Disability In Jack London's Prizefighting Prose, Cara E. Kilgallen
English Faculty Publications
Jack London's name often conjures up images of dogs plowing through Alaska's desolate wilderness, or of robust men journeying into the wild; however, pictures of broken bodies struggling for survival in a boxing ring less readily come to mind. Few think of London as a sports writer, yet his illustrations of prizefighting reveal an author interested not only in able bodied athletes but in disabled and weakened ones as well. Although he is best known for his Klondike stories, nautical adventures, and socialist sentiments, the author's fascination with fitness shows that sport and the body are just as central to …
Inspection, Alicia Defonzo
Inspection, Alicia Defonzo
English Faculty Publications
Endure an inspection with Alicia DeFonzo.
Gay Habits Set Strait: Fan Culture And Authoritative Praxis In Ready Player One, Kevin Moberly, Brent Moberly
Gay Habits Set Strait: Fan Culture And Authoritative Praxis In Ready Player One, Kevin Moberly, Brent Moberly
English Faculty Publications
(First Paragraph) Gwendolyn Morgan reminds us that medievalism and authority are complementary fictions.1 Recognizing that the "past with which we identify actually reflects our present needs," she examines the way that contemporary writers establish the authority of their works by adapting, if not explicitly fabricating medieval sources.2 The result, she argues, is a kind of "double practice of medievalism," one that invokes the authoritative power of the Middle Ages by appropriating the medieval appeal to auctoritee, which is to say the pretense of "citing real and invented classical authorities" to both disguise and justify authorial invention.3 Morgan …
Mary Hallock Foote: Reconfiguring The Scarlet Letter, Redrawing Hester Prynne, Adam Sonstegard
Mary Hallock Foote: Reconfiguring The Scarlet Letter, Redrawing Hester Prynne, Adam Sonstegard
English Faculty Publications
It took 28 years after Nathaniel Hawthorne published The Scarlet Letter in 1850 for Mary Hallock Foote to render drawings for one of the novel’s first illustrated editions, which was probably the first ever to be illustrated by a woman.(1) It took 130 years after the publication of Foote’s illustrated edition in 1878 for Project Gutenberg to digitize and disseminate Hawthorne’s novel with Foote’s illustrations.(2) It has taken seven years for Hawthorne scholarship to commence addressing and examining Foote’s edition, and theorize what her drawings suggest about the act of seeing, for the heroine’s audiences in the book, and for …
Seeing The Rebel: Or, How To Do Things With Dictionaries In Nineteenth-Century America, Tim Cassedy
Seeing The Rebel: Or, How To Do Things With Dictionaries In Nineteenth-Century America, Tim Cassedy
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Rhetoric Of Appalachian Identity (Book Review), Mary Beth Pennington
The Rhetoric Of Appalachian Identity (Book Review), Mary Beth Pennington
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Death Of A Salesman In Beijing Revisited, Ou Rong, Zhaoming Qian
Death Of A Salesman In Beijing Revisited, Ou Rong, Zhaoming Qian
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
David Walker, Harriet Beecher Stowe And The Logic Of Sentimental Terror, Kevin Pelletier
David Walker, Harriet Beecher Stowe And The Logic Of Sentimental Terror, Kevin Pelletier
English Faculty Publications
With few exceptions, contemporary criticism reads nineteenth-century sentimental fiction as a literature of love. When Harriet Beecher Stowe famously asserted that the moral growth of the nation depended on each citizen’s ability to “feel right,” she voiced a sentiment shared by many of her contemporaries. It is no surprise, then, that scholars have assumed Stowe’s injunction to “feel right” was a call to feel compassion and love, for it was ostensibly through a rhetoric of Christian love that Stowe was able to foment a passionate outcry against slavery from many of her Northern readers. Indeed, sentimentalism’s transformative potential is best …
Demystifying The Cowboy Through His Song: How Cowboy Poetry And Music Create A Common Language Between Multiple-Use Conservationists And Forever-Wild Preservationists To Meet The Goals Of Sustainable Agriculture, Kristin Y. Ladd, Roslynn Brain
Demystifying The Cowboy Through His Song: How Cowboy Poetry And Music Create A Common Language Between Multiple-Use Conservationists And Forever-Wild Preservationists To Meet The Goals Of Sustainable Agriculture, Kristin Y. Ladd, Roslynn Brain
English Faculty Publications
Though multiple-use conservationists (use the land for multiple purposes) and forever-wild preservationists (solely set aside land for non-human species) seem to be at odds, this article argues that key figures such as Gifford Pinchot and John Muir discredit this perceived discordance. As well, it probes into the unexplored arena of cowboy music gatherings as productive places for cooperation between the two groups. First, mystique of the cowboy is examined and unraveled through true stories of cowboy-environmentalist collaboration. The article addresses how cowboy poetry festivals function as entertainment and meeting places to support sustainable behavior through communitybased social marketing techniques.
Reintegrating Human And Nature: Modern Sentimental Ecology In Rachel Carson And Barbara Kingsolver, Richard M. Magee
Reintegrating Human And Nature: Modern Sentimental Ecology In Rachel Carson And Barbara Kingsolver, Richard M. Magee
English Faculty Publications
Rachel Carson and Barbara Kingsolver were both trained as scientists and may be expected to embrace the rationalist, mechanical view of nature as something separate from, and perhaps even inferior to, the world of humans. Yet these two women both promoted a more complex approach to modernism's scientific paradigm in which nature is not merely a separate entity for dispassionate study but also an integral part of the human community. Both women display in their rhetorical choices a keen understanding of the language of community and interconnection, and their language and writing styles constantly promote the reintegration of humans and …
Duplicities Of Power: Amiri Baraka’S And Lorenzo Thomas’S Responses To September 11, John Gery
Duplicities Of Power: Amiri Baraka’S And Lorenzo Thomas’S Responses To September 11, John Gery
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
William Carlos Williams, David Raphael Wang, And The Dynamic Of East/West Collaboration, Zhaoming Qian
William Carlos Williams, David Raphael Wang, And The Dynamic Of East/West Collaboration, Zhaoming Qian
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Hacker And The Hawker: Networked Identity In The Science Fiction And Blogging Of Cory Doctorow, Robert P. Fletcher
The Hacker And The Hawker: Networked Identity In The Science Fiction And Blogging Of Cory Doctorow, Robert P. Fletcher
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
"The Thought Of What America": Ezra Pound’S Strange Optimism, John Gery
"The Thought Of What America": Ezra Pound’S Strange Optimism, John Gery
English Faculty Publications
Through a reconsideration of Ezra Pound’s early poem "Cantico del Sole" (1918), an apparently satiric look at American culture in the early twentieth century, this essay argues how the poem, in fact, expresses some of the tenets of Pound’s more radical hopes for American culture, both in his unorthodox critiques of the 1930s in ABC of Reading, Jefferson and/or Mussolini, and Guide to Kulchur and, more significantly, in his epic poem, The Cantos. The essay contends that, despite Pound’s controversial economic and political views in his prose (positions which contributed to his arrest for treason in 1945), …
'Who Was It If It Wasn't Me?': The Problem Of Orientation In Alice Munro's 'Trespasses': A Cognitive Ecological Analysis, Nancy Easterlin
'Who Was It If It Wasn't Me?': The Problem Of Orientation In Alice Munro's 'Trespasses': A Cognitive Ecological Analysis, Nancy Easterlin
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Artistic Liberty And Slave Imagery: "Mark Twain's Illustrator," E. W. Kemble, Turns To Harriet Beecher Stowe, Adam Sonstegard
Artistic Liberty And Slave Imagery: "Mark Twain's Illustrator," E. W. Kemble, Turns To Harriet Beecher Stowe, Adam Sonstegard
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Transatlantic Pocahontas, Gary Dyer
The Transatlantic Pocahontas, Gary Dyer
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Discreetly Depicting "An Outrage": Graphic Illustration And "Daisy Miller"'S Reputation, Adam Sonstegard
Discreetly Depicting "An Outrage": Graphic Illustration And "Daisy Miller"'S Reputation, Adam Sonstegard
English Faculty Publications
Rendering the first illustrated edition of "Daisy Miller" in 1892, Harry Whitney McVickar had to reconcile the novella's scandalous reputation with the polite medium of graphic illustration. McVickar highlights insignificant scenery, shows solitary figures instead of social interaction or playful flirtation, and nearly omits the heroine. His depictions and omissions contain the characters' indiscretions, and ensure that aspiring flirts and would-be Winterbournes who view his images do not "get the wrong idea." Cinematic adaptations amplify Daisy's public displays and encourage Winterbourne's voyeurism, but "Daisy Miller"'s first graphic illustrations strove instead to redeem the reputation of James's "outrage on American girlhood."
Did Richard Wright Get It Wrong? A Spanish Look At Pagan Spain, Nancy Dixon
Did Richard Wright Get It Wrong? A Spanish Look At Pagan Spain, Nancy Dixon
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Pound And Imagism In The Twenty-First Century, John Gery
Pound And Imagism In The Twenty-First Century, John Gery
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Ellison's Rinehart And Count Basie's: Invisible Man And 'Harvard Blues', Brooke Conti
Ellison's Rinehart And Count Basie's: Invisible Man And 'Harvard Blues', Brooke Conti
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
In Memoriam: Lorenzo Thomas (31 August 1944 – 4 July 2005), John Gery
In Memoriam: Lorenzo Thomas (31 August 1944 – 4 July 2005), John Gery
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Merely A Pictorial Subject: The Turn Of The Screw, Adam Sonstegard
Merely A Pictorial Subject: The Turn Of The Screw, Adam Sonstegard
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Casting No Shadow: Incarceration, Architecture, And Love In Canto 90, John Gery
Casting No Shadow: Incarceration, Architecture, And Love In Canto 90, John Gery
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
A Charismatic Iranian American Engineer, Jane Meehan
A Charismatic Iranian American Engineer, Jane Meehan
English Faculty Publications
This is the story of Iranian engineer Mostafa Jamshidi and his twenty-five years in Nebraska: his student days, his experiences with the immigration department and his eventual citizenship, his work history, and his personal life as told by his English teacher and surrogate mother. His language skills, soccer playing, and personality enabled him to combat his homesickness and the harassment of the immigration officials. The University of Nebraska at Omaha and the Nebraska Department of Roads gave him a place to learn and grow despite the time and geography in which he was born. The Great Plains, with its friendliness, …
Shaping A Body Of One’S Own: Rebecca Harding Davis’S Life In The Iron Mills And Waiting For The Verdict, Adam Sonstegard
Shaping A Body Of One’S Own: Rebecca Harding Davis’S Life In The Iron Mills And Waiting For The Verdict, Adam Sonstegard
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Shaping A Body Of One’S Own: Rebecca Harding Davis’S Life In The Iron Mills And Waiting For The Verdict, Adam Sonstegard
Shaping A Body Of One’S Own: Rebecca Harding Davis’S Life In The Iron Mills And Waiting For The Verdict, Adam Sonstegard
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.