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A Conversation Between Mother And Son, Sheryl Kayne
A Conversation Between Mother And Son, Sheryl Kayne
SHU Faculty Publications
Short story by Sheryl Kayne, an adjunct instructor at Sacred Heart University.
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 …
Female Resurrection In Poe's Tales, Laura Hardt (Class Of 2014)
Female Resurrection In Poe's Tales, Laura Hardt (Class Of 2014)
English Undergraduate Publications
The female characters that populate the stories of Edgar Allan Poe are often ethereal creatures of great beauty, ghost-like figures that exist on the fringes of the narrative, very rarely taking part in the action of the plot. This, for the most part, is the case with regard to the female characters featured in Poe’s “Ligeia” and “The Fall of the House of Usher”. Both the eponymous Ligeia and Madeline Usher exist as virtual non-presences for the vast majority of these stories – at least until the point of their mysterious deaths. After these women pass away due to strange, …
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 …
Rebel With A Cause: The Religious Landscapes Of David Adams Richards, Michael W. Higgins
Rebel With A Cause: The Religious Landscapes Of David Adams Richards, Michael W. Higgins
Mission Integration & Ministry Publications
The article focuses on the depiction of religion in the literary works of author David Adams Richards. It notes that his novel "God Is: My Search for Faith in a Secular World," declares that God is present regardless of whether people believe in Him or not. It also relates the life of Richards who was born in Newcastle, New Brunswick in 1950 and whose fiction delves into the economic devastation affecting people in his hometown. It adds that his novel "Passion," includes religious concepts such as kenosis, betrayal and Gethsemane.