Buck-Horned Snakes And Possum Women: Non-White Folkore, Antebellum *Southern Literature, And Interracial Cultural Exchange,
2010
College of William & Mary - Arts & Sciences
Buck-Horned Snakes And Possum Women: Non-White Folkore, Antebellum *Southern Literature, And Interracial Cultural Exchange, John Douglas Miller
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The antebellum American South was a site of continual human mobility and social fluidity. This cultivated a pattern of cultural exchange between black, indigenous, and white Southerners, especially in the Old Southwest, making the region a cultural borderland as well as a geographical one. This environment resulted in the creolization of many aspects of life in the region. to date, the literature of the Old South has yet to be studied in this context. This project traces the diffusion of African-American and Native American culture in white-authored Southern texts.;For instance, textual evidence in Old Southwestern Humor reveals a pattern of …
The Mother Tongues Of Modernity: Modernism, Transnationalism, Translation,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
The Mother Tongues Of Modernity: Modernism, Transnationalism, Translation, Roland K. Végső
Faculty Publications -- Department of English
The relation of modernism to immigrant literatures should not be conceived in terms of an opposition between universalistic and particularistic discourses. Rather, we should explore what can be called a modernist transnationalism based on a general universalist argument. Two examples of this transnationalism are explored side by side: Ezra Pound’s and Anzia Yezierska’s definitions of the aesthetic act in terms of translation. The readings show that the critical discourses of these two authors are structured by a belief in universalism while showing opposite possibilities, both generated by modernist transnationalism. The essay concludes that we now need to interpret the cultures …
Edith Lewis As Editor, Every Week Magazine, And The Contexts Of Cather's Fiction,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Edith Lewis As Editor, Every Week Magazine, And The Contexts Of Cather's Fiction, Melissa J. Homestead
Faculty Publications -- Department of English
On 26 August 1915 the New York Times reported the spectacle of two "Women Editors" who became "Lost in Colorado Canon" as a "Result of Trip with Inexperienced Guide." "Miss Willa Sibert Cather, a former editor of McClure's Magazine, and Miss Edith Lewis, assistant editor at Every Week, had a nerve-racking experience in the Mesa Verde wilds," they reported, giving Lewis and Cather roughly equivalent status as magazine professionals and comic fodder ("Lost"). The war in Europe was still far away for most Americans that August, although the sinking of the Lusitania in May had inched the conflict closer. In …
Rationale For Magneto: Testament,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Rationale For Magneto: Testament, Brian Kelley
SANE journal: Sequential Art Narrative in Education
A rationale for teaching the graphic novel Magneto:Testament in secondary schools.
Review Of Teaching Graphic Novels, By Katie Monnin,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Review Of Teaching Graphic Novels, By Katie Monnin, Susan Spangler
SANE journal: Sequential Art Narrative in Education
No abstract provided.
John Cotton, Thomas Shepard, Thomas Hooker, William Apess, And Devotional Literature,
2009
Pepperdine University
John Cotton, Thomas Shepard, Thomas Hooker, William Apess, And Devotional Literature, Michael Ditmore
Michael Ditmore
No abstract provided.
Crack'd Archangel: Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici, The Bible, And Religious Difference In Melville's Fiction And Poetry,
2009
University of Texas at El Paso
Crack'd Archangel: Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici, The Bible, And Religious Difference In Melville's Fiction And Poetry, Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
Abstract for December 28, 2009 MLA Paper published in March 2010 Leviathan
Melville And Religious Experience,
2009
University of Texas at El Paso
Melville And Religious Experience, Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
Abstract for Melville Society panel at ALA 2010 on Melville and Religious Experience (I was the organizer and chair) published in October 2010 Leviathan
Modernist Pedagogy At The End Of The Lecture: It And The Poetics Classroom,
2009
University of Pennsylvania
Modernist Pedagogy At The End Of The Lecture: It And The Poetics Classroom, Alan Filreis
Alan Filreis
Describes a modernist pedagogy based on the end of the lecture as we know it and a convergence of poetics, universities and the rise of digital media.
Review Of Lynching Photographs And Witnessing Lynching,
2009
Ohio State University - Main Campus
Review Of Lynching Photographs And Witnessing Lynching, Koritha Mitchell
Koritha Mitchell
No abstract provided.
