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Review: Hand In Hand: An American History Through Poetry, Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Ages 10-12

CHARACTER THEMES: Ambition, Boldness, Citizenship, Coping, Courage, Dedication, Determination, Diversity, Endurance, Faith, Fearlessness, Hope, Independence, Initiative, Knowledge, Leadership, Patriotism, Persistence, Pride, Resolve, Sacrifice, Strength, Survival, Wonder, Work ethic

Review: A Long Walk To Water, Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Ages 10-12

Character Themes: Compassion, Coping, Courage, Endurance, Leadership, Perseverance, Resilience, Survival

Review: Counting By 7s, Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Ages 10-12

CHARACTER THEMES:

Appreciation of nature, Caring ,Community, Compassion, Cooperation, Coping, Dependability, Determination, Diversity, Duty, Encouragement, Generosity, Hope, Humor, Individuality, Initiative, Kindness, Leadership, Patience, Resilience, Responsibility, Sacrifice, Sharing, Spunk, Thrift, Unselfishness, Work ethic

Review: Crenshaw, Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Ages 10-12

CHARACTER THEMES: Coping, Fairness, Family love, Honesty, Hope, Perseverance, Resourcefulness, Sacrifice, Survival (emotional), Thrift, Trustworthiness, Understanding

Review: Irena Sendler And The Children Of The Warsaw Ghetto, Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Ages 10-12

CHARACTER THEMES: Boldness, Courage, Dedication, Determination, Devotion, Fearlessness, Ingenuity, Inspiration, Love, Passion, Resolve, Resourcefulness, Sacrifice, Selflessness, Strength, Trustworthiness, Unselfishness

Review: Hate That Cat (Revised), Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Ages 7-9

CHARACTER THEMES: Creativity, Honesty, Humor, Imagination, Inspiration, Kindness

Review: A Week In The Woods (Revised), Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Ages 10-12

CHARACTER THEMES: Cooperation, Courage, Fairness, Persistence

Review: Soar, Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Ages 10-12

CHARACTER THEMES: Ambition, Cheating, Competitiveness, Confidence, Coping, Courage, Determination, Devotion, Family love, Friendship, Hope, Initiative, Inspiration, Leadership, Love, Resilience, Sacrifice, Self-respect, Steadfastness, Teamwork, Trustworthiness, Work Ethic

Review: Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie, Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Ages 10-12

CHARACTER THEMES:

Acceptance, Caring, Community, Coping, Fairness, Family love, Fear, Humor, Pride, Selflessness, Sharing, Survival

Review: Echo, Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Ages 10-12

CHARACTER THEMES: Caring, Citizenship, Cooperation, Courage, Craftsmanship, Creativity, Determination, Devotion, Diversity, Duty, Family love, Family loyalty, Forgiveness, Friendliness, Friendship, Hope, Initiative, Inspiration Kindness, Knowledge, Love, Neighborliness, Obedience, Pride, Respect, Responsibility, Sacrifice, Tolerance, Work ethic

Review: The Secret School, Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Ages 10-12

CHARACTER THEMES: Cooperation, Coping, Courage, Determination, Duty, Friendship, Hope, Independence, Ingenuity, Initiative, Leadership, Maturity, Passion, Resolve, Resourcefulness, Responsibility, Spunk, Strength, Trustworthiness, Work ethic

Review: Genevieve’S War, Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Ages 10-12

CHARACTER THEMES: Cooperation, Cleverness, Coping, Courage, Devotion, Endurance, Family loyalty, Patriotism, Resilience, Responsibility, Self-reliance, Spunk, Survival (Physical), Trustworthiness

Banal/Queer/Spectacular: Reframing Blue Is The Warmest Color, Sophie Frank

Comparative Literature M.A. Essays

In this essay, I interrogate visual representations of a lesbian love story in Jul’ Maroh’s graphic novel Le bleu est une couleur chaude and its film adaptation by director Abdellatif Kechiche, La vie d’Adèle : Chapitres 1 et 2. By studying the diegesis of each work’s opening scene, I reveal that the graphic novel embodies Barthes’s concept of a writerly text, or one that requires its reader to produce its meaning, while the film, as a readerly work, constructs a passive viewing experience for its audience. I argue that each author’s narratological approach exemplifies the particular manner in which they …

‘A Contradiction In Essence’: Eroticism And The Creation Of The Self In Henry Miller, Cian Doyle

Dissertations and Theses

The intention of this paper is, in the first, to demonstrate that Miller’s work has been labeled ‘erotic’, and that this obscures the true contribution of his work – but that as much as it obscures his work, this label also provides us an avenue to access it. In the second, it is to explore what actually constitutes the ‘erotic’, how this is featured in Miller’s work, and how it functions as an analytic tool to reveal what is significant in that work. Lastly, with specific regard to the works Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, the intention …

Roberto Bolaño’S 2666, The Funneling Effect Of Capitalism, And The Production, Consumption, And Proliferation Of Violence For Profit, John Timlin

Dissertations and Theses

Roberto Bolaño's novel 2666 is a realist text, one that reflects the simple fact that in contemporary capitalism, the physical destruction of female bodies is a profitable enterprise; one that forces its readers to confront their complicity or outright participation in violence against women; and one that relates directly to violence against women as consumable entertainment in American mass culture.

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Teaching Premodern Women And Gender, Lucy C. Barnhouse

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In her influential History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism, Judith Bennett asked “Who’s afraid of the distant past?” Fifteen years after this book’s publication, the question remains relevant. Teaching the history of women and gender in the premodern world presents linked pedagogical challenges. Most students enter college with little to no background in premodern history. Many find premodern primary sources, when taught with the same pedagogical scaffolding as modern sources, inaccessible due to real or perceived strangeness. These challenges can be compounded by the challenges of teaching women’s and/or gender history. This roundtable addresses strategies for productive …

The Good, The Bad, And The Violent: Analyzing Beowulf’S Heroic Displacement And Transgressive Violence During The Grendel Quest, Jessie Bonafede

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Heroic actions are often associated with altruistic feats of humanitarianism, but in Beowulf, the connection between heroism and performative acts of violence reveal significant complications concerning how the poem codifies violence for social honor. A central conflict arises with the poem’s contrasting presentation of Beowulf’s dominance and physical power before and during the Grendel quest with the relatively low social status he incurs amongst his maternal kin group, the Geats. In this paper, I use anthropological and sociological theories of collective violence and dominance versus prestige hierarchies to rethink how violence interplays with the poem’s treatment of lineage and other …

Contemporary History In Early Tudor English Chronicles: 1485-1553, Barrett L. Beer

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English chronicles published between 1485 and 1547 are studied here to determine how they dealt with contemporary history. These chronicles obviously covered the distant past, but many end well before the date of publication. Today contemporary history is of great importance to the public as evidenced by a variety of published works, periodicals, and most recently the internet. An analysis of early Tudor chronicles reveals that while many were indifferent to the recent past, others clearly laid the foundation for a focus on the contemporary era. The recognized authors of the chronicles included in this study are Richard Arnold, John …

What She Said: Recovering Early Modern Women’S Experiences Through Court Records, Jennifer Mcnabb

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Much of the fame of early modern England’s church courts today is based on their reputation as “women’s courts.” Because ecclesiastical law allowed women to initiate suit and to be sued in their own names, the courts’ records are full of women’s words. But the task of discovering women’s experiences through these records is a methodologically complex one. Words attributed to women, for example, come to us courtesy of the male church court clerk, whose education and legal experience shaped the written record of legal oral proceedings. And while women filing suit gives the appearance of female agency, it was …