Thomas Hardy Essay Competition,
2016
Liberty University
Thomas Hardy Essay Competition
Honorable Mention
Call for essays on Thomas Hardy worth 250 pounds.
British Women Writers Conference Call For Papers,
2016
Liberty University
British Women Writers Conference Call For Papers
Honorable Mention
For its 25th annual meeting, the British Women Writers Conference invites papers and panel proposals considering the theme of “Generations.
Cerdded,
2016
University of Notre Dame, London Global Gateway
Genre Categorization In Contemporary British And Us-American Novels,
2016
NOVA University
Genre Categorization In Contemporary British And Us-American Novels, Carlos Ceia
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In his article "Genre Categorization in Contemporary British and US-American Novels" Carlos Ceia discusses a certain type of resistance to genre categorization in many novels in contemporary literature. Many British and US-American contemporary novels show patterns in narrative creativity where novel-writing techniques are sometimes more important than the traditional subject matter driven work of fiction. Ceia reviews experimental/metafictional novels which do not show intent to fulfil an aesthetic role pre-determined in a certain moment in history. Not having this kind of burden before them, many contemporary British and US-American novelists devote their artistic imagination more to the "potential" of the …
Animals In Irish Literature And Culture Edited By Kathryn Kirkpatrick And Borbála Faragó,
2016
Université du Québec à Montréal
Animals In Irish Literature And Culture Edited By Kathryn Kirkpatrick And Borbála Faragó, Geneviève Pigeon
The Goose
Review of Kathryn Kirkpatrick and Borbála Faragó's Animals in Irish Literature and Culture.
Exposing The “Shadow Side”: Female-Female Competition In Jane Austen’S Emma,
2016
University of New Orleans
Exposing The “Shadow Side”: Female-Female Competition In Jane Austen’S Emma, Melissa M. Lyman
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Many critics have examined the shifting nature of female friendship in Jane Austen’s Emma from cultural and historical angles. However, a comprehensive scientific analysis of female-female alliance and competition in the novel remains incomplete. The Literary Darwinist approach considers the motivations of fictional characters from an evolutionary perspective, focusing primarily on human cognition and behaviors linked to reproductive success, social control, and survival. While overt physical displays of male competition are conspicuous in the actions of the human species and those of their closest primate relatives, female aggression is often brandished psychologically and indirectly, which makes for a much more …
"Your Reclamation”: The Gothic Child And Moral Restoration In Charles Dickens’S A Christmas Carol,
2016
University of Southern Mississippi
"Your Reclamation”: The Gothic Child And Moral Restoration In Charles Dickens’S A Christmas Carol, Ashten Roberts
Master's Theses
Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol (1843), an example of Victorian Gothic literature, portrays spirits escorting Ebenezer Scrooge on a journey through time in order to transform him from a miser to a benefactor. Dickens’s text has received much critical attention, and while most critics agree that the novella includes various elements of the gothic, few draw attention to the possibility of the child characters as gothic elements. I argue that Carol’s child characters can be read in terms of what Margarita Georgieva calls “the gothic child.” According to Georgieva, the gothic child can be an adult’s memory from childhood …
Counterfeit Letters And Fictional Trials: Thomas More’S Utopia As Cultural Brand,
2016
CUNY York College
Counterfeit Letters And Fictional Trials: Thomas More’S Utopia As Cultural Brand, Andie Silva
Publications and Research
Utilizing marketing theory on iconic brands, this article provides a focused study of surviving English editions of Thomas More's Utopia (1551) and the different ways in which the publication was adapted by its print agents, who eventually turned it into an iconic, English brand-name. By drawing a connection between the popularity and versatility of More’s text and the rapidly developing genre of utopian fiction, this article sheds light on the speed with which the press both reacted to and played a role in creating popular taste.
The Poet's Corpus: Memory And Monumentality In Wilfred Owen's "The Show",
2016
University of Southern Mississippi
The Poet's Corpus: Memory And Monumentality In Wilfred Owen's "The Show", Charles Hunter Joplin
Master's Theses
Wilfred Owen is widely recognized to be the greatest English “trench poet” of the First World War. His posthumously published war poems sculpt a nightmarish vision of trench warfare, one which enables Western audiences to consider the suffering of the English soldiers and the brutality of modern warfare nearly a century after the armistice. However, critical readings of Owen’s canonized corpus, including “The Show” (1917, 1918), only focus on their hellish imagery. I will add to these readings by demonstrating that “The Show” is primarily concerned with the limitations of lyric poetry, the monumentality of poetic composition, and the difficulties …
Blind But Seeing: Post-Clinical Medicine In Jose Saramago's Blindness,
2016
Northern Michigan University
Blind But Seeing: Post-Clinical Medicine In Jose Saramago's Blindness, Matthew J. Ftacek
All NMU Master's Theses
This project examines José Saramago’s Blindness (1996) in the context of two other narratives focused on plagues and epidemics – Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year (1722) and Albert Camus’ The Plague (1947) – each written at different points in time during the development of clinical medicine as chronicled by Michel Foucault’s Birth of the Clinic. The paper draws heavily upon Foucault’s work on clinical medicine, as well as a number of different theories of medical history, government policy, and cultural attitudes towards health and illness. The goal of the project is twofold: first, to examine how …
Combinatorics Of The Sonnet,
2016
The Open University
Combinatorics Of The Sonnet, Terry S. Griggs
Journal of Humanistic Mathematics
Using a definition of a sonnet, the number of basic rhyming schemes is enumerated. This is then used to discuss the 86 sonnets which appear in John Clare's The Rural Muse.
Harken Not To Wild Beasts: Between Rage And Eloquence In Saruman And Thrasymachus,
2016
Middle Tennessee State University
Harken Not To Wild Beasts: Between Rage And Eloquence In Saruman And Thrasymachus, Dennis Wilson Wise
Journal of Tolkien Research
One of the giant gaps in Tolkien scholarship has been to miss how deeply Saruman answers the age-old antagonism between rhetoric and philosophy. Like John Milton, Tolkien cannot bring himself to trust rhetoric. It threatens the unitary truth of a divinely-revealed moral order and, ironically, Tolkien applies great rhetorical skill to convince his reader of rhetoric’s illusionary nature. In this matter Tolkien has been largely successful, since few readers (if any) question the de-privileging of Saruman’s perspective. In the process, though, I suggest that Tolkien has developed in his master rhetorician a new relationship between rhetoric (eloquence) and rage ( …
Honey, Wax, And The Dead Bee,
2016
Kennesaw State University
Honey, Wax, And The Dead Bee, Keith Botelho
Early Modern Culture
No abstract provided.
When Is A Panther Not A Panther? Representing Animals In Early Modern English Heraldry,
2016
Clemson University
When Is A Panther Not A Panther? Representing Animals In Early Modern English Heraldry, Kathryn Will
Early Modern Culture
No abstract provided.
Response: Fabulous Or Spectral?,
2016
Clemson University
Response: Fabulous Or Spectral?, Ian Macinnes
Early Modern Culture
No abstract provided.
Response: Literary And Multispecies Entanglements And The Challenges Of Historical Animal Studies,
2016
Clemson University
Response: Literary And Multispecies Entanglements And The Challenges Of Historical Animal Studies, Brett Mizelle
Early Modern Culture
No abstract provided.
Response: Monster Pets,
2016
Clemson University
“I Must Tell The Whole World”: Septimus Smith As Virginia Woolf’S Legal Messenger,
2016
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
“I Must Tell The Whole World”: Septimus Smith As Virginia Woolf’S Legal Messenger, Riley H. Floyd
Indiana Law Journal
This Note explores the disjunctive moral gap between a civilian ethic of mutual responsibility and the laws of war that eschew that ethic. To illustrate that gap, this Note conducts a case study of Virginia Woolf’s rendering of shell shock in her 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway. The war put mass, mechanized killing at center stage, and international law permitted killing in war. But Woolf’s character study of Septimus Smith reveals that whether war-associated killing is “criminal” requires more than legal analysis. An extralegal approach is especially meaningful because it demonstrates the difficulty of processing and rationalizing global conflict that plays …
Waiting For A Place: At Gravedigger’S Pub,
2016
Bucknell University
Waiting For A Place: At Gravedigger’S Pub, Jeffrey Alan Tolbert
Faculty Journal Articles
In this essay I consider how place can defeat our attempts to analyze it by become meaningful to us in ways that exceed the scope of our scholarly interests and methods. Discussing my fieldwork at a Dublin pub, I touch on the concepts of sense of place, nostalgia, and the importance of human relationships that form in places even in the context of what might be considered "failed" research.
The Second Wilde Revival: Current Trends In Oscar Wilde Scholarship,
2016
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
The Second Wilde Revival: Current Trends In Oscar Wilde Scholarship, Helena Gurfinkel Dr.
SIUE Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity
No abstract provided.
