February 10, 2015: Hart-Davidson Next Scholarly Speakers Series Lecturer,
2015
Western Michigan University
February 10, 2015: Hart-Davidson Next Scholarly Speakers Series Lecturer, Department Of English
Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive
No abstract provided.
High Clear Bell Of Morning By Ann Eriksson,
2015
Saint Francis University
High Clear Bell Of Morning By Ann Eriksson, Lauri Chose
The Goose
Review of Ann Eriksson's High Clear Bell of Morning.
The Fragility Of Things: Self-Organizing Processes, Neoliberal Fantasies, And Democratic Activism By William E. Connolly,
2015
York University
The Fragility Of Things: Self-Organizing Processes, Neoliberal Fantasies, And Democratic Activism By William E. Connolly, Brian Mccormack
The Goose
Review of William E. Connolly's The Fragility of Things: Self-Organizing Processes, Neoliberal Fantasies, and Democratic Activism.
Animals Among Us: The Lives Of Humans And Animals In Contemporary American Fiction Edited By John Yunker,
2015
University of North Texas
Animals Among Us: The Lives Of Humans And Animals In Contemporary American Fiction Edited By John Yunker, Ashley E. Reis
The Goose
Review of Animals Among Us: The Lives of Humans and Animals in Contemporary American Fiction, edited by John Yunker.
Masculindians: Conversations About Indigenous Manhood By Sam Mckegney,
2015
University of British Columbia, Okangan
Masculindians: Conversations About Indigenous Manhood By Sam Mckegney, P. Kelly Mitton
The Goose
Review of Sam McKegney’s Masculindians: Conversations About Indigenous Manhood.
Notes On How To Rework A Ph.D. Dissertation For Publication As A Book,
2015
Purdue University
Notes On How To Rework A Ph.D. Dissertation For Publication As A Book, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek
CLCWeb Library
No abstract provided.
Altered Perspective,
2015
Liberty University
Altered Perspective, Jaymee L. Wagner
The Kabod
This paper analyzes Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations by discussing how and why Pip’s perspective on social classes and individual morality changes as a result of the various characters and events he encounters throughout the novel.
“For It Acordeth Noght To Kinde”: Remediating Gower’S Confessio Amantis In Machinima,
2015
University of Rochester, NY
“For It Acordeth Noght To Kinde”: Remediating Gower’S Confessio Amantis In Machinima, Sarah L. Higley
Accessus
Visual adaptation of a medieval text, as tempting as it is in film of any kind, is never an easy conversion, and all the more so if the original is as formally structured as John Gower’s Confessio Amantis. This essay examines the philosophy and difficulties of making a “medieval motion picture” (animated and narrated by the author) reflect the message of three of Gower’s tales (“The Travelers and the Angel,” “Canace and Machaire,” “Florent”) as well as the multimedia properties of the manuscripts that house them, their illuminations beckoning us into colorful virtual worlds. In referencing theories of adaptation, …
Preface,
2015
Westminster College
Preface, Georgiana Donavin, Eve Salisbury
Accessus
Co-editors Georgiana Donavin and Eve Salisbury are delighted to feature the work of medievalist and machinimatographer Sarah L. Higley in this issue of Accessus. In a machinima production that debuted during the Third International Congress of the John Gower Society at the University of Rochester (30 June through 3 July, 2014), Higley refashions three tales from the Confessio Amantis for her film The Lover's Confession. In this issue of Accessus, we present the film and Higley's commentary on the intersections between her creative work with machinima and scholarly issues surrounding "The Tale of the Travelers and the …
A Lost Collection Of Robert Burns Manuscripts: Sir Alfred Law, Davidson Cook, And The Honresfield Collection,
2015
University of South Carolina - Columbia
A Lost Collection Of Robert Burns Manuscripts: Sir Alfred Law, Davidson Cook, And The Honresfield Collection, Patrick G. Scott
Faculty Publications
This essay traces the formation by William Law of Littlesborough, Lancashire, of a major collection of literary manuscripts and books, including works by Robert Burns, the Brontes, and Walter Scott; recounts the unlikely role in the 1920s of Davidson Cook, a cooperative society manager from Barnsley, in encouraging the then-owner Sir Alfred Law, M.P., of Honresfield House, to make the collections available for scholarly use; summarizes available information on the partial dispersal of the collection in the late 20s and early 1930s, and the disappearance after Sir Alfred's death in 1939 of much of the collection, including major items; and …
Emelio Betances, Professor Of Sociology And Latin American Studies,
2015
Gettysburg College
Emelio Betances, Professor Of Sociology And Latin American Studies, Musselman Library, Emelio Betances
Next Page
In this new Next Page column, Emelio Betances, Professor of Sociology and Latin American Studies, talks about how growing up during turbulent political times in the Dominican Republic sparked his passion for reading and why he's such a fan of authors J.M. Coetzee and Orhan Pamuk.
Dr. Frankenstein's Hideous Progeny: A Typology Of The Mad Scientist In Contemporary Young Adult Novels And Computer Animated Film,
2015
Illinois State University
Dr. Frankenstein's Hideous Progeny: A Typology Of The Mad Scientist In Contemporary Young Adult Novels And Computer Animated Film, Farran Leanne Norris Sands
Theses and Dissertations
The following study explores representations of mad scientists in a variety of novels for young adults, and in computer animated film for adolescents. Building from their typologies and furthering the work of scholars such as Glen S. Allen, Roslyn D. Haynes, and Sven Wagner, all of whom focus on texts for adult audiences, this study proposes and presents a typology of mad scientists as they are represented in texts for adolescents and young adults. Expanding the work of these scholars, this study aims to show where children's mad scientist texts both follow and deviate from current mad scientist typologies in …
The Role Of Culture In Comics Of The Quotidian,
2015
University of Nebraska at Omaha
The Role Of Culture In Comics Of The Quotidian, Frank Bramlett
English Faculty Publications
Studies of the quotidian often start from a social sciences perspective that daily life is made up of routine practices and ingrained assumptions. This is also found in studies of literature, art and economics. The premise of the quotidian, however, must be examined through a lens of culture. This essay explores how the notion of the quotidian in comics rests on culture, which in turn comprises various nexus of practice. Drawing evidence from Exit Wounds (by Rutu Modan) and Questionable Content (by Jeph Jacques), the essay extends the notion of the quotidian from a specific reference to ‘slice of life …
They Read What They Need,
2015
Boise State University
They Read What They Need, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Michael W. Smith
English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations
An essay on the importance of allowing young people to read what they need to read aside from their assigned readings is presented. Topics include the four kinds of pleasure young people get out from the books they read outside of the school, findings from a case study conducted by the authors on a young girl who is an avid reader of romances, and a suggestion on allowing books that young people like to read into the curricula to help them become life-long readers.
Thoughts On African American Literature From The Imsa English Department,
2015
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Thoughts On African American Literature From The Imsa English Department, Michael Dean, Michael W. Hancock, Leah Kind, Adam Kotlarczyk, Erin Micklo, Tracy A. Townsend
Faculty Roundtable
This document is the product of an online collaborative discussion inspired by Black History Month that took place between members of the IMSA English team during the first week of February in 2015. In this conversation, English faculty ruminate on the importance of African American literature as teachers, as individuals, and as lifelong learners.
The Literary Legacy Of The Federal Writers' Project,
2015
CUNY Graduate Center
The Literary Legacy Of The Federal Writers' Project, Sara Rendene Rutkowski
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Established by President Roosevelt in 1935 as part of the New Deal, the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) put thousands of unemployed professionals to work documenting American life during the Depression. Federal writers--many of whom would become famous, including Ralph Ellison, Nelson Algren, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Margaret Walker, and Dorothy West--collected reams of oral histories and folklore, and produced hundreds of guides to cities and states across the country. Yet, despite both the Project's extraordinary volume of writing and its unprecedented support for writers, few critics have examined it from a literary perspective. Instead, the FWP has …
The American Aspasia: The Woman Lecturer In American Women's Rights Fiction, 1839-1915,
2015
CUNY Graduate Center
The American Aspasia: The Woman Lecturer In American Women's Rights Fiction, 1839-1915, Angela Ridinger-Dotterman
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This dissertation is the first comprehensive study of the figure of the woman lecturer/speaker that appeared in American women's rights fiction in the period between 1839 and 1915. I argue that examining the figure of the woman lecturer/ speaker in a wide variety of texts and over an extended period of history reveals that the figure served as a dynamic vehicle for women writers to advance a broad range of social and political interests; writing in a social and historical context that discouraged women's participation in public speech, women authors used fiction as a rhetorical space to articulate different visions …
Educating Desire: Auto/Bio/Graphical Impressions Of Addiction In/And Alcoholics Anonymous (Aa),
2015
CUNY Graduate Center
Educating Desire: Auto/Bio/Graphical Impressions Of Addiction In/And Alcoholics Anonymous (Aa), Peter Waldman
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
No abstract provided.
Review Of "Empires Of Love: Europe, Asia, And The Making Of Early Modern Identity" By C. Nocentelli,
2015
Swarthmore College
Review Of "Empires Of Love: Europe, Asia, And The Making Of Early Modern Identity" By C. Nocentelli, Eric B. Song
English Literature Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
The Mystification Of Christian Salvation: On The Anxiety Of Redemption In Renaissance Poetry And Drama,
2015
CUNY Graduate Center
The Mystification Of Christian Salvation: On The Anxiety Of Redemption In Renaissance Poetry And Drama, Kimberly Paige Ambroziak
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
"The Legend of the Red Crosse Knight," "Doctor Faustus," "Hamlet," and "Samson Agonistes" are secular poetic explorations with a common idea: the possibility of Christian salvation. These examples of the redemptive quest seem to reveal the uneasiness of salvation which is representative, if only broadly, of the atmosphere in which their authors were writing. More specifically, the intention of this study is to reveal the possibility and nature of Christian uncertainty as it is firmly rooted in the early modern period. As Christian doctrine proves protean from its beginnings in the first century to Protestant tracts in the sixteenth, these …
