Book Review: Magonia,
2015
Lone Peak High School, Highland UT
Book Review: Magonia, Amanda Garlock
The Utah English Journal
At one point or another, everyone feels like they don't belong. But in Maria Dahvana Headley's soaring fantasy, Magonia, Aza Ray Boyle actually doesn't belong. At least, not on earth.
Book Review: In The Best Interest Of Students,
2015
Timpview High School, Provo UT
Book Review: In The Best Interest Of Students, Kasey Hammer
The Utah English Journal
With the nearly nationwide adoption of the new Common Core Standards, educators, parents, legislators and students find themselves ensconced with a new fervor int he age-old scholastic debate: What is the bets method for teaching students? In his newest book, In the Best Interest of Students, Kelly Gallagher sifts through the varied voices int eh common Core discussion and presents his readers with a real, in-depth look at both the strengths and weaknesses of the ELA Common Core Standards.
Book Review: Black Dove White Raven,
2015
Fremont High School, Plain City UT
Book Review: Black Dove White Raven, Johnny Allred
The Utah English Journal
Life is complicated, challenging, and often unfair. Understanding your family, your friends, or even yourself-especially while trying to grow up-can be a difficult task. Throw in racism and gender biases, and you'll catch a glimpse of the challenges faced by the two young protagonists in Black Dove White Raven by Elizabeth Wein. Mixing together American and Ethiopian history from the 1930s, Wein tells the story of Em, a young white girl, and Teo, a young black boy, who grow up together in an unconventional family and in an unforgiving world.
The Utah English Journal, Volume 43, 2015: Full Issue,
2015
Brigham Young University
The Utah English Journal, Volume 43, 2015: Full Issue
The Utah English Journal
No abstract provided.
Writing Is A Knowledge-Making Activity,
2015
Boise State University
Writing Is A Knowledge-Making Activity, Heidi Estrem
English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations
Writing is often defined by what it is: a text, a product; less visible is what it can do: generate new thinking (see 1.5, "Writing Mediates Activity"). As an activity undertaken to bring new understandings, writing in this sense is not about crafting a sentence or perfecting a text but about mulling over a problem, thinking with others, and exploring new ideas or bringing disparate ideas together (see "Metaconcept: Writing Is an Activity and a Subject of Study"). Writers of all kinds—from self-identified writers to bloggers to workplace teams to academic researchers—have had the experience of coming upon …
A Note On 'Roderick Hudson' And 'La Traviata': Who Has Gone Astray?,
2015
University of Cape Town
A Note On 'Roderick Hudson' And 'La Traviata': Who Has Gone Astray?, Rodney Stenning Edgecombe
Verdi Forum
No abstract provided.
Expanding The Literary Enterprise: How We Experience The Texts Of The Advanced Placement English Literature And Composition Curriculum,
2015
Colby College
Expanding The Literary Enterprise: How We Experience The Texts Of The Advanced Placement English Literature And Composition Curriculum, Molly Ostrow
Honors Theses
How we read the texts of the Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition curriculum.
Writing The Nation,
2015
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Writing The Nation, Amy Berke, Robert R. Bleil, Jordan Cofer, Doug Davis
OER Main
A concise introduction to American Literature from 1865 to present. The book is broken into chapters based on time period and writing style from Late Romanticism to recent post-modernism.
The Problem Of Love And Codes Of Conduct For The Younger Courtiers In King Lear,
2015
Eastern Illinois University
The Problem Of Love And Codes Of Conduct For The Younger Courtiers In King Lear, Debora L. Pfeiffer
Masters Theses
The courtiers Edmund and Edgar are critical to the action of King Lear, yet there has been little scholarship which has treated these characters in depth. I argue that one way to comprehend them and their significance in the play's action is to analyze their behavior according to the standards of the Renaissance conduct books that were circulating in England at the beginning of the seventeenth century when the play was written. Baldassare Castigligone's The Book of the Courtier, Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince, and Desiderius Erasmus's The Education of a Christian Prince each sheds light on important themes …
The Lyric And The Lathe: Dreams Of Perfect Poetic Efficiency, 1800-1917,
2015
Eastern Illinois University
The Lyric And The Lathe: Dreams Of Perfect Poetic Efficiency, 1800-1917, Steven A. Nathaniel
Masters Theses
This study examines patterns of efficiency in the poetry and theory of William Wordsworth, Hilda Doolittle, and other figures from the Modernist and Romantic periods. I begin by defining perfect efficiency as occurring when energy transforms, without loss, inside a closed energy system, and I offer perpetual motion machines as hypothetical examples of this impossible state. I then demonstrate the process of efficiency in William Wordsworth's poetry, which begins with circumlocutory poetic cycles but contracts into terse repetitions. Since technical efficiency is calculated by the formula output/input, poetry's subjectivity makes poetic efficiency difficult to measure. However, I suggest that repetitions …
Speaking For The Picture: Memory, Image, And Identity In The Works Of W.G. Sebald And Chris Marker,
2015
Virginia Commonwealth University
Speaking For The Picture: Memory, Image, And Identity In The Works Of W.G. Sebald And Chris Marker, Connor Mccormick
Theses and Dissertations
The nineteenth and twentieth centuries saw the development of technologies for externalizing human memory beyond writing, painting, and sculpting. These modes of visual representation, namely photography and cinema carried with them a purported objective representation of reality, which has been used to create classifications, divide people groups, and construct grand historical narratives used to marginalize those that do not fit within the hegemonic center. Looking to the works of writer W.G. Sebald, and filmmaker Chris Marker, we see a complication of the divide between visual and verbal texts, as each artist deconstructs their own medium’s conventions. Using theories of ekphrasis …
G.A.M.E.: A Hypermedia Edition Of James Mcneill Whistler’S The Gentle Art Of Making Enemies,
2015
Virginia Commonwealth University
G.A.M.E.: A Hypermedia Edition Of James Mcneill Whistler’S The Gentle Art Of Making Enemies, Amy Colombo
Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation, G.A.M.E., refashions James McNeill Whistler’s book, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, into a hypermediated facsimile text and archive. By remediating the text, the socio-historical context of the Victorian time period in which Whistler lived is reestablished, making his book more accessible to twenty-first century audiences. The era studied in this dissertation includes the expansion of the idea of celebrity, the power of the press, and the concept of art for art’s sake from 1863 through 1892. In order to showcase these concepts, archival materials, such as personal correspondence, newspaper clippings, and published pamphlets, from this period were …
Speed And Resolution In The Age Of Technological Reproducibility,
2015
Virginia Commonwealth University
Speed And Resolution In The Age Of Technological Reproducibility, Shawn Taylor
Theses and Dissertations
The rate of acceleration of the biologic and synthetic world has for a while now, been in the process of exponentially speeding up, maxing out servers and landfills, merging with each other, destroying each other. The last prehistoric relics on Earth are absorbing the same oxygen, carbon dioxide and electronic waves in our biosphere as us. A degraded .jpeg enlarged to full screen on a Samsung 4K UHD HU8550 Series Smart TV - 85” Class (84.5” diag.). Within this composite ecology, the ancient limestone of the grand canyon competes with the iMax movie of itself, the production of Mac pros, …
The Tale Of Two Attici: What To Make Of Harper Lee's "New" Novel,
2015
Brigham Young University
The Tale Of Two Attici: What To Make Of Harper Lee's "New" Novel, Joseph Wiederhold, Chris Crowe
The Utah English Journal
Kristin and I met for lunch, but neither of us had the stomach for food. My tattered copy of To Kill a Mockingbird sat on the table between us. Gregory Peck lay cradled in her arms, forever smiling from the cover of LIFE Magazine's special issue: "The Enduring Power of To Kill a Mockingbird:, And Lee,s new/old novel, Go Set a Watchman, rested face down on the edge of the table. I had unconsciously placed the novel in time-out.
Beyond The Informative Essay: Getting Nonfiction Student Writing To Shine,
2015
Brigham Young University
Beyond The Informative Essay: Getting Nonfiction Student Writing To Shine, Sara Strachan
The Utah English Journal
When I was in third grade, my family moved to a small rural town with a small rural school. The school district must have been afraid the population in that community couldn't be sustained, because it hadn't invested much money in an infrastructure. Almost all of the school buildings were portables, including the doublewide library. I visited that library once a week with my class, shuffling down the dusty sidewalk and up the clanky metal steps where I sat on the floor listening to Mr. Weeks, our librarian, drone about things, like how to use the Dewey Decimal System, how …
The Classroom Graphic Novel: Helping Struggling Students Move From Text Completion To Text Engagement,
2015
Brigham Young University
The Classroom Graphic Novel: Helping Struggling Students Move From Text Completion To Text Engagement, Stephen Nothum
The Utah English Journal
I love comic books and graphic novels. I love the art. I love the power they have to transport me into another world. I savor the moments I get to use my teeth, tongue, and lips to sound out zany onomatopoeias like "FSSTZZZAMM!" Unlike most comic book enthusiasts, my relationship with the genre began not in my childhood, but during my junior year at Brigham Young University. My young adult literature course required us to read Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese (2006), and I was immediately impressed with how the genre could fuse language and images to explore complex …
Book Review: Audacity,
2015
Diamond Fork Junior High, Spanish Fork UT
Book Review: Audacity, Amy Banks
The Utah English Journal
Life is full of injustice and inequality that is often easy to ignore. We placate ourselves with the idea that someone else will bear the burden of righting the wrong. But how many assume this responsibility themselves? Who will fight in the name of what is right, no matter what the sacrifice?
Which Side Are You On? The Worlds Of Grant Morrison,
2015
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Which Side Are You On? The Worlds Of Grant Morrison, Francesco-Alessio Ursini, Adnan Mahmutovic, Frank Bramlett
English Faculty Publications
Grant Morrison is a key figure among the first wave of authors of the so-called "British Generation" (Sandifer and Eklund). The works of the other two creators, Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore, have been the basis for a wealth of scholarly research within the field of comics studies and whole constellations of literary scholarship (Sandifer and Eklund; Sanders; Krueger and Shaeffer; Millidge). Morrison's fictional worlds, however, remain understudied, despite the fact that, as Marc Singer observes, Morrison's work and career seem to be evenly distributed along a continuum ranging from the alternative Vertigo material to the mainstream superhero comics (Singer …
Making And Breaking The Superhero Quotidian: How All-Star Superman Embodies And Revises The Everyday,
2015
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Making And Breaking The Superhero Quotidian: How All-Star Superman Embodies And Revises The Everyday, Frank Bramlett
English Faculty Publications
This essay explores the idea of the everyday in All-Star Superman by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely. Scholars identify the everyday, or the quotidian, as including routine behaviors and ingrained assumptions (e.g., Borland and Sutton), and the construct of the quotidian as culture has been explored in comics (Bramlett). Depending on circumstances, characters may navigate the Metropolis cityscape or the Kent farm, take trips to the moon, explore the Daily Planet office building, and meet otherworldly heroes and villains. Even though much of the world of the superhero is extraordinary and wondrous to readers, the characters themselves nevertheless have a …
Praisesong: One (Worn) Path Through Aepl,
2015
Berea College
Praisesong: One (Worn) Path Through Aepl, Libby F. Jones
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
A longtime member takes a poetic look at AEPL's history, philosophy, activities, and her ongoing participatory role in the organization.
