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A Literary Tour Of Ireland, Lisa K. Miller

DLPS Faculty Publications

This Powerpoint presentation offers an overview of some of Ireland's greatest writers, from Dublin, Limerick and the West, and Belfast and the North. Includes an audio file of W.B. Yeats reading "The Lake Isle of Innisfree." The Powerpoint is available below under "Additional Files."

How Not To Defend The Liberal Arts, Paul Jay

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

It's a myth that the sciences have theories and methods and the humanities don't, and it's a mistake to scapegoat theory and professionalization for the current plight of the humanities and liberal arts.

Barking Dogs And Deaf Ears: The Mysterious Unheeded Scottish Origin Of Tennyson's In Memoriam, Patrick G. Scott

Faculty Publications

This paper records two specific sources for Tennyson's poems "Tears, idle tears" and In Memoriam, both in James Macpherson's Ossian, identifies the edition of Ossian that Tennyson used, and discusses the significance of Ossian for Tennyson in late 1833 in the immediate aftermath of Arthur Hallam's death. The discussion of Tennyson is framed to fit the theme, "The Mysteries at Our Own Doors," at the 43rd Victorians Institute, Charlotte, NC, October 24, 2014.

October 25, 2014: Acclaimed Frankenstein Production Exclusively At Kzoo10, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.

Why I Love : The Tunnel (1948) By Ernesto Sábato, Eamon Maher

Articles

An existentialist classic not unlike Camus' The Outsider, this compelling read drills ever deeper into the dark recesses of a tortured artist's unrepentant soul.

Review Of Marilyn Francus, Monstrous Motherhood: Eighteenth-Century Culture And The Ideology Of Domesticity, Phyllis Ann Thompson

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

Review of Marilyn Francus. Monstrous Motherhood: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Ideology of Domesticity. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP, 2012. Xi + 297pp. Index. ISBN 978-1-4214-0737-1.

Review Of Stephen Bending, Green Retreats: Women, Gardens And Eighteenth-Century Culture, Nicolle Jordan

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

Review of Stephen Bending. Green Retreats: Women, Gardens and Eighteenth-Century Culture. New York: Cambridge UP, 2013. X +312 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-1-107-04002-1.

Discomforting Narratives: Teaching Eighteenth-Century Women’S Travelogues, Elizabeth Zold

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

In this essay, I describe an undergraduate course I designed and taught on eighteenth-century women’s travelogues and advocate for more courses that explicitly focus on noncanonical genres and authors. Using student papers, I explore how students worked through their discomfort with new genre conventions and improved their overall reading and analytical skills. I hope that my outline of the course will be useful to those who teach or will be teaching women's travel literature or who wish to focus courses on noncanonical authors and genres.

In Their Hands: Students Editing Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-Century Letters, Thomas Mclean

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

This article describes an honours-year class conducted in 2013 at the University of Otago in New Zealand. Students transcribed, annotated and wrote essays about a little-known New Zealand collection of unpublished letters written by leading British women writers of the Romantic era. Their research was then collected and published as a book entitled "In Her Hand: Letters of Romantic-Era British Women Writers in New Zealand Collections." The success of this course suggests the benefits of allowing students the opportunity to undertake original archival research and serves as a reminder that rich archival collections are found all over the world.

October 19, 2014: Rare Book School Fellowship, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.

Adopting Readers’ Advisory Practices In The Academic Library, Pauline Dewan

Library Publications

No abstract provided.

Peter S. Beagle's Transformations Of The Mythic Unicorn, Weronika Łaszkiewicz

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Traces the development of Beagle’s unicorns through the novel The Last Unicorn and three other stories, paying particular attention to how and why Beagle adapted and rejected certain distinguishing features of traditional unicorn lore and legend.

Toying With Fantasy: The Postmodern Playground Of Terry Pratchett's Discworld Novels, Daniel Luthi

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Attempts to discover exactly how Terry Pratchett manages to get away with violating the rules of the fantasy tradition laid out in Tolkien’s “On Fairy-stories.” Pratchett consistently revels in the absurdity of Discworld as a concept, breaks the fourth wall, and disrupts Tolkien’s proviso against satirizing magic itself; and yet the Discworld sails on, imperturbable. Pratchett’s concept of narrative imperative is discussed as one of the keys to the success of his invented world.

Editorial, Janet Brennan Croft

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

No abstract provided.

Where Fantasy Fits: The Importance Of Being Tolkien, Richard C. West

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Scholar Guest of Honor speech, Mythcon 45. In his wide-ranging and conversational meditation on “Where Fantasy Fits,” the conference theme, West places Tolkien within a broad fantasy tradition but concentrates most closely on the decades preceding The Hobbit and following The Lord of the Rings, bearing out Garner Dozois’s observation that “[a]fter Tolkien, everything changed” for genre fantasy. Of particular interest is West’s discussion of science fiction works and authors appreciated by Tolkien and Lewis.

A Spenserian In Space: The Faerie Queene In C.S. Lewis's Perelandra, Paul R. Rovang

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Explores the influence of The Faerie Queene, one of the works C.S. Lewis was particularly involved with as a scholar, and the literary and Biblical traditions it drew upon, on Lewis’s Ransom trilogy and in particular on Perelandra. Ransom is identified with the Red Cross Knight.

Perilous Wanderings Through The Enchanted Forest: The Influence Of The Fairy-Tale Tradition On Mirkwood In Tolkien's The Hobbit, Marco R.S. Post

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Considers the roots of Mirkwood in European fairy tale traditions, using Basile’s Pentamerone as a typical example, and how Tolkien adapted and rejected traditional features of the perilous wood to suit his thematic and stylistic needs as a story-teller.

Cults Of Lovecraft: The Impact Of H.P. Lovecraft's Fiction On Contemporary Occult Practices, John Engle

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Examines a particularly troubling use of fiction: the adoption of an author’s work, against his own intentions, as a quasi-religious text for cultic practices. Lovecraft’s mythos is thus observed in the process of deliberately being made into a worship tradition by occult and Satanic practitioners, in spite of the author’s personal scientific rationalism.

Political Institutions In J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth: Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying About The Lack Of Democracy, Dominic J. Nardi, Jr.

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Alexei Kondratiev Student Paper Award, Mythcon 45. Examines traditional political structures, theories of how they work, and how they play out in Tolkien’s Middle-earth among fantastic races and landscapes. Especially intriguing is the way in which the immortality of some races and individuals affects the power balance.

Reviews, David Bratman, Joe R. Christopher, Janet Brennan Croft, Bradford Lee Eden, Andrew Higgins, Tiffany Brooke Martin

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Stories About Stories: Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth. Brian Attebery. Reviewed by David Bratman.

The Body in Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on Middle-earth Corporeality. Edited by Christopher Vaccaro. Reviewed by Janet Brennan Croft.

Critical Essays on Lord Dunsany. S.T. Joshi, ed. Lanham MD. Reviewed by Tiffany Brooke Martin.

History, Guilt, and Habit. Owen Barfield. Reviewed by Bradford Lee Eden.

In the Nameless Wood: Explorations in the Philological Hinterland of Tolkien's Literary Creations. J.S. Ryan. Edited by Peter Buchs. Reviewed by Andrew Higgins.

The Letters of Ruth Pitter: Silent Music. Edited by Don W. King. Reviewed by Joe R. Christopher.