English Language and Literature Commons^™

The Turn To Dystopia In Young Adult Literature, Justin Scholes, Dr. Jon Ostenson

Journal of Undergraduate Research

In the last several years, there has been tremendous growth in the amount of literature written for and read by young adults. With this spike, the discussion has grown concerning the subject matter of these novels, and a general curiosity as to what teens find appealing in these works. One major recent trend in YA literature is the dystopian novel.

Technology In Exile: Tibetan Digital Literacy, Kristen Nicole Cardon, Dr. Gideon Burton

Journal of Undergraduate Research

My field study in India last summer was successful on many levels. I was interested to find that, contrary to my expectations, the effect of digital media on the Tibetans‟ efforts to preserve their culture was not wholly negative. Certainly, digitalization brings with it much Western and specifically American culture, but the nearly universal response to my interviews and surveys was that digital tools have had a positive effect on Tibetan cultural preservation. One administrator explained to me that the school structure itself was created to reinforce Tibetan values. Essentially, he said, the pedagogy itself is the natural preservation of …

Gender Differentiation And Gender Hierarchy In C. S. Lewis, Alicia D. Burrus

Honors College Theses

This thesis explores the evidence of sexism in the literary works of C. S. Lewis. Lewis’s relationships with women in his personal life were often estranged, and his works frequently display a predominant view of women as inferior. Each of Lewis’s major fictional works shows evidence of sexism, though such evidence lessens in frequency and prominence with each subsequent work. Lewis’s opinion and portrayal of women did change with his marriage to Joy Davidman Gresham, though his fiction never achieved a complete lack of prejudice against women.

April 5, 2014: Wright Lecture Wraps Up Speakers Series, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.

Jesus Lives, But Should He Live In My Front Yard?, Christin N. Taylor

English Faculty Publications

As I drove home from church, I eyed the bright foam sign my 6-year-old daughter held. “Jesus is Alive” it read in kid scrawl. “We’re supposed to put them in our yards!” Noelle beamed, eyeing her creation proudly through pink-rimmed glasses.

I imagined our wide, open yard in Pennsylvania, the green grass stretching without fences from one neighbor to the next. Our best friends in the neighborhood, secular humanists, would easily see it. I cringed. What would they think? [excerpt]

How D.H. Lawrence Amends Dostoevsky’S Reality, Amanda R. Brown

Spring 2014, Dostoevsky

This paper explores the reception of Dostoevsky by British modernists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Particularly, it focuses on D.H. Lawrence's reaction to Dostoevsky. Outlined in the body of the paper is Lawrence's reality, which is deemed far more radical than Dostoevsky's reality, which is also described in depth. Both Dostoevsky's and Lawrence's world-visions are examined through their portrayal of religion, moral guilt, rationality, and sense of self. Lawrence creates a new religion and characters devoid of guilt. He replaces traditional rationality with a novel system of physical consciousness and portrays genuine characters. On the other hand, …

Dostoevsky, Raskolnikov, And Freedom In Crime And Punishment, Ryan P. Fink

Spring 2014, Dostoevsky

An analysis of the character of Raskolnikov in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and his journey towards a truer understanding of freedom. This paper comments on 'freedom' as understood by St. Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle, and applies this view of freedom to the characters of Raskolnikov, Sonya, Svidrigailov and Porfiry. The paper shows how the Thomistic-Aristotelian view of freedom is prevalent in this work by Dostoevsky.

Essay Review Of David G. Schuster, Neurasthenic Nation (Routeledge), J. Bradford Campbell

English

No abstract provided.

"Take It And Like It": Violence In The Pulp Magazines, Brian Flota

Libraries

No abstract provided.

“Can’T Repeat The Past? Why, Of Course You Can!” F. Scott Fitzgerald’S Greatest Lie, Sean Kirby

Senior Honors Projects

“Can’t repeat the past? Why, of course you can!” Jay Gatsby, the protagonist of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, said this to his friend Nick Carraway in order to convince both himself and Nick that he could recapture Daisy Buchanan, his former love. However, some of Fitzgerald’s critics argue that, on a second level, Fitzgerald is asking this question of his own audience. Fitzgerald used his life as a frame for his own work, so some critics argue that he stays stuck in the past and writes from his own limited world view. I believe the argument that Fitzgerald …

Radiate, Sean L. Corbin

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Morehead State University in Partial Fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree Master of Arts in English by Sean L Corbin in April of 2014.

The Evolution Of The Villain In American Cinema, Kelsey Mcclure

Honors Projects in English and Cultural Studies

The villain character has evolved greatly throughout American cinema. Post World War II, the evolution is most striking by comparing films from the 1950s, 1970s, and 2000s. With a selection of four movies from each respective decade, the villains will be contrasted to identify any similarities and differences across decades to determine if the political environment has an impact on the way in which the villain character is portrayed.

Objective:

The purpose of this project was for me to determine if villains were constructed based on views of the American people at the times in which the films were created. …

“The Sense Of That Crush I Feel At Certain Times Even Now.”: Jacob Stroyer And The Battle For Fort Sumter, Susanna Ashton

Publications

In the summer of 1864, fourteen-year-old Jacob Stroyer was sent to work in Fort Sum-ter. He did not go willingly. Stroyer was a slave owned by the wealthy Mrs. Matthew R. Singleton and was sent from the large Kensington plantation outside Columbia, SC to labor for the Confederate cause. Th e Confederate Corps of Engineers called upon slave owners to contribute their enslaved people’s labor to the problem of construction and fortification of roads, bridges, and key defensive sites. Stroyer explained that fifteen slaves from his plantation “were sent to work on fortifications each year during the war.”²

Nostalgia And The Repair Of Place: A Nativity Scene In St. Peter's Square, Sarah Stanbury

English Department Faculty Scholarship

This essay explores the presepe, an important form of traditional religious Italian dioramic art depicting the Nativity. In particular, it examines the presepe designed by Francesco Artese as part of a broader reflection on Italian nativity scenes as imagined cultural landscapes and installation art.

“What Did She See?” The White Gaze And Postmodern Triple Consciousness In Walter Dean Myers’S Monster, Tim Engles, Fern Kory

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

No abstract provided.

Aubade, Ruben Quesada

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

No abstract provided.

Satori 2014, Winona State University

Satori Literary Magazine

The Satori is a student literary publication that expresses the artistic spirit of the students of Winona State University. Student poetry, prose, and graphic art are published in the Satori every spring since 1970.

A Changed Opinion On “A Small Good Thing”, Sai Somasundaram '14

2014 Spring Semester

Suspense, surprise, shock, and awe are all parts of a great story, especially when intertwined together to keep the reader guessing until the last second. In Raymond Carver’s “A Small Good Thing”, the main characters go through a tragic story in which they come face to face with the vastness of the world, and the sincerity of human nature. When Scotty, the young boy who the story is centered around, is involved in an accident and hospitalized, his parents Howard and Ann, end up embarking on a journey to understand who is leaving them mysterious calls about their ailing …

The Name Of The Game: Great Expectations In Dickens’ Great Expectations, Daniel Collins '15

2014 Spring Semester

Charles Dickens’ seminal classic Great Expectations has received widespread acclaim from many critics, including George Bernard Shaw and Algernon Charles Swinburne. Shaw, for instance, has lauded Great Expectations as Dickens’ “most compactly perfect book” (qtd. in Trotter vii), while Swinburne has gone so far as to call it his “last great work … the defects [of which] are as nearly imperceptible as spots on the sun or shadow on a sunlit sea” (qtd. in Trotter vii). Such praise sets the bar high for Great Expectations, inducing readers to expect of the novel great things, as it were. As it …

She’S Dogging Him, Ana Curtis '15

2014 Spring Semester

It should come as no great surprise to readers of Victorian fiction that Charles Dickens makes great use of symbolism in his stories. This practice proves especially useful for his serialized stories, like Oliver Twist, where he uses criminals, including prostitutes like Nancy, to make an overall political point. At the time of this novel’s publication, prostitutes were looked down upon, sometimes as sub-human, and Dickens, though largely sympathetic to Nancy, takes this degradation a step further by directly comparing her to an animal. In Oliver Twist, Sikes’s dog acts a surrogate for Nancy, experiencing similar treatment from …