On The Genealogy Of Obscenity: Naked Lunch And The Death Of Obscene Literature,
2014
Oberlin College
On The Genealogy Of Obscenity: Naked Lunch And The Death Of Obscene Literature, Luke Harrison
Honors Papers
First made available in the United States in 1962, William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch and those who ventured to sell the illicit book were brought before obscenity courts on three separate occasions within the book's first four years in print. Despite breaking a different law on each separate occasion, Naked Lunch was judged to be equally obscene in all three cases. However, as Allen Ginsberg's testimony during the 1966 Massachusetts State Supreme Court trial that eventually exonerated Naked Lunch from its prior obscenity convictions demonstrates, there exist multiple interpretations and functions of the term "obscene". The discrepancy of usage between …
Edward Rochester: A New Byronic Hero,
2014
Bridgewater State University
Edward Rochester: A New Byronic Hero, Marybeth Forina
Undergraduate Review
In her novel Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë established several elements that are still components of many modern novels, including a working, plain female hero, a depiction of the hero’s childhood, and a new awareness of sexuality. Alongside these new elements, Brontë also engineered a new type of male hero in Edward Rochester. As Jane is written as a plain female hero with average looks, Rochester is her plain male hero counterpart. Although Brontë depicts Rochester as a severe, yet appealing hero, embodying the characteristics associated with Byron’s heroes, she nevertheless slightly alters those characteristics. Brontë characterizes Rochester as a …
Joseph Conrad's Critical Reception,
2014
Chapman University
Joseph Conrad's Critical Reception, Richard Ruppel
English Faculty Articles and Research
A review of John G. Peters' Joseph Conrad’s Critical Reception, published in 2013 by Cambridge University Press.
Decay And Perversion In Jacksonian America: George Lippard’S The Quaker City,
2014
Bridgewater State University
Decay And Perversion In Jacksonian America: George Lippard’S The Quaker City, Keith Lydon
Undergraduate Review
In the United States, the period between the termination of the 18th century and the commencement of the 19th century is characterized by the struggle to forge a national identity that was uniquely American in its independence from European influence. American writers of this period understood that the creation of an American literature distinct from the influence of Europe and shaped by the social, political, and natural environment of the United States would provide the country with the first vestiges of the autonomous cultural identity it so desperately desired. However, this work proved to be problematic, as with little financial …
2014 Complete Digest,
2014
Western Michigan University
2014 Complete Digest, Department Of English
Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive
No abstract provided.
Rondeau: Vico's Revenge,
2014
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Ua68/6/2/3 Potter College Of Arts & Letters English Student Organizations English Club,
2014
Western Kentucky University
Ua68/6/2/3 Potter College Of Arts & Letters English Student Organizations English Club, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Records of the English Club including minute books, programs, and banquet records.
Voices Of Usu: An Anthology Of Student Essays, 2014,
2014
Utah State University
Voices Of Usu: An Anthology Of Student Essays, 2014, Utah State University Department Of English
Voices of USU
This collection of student writing represents the voices of over 2,000 students who enroll each academic year in Utah State University’s second-year composition course, Intermediate Writing: Research Writing in a Persuasive Mode. Voices of USU celebrates excellence in writing by providing undergraduate students of diverse backgrounds and disciplines the opportunity to have their work published.
Big-Shouldered Shakespeare: Three Shrews At Chicago Shakespeare Theater,
2014
Andrews University
Big-Shouldered Shakespeare: Three Shrews At Chicago Shakespeare Theater, L. Monique Pittman
Faculty Publications
This performance criticism project enlists theorist Michel de Certeau’s concepts of institutional strategy and individual tactic to examine social resistance in three productions of William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew (1593/94) staged by the Midwestern Shakespearean repertory company, the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. The three productions date from CST’s new millennium rise to prominence on the Navy Pier skyline and instantiate the ways in which the theater reconciles its self-promotional image of Shakespeare the Great Humanist with the misogynist content of Taming. Since 1999, CST has staged two full-scale productions of Taming, one led by David H. Bell (2003) and …
Ua68/6/1 Emeriti, Vol. 1, Issue 1,
2014
Western Kentucky University
Ua68/6/1 Emeriti, Vol. 1, Issue 1, Wku English
WKU Administration Documents
Newsletter created by the Editing and Publishing Class regarding the work of retired English department faculty. This issue includes articles about Karen Schneider, Joseph Millichap, James Flynn, Elizabeth Oakes and Joe Survant.
From Dracula To Twilight: The Threat Of The Romantic Vampire,
2014
University of Kansas
From Dracula To Twilight: The Threat Of The Romantic Vampire, Alexis Cantanzarite
Journal of Dracula Studies
No abstract provided.
Dracula's Truth Claim And Its Consequences,
2014
Kutztown University
Dracula's Truth Claim And Its Consequences, Hans De Roos
Journal of Dracula Studies
No abstract provided.
Beauties And Beasts Of Carmilla, Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, And Dracula,
2014
Fredonia State University of New York
Beauties And Beasts Of Carmilla, Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, And Dracula, Shirley Ibach
Journal of Dracula Studies
No abstract provided.
"The Blood In The Life!": Victorian Manifestations Of Porphyric Anxiety And Blooklust In Bram Stoker's Dracula,
2014
Weber State University, Ogden, Utah
"The Blood In The Life!": Victorian Manifestations Of Porphyric Anxiety And Blooklust In Bram Stoker's Dracula, Ashley Szanter
Journal of Dracula Studies
No abstract provided.
Structural And Symbolic Parallels Within The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn And The Catcher In The Rye,
2014
Cleveland State University
Structural And Symbolic Parallels Within The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn And The Catcher In The Rye, David G. Polster
ETD Archive
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye are both quest narratives in which the youthful protagonist begins his story trapped within a paradigm that oppresses him and -in order to escape- dies a symbolic death, descending to the underworld to learn a sacred truth that will be revealed at novel's end. The structure and symbolism are quite similar and follow the archetypal hero's journey, which I closely examine. In my thesis, I seek to prove that by descending to the "hell" of the Antebellum South and the conformist/materialistic world of post-war America, both Huck and Holden …
Women's Control Of Passion: Louisa May Alcott's Revision Of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre And Societal Restrictions Of Passion In The Ninteenth-Century,
2014
Cleveland State University
Women's Control Of Passion: Louisa May Alcott's Revision Of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre And Societal Restrictions Of Passion In The Ninteenth-Century, Erica Eileen Cicero-Erkkila
ETD Archive
Louisa May Alcott's revision of the representation of passion in Behind a Mask, or a Woman's Power (1866) in connection with Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1847) is something that has not been widely discussed in scholarly studies since the reintroduction of these Blood and Thunder novels by Madaline Stern in 1975. Both Bronte and Alcott demonstrate in their novels that passion is a positive attribute, but, through Jane, Bronte demonstrates that hysterical passion must be sincerely controlled and internalized in order to positively contribute to a woman's life. Alcott, on the other hand, suggests that women merely need to act …
Don't Believe Everything You Read: Hoaxes And Satire In The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym,
2014
Cleveland State University
Don't Believe Everything You Read: Hoaxes And Satire In The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym, Erik E. Harder
ETD Archive
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym stands out among Edgar Allan Poe's body of work as his only novel. It also stands out in the fact that it has received comparatively little attention from scholars, owing at least in part to the idea that it is a literary failure on Poe's part. Analysis reveals quite the contrary, however, as the novel is not a disjointed narrative masquerading as travel literature, but rather it is a satire of the genre of travel literature. Poe was driven to write the novel at the behest of his publisher, who also encouraged Poe to …
The Black Blood Of The Tennysons: Rhetoric Of Melancholy And The Imagination In Tennyson's Poetry,
2014
Cleveland State University
The Black Blood Of The Tennysons: Rhetoric Of Melancholy And The Imagination In Tennyson's Poetry, Vanessa Jakse
ETD Archive
Critics of Tennyson view his melancholy poetics as a self-evident manifestation. However, not until recently have scholars examined melancholy as a rhetorical structure in Tennyson's poetry. To address this particular gap in scholarly research, this thesis examines the use of black, similar images, and descriptive language in Tennyson's "Mariana and the Moated Grange," "Mariana in the South," and "The Lady of Shalott." From a close reading of the text and a comparative analysis of Tennyson's poetry, common connections between the four poems become clear. These connections emerge through the contextual evidence for melancholy existing in the imagery, diction, and syntax …
Cultural Collision And Consequence: Redefining The Invisible In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man,
2014
Cleveland State University
Cultural Collision And Consequence: Redefining The Invisible In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, Nina Shari Kidd
ETD Archive
Scholars have puzzled over the central refrain of white oppression toward blacks in this novel. This study however, revolves around the treatment of blacks to other blacks in their attempts to further themselves in society. A fundamental source of dissension within the African- American race was intolerance for the differing approaches of schools of thought on advancement posited by various members of the African-American race. This discussion incorporates French theorist Michel Foucault's theory on how internal captivity takes place to examine the possibility that the race suffered at its own hands.Ellison's novel is not about a black man's story, but …
Taming The Perfect Beast: The Monster As Romantic Hero In Contemporary Fiction,
2014
Cleveland State University
Taming The Perfect Beast: The Monster As Romantic Hero In Contemporary Fiction, Lara Klaber
ETD Archive
This thesis examines the contemporary phenomenon of the paranormal romance, as exemplified by Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series. Although immensely popular, the series has drawn harsh criticism for its writing style and for the sexual politics portrayed in the novels. Readers of the series have been subjected to similar harsh criticism for enjoying these works in spite of the aforementioned issues. Careful examination of the books, however, reveals that the source of their popularity draws from several factors: the use of a narrative structure known as the Rebirth scenario, particularly popular in romance novels an inverted form of the traditional Beauty …
