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Lessons In Tourism, Emily A. Francisco

Student Publications

A section poem in four parts that examines a number of experiences from the perspective of a female traveler, addressing themes such as dislocation of self, the remaking of identity, and the nature of female otherness within the global community.

Course Syllabus (Fa13) Coli 211 Literature & Psychology: "Power, The Subject, And Technological Rationality", Christopher Southward

Comparative Literature Faculty and Student Scholarship

Course Description and Objectives:

In this course, we will examine mechanisms of power and the processes by which these produce categories of subjectivity. Theoretically speaking, we will begin by considering these processes at the level of society and then dwell on their human experience at the level of the psyche. Here, we will aim to discover processes by which the subject reproduces conditions of domination by power at the level of psychic experience. Power-practices assume their condition of possibility by positing, on the one hand, that the category of the subject is a priori existent and, on the other, that …

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 22, No. 1, The Sinclair Lewis Society

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter

“Mencken’s Market Tip for Lewis,” by Frederick Betz, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale

“Minnesota Association of Library Friends and Partners Dedicate Sinclair Lewis Boyhood Home as Minnesota’s Fourth American Library Association ‘Literary Landmark'”

“Lewis Home Named Literary Landmark,” by Dave Simpkins, Sauk Centre Herald

“What Were They Reading Then?: Alexander’s Bridge by Willa Cather”

“‘This red-haired tornado from the Minnesota wilds’: A Lost Epithet for Sinclair Lewis,” by Frederick Betz, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale

Nuestros Refranes: Culturally Relevant Writing In Tucson High Schools, Cruz Medina

English

Colonial narratives often characterize Latin@ culture and students as deficient with regard to education. These narratives persist through legislation like Arizona’s House Bill 2281, which outlawed the culturally relevant curriculum of Tucson High School’s Mexican American Studies program. This article argues that culturally relevant student writing that responds to a prompt about dichos or proverbial sayings in Spanish, illustrate rhetorical strategies of subversive complicity when analyzed through a decolonial framework. Written by students at multiple Tucson High schools during the controversy surrounding HB 2281, the student publication, Nuestros Refranes, serves as the site of analysis that demonstrates how students navigate …

Love Against Substitution: John Milton, Aphra Behn, And The Political Theology Of Conjugal Narratives, Eric B. Song

English Literature Faculty Works

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“An Imperialism Of The Imagination”: Muslim Characters And Western Authors In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Robin K. Miller

Student Publications

This paper specifically discusses the cultural attitudes that made writing fully realized Muslim characters problematic for Western authors during the 19th and 20th centuries and also how, through their writing, certain authors perpetuated these attitudes. The discussed authors and works include William Beckford's Vathek, Lord Byron's poem “The Giaour,” multiple short stories from the periodical collection Oriental Stories, one of Hergé's installments of The Adventures of Tintin, and E.M. Hull's novel The Sheik. Three “types” of Muslim characters emerge in these works: the good, the bad, and the white. All three reflect Western attitudes towards the East as a place …

Divine Comedy As An American Civil War Epic, Joshua Matthews

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

This essay argues that nineteenth-century Americans interpreted Dante's Divine Comedy in terms of national and transnational discourses of federalism and republican nationalism, which helped introduce Dante to the United States and boosted the popularity and circulation of his works there. By the late 1840s, Dante--representing an Italy struggling to become an independent nation--was a useful, authoritative voice in political debates over national expansion and states' rights. His role expanded as these debates intensified. During the Civil War, Dante became an important discursive connection between republicanism, the new Italian nation-state, and the struggle to re-unify the American nation--a connection exemplified by …

Death Of A Salesman In Beijing Revisited, Ou Rong, Zhaoming Qian

English Faculty Publications

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A Bridge Over Troubled Waters : Jazz, Diaspora Discourse, And E. B. Dongala's "Jazz And Palm Wine" As Response To Amiri Baraka's "Answers In Progress"., Ann Elizabeth Willey

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

This essay explores how Emmanuel Dongala’s story “Jazz and Palm Wine” (1970) rewrites Imiri Baraka’s story “Answers in Progress” (1967). Baraka’s story calls for a black revolution based in furturist thinking and diaspora consciousness embodied in jazz. In rewriting Baraka, Dongala resists discourses of coherent and stable identity through a recasting of the aesthetic functions of futurism and jazz. Dongala’s intertextual use of, and emendations to, Baraka’s story suggest his discomfort with articulations of diaspora identity that, in the late 60s, were increasingly defined by cultural symbols. In transposing Baraka’s futurist fable of the revolution to the African continent, Dongala …

Paradise, Wisconsin, Angela Sorby

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Sports Literature In The Secondary Classroom, Hannah Thompson

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

When I first began thinking about focusing my thesis on sports literature, my initial research was not promising-many of the studies that have been done in the past focused on using sports literature to encourage reluctant readers. Reluctant male readers in particular were encouraged to try sports literature as a ploy to get them to read. Professor Linda Purdy Carter examines the reasons why reluctant readers tend to connect with sports literature. Overall, Carter concludes that sports literature can be a viable and valuable part of a classroom, but continues to emphasize the use of sports literature for students who …

The Temporality Of Modernist Life Writing In The Era Of Transsexualism, Pamela L. Caughie

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

In this essay, I argue that Woolf’s fantastic novel, Orlando (1928), is more true to the experience of transsexualism than is the allegedly authentic account provided in Man into Woman: An Authentic Record of a Change of Sex (1933), the biography-memoir of Danish artist Einar Wegener, who, as Lili Elbe, can lay claim to the title of the first transsexual. Orlando reconfigures notions not just of gender but of time, history, and the very nature of life-writing itself, producing a new model of life writing that I call a transgenre.

The Temporality Of Modernist Life Writing In The Era Of Transsexualism: Virginia Woolf’S Orlando And Einar Wegener’S Man Into Woman, Pamela L. Caughie

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

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An Uncommon Splice: Seeking Mutations In The Life-Writing And Short Fiction Of Mary Butts And Djuna Barnes, Susan George

Theses and Dissertations

Immersed in a web of short stories, poetry, and supporting biographical and life-writing sources, I investigate the narrative significance beneath and beyond two British and American modernist women authors. I evaluate sisterly connectedness between their literary production, publishing histories and life writings present in a specific cultural-temporal moment and genre: the short story. By looking on these unique, forgotten fictions through a new materialist lens, I argue for their short fiction's greater inclusion in the canon of women's modernism. Chapter I tests correlations between two authors undergoing the same stresses, alienations, joys and desires by taking up tenants of material …

Reading The Novel: A Gothicized "Enterprise Of Health", Claire Mcgrail Johnston

Journal of Franco-Irish Studies

No abstract provided.

Lntertextual Identities: The Crisis Of Voice And Location In Jane Eyre And Wide Sargasso Sea, Kristy Butler

Journal of Franco-Irish Studies

No abstract provided.

Emaciated Identities In William Trevor's Short Story "Lost Ground" And Charlotte Brontë'S Jane Eyre, Catherine O'Brien

Journal of Franco-Irish Studies

No abstract provided.

September 24, 2013: Austen Film Fest - Preliminary Lineup, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

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The Contributions Of Literary Study To The Clinical Practice Of Medicine, Tory Rob Peterson, Dr. Brandie Siegfried

Journal of Undergraduate Research

In response to growing criticism that young doctors were insensitive to patient needs, many medical schools have now turned to literary studies to expose medical students to the thought processes necessary for evaluating and appreciating what it means to be a patient. For my research project I proposed 1) to determine the specific contributions of literary study to medicine consistently cited by pioneers in the field of medical humanities and 2) to provide a thoughtful analysis of the writings of Dr. William Carlos Williams and Dr. Richard Selzer in order to detect manifestations of these specific contributions in the clinical …

The Diet Coke Of The Masses: A Thought Experiment In Addiction And Faith, A. Arwen Taylor, Dr. Bruce Jorgensen

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Suppose a sociologist wants to conduct an inquiry into the relationship between addiction and religion. She has two options. She might collect information from addicted people of faith and faithful addicts, observe them and interview them, or she might – although no ethics board would approve this – attempt to instill both addiction and faith within a group of test subjects, and then observe the results. Kenneth Ketner, after C. S. Peirce and Walker Percy, proposes a third approach to such an inquiry, and it is this approach which I have taken.