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The History Of Shakespeare In American Education, 1620-1930, Joseph P. Haughey 2013 Western Michigan University

The History Of Shakespeare In American Education, 1620-1930, Joseph P. Haughey

Dissertations

This dissertation analyzes Shakespeare’s role in American education from colonial times through the Progressive Era. The history is divided into four overlapping historical periods, each represented in its own chapter and derived from four different sets of primary sources. The first chapter provides a synopsis of Shakespeare’s presence in American education in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and then, through case studies of the records of two nineteenth-century university literary societies – the Hasty Pudding Club of Harvard University and the Sherwood Rhetorical Society of Kalamazoo College – examines the role extracurricular activity played in first introducing Shakespeare at the …


"My Words Fly Up, My Thoughts Remain Below": Community And Penance In Early Modern English Drama, Benedict John Whalen 2013 University of Nevada, Las Vegas

"My Words Fly Up, My Thoughts Remain Below": Community And Penance In Early Modern English Drama, Benedict John Whalen

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

This dissertation examines the vexed relationship between Christian doctrine, practice, and community in English Renaissance drama due to the abandonment of the sacrament of auricular confession during the Protestant Reformation. I argue that many English Renaissance dramatists were sensitive to the vast ramifications of the Reformers' theological understanding of penance, particularly in its emphasis upon a sinner's ability to accomplish unmediated contrition, and to be psychologically and emotionally satisfied thereby. By desacramentalizing and interiorizing penitential practices, the Protestant understanding of penance fundamentally changed the ways in which communities dealt with sins. As this dissertation demonstrates, many of the plays from …


Decoding Literary Aids: A Study On Issues Of The Body, Masculinity, And Self Identity In U.S. Aids Literature From 1984-2011, Alexander Shimon Abrams 2013 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Decoding Literary Aids: A Study On Issues Of The Body, Masculinity, And Self Identity In U.S. Aids Literature From 1984-2011, Alexander Shimon Abrams

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Rather than waiting decades to respond, novelists of nearly every literary genre began conceptualizing the AIDS epidemic shortly after the first documented case of the virus in the United States in 1981. Writers, feeling a sense of urgency, wasted little time constructing didactic texts that differ from much historical fiction in that they were written as the tragedy they are commenting on occurred. However, AIDS literature has changed as the disease has spread well beyond the gay communities of San Francisco and New York, causing people to reexamine their longstanding beliefs on masculinity, sexuality, and body politics.

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Does Swamp Thing Have A Penis?, Frank Bramlett 2013 University of Nebraska at Omaha

Does Swamp Thing Have A Penis?, Frank Bramlett

English Faculty Publications

Perhaps the answer to this question depends on who is in charge of the character. While many artists have been involved in Swamp Thing story arcs over the decades, I am most familiar with the Alan Moore arc, with art by Stephen Bissette and John Totleben.

In ‘The Anatomy Lesson,’ there is an autopsy performed on the body of Swamp Thing, who is presumed to be dead and whose body has been frozen for study. The autopsy reveals structures inside the chest cavity that resemble anatomically correct human organs. However, although they look like organs, they don’t function like them. …


July 22, 2013: Cfp: Going Rogue: The Merits And Perils Of Breaking With Professional Conventions, Department of English 2013 Western Michigan University

July 22, 2013: Cfp: Going Rogue: The Merits And Perils Of Breaking With Professional Conventions, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

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July 18, 2013: Kvcc To Host Author Noviolet Bulawayo, Department of English 2013 Western Michigan University

July 18, 2013: Kvcc To Host Author Noviolet Bulawayo, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

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Contributors, Gwenyth E. Hood 2013 Marshall University

Contributors, Gwenyth E. Hood

The Mythic Circle

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And Of Our Mother, David Sparenberg 2013 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

And Of Our Mother, David Sparenberg

The Mythic Circle

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Mythcon 44 - Green And Growing: The Land And Its Inhabitants In Fantasy, The Mythopoeic Society 2013 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Mythcon 44 - Green And Growing: The Land And Its Inhabitants In Fantasy, The Mythopoeic Society

Mythcon Programs

How does mythopoeic literature address the relationship between the land and its inhabitants, between the wild and the cultivated? What are their respective moral values, their dangers, and delights? Tangled forests, majestic trees, the ordered fields, the carefully tended gardens; or untamed, wild beauty: each offers a different kind of bounty to those who would live off the land. What role do advocates and protectors of the land play in fantasy literature, particularly as personified in characters such as Yavanna, Radagast, Sam Gamgee, and, of course, Tom Bombadil?


Friday, Shane Clack 2013 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Friday, Shane Clack

The Mythic Circle

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The Summer Valley, Tannara Young 2013 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Summer Valley, Tannara Young

The Mythic Circle

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Mythic Circle #35, Gwenyth E. Hood 2013 Marshall University

Mythic Circle #35, Gwenyth E. Hood

The Mythic Circle

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Editorial, Gwenyth E. Hood 2013 Marshall University

Editorial, Gwenyth E. Hood

The Mythic Circle

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Poseidon And Queen Cassiopea, Joe R. Christopher 2013 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Poseidon And Queen Cassiopea, Joe R. Christopher

The Mythic Circle

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The Mind Has Mountains, Joanna Michal Hoyt 2013 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Mind Has Mountains, Joanna Michal Hoyt

The Mythic Circle

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Persephone Rising, Seth Leeper 2013 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Persephone Rising, Seth Leeper

The Mythic Circle

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Dream Of Death & The Way Of The Shaman, David Sparenberg 2013 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Dream Of Death & The Way Of The Shaman, David Sparenberg

The Mythic Circle

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The Eye, Ryder Miller 2013 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Eye, Ryder Miller

The Mythic Circle

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The Pale Wanderer, Alexander Dove Lempke 2013 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Pale Wanderer, Alexander Dove Lempke

The Mythic Circle

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The Night Of The Wolf-Riders, Dag Rossman 2013 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Night Of The Wolf-Riders, Dag Rossman

The Mythic Circle

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