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Review Of Janine Barchas, Matters Of Fact In Jane Austen: History, Location, And Celebrity, Laura White 2013 University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Review Of Janine Barchas, Matters Of Fact In Jane Austen: History, Location, And Celebrity, Laura White

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Janine Barchas’s thought-provoking study of Austen’s naming practices unearths a wealth of historical antecedents for Austen’s characters and posits an Austen whose gamesmanship with the names of persons and places rivals the knowingness and playfulness of James Joyce. In earlier decades, such a highly ambitious and wide-reaching work could not have been accomplished except through protracted antiquarian research. Web scholarship, however, has made it possible for Barchas to uncover in a relatively short time a remarkable array of the many interconnected historical figures bearing such names as Wentworth, Darcy, Vernon, Ferrars, Allen, and Dashwood whose heroic exploits, political machinations, tragic …


Buena Vida, Elizabeth Gill Vidaurri 2013 University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Buena Vida, Elizabeth Gill Vidaurri

Journal of South Texas English Studies

No abstract provided.


Idleness, Diligent Indolence, And Embodiment: Creativity And The Composition Classroom, Lindsay Illich 2013 University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Idleness, Diligent Indolence, And Embodiment: Creativity And The Composition Classroom, Lindsay Illich

Journal of South Texas English Studies

No abstract provided.


The Submission Process, Dona J. Gelagotis Lee 2013 University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

The Submission Process, Dona J. Gelagotis Lee

Journal of South Texas English Studies

No abstract provided.


‘A River Is Not A Woman’: Re-Visioning Finnegans Wake In Eavan Boland’S ‘Anna Liffey.’, Melissa Dinsman 2013 CUNY York College

‘A River Is Not A Woman’: Re-Visioning Finnegans Wake In Eavan Boland’S ‘Anna Liffey.’, Melissa Dinsman

Publications and Research

"This essay argues that Eavan Boland's 1994 poem “Anna Liffey” is, in part, a re-visioning of James Joyce's famous river-woman and mother, ALP. Although Joyce's deconstructive tendencies provide an added challenge for any author looking to engage with Finnegans Wake, Boland manages to reclaim ALP, both channelling and challenging Joyce's portrayal of the Liffey as “Anna Livia Plurabelle.”--From the Journal.


Power, Politics, And Domestic Desire In Octavia Butler’S Lilith’S Brood, Aparajita Nanda 2013 Santa Clara University

Power, Politics, And Domestic Desire In Octavia Butler’S Lilith’S Brood, Aparajita Nanda

English

Octavia Butler’s works, from her short stories and novellas to her science fiction novels, focus on themes of power, control, bondage, and a desired freedom from servitude. Power structures inevitably center on the master/slave or the captor/captive trope. Her handling of this issue takes on complex manifestations in her works, where enslavement and genetic evolution often form the core of the narrative. Within this framework, hostile and repressive regimes enforce a controlled society. Butler brings race, gender, and sexuality to the foreground of speculative fiction as she deals with complex social and political issues in all their ambiguity. Her handling …


Review Of The Young Leonardo: Art And Life In Fifteenth-Century Florence By Larry J. Feinberg, Brian Maxson 2013 East Tennessee State University

Review Of The Young Leonardo: Art And Life In Fifteenth-Century Florence By Larry J. Feinberg, Brian Maxson

ETSU Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Contributors’ Biographies, "The Writer's Experience", Ruth Mikal Garza, Craig E. Price 2013 University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Contributors’ Biographies, "The Writer's Experience", Ruth Mikal Garza, Craig E. Price

Journal of South Texas English Studies

No abstract provided.


Two Poems: "To Abelard From Heloise" & "The Writer" By Laura Linker, Laura Linker 2013 University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Two Poems: "To Abelard From Heloise" & "The Writer" By Laura Linker, Laura Linker

Journal of South Texas English Studies

No abstract provided.


Review Of A Sea For Encounters: Essays Towards A Postcolonial Commonwealth By Stella Borg Barthet Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2009. $125.16 Isbn: 9789042027640, Lamia Khalil Hammad 2013 University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Review Of A Sea For Encounters: Essays Towards A Postcolonial Commonwealth By Stella Borg Barthet Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2009. $125.16 Isbn: 9789042027640, Lamia Khalil Hammad

Journal of South Texas English Studies

No abstract provided.


Two Poems, Dennis H. Lee 2013 University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Two Poems, Dennis H. Lee

Journal of South Texas English Studies

No abstract provided.


Interpretation, 1980 And 1880, Rachel Sagner Buurma, L. Heffernan 2013 Swarthmore College

Interpretation, 1980 And 1880, Rachel Sagner Buurma, L. Heffernan

English Literature Faculty Works

This article reviews recent methodological interventions in the field of literary study, many of which take nineteenth-century critics, readers, or writers as models for their less interpretive reading practices. In seeking out nineteenth-century models for twenty-first-century critical practice, these critics imagine a world in which English literature never became a discipline. Some see these new methods as formalist, yet we argue that they actually emerge from historicist self-critique. Specifically, these contemporary critics view the historicist projects of the 1980s as overly influenced by disciplinary models of textual interpretation models that first arose, we show through our reading of the Jolly …


He Made The Books And He Died: The Fiftieth Anniversary Of Faulkner's Death, Philip M. Weinstein 2013 Swarthmore College

He Made The Books And He Died: The Fiftieth Anniversary Of Faulkner's Death, Philip M. Weinstein

English Literature Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


David Walker, Harriet Beecher Stowe And The Logic Of Sentimental Terror, Kevin Pelletier 2013 University of Richmond

David Walker, Harriet Beecher Stowe And The Logic Of Sentimental Terror, Kevin Pelletier

English Faculty Publications

With few exceptions, contemporary criticism reads nineteenth-century sentimental fiction as a literature of love. When Harriet Beecher Stowe famously asserted that the moral growth of the nation depended on each citizen’s ability to “feel right,” she voiced a sentiment shared by many of her contemporaries. It is no surprise, then, that scholars have assumed Stowe’s injunction to “feel right” was a call to feel compassion and love, for it was ostensibly through a rhetoric of Christian love that Stowe was able to foment a passionate outcry against slavery from many of her Northern readers. Indeed, sentimentalism’s transformative potential is best …


Professional Writing In The English Classroom: Designing A High School Or Middle School Course (Or Unit) In Professional Writing, Jonathan Bush, Leah A. Zuidema 2013 Western Michigan University

Professional Writing In The English Classroom: Designing A High School Or Middle School Course (Or Unit) In Professional Writing, Jonathan Bush, Leah A. Zuidema

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

The article offers information on the development of professional writing course in English middle school or high school classroom. It mentions that a good syllabus not only provide answers to basic questions, but also to questions that Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins have pertained to as the essential questions. It notes that students learn from writing activities and assessments including how to write in genres, evaluate the settings of professional tools, and manage their writing processes.


The Rise Of The Moral Tale: Children's Literature, The Novel, And The Governess, Patrick C. Fleming 2013 Rollins College

The Rise Of The Moral Tale: Children's Literature, The Novel, And The Governess, Patrick C. Fleming

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Prelims, Prefatory Note To Ssl 37, Preface To Robert Burns & Friends, Patrick G. Scott, Anthony Jarrells, Kenneth G. Simpson 2013 University of South Carolina

Prelims, Prefatory Note To Ssl 37, Preface To Robert Burns & Friends, Patrick G. Scott, Anthony Jarrells, Kenneth G. Simpson

Studies in Scottish Literature

Prefatory note by Patrick Scott and Tony Jarrells, preface by Patrick Scott and Kenneth Simpson


Poetry And Popular Protest: Peterloo, Cato Street And The Queen Caroline Controversy (Book Review), Michael Scrivener 2013 Wayne State University

Poetry And Popular Protest: Peterloo, Cato Street And The Queen Caroline Controversy (Book Review), Michael Scrivener

English Faculty Research Publications

John Gardner, Poetry and Popular Protest: Peterloo, Cato Street and the Queen Caroline Controversy (Houndmills and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. xix + 272. £50.00 hardback. 9780230280717.


Beyond The Looking-Glass: The Intensity Of The Gothic Dream In Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Anne N. Nagel 2013 University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Beyond The Looking-Glass: The Intensity Of The Gothic Dream In Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Anne N. Nagel

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The dream is a contested space in terms of allegory and affect, the non-conscious intensity associated with feelings and emotions. Readers tend to express disappointment when a narrative turns out to be “just a dream,” yet the dream is uniquely capable of evoking powerful affective intensity. Yet most scholarship approaches the literary dream through representational interpretation, which not only overlooks the intensity of affect, but dampens it. The dreamer cannot interpret the dream while engrossed in dreaming. By taking into consideration the perspective of the dreamer, this thesis moves beyond the reflective lens of symbolic interpretation to explore the intensity …


George Canning, Liberal Toryism, And Counterrevolutionary Satire In The Anti-Jacobin, Martha Thompson 2013 Brigham Young University - Provo

George Canning, Liberal Toryism, And Counterrevolutionary Satire In The Anti-Jacobin, Martha Thompson

Theses and Dissertations

One of the most defining moments in the histories of British satire and the public sphere took place in the late 1790s in an abandoned house in Piccadilly. Here George Canning and several fellow conservatives began writing and circulating their weekly newspaper the Anti-Jacobin. Although the periodical has been critically neglected, it is a valuable model for exploring how literary (partisan) politicians attempted to form a rational and critical public sphere through their satiric poetry. Founded by George Canning and edited by William Gifford, the Anti-Jacobin seems to reflect a reactionary conservative's ideology and has been summarily dismissed because of …


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