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Keen, Sober, And Smart: Review Of Eric Otto's Green Speculations: Science Fiction And Transformative Environmentalism, Gerry Canavan 2013 Marquette University

Keen, Sober, And Smart: Review Of Eric Otto's Green Speculations: Science Fiction And Transformative Environmentalism, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Translingual Literacy, Language Difference, And Matters Of Agency., Min-Zhan Lu, Bruce Horner 2013 University of Louisville

Translingual Literacy, Language Difference, And Matters Of Agency., Min-Zhan Lu, Bruce Horner

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

We argue that composition scholarship’s defenses of language differences in student writing reinforce dominant ideology’s spatial framework conceiving language difference as deviation from a norm of sameness. We argue instead for adopting a temporal-spatial framework defining difference as the norm of utterances, and defining languages, literacy practices, conventions, and contexts as always emergent, ongoing products of iterations, and thus manifestations of writer agency. Using the “White Shoes” essay from David Bartholomae’s “Inventing the University,” we show how such a framework addresses the writer’s agency iterating the “same,” and how it resolves concerns to meet students’ need and right to learn …


Review Of Darko Suvin's Defined By A Hollow: Essays On Utopia, Science Fiction And Political Epistemology, Gerry Canavan 2013 Marquette University

Review Of Darko Suvin's Defined By A Hollow: Essays On Utopia, Science Fiction And Political Epistemology, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

This review considers Darko Suvin’s recent career anthology Defined by a Hollow with respect to debates about the relevance of Marxism and utopian critique in the context of a global neoliberal hegemony that (twenty years after Fukuyama) still imagines itself as the ‘end of history’. Suvin’s work suggests that the relationship between Marxism and aesthetics in such times is not simply a quirk of the academy, but is in fact a politically necessary conjoining of materialist praxis and quasi-religious inspiration.


"Sample Speech I' The Market-Place": The Habermasian Public Sphere In Robert Browning's The Ring And The Book, Anthony Thomas Garcia 2013 Old Dominion University

"Sample Speech I' The Market-Place": The Habermasian Public Sphere In Robert Browning's The Ring And The Book, Anthony Thomas Garcia

English Theses & Dissertations

In The Ring and the Book, Browning presents a spectrum of twelve dramatic monologues to tell a complicated murder story in 17th century Rome. Browning delves into the environs of 17th century Italy in creating the backdrop for the narrative in Books Two, Three, and Four, supplying these voices to provide historical and social context to the private matter of domestic violence. Understanding the function of this leading triad necessitates investigation into the relation of community and public space to the act of uxoricide. The counter-position of "Half-Rome" in Book II and "The Other Half-Rome" in Book III produces …


Footnoted Folklore: Robert Burns's "Hallowe'en", Corey E. Andrews 2013 Youngstown State University

Footnoted Folklore: Robert Burns's "Hallowe'en", Corey E. Andrews

Studies in Scottish Literature

Examines Robert Burns's poem "Hallowe'en," first published in the Kilmarnock edition (1786), both in relation to its background in Scottish folklore and in terms of the way Burns presented it on the page, with numerous footnotes, arguing that "throughout the poem Burns acts as a participant observer in the classic anthropological sense."


Transatlantic Intimacies: The Homoerotic Affect Worlds Of Nineteenth-Century Print Culture, Melissa R. Pompili 2013 Eastern Michigan University

Transatlantic Intimacies: The Homoerotic Affect Worlds Of Nineteenth-Century Print Culture, Melissa R. Pompili

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

The thesis argues that during the late-nineteenth century, an alternative means of same-sex erotic communication was conceived of in transatlantically published American and British künstlerroman novels written by female authors. This alternative discourse was communicated affectively to initiated readers by way of metaphorical descriptions of painting, music, accompanying illustrations, and photography, and these novels all participate in the work of moving non-normative sexuality into the public sphere at the turn of the century. Through readings of works by Kate Chopin, Julia Magruder, and Amy Levy, the thesis explores the ways that these affective interactions were constructed, and the manner in …


Reconceiving A Necessary Evil: Teaching A Transferable Fyc Research Paper, Samuel James Dunn 2013 Brigham Young University - Provo

Reconceiving A Necessary Evil: Teaching A Transferable Fyc Research Paper, Samuel James Dunn

Theses and Dissertations

The place of the research paper in first-year composition (FYC) courses is often debated in composition forums. Many argue that the a-disciplinary nature of FYC doesn't allow instructors to teach the research paper in a way that will be transferable to disciplinary writing tasks, while others say that it is possible, as long as we have a thorough understanding of the kinds of writing tasks students will face in the disciplines and specifically teach writing skills that will be transferable. To identify these more generalizable writing skills to be emphasized, I interviewed 14 professors at Brigham Young University from different …


Looking Outside The Canon: Owen Vincent Dodson'sboy At The Window, Sarah Anne Campbell 2013 Brigham Young University - Provo

Looking Outside The Canon: Owen Vincent Dodson'sboy At The Window, Sarah Anne Campbell

Theses and Dissertations

Scholars have viewed African American texts written in the years between 1950 and 1960 as espousing confrontation, protest, and resistance. Although fruitful in identifying large writing trends, much of that scholarship narrowly defines what writing during that time accomplished, leaving out important writers whose writing does not fit the mold. One such writer is Owen Vincent Dodson (1914-1983), who published Boy at the Window in 1951. The novel uses modes of drama including song and call-and-response to invite reader sympathy and identification with characters, and eventually provides reader the opportunity to participate in creating meaning. Dodson's novel subtly combats racism …


Integrated Theater Arts And Strategies (Itas) Program And Its Impact On Teachers’ Integration Of Theater Arts Strategies In Targeted Literacy Skills, Cayce J. Cummins 2013 Seton Hall University

Integrated Theater Arts And Strategies (Itas) Program And Its Impact On Teachers’ Integration Of Theater Arts Strategies In Targeted Literacy Skills, Cayce J. Cummins

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

Visual and performing arts can be taught in isolation or integrated with other core content subjects such as literacy, math, science, and social studies. Jersey City Public Schools (JCPS) implemented the Integrated Theater and Arts Strategies (ITAS) program beginning in the 2008-2009 school year and lasting through the 2010-2011 school year with eight targeted schools. Visual and performing arts standards exist in both the state’s core curriculum standards and national standards. Despite these existing standards, implementation is minimal in JCPS. JCPS plans to develop and implement the ITAS program for targeted schools with sixth and seventh grade students. Language Arts …


Histrionic Translation : A Methodology For Promoting The Translator's Inter-Subjectivity As Co-Producer, Fei Yue TSANG 2013 Lingnan University

Histrionic Translation : A Methodology For Promoting The Translator's Inter-Subjectivity As Co-Producer, Fei Yue Tsang

Lingnan Theses

This thesis will focus on Ezra Pound’s poem, Histrion, its associations with Stanislavskian method acting and their interface with translation studies. The title of “Histrion” is derived from the Latin word for an actor and Pound clearly wishes to suggest strong parallels between the voice of the poet and the voice of the actor. The work evokes a clairvoyant state of heightened consciousness achieved by the poet, in which he melds the subjectivities of the modern writer and the “souls of all men great” (earlier poets such as Dante and Villon) in a translucent flame of fused …


When Sweet Me Meets Experience And Pink Panther In High Heels, Christina Raiford 2013 Tennessee State University

When Sweet Me Meets Experience And Pink Panther In High Heels, Christina Raiford

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


The Intertwining In The Museum, LaToya Pickett 2013 Tennessee State University

The Intertwining In The Museum, Latoya Pickett

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


Surfacing, Kelsey Mooney 2013 Tennessee State University

Surfacing, Kelsey Mooney

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


Sand’S Reprisal, Chukwudi Mogbo 2013 Tennessee State University

Sand’S Reprisal, Chukwudi Mogbo

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


A Hamtramck Horror, Gerald Messier 2013 Tennessee State University

A Hamtramck Horror, Gerald Messier

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


Dogs Galore, Bonnie Kelly 2013 Tennessee State University

Dogs Galore, Bonnie Kelly

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


David Hershel Johnson, Laci Turner 2013 Tennessee State University

David Hershel Johnson, Laci Turner

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


The Hidden Truth Of Owensville, Gerald Messier 2013 Tennessee State University

The Hidden Truth Of Owensville, Gerald Messier

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


A Stranger’S Revenge, Maeghan Bradshaw 2013 Tennessee State University

A Stranger’S Revenge, Maeghan Bradshaw

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


Cancer Spaceship, Christian Powell 2013 Tennessee State University

Cancer Spaceship, Christian Powell

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

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