In The Name Of The Spirit,
2013
Eastern Washington University
In The Name Of The Spirit, Lynn Briggs, Fred Schunter, Ray Melvin
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
The authors argue that naming experiences "spiritual" is important to an expanded understanding of goals, struggles, and success in their writing center practice.
New Locations For Discursive Agency: The Story Of Anandamai Ma,
2013
Indiana University-Purdue University
New Locations For Discursive Agency: The Story Of Anandamai Ma, Mary Ann Cain
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
This paper aims to relocate our relationship to modes of knowledge that fall outside of Western rationalism and conceptual thought by relocating our understanding of agency through the figure of Anandamai Ma, a 20th century Hindu "saint.
A Search For Symbolism In The Great Gatsby,
2013
Illinois Math and Science Academy
A Search For Symbolism In The Great Gatsby, Nicole Trackman
The Great Gatsby Unit
Students will work in small groups to trace the context and implications for assigned symbols or colors in The Great Gatsby. This activity is best done after the class has completed a reading of the book. This activity allows the students to look more closely at Fitzgerald’s language and make connections across the use of symbols/ colors in the text. This lesson can be a nice lead up to a final paper or assessment. Teachers can facilitate this lesson as a part of a blended classroom, or completely in class. Either way, students will have a catalog of the …
Children In Hollywood World War Ii Films,
2013
Illinois State University
Children In Hollywood World War Ii Films, Robert L. Mclaughlin
Faculty Publications – English
No abstract provided.
Book Review: The Cosmic Computer By H. Beam Piper,
2013
Liberty University
Book Review: The Cosmic Computer By H. Beam Piper, Robert Weaver
Faculty Publications and Presentations
No abstract provided.
Book Review: The Three Hostages By John Buchan,
2013
Liberty University
Book Review: The Three Hostages By John Buchan, Robert Weaver
Faculty Publications and Presentations
No abstract provided.
Nick Carraway—Narrator Extraordinaire!,
2013
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Nick Carraway—Narrator Extraordinaire!, Leah Kind
The Great Gatsby Unit
This exercise gives students further practice with both the skills of close reading and character analysis. In The Great Gatsby, readers are introduced to Nick Carraway by Nick Carraway, and many take his words as law. Yet there are also constant inklings that Nick may not be the most neutral of narrators after all. This exercise allows students to look closely at characters in the novel as they are introduced by Nick, and examine the divide between Carraway’s version of the character and the reader’s own impression. Students will only have the text, and their analysis, to guide them. …
Setting As Character,
2013
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Setting As Character, Tracy A. Townsend
The Short Story
This lesson uses Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Young Goodman Brown” to explore tone and characterization in short fiction. It requires students to demonstrate an understanding of the role character plays in fiction and to use specific textual evidence to support a claim. The lesson can be completed in a single class period of fifty to seventy minutes and is suitable for grades 9-12.
Dialogue In Fiction,
2013
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Dialogue In Fiction, Tracy A. Townsend
The Short Story
This close-reading and discussion-oriented lesson, which takes between sixty and seventy minutes, uses Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” as a model of how dialogue advances plot and develops character in fiction. It is useful in literature classrooms for its emphasis on drawing inferences from text and in creative writing contexts for teaching effective dialogue writing. This lesson is suitable for grades 9-12.
Acting Out The Old Sport,
2013
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Acting Out The Old Sport, Leah Kind
The Great Gatsby Unit
The purpose of this exercise is twofold: one, to have students make text-based interpretations in their discussion, planning, and eventual performance of scenes from The Great Gatsby; two, to have students see the crucial (albeit sometimes frustrating) role of Nick Carraway as the narrator of the novel. In their performance groups, one student will fill the role of “performing” (verbally) Carraway’s interior monologue as conceived by the group, so it will be necessary for students to make informed decisions on his mental commentary. In being tasked with bringing Fitzgerald’s text to life for their peers, students will also gain …
The Power Of Belief: Innocents And Innocence In Children's Fantasy Fiction,
2013
Eastern Michigan University
The Power Of Belief: Innocents And Innocence In Children's Fantasy Fiction, Haley Elizabeth Atkinson
Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations
The power of belief is a reoccurring theme in fantasy fiction for children and young adults. Oftentimes such belief merely affects the internal make-up of children or child-likecharacters,giving them the confidence that they need to act upon the world, but at other times belief acts to magically impose an imagined reality onto a physical reality. Fairies are brought back from thedead, destinies are divined through a golden compass, phantom stags lead the way to hidden swords. This thesis explores the power of belief and its associations with the innocence of childhood as found in J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan and Wendy …
Ethical Metafiction In Dickens's Christmas Hauntings,
2013
Brigham Young University - Provo
Ethical Metafiction In Dickens's Christmas Hauntings, Mark Brian Sabey
Theses and Dissertations
Many critics have examined metanarrative aspects of Dickens's writing, and many have studied Dickens's ethics. None, however, has yet assessed the ways in which Dickens's directly interrogates the ethics of fiction. Surprisingly philosophical treatments of the ethics of fiction take place in A Christmas Carol and A House to Let, both of which turn the ghost story of the traditional winter's tale to metafictional purposes. No one has yet dealt with Dickens's own meta-commentary on the ethics of fiction with the degree of philosophical nuance it deserves. Writings about the ethics of Dickens's fiction (and of fiction generally) often involves …
Repair To The Lamps And Rake The Language,
2013
Western Illinois University
Repair To The Lamps And Rake The Language, Daniel Malachuk
Democracy & Education
Boatright and Faust rightly recommend Emerson’s active reading style, but they misrepresent him as pragmatist who believed readers to be “makers of meaning.” Emerson was a transcendentalist whose fundamental message was that moral “truth exists, though all men should deny it.” Especially in his antislavery writings, Emerson teaches two ways for readers to find (not make) these moral truths in the texts they read: by reading with their souls, or intuitively (“repairing to the lamps”), and by reading for the facts (“raking the language”) that will awaken moral sensibilities. Rather than continue to invent an Emerson who flatters our contemporary …
Science Fiction And The Myth Of Trajectory Evolution,
2013
Macalester College
Science Fiction And The Myth Of Trajectory Evolution, Jocelyn D. Pickreign
The Macalester Review
Stephen Jay Gould first proposed the idea of “iconographies of progress.” Today, one of the most prominent forms of progress iconography is the science fiction story. Science fiction as a genre frequently portrays evolution as a linear trajectory of increasing complexity, and in doing so, furthers a worldview that is not unlike the pre-Darwin understanding of human beings as both the center and the pinnacle of the natural world.
Moral Reform In Comedy And Culture, 1696-1747 & Dangerous Women, Libertine Epicures, And The Rise Of Sensibility, 1670-1730. (Review),
2013
Cleveland State University
Moral Reform In Comedy And Culture, 1696-1747 & Dangerous Women, Libertine Epicures, And The Rise Of Sensibility, 1670-1730. (Review), Rachel Carnell
English Faculty Publications
The article reviews the books "Moral Reform in Comedy and Culture, 1696-1747" by Aparna Gollapudi and "Dangerous Women, Libertine Epicures, and the Rise of Sensibility, 1670-1730" by Laura Linker.
Exploring Metaphor In The Great Gatsby,
2013
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Exploring Metaphor In The Great Gatsby, Dan Gleason
The Great Gatsby Unit
In this lesson, students engage with one approach to metaphor and then apply that learning to metaphors in Great Gatsby. To start, students learn about I. A. Richards’s definition of metaphor as the link between tenor (topic) and vehicle (way of thinking about it). They then generate some metaphors by randomly combining tenors and vehicles in order to understand how the parts interrelate. Finally, the class interacts with the messier, more beautiful face of metaphor by working through, in groups, some key metaphors from the novel. Students identify the components of each metaphor (tenor, vehicle) and also consider what subtle …
Manly Love And Its Discontents: Melville, Whitman, And The Dream Of American Brotherhood,
2013
University of South Carolina - Columbia
Manly Love And Its Discontents: Melville, Whitman, And The Dream Of American Brotherhood, David Greven
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Zea E-Books: Open-Access Digital Imprint Of The University Of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries,
2013
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Zea E-Books: Open-Access Digital Imprint Of The University Of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Sue Ann Gardner, Paul Royster
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Presentations
Intended to complement, not compete with, the University of Nebraska Press, Zea E-Books gives a voice to scholars whose works would not meet the financial publication demands of a traditional press.
The Effects Of Social Rank On Shame And Guilt,
2013
Indiana State University
The Effects Of Social Rank On Shame And Guilt, Alexandra Bohaska
All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The differentiation of shame and guilt is not widely discussed. The reason why some people feel shame while others feel guilt is also not universally understood. Various theories have examined cultural influences and how individuals attribute the outcome of various situations. This paper discusses past theories of the reasons behind shame and guilt and conducts a study that examines how social rank, or lack thereof, could affect a person’s emotional response. It was predicted that when the participants, consisting of college undergraduates and residents of a private community, are primed towards feelings of superordination or equality, via vignettes, they would …
Is Snow White Still The Fairest Of Them All? How Once Upon A Time Reinvents The Image Of The Disney Princess,
2013
Salve Regina University
Is Snow White Still The Fairest Of Them All? How Once Upon A Time Reinvents The Image Of The Disney Princess, Hannah M. Gonneville
Pell Scholars and Senior Theses
A modern fairy tale drama on the ABC network, Once Upon A Time recasts the animated Disney princesses as live-action heroines. Building on Disney scholars' research, I study how the company uses synergy to establish a connection between a primetime television show and a children's franchise. Through a textual analysis of the show's main princess, Snow White, I discover that Once Upon A Time's Snow White establishes a more modern, dynamic image of the original princess, indicating that the Disney Company is moving in a new direction. However, the show still preserves the character's status as a traditional Disney princess …
