Analysis Of A Colonial Alphabet Book,
2013
Marquette University
Analysis Of A Colonial Alphabet Book, Zoha Khatoon
4710 English Undergraduate Research: Children’s Literature
This essay analyzes a non-canonical alphabet book written in the nineteenth century. The Colonial Alphabet For The Nursery was written for the child audience during the Victorian era. It associates a word with each letter of the alphabet, and the word is used in a sentence describing its corresponding illustration. This paper explains how the book portrays Great Britain as a world superpower by showing the other countries as poor and insignificant. Much of this alphabet book teaches children the various stereotypes about numerous ethnicities. This allows for them to grow up with misconceptions about diverse racial groups. This essay …
Stop! Think! Grade!: Developing A Philosophy Of Writing Evaluation,
2013
Eastern Illinois University
Stop! Think! Grade!: Developing A Philosophy Of Writing Evaluation, Terri A. Fredrick
Faculty Research & Creative Activity
n the first day of my graduate course in evaluating student writing, I ask the students to describe their evaluation philosophy. After a few moments of silence, the students, a mix of graduate assistants and full-time K–12 teachers, begin by telling me what they expect from students’ writing. When prodded to focus on their own evaluation, they list writing issues they mark in student papers. Some describe evaluation practices: “I don’t pick up my pen until I’ve read through the paper at least once,” says one teacher. “Why?” I press. Eventually someone will venture a claim like this one: “I …
Book Review: Haia Shpayer-Makov. The Ascent Of The Detective: Police Sleuths In Victorian And Edwardian England.,
2013
Eastern Illinois University
Book Review: Haia Shpayer-Makov. The Ascent Of The Detective: Police Sleuths In Victorian And Edwardian England., Dagni A. Bredesen
Faculty Research & Creative Activity
No abstract provided.
The Real Thing,
2013
Swarthmore College
The Real Thing, Nathalie Anderson
English Literature Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
John Evelyn: The Forestry Of Imagination,
2013
University of Montana - Missoula
John Evelyn: The Forestry Of Imagination, James C. Mckusick
English Faculty Publications
John Evelyn was appointed as a founding member of the Royal Society in 1662, and in this capacity he published Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber (1664). Evelyn's Sylva foreshadows the development of a conservationist ethic in the management of forests and wildlands throughout the English-speaking world. In this treatise, Evelyn advocates the replanting of woodlands that had been devastated during the English Civil War as a means of restoring the nation's defenses, particularly its navy and merchant marine. The book describes the various kinds of trees, their cultivation, and the best use for each …
The Parchment Of Kashmir (Review),
2013
Wright State University - Main Campus
The Parchment Of Kashmir (Review), Alpana Sharma
English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications
The Parchment of Kashmir gathers together a wide range of essays on the subject of Kashmir. It is a compelling and stimulating book for a number of reasons. First, it interrelates a range of disciplines from political science and sociology to history, philosophy, and English. Second, it is produced by academics, all of whom are based in Jammu and Kashmir. Third, because these essays are written by scholars who are intimate with Kashmir, yet have not had an opportunity to be read outside of local circles, the book gives them a readership that they otherwise wouldn’t have; but readers themselves …
No Equality. No Social Justice. Why Not Equity?,
2013
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
No Equality. No Social Justice. Why Not Equity?, Anthony John Marquez '14
2013 Spring Semester
In regards to most current and past social discrepancies, such as between races and sexes, people tend to protest in favor of all individuals being treated equally. However, as demonstrated in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron, striving for utter equal treatment in hope of achieving social justice is not necessarily conducive to an uncontestable, utopian society. Social justice, as thoroughly defined by the School of Social Welfare at the University of California at Berkeley, categorizes social justice as a process that “empowers all people to exercise self-determination and realize their full potential…and builds social …
Hawthorne’S “The Minister’S Black Veil”: Group Activities And Interpretations,
2013
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Hawthorne’S “The Minister’S Black Veil”: Group Activities And Interpretations, Adam Kotlarczyk
The Short Story
Although the better-known The Scarlet Letter (1850) still draws more attention from many high school English teachers, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s darkly enigmatic short story “The Minister’s Black Veil” (1836) touches on similar themes and provides readers with diverse avenues for exploration, discussion, and analysis. Containing dramatic, psychological, and moral elements, in addition to its literary ones, it is a complex text that can confound teachers and students alike with its range of interpretations and ambiguity. This lesson allows students in small groups to choose and focus on one interpretive element. It also accommodates different learning styles, offering both creative and analytical …
Life In The Hopeless Emptiness : The Search For Authenticity In Revolutionary Road,
2013
University of Richmond
Life In The Hopeless Emptiness : The Search For Authenticity In Revolutionary Road, Austin Marie Carter
Honors Theses
Richard Yates’ Revolutionary Road opens, appropriately, with the “final dying sounds” of the Laurel Players’ dress rehearsal of The Petrified Forest. The suburban community theater is preparing for its inaugural show, and from these opening words, it is clear that this is a novel of performance—of failed performance, specifically. Even though the Players have little theatrical experience, both they and the community have allowed themselves to begin to believe in the “brave idea” of the show (7), and they “let the movement of the play come and carry them and break like a wave” (6). Revolutionary Road is populated by …
Satori 2013,
2013
Winona State University
Satori 2013, Winona State University
Satori Literary Magazine
The Satori is a student literary publication that expresses the artistic spirit of the students of Winona State University. Student poetry, prose, and graphic art are published in the Satori every spring since 1970.
The Abandonment Of Modernity: Bare Life And The Camp In Homo Sacer And Hotel Rwanda,
2013
McGill University
The Abandonment Of Modernity: Bare Life And The Camp In Homo Sacer And Hotel Rwanda, Carolyn Ownbey
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
No abstract provided.
Checked Bags: A Litany Of Potentially Explosive Things,
2013
Saginaw Valley State University
Checked Bags: A Litany Of Potentially Explosive Things, Sherrin Frances
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
No abstract provided.
For This Earth Too Long Hauled / Later Valorization,
2013
University of Kentucky
For This Earth Too Long Hauled / Later Valorization, Bob Mulligan
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
No abstract provided.
Some Breaks Remain / While We’Re On The Topic Of The Quatrain,
2013
West Virginia University
Some Breaks Remain / While We’Re On The Topic Of The Quatrain, Andrew Calis
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
No abstract provided.
Juba’S “Black Face” / Lady Delacour’S “Mask”: Plotting Domesticity In Maria Edgeworth’S Belinda,
2013
South Dakota State University
Juba’S “Black Face” / Lady Delacour’S “Mask”: Plotting Domesticity In Maria Edgeworth’S Belinda, Sharon Smith
English Faculty Publications
In Belinda (1801), Maria Edgeworth forges parallel subplots between Juba, a former African slave residing in England, and Lady Delacour, a wealthy and dissipated London socialite, both of whom undergo a process of domestication during the course of the novel. The connection Edgeworth creates between these characters allows her to explore a version of womanhood that promotes domesticity by negotiating the boundary between domestic and public life; at the same time, however, it reveals the anxieties surrounding this understanding of womanhood. Edgeworth’s novel configures Lady Delacour as a plotting woman who bridges the public/private divide, revealing domesticity to be as …
Connecting Literature And History: Fitzgerald’S The Great Gatsby Museum Project,
2013
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Connecting Literature And History: Fitzgerald’S The Great Gatsby Museum Project, Adam Kotlarczyk
The Great Gatsby Unit
Despite mixed reviews at the time of its 1925 publication, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby has come to be one of the most widely taught American books and has become a popular candidate for the title of the “Great American Novel.” Uniquely intertwining social history, biography, and literature, the text challenges readers to understand the culture and history of the Jazz Age and to see its interrelationship with the lives and motivations of the characters, as well as with the author himself. This project encourages students to engage and work closely with one of the historical elements that influenced …
The Embodiment Of Collective Exclusion: Transcending The Borders Of Social Segregation In Harry Potter,
2013
University of Florida
The Embodiment Of Collective Exclusion: Transcending The Borders Of Social Segregation In Harry Potter, Alyssa Hunziker
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
No abstract provided.
When Students Write Literary History: Regionalism, Populism, And Literary Value In A Gold Rush Magazine,
2013
Boise State University
When Students Write Literary History: Regionalism, Populism, And Literary Value In A Gold Rush Magazine, Tara Penry
English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations
At my urban university in the Intermountain West, English majors enter a course called Literature of the American West with expectations formed from a global media culture of genre paperbacks and Hollywood films. They are skeptical about the literary value of popular forms such as westerns. Some fear that anything written for wide distribution and money must violate what Henry James called the artist's "conscience." James well knew his own answer when he asked about the nineteenth century Western writer Bret Harte some thirty years after the westerner's first success, "Has he continued to distil and dilute the wild West …
Nothing More Delicious: Food As Temptation In Children's Literature,
2013
Georgia Southern University
Nothing More Delicious: Food As Temptation In Children's Literature, Mary A. Stephens
College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations
Although many critics and theorists, including Roland Barthes, have discussed food in literature, little attention has been paid to the food-as-temptation story in children’s literature. In Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Neil Gaiman’s Coraline food is used as temptation for child protagonists, a tool to lure them into doing evil deeds or being generally mischievous. Some characters, like Alice, act as the tempters as well as the tempted, while others, like Edmund, wait passively for rescue. Coraline breaks this …
Weaver Of Allegory: John Bunyan's Use Of The Medieval Theme Of Vice And Virtue As Devotional Writer And Social Critic In The Holy War,
2013
Liberty University
Weaver Of Allegory: John Bunyan's Use Of The Medieval Theme Of Vice And Virtue As Devotional Writer And Social Critic In The Holy War, David Madsen
Masters Theses
The literary artistry of Bunyan's The Holy War is overshadowed by the longstanding popularity of his greatest-known work The Pilgrim's Progress. However, The Holy War displays an impressive intricately-woven story with several complex strands of allegorical meaning. One such strand is its emphasis on the theme of virtue and vice in literature of the Middle Ages. In The Holy War, Bunyan applies this thematic thread from the Medieval Psychomachia and morality plays to his allegory in seventeenth-century Restoration England. The present research begins with an exploration of allegory as story with emphasis on Bunyan's role as storyteller in general and …
