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Why Will Thou Bind Thy Lovely Brow?, Jessica Batten 2013 Wright State University - Main Campus

Why Will Thou Bind Thy Lovely Brow?, Jessica Batten

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

The author reviews a two-volume book of poetry by Scottish poet James Hay Beattie, The Minstrel: in Two Books.


“But The Clothes, The Wedding Clothes!”: Fashionable Bridal Attire In Jane Austen’S Pride And Prejudice, Jessie Nastasi 2013 Wright State University - Main Campus

“But The Clothes, The Wedding Clothes!”: Fashionable Bridal Attire In Jane Austen’S Pride And Prejudice, Jessie Nastasi

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

The author discusses ladies fashion during the Regency era as it is described in both Pride and Prejudice and the article from an 1816 issue of La Belle Assemblee, Dresses of Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte.


Is There A New Kind Of Hero In Comics?, Frank Bramlett 2013 University of Nebraska at Omaha

Is There A New Kind Of Hero In Comics?, Frank Bramlett

English Faculty Publications

As a linguist, I am professionally devoted to the scientific study of language. But I have a confession: I used to be a literature major. As an undergraduate, I studied in a traditional English department, and I only accidentally found out about linguistics when I took a grammar class. In those literature courses, professors lectured about the different kinds of hero that have been discussed for thousands of years. In Greece, Aristotle wrote about the hero, and in the Middle Ages, the hero was construed differently. In the twentieth century, the notion of the anti-hero became possible, and writers in …


“I Am Trayvon Martin”: Visual Culture, Trauma, And The Incarceration Crisis, Amy Abugo Ongiri 2013 University of Florida, Dept. of English

“I Am Trayvon Martin”: Visual Culture, Trauma, And The Incarceration Crisis, Amy Abugo Ongiri

Center for the Study of Race & Race Relations: Lectures and Events

Political scientist Cathy Cohen has characterized the post-Reagan era African American community as caught in “a period of contradictions and advanced marginalization.” Cohen notes that while African American participation in electoral politics has grown exponentially since the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, African Americans are increasingly marginalized economically as well as socially. One of the major factors in social marginalization is what African American Studies scholar Richard Iton has characterized as “hyperincarceration.” This presentation will explore the apparently contradictory conditions in the U.S. that created the possibility of both Trayvon Martin’s murder and the triumph of Black …


The Sweat Of Their Brow, Dr. Kristi Bell 2013 Brigham Young University

The Sweat Of Their Brow, Dr. Kristi Bell

Journal of Undergraduate Research

I received a MEG award that was disbursed Fall Semester 2009. It was a three semester program running through Fall Semester 2010. Because of leftover funds I have been able to do additional work through Summer 2011.


"Dancing Is Of More Importance To A Gentleman Than At First It Appears", Dena Railsback 2013 Wright State University - Main Campus

"Dancing Is Of More Importance To A Gentleman Than At First It Appears", Dena Railsback

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

The author reviews a letter from the Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century (1815), and compares the importance of dancing to gentleman in this letter to the dancing of gentlemen at the Meryton Ball in Pride and Prejudice.


Virtuosity On Virtu(E)Osity And Theatrical Community, Kim Solga 2013 The University of Western Ontario

Virtuosity On Virtu(E)Osity And Theatrical Community, Kim Solga

Department of English Publications

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March 17, 2013: Prose Writer Davy Rothbart Reads This Friday: Spring 2013 Gwen Frostic Reading Series, Department of English 2013 Western Michigan University

March 17, 2013: Prose Writer Davy Rothbart Reads This Friday: Spring 2013 Gwen Frostic Reading Series, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

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March 15, 2013: Limón Lecture Concludes Scholarly Speakers Series, Department of English 2013 Western Michigan University

March 15, 2013: Limón Lecture Concludes Scholarly Speakers Series, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

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Windows And Mirrors: Selecting Multiethnic Young Adult Fiction To Increase Adolescent Engagement With Academic And Cultural Literacy, Caryn Joan Lefaga Lesuma 2013 Brigham Young University - Provo

Windows And Mirrors: Selecting Multiethnic Young Adult Fiction To Increase Adolescent Engagement With Academic And Cultural Literacy, Caryn Joan Lefaga Lesuma

Theses and Dissertations

Current scholarship in literacy education underscores the inefficacy of standardized education in public schools, particularly for minority students. At the same time, a longstanding lack of understanding between the various culture groups that live in the United States often results in minority groups that are either stereotyped, misunderstood, or viewed as Other. Both of these issues can be traced to the literature that students read in school, which focuses on "classic" literature—often synonymous with "white" literature—that excludes minority narratives. While minorities struggle more with "academic literacy" (the ability to read and write in an active, reflective manner), there is also …


Baumrind's Authoritative Parenting Style: A Model For Creating Autonomous Writers, Rachel Page Payne 2013 Brigham Young University - Provo

Baumrind's Authoritative Parenting Style: A Model For Creating Autonomous Writers, Rachel Page Payne

Theses and Dissertations

Though Quintilian introduced the term in loco parentis in his Institutio Oratoria by suggesting that teachers think of themselves as parents of a student's mind, composition scholars have let parenting as a metaphor for teaching fall by the wayside in recent discussions of classroom authority. Podis and Podis have recently revived the term, though, and investigated the ways writing teachers enact Lakoff's "Strict Father" and "Nurturing Mother" authority models. Unfortunately, their treatment of these two opposite authority styles reduces classroom authority styles to a mutually exclusive binary of two less than satisfactory options. I propose clinical and developmental psychologist Diana …


There Are But Few Things Which Can Afford Us Greater Pleasure Or Improvements, Christine Haney 2013 Wright State

There Are But Few Things Which Can Afford Us Greater Pleasure Or Improvements, Christine Haney

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

The author reviews New and elegant amusements for the ladies of Great Britain (1722) which will guide women in "sciences" and compares it to Pride and Prejudice.


I’Ll Tune My Pipe To Playful Notes . . . And Hail The One I Love: “Kate Of Aberdeen” In Relation To Mr. Bingley’S Sentiments In Pride And Prejudice, Laura Gray 2013 Wright State University - Main Campus

I’Ll Tune My Pipe To Playful Notes . . . And Hail The One I Love: “Kate Of Aberdeen” In Relation To Mr. Bingley’S Sentiments In Pride And Prejudice, Laura Gray

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

The author uses the poem Kate of Aberdeen (1777) by John Cunningham to explain Mr Bingley's interest in Jane Bennet in Pride and Prejudice.


Life Is Really Too Short: Wasting Time With Regency Entertainment, Tyler Andrew Ozborn 2013 Wright State University - Main Campus

Life Is Really Too Short: Wasting Time With Regency Entertainment, Tyler Andrew Ozborn

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

The author compares Thoughts on Card-Playing (1791), which discusses the dangers of card-playing, to the presence of card-playing in Pride and Prejudice.


The Most Elegant Collateral Embellishment Of Taste, Katelin Davis 2013 Wright State University - Main Campus

The Most Elegant Collateral Embellishment Of Taste, Katelin Davis

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

The author reviews A Treatise on the Art of Dancing: "The Most Elegant Collateral Embellishment of Taste" from A Treatise on the Art of Dancing (1722) by Giovanni Andrea Gallini.


The Importance Of Practice, Anna Belle Bacon 2013 Wright State University - Main Campus

The Importance Of Practice, Anna Belle Bacon

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

The author reviews Barclay Dun's A Translation of Nine of the Most Fashionable Quadrilles, Consisting of FitftyFrench Country Dances, as performed in England and Scotland (1818), which is an instructional guide to period dances as well as an overview to the conduct of dancing as well.


"From Every Window There Were Beauties To Be Seen": The Tourism Of Great Houses, Caitlyn McCollum 2013 Wright State University - Main Campus

"From Every Window There Were Beauties To Be Seen": The Tourism Of Great Houses, Caitlyn Mccollum

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

The author discusses The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, in a collections of the most interesting and picturesque views as a of guide to homes and grounds of the upper class, clergy, and nobility. The author uses this book to draw a comparison to Austen's description of Mr. Darcy's home in Pride and Prejudice.


Attract Notice By The Copiousness Of His Talk..., Anna Jobert 2013 Wright State University - Main Campus

Attract Notice By The Copiousness Of His Talk..., Anna Jobert

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

The author reviews an article in an issue of Samuel Johnson's The Idler, and compares the main character "Gelaleddin" to Mr. Collins from Pride and Prejudice.


Towards A Consummated Life: Kenneth Burke's Concept Of Consummation As Critical Conversation And Catharsis, Cherise Marie Bacalski 2013 Brigham Young University - Provo

Towards A Consummated Life: Kenneth Burke's Concept Of Consummation As Critical Conversation And Catharsis, Cherise Marie Bacalski

Theses and Dissertations

Consummation was the one term about which Kenneth Burke wasn't particularly long-winded - odd considering his claim that it was the apex of his theory of form. Perhaps Burke never explained exactly what consummation was because he himself was never clear on the subject, as he told John Woodcock in an interview toward the end of his career. Burke began conceptualizing his theory of form early on - in his 20s - and published it in his first critical book, Counter-Statement, in 1931. At that time, Burke's theory of form had already taken one evolutionary step - from self-expression, with …


Nostalgia: Movement And Stasis In Contemporary American Poetry, Rebecca Cecilia Hay 2013 Brigham Young University - Provo

Nostalgia: Movement And Stasis In Contemporary American Poetry, Rebecca Cecilia Hay

Theses and Dissertations

A remarkable amount of award-winning contemporary American poetry incorporates nostalgia as a prominent idea discussed. This poetry appears to use nostalgia as means to a greater end. In other words, nostalgia, while a dominant theme within different works, is more a way to treat concepts such as representation and memory, more so than the work being an actual commentary on nostalgia itself. Given the poetry's predominant concept, it seems poets such as Carl Dennis, Natasha Trethewey and Ted Kooser could be representative of a literary historical moment. This moment is one which comments heavily on the past's presence within the …


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