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70'S "Miscegenation" And Blaxploitation: Fran Ross's Interracial Oreo, And The Super Bad Blaxploitation Hero, Corrine Esther Collins

Theses and Dissertations

Fran Ross's only novel, Oreo, explores the nature of multiethnic American identities through an empowered female character that embarks on a Theseus-like journey. Ross devotes significant portions of the novel to the introduction of Oreo's family and individual character, in order to carefully outline her interracial and multiethnic upbringing as an African-Jewish American girl. In order to understand Oreo's political and aesthetic sensibilities, this thesis explores the cinematic representations of interracial relationships during the time that Oreo was written, and argues that Fran Ross's main character is in direct conversation with the predominant 70s black movie and political culture of …

Thus Does Gaming Harden The Heart And Swallow Up Every Good Affection, Katelynn

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

The author reviews The Story of Poor Tricket the Gamester which follows the story of "Tricket", a gambler, through the loss of his wife and downfall. The author compares Tricket to the character of Mr. Wickham in Pride and Prejudice, because of the gambling habit that tarnishes his reputation.

March 13, 2013: 2013 Frostic Creative Writing Awards, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

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We Know Better And It's Time To Act Like It: Ending Written Feedback, Jacob S. Rees

Theses and Dissertations

Researchers have tried to demonstrate the effectiveness of written teacher feedback over the course of the last sixty years, and the results are inconclusive. Many studies point to improvement on subsequent drafts as evidence of student improvement; however, this only indicates students' abilities to follow directions. It is not an indication of autonomous writing ability. This study demonstrates that with proper curriculum support high school students can develop intentional transferability (the autonomous, intentional transferring of writing skills to varied rhetorical situations) throughout the course of one academic year without receiving any teacher written feedback.

Rae, Baby, Whitney Marissa Call

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is a young adult fictional novel from the perspective of Rachel Jackson, or Rae, a seventeen year-old girl with Williams Syndrome, a rare developmental disorder caused by missing genes on chromosome 7 that causes those with it to lack logical connections, yet possess very gregarious, social, and musical personalities. Think of it as an inverted form of autism. At the genesis of the novel, Rae becomes pregnant. Upon misunderstanding her mother's sugar-coated reasoning for giving the baby up for adoption, Rae spends the novel trying to find a man to marry so that, in her understanding, she may …

Fifty Years Of ‘The Barracks’, Eamon Maher

Articles

John McGahern’s first novel, The Barracks , was published 50 years ago, thus marking the arrival of one of Ireland’s most significant writers of the latter half of the20th century. The following year, 1964, saw the book awarded the prestigious Macauley Fellowship, which allowed McGahern to avail of a one-year sabbatical from his teaching duties in Scoil Eoin Baiste in Clontarf.

Translation As Katabasis And Nekyia In Seamus Heaney's "The Riverbank Field", Gerrit Van Dyk

Theses and Dissertations

Translation has been at the heart of Seamus Heaney's career. In his poem, "The Riverbank Field," from his latest collection, Human Chain, Heaney engages in metatranslation, "Ask me to translate what Loeb gives as / 'In a retired vale...a sequestered grove' / And I'll confound the Lethe in Moyola." Curiously, with a broad spectrum of classical works at his disposal, the poet chooses a particular moment in Virgil's Aeneid as an image for translation. What is it about this conversation between Aeneas and his dead father, Anchises, at the banks of the Lethe which makes it uniquely fitting for …

March 10, 2013: Wood In Savannah, Vickery In Denver, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

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“All My Money Is Spent In Buying White Gloves And Pink Persian”: Women’S Fashion In Regency England, Lindsey Puterbaugh

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

This fashion brochure describes women's fashion during the Regency era in England. This brochure was made available at the Pride and Prejudice Bicentennial Conference held at Wright State University in October, 2013.

Genes In Genesis: Evolutionary Psychology And The Bible As Literature, Steven Marx

English

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"Harry Will Be The Gentleman" : The Nature Of Men And Their Relations With Women In Regency English Culture, Meredith Ziegler

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

The author compares the depictions of young men's romantic relationships in F. Newberry's The Younger Brother with Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

Pride, My Dear, Nathaniel Berry

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

The author illustrates how Lady Catherine, a character in Pride and Prejudice, exhibits pride the publication Polite Lady; Or a Course of Female Education in a Series of Letters, from a Mother to her Daughter which contained details on proper behavior for the time period.

These Works Of Fancy, Katherine Mullins

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

The author discusses John Burton's Lectures on Female Education and Manners (1793) and compares its views on accomplishment or achievement to the "dichotomous view of achievement in Regency culture" in Pride and Prejudice.

She Heard Him With A Visible Emotion, Victoria Lane

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

The author reviews and compares the short story The Force of Love (1791) and its warning of the "desirous passion toward the opposite sex" to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

March 7, 2013: T. Geronimo Johnson Finalist For Pen/Faulker Award, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.

Saints In Gilead: Robinson's Revisionist Calvinism And John Ames As A Reconciliatory Figure In American Congregationalist History, Makayla Camille Steiner

Theses and Dissertations

A Congregationalist by choice and a Calvinist by tradition, Marilynne Robinson has a theological background that significantly influences the development of her fictional characters, especially in her Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Gilead. Much has been written about Robinson's particular brand of Calvinism—by both Robinson herself and other literary critics—which tends to be far more hopeful about grace, agency, and the beauties of the natural world than traditional interpretations allow. Little, however, has been written about how the trajectory of Congregationalism as an organizational force in the national narrative influences the decisions of and relationships between her fictional characters. Gilead depicts …

He Said, She Said: The Boy’S Own Paper And The Girl’S Own Paper, Jacqueline Boratyn

4710 English Undergraduate Research: Children’s Literature

This essay, “He Said, She Said: The Boy’s Own Paper and The Girl’s Own Paper,” analyzes the difference in newspapers geared toward children of the nineteenth century. Gender roles were prominent in England, where the newspapers were in print, and it was quite evident not only by their appearance but their content that girls and boys had two very different expectations in life. As women were expected to get an education and grow up quickly with their newly-found “power,” men were instead challenged to stay young and continue to explore life. In closing, this essay will examine The Girl’s …

March 5, 2013: De Oliveira Wins A&S Award, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

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Wuthering Heights And Jane Eyre: Deadly Versus Healing Fantasy In The Lives And Works Of The Brontes, Jeanne Moose

The Review: A Journal of Undergraduate Student Research

In lieu of an abstract, below is the article's first paragraph.

Dreams and fantasies provide humans with a means of escape from everyday reality. According to Sigmund Freud, dreams carry one "off into another world" (Strachey, 1900, 7). Their aim is to free us from our everyday life (Burdach, 1838, 499) and to provide us with the opportunity to fantasize about how we would like our lives to be or to imagine our lives as worse than they are so that we can cope with our current situation. Dreams can also serve as wish-fulfillments, or the embodiments of fear (Strachey, …

"Lestat, C'Est Moi": Anne Rice's Revelation Of Self Through The Vampire Chronicles, Kerry Kutzuba

The Review: A Journal of Undergraduate Student Research

In lieu of an abstract, below is the article's first paragraph.

To most, the word "vampire" conjures visions of Halloween, of old black and white horror movies, of Bela Lugosi whispering "I vant to suck your blood." Yet for Anne Rice, this view of the vampire is much too limiting; true, her series of five Vampire Chronicles does focus mainly around the dark hero, Lestat, who is indeed, a blood-sucking "monster." However, The Vampire Chronicles are far more than a collection of murderous escapades; they are, symbolically, a "chronicle" of the author's spiritual journey - from her concern with commenting …