Review: Elsie’S Bird,
2012
Liberty University
Review: Elsie’S Bird, Janice A. Delong, Rachel Schwedt
All Children's Book Reviews
No abstract provided.
Joan Rivers And Queen Elizabeth,
2012
CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College
Joan Rivers And Queen Elizabeth, Marleen S. Barr
Publications and Research
No abstract provided.
Review: Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site,
2012
Liberty University
Review: Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site, Janice A. Delong, Rachel Schwedt
Ages 3-6
Character Traits: Diligence, Knowledge, Work Ethic
Review: Mercy Watson To The Rescue,
2012
Liberty University
Review: Mercy Watson To The Rescue, Janice A. Delong, Rachel Schwedt
Ages 3-6
Character Themes: Citizenship, Duty, Humor, Inquisitiveness
Review: The Berenstain Bears Show God's Love,
2012
Liberty University
Review: The Berenstain Bears Show God's Love, Janice A. Delong, Rachel Schwedt
Ages 3-6
Character Themes: Acceptance, Cooperation, Discernment, Discipline, Duty, Faith, Family love, Forgiveness, Friendliness, Friendship, Humility, Humor, Inspiration, Love, Neighborliness, Obedience, Respect, Spunk, Trustworthiness, Wisdom, Work ethic
Review: I Can Be Anything,
2012
Liberty University
Review: I Can Be Anything, Janice A. Delong, Rachel Schwedt
Ages 3-6
Character Themes: Ambition, Creativity, Enthusiasm, Imagination, Individuality, Inspiration, Joyfulness
Review: Mary Englebreit's Nursery Tales,
2012
Liberty University
Review: Mary Englebreit's Nursery Tales, Janice A. Delong, Rachel Schwedt
Ages 3-6
Character Themes: Creativity, Knowledge, Diligence, Spunk
October 6, 2012: Newberry Grad Student Conference Cfp (10/15 Deadline),
2012
Western Michigan University
October 6, 2012: Newberry Grad Student Conference Cfp (10/15 Deadline), Department Of English
Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive
No abstract provided.
I Don't Know You, But I Hate You: Building Better Relationships Through Literature And Writing,
2012
Butler University
I Don't Know You, But I Hate You: Building Better Relationships Through Literature And Writing, Brandon Warren
Articles
Brandon Warren explains how he has used books to transform his classroom community.
The Strongest Wind,
2012
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
The Strongest Wind, Vinesh Kannan '15
2012 Fall Semester
The essence of the American Dream is that it promises those who embrace it a spirit of hope that they can become anything they wish, doctors, lawyers, mothers, volunteers, or even heroes. Just as these dreams are different, the way in which Americans embrace them is just diverse. When considering the conglomeration of identities in a society such as that of America, such differences can often be strange, unfamiliar, and even harsh from a new perspective. In her short story, “Rules of the Game,” Amy Tan, a writer of Asian descent herself, prompts her audience to ponder a new perspective, …
Virginia Woolf And British Russophilia,
2012
University of Minnesota Morris
Virginia Woolf And British Russophilia, Michael Lackey
English Publications
Roberta Rubenstein convincingly demonstrates that England was infatuated with all things Russian between the years 1912 and 1922. These were some of the most formative years in the development of Woolf ’s writing and thinking, and consequently, Rubenstein argues that prominent Russian writers heavily influenced Woolf the writer and Woolf the critic. Given the degree to which Russian writers influenced Woolf in particular and England more generally, Rubenstein suggests that the Russian influence had a decisive impact in determining the shape of British Modernism.
George Saunders And The Postmodern Working Class,
2012
Trinity University
George Saunders And The Postmodern Working Class, David Rando
English Faculty Research
George Saunders peoples his stories with the losers of American history—the dispossessed, the oppressed, or merely those whom history’s winners have walked all over on their paths to glory, fame, or terrific wealth. Among other forms of marginalization, Saunders’s subject is above all the American working class. In the last twenty or more years, however, for reasons that include the fall of the Soviet Union, the impact of poststructuralist theory, conceptualizations of identity that more and more take race and gender into consideration alongside class, and the general cultural turn in class analysis, it has become increasingly difficult to write …
Writers And Critics At The Dinner Table: Tristram Shandy As Conversational Model,
2012
College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University
Writers And Critics At The Dinner Table: Tristram Shandy As Conversational Model, Cynthia N. Malone
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
William Fulford, “The Set,” And The Oxford And Cambridge Magazine,
2012
Rollins College
William Fulford, “The Set,” And The Oxford And Cambridge Magazine, Patrick C. Fleming
Faculty Publications
The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine is familiar to Victorian scholars largely because its contributors included William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones (the most famous members of the set that produced the magazine) and because Dante Gabriel Rossetti published several poems there. For the magazine’s first readers, however, its most important feature was not the identity of individual contributors but the fact that it was produced by college students. The magazine was a group project, produced not just by Morris and Burne-Jones but by their whole set. Morris’s and Burne-Jones’s contributions are well-known, and their biographies never fail to mention the magazine …
Book Review Of Margaret Rogerson, Ed. The York Mystery Plays: Performance In The City (York Medieval Press, 2011),
2012
University of Missouri-St. Louis
Book Review Of Margaret Rogerson, Ed. The York Mystery Plays: Performance In The City (York Medieval Press, 2011), Kurt Schreyer
English Department Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
The Arrest Of Caleb Williams: Unnatural Crime, Constructive Violence, And Overwhelming Terror In Late Eighteenth-Century England,
2012
Cleveland State University
The Arrest Of Caleb Williams: Unnatural Crime, Constructive Violence, And Overwhelming Terror In Late Eighteenth-Century England, Gary Dyer
English Faculty Publications
In the later eighteenth century, the twelve justices of the supreme English common law courts ruled repeatedly that blackmailing a man by threatening to accuse him of sodomitical practices constituted the capital offense of robbery; the judges focused on the overwhelming terror they claimed was unique to this threat. This legal doctrine is a covert presence in William Godwin's novel Caleb Williams (1794). Ferdinando Falkland, fearing that his secret is about to be revealed by Caleb, accuses him of having 'robbed' him, and even though Falkland's secret is literally murder, the mutual persecution and mutual terrorizing that ensue evoke the …
The Effects Of Writing Pedagogy Education On Graduate Teaching Assistants’ Approaches To Teaching Composition,
2012
George Mason University
The Effects Of Writing Pedagogy Education On Graduate Teaching Assistants’ Approaches To Teaching Composition, E. Shelley Reid, Heidi Estrem, Marcia Belcheir
English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations
The authors report the initial results from a three-year, two-site, multimodal study of the relationship between formal pedagogy education and teaching practices for graduate teaching assistants (TAs) in first-year writing. Quantitative and qualitative analysis of data from 88 multiple-choice and short-answer surveys and 41 semi-structured interviews demonstrates uneven integration of key composition pedagogy principles into TAs’ views of teaching writing; additional analysis reveals very few differences between first- and beyond-first-year TAs or between TAs at the two sites. The authors recommend that on a national level, TA writing pedagogy education be routinely and robustly extended into at least the second …
Self-Assurance And Literature,
2012
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Self-Assurance And Literature, Stephanie Wang '14
2012 Fall Semester
Recognizing our faults and failures is no voluntary task. We are cautious, almost reluctant, to do so as those shortcomings cast a shadow over the ideal lives we would like to have. Our inability to confront our problems leads us to follow the lives of characters in books and stories whose flaws are apparent to us – characters who struggle valiantly against or fall miserably to the challenges they face. From the epic Beowulf, where the god-like hero Beowulf fights glorious battles, to Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, where common folk embark on a pilgrimage, we are fascinated by …
Reputation: A Destructive Force,
2012
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Reputation: A Destructive Force, Srisha Kotlo '14
2012 Fall Semester
In Shakespeare’s play As You Like It, a soldier “[seeks] the bubble reputation even in the cannon’s mouth” (“Shakespeare”). Shakespeare portrays reputation as a bubble because just as bubbles are fragile and can pop at any moment, a man’s reputation is delicate and can be lost in an instant. Reputation and prestige are highly valued by characters in many stories and plays. In Shakespeare’s Othello, Cassio and Othello strive to preserve notable reputations while Iago intends to use reputation as a tool for manipulation, and as the play unfolds they get exceedingly desperate to defend their reputations. This …
Marital Power Plays,
2012
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Marital Power Plays, Gina Liu '14
2012 Fall Semester
William Shakespeare’s Othello describes the deterioration of the jealous Moorish general Othello’s marriage with Venetian noblewoman Desdemona. This domestic crisis, ignited by conniving manservant Iago’s careful manipulations, hinges upon one handkerchief, its significance within Othello’s and Desdemona’s courtship, and its engineered discovery in the bedchambers of Michael Cassio. Just as this small handkerchief assumes an integral role, the actions of Emilia, Iago’s wife, enable the fruition of his plots but ultimately result in his exposure and downfall; thus, Othello documents the decline of not one, but two marriages. The largest contrast between these two relationships is division of power, for …
