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Cleopatra: The Defiance Of Feminine Virtue, Gelsey Randazzo

English Senior Seminar Papers

In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay's first paragraph:

William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra is a tragic love story that interlaces empire and political responsibility with lust and licentious sexuality. Throughout the play, Cleopatra represents otherness. She is a woman in power, of darker complexion, and is the embodiment Orient Empire. Cleopatra is belittled, humiliated, and degraded throughout the entirety of the play. These harsh representations, along with her highly sexualized and manipulative nature, make it difficult for her to succeed in a patriarchal society. Originally published in 1616, shortly after the death of Queen Elizabeth, it is …

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 21, No. 1, The Sinclair Lewis Society

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter

“Theater, Community, War, and Mr. Lewis,” by Robert L. McLaughlin, Illinois State University

“Main Street to Eighth Street: Lewis House and St. Cloud’s South Side Neighborhood,” by Alex L. Ames, St. Cloud State University Foundation

“Sugar House in Barnard to Be Tribute to Sinclair Lewis,” by Katie Beth Ryan, Valley News (Vermont)

“Glenway Wescott: One of Lewis’s Contemporaries of the 1920s,” by Steve Paragamian

“Main Street Original: Roberg Wins Original Copy of Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street,” by Dave Simpkins, Sauk Centre Herald

“Lewis and the Jewish Novel,” Abstracts from the Sinclair Lewis Panel Presented at the American Literature Association …

Aesthetics And Ideology In Felicia Hemans's The Forest Sanctuary: A Biocultural Perspective, Nancy Easterlin

English Faculty Publications

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Fear And Loathing In Nineteenth-Century England: Monsters, Freaks, And Deformities And Their Influence On Romantic And Victorian Society, Valerie Falk

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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Hrotsvit's Apostolic Mission: Prefaces, Dedications, And Other Addresses To Readers, Phyllis Brown

English

The most complete manuscript of Hrotsvit's writings, Bavarian State Library Clm 14485 (the Munich codex), includes prefaces, dedications, and other addresses to readers in which Hrotsvit names herself and provides information about her education, writing practices, and purposes. If this manuscript had not survived, we might have some of her plays and poems extant in other manuscripts, but we would know little or nothing about Hrotsvit, and we would likely not be able to imagine that such a scholar and writer could have existed. By naming and identifying herself as an author and addressing readers in the first-person, not only …

Intermodality In Teaching Writing, Margarette Christensen

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This dissertation articulates a writing pedagogy based on a theory of intermodality to help writing instructors navigate the affordances and challenges of multimodal composition. Drawing from recent discoveries in neuroscience about how the brain makes meaning, I situate this pedagogy of intermodality – literally, “between the modes” – within the Rhetoric and Composition traditions of embodied rhetoric and visual/multi-sensory rhetoric. A pedagogy attuned to intermodality capitalizes on how the senses (“modes”) work together to create meaning when composing with sound, image, movement, and text. In addition to the five senses, intermodality also incorporates the cultural, social, and material aspects of …

Spirit Of The Psyche: Carl Jung's And Victor White's Influence On Flannery O'Connor's Fiction, Paul Wakeman

Dissertations (1934 -)

Flannery O'Connor's interest in depth psychology, especially as it was presented by Carl Jung and Victor White, a Dominican priest and a "founding member of the C. G. Jung Institute," plays a greater role in her fiction than has been previously noted. O'Connor found parallels with Jung's theory of the unconscious and Catholic dogma, but ultimately found White's Catholicized presentation of the unconscious, which equated the unconscious psyche with the soul, more amenable to her faith.

This research first highlights the attention O'Connor gave to Jung's and White's theories of the unconscious as found in her public lectures, her personal …

"Be-Holde The First Acte Of This Tragedy" : Generic Symbiosis And Cross-Pollination In Jacobean Drama And The Early Modern Prose Novella, Karen Ann Zyck Galbraith

Dissertations (1934 -)

The role of the early modern novella in the formation of Jacobean drama has been consistently understated in literary criticism. Source study and independent criticism of Elizabethan prose fiction, the two most common areas in which these novellas are discussed, are as quick to reference these works as they are to dismiss them. Using a primarily intertextual lens, it is the purpose of this dissertation to expose the rich relationship between early modern English, Italian, and Spanish novellas and their Jacobean dramatic counterparts. Specifically, my dissertation seeks to examine the deep thematic influences of the early modern novella on Jacobean …

An Infusion Of The Modern Spirit Into The Ancient Form:’ Textual Objects And Historical Consciousness In George Eliot’S Romola., Mattie Burket

English Faculty Publications

In George Eliot’s Romola, manuscripts represent the ability of objects to embody the past. Through various characters’ interactions with manuscripts, Eliot explores competing ways of using and valuing history, from Bardo’s obsessive collecting to Savonarola’s ideological co-optation. As the story progresses, however, manuscripts all but disappear and are replaced by printed texts. Through this depiction of technological change, Eliot advances her case for a particular kind of historical consciousness, one that engages critically—rather than fetishistically or opportunistically—with the past. Print, Eliot suggests, allows history to become widely accessible for public consumption, thereby weakening the aura of the past and allowing …

Review Of Seo-Young Chu's Do Metaphors Dream Of Literal Sleep?: A Science-Fictional Theory Of Representation, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Review Of "Jews In The Early Modern Imagination: A Scattered Nation", S. Matthew Biberman

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

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Sivka-Burka, A Is For Air, Interstate, Notes From A Northern State, Angela Sorby

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Forgiveness And Literature, Michael Fischer

English Faculty Research

Imagine a community where constructive dialogue across political, class, and other differences is rare. Threatened by disagreement, individuals cluster together with like-minded believers, often egging one another on into taking even more extreme positions, usually against their ideological opponents. Sources of information are selected to ratify existing views instead of challenging them. Shielded from external perspectives, individuals stay stuck in anger, opposition, and resentment, recycling grievances against their enemies and spinning out fantasies of revenge.

September 30, 2012: Nate Powell, Eisner Award Winner, Gives Talk At Wmu On October 4, 2012, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

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September 25, 2012: Gazette And Mlive Feature Philip Levine Visit, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

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September 24, 2012 Eagleton Lecture At Notre Dame (9/28), Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

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September 22, 2012: Fall 2012 Gwen Frostic Reading Series, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

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September 21, 2012: Grad Student Journal Opportunity, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

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September 19, 2012: Visiting Writer T. Geronimo Johnson On Wwno, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

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September 15, 2012: Fall Keynote Talk Features Perryman-Clark, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

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