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From The Caped Crusader To The Dark Knight: An Application Of Robert Ray's Official And Outlaw Hero Framework To Batman, Daniel Cetina '12 2012 DePauw University

From The Caped Crusader To The Dark Knight: An Application Of Robert Ray's Official And Outlaw Hero Framework To Batman, Daniel Cetina '12

Honor Scholar Theses

No abstract provided.


My Life Was Worth Something: Biographical And Autobiographical Memoirs, Laura Bruce '12 2012 DePauw University

My Life Was Worth Something: Biographical And Autobiographical Memoirs, Laura Bruce '12

Honor Scholar Theses

No abstract provided.


From "Three Or Four Families" To The Global Screen: Jane Austen's Cinematic Popularity In The 1990s, Elaine Wiley '12 2012 DePauw University

From "Three Or Four Families" To The Global Screen: Jane Austen's Cinematic Popularity In The 1990s, Elaine Wiley '12

Honor Scholar Theses

No abstract provided.


The Cinderella Connection: Structural Resonance Of A Narrative Motif, Katie Owens '12 2012 DePauw University

The Cinderella Connection: Structural Resonance Of A Narrative Motif, Katie Owens '12

Honor Scholar Theses

The Cinderella motif is found in countless stories across the globe. This thesis explores the underlying motifs that connect the tales, attempting to pinpoint what could cause its thematic material to be consistent across variations. A sociobiological perspective will be used to supplement the traditional cultural approach to interpreting the motif, creating a novel reading and greater understanding of the story’s resonance with humans around the world. An evolutionary lens is applied to the human relationships in the stories, while a cultural lens is applied to the nonhuman motivic elements. The analysis gained through this sociobiological approach adds a scientific …


M.O.O.H. (Mirrors And Other Occupational Hazards), A Novel By C. T. Hamsford, Kyle Macy '12 2012 DePauw University

M.O.O.H. (Mirrors And Other Occupational Hazards), A Novel By C. T. Hamsford, Kyle Macy '12

Honor Scholar Theses

No abstract provided.


April 6, 2012: Mckittrick Wins Research Fellowship, Department of English 2012 Western Michigan University

April 6, 2012: Mckittrick Wins Research Fellowship, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

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Between Catastrophe And Carnival: Creolized Identities, Cityspace, And Life Narratives, Cynthia Dobbs, Daphne Lamothe, Theresa Tensuan 2012 University of the Pacific

Between Catastrophe And Carnival: Creolized Identities, Cityspace, And Life Narratives, Cynthia Dobbs, Daphne Lamothe, Theresa Tensuan

Africana Studies: Faculty Publications

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April 3, 2012: Congratulations Katherine Zlabek !, Department of English 2012 Western Michigan University

April 3, 2012: Congratulations Katherine Zlabek !, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.


April 2, 2012: New Issues Poetry & Prose, Department of English 2012 Western Michigan University

April 2, 2012: New Issues Poetry & Prose, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.


The Captivity Narrative In Octavia E. Butler's Adulthood Rites, Stacy Magedanz 2012 California State University - San Bernardino

The Captivity Narrative In Octavia E. Butler's Adulthood Rites, Stacy Magedanz

Library Faculty Publications & Presentations

Octavia E. Butler’s novel Adulthood Rites incorporates an enduring genre of American literature, the captivity narrative. By drawing on the familiar tale of a civilized protagonist held captive by brutal savages, Butler echoes traditional themes of spiritual growth and identity formation. Manipulating the trope of “going native” allows her to hold several opposed values in tension: oppression and protection, appreciation for a native culture and betrayal of it, difference and identification. A hybrid creature, Akin must bridge a variety of opposites as he matures, a theme Butler reinforces by making a hybrid structure of the captivity narrative itself.


Review Of "Replaying The Renaissance: Essays On Shakespeare, Jonson, And Others." Arnold Preussner. Kirskville, Mo: Naciketas Press, 2010., Andrew Vorder Bruegge 2012 Winthrop University

Review Of "Replaying The Renaissance: Essays On Shakespeare, Jonson, And Others." Arnold Preussner. Kirskville, Mo: Naciketas Press, 2010., Andrew Vorder Bruegge

College of Visual and Performing Arts Faculty Publications

Review of a collection of theatre reviews by the author. Reviews cover productions across North America.


Frenchifying The Frontier: Transnational Federalism In The Early West, Keri Holt 2012 Utah State University

Frenchifying The Frontier: Transnational Federalism In The Early West, Keri Holt

English Faculty Publications

The antebellum West was a hotbed of literary activism. Western presses published more than one hundred local newspapers and literary magazines from the late 1820s through the 1850s. Cities such as Vidalia, Lexington, Marietta, New Orleans, and Cincinnati were thriving literary centers, boasting numerous bookshops, libraries, theaters, and literary societies, including the Semi-Colon and Buckeye clubs of Cincinnati, where members exhibited their western pride by discussing the work of local authors while drinking beverages from buckeye bowls.1 The “West” at this time was located much closer east and south than the West we know today. It encompassed, roughly, the …


Exploring The Significance Of Social Class Identity Performance In The English Classroom: A Case Study Analysis Of A Literature Circle Discussion, Amanda Haertling Thein, Megan Guise, DeAnn Long Sloan 2012 University of Iowa

Exploring The Significance Of Social Class Identity Performance In The English Classroom: A Case Study Analysis Of A Literature Circle Discussion, Amanda Haertling Thein, Megan Guise, Deann Long Sloan

English

English educators at all levels have endeavored to understand difference in their classrooms both in terms of the content that they teach and in terms of the social and cultural identities of students in their classrooms. However, although educators have come a long way in understanding identity as it is constituted by race and gender, much work is needed for social class identity to be understood with nuance and complexity. This article explores the salience of class identity as it affects one aspect of learning in the English classroom--literary interpretation. Specifically, this article draws on data from a six-week literature …


Force Or Fraud: British Seduction Stories And The Problem Of Resistance, 1660-1760, By Toni Bowers. (Review), Rachel Carnell, Toni Bowers 2012 Cleveland State University

Force Or Fraud: British Seduction Stories And The Problem Of Resistance, 1660-1760, By Toni Bowers. (Review), Rachel Carnell, Toni Bowers

English Faculty Publications

A review of the book "Force or Fraud: British Seduction Stories and the Problem of Resistance, 1660-1760," by Toni Bowers is presented.


April 1, 2012: Poet Barbara Cully Reads This Thursday: Spring 2012 Gwen Frostic Reading Series, Department of English 2012 Western Michigan University

April 1, 2012: Poet Barbara Cully Reads This Thursday: Spring 2012 Gwen Frostic Reading Series, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.


A Victorian Christmas In Hell: Yuletide Ghosts And Necessary Pleasures In The Age Of Capital, Brandon Chitwood 2012 Marquette University

A Victorian Christmas In Hell: Yuletide Ghosts And Necessary Pleasures In The Age Of Capital, Brandon Chitwood

Dissertations (1934 -)

This dissertation explores how the cultural and literary development – one might argue, creation – of a specifically Victorian Christmas arose in response to social anxieties related to the expansion of industrial capitalism, Darwinian theories of evolution, and the increasingly problematic definition of the family during the nineteenth century in Britain. Using a Lacanian psychoanalytic lens, the dissertation explores how the liminal figure of the ghost pervades the literary narrativization of the Christmas holiday, and how such ghosts provided uncanny comforts to a reading public increasingly horrified by social, economic, and natural forces seemingly beyond their control. The dissertation argues …


A Poem And Its Painting, Jenny Lee '13 2012 Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

A Poem And Its Painting, Jenny Lee '13

2012 Spring Semester

Charles Bukowksi, one of the most controversial poets of the 20th century, loved very few things- alcohol, sex, his typewriter, and classical music. His poetry is considered down-to-earth and easily relatable, but it is still able to maintain a high level of artistic and literary merit. His skill as an artist becomes clear when his poem “Dostoevsky” is juxtaposed with Caravaggio’s famous painting, “The Sacrifice of Isaac.” This painting depicts an angel stopping Abraham from sacrificing his son, Isaac. Although these pieces come from different artistic media, painting versus the written word, their shocking similarities are a testament to …


Why A Lost Lady Is Naturalist, Judy Liu '14 2012 Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Why A Lost Lady Is Naturalist, Judy Liu '14

2012 Spring Semester

In Steven Crane’s Maggie, people survive in a downcast world, where desperate people squelch the hope of those around them. This hopeless environment reduces the characters, even the once innocent, beautiful Maggie, into a creature that is more animal than human. This situation is also seen in A Lost Lady. Instead of having happy, idealized events, both novels are realistic and often pessimistic, with characters whose descriptions and behaviors do not match up with what is expected of a human being. Willa Cather’s A Lost Lady is a naturalist text due to the dehumanization of the characters through …


The Naturalist Meaning Behind The Words, Mateusz Wojtaszek '14 2012 Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

The Naturalist Meaning Behind The Words, Mateusz Wojtaszek '14

2012 Spring Semester

Charles Darwin changed the face of biology and science when he published his groundbreaking work of scientific literature, On the Origin of Species. He proposed that all organisms are related and that a force, known as natural selection, acts on all living things. This book opened a whole new world for biologists everywhere. But it also brought about a change in the philosophy of literature, which is known as the naturalist movement. Writers began to believe that humans and animals are, in the end, the same- they are affected by similar forces and have the same instincts. Novels such as …


The Search For Pan: Difference And Morality In D. H. Lawrence’S St. Mawr And The Woman Who Rode Away, Ria Banerjee 2012 CUNY Guttman Community College

The Search For Pan: Difference And Morality In D. H. Lawrence’S St. Mawr And The Woman Who Rode Away, Ria Banerjee

Publications and Research

Both St. Mawr (1925) and The Woman Who Rode Away (1928) were written at the height of Lawrence’s fascination with New Mexico and demonstrate a continuum of thought about the position of the European and the Indian, but what is most interesting about these stories when read in conjunction is their attitude towards difference. Lou Carrington, the protagonist of St. Mawr, holds herself separate from other women of her class, from other men, from her mother and her Indian groom, finally finding a temporary peace in seeking affinity in a landscape; the woman who rides away from home and …


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