Decolonizing The Modernist Mind,
2012
Wright State University - Main Campus
Decolonizing The Modernist Mind, Alpana Sharma
English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications
Cataclysmic changes in the world require new accommodations to it, new ways of articulating the strangeness that abounds. Literary modernism of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries- the main period under study in this special issue-sought precisely to capture that sense of strangeness, matching it and expressing it with new aesthetic forms, styles, and subject matter. But these early forms of expression which delineated the contours of a startling new reality-the technologies of photography and cinema, scientific discoveries, new modes of transportation, global war, postwar trauma, new class and gender formations, the birth of the unconscious, the erosion of an …
A Look At Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders: Turn The Page And Celebrate The New Roles Of Women In Eighteenth-Century England,
2012
St. John Fisher University
A Look At Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders: Turn The Page And Celebrate The New Roles Of Women In Eighteenth-Century England, Ryan Kramer
English Senior Seminar Papers
In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay's first paragraph.
Throughout Daniel Defoe’s novel Moll Flanders, the title character devotes her entire life to achieving wealth and social status. It is clear that Moll achieves her desires of being a gentlewoman, yet her identity is constantly changing throughout the novel. She is affected by every person and experience she comes across questioning whether or not her lifestyle and decisions were the right ones, and often debate Defoe’s ambiguous description of his title character that represents a woman different than any other woman in the traditional norms of eighteenth-century England. …
Class Structure In Great Expectations: Dictate Your Own Fate,
2012
St. John Fisher University
Class Structure In Great Expectations: Dictate Your Own Fate, Alicia Upham
English Senior Seminar Papers
In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay's first paragraph.
The formation of class structure is often dependent upon a set of criteria that reveals divisions between individuals. The old model of class ranking within England during the nineteenth century favored a rigid structure reliant on occupational differences. A new model began to take shape during the end of the century that relied on the morality and character of individuals. The new model provided the opportunity for mobility and achievement of new roles through self-determination. Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations portrays both models of class structure within the nineteenth century …
Dismembering The Master Narrative: Michelle Cliff’S Attempt To Rewrite Jamaican History In Abeng,
2012
St. John Fisher University
Dismembering The Master Narrative: Michelle Cliff’S Attempt To Rewrite Jamaican History In Abeng, Marissa Petta
English Senior Seminar Papers
In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay's first paragraph.
Abeng by Michelle Cliff is a coming- of-age novel set in colonial Jamaica. The heroine, Clare, struggles with defining herself across the lines of gender, race, class, and sexuality. Intertwined with Clare’s journey to find herself is a large discussion of Jamaica’s history as a colonial territory as well as the permanent effects of English colonization on the island. Cliff recognizes that the typical European history of Jamaica is told through the eyes of superior white male colonizers and it most commonly shows that all things native and/or black …
A Memoir Of Uncertainty:Tim O’Brien’S Vietnam Narratives,
2012
St. John Fisher University
A Memoir Of Uncertainty:Tim O’Brien’S Vietnam Narratives, Mitchell Bailey
English Senior Seminar Papers
In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay's first paragraph.
Uncertainty is human. It is part of our nature. As unique individuals, we see the world differently than those around us, sometimes subtly; in other cases fundamentally, different. Uncertainty deals with the way we understand and interpret information; experiences, education, emotions, and biases affect comprehension. Uncertainty displays itself in the decision-making process. (Cohen 40) Humans react to provocations much differently than others. Decisions are based on the nature of these internal and external impressions. All warfare is uncertain because it is human based. As humans, it is our very …
Notes On Contributors,
2012
University of Northern Iowa
Reading Aloud With Children Twelve & Older,
2012
Bank Street College of Education
Reading Aloud With Children Twelve & Older, Children's Book Committee. Bank Street College Of Education
The Center for Children's Literature
The Children's Book Committee's list of great read alouds for older children. Includes selection considerations in choosing read-aloud titles and hints for reading aloud.
Reintegrating Human And Nature: Modern Sentimental Ecology In Rachel Carson And Barbara Kingsolver,
2012
Sacred Heart University
Reintegrating Human And Nature: Modern Sentimental Ecology In Rachel Carson And Barbara Kingsolver, Richard M. Magee
English Faculty Publications
Rachel Carson and Barbara Kingsolver were both trained as scientists and may be expected to embrace the rationalist, mechanical view of nature as something separate from, and perhaps even inferior to, the world of humans. Yet these two women both promoted a more complex approach to modernism's scientific paradigm in which nature is not merely a separate entity for dispassionate study but also an integral part of the human community. Both women display in their rhetorical choices a keen understanding of the language of community and interconnection, and their language and writing styles constantly promote the reintegration of humans and …
Imaginative Distortion In Robert Olen Butler's "Walter Raleigh" (Severance): The Fantasy Of Triangular Love,
2012
University of Nantes
Imaginative Distortion In Robert Olen Butler's "Walter Raleigh" (Severance): The Fantasy Of Triangular Love, Alice Clark
Short Story
No abstract provided.
Bob Billing's Crisis,
2012
University of Pardubice
Back Cover,
2012
University of Northern Iowa
50 Word Stories,
2012
University of Northern Iowa
Wounded Women, Varied Voice,
2012
Bridgewater State University
Wounded Women, Varied Voice, Kathryn Johnston
Undergraduate Review
Daphne du Maurier and Sylvia Plath both use voice as a tool in their respective pieces, “La Sainte-Vierge” and “Lesbos.” Through the implementation of varied voices, these women convey female interiors. Du Maurier’s use of a third-person narrative voice in her short story “La Sainte-Vierge” allows her to comment on the lives of the main characters through the eyes of an outsider. Du Maurier’s outsider reveals a naïve and delusional housewife, unhealthy in her denial within a failing relationship. Contrasting with du Maurier’s Marie is Plath’s first-person voice of a scorned, dissatisfied housewife in her poem, “Lesbos.” Plath’s use of …
The Tornado Siren,
2012
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Last Laugh,
2012
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Maelstrom,
2012
University of Alabama at Birmingham
King's Highway,
2012
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Straphangers,
2012
University of Alabama at Birmingham
A Cabbage Farmer,
2012
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Felines,
2012
University of Alabama at Birmingham
