Front Matter,
2012
University of South Carolina Aiken
Front Matter, Tom Mack, Ph.D.
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
Christian Influences On The Mabinogi,
2012
Campbell University
Christian Influences On The Mabinogi, Josh Pittman
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
Vladimir Nabokov’S Singular Nature Of Reality: A Close Reading Of Despair And Bend Sinister,
2012
Emory University
Vladimir Nabokov’S Singular Nature Of Reality: A Close Reading Of Despair And Bend Sinister, Hannah Kim
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
Anticipative Feminism In F. Scott Fitzgerald’S This Side Of Paradise And Flappers And Philosophers,
2012
Messiah College
Anticipative Feminism In F. Scott Fitzgerald’S This Side Of Paradise And Flappers And Philosophers, Andrew Riccardo
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
Back Matter,
2012
University of South Carolina Aiken
Back Matter, Tom Mack, Ph.D.
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
The Oswald Review Undergraduate Research And Criticism In The Discipline Of English: Volume 14 Fall 2012,
2012
University of South Carolina
The Oswald Review Undergraduate Research And Criticism In The Discipline Of English: Volume 14 Fall 2012
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
Hallowed Ground: Literature And The Encounter With God In Post-Reformtion England, C. 1550 - 1704,
2012
Wayne State University
Hallowed Ground: Literature And The Encounter With God In Post-Reformtion England, C. 1550 - 1704, Michael Thomas Martin
Wayne State University Dissertations
This dissertation examines the ways in which the encounter with God is figured in post-Reformation English writing between the years 1550 and 1704. The introduction contextualizes the ways in which individuals might encounter God within cultural and historical circumstances of the period: the gradual disappearance of the tradition of spiritual direction that accompanied the suppression of Catholicism in England during the period and the growing influence of more purely "scientific" modes of inquiry, especially after Descartes. Because of these changes, the ways the encounter with God could be experienced were also changing. The introduction also shows how developments in religious …
Bibliography For The Study Of Text And Image In Modern European Culture,
2012
University of Vienna
Bibliography For The Study Of Text And Image In Modern European Culture, Natasha Grigorian
CLCWeb Library
No abstract provided.
Zombies, Reavers, Butchers, And Actuals In Joss Whedon's Work,
2012
Marquette University
Zombies, Reavers, Butchers, And Actuals In Joss Whedon's Work, Gerry Canavan
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Obsessing About The Catholic Other: Religion And The Secularization Process In Gothic Literature,
2012
Marquette University
Obsessing About The Catholic Other: Religion And The Secularization Process In Gothic Literature, Diane Hoeveler
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Reviewed Work: Moving Bodies: Kenneth Burke At The Edges Of Language By Debra Hawhee,
2012
Loyola Marymount University
Reviewed Work: Moving Bodies: Kenneth Burke At The Edges Of Language By Debra Hawhee, Steven J. Mailloux
English Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Catharine Trotter And The Claims Of Conscience,
2012
Gettysburg College
Catharine Trotter And The Claims Of Conscience, Joanne E. Myers
English Faculty Publications
Although Catherine Trotter, later Cockburn, has begun to receive increased critical attention, the role of religious themes in her writing remains largely unexplored. A key tendency in critical accounts, in fact, has been to ally her with the secular contractarian philosophy of John Locke, whom she defended in print. Biographical evidence suggests, however, that Trotter was not unconcerned with religious questions; raised an Anglican, she converted to Catholicism in her youth and returned to the Church of England in her early thirties. Her later philosophical works remain preoccupied with theological issues, notably voluntarism. This article proposes that we can identify …
Beyond Postcolonial: Expression Of Self And Exploration Of The Infinite In The Writing Of Jorge Luis Borges,
2012
Eastern Washington University
Beyond Postcolonial: Expression Of Self And Exploration Of The Infinite In The Writing Of Jorge Luis Borges, Denise G. Stripes
EWU Masters Thesis Collection
"Studies of postcolonial literature often focus on works that pertain to the East such as African or Indian nations. Written works such as Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, and film such as Bollywood or Nollywood offer perspective for students of English Literature on the struggle of Eastern writers and filmmakers for acceptance into the canon. Some critics, such as Edna Aizenberg, have addressed the question of whether postcolonialism should include Latin American writers. In this work, I contend that Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges does have a place in postcolonial studies, although I assert that he takes postcolonialism to …
Blueprints: Poems,
2012
Macalester College
Blueprints: Poems, Dylan Garity
English Honors Projects
Each of the poems in Blueprints explores questions of creation: artistic and interpersonal, religious and scientific. As a writer whose work has often been based in performance, and thus explicitly focused on the relationship between author and text, i have long been fascinated by these questions: where does my voice end and the poem's begin? How do they influence each other? How does a creation, artistic or otherwise, shape its creator? Working on the page during this Honors Project has given me the opportunity to explore these questions in a more nuanced light. Many of the poems in Blueprints inform …
The Limits Of Self And Sovereign: Performing Failure In Nabokov's Pale Fire And Rushdie's Midnight Children,
2012
Macalester College
The Limits Of Self And Sovereign: Performing Failure In Nabokov's Pale Fire And Rushdie's Midnight Children, Michael Ferut
English Honors Projects
This project examines Vladimir Nabokov's 1962 novel, Pale Fire, and Salman Rushdie's 1981 novel, Midnight's Children, in conjunction with literary and political theorists including Mikhail Bahktin, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Achille Mbembe. Using Bahktin's assertion that the novel is "necessary incomplete," I examine how the authors' uses of irony and framing seeks but ultimately fails to achieve a complete, enduring representation of selves. By analyzing how this failure leads to the application of sovereign power - even its violent extreme, "necropower" - I argue that the novels revise the unified, teleological narrative structures of Bahktin and Benjamen. While not …
Ausencia: A Novella,
2012
Macalester College
Ausencia: A Novella, Sarah Mintz
English Honors Projects
This honors thesis is an extended work of fiction that explores the effects of trauma on two generations of Argentine Jews. When Daniel Susterman is kidnapped by the government in 1970s Buenos Aires, his wife Marcela tries desperately to find him and bring him home safely. In the US nearly 40 years later, 14 year-old Nico begins to question what prompted his parents' feud with his grandmother, challenging their policy of silence about the past. Through alternating storylines, Ausencia explores the concepts of loss and family secrets band begs the question: are some memories better left buried?
Linguistic Discrimination In Writing Assessment: How Raters React To African American “Errors,” Esl Errors, And Standard English Errors On A State-Mandated Writing Exam,
2012
Kennesaw State University
Linguistic Discrimination In Writing Assessment: How Raters React To African American “Errors,” Esl Errors, And Standard English Errors On A State-Mandated Writing Exam, David M. Johnson, Lewis Vanbrackle
Faculty Articles
Raters of Georgia''s (USA) state-mandated college-level writing exam, which is intended to ensure a minimal university-level writing competency, are trained to grade holistically when assessing these exams. A guiding principle in holistic grading is to not focus exclusively on any one aspect of writing but rather to give equal weight to style, vocabulary, mechanics, content, and development. This study details how raters react to “errors” typical of African American English writers, of ESL writers, and of standard American English writers. Using a log-linear model to generate odds ratios for comparison of essays with these error types, results indicate linguistic discrimination …
Recollecting Turbulence: Catastrophe And Sacrifice In The "History Of My Life" By Henry Darger,
2012
CUNY Graduate Center
Recollecting Turbulence: Catastrophe And Sacrifice In The "History Of My Life" By Henry Darger, Carl Watson
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This study of "The History of My Life" the 5,086 page autobiographical text by the outsider artist/author Henry Darger, uses non-linear modes of analysis, such as chaos and complexity theory, to explore the meaning of Darger's epic narrative. Beginning with the idea that turbulence, seemingly chaotic, actually comes about as a compensatory restructuring of inadequate or unstable system dynamics, this study goes on to show that, as both influence and effect, turbulence is found at every level of Darger's life and art, both in theme and structure. "My Life" is a prime example: an extended narrative describing a cataclysmic tornado, …
Reading Through Prayer: Lectio Divina And "Liturgical Reading" In Some Medieval Texts,
2012
CUNY Graduate Center
Reading Through Prayer: Lectio Divina And "Liturgical Reading" In Some Medieval Texts, Marie Schilling Grogan
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Prayer texts found in a variety of medieval genres merit more careful scrutiny from literary critical perspectives. Such attention to the verbal artifacts, prayers, that memorialize an activity of central importance in medieval culture, praying, deepens our understanding not only of the prayers and the works in which they are found, but also of the milieu that produced them. This study seeks to model such a critical turn by reading three particular works "through" the prayers that constitute, punctuate and frame them -- privileging the prayers as the starting points for the investigation of their literary and devotional settings. This …
Cold War Legacies In
Digital Editing,
2012
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Cold War Legacies In Digital Editing, Amanda A. Gailey
Department of English: Faculty Publications
The editorial methods developed during the Cold War professionalized scholarly editing and appealed to new ideas about the relationship between American academics and the government by aligning with the supposedly value-neutral goals and methods of the behavioral sciences, much to the discomfort of many humanists. Some of the implicit assumptions underlying midcentury editorial methods persist in digital editing, and may risk positioning digital editions as marginalized scholarship within the digital era, just as print scholarly editions became widely considered second-rate scholarship in the twentieth century.
