What's Love Got To Do With It?: Family, Sex, And Domestic Violence In Contemporary Irish Women's Fiction,
2011
Mary Immaculate College, Ireland
What's Love Got To Do With It?: Family, Sex, And Domestic Violence In Contemporary Irish Women's Fiction, Mary Ryan
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
No abstract provided.
Book Review: Women And Ireland As Beckett's Lost Others,
2011
Cleveland State University
Book Review: Women And Ireland As Beckett's Lost Others, Jennifer Jeffers
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Transatlantic Print Culture, 1880–1940: Emerging Media, Emerging Modernisms [Review],
2011
Trinity University
Transatlantic Print Culture, 1880–1940: Emerging Media, Emerging Modernisms [Review], David P. Rando
English Faculty Research
It appears that the moderns are catching up to the Victorians at last. Ann Ardis and Patrick Collier’s edited volume, Transatlantic Print Culture, 1880–1940, represents the most forceful statement to date about the possibilities and opportunities for print culture studies in the modernist period. While the study of print culture has flourished in Victorian studies for decades, particularly through the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals and its journal, Victorian Periodicals Review, modernist studies has been slower to embrace print culture studies. There are many historical and theoretical reasons for this, but even field nomenclature may make a difference. “Victorian studies” …
Front Matter,
2011
Brigham Young University
Preface,
2011
Brigham Young University
Preface, Brett C. Mcinelly
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
Volume 2 of Religion in the Age of Enlightenment brings together the work of both established and up-and-coming scholars from a variety of fields of study and helps to solidify RAE's thematic and methodological scope. Looked at collectively, their work spans more than a century, from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries, and the varied topics and approaches demonstrate the rich possibilities for the study of religion during the Enlightenment.
Allegiance, Sympathy, And History: The Catholic Loyalties Of Alexander Pope,
2011
Brigham Young University
Allegiance, Sympathy, And History: The Catholic Loyalties Of Alexander Pope, Steven Stryer
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
The charges leveled by John Dennis against the young author of An Essay on Criticism are characteristically hyperbolic: Alexander Pope is disparaged as a historical partisan whose loyalties (to the Catholics James II and his son the Pretender) and antipathies (to the Protestants Charles II and William III) are determined entirely by his allegiance to the Church of Rome. Dennis claims that in comparing the classical writers to absolute monarchs, Pope had hinted his approval of James's suspension of the operation of the penal laws against Catholics in defiance of Parliament-in contrast with his explicit rejection later in the poem …
"Improving The Present Moment": John Wesley's Use Of The Arminian Magazine In Raising Early Methodist Awareness And Understanding Of National Issues (January 1778-February 1791),
2011
Brigham Young University
"Improving The Present Moment": John Wesley's Use Of The Arminian Magazine In Raising Early Methodist Awareness And Understanding Of National Issues (January 1778-February 1791), Barbara Prosser
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
In March 1747, when defending the Methodist practice of lay preaching, John Wesley announced: "I am not careful for what may be an hundred years hence. He who governed the world before I was born shall take care of it likewise when I am dead. My part is to improve the present moment:'' The same thought was apparent thirty years later when counseling Ann Bolton: "Whatever our past experience has been, we are now more or less acceptable to God as we more or less improve the present moment."
Review Of Ostovich, Helen, Holder S. Syme, And Andrew Griffin, Eds. "Locating The Queen’S Men, 1583-1603." Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009.,
2011
Winthrop University
Review Of Ostovich, Helen, Holder S. Syme, And Andrew Griffin, Eds. "Locating The Queen’S Men, 1583-1603." Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009., Andrew Vorder Bruegge
College of Visual and Performing Arts Faculty Publications
Review of an anthology of essays that discuss production and touring practices in England during the late sixteenth century. It updates research conducted in the 1990s by Scott McMillan and Sally B. MacLean.
How Educators Use Policy Documents: A Misunderstood Relationship,
2011
Boise State University
How Educators Use Policy Documents: A Misunderstood Relationship, James E. Fredricksen
English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations
As an English educator and co-director of a National Writing Project site, I have had many conversations with colleagues and educators who are anxious about the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) being adopted in so many states throughout the nation. The anxiety comes in many forms, ranging from "What do the CCSS mean for what and how I have to teach?" to "What does the drafting and implementation processes of the CCSS suggest for how people view me as a professional?" to "Are the CCSS really any good?" and so on. As I listen to all the people I work …
Intertwinings Of Death And Desire In Michele Soavi’S Dellamorte Dellamore,
2011
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Intertwinings Of Death And Desire In Michele Soavi’S Dellamorte Dellamore, Douglas Keesey
English
This article engages in an in-depth discussion of Michele Soavi's Dellamorte Dellamore/Cemetery Man, a 1993 film based on a bestselling novel and on Italy's most popular comic-book series (Dylan Dog). Close analysis reveals that, rather than being just another forgettable splatter movie or ridiculous horror comedy, this zombie thriller is a film of great psychosexual complexity, along the lines of Edgar Allan Poe's 'Ligeia' (1838) and Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958). In Dellamorte Dellamore, horror becomes the vehicle for the female character's struggle with guilt over infidelity to her deceased husband, with fear of phallic sexuality and with masochistic …
La Concencia Mestiza Materialized: A Study Of Judith Ortiz Cofer’S Silent Dancing,
2011
Bethel University
La Concencia Mestiza Materialized: A Study Of Judith Ortiz Cofer’S Silent Dancing, Megan Frutiger
Honors Student Works
In her creative nonfiction memoir Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood, Judith Ortiz Cofer demonstrates one way of dealing with questions of bicultural identity. This creative work, Ortiz Cofer says, arose out of necessity, out of “a need to study [herself] and [her] life in retrospect; to understand what people and events formed [her]” (Cofer 11). Ortiz Cofer felt that she needed to revisit the stories of her childhood and remember the people who told them. It was listening to the stories her grandmother told “under the mango tree that [she] first began to feel the …
The Un-Human Femme Bisclavret: Monstrous Misuses Of The Disunion Between Secular And Religious Culture In Marie De France’S 'Bisclavret',
2011
Bethel University
The Un-Human Femme Bisclavret: Monstrous Misuses Of The Disunion Between Secular And Religious Culture In Marie De France’S 'Bisclavret', Santidad Bennett
Honors Student Works
While much of the recent scholarship on Bisclavret has focused on its unusual treatment of the werewolf motif, the more telling character of the story is actually the wife whose abuse of language subverts the major cultural constructs of which she is a part and recasts her as the true monster of the story. Freeman notices the significance of the wife but focuses primarily on the subversion of secular courtly culture. Meanwhile, Stypczynksi and Bruckner are more interested in the religious atmosphere and tone of the short lai. While each approach is useful in its own right, this paper puts …
English Department Newsletter 2011,
2011
University of Southern Maine
English Department Newsletter 2011, English Department, University Of Southern Maine
Department of English Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Miss Emily Grierson: A Thorn In Jefferson’S Bed,
2011
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Miss Emily Grierson: A Thorn In Jefferson’S Bed, Emily Camras
2011 Spring Semester
Judgment, pressure, or failure to live up to a name - although expectations may be inevitable, they often have tragic consequences. In William Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily,” a Southern antebellum town holds many expectations for its Grierson family. The narrator relates Jefferson’s changing regard for Miss Emily between her father’s death, lover’s disappearance, and final seclusion, and also assesses whether she behaves how a legendary Grierson “should”. The town’s judgmental, unrealistic expectations cause Miss Emily’s social exclusion and her descent into a solitary, crazed condition.
The Realization Of The Romantic In "Adonais",
2011
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
The Realization Of The Romantic In "Adonais", Grace Cao
2011 Spring Semester
In every life, there comes a moment when one wonders if a greater meaning exists beyond this mundane, often sordid world. Is man merely the sum of countless inane struggles, or is there a loftier purpose towards which he can strive? Romanticism is an attempt to answer this question, and is shaped by the belief that there is indeed a more perfect plane which humans yearn to reach. Few works embody the spirit of this movement as well as Percy Bysshe Shelley’s 1821 elegy for John Keats, “Adonais.” By alluding to a Platonic world, idealizing nature, and expressing an attraction …
Escaping To The Sickbed: Illness In Frankenstein,
2011
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Escaping To The Sickbed: Illness In Frankenstein, Eleanor Cory '12
2011 Spring Semester
Illness tends to lead to separation from society. Becoming sick has always been a reason for someone to stay home to avoid spreading the disease to other people, and because continuing to work rather than resting may cause the one’s condition to get worse or, at the very least, take more time to improve. Throughout Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, the main character falls sick very often, regularly separating himself from society. His deteriorating physical state appears to be linked to the monster he creates, as he usually succumbs to illness immediately after a traumatizing confrontation with it. The character of …
Postmodernism Meets The Mopey Prince: Comparing The Ideologies Of Hamlet And Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead,
2011
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Postmodernism Meets The Mopey Prince: Comparing The Ideologies Of Hamlet And Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, Sarah Weitekamp
2011 Spring Semester
It is often said that Hamlet’s tragic flaw was indecisiveness. Centuries of scholars and high school students have imperiously pointed at Hamlet, prescribing an oh-so-obvious solution to our dithering hero’s problems: just do something! Yet in his play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Tom Stoppard takes the opposite tack, introducing us to characters who are even more actionless and aimless than our troubled Danish prince. Stoppard’s main characters are an obvious homage to Vladimir and Estragon in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot: purely Postmodern men—clueless, directionless, and passionless. By juxtaposing Beckett-like uncertainty with the Bard’s iconic characters and setting, …
"The Stuff Of Thought" : Virginia Woolf's Object Lessons,
2011
University of Richmond
"The Stuff Of Thought" : Virginia Woolf's Object Lessons, Sam Mitchell
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Reasonable Conversions: Susanna Rowan's Mentoria And Conversion Narratives For Young Readers,
2011
Texas A & M University - Commerce
Reasonable Conversions: Susanna Rowan's Mentoria And Conversion Narratives For Young Readers, Karen Roggenkamp
Faculty Publications
Though not well known, Rowson's Mentoria-a curious conglomeration of thematically-related pieces from multiple genres, including the essay, epistolary novel, conduct book, and fairy tale-offers particularly fertile ground for thinking about the nexus between eighteenth-century didactic books and earlier works for young readers.2 At the heart of Mentoria is a series of letters describing girls who yield, with dire and frequently deadly consequences, to the passionate pleas of male suitors.3 Fallen women populate Rowson's world, and scholars have traditionally read Mentoria within the familiar bounds of the eighteenth-century seduction novel.4 However, Rowson's creation transforms the older tradition of didactic, child-centered conversion …
Performing The Audience: Constructing Playgoing In Early Modern Drama,
2011
Marquette University
Performing The Audience: Constructing Playgoing In Early Modern Drama, Eric Dunnum
Dissertations (1934 -)
This dissertation argues that early modern playwrights used metadrama to construct the experience and concept of playgoing for their audiences. By staging playgoing in front of playgoers, playwrights sought to teach their audiences how to attend a play and how to react to a performance. This type of instruction was possible, and perhaps necessary, because in early modern London attending a professionally produced play with thousands of other playgoers was a genuinely new cultural activity, so no established tradition of playgoing existed. Thus, playwrights throughout the era from John Lyly to Richard Brome attempted to invent playgoing through their performances. …
