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Queen Of The Platform: Inventions On The Life Of Matilda Fletcher, Laura Madeline Wiseman 2011 University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Queen Of The Platform: Inventions On The Life Of Matilda Fletcher, Laura Madeline Wiseman

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This dissertation explores the 19th century lecturer, poet, and suffragist, Matilda Fletcher (1842-1909). The fifth of fourteen children from abolitionist parents, Matilda was born in Illinois. Like her brother, who served in the Civil War, Matilda imagined herself in the public sphere. After the death of her one and only child, Matilda joined the lecture circuit. She spoke to support herself and her first husband, until his death. He died of tuberculosis, a disease he contracted during his service to the Union. Her lectures were a series of talks so powerful a man named a silver mine after her. Another …


(A)Wry Views: Anamorphosis, Cervantes, And The Early Picaresque, David R. Castillo 2011 Purdue University

(A)Wry Views: Anamorphosis, Cervantes, And The Early Picaresque, David R. Castillo

Purdue University Press Books

The term anamorphosis, from the greek ana (again) and morphe (shape), designates a variety of perspective experiments that can be traced back to the artistic developments of the 1500's and 1600's. Anamorphic devices challenge viewers to experience different forms of perceptual oscillation and uncertainty. Images shift in front of the eyes of puzzled spectators as they move from the center of the representation to the margins, or from one side to the other. (A) Wry Views demonstrates that much of the literature of the Spanish Golden Age is susceptible, and indeed requires, oblique readings (as in anamorphosis).


Eng 4760-001: Studies In Professional Writing: Document Design, Roxanne Gay 2011 Eastern Illinois University

Eng 4760-001: Studies In Professional Writing: Document Design, Roxanne Gay

Spring 2011

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Eng 2009g-003: Literature And Human Values: Love, Hate, Obsession, R Beebe 2011 Eastern Illinois University

Eng 2009g-003: Literature And Human Values: Love, Hate, Obsession, R Beebe

Spring 2011

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Eng 1001g-001: Composition And Language, Lynanne Page 2011 Eastern Illinois University

Eng 1001g-001: Composition And Language, Lynanne Page

Spring 2011

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Eng 1001g-003: Composition I, William Feltt 2011 Eastern Illinois University

Eng 1001g-003: Composition I, William Feltt

Spring 2011

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Eng 1001g-007: Composition I, J Brown 2011 Eastern Illinois University

Eng 1001g-007: Composition I, J Brown

Spring 2011

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Eng 1001g-009: Composition And Language, Rachel Heicher 2011 Eastern Illinois University

Eng 1001g-009: Composition And Language, Rachel Heicher

Spring 2011

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Eng 1002g-019_030: Composition And Literature, Michael Kuo 2011 Eastern Illinois University

Eng 1002g-019_030: Composition And Literature, Michael Kuo

Spring 2011

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Eng 1002g-044: Composition And Literature, Michael Loudon 2011 Eastern Illinois University

Eng 1002g-044: Composition And Literature, Michael Loudon

Spring 2011

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Eng 1092g-095: Composition And Literature, Honors, R Beebe 2011 Eastern Illinois University

Eng 1092g-095: Composition And Literature, Honors, R Beebe

Spring 2011

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Eng 2009g-002: Literature And Human Values: Race, Age, Gender, Stephen Swords 2011 Eastern Illinois University

Eng 2009g-002: Literature And Human Values: Race, Age, Gender, Stephen Swords

Spring 2011

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Eng 2001-001, Olga Abella 2011 Eastern Illinois University

Eng 2001-001, Olga Abella

Spring 2011

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Eng 2011g-001: Literature, The Self, And The World: Fiction, Carpenter 2011 Eastern Illinois University

Eng 2011g-001: Literature, The Self, And The World: Fiction, Carpenter

Spring 2011

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Eng 2005-001: Creative Writing: Drama, Lania Knight 2011 Eastern Illinois University

Eng 2005-001: Creative Writing: Drama, Lania Knight

Spring 2011

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Eng 3001-005: Advanced Composition, Tim Engles 2011 Eastern Illinois University

Eng 3001-005: Advanced Composition, Tim Engles

Spring 2011

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Eng 3002-001: Research Writing For Literary Studies, Tim Engles 2011 Eastern Illinois University

Eng 3002-001: Research Writing For Literary Studies, Tim Engles

Spring 2011

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Eng 3009g-001: Versions Of The Dao, John Martone 2011 Eastern Illinois University

Eng 3009g-001: Versions Of The Dao, John Martone

Spring 2011

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Eng 3009g-002: Myth And Culture, Wharram 2011 Eastern Illinois University

Eng 3009g-002: Myth And Culture, Wharram

Spring 2011

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Eng 3010g-001: Literary Masterworks, Campbell 2011 Eastern Illinois University

Eng 3010g-001: Literary Masterworks, Campbell

Spring 2011

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