Queen Of The Platform: Inventions On The Life Of Matilda Fletcher,
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,
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,
2011
Eastern Illinois University
Eng 4760-001: Studies In Professional Writing: Document Design, Roxanne Gay
Spring 2011
No abstract provided.
Eng 2009g-003: Literature And Human Values: Love, Hate, Obsession,
2011
Eastern Illinois University
Eng 2009g-003: Literature And Human Values: Love, Hate, Obsession, R Beebe
Spring 2011
No abstract provided.
Eng 1001g-001: Composition And Language,
2011
Eastern Illinois University
Eng 1001g-001: Composition And Language, Lynanne Page
Spring 2011
No abstract provided.
Eng 1001g-003: Composition I,
2011
Eastern Illinois University
Eng 1001g-007: Composition I,
2011
Eastern Illinois University
Eng 1001g-009: Composition And Language,
2011
Eastern Illinois University
Eng 1001g-009: Composition And Language, Rachel Heicher
Spring 2011
No abstract provided.
Eng 1002g-019_030: Composition And Literature,
2011
Eastern Illinois University
Eng 1002g-019_030: Composition And Literature, Michael Kuo
Spring 2011
No abstract provided.
Eng 1002g-044: Composition And Literature,
2011
Eastern Illinois University
Eng 1002g-044: Composition And Literature, Michael Loudon
Spring 2011
No abstract provided.
Eng 1092g-095: Composition And Literature, Honors,
2011
Eastern Illinois University
Eng 1092g-095: Composition And Literature, Honors, R Beebe
Spring 2011
No abstract provided.
Eng 2009g-002: Literature And Human Values: Race, Age, Gender,
2011
Eastern Illinois University
Eng 2009g-002: Literature And Human Values: Race, Age, Gender, Stephen Swords
Spring 2011
No abstract provided.
Eng 2001-001,
2011
Eastern Illinois University
Eng 2011g-001: Literature, The Self, And The World: Fiction,
2011
Eastern Illinois University
Eng 2011g-001: Literature, The Self, And The World: Fiction, Carpenter
Spring 2011
No abstract provided.
Eng 2005-001: Creative Writing: Drama,
2011
Eastern Illinois University
Eng 3001-005: Advanced Composition,
2011
Eastern Illinois University
Eng 3002-001: Research Writing For Literary Studies,
2011
Eastern Illinois University
Eng 3002-001: Research Writing For Literary Studies, Tim Engles
Spring 2011
No abstract provided.
Eng 3009g-001: Versions Of The Dao,
2011
Eastern Illinois University
Eng 3009g-002: Myth And Culture,
2011
Eastern Illinois University
Eng 3010g-001: Literary Masterworks,
2011
Eastern Illinois University
