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Eng 1002g-031: Composition And Literature, Barry Hudek

Spring 2011

No abstract provided.

Eng 3802-002: Art And Ethics In Shakespeare, Caldwell

Spring 2011

No abstract provided.

Eng 1002g-002-017-029: Composition And Literature, Lucinda Berry

Spring 2011

No abstract provided.

Eiu 4192g-099: Film And Contemporary Society, Honors, P Boswell

Spring 2011

No abstract provided.

Eng 1001g-011: Composition And Language, Michael Kuo

Spring 2011

No abstract provided.

Orts 72, 2011, The George Macdonald Society

Orts: The George MacDonald Society Newsletter

MacDonald on BBC Television

George MacDonald received welcome publicity on BBC Television’s popular Sunday afternoon religious programme Songs of Praise on 16th January this year when I was interviewed about his life and work in a programme broadcast from Arundel in West Sussex. Songs of Praise, which celebrated its 50th anniversary this year, is centred around hymns chosen by local people and sung in a cathedral or large church, but also includes interviews with local people and others about matters of interest.

Samuel Butler's Life And Habit And The Way Of All Flesh: Traumatic Evolution, Danielle Nielsen

Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity

Samuel Butler’s seminal evolutionary text Life and Habit (1878) and semiautobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh (1903) instill in modern readers a sense of the social discord of the late-Victorian period. The more well-known novel advocates a break with Victorian morality as professed through the Anglican Church and explores the inability to exercise the free will Butler believed people experienced because of the repressive religious culture and, more interestingly, genetically inherited habits and dispositions. The novel also illustrates Butler’s belief in the need to break away from one’s past and family to obtain personal happiness. A joint reading of …

Reading About China, Andrea Kempf

Library Papers and Presentations

A review of literature centered around Chinese culture and people. Originally published in US-China Review, Winter 2011, Vol. XXXV, No. 1.

US-China Review is a publication of US-China Peoples Friendship Association, A California non-profit corporation.

[Review Of The Books: The Kenning Anthology Of Poets Theater: 1945–1985 And Poets At Play: An Anthology Of Modernist Drama], Heidi R. Bean

English Faculty Publications

Review of the books:

• The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater: 1945–1985. Edited by Kevin Killian and David Brazil. Chicago: Kenning Editions, 2010.
• Poets at Play: An Anthology of Modernist Drama. Edited by Sarah Bay-Cheng and Barbara Cole. Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna University Press, 2010.

Mirroring The Madness: Caribbean Female Development In The Works Of Elizabeth Nunez, Lauren Delli Santi

MA in English Theses

Elizabeth Nunez is a Trinidadian author, critic, and professor who explores the development of female identity within Trinidadian society through her fictional and critical writings. Nunez's article, "The Paradoxes of Belonging," questions the identity of the white creole woman in the Caribbean as she lives in exile due to rejection from her European heritage as well as Afro-Caribbean society. Nunez questions this shaping and questioning of identity through her own fictional works with the formation of her female characters. She uses her native country of Trinidad as the main setting to develop black and biracial female characters and utilizes the …

Amnesia, Lover, Christine Stewart-Nunez

English Faculty Publications

This poem appeared in Paddlefish No.5 (2011).

My Language Of Love Is Not Polish, Christine Stewart-Nunez

English Faculty Publications

This poem appeared in Paddlefish No.5 (2011).

An Exploration Of Self-Construction Through Buddhist Imagery In Maxine Hong Kingston's The Women Warrior, Rosann M. Bilek Gage

ETD Archive

Buddhist imagery in The Woman Warrior can be interpreted as part of a Buddhist journey, a journey to observe and realize the nature of the self as mutable and indefinable this concept of self becomes transcendent through the novel to the reader by a participatory process which calls for insight beyond the illusion created by the narrative itself. Through an exploration of Buddhist inspired images - silence, seated mediation, the concept of the self as observer, koan, martial arts, the role of suffering and even aspects of transmigration and time - the struggle or journey to define a self transcends …

Charles Chesnutt Racial Relation Progression Throughout Career, Lindy R. Birney

ETD Archive

Charles Chesnutt began his career with an ideology that race should not be a category in which to judge others. He felt that through literature he could help influence society and help create a less racial centric civilization. His career began with positive reviews from short story publications in multiple magazines. However, most critics and readers at the time did not know of Chesnutt's racial background. It was not until his second collection of short stories that Chesnutt revealed the truth about his heritage. After his success with The Conjure Woman and The Wife of His Youth (both published in …

Pigeonholing Without Hybridizing: The False Reduction Of Toni Morrison's Beloved, Lauren B. Molnar

ETD Archive

While Morrison's Beloved uses apparitions as symbolic association for slavery, the totality of what the incarnation of Beloved represents has been minimized by critics. Various genres are circulating in Beloved: magical realism, the historical novel, the gothic novel, and the ghost story. However, potential problems arise when attempting to pigeonhole the novel into simply one genre this is too limiting and nullifies a critic's insight by disregarding other possible dimensions within the text. Beloved moves through genres as it progresses and more attention needs to be paid to this shift. The narrative begins as a ghost story, but switches genres …

The Cyborg Griffin: A Speculative Fiction Literary Journal, Hollins University

Cyborg Griffin: a Speculative Fiction Literary Journal

Notes:

copyrighted

Hollins Student Publication

Scope: short stories, artwork, poetry, essays, and comics

Paper copies shelved in University Archives.

Narrativizing Success : Attitudes Toward African American Vernacular English In The Composition Classroom, Christopher W. Diorio

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

My thesis analyzes academia’s response to African American Vernacular English (AAVE) features in academic writing and how teachers’ responses to AAVE writing create socially constructed personas for students based on their vernacular dialect features. The results show spoken language strongly influences written language, although the range of dialect use varies from single feature usage to use of multiple features, and occurrences of use are highly localized. While instances of AAVE in academic writing are irregular, instructor response to features shows a pattern of strikethroughs and imperative statements used to correct language. As studies demonstrate such approaches to writing have negligible …

"Atlas Shrugged" And Third-Wave Feminism: An Unlikely Alliance, Paul Mcmahan

MA in English Theses

Ayn Rand and her work are often ignored by feminist critics because of Rand's personal life, her views on sex, and her vehement rejections of collectivism. Feminism has moved through overlapping waves known as first, second, and third-wave feminism. Throughout its life feminism has been marked by two strands: relational and individual. The strand of individual feminism has been more prevalent in Anglo-American feminism while relational feminism has been more predominant in European feminism. Atlas Shrugged was published six years prior to Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique , a text generally agreed upon as the starting point for second-wave feminism. …

Schwartz's "C.S. Lewis On The Final Frontier: Science And The Supernatural In The Space Trilogy" - Book Review, Gary L. Tandy

Faculty Publications - Department of English

No abstract provided.

Jeanette Winterson's Love Intervention: Rethinking The Future, In "Sex, Gender And Time In Fiction And Culture", Abigail Rine

Faculty Publications - Department of English

No abstract provided.