Absurdity As Resistance In Arab Literature,
2011
Hollins University
Absurdity As Resistance In Arab Literature, Melissa Hammond
Undergraduate Research Awards
Examines the use of absurdity in literature written by Arab women, specifically Beirut Fragments by Jean Said Makdisi, Sharon and My Mother-in-Law by Suad Amiry, and the short story "Thirty-One Beautiful Green Trees," by Salwa Bakr. The PDF includes the author's entry submission essay for the 2011 Undergraduate Research Awards.
"We Endure Around Truths Immemorially Posited”: A Dramaturgical Research Analysis On Brian Friel’S Linguistic-Historical Drama “Translations”,
2011
Hollins University
"We Endure Around Truths Immemorially Posited”: A Dramaturgical Research Analysis On Brian Friel’S Linguistic-Historical Drama “Translations”, Meredith Levy
Undergraduate Research Awards
A dramaturgical analysis of Friel's Translations intended to provide an overview of the play to a director staging it. The paper focuses on topics such as Friel's life, the history of Northern Ireland relevant to the play, and thematic analysis. The PDF includes the author's entry submission essay for the 2011 Undergraduate Research Awards.
Why God, Why? A Defense Of The Contradictory God In Paradise,
2011
Hollins University
Why God, Why? A Defense Of The Contradictory God In Paradise, Amber Rambharose
Undergraduate Research Awards
Examines the contradictory character of God in John Milton's Paradise Lost. The PDF includes the author's entry submission essay for the 2011 Undergraduate Research Awards.
Tools Of Horror: Servants In Gothic Novel,
2011
South Dakota State University
Tools Of Horror: Servants In Gothic Novel, Jacob Herrmann
The Journal of Undergraduate Research
The servants within 18th- and 19th-century English literature play an undoubtedly vital role within everyday life. Elizabeth Langland highlights this point in her discussion of the middle class: “Running the middle-class household, which by definition included at least one servant, was an exercise in class management, a process both inscribed and revealed in the Victorian novel” (291). In Victorian England, especially, class and rank were everything. While during the Romantic period servants were common, rising concerns for their role in the household becomes more apparent during the Victorian Era. Gothic novelists take their concerns for these domestic issues and use …
A Review Of The Surveyor's Dialogue (1618): A Critical Edition Edited By Mark Netzloff,
2011
University of Southern Mississippi
A Review Of The Surveyor's Dialogue (1618): A Critical Edition Edited By Mark Netzloff, Nicolle M. Jordan
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Gender, Genre And Slavery: The Other Rowson, Rowson's Others,
2011
Santa Clara University
Gender, Genre And Slavery: The Other Rowson, Rowson's Others, Eileen Razzari Elrod
English
Readers familiar with Susanna Rowson as the author of Charlotte Temple (1791, 1794) do not think of her as an abolitionist. But in 1805 Rowson articulated an anti-slavery position in Universal Geography, a textbook addressed to schoolgirls such as those she herself taught at the Young Ladies Academy in Boston. Condemning those who viewed sugar and slavery as a winning equation that would make them rich, Rowson denounced the “purchase and sale of human beings,” and insisted that anyone “enlightened by reason and religion” would oppose the “horrid trade,” and see it as she did, as “a disgrace to humanity.”1 …
Trade, Time, And The Calculus Of Risk In Early Pacific Travel Writing,
2011
Santa Clara University
Trade, Time, And The Calculus Of Risk In Early Pacific Travel Writing, Michelle Burnham
English
In the 2005 Common-place issue on early America and the Pacific, historians Edward Gray and Alan Taylor observe that the Atlantic studies paradigm, which moves "beyond nations and states as the defining subjects of historical understanding, turning instead to large scale processes" is also particularly "useful for understanding Pacific history" since "dis- ease, migration, trade, and war effected [sic] the Pacific in much the way they effected [sic] the Atlantic." A similar transfer of the Atlantic world model to the Pacific informs David Igler s insistence that, like the Atlantic, the Pacific world was "international before it became national."1 Igler …
Transatlantic Baggage: Expatriate Paris, Modernism, And The Apprenticeship Of Ernest Hemingway,
2011
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
Transatlantic Baggage: Expatriate Paris, Modernism, And The Apprenticeship Of Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Blair Bonds
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
“Transatlantic Baggage: Expatriate Paris, Modernism, and the Apprenticeship of Ernest Hemingway” argues that Hemingway’s expatriation and apprenticeship in modernist Paris from 1921-1925 provided an important impetus for his explorations in gender alterity. The project focuses on a critical-biographical rethinking of Hemingway’s literary development, integrating previous Hemingway biography and gender studies scholarship with new revelations from the manuscript of the forthcoming first two volumes of the Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway. An updated study of the author’s literary formation is long overdue; Charles Fenton’s The Apprenticeship of Ernest Hemingway: The Early Years (1954), for example, has served for …
Review Of "Bricks Without Straw: A Novel" By A. Tourgée,
2011
Swarthmore College
Review Of "Bricks Without Straw: A Novel" By A. Tourgée, Peter Schmidt
English Literature Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
The Authority Of Difference: Culturally Effected Realism In Whitman And Henry James,
2011
Oberlin College
The Authority Of Difference: Culturally Effected Realism In Whitman And Henry James, Lindsey Jaynes
Honors Papers
This project examines the boundaries and definitions of 19th-century American realism in relation to the critical and literary writings of Walt Whitman and Henry James.
The Sentence, The Novel, And Autobiography: The Histories Of Reading And Self In Bunyan And Rousseau,
2011
Oberlin College
The Sentence, The Novel, And Autobiography: The Histories Of Reading And Self In Bunyan And Rousseau, Samuel Rowe
Honors Papers
This study analyzes late-seventeenth and eighteenth-century autobiographies in order to address questions regarding the relationship between the history of reading and the "history of the self" in the West. More particularly, it examines the treatment of reading and textuality in John Bunyan's "Grace Abounding" and Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "Confessions" in order to suggest that the historical phenomenon Michel Foucault describes as the "emergence of Man" can be understood in terms of the rise of mass print culture and subsequent development of extensive reading practices during the eighteenth century.
The Maze,
2011
University of Central Florida
The Maze, Maria Elvira Vera Tata
HIM 1990-2015
Many cities in Latin American countries are surrounded by slums. The inhabitants of the slums are often victims of corruption, famine and murder. The victims include everyone and especially affect the most vulnerable, women and children. They are the voiceless whose stories are lost and never told. Children who lack adult support have to pull from their inner strength to rise from hostile environments, nevertheless their lives are lived with ardor and immediacy, a way of life that is built within a culturally-layered community. It is in those layers that not only pain but marvels can be found. My creative …
"Unnatural Conduct & Forced Difficulties:" Austen, Reading, And The Paradox Of The Feminine Ideal,
2011
University of Central Florida
"Unnatural Conduct & Forced Difficulties:" Austen, Reading, And The Paradox Of The Feminine Ideal, Faith B. Dickens
HIM 1990-2015
Though some scholars have maintained that Jane Austen closely adheres to the ideology of courtesy novels and conduct literature, I argue that Austen uses her knowledge of this ideology to reveal the flaws in reader assumptions about the presumed commonsensical nature of the courtesy novel and its feminine ideal. Austen is familiar with the conventions of eighteenth-century fiction, but, rather than adopting its tropes in her own work, she uses realism to parody its excesses and improbabilities; this realism then works against reader expectations and exposes paradoxes inherent in the courtesy novel and in conduct-book literature itself. In my thesis …
Don't See, Don't Speak A Collection Of Short Stories,
2011
University of Central Florida
Don't See, Don't Speak A Collection Of Short Stories, Jaroslav Kalfar
HIM 1990-2015
This short story collection follows diverse characters as they long to find their place in the chaos of modern world. As the trend of postmodern literature traces our failure to understand our lives and discover a larger context, we find that our reality is ever-changing and there is not a single constant to follow. We are disappointed by modern political systems, our lovers, and our own individual capabilities. The issue of belonging means finding a place that, both physically and mentally, provides context and meaning for our existence. The five short stories presented here examine social issues, such as immigration, …
Evangelicalism And Epiphanies Of Grace In Flannery O'Connor's Short Fiction,
2011
University of Central Florida
Evangelicalism And Epiphanies Of Grace In Flannery O'Connor's Short Fiction, Karissa A. Eubanks
HIM 1990-2015
The majority of critics interested in the religious elements of Flannery O'Connor's fiction argue that her texts illustrate her professed Catholic faith. For many of these scholars, the author's nonfiction figures predominately in their interpretations of her fiction. This thesis highlights the presence of Evangelical theology in O'Connor's short fiction by utilizing an approach that is underrepresented in scholarly examinations of her works: reading O'Connor's texts without considering the author's personal beliefs. Through this approach, the Evangelical dimensions of O'Connor's short stories become apparent. This thesis contends that each of the six short stories discussed exemplifies Evangelical theology as they …
Man Vs Beast The Human-Animal Boundary In J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series,
2011
University of Central Florida
Man Vs Beast The Human-Animal Boundary In J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series, Jessica Auz
HIM 1990-2015
In her series of seven novels, Rowling constructs a society and a framework of characterization that allows her to explore the human-animal boundary in a variety of ways. She connects her novels to the ideology of the classical and medieval periods while still acknowledging the ways that the relationship between humans and animals has changed over the years by showcasing the influence of modern popular culture on her characterization of the human-animal boundary. Through her descriptions of werewolves, Patronuses, Animagi, and Harry Potter's and Lord Voldemort's abilities to speak Parseltongue, Rowling uses classical, medieval, and modern animal symbolism to showcase …
Pecan Grove Review Volume 12,
2011
St. Mary's University
Pecan Grove Review Volume 12, St. Mary's University
Pecan Grove Review
Creative writings by students, faculty, and staff of the St. Mary's University community.
Preface: Monsters And Mormons,
2011
University of Richmond
Preface: Monsters And Mormons, Terryl Givens
English Faculty Publications
In the nineteenth century, Mormonism seemed grist for everybody's mill. Humorists like Artemus Ward and Mark Twain made hay out of polygamy; conspiracy theorists like Thomas deWitt Talmage imputed President Garfield's assassination to the Mormons; pseudo-memoirists like "Maria Ward" recounted their seduction, imprisonment, and torture at the hands of Mormon mesmerists; the Republican jump-started their political party with a promise to expunge the Mormon "relic of barbarism"; and pulp fiction writers and serious novelists alike fueled sales with stories of bloodthirsty Danites, lecherous elders, and grief maddened Mormon wives who murdered competitors.
Lyric #1,
2011
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Heaven Overland,
2011
University of Alabama at Birmingham
