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Bravery, Honor, And Loyalty As Morals In Beowulf, Eleanor Cory '12

2010 Fall Semester

Since it originated in oral tradition, the epic Beowulf has no known author. It does, however, serve as a representation of the Anglo-Saxon culture it originates from. As a work of art, it also serves its purpose of moral instruction, today serving as a demonstration of what values were important to the Anglo-Saxon people. Especially seen through the characters of Beowulf and Wiglaf, the poem Beowulf illustrates three important morals of its time: bravery, honor, and loyalty.

Art: A Handbook For Morality, Wendy Bindeman '12

2010 Fall Semester

Morals begin with parental instructions and pure bribery, such as promising playtime if children follow instructions and putting them in time-out if they act out inappropriately. However, over time, this outwardly enforced moral code must become internalized for a person to truly be ethical. Internalization happens when a person develops a sense of boundaries and behavior to live by without prompting. This process of creating standards draws on one’s experiences and knowledge of how the world views and responds to certain actions. The moral lessons present in art, which everyone is exposed to beginning at a very young age, help …

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 19, No. 1, The Sinclair Lewis Society

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter

“2010 Sinclair Lewis Conference A Great Success,” by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University

“‘Carol Kennicott’s Story: Main Street,” by James M. Hutchisson, The Citadel

“Dodsworth Perfomed in New York”

“Ida Compton Papers Archived,” by Tom Steman, St. Cloud State University

“Lewis’s Voice on CD,” by George Killough, College of St. Scholastica

“St. Cloud State University and Minnesota Reflections Website to Publish Collection of Letters by Sinclair Lewis to Marcella Powers,” by Michael King, St. Cloud State University

“Reflections on Kingsblood,” by D. J. Jones

“Barnaby Conrad Writes New Novel”

“Habeas Corpus,” by Sinclair Lewis, part 5

Must Be Nice, Bryan M. Furuness

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

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Discovering The Unexpected: The Margaret Wise Brown Collection At Wyndham Robertson Library, Hollins University, Beth S. Harris

Articles about Hollins and Special Collections

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Moving Through Fear: A Conversation With Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Jennifer L. Fabbi, Amy L. Johnson

Library Faculty Research

Prior to its release in August 2010, Susan Campbell Bartoletti's newest book, They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group (2010), received an incredibly positive response in the form of starred reviews from School Library Journal, Booklist, Publisher's Weekly, Horn Book, and Kirkus Reviews. Through her impeccable research and ability to weave a compelling story out of the place "where darkness and light smack up against each other" (Bartoletti & Zusak, 2008), she has made it possible for children and young adults to access and understand the horror of the Third Reich …

"A Repeating World": Redeeming The Past And Future In The Utopian Dystopia Of Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods, Hope Jennings

English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications

The article examines how Jeanette Winterson's book The Stone Gods follows a spatio-temporal alternative to the pattern of dystopian apocalypse and the utopian breach from history. It notes that such alternative showed Winterson's objective to tear down repressive ideologies through articulated narratives that no longer enact similar self-destructive cycles. It also points that the book is a pertinent illustration of a feminist critical dystopia.

Henry James Rides Again, Sarah Wadsworth

English Faculty Research and Publications

This essay explores Henry James's friendship with Alice Bartlett, a favorite companion in equestrian adventures during James's 1873 residence in Rome. Reading James's travel essay "Roman Rides" in the context of the mutual friendship of James, Bartlett, and the Emersons suggests that Bartlett profoundly influenced James, albeit in oblique, unacknowledged, and sometimes belated ways. "Roman Rides," to which Bartlett provided impetus, presents a textual response to the Roman Campagna that reflects James's early engagement with Emersonian Transcendentalism. This response reverberates, in transmuted form, in the fiction of the late, modern James, as revealed in the tale "The Great Good Place."

Science, Justice, Science Fiction: A Conversation With Kim Stanley Robinson, Gerry Canavan, Lisa Klarr, Ryan Vu

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Sweetwater Blues, Raymond L. Atkins

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects

A novel, "Sweetwater Blues," by the author.

Cognitive Architectures: Structures Of Passion In Joanna Baillie's Dramas, Daniel James Bergen

Dissertations (1934 -)

The burgeoning Industrial Revolution, coupled with the scent of a far different revolution briskly blowing across the English Channel, nourished a significant amount of aristocratic anxiety throughout late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Britain. The stratifying effects of inherited wealth were dissolving and an ascending middle class was making its way into traditionally upper class social circles, political discussions, and capitalistic ventures. In a letter, written to Sir Walter Scott in the late spring of 1812, Joanna Baillie, the Scottish playwright best known for her Plays on the Passions, 1798 and her theoretical notion of sympathetic curiosity, references the Luddite …

From Pound To Olson: The Avant-Garde Poet As Pedagogue, Alan Golding

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Ezra Pound’s sense of himself as poet-pedagogue—including his insistent desire to reform American higher education—is inseparable from his literary avant-gardism and his commitment to the principle of “discovery” or “newness.” This connection between experimental poetics and pedagogy forms a central part both of Pound’s significance as a writer and of his influence on a later avant-gardist and didact like Charles Olson, and anticipates the complexities of the subsequent relationship between American poetic avant-gardes and the academy. Olson was both a teacher at and rector of Black Mountain College, and in an unlikely conjunction, the forms of his institutional life enter …

Review Of Facing The Center: Toward An Identity Politics Of One-To-One Mentoring By Harry C. Denny, Beth Godbee

English Faculty Research and Publications

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On Trial: Restorative Justice In The Godwin-Wollstonecraft-Shelley Family Fictions, Colleen M. Fenno

Dissertations (1934 -)

William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Mary and Percy Shelley wrote during an era of democratic possibility and intense legal and penal reforms, when changes to criminal justice procedures were adopted that would have far reaching consequences, even for contemporary practices. Their fictions - Caleb Williams (1794), Maria: Or the Wrongs of Woman (1798), Frankenstein (1818), Falkner (1837), and The Cenci (1818) - raise questions and seek answers to questions at the heart of these reforms: What happens to individuals falsely accused of a crime without the resources to defend themselves? What happens to victims of crimes associated with guilt or …

Forgetting The End Of The World: William Gibson Discusses Memory, Twitter And His Latest Novel Zero History, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Reluctant Cosmopolitanism In Dickens's Great Expectations, John S. Mcbratney

English

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Creating A Reacting To The Past Website And Promoting Interdisciplinary Humanities Teaching, Martha Driver, Nancy Raegin

Cornerstone 3 Reports : Interdisciplinary Informatics

No abstract provided.

The Wonder Of Geese, Bryan M. Furuness

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

No abstract available

Handling The Perceptual Politics Of Identity In Great Expectations, Peter J. Capuano

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Historicizing hands in the context of contemporary discourse allows us to evaluate how this particular part of the body became a site where scientists and novelists alike could re-imagine “progress” and transformation. In the world of Great Expectations, those who fail to adapt and change never truly make any progress, and Dickens has some fun with this idea as he concludes the novel. While people like Pumblechook conspicuously offer “the same fat five fingers” in the text’s beginning and its end, Joe, over the same course of time, develops not only his laboring hand but his writing one as …

It's (Not) All Small Stuff: The 2009 Lion And The Unicorn Award For Excellence In North American Poetry, Michael Heyman, Angela Sorby, Joseph Thomas

English Faculty Research and Publications

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