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Poe's Beauty: The "Sublime" Philosophy Between Burke And The Troubadours, Tara T. Brock 2010 Brigham Young University

Poe's Beauty: The "Sublime" Philosophy Between Burke And The Troubadours, Tara T. Brock

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism

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Collaborative Ethnic Studies: Reference, Influence, And Comparison Of Richard Wright's Uncle Tom's Children In Carlos Bulosan's America Is In The Heart, Timothy Rowan 2010 Brigham Young University

Collaborative Ethnic Studies: Reference, Influence, And Comparison Of Richard Wright's Uncle Tom's Children In Carlos Bulosan's America Is In The Heart, Timothy Rowan

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism

No abstract provided.


Impolitic: Kent Johnson's Radical Hybridity On Doubled Flowering: From The Notebooks Of Araki Yasusada (Roof Books, 1997), Epigramititis: 118 Living American Poets (Blazevox, 2004), Lyric Poetry After Auschwitz: Eleven Submissions To The War (Effing Press, 2005), I Once Met (Longhouse, 2007), And Homage To The Last Avant-Garde (Shearsman Books, 2008), Michael Theune 2010 Illinois Wesleyan University

Impolitic: Kent Johnson's Radical Hybridity On Doubled Flowering: From The Notebooks Of Araki Yasusada (Roof Books, 1997), Epigramititis: 118 Living American Poets (Blazevox, 2004), Lyric Poetry After Auschwitz: Eleven Submissions To The War (Effing Press, 2005), I Once Met (Longhouse, 2007), And Homage To The Last Avant-Garde (Shearsman Books, 2008), Michael Theune

Scholarship

The past twenty years in American poetry have given rise to middle space poetry, poetry—sometimes labeled “Third Way,” “Hybrid,” and/or “Elliptical”—that situates itself in the middle space between mainstream/lyric and avant-garde/experimental aesthetics. While work in the middle space by now should have added up to an important and fruitful development in contemporary poetry—for there is much shared ground for these aesthetics to explore—middle space thinking and poetry for the most part has been very problematic. Paradoxically, the problems of the middle space—especially as it is presented in its three key anthologies: Reginald Shepherd’s The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries …


Phallus/Phallocentrism, Abigail Rine 2010 George Fox University

Phallus/Phallocentrism, Abigail Rine

Faculty Publications - Department of English

Excerpt: "In psychoanalytic theory, the phallus serves as the supreme symbol of masculine power and, concurrently, of feminine lack. “Phallocentrism” is a term used primarily by feminist theorists to denote the pervasive privileging of the masculine within the current system of signification."


Cold Fusion, Jason Gray 2010 University of Alabama at Birmingham

Cold Fusion, Jason Gray

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 37


Holiday Figures, Joanna Pearson 2010 University of Alabama at Birmingham

Holiday Figures, Joanna Pearson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 77


The Rose, First Edition, Austin Segrest 2010 University of Alabama at Birmingham

The Rose, First Edition, Austin Segrest

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 82


The Present Tense, Claudia Emerson 2010 University of Alabama at Birmingham

The Present Tense, Claudia Emerson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 24


Wake, Amy Arthur 2010 University of Alabama at Birmingham

Wake, Amy Arthur

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 6


Apartment Lullaby, Luke Johnson 2010 University of Alabama at Birmingham

Apartment Lullaby, Luke Johnson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 45


I, Claudia Emerson 2010 University of Alabama at Birmingham

I, Claudia Emerson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 25


Pomegranate, Jason Gray 2010 University of Alabama at Birmingham

Pomegranate, Jason Gray

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 36


Birmingham Poetry Review 37 (End Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff 2010 University of Alabama at Birmingham

Birmingham Poetry Review 37 (End Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 90-98


Humbaba Clothed In Seven Cloaks, Okla Elliott 2010 University of Alabama at Birmingham

Humbaba Clothed In Seven Cloaks, Okla Elliott

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 19


First Death, Claudia Emerson 2010 University of Alabama at Birmingham

First Death, Claudia Emerson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 22


Angel As Cigarette, Joanne Lowery 2010 University of Alabama at Birmingham

Angel As Cigarette, Joanne Lowery

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 59


On The Razor's Edge, Luke Johnson 2010 University of Alabama at Birmingham

On The Razor's Edge, Luke Johnson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 44


Bad Garden, William Logan 2010 University of Alabama at Birmingham

Bad Garden, William Logan

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 56


Change Of Season, Linda Parsons Marion 2010 University of Alabama at Birmingham

Change Of Season, Linda Parsons Marion

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 60


“She Brings Everything To A Grindstone”: Sympathy And The Paid Female Companion's Critical Work In David Copperfield, Lauren Hoffer 2010 University of South Carolina - Beaufort

“She Brings Everything To A Grindstone”: Sympathy And The Paid Female Companion's Critical Work In David Copperfield, Lauren Hoffer

Faculty Publications

In David Copperfield, Charles Dickens employs Rosa Dartle, Mrs. Steerforth's paid female companion, as an agent of his narrative. The companion in Victorian literature is an ambiguous figure whose status as a genteel insider and outsider within the domestic circle makes her a unique vehicle for the disclosure of important information the narrative cannot otherwise convey. Companions in the nineteenth century were hired to provide company, amusement, and, most important, a sympathetic ear for their mistresses' confidences. But, as Dickens and other Victorian writers show, this purchased sympathy-for-hire can be corrupted and distorted to serve the companion's own selfish …


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