Clarke, Mary Louise (Washington), 1913-1999 (Mss 634),
2018
Western Kentucky University
Clarke, Mary Louise (Washington), 1913-1999 (Mss 634), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 634. Research, correspondence and photographs relating to the scholarly study of Kentucky author Jesse Stuart by WKU English and folklore professor Mary (Washington) Clarke. Includes correspondence with Stuart, editors and other scholars in connection with her book Jesse Stuart’s Kentucky and other publications. Also includes research and correspondence relating to Clarke’s book Kentucky Quilts and Their Makers.
Sigrid Undset's Sacramental Realism: The Body In Kristin Lavransdatter,
2018
Seattle Pacific University
Sigrid Undset's Sacramental Realism: The Body In Kristin Lavransdatter, Annesley Moore-Jumonville
Honors Projects
Though literary modernism has been historically characterized as atheistic and anti-traditional, new critical voices are emerging that argue for the presence of the sacred in modernist texts. This paper joins those voices by proposing, along with the reexamination of the sacred in nonreligious writers like Woolf and Joyce, a reexamination of specifically religious work and on its own terms. The modern Catholic novel, in particular, with its focus on the eternal significance of humanity, deserves this attention. The paper offers Sigrid Undset’s 1920, Nobel Prize wining, Catholic trilogy, Kristin Lavransdatter, as a significant (and unjustly overlooked) text of the period, …
Hnau Too: Diversity In Out Of The Silent Planet,
2018
Taylor University
Hnau Too: Diversity In Out Of The Silent Planet, Annalee Brantner
Papers Presented at Previous Colloquia
No abstract provided.
Putting Eternity In Reader's Hearts: C.S. Lewis And The Art Of Sehnsucht,
2018
Taylor University
Putting Eternity In Reader's Hearts: C.S. Lewis And The Art Of Sehnsucht, Torri B. Frye
Papers Presented at Previous Colloquia
No abstract provided.
Reading Fantasy For A Better Understanding Of Spiritual Life In A Material World,
2018
Taylor University
Reading Fantasy For A Better Understanding Of Spiritual Life In A Material World, Donald P. Gauger
Papers Presented at Previous Colloquia
Can reading the fantasy works of certain authors help us better understand difficult spiritual concepts, gain insights bridging the gap between the physical and spiritual worlds, and help us live spiritually-fulfilled lives in a material world? In George MacDonald’s novel Phantasies: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women, Anodos experiences twenty-one years of life in fairyland in twenty-one days, gains spiritual insights from those adventures, and is thereafter a changed person. In J. R. R. Tolkien’s fantasy novel, The Children of Húrin, the son Túrin repeatedly illustrates the spiritual interplay between God’s Grace, evil’s curse, and consequences in …
Through The Lens Of The Four Loves: Love In That Hideous Strength,
2018
Grace College
Through The Lens Of The Four Loves: Love In That Hideous Strength, Paulette G. Sauders
Papers Presented at Previous Colloquia
No abstract provided.
A Medically Oriented Comparison Of "The Yellow Wallpaper" And Adela Cathcart, And Resultant Connotations On Depression And Dementia,
2018
Taylor University
A Medically Oriented Comparison Of "The Yellow Wallpaper" And Adela Cathcart, And Resultant Connotations On Depression And Dementia, Darrel Hotmire
Papers Presented at Previous Colloquia
No abstract provided.
The First And Second Wave Of Dorothy L. Sayers,
2018
Taylor University
The First And Second Wave Of Dorothy L. Sayers, Hannah Dawn Stumpf
Papers Presented at Previous Colloquia
No abstract provided.
"Let Us Thank The Author Who Inventer Her": Lewis On Reading Dorothy Sayers,
2018
Taylor University
"Let Us Thank The Author Who Inventer Her": Lewis On Reading Dorothy Sayers, K. Alan Snyder
Papers Presented at Previous Colloquia
No abstract provided.
C.S. Lewis's Mythopoetic Baptism Of The Imagination,
2018
Taylor University
C.S. Lewis's Mythopoetic Baptism Of The Imagination, Harvey Solganick
Papers Presented at Previous Colloquia
No abstract provided.
Review: Architectural Involutions: Writing, Staging, And Building Space, C. 1435–1650. Mimi Yiu.,
2018
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Review: Architectural Involutions: Writing, Staging, And Building Space, C. 1435–1650. Mimi Yiu., Kelly Stage
Department of English: Faculty Publications
Mimi Yiu’s Architectural Involutions is an expansive, impressive, and largely interdisciplinary study. Many recent books have touched on related topics—probably most relevantly Henry Turner’s The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts 1580–1630—but this one reads from architecture and space forward rather than seeks answers about the theater foremost. The book’s main focus is to theorize the “inward journey” made possible by modes of understanding, building, and reading space in early modern Europe, although England is central to much of the work’s concerns. As Yiu explains in her introduction, the book “suggests a method for spatial mapping …
Language And Representations Of Mental Illness: Teaching Wintergirls And The Impossible Knife Of Memory,
2018
Northern Michigan University
Language And Representations Of Mental Illness: Teaching Wintergirls And The Impossible Knife Of Memory, Kia Jane Richmond
Conference Presentations
No abstract provided.
The Royal Review: 2017-2018,
2018
Molloy College
The Royal Review: 2017-2018, Pollyana Andrews
The Royal Review from the English Department
The twenty-seventh annual Alumni Supper found the Reception Room of Kellenberg building filled with alumni, faculty, friends, and family. One of the scholarship winners, Mary A.K.T. Gallagher, was also present among the crowd of English lovers. The supper was held on Friday, September 22, 2017, and commenced at five o’clock in the evening. The night began with a brief introduction from Dr. Robert Kinpoitner. Several things were brought up for discussion, and among those were the possibility of becoming a university, possible implementation of a trimester system, and the film festival. Writer-in-Residence, Barbara Novack, also spoke about the various poetry …
Theology And Poetry: Literary Aesthetics In The Writing Of Ann Voskamp,
2018
Liberty University
Theology And Poetry: Literary Aesthetics In The Writing Of Ann Voskamp, Erin Peters
Masters Theses
Because of her work as an author, speaker, blogger, and Compassion International advocate, Christianity Today cited Ann Voskamp as one of the 50 most influential women in shaping the North American evangelical church. Through her poetic, spiritual memoirs, Voskamp has challenged and inspired Christian women in their walk with God while simultaneously raising an important question for Christian literature: What roles does the poetic imagination play in communicating theology? To be sure however, Voskamp’s unique blend of poetic lyricism and personally applied theology has incited significant criticism regarding her loosely constructed language and narrative interpretation of Scripture. This thesis evaluates …
The Buffered Slayer: A Search For Meaning In A Secular Age,
2018
Liberty University
The Buffered Slayer: A Search For Meaning In A Secular Age, Kari Willinger
Masters Theses
Charles Taylor, in A Secular Age, claims that over time, modernity has given way to a new secular age, and with this new era comes cultural shifts in our perception of ourselves and the world. Given Taylor’s notion of a world haunted by transcendence, we can notice this haunting throughout aspects of modernity, especially in literature and entertainment where we can see authors and creators deal with issues of identity and morality from a purely modern perspective. Specifically, Taylor’s concepts connect with Buffy the Vampire Slayer because the characters in Buffy align with Taylor’s understanding of the buffered self, which …
Disrupting Narratives And Narrators: A Case For Anna Deavere Smith's Work In The High School Classroom,
2018
Dominican University of California
Disrupting Narratives And Narrators: A Case For Anna Deavere Smith's Work In The High School Classroom, Amy Hale
Dissertations, Masters Theses, Capstones, and Culminating Projects
Anna Deavere Smith, American actress, writer, and professor, explores racial conflicts and the nuances that contribute to dissonance and identity politics through her one- woman plays. Employing a journalistic dramatic format of her own, Smith interviews a panoply of people who play major and minor roles involving conflicts. She then brings these interviews to life on the stage. As a high English teacher, I incorporate Smith’s plays Fires in the Mirror and Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 into my eleventh grade American literature class. In this paper, I explain why Smith’s plays help facilitate and nurture important conversations about race for …
Comparing Cultural Context Through New Historicism: The Impact Of Form Upon Content In The Serialized And Novelized Versions Of F. Scott Fitzgerald’S The Beautiful And Damned,
2018
Liberty University
Comparing Cultural Context Through New Historicism: The Impact Of Form Upon Content In The Serialized And Novelized Versions Of F. Scott Fitzgerald’S The Beautiful And Damned, Anna Sweeney
Masters Theses
In this thesis, I analyzed the differences between the serialized portions and subsequent novelization of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Beautiful and Damned. To conduct this research, I studied the seven issues of Metropolitan magazine from September 1921 to March 1922 in which the serialized portions of The Beautiful and Damned were published, and read them against the novel. I found that the omissions and additions between the two modes of text, including the advertisements and illustrations present within the serialized portions, greatly altered the nuances and meanings of the finished novelized product. This project revealed that there is currently a …
What’S In The Potato Barn: A Discourse Of Redemption In Three Of Kurt Vonnegut’S Novels,
2018
Liberty University
What’S In The Potato Barn: A Discourse Of Redemption In Three Of Kurt Vonnegut’S Novels, Rebecca Tutton Parker
Masters Theses
This thesis discusses how three of Kurt Vonnegut’s novels (Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions, and Bluebeard) become a discourse on redemption when using Linda Hutcheon’s historiographic metafiction. Starting with Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut opens the discussion about redemption by creating a character struggling with PTSD who is unable to be redeemed. In Breakfast of Champions, Vonnegut continues the discourse by introducing Rabo Karabekian who opens Vonnegut as character’s mind to the idea that redemption is possible. By Bluebeard, Rabo Karabekian is able to obtain redemption for both himself and for his author. By studying these three books together it becomes clear that Rabo …
The Centrality Of Human Freedom In Dostoevsky And Huxley,
2018
Liberty University
The Centrality Of Human Freedom In Dostoevsky And Huxley, Evelyn J. Hylton
Masters Theses
Fyodor Dostoevsky learned the hard way that human beings need to be free. In a Siberian prison camp, a four-year period which would later inspire his semi-autobiographical prison memoir Notes from a Dead House, he was forced to come to terms with the realities of life under severe constraint and without the freedom for self-actualization, which convicted him of the dangers of the Westernized liberalism he once embraced. Dostoevsky’s transformed understanding of humanity and its need for individual freedom eventually matured to form the moral and philosophical foundations of his final novel, The Brothers Karamazov, whose support of the centrality …
Restoring What Has Been Lost: The Mythic Journey Of Shakespearean And Tolkien Heroes After The Fall In Eden,
2018
Liberty University
Restoring What Has Been Lost: The Mythic Journey Of Shakespearean And Tolkien Heroes After The Fall In Eden, Taylor Loforti
Masters Theses
In order for man to understand where he is going, he must first remember where he began. The intertwining link between the beginning, the in-between journey, and the end of a story, or narrative, has been present since the ancient years of literary criticism. The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle explains that a unified and effective narrative should have a beginning, middle, and end, and the even more ancient realm of mythology tends to follow this format not only in its written structure, but also in its thematic and archetypal construction. These three main segments of a mythic narrative are later …
