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From One Human To The Next: How Stories Might Save Our Lives, Stacie Lewton Rice

English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations

On the morning of October 1, 2015, a young man walked into a college writing classroom with a gun and killed nine people, injured many others, then shot himself.

Virginia Woolf And Illness, Cheryl Hindrichs

English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations

On Being Ill. “Is that a user’s guide?” This question, or a clever variation on it, became a familiar refrain when the elegant Paris Press edition’s cover, conspicuously abandoned on my bed table, caught the eye of one of the many nurses or phlebotomists who rotated through my ward over four weeks—weeks coinciding with what should have been my rereading of Woolf’s 1926 On Being Ill (OBI) as well as the impressive range of essays which you may now also read at your leisure in the second section of this double issue of the Miscellany, whether “in the army …

Contributor Biographies, "Journeys", Natalie Garza

Journal of South Texas English Studies

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Book Review: The Gilded Age And Progressive Era: A Historical Exploration Of Literature, Jennifer A. Bartlett

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

One of the latest volumes in ABC-CLIO/Greenwood’s “Historical Explorations of Literature” series, The Gilded Age and Progressive Era is a useful and interesting introduction to framing key literary works of this time period in their historical context. Each volume in the series presents a discussion of four or five representative works of a historical era, such as the Harlem Renaissance, the Chicano Movement, the Jazz Age, and the Civil War Era.

Real Or Not Real: Fragmentation, Fabrication, And Composite Identity In The Hunger Games And The Mass Effect Trilogy, Tessanna Curtis

Masters Theses

As one glance at box office ratings from the past decade can attest to, twenty-first century Western society seems particularly fixated on coming-of-age stories. These stories reflect the quintessential search for identity, as explained by developmental psychologist Erik Erikson. As Erikson argues throughout his works, the fundamental task of the individual on his journey to becoming a healthy, mature adult is the formation of a personal identity and sense of self that is both unified and whole. What seems particularly ironic, however, is that these coming-of-age stories are released into a culture that is largely dismissive of Erikson’s theory of …

Temperance, Interpretation, And “The Bodie Of This Death”: Pauline Allegory In The Faerie Queene, Book Ii, David Lee Miller

Faculty Publications

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The Die Hards, Casey S. O'Higgins

Student Publications

A prequel to the Up-All-Nighters, a glimpse into the tragic tale of Rick Rearman: Vampire Hunter. The average man living a supernatural life, Rick Rearman hunts for creatures of the night to avenge his fallen mother. Rearman only wants three things in life, a girl, justice, and a new wardrobe. The spectacularly unspectacular Rick Rearman doesn't deserve a poetry; however, his story was too compelling to pass up.

The Ones Who Walk Away From The Ocean, Katia D. Rubinstein

Student Publications

When a mermaid mysteriously appears on the shore of a Northern island, the town's children become enthralled with the newfound mythic creature, while the adults become wary and untrusting.

The Topography Of Borders: Hybridity, Queerness, And Mexican-American Identity In Rigoberto González’S Butterfly Boy, Gabriela Almendarez

Journal of South Texas English Studies

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“Making The Land Shiver:” Ana Castillo’S Ecological Politics In "The Guardians", James M. Cochran

Journal of South Texas English Studies

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Book Notes: "Language Policy" David Cassels Johnson,New York; Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, 291 Pp.; $36 (Soft Cover); Isbn: 9780230251700 (Soft Cover), Alexandre Couture Gagnon

Journal of South Texas English Studies

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Book Notes: "Worlding America: A Transnational Anthology Of Short Narratives Before 1800" Scheiding, Oliver, And Martin Seidl, Eds., Stanford, California; Stanford University Press, 2015; Isbn: 9780804792592, R. Mac Jones

Journal of South Texas English Studies

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Reframing The Archive: Vietnamese Refugee Narratives In The Post-9/11 Period, Mai-Linh Hong

Faculty Journal Articles

This article considers how recent narratives about Vietnamese refugees engage with the Vietnam War’s visual archive, particularly iconic photographs from the war and ensuing “boat people” crisis, and contribute to present-day discourses on American militarism and immigration. The article focuses on two texts, a National Public Radio special series about a US naval ship (2010) and Thanhha Lai’s Inside Out & Back Again (2011), which recounts a Vietnamese child’s refugee passage. By refiguring famous photojournalistic images from the war, the radio series advances a familiar rescue-and-gratitude narrative in which the US military operates as a care apparatus, exemplifying a cultural …

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 25, No. 1, The Sinclair Lewis Society

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter

“Anthony Di Renzo to Be Keynote Speaker at Sinclair Lewis Conference 2017”

“Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s Adaptation of It Can’t Happen Here,” by Ralph Goldstein, California State University-Los Angeles

“The Low-Down on Lewis,” by Frederick Betz, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale

“Is Sinclair Lewis ‘Not Much Read’ Anymore?,” by Ralph Goldstein, California State University-Los Angeles

“Lewis and Roth on American Dictators”

“Translation and Culture: Main Street Goes to China,” by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University

“It Can’t Happen Here Staged Readings Sweep the Nation”

“The Runestone of Alexandria and Sinclair Lewis”

“What Were They Reading Then?: Calling Dr. Nietzsche: A …

Review Of "Black Print Unbound: The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, And Periodical Culture" By E. Gardner, Lara Langer Cohen

English Literature Faculty Works

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Jane Eyre And Education, Emma E. Gruner

Student Publications

As the first female Bildungsroman in the English language, Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre focuses heavily on the theme of education. Throughout the course of the story, the character of Jane Eyre acquires a vast array of classical knowledge and ladylike accomplishments, facilitating her transition from a lowly student to a highly-respected teacher in true Bildungsroman fashion. Jane’s impressive scholarly abilities, however, contrast sharply with the deep struggles she undergoes as she pursues a much more difficult “education” in her personal beliefs. In the end, though, Jane masters both her mind and heart. Emboldened and liberated by her formal education, …

Landed In America, Vera I. Ekhator

Student Publications

Poem about immigrant parents written by first-generation American.

In Search Of Health, Freedom & Identity: An Analysis Of Isabella Bird's And Margaret Fountaine's Renovation Of Self Through Travel & Travel Writing, Mikki L. Stacey

Student Publications

“An Analysis of Isabella Bird’s and Margaret Fountaine’s Renovation of Self through Travel & Travel Writing” tracks three interdependent facets of identity that become apparent in the travel literature of Victorian ladies Isabella Lucy Bird and Margaret Fountaine. These facets are:

• the socialized self (the identity developed as a result of the society in which one grows up)
• the renovated self (the identity developed through interacting with and adapting to other cultures )
• and the edited self (the identity one creates when she writes about her experiences—for my thesis specifically, the identity the author creates to reconcile her socialized and …

The Broadsheet- Issue 17, Merrimack College

The Broadsheet

Merrimack College's English Department newsletter.

This issue features:

• The Latest Edition of an Old Tradition: Bullet Journals
• Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Joins English Faculty
• Review of Fullmetal Alchemist
• Reading Merrimack’s English Majors
• Comics in the Obsidian Age
• Review of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Superiority In Humor Theory, Sheila Lintott

Faculty Journal Articles

In this article, I consider the standard interpretation of the superiority theory of humor attributed to Plato, Aristotle, and Hobbes, according to which the theory allegedly places feelings of superiority at the center of humor and comic amusement. The view that feelings of superiority are at the heart of all comic amusement is wildly implausible. Therefore textual evidence for the interpretation of Plato, Aristotle, or Hobbes as offering the superiority theory as an essentialist theory of humor is worth careful consideration. Through textual analysis I argue that not one of these three philosophers defends an essentialist theory of comic amusement. …