A Visit From The Moon,
2016
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
A Visit From The Moon, Georgia Ann Banks-Martin
The Mythic Circle
From the beach, you could see the island. My mother said no one lived there anymore and she didn’t know why. I wanted to live there. I wanted to be a goddess and live forever.
The Great Hall Of Ahkurst,
2016
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
The Great Hall Of Ahkurst, Lee Clark Zumpe
The Mythic Circle
Tarak limped along the long corridor, muttering to himself beneath the flickering florescents. The subterranean passage stretched out before and behind him, a serpentine artery curving gently beneath the surface of the planet.
The Ferrens Of Tar Kiln,
2016
Great Lakes Christian College
The Ferrens Of Tar Kiln, Charlie W. Starr
The Mythic Circle
I can’t expect you to believe everything I’m going to tell you. The story at least begins truly enough with a caving adventure one October day in Eastern Kentucky.
The Undiplomatic Girl,
2016
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
The Undiplomatic Girl, Ryder W. Miller
The Mythic Circle
The knight Gawain watched as the young lady walked away again. She was fair and slight of form. There was also a wonderful shimmer of silver in the green dress she wore, but Gawain found her perplexing.
Poem For The Lost Library Of La Mancha,
2016
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Poem For The Lost Library Of La Mancha, Gania Barlow
The Mythic Circle
After the books are burned there is a hush and then a flutter of ashy syllables out into the world
Mythic Circle #38,
2016
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
The Pedagogical Use Of Loss,
2016
York University, Ontario
Near & Far,
2016
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Toward A More Loving Framework For Literacy Education,
2016
Bank Street College of Education
Toward A More Loving Framework For Literacy Education, Clio Stearns
Occasional Paper Series
In this provocative and moving essay, Clio Stearns, a Bank Street educated teacher, toggles back and forth between moments with her young daughter who daily grows more attached to books and moments with her fifth grade students who remain disconnected from her carefully chosen texts. Refracted through a psychoanalytic lens and a deeply caring heart, Stearns’ description of her classroom practices offers a canny account of all that she must give up in order to see through and past her students’ resistance. In a surprising turn of events she learns to join with her students as they become curious …
Unfolding: An Academic Autobiography,
2016
CUNY New York City College of Technology
Unfolding: An Academic Autobiography, Aaron Barlow
Publications and Research
An academic autobiography of one who came to academia later in life than most, Unfolding uses blog post from the past decade stitched together by a narrative of what brought one person to teaching.
Exile And Identity: Chaim Potok's Contribution To Jewish-American Literature,
2016
Gardner-Webb University
Exile And Identity: Chaim Potok's Contribution To Jewish-American Literature, Sarah Anne Hamner
MA in English Theses
Questions of identity and exile are deep in the bones of the Jewish people. In this thesis I will discuss the manifestations of exile and identity in the works of Chaim Potok, a Jewish-American novelist. Potok’s work has long been excluded from the canon of Jewish-American criticism. I suspect this exclusion is due to critical oversight, as Potok’s characters lead more traditional Jewish lives in terms of religious beliefs, backgrounds, and behaviors. In order to prove the critical value of Potok’s work I will note the gaps in Jewish-American criticism where Potok’s work is missing. Then I will concentrate around …
A Woman's Voice And Identity: Narrative Métissage As A Solution To Voicelessness In American Literature,
2016
Gardner-Webb University
A Woman's Voice And Identity: Narrative Métissage As A Solution To Voicelessness In American Literature, Kali Lauren Oldacre
MA in English Theses
The objective of this thesis was to analyze the progression of a woman’s voice in literature looking particularly at three American women writers spanning the 20th and into the 21st century—Kate Chopin, Zora Neale Hurston, and Edwidge Danticat. In conjunction, these three novels show a progression through the history of American women’s literature, demonstrating the successes and failures of voice and silence in their works and the ways in which creating an identity through voice is necessary, even if one must create it complexly. Ultimately, the authors establish a voice in their works that lays the foundation for writers who …
Toward "What Bleeds Or Trembles": Reflections On Bergman's Wild Strawberries,
2016
Otterbein University
Toward "What Bleeds Or Trembles": Reflections On Bergman's Wild Strawberries, Paul Eisenstein
English Faculty Scholarship
By way of its protagonist Isak Borg, Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries (1957) enacts and exemplifies a psychoanalytic understanding of change. Bergman’s film, in its form and content, presents and ultimately overturns a narcissistic world of “living death”—a form of living closed off to constitutive features of desire and to meaningful relationships with others. By the film’s end, rather than a “living death,” Bergman stages a life that has been achieved—a life that embraces anew the risks and joys of desire.
The Scandal Of Jewish Rage In William Styron's Sophie's Choice,
2016
University of Minnesota Morris
The Scandal Of Jewish Rage In William Styron's Sophie's Choice, Michael Lackey
English Publications
Scholars have suggested that William Styron’s Nathan in Sophie’s Choice is insane or depraved—a character whose motivations lack rationality at best and are unambiguously evil at worst. Elie Wiesel, the author of the famous Holocaust memoir Night, has been very critical of Styron’s novel. Ironically, by using the Yiddish version of Wiesel’s memoir Night, it is possible to demonstrate that Nathan’s behavior is more “logical” than scholars have previously understood. This approach offers us a new way of reading and interpreting Styron’s novel by clarifying how Nathan’s character functions within a well-established tradition of sociopolitical outrage about racial oppression, …
Pop, Hip Hop, And Empire, Study Of A New Pedagogical Approach In A Developmental Reading And English Class,
2016
Gardner-Webb University
Pop, Hip Hop, And Empire, Study Of A New Pedagogical Approach In A Developmental Reading And English Class, Karen Denise Taylor
MA in English Theses
This thesis focuses on the impact of studying students’ identities after using the television show, Empire as a Hip Hop studies based text in a developmental reading and English class. I frame the pedagogical approach to reading and writing by using the television show as a doorway into the varied language practices of the Hip Hop culture as opposed to Standard American English (SAE). This research uses James Paul Gee’s discourse analysis as a method for coding and analysis of the responses of the interviewees to survey questions. The questions were designed to determine from the students’ responses their attitudes …
The Nature, Function, And Value Of Emojis As Contemporary Tools Of Digital Interpersonal Communication,
2016
Gardner-Webb University
The Nature, Function, And Value Of Emojis As Contemporary Tools Of Digital Interpersonal Communication, Nicole L. Bliss-Carroll
MA in English Theses
The roles and characteristics of emojis are rapidly expanding within computer-mediated communication spaces, forcing many to acknowledge their seemingly inescapable social influence as tools of digital written communication. These colorful, contemporary icons—which became widely available through a range of global, technical platforms in 2011—convey interpersonal emotional expressions in a much more sophisticated manner than their charming appearance initially indicates. Communicators can learn a great deal about the processes of interpretation that are contributing to the continued and expanding use of emojis. An emoji’s perceived meaning can paradoxically be clear in one instance and ambiguous in another when utilized by individuals …
Technology Usage Versus Technology Integration In Esl Classrooms: Drivers And Barriers,
2016
The American University in Cairo AUC
Technology Usage Versus Technology Integration In Esl Classrooms: Drivers And Barriers, Ayman Serag
Capstone and Graduation Projects
Technology integration is a significant aspect of teaching and learning in the 21st century. This study examines faculty technology integration in the Department of English Language Instruction (ELI) at the American University in Cairo (AUC). It also explores the factors that facilitate or inhibit their computer usage, and also their perceptions about the professional development opportunities in technology that are available to them. Using a case-study design, the researcher used semi-structured interviews conducted with 19 ELI instructors to understand the phenomenon at hand. Eight of the 19 instructors also served dual administrative roles as department chair, committee and program coordinators. …
Honey, Wax, And The Dead Bee,
2016
Kennesaw State University
Honey, Wax, And The Dead Bee, Keith Botelho
Early Modern Culture
No abstract provided.
When Is A Panther Not A Panther? Representing Animals In Early Modern English Heraldry,
2016
Clemson University
When Is A Panther Not A Panther? Representing Animals In Early Modern English Heraldry, Kathryn Will
Early Modern Culture
No abstract provided.
Ear To The Battleground: New Books On Hearing What Is Lost,
2016
Loyola University Chicago
Ear To The Battleground: New Books On Hearing What Is Lost, Howard S. Axelrod
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Of the five senses, vision tends to get the glory. We hail great innovators as visionary, praise writers for their insight, and thank friends for offering perspective. We call prophets seers, but also admire daily perspicacity and seek to avoid myopia and blind spots. Just consider the words spectacles and spectacular, and you catch a glimpse—not a whisper, a glimpse—of the divergence between vision in the optometrist’s office and vision in our cultural construction of it. But while vision gets the glory, hearing has our trust. We want justice to be blind during court hearings. In times of …
