Review Of In Their Own Words: Practices Of Quotation In Early Medieval History-Writing By Jeanette Beer,
2016
Marquette University
Review Of In Their Own Words: Practices Of Quotation In Early Medieval History-Writing By Jeanette Beer, Elizaveta Strakhov
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Changing The Victorian Habit Loop: The Body In The Poetry And Painting Of Dante Gabriel Rossetti And William Morris,
2016
Marquette University
Changing The Victorian Habit Loop: The Body In The Poetry And Painting Of Dante Gabriel Rossetti And William Morris, Bryan Gast
Dissertations (1934 -)
Founded in England in 1848, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood rebelled against Victorian artistic convention and sought to recapture a medieval style of painting believed by its members to have existed before Raphael. That style was a significant departure from the prevailing Royal Academy style, however, and—as many critics note—ahead of its time. Among the Pre-Raphaelites, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris were unique for their creative output as both poets and painters. This dissertation examines the representation of the body in some poems and paintings by Rossetti and Morris and analyzes the impact of the Pre-Raphaelites on habits of thinking about …
Discarding Dreams And Legends: The Short Fiction Of Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Flannery O’Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, And Eudora Welty,
2016
Marquette University
Discarding Dreams And Legends: The Short Fiction Of Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Flannery O’Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, And Eudora Welty, Katy L. Leedy
Dissertations (1934 -)
This project examines four Southern women writers—Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Flannery O’Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, and Eudora Welty—who use the genre of the short story and the setting of the farm or insular living space to critique Southern regional identity. I argue that the social critiques of these southern female short story writers have been overlooked because stereotypes rooted in the fantasy of the idealized southern woman has limited critical perceptions of these authors’ engagements with cultural or political issues, when in reality their short fiction helped to influence the shifting expectations of the mid-twentieth century South. This study provides a …
Tolkien, By Raymond Edwards. Reviewed By Katherine Neville.,
2016
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Tolkien, By Raymond Edwards. Reviewed By Katherine Neville., Katherine Neville
Mythprint Book Reviews
Mythprint is the quarterly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local discussion groups.
Tales From Rugosa Coven, By Sarah Avery. Reviewed By Emilee J. Howland-Davis.,
2016
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Tales From Rugosa Coven, By Sarah Avery. Reviewed By Emilee J. Howland-Davis., Emilee J. Howland-Davis
Mythprint Book Reviews
Mythprint is the quarterly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local discussion groups.
Henchgirl, By Rita Stradling. Reviewed By Bethany Abrahamson.,
2016
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Henchgirl, By Rita Stradling. Reviewed By Bethany Abrahamson., Bethany Abrahamson
Mythprint Book Reviews
Mythprint is the quarterly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local discussion groups.
Adam Smith For Our Times, Ii: Of Sympathy And Selfishness,
2016
University of South Carolina - Columbia
Adam Smith For Our Times, Ii: Of Sympathy And Selfishness, Michael Gavin
Studies in Scottish Literature
Summarizes the published proceedings of a recent conference at Mercer University discussing the significance for 21st century America of the 18th century Scottish philosopher and economist Adam Smith, and offers a critical perspective.
Issue Cover Page,
2016
University of Western Australia
Issue Cover Page, Drew Hubbell, John Ryan
Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language
Issue Cover Page
Lamentations,
2016
Swarthmore College
Lamentations, Betsy Bolton
English Literature Faculty Works
The following poem attempts to think about loss from the perspective of different religions (the Jewish prophet Jeremiah, a Christian sermon, a Buddhist tale, Muslim prayer and traditions). The piece travels through time as well as space: it looks back at the Renaissance as a period in which Jeremiah’s lamentations were set to music and forced travel/slavery between Morocco and England first occurred.
The Lives And Deaths Of Flora Mac-Ivor And Rose Bradwardine: Romance And Reality In Sir Walter Scott's Waverley,
2016
Brigham Young University - Provo
The Lives And Deaths Of Flora Mac-Ivor And Rose Bradwardine: Romance And Reality In Sir Walter Scott's Waverley, Monica D. Allen
Student Works
In Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley, Scott presents the problem of romance versus reality. He does this by personifying romance and reality through Flora Mac Ivor and Rose Bradwardine. Flora, with her passion, represents romance. While Rose, a more mellow character, represents reality. Waverley finds that he must choose between them. Rose is a “kindred spirit” to him, while Flora resembles “one of his daydreams.” They embody these ideas through a physical location. Flora’s location is the romantic Scottish Highlands, and Rose’s location is simply her father’s home. Besides location, the figurative deaths of Flora and Rose embody romance and …
Oceans And Ecotones In Mary Shelley’S Maurice, Or The Fisher’S Cot,
2016
Colorado Mesa University
Oceans And Ecotones In Mary Shelley’S Maurice, Or The Fisher’S Cot, Colin Carman
Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language
This essay is about oceans in one of Mary Shelley’s non-canonical works, Maurice, or the Fisher’s Cot: A Tale (1820), and the relatedness of humans to their ocean environments; it’s also about Shelley’s representations of those rich and diverse life-forms that populate the edge between sea and land-mass and within what ecologists refer to as an “ecotone.” By characterising the ocean as an ecotone in Maurice, Shelley makes explicit a more eco-conscious way of understanding the nature/culture dichotomy and in terms that directly involve the shifting boundaries between land and sea, saltwater and freshwater, human and animal. This English Romantic …
The Paradox Of Desert Writing: Bridging Epistemological And Discursive Gaps In Craig Childs’ The Secret Knowledge Of Water,
2016
University of South Dakota
The Paradox Of Desert Writing: Bridging Epistemological And Discursive Gaps In Craig Childs’ The Secret Knowledge Of Water, Paul Formisano
Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language
This essay examines Craig Childs’ use of paradox as a key rhetorical device to represent the deserts of the American Southwest as depicted primarily in The Secret Knowledge of Water (2000). To understand how Childs employs this device, I draw upon the pragmatic rhetorical tradition and ecocriticism’s materialist turn to show how scientific and poetic discourses, as well as the desert’s agency, create a physical and philosophical contact zone, one where the reader confronts the borders that mark epistemological systems, divisions between the human and the nonhuman, and the discursive and disciplinary strategies and positions used to evoke the mystery …
Glimpses Of Lost Home In The Works Of J.R.R. Tolkien And Owen Barfield,
2016
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Glimpses Of Lost Home In The Works Of J.R.R. Tolkien And Owen Barfield, Phillip Joe Fitzsimmons
Faculty Articles & Research
No abstract provided.
A Tourist Performance: Redefining The Tourist Attraction,
2016
University of South Florida
A Tourist Performance: Redefining The Tourist Attraction, Brandy Lee Kinkade
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The aim of this paper is to examine the intersection of tourism and memoirs in the United States specifically how specific travel memoirs function as tourist attractions. This investigation employs performer-centered analysis as a method of inquiry in order to gain insight on tourist experience as well as concepts of travel, imagination and embodiment. The paper also employs MacCannell’s Semiotics of Attraction as a framework to illustrate the presence of the following categories: tourist, sight, and marker. The presence and the relationships established between these categories establish Into Thin Air and Almost Somewhere: Twenty-eight Days on the John Muir Trail …
All Our Old Heroes Are Dead: The Nostalgia Of Chivalry And The Myth Of The 'Good War' In Game Of Thrones,
2016
Gonzaga University
All Our Old Heroes Are Dead: The Nostalgia Of Chivalry And The Myth Of The 'Good War' In Game Of Thrones, Elizabeth Wawrzyniak
Foley Library Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Eve's Feminist Wave,
2016
Brigham Young University
Eve's Feminist Wave, Heather S. Higgs
BYU English Symposium
Paradise Lost has been around since the seventeenth century, and yet there is still something readers cannot agree on: what is up with Eve? I propose that Eve’s role in Paradise Lost can be understood through the lens of third-wave feminism, the United States’ current feminist wave. Eve matches well with third-wave feminists in her independence and complexity of character, but what distinguishes her from feminists today is more potent in understanding her role in Paradise Lost. When faced with decisions of the self, Eve ultimately looks outward to Adam and her future posterity and chooses selflessly, exercising restraint …
Early American Need For Christ,
2016
Brigham Young University - Provo
Early American Need For Christ, Baylee S. Vasquez 6161151
BYU English Symposium
A war torn land of the early Americas created a want for the relief that Christian sects sought when originally retreating from Europe. These early colonists relied on the belief of savior that would redeem them in an eternal sphere, but the absence of an immediate savior in the midst of terror inspired the idea of characters that could act as flawed, yet effective Christ-like figures in the present moment. Mary Rowlandson, Hannah Dustan, and Olaudah Equiano each follow a path that mimics that of Christ’s: death, resurrection, and providing the redemption of others through their tribulation. Dustan redeemed fellow …
Return To Virtue: Defining Moral Strength,
2016
BYU
Return To Virtue: Defining Moral Strength, Melissa A. Weigeshoff
BYU English Symposium
No abstract provided.
Riot Grrrl’S Legacy: The Medium Is The Message,
2016
Brigham Young University
Riot Grrrl’S Legacy: The Medium Is The Message, Rosemary Larkin
BYU English Symposium
Riot Grrrl appropriated traditional, even “feminine,” media platforms to encourage third wave feminism. They ignored a central message on purpose in lieu of loud mediums meant to disrupt the status quo instead of assert a new one.
The Scandal Of Sources Of Henriette-Julie De Murat’S Histoires Sublimes Et Allégoriques,
2016
Brigham Young University
The Scandal Of Sources Of Henriette-Julie De Murat’S Histoires Sublimes Et Allégoriques, Jared Willden
BYU English Symposium
Henriette-Julie de Murat claims in the foreword of Histoires sublimes et allégoriques (1699) that the only source for her tales is Straparola’s Facetious Nights, yet this claim seems to be misleading. Taking “The Savage” as an example, this essay first assesses the reasons we should doubt Murat’s claim. It then explores other possible literary sources for “The Savage,” such as Shakespeare’s As You Like It, Straparola’s “Guerrino and the Savage Man,” and the Breton folktale “Georgic and Merlin,” as well as biographical elements, both from details surrounding her exile by Louis XIV in 1702 and from her fictional …
