“We Average Unbeautiful Watchers”: Reflexive Fans And The Readerly Stakes Of American Sports Narratives,
2015
Washington University in St. Louis
“We Average Unbeautiful Watchers”: Reflexive Fans And The Readerly Stakes Of American Sports Narratives, Noah Cohan
Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations
“We Average Unbeautiful Watchers” traces the role of the American sports fan across literary genres from the novel to the memoir to the blog post. Representing mass-mediated athletics as fundamentally narrative-based entertainments, I argue that fans function as readers whether they realize it or not. Further, while it may seem that sports narratives are “written” by athletes and assigned meaning by journalists, my project demonstrates that fans appropriate those narratives in diverse ways to form their own sense of identity. Inscribed in Don DeLillo’s Underworld (1997), Fred Exley’s A Fan’s Notes (1968), David Shields’s Black Planet (1999), and the blog …
Alternative Histories: Imagining Ancient Britain On The London Stage, 1560-1642,
2015
Washington University in St. Louis
Alternative Histories: Imagining Ancient Britain On The London Stage, 1560-1642, Meredith Anne Beales
Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations
I argue that plays set in ancient Britain helped shape early modern concepts of anachronism and history, undermining British identities and the early modern British state. While early modern English historians searched for the noble past which would undergird the creation of a modern empire, the theatre invited audiences to imagine an ancient Britain populated by noble Celts, fierce dragons, prophetic wizards, and defeated Romans, as if all these alternative stories were equally plausible. When scholars study the relationship between British history and identity, they usually bring a twenty-first century understanding of history as distinct from fiction. I show that …
The Heart Of Whiteness: Interracial Marriage And White Masculinity In American Fiction, 1830-1905,
2015
Washington University in St. Louis
The Heart Of Whiteness: Interracial Marriage And White Masculinity In American Fiction, 1830-1905, Lauren M. W. Barbeau
Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations
Building on whiteness scholars’ notion that whiteness can be gained, my dissertation argues that a property in whiteness, and its attendant privileges, can be lost. By examining representations of interracial marriage in American literature between 1830 and 1905, I identify marriage across the color line as one of the primary modes through which white men can lose their privilege. Interracial marriage violates what I term the marriage contract, a tri-party agreement between man, woman, and nation that guaranteed democratic rights to white men and privileges to their dependents in return for white-white marriage. Men who violated this contract by marrying …
Deadly Girls' Voices, Suspense, And The "Aesthetics Of Fear" In Joyce Carol Oates's "The Banshee" And "Doll: A Romance Of The Mississippi",
2015
Bordeaux Montaigne University
Deadly Girls' Voices, Suspense, And The "Aesthetics Of Fear" In Joyce Carol Oates's "The Banshee" And "Doll: A Romance Of The Mississippi", Pascale Antolin
Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies
Abstract: this article focuses on deadly girls’ voices in "The Banshee" and "Doll: A Romance of the Mississippi," two short stories taken from Joyce Carol Oates’s collection The Female of the Species, subtitled Tales of Mystery and Suspense. It shows that children are used as leading and focal characters not only to increase suspense but also to manipulate the readers’ traditional sets of ethical, semantic and literary references. Oates resorts to her favourite “aesthetics of fear” for it is a powerful means of putting horror and abjection at a distance, and it is associated with the question of meaning—"meaning is …
"Trifles Of Value": Craft As Communication In Victorian Literature,
2015
Eastern Michigan University
"Trifles Of Value": Craft As Communication In Victorian Literature, Amanda C. Larson
Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations
This thesis argues that craft functions in the nineteenth century as a form of communication that expresses female identity in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford and Margaret Oliphant's Miss Marjoribanks. By looking at the novels through the lens of Talia Schaffer's craft paradigm in connection with Thing theory, it is possible to make connections between the role of craft and identity, which in turn raises questions about craft and female agency. These connections to female agency illuminate tensions between craft and the economy, gender disparity in the arts, and the limitations of class. In order to explore these notions it is …
Perilous And Fair: Women In The Works And Life Of J.R.R. Tolkien (2015) Ed. Janet Brennan Croft And Leslie A. Donovan,
2015
Valparaiso University
Perilous And Fair: Women In The Works And Life Of J.R.R. Tolkien (2015) Ed. Janet Brennan Croft And Leslie A. Donovan, Deidre A. Dawson
Journal of Tolkien Research
Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J.R.R. Tolkien (2015), ed. by Janet Brennan Croft and Leslie A. Donovan
Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections With Other Animals And The Earth Edited By Carol J. Adams And Lori Gruen,
2015
University of Sydney
Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections With Other Animals And The Earth Edited By Carol J. Adams And Lori Gruen, Astrida Neimanis
The Goose
Astrida Neimanis reviews Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth, edited by Carol J. Adams and Lori Gruen.
Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture By Karen Raber,
2015
Utrecht University, UCR
Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture By Karen Raber, Chad Weidner
The Goose
Chad Weidner reviews Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture by Karen Raber.
The Cambridge Companion To Literature And The Environment Edited By Louise Westling,
2015
Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design
The Cambridge Companion To Literature And The Environment Edited By Louise Westling, Randy Lee Cutler
The Goose
Randy Lee Cutler reviews The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment, edited by Louise Westling
Ringing Here & There: A Nature Calendar By Brian Bartlett,
2015
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Ringing Here & There: A Nature Calendar By Brian Bartlett, Joel Deshaye
The Goose
Joel Deshaye reviews Brian Bartlett's Ringing Here & There: A Nature Calendar
Balance Of Fragile Things By Olivia Chadha,
2015
Chatham University
Balance Of Fragile Things By Olivia Chadha, Nicole Bartley
The Goose
Nicole Bartley reviews Balance of Fragile Things by Olivia Chadha.
Who Speaks For The River?: The Oldman River Dam And The Search For Justice By Robert Girvan,
2015
John Tyler Community College
Who Speaks For The River?: The Oldman River Dam And The Search For Justice By Robert Girvan, Cory T. Shaman
The Goose
Cory T. Shaman reviews Who Speaks for the River?: The Oldman River Dam and the Search for Justice by Robert Girvan.
Eco-Joyce: The Environmental Imagination Of James Joyce Edited By Robert Brazeau And Derek Gladwin,
2015
Kent State University - Kent Campus
Eco-Joyce: The Environmental Imagination Of James Joyce Edited By Robert Brazeau And Derek Gladwin, Rebekah A. Taylor
The Goose
Rebekah A. Taylor reviews Eco-Joyce: The Environmental Imagination of James Joyce edited by Robert Brazeau and Derek Gladwin.
Living Oil: Petroleum Culture In The American Century By Stephanie Lemenager,
2015
University of North Florida
Living Oil: Petroleum Culture In The American Century By Stephanie Lemenager, Bart H. Welling
The Goose
Bart H. Welling reviews Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Cenutry by Stephanie LeMenager.
Light Light By Julie Joosten,
2015
University of British Columbia, Okanagan
Light Light By Julie Joosten, Mathieu Aubin
The Goose
Mathieu Aubin's review of Light Light by Julie Joosten.
The Oxford Handbook Of Ecocriticism Edited By Greg Garrard,
2015
Schumacher College
The Oxford Handbook Of Ecocriticism Edited By Greg Garrard, Camilla Nelson Dr
The Goose
Camilla Nelson reviews The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism, edited by Greg Garrard
Digital Scholarship And Interactivity: A Study Of Commenting Features In Networked Books,
2015
University of New Haven
Digital Scholarship And Interactivity: A Study Of Commenting Features In Networked Books, Jenna Sheffield
English Faculty Publications
Digital scholarly publishing is moving toward the use of commenting features, which allow readers to contribute to the knowledge production of the publication and establish a community of readers within a digital text. In this article, I use theories of interactivity in order to articulate some of the potentials as well as challenges that are inherent in using commenting features within digital scholarship. In using interactivity as the main theory through which scholars understand their decisions about commenting functions, this article argues, digital scholars will better be able to frame the interactions that can occur among readers and the author …
Mythcon 46 - The Arthurian Mythos,
2015
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Mythcon 46 - The Arthurian Mythos, The Mythopoeic Society
Mythcon Programs
Mythcon 46 will be held at the Hotel Elegante Event and Conference Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The Hotel Elegante features a full restaurant, a sports bar, and a casual bakery/ coffee shop for drinks and snacks. The entire hotel is non-smoking.
Libraries And The Apocalyptic Imagination,
2015
Seattle Pacific University
Libraries And The Apocalyptic Imagination, Michael J. Paulus Jr.
SPU Works
Books and libraries figure prominently in apocalyptic and related forms of literature. The representations of libraries in these imagined, catastrophic futures reveal important roles libraries have had and continue to have in helping individuals, communities, and cultures find ways forward through time. This paper explores the long history of library eschatologies—including ancient apocalypses of the Dead Sea Scroll Library and the book of Revelation, modern apocalypses from Mary Shelley to Margaret Atwood, and the dystopian anti-libraries of Jorge Luis Borges’s Babel and Tlön—and highlights deep continuities connecting our historical memories, future expectations, and present experiences of libraries. In the apocalyptic …
Protecting Dixie: Southern Girlhood In Children's Literature, 1852-1920,
2015
University of Southern Mississippi
Protecting Dixie: Southern Girlhood In Children's Literature, 1852-1920, Laura Anne Hakala
Dissertations
Most scholarship about girlhood in children’s literature tends to rely on national models of girlhood. My project complicates those models by demonstrating how region shapes distinct forms of American girlhood. In particular, I examine representations of southern girlhood in children’s literature published between 1852 and 1920, drawing on the four types of literature that most featured southern girls during this time period: abolitionist literature, Confederate literature, postbellum plantation fiction, and family stories. Using a historicist methodology and spatial analysis, I place these texts in relation to information about the spatial arrangements and protocols of southern domestic sites. By viewing girlhood …
