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Every Man's An Odysseus: An Analysis Of The Nostos-Theme In Corelli's Mandolin, Emily A. Mcdermott

Classics & Religious Studies Faculty Publication Series

In the sparkling first chapter of Louis de Bernieres's Corelli's Mandolin, the world of Homer's Odysseus is explicitly invoked. This is hardly surprising in a historical novel which will detail the Italian occupation of the Greek island of Cephallonia, near neighbor of Odysseus's Ithaca, during World War II. What is less immediately apparent is that the novel contains a further pattern of inexplicit allusion to the Odyssey, along with a pervasive theme of nostos. Emphasis on "homecoming" helps create the novel's ardent encomium to the Greek homeland that inspires such fierce love of place in its people …

The Old American, Ernest Hebert

Dartmouth Scholarship

In 1746, Nathan Blake, the first frame house builder in Keene, New Hampshire, was abducted by Algonkians and held in Canada as a slave. Inspired by this dramatic slice of history, novelist Ernest Hebert has written a masterful new novel recreating those years of captivity. Set in New England and Canada during the French and Indian Wars, The Old American is driven by its complex, vividly imagined title character, Caucus-Meteor. By turns shrewd and embittered, ambitious and despairing, inspired and tormented, he is the self-styled "king" of the remnants of the first native tribes that encountered the English. Displaced and …

Now & Then (Volume 17, Issue 03, 2000), Center Of Excellence For Appalachian Studies And Services, East Tennessee State University

Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine

Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine,Volume 17, Issue 03, published in 2000. The theme of this issue is Museums and Archives. This issue explores how museums and archival institutions shape public memory and regional identity in Appalachia, examining efforts to reinterpret the past with greater accuracy and complexity. Through features on community museums, restored schoolhouses, literary manuscript collections, nuclear history exhibits, and emerging virtual archives, it considers how preservation initiatives balance tourism, education, and historical truth. Essays, fiction, poetry, and reviews further analyze the narratives museums choose to elevate, questioning romanticized paradigms and highlighting tensions between authenticity and marketability, …

Family Ties, Linda Demaso

The Angle

In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay's first paragraph.

"My sister, Jesse, filled my wineglass again, spilling some on the table. Then she filled her own. It was almost two in the morning, and the flea bites on my leg itched."

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The Angle

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Poetry Experiences Across The Fourth-Grade Curriculum, Linda M. Nelson

Graduate Research Papers

The genre of poetry can.foster children's personal-social and thinking-language abilities. Poetry offers much pleasure for children, insight into their lives' and those of others, and models for their expression.

When teachers understand children's poetry preferences and ways to present this genre, it can add another dimension across the curriculum. Poetry experiences reported m this article were presented incidentally and in the social studies program of a fourth-grade classroom. Webbing conducted to identify important concepts in a social studies unit supported the fourth-graders poetry writing. Poetry forms were taught for children to use as structures for their writing.

Gary Snyder's Path, Jason Dockter

Masters Theses

Early in Gary Snyder's life, he lived a rootless existence in pursuance of gaining spiritual satisfaction through a more harmonious relationship with nature. This rootlessness that dominated this period of Snyder's life originated in Snyder's European ancestors lifestyle, which valued exploiting the natural world for a profit. Through exposure to Chinese landscape paintings, Snyder found Buddhism and began to practice it as a means to reconcile his own humanity with the natural world, which his cultural heritage has alienated himself from. Through Buddhism, Snyder realizes the importance of reuniting humanity with the natural world.

Upon gaining this knowledge, Snyder assumes …

Calliope, Armstrong Atlantic State University

Calliope Magazine

Volume 17

The Women Of Middle Fork, Pamela J. W. Shingler

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the Caudill College of Humanities at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Pamela J.W. Shingler on December 9, 1999.

Writing The Young Adult Novel: Analysis And Process, Lucinda Boone

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The thesis consists of two sections: research and creative. The research section includes brief analyses of five young adult novels that received the Newbery Medal, awarded annually by the American Library Association to the author of the most distinguished contribution to children's literature. The creative section is an original young adult novel that incorporates some of the characteristics uncovered in the analysis of the Newbery novels. The Newbery Medal winners analyzed for this thesis are The High King by Lloyd Alexander; Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary; Missing Maxj by Cynthia Rylant; A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle; and …

Nexus, Fall/Winter 1999-2000, Wright State University Community

Nexus Literary Journal

Nexus is a magazine that began as an insert in the Wright State Guardian student newspaper in 1965 and has since been published semi-regularly. It began only accepting creative writing, but has since expanded to include illustrations, photography and other non-written art forms. Today, it is published in a digital format and accepts submissions from around the country, though it maintains its commitment to the Wright State Community.

Mixed Media November 29, 1999, #1, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. This November 29, 1999 issue is the first in a two-part special on the new millenium. It includes articles on Mixed Media updates, bicycle theft, former RISD newspaper contributor "the Mystic Mexican," new albums by Nine Inch Nails and Fiona Apple, musician Warn Defever, peeping Toms, and a letter from the Landscape Architecture department to the RISD Administration, along with the comics "Y2K: Timeline," comcis by Mark Hoffman, event notices, and other announcements.

On Falling For Animated Females, Randy W. Oakes

Westview

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Sleeping With The Animals, Glenda Zumwalt

Westview

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Winter Solo, Donna Stinson

Westview

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Mixed Media November 2, 1999, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The November 2, 1999 issue includes articles on independent animators Amy Kravitz and Steve Subotnick teaching at RISD, RISD students who attended Ottawa 99 International Student Animation Festival (SAFO), Bookworks and Private Press bookmaking courses, an EgyptAir plane crash, world news, interviews with Oren Sherman and Dave Colvin, along with illustrations by Brie, the comics "Adventures in Real Life" by Adam Swaab, "PITTA" by Tim Finn, and "Ben" by Frenzer, the paper doll series, event notices, and other announcements.

Poem No. 82, November 1999, Huntsville Literary Association (Huntsvile, Ala.)

POEM

The Huntsville Literary Association was founded in 1967 to provide a community for writers, readers, and artists through workshops, readings, and educational programs. One of their key contributions is the literary magazine titled POEM which showcases original writings from both established and emerging writers. This issue features poems from various writers.

Mixed Media October 15, 1999, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The October 15, 1999 issue includes articles on police-student relations, the Mt. Hope Learning Center, wrestling, the movie American Beauty, interview with people from the NBC daytime drama "Passions", along with the comic "Adventures in Real Life" by Adam Swaab, "Ben" by Frenzer, "One Dark Night" by Tim Finn, paper doll series, event notices, and other announcements.

Inscape Fall 1999, Morehead State University

Inscape: Art & Literary Magazine Archive

The Fall 1999 edition of the Inscape: Literary and Art Magazine.

Fall 1999, Valparaiso University

The Lighter, 1958-Last Year

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The Legend Of Plutonia Young, William Fraser

CutBank

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Beyond This Point There Be Dragons, Temple D. West

English Theses & Dissertations

Through profiles of six contemporary female authors that focus on their creative lives, as well as my personal journey toward rediscovering my creative voice, this nonfiction work explores the myths and legacies surrounding female creativity, especially as it relates to women writers today. It is an anatomy of stories about women who dare enter that territory of dragons beyond the known world, the territory where treasure is found.

All That Becomes A Man, Eugene M. Mcavoy

English Theses & Dissertations

In each life, the past inevitably impinges upon the present, at once helping to form and threatening to destroy the fragile structure of the psyche called identity. With a multitude of influences, the past functions to alter ephemeral perceptions of the self and to shape an identity that is often incompatible with and abhorrent to who we think we are. This collection of five short stories examines the processes of reconciling the past with the present and of discovering the resulting social, sexual and spiritual identities.

Yet, more importantly, the stories also explore people in their present moments, aching to …

Skin: A Work Of Fiction, Kellie Wells

Dissertations

In Skin, a polyphonous novel, a community of characters similarly metaphysically vexed and similarly grappling with issues of selfhood and identity intersect and catalyze in one another moments of recognition. These brief self-reckonings suggest to the characters that though the quest to discern their place in the universe is a plagued one, it is not without value as it at least results in faint glimmers of enlightenment. Ultimately, how ever, these flickerings of understanding inch the characters no closer to the big certainties they seek, and they therefore must determine that the process itself, or, more to the point, …

Numbers, Shea Ybarra

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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Circles, Valentino Loiacono

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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The Problem Of Evil, Richard N. Bentley

Westview

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I Never Really Liked Hemingway, Ray Johnson

Westview

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Contributors, Westview Staff

Westview

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Córdoban Discourses: A Drama Of Interreligious Dialogue, James Mark Shields

Faculty Journal Articles

SETTING: Cordoba, Spain, 1135 CE, 29th year of the reign of ‘Ali “amir al-muslimin,” second king of the Berber Almoravid dynasty, rulers of Moorish Spain from 1071 to 1147. Cordoba, the capital of Andalus and the center of the Almoravid holdings in Spain, is a bustling cosmopolitan center, a crossroads for Europe and the Middle East, and the meeting-point of three religious traditions. Most significantly, Cordoba at this time is the hub of European intellectual activity. From the square—itself impressively large and surrounded by a massive collonade, the regularity and ordered beauty of which typifies the Moorish taste for symmetry …