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A Bridge Over Troubled Waters : Jazz, Diaspora Discourse, And E. B. Dongala's "Jazz And Palm Wine" As Response To Amiri Baraka's "Answers In Progress"., Ann Elizabeth Willey

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

This essay explores how Emmanuel Dongala’s story “Jazz and Palm Wine” (1970) rewrites Imiri Baraka’s story “Answers in Progress” (1967). Baraka’s story calls for a black revolution based in furturist thinking and diaspora consciousness embodied in jazz. In rewriting Baraka, Dongala resists discourses of coherent and stable identity through a recasting of the aesthetic functions of futurism and jazz. Dongala’s intertextual use of, and emendations to, Baraka’s story suggest his discomfort with articulations of diaspora identity that, in the late 60s, were increasingly defined by cultural symbols. In transposing Baraka’s futurist fable of the revolution to the African continent, Dongala …

Homophonic Translation, Appositional Writing, And The Monster, Ryan Landry Clark

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation features a combination of critical and creative work

exploring the ethics of appropriative writing and the reparative potential of homophonic translation. The opening essay examines the ethics of appropriation- based poetry and introduces the concept of what I call "appositional writing," a term to describe ethically-minded works of poetry that make use of appropriative writing methods. The next three parts of this dissertation are each appositional writing projects that make use of homophonic translation as the primary method of composition. "Arizona State Bill 1070: An Act" is a homophonic translation of the anti-immigration bill of the same name. …

The Placenta In My Living Room And Other College Epiphanies, Joseph Franklin, Dr. Patrick Madden

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Nothing was more important to me in creating this collection of essays than keeping a regular record of personal experience, reflection, and inquisition. From pre-writing, to drafting, to revising, my daily record has provided an indispensable source of material for this collection. Three of the essays, “The Proper School,” “Marriage in Pieces,” and “A Suitcase Full of Rations,” as well as many of the brief essays in “Selected Shorts,” all began as blog entries. When I wrote every day, the ideas flowed and the work progressed. When I wrote sporadically, the ideas sludged forward, usually as muddy as they were …

Camera Arriving At The Station: Cinematic Memory As Cultural Memory, Russell J A Kilbourn

English and Film Studies Faculty Publications

This paper explores the modern metropolis as an ironically concrete metaphor for the collective memory and the mourning of cinema’s passing, as it—the “city”—is digitally constructed in two recent, auteur-directed, special effects-driven blockbuster films, Inception and Hugo. The modern city, and mass media, such as the cinema, as well as modes of mass transport, especially the train, all originate in the 19th century, but come into their own in the early 20th century in their address to a subject as the mobilised citizen-consumer who, as Anne Friedberg makes clear, is also always a viewer. Additionally, as Barbara Mennel has recently …

“Seeing, Seeing, Seeing”: Deafness, Knowledge, And Subjectivity In Elizabeth Bowen, Maren Linett

Department of English Faculty Publications

In What is Posthumanism, Cary Wolfe enlists Temple Grandin’s account of her autism to critique reductive ideas of subjectivity. He quotes Oliver Sacks’s comment that Grandin’s first book was “unthinkable because it had been medical dogma for forty years or more that there was no ‘inside,’ no inner life, in the autistic, or that if there was it would be forever denied access or expression” (129). As Wolfe sees it, that dogma is founded in no small part on the too-rapid assimilation of the questions of subjectivity, consciousness, and cognition to the question of language ability—a dogma that is perhaps …

Cwpa Position Statement On Pre-College Credit For Writing, Krtistine Hansen, Jeffrey Andelora, Heidi Estrem, Clint Gardner, Joseph Janangelo, Susan Miller-Cochran

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

In the CWPA Position Statement on Pre-College Credit for Writing (see attachment), the Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA), an organization that advocates for best practices in the teaching of writing in postsecondary institutions, compares the three main alternatives high school students have for completing early the required first-year writing (FYW) course they would otherwise take after matriculating at college. These alternatives are Advanced Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate (IB), and dual credit or concurrent enrollment (DC/CE).

Because so many stakeholders have an interest in understanding how these high school alternatives compare to FYW, the position statement discusses the history and …

The Ssl Symposium On Editing: A Commentary, Ian Duncan

Studies in Scottish Literature

Reviews and comments on the preceding essays in the SSL Symposium on Editing Scottish Literary Texts, setting them in the wider context of critical discussion, responding to some of the earlier comments comparing the recent collected editions of Walter Scott and James Hogg, and arguing that the "authentically democratic" work of making a fuller range of Scottish literary texts available moves critical discussion forward from the "tedious zero-sum game" of debating a static canon.

For "The Prosperity Of Scotland": Mediating National Improvement In The Scots Magazine, 1739-49, Alex Benchimol

Studies in Scottish Literature

Discusses the early years the the Scots Magazine, founded in Edinburgh in 1739, examining the aims of its publishers, and the development of its political and economic views before and after the Jacobite Rising of 1745-46, in light of contemporary Scottish ideas of social and economic improvement.

On Vernacular Scottishness And Its Limits: Devolution And The Spectacle Of "Voice", Scott Hames

Studies in Scottish Literature

This essay asks why vernacular cultural expression has been so central to discussion of Scottish national autonomy, traces the literary and political contours of vernacular discourse in the period of Scottish devolution, and concludes with a provisional sketch of three "vernacularities" (democratic, romantic and identitarian) and with reflections on how literary criticism might move beyond the "representative” paradigms of vernacular voice to engage with voice as a principle of agency and action.

Books Received, John T. Knox, Patrick G. Scott

Studies in Scottish Literature

Publication details and short descriptions of over thirty recently-published books in Scottish literature and related fields.

The Emergence Of The Digital Humanities, Steven E. Jones

English Faculty Publications

The past decade has seen a profound shift in our collective understanding of the digital network. What was once understood to be a transcendent virtual reality is now experienced as a ubiquitous grid of data that we move through and interact with every day, raising new questions about the social, locative, embodied, and object-oriented nature of our experience in the networked world.

In The Emergence of the Digital Humanities, Steven E. Jones examines this shift in our relationship to digital technology and the ways that it has affected humanities scholarship and the academy more broadly. Based on the premise …

August 27, 2013: 2013-2014 Distinguished Alum, James Griffioen, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.

Developing Multimedia With Internet Technology While Accommodating Disabled Students: A History Of The Civilization Cd-Rom, Jeffrey L. Dunster, Paul Thomas

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The aim of this project was to assemble a CD-ROM of supplemental media for History of Civilization courses at BYU. The research and development of this project served as my honors capstone project and a full report is now archived at BYU under the same title as this ORCA report.

Eng 3402-001: Methods Of Teaching Composition In Secondary Schools, Robin Murray

Fall 2013

No abstract provided.

Eng 2011g-003: Literature, The Self, And The World: Poetry, Ruben Quesada

Fall 2013

No abstract provided.

Eng 1001g-033: Composition I, Aaron White

Fall 2013

No abstract provided.

Eng 1001g-043: Composition And Language, Emily Bowers

Fall 2013

No abstract provided.

Eng 1001g-035: Composition And Language, Ruben Quesada

Fall 2013

No abstract provided.

Eng 3401-001: Methods Of Teaching Composition In Secondary Schools, Melissa Ames

Fall 2013

No abstract provided.

Eng 3805-001: Style Matters, Suzie Park

Fall 2013

No abstract provided.

Eng 3704-001: American Literature: 1950-Present, Melissa Ames

Fall 2013

No abstract provided.

Hic 2000g-001: Introduction To The Humanities: Interdisciplinary Problem-Solving, Janet Marquardt

Fall 2013

No abstract provided.

Eng 5025-001: Creative Writing And Professional Development, Daiva Markelis

Fall 2013

No abstract provided.

Eng 3405-001-002, Jamila Smith

Fall 2013

No abstract provided.

Eng 4801-001: Integrating The English Language Arts, Donna Binns

Fall 2013

No abstract provided.

Eng/Cmn 5260-001: Communication In Science And Technical Organizations, Terri Fredrick, Brian Sowa

Fall 2013

No abstract provided.

Eng 4850-001: Third World Literature, Dagni Bredesen

Fall 2013

No abstract provided.

Eng 4775-001: Gender & Queer Literature And Criticism: Technology & Identity, R Quesada

Fall 2013

No abstract provided.

Critiquing Academic Culture With Satire Through Lady Lazarus, A Fictional Biography, Amber R. Perry

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

In the tradition of academic satire, Lady Lazarus is the fictional biography of the daughter of American rock musicians. In her late teens she rises to fame as confessional poet, who, despite only publishing one collection of poems during her brief life, becomes an overnight sensation. Author Andrew Altschul is satirizing academia’s need to be a part of popular culture and in doing so, privileges the ability to use controversy and conventional beauty to sell books as opposed to creating quality art. By focusing on how the author uses Hans Robert Jauss’ horizons of expectations, unreliable narrators, anecdotes in biography …

Where Do We Go From Here? Multiliteracy And The Future Of Narrative, Dustin W. Mccrory

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Words on a page are insufficient vehicles for complex ideas. When images and words appear together on the page, as in comics, the process of meaning-making through narrative functions more efficiently. Building on this idea, we must establish a “graphic narratology” to understand the process whereby meaning is transmitted. Analysis of narratological conventions, as well as the conventions of mass-market comics, provides a framework for this new narratology.