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Dark Side Of The Dream: The Social Gothic In Vietnam Era America, Greg Smith

Dissertations

Gothic horror narratives have been a mainstay of American literature since Charles Brockden Brown's 1798 novel Wieland, and also of our cinema since the celebrated Universal films Dracula and Frankenstein in 1931. Often considered tripe by professional literary and film critics, such tales—both in written and cinematic form—began to gamer intellectual attention during the 1970s as their general popularity soared and as academic interest in American popular culture increased significantly. In the 1980s and 1990s, the Gothic genre became one of the most discussed and debated aspects of American pop culture, with numerous critics weighing in on its potential implications, …

“Sketches Of Spain”: Richard Wright's Pagan Spain And African-American Representations Of The Hispanic, Guy J. Reynolds

Department of English: Faculty Publications

At the start of Pagan Spain (1957), Richard Wright recalled a 1946 conversation with Gertrude Stein; she encouraged him to visit Spain: “ ‘You'll see what the Western world is made of. Spain is primitive, but lovely. ’ ” Wright meditated on his fascination with that country, an obsession rooted in the Civil War's political upheaval: “The fate of Spain hurt me, haunted me; I was never able to stifle a hunger to understand what had happened there and why” (PS, 10). Wright wrote as a leftist, as a political writer who had published anti-Franco articles. In his …

Annotated Bibliography Of Research In The Teaching Of English, Deborah Brown, Judith Kalman, Wayne Martino, Gert Rijlaarsdam, Anne D'Antonio Stinson, Melissa E. Whiting

Faculty Publications

Twice a year, in the May and November issues, RTE publishes a selected bibliography of recent research in the teaching of English. Most of the studies appeared during the six-month period preceding the compilation of the bibliography (January through June 2000,for the present bibliography), but some studies that appeared earlier are occasionally included. The listing is selective; we make no attempt to include all research and research-related articles that appeared in the period under review Comments on the bibliography and suggestions about items for inclusion may be directed to the bibliography editors We encourage you to send your suggestions to …

On Fantasy Stories, Cath Filmer-Davies

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Elaborates on the value that fantasy stories (and indeed all literature) have: “as sociological and enculturating strategies, in the creation and exchange of meaning, and as a means of empowerment to writers and readers equally.”

Is Man A Myth? Mere Christian Perspectives On The Human, Donald T. Williams

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Explores the nature of humanity from the perspectives provided us by G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien, and forces us to consider such difficult questions as “why are we here” and “what is our purpose.”

Till We Have Faces: From Idolatry To Revelation, Dominic Manganiello

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Examines the “face” image and theme in Lewis’s novel and relates it to the use of the same image in a much broader literary context, from Augustine to Oscar Wilde.

Mythcon 31 - Myth And Legend Of The Pacific, The Mythopoeic Society

Mythcon Programs

Welcome to Mythcon XXXI, situated in the heart of Hawai'i's version of "The Cracks of Doom. " It comes complete with the grayness and the mists, the blasted earth, and a belly full of hot lava-a power even Gandalf couldn't control. But while Frodo a·nd Sam toiled we will celebrate, while their spirits dropped our spirits will rise, and while they were alone we will share together. The most powerful word in Hawai 'i is Aloha. It encompasses a generosity of spirit, and a love of the land, and people. This is what we hope you will find here. You …

Eng 2009-002: Literature And Human Values, John Allison

Fall 2000

No abstract provided.

Eng 3702-001: American Realism, John Allison

Fall 2000

No abstract provided.

Eng 1001g-045: Composition And Language, Gregg Hecimovich

Fall 2000

No abstract provided.

Eng 3010g-115, John Kilgore

Summer 2000

No abstract provided.

Masterpiece Or Racist Trash? Bridgewater Students Enter The Debate Over Huckleberry Finn, Barbara Apstein

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Annotated Bibliography Of Research In The Teaching Of English, Deborah Brown, Wayne Martino, Gert Rijlaarsdam, Anne D'Antonio Stinson, Melissa E. Whiting

Faculty Publications

Twice a year, in the May ann November issues, RTE publishes a selected bibliography of recent research in the teaching of English. Most of the studies appeared during the six-mouth period preceding the complication of the bibliography (July through December; 1999, for the present bibliography), but some studies that appeared earlier are occasionally included. The listing is selective; we make no attempt to include all research and research-related articles that appeared in the period under review. Comments on the bibliography and suggestions about items for inclusion may be directed to the bibliography editors We encourage you to send your suggestions …

Cross Racial Preferences In Viewing Sexually Explicit Material: A Comparison Between African-American And Caucasian Males, Boyd Randal Horton

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The present study investigated that extent to which the race of actors in an erotic video affected sexual arousal in African-American and Caucasian heterosexual males. It was hypothesized that the two racial groups would be significantly more sexually aroused while watching their respective homoethnic erotic video. The hypothesis was grounded in the modeling effects of Bandura's Social Leaning Theory (1977), the Matching Hypothesis (1982) and worldview differences between African-Americans and Caucasians (Baldwin and Bell, 1985). Thirty-four African-American and Caucasian males were shown homoethnic and non-homoethnic erotic videos while penile circumference, systolic and diastolic blood pressures, and self-report ratings of sexual …

2000 Literary Review (No. 14), Sigma Tau Delta

The Greenleaf Review

No abstract provided.

Poems As Mnemonic Devices To Aid Grammar Recall, Carolin A. Metzger

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

This study was implemented to explore the extent to which students' performance on grammar editing exams might be affected by exposure to poems used as mnemonic devices intended to aid recall of grammar rules. The poems were used as mnemonic tools to assist subjects memory of specific grammar points. The place of grammar in writing instruction, the use of mnemonics, and the use of rhyme and rhythm are reviewed. The subjects for this study came from developmental level classes at the university level and from advanced level English as Second Language classes. The results emphasize the need for teacher-student interaction …

Take A Picture. It'll Last Longer., James Gardner

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 English by James Gardner on April 17, 2000.

(De)Constructing Daddy: The Absent Father, Revisionist Masculinity And/In Queer Cultural Representations, Andrew Schopp

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

No abstract provided.

Reimagining Masculinities: Disclosure Interviews Bell Hooks, Mary Curran, Susan Mains, Christine Metzo, Sarah Moore

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

No abstract provided.

Meeting Morgan Le Fay: J.R.R. Tolkien's Theory Of Subcreation And The Secondary World Of Sir Gawain And The Green Knight, C. M. Adderley

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Applies Tolkien’s theories of the artist as a sub-creator and of the artist’s creation as a secondary world to the Middle English alliterative poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

Grotesque Circumstances: The Bildungsroman Of Deformation In Contemporary Irish Literature, Margaret Mckimmey-Harada

English Language and Literature ETDs

Using the recent novels of Edna O'Brien, Roddy Doyle, and Patrick McCabe, I examine the ways in which they confront contemporary Irish identity through the structure of the Bildungsroman. This dissertation focuses on the following novels: O'Brien's Time and Tide (1992) and Down by the River (1997); Doyle's Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (1993) and The Woman Who Walked Into Doors (1996); McCabe's The Butcher Boy (1992), The Dead School (1995), and Breakfast on Pluto (1998). Though coming-of-age novels typically chronicle a youthful protagonist's development, I argue that these authors use the traditional features of the genre to show the …

Near Confinement: Pregnant Women In The Nineteenth-Century British Novel, Cynthia N. Malone

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Et Cetera, Marshall University

Et Cetera

Founded in 1953, Et Cetera is an annual literary magazine that publishes the creative writing and artwork of Marshall University students and affiliates. Et Cetera is free to the Marshall University community.

Et Cetera welcomes submissions in literary and film criticism, poetry, short stories, drama, all types of creative non-fiction, photography, and art.

The Father's Witness: Patriarchal Images Of Boys, David Lee Miller

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 8, No. 2, The Sinclair Lewis Society

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter

“Making the World a Better Place: Lewis’s Advice to a Teacher”

“Fascists in America: Gender and Dystopia in It Can’t Happen Here and The Handmaid’s Tale,” by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University

“The Nation Reprints Lewis Essays”

“Lewis Session at ALA Focuses on Middle-Class Life, Awards, and Bibliography”

Abstracts of the Sinclair Lewis Panel at 2000 ALA

“‘Snoway Talkcher Father’: The Construction of the Suburban Family in Babbitt,” by M. Ellen Dupree, University of Nevada-Reno

“A Plea for a Bibliography of Sinclair Lewis,” by James Lorson, Lorson’s Books and Prints

“Delicate Fellows and Fugitives from Rage: The …

Collaborating Toward Intellectual Practice: Re-Imagining Service In English Studies, Amy M. Goodburn, Joy Ritchie

Department of English: Faculty Publications

This essay chronicles the story of our collaborations as scholars, teachers, colleagues, friends, and co-coordinators of the first-year writing program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. We believe our narrative can lead to an expanded vision of service in the profession by illuminating how ongoing discussions about collaboration can help us construct and imagine service as intellectual work. As two faculty members (one assistant and one associate professor) responsible for collaboratively coordinating a first-year-writing program, we hope to question what it means to do administrative service collaboratively, to examine this hydra-headed authority that we wield and attempt to implement within our …

Eng 1002c-053: Composition And Literature, Michael Kuo

Spring 2000

No abstract provided.

Eng 3001-002: Advanced Composition, Mccormick

Spring 2000

No abstract provided.

Eng 1002c-034: Composition And Literature, Michael Kuo

Spring 2000

No abstract provided.

Eng 3405-003: Children's Literature, John Moore

Spring 2000

No abstract provided.