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The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 1, The Sinclair Lewis Society

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter

Abstracts from Papers Presented at the 1993 American Literature Association Conference:

“Lewis on Authorship,” by Martin Bucco, Colorado State University

“‘All of Us Americans at 46’: The Making of Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt,” by James M. Hutchisson, The Citadel

“Babbitt as Veblenian Critique of Manliness,” by Clare Eby, University of Connecticut-Hartford

“Sinclair Lewis’s ‘Minnesota Diary’ and His Devotion to Thoreau,” by George Killough, College of St. Scholastica

“A Romance of Manners and Class,” rev. of Free Air, by Sinclair Lewis, edited by Robert E. Fleming, by Roger Forseth, University of Wisconsin-Superior

“The Reviewers Reviewed: Part II,” by Robert …

The Poor Girl And The Bad Man: Fairytales Of Feminine Power, Elisabeth Panttaja

The Kentucky Review

No abstract provided.

Delicate Subjects: Romanticism, Gender, And The Ethics Of Understanding [Review], Michael Fischer

English Faculty Research

We are still trying to sort out the complex legacy of romanticism. "We" here includes philosophers Stanley Cavell and Richard Rorty, feminist critics Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, and a remarkable variety of literary theorists, from Northrop Frye, M. H. Abrams, Paul de Man, and Harold Bloom through Hazard Adams and Jerome J. McGann. Julie Ellison's important book, Delicate Subjects, focuses on an especially difficult problem we have inherited from the romantics: the problem of defining the ethics of interpretation. According to Ellison, male romantic writers worry that in literary interpretation, we murder to dissect (to paraphrase Wordsworth). Criticism, from …

A Problem In Rhetoric: Teaching Writing With Western Culture, Steven Marx

English

But rather than the large theoretical questions of canon revision that grabbed national headlines last year, I want to talk about a more mundane and limited question that I tried to deal with while teaching at Stanford between 1984 and June 1988. That question addresses one of the practical concerns of this conference on core curriculum: how does one effectively combine a course in English Composition with a course in Western Culture? The problem delegated to me was to work out a curriculum that would adapt the topics of English Comp to the readings and lectures-a curriculum for a course …

Mythcon 24 - Down The Hobbit-Hole & Through The Wardrobe: Fantasy In Children's Literature, The Mythopoeic Society

Mythcon Programs

Mythcon XXIV is pleased to offer you a wide selection of daytime programming, including scholarly papers, panel discussions, readings, storytelling, and other events, beginning at 1:00 p.m. on Friday. We recommend studying our Pocket Program to choose the events you wish to attend each hour and to plan when to visit our Art Show and Dealers' Room.

The Latest Model, Gwenyth E. Hood

The Mythic Circle

Though it was only superficial, the lesion on the three- year old’s arm looked sinister.

Mythic Circle #15, Tina Cooper, C.I.S. Lowentrout

The Mythic Circle

Mythic Circle issue #15, Early Summer 1993

Tales Newly Told, Alexei Kondratiev

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

Paxson, Diana. The Wolf and the Raven.

The Hero Who Was Thursday: A Modern Myth, Russell Carlin

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

Calls Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday a modern fantasy “that can effectively serve as an example of a true modern myth as seen through” Campbell’s journey of the hero. The “novel contains many of the structure elements and conventions” of Campbell’s monomyth while providing the reader “some particularly modern insights.”

"A Bloomsbury Blue-Stocking": Dorothy L. Sayers' Bloomsbury Years In Their "Spatial And Temporal Content", Nancy-Lou Patterson

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

Contends that Sayers’s “Bloomsbury years formed a significant source for and influence upon her detective fiction.”

Chwedl Gymaeg A Llenyddiaeth Gyfoesol: (Welsh Myth And Contemporary Literature, Kath Filmer-Davies

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

Contends religious discourse has migrated to the fantasy novel, and fantasy “invades so-called realistic novels”; examines “this theological aspect of writing applied to fantasy”; discusses several contemporary fantasies based on Welsh myth.

An Inklings Bibliography (50), Joe R. Christopher, Wayne G. Hammond

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

Entries 42–59 in this series are written by Hammond (Tolkien material) and Christopher (Lewis and other material). See Hammond, Wayne G., for one later entry in this series.

The Latest Model, Gwenyth Hood

English Faculty Research

Though it was only superficial, the lesion on the three-year old's arm looked sinister. Oddly symmetrical and oval, it looked like a pinkish field of delicate needlepricks on the pudgy arm and elbow, oozing a little and forming a crust the color of lemon yogurt on the edges. The child sniffled as Sandra gently explored his injury. His cheekswere still red from bawling.

(Un)Dress And (Dis)Empowerment): The Relationship Between Women And Dress From The Cavaliers To The Romantics, Kimberly A. Elashik

Honors Projects

References to women and their dress continually recur in British literature, especially predominant between the mid-seventeenth century (the Cavaliers) and the early nineteenth century (the Romantics). Clothing, or lack thereof, becomes one means for male authors to write about women. In John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667), Robert Herrick's "Upon Julia's Clothes" and "Delight in Disorder" (1648), and John Keats' "The Eve of St. Agnes" (1819), the authors undress the individuals to render them vulnerable, often weaving eroticism and voyeurism into their examinations. Other works, such as Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock (1714) and Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders (1722), …

Eating Away: A Study Of Women's Relationship With Food In Literature, Sheila Bauer '93

Honors Projects

Women struggle against a male dominated structure to grasp control and shape their own identities. In her analysis of the "feminine mystique," Betty Friedan states "It is my thesis that the core of the problem for women today is not sexual but a problem of identity -a stunting or evasion of growth" (Chernin 17). Friedan is correct--many women cannot define the boundaries of the self and, further, cannot find an identity within the larger social structure to claim for themselves. These three issues--self, autonomy, and identity--are interwoven as causes behind the development of eating disorders.

Lee Smith's Use Of Point Of View In Oral History And Black Mountain Breakdown, Debbie Ames

Honors Theses

As a literary device, choice of point of view is one of the most important technical decisions an author must make when writing a novel because of the effects emerging from this choice. If an author chooses first person point of view over third person point of view, the overall effect of the novel will differ. Lee Smith is keenly aware of the importance of point of view and manipulates it in both Black Mountain Breakdown and Oral History to create the overall effects which she desires for each novel.

1993 Literary Review (No. 7), Sigma Tau Delta

The Greenleaf Review

No abstract provided.

A Philosophical Investigation Of Sexual Jealousy And Jealousy In Shakespeare's Othello, Cymbeline, And The Winter's Tale, Greg P. Miner

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

Many poets, social scientists, and philosophers have tried to understand, explain, and define jealousy. The methods employed in their pursuits are as varied as the different conclusions they have given. Three of the difficulties involved in the pursuit of jealousy are: the complex nature of jealousy, the significant role jealousy plays in interpersonal relationships, and the labyrinth encountered when trying to distinguish between jealousy and envy. The most common questions asked about jealousy are: What is jealousy? and, How can jealousy be helped? This paper will focus on the question: What is jealousy? Specifically, the following questions will be answered. …

Ayn Rand, Female Misogynist: A Study Of Androgyny In Atlas Shrugged, Sara Kristin Parker

Theses & Honors Papers

Ayn Rand, renowned author of such titles as Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, based many of her heroines on her androgynist views derived from her upbringing and lifestyle. Parker balances her research mostly between Rand’s life and her female protagonist in Atlas Shrugged, Dagny Taggart. Taggart possesses some disdain for a few female characters in the novel, which reflects some of Rand’s lack of female friends due to anti-feministic opinions, the most notable identifying her own sex as weak and submissive. Ayn herself said that she based all of her characters off of a male hero in a children’s …

The Ideology Of Detection In Pynchon And Delillo, Douglas Keesey

English

No abstract provided.

The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 2, The Sinclair Lewis Society

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter

“Teaching Sinclair Lewis: Using Students as Experts,” by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University

“The Library of America Lewis: The Reviewers Reviewed,” by Robert L. McLaughlin, Illinois State University

“Three Lewis Letters,” by R. R. Centing, Ohio State University Libraries

“Bibliographical Notes,” by Robert E. Fleming, University of New Mexico

Negating And Affirming Spirit Through Language: The Integration Of Character, Magic, And Story In The Lord Of The Rings, Alan Mccomas

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

THIS IS A TWO-PART ARTICLE. IN ORDER TO READ OR DOWNLOAD THE OTHER PART, FOLLOW THE LINK AT THE END OF THIS ABSTRACT.

Focuses on Tolkien’s narrative treatment in The Lord of the Rings and the “Ring as an emergent symbol of language itself.” Notes that through Tolkien’s “characterization of protagonists and antagonists, his use of sub-texts and ‘sub-authors,’ Tolkien demonstrates the ways in which magic and language are bound up with one another.”

Part 2:https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol19/iss3/7

The Bittersweet Vine: Fairy Tales And Nursery Rhymes, Kathleen Hess

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

Contrasts more modern versions of fairy tales with less sanitized early versions. Recounts the darker meaning behind some well-known nursery rhymes. Contends that removing the harshness of original versions is a mistake, because denying the “bitter truth” doesn’t build inner strength.

"Facing History" At South Boston High School, Thomas Klein

English Faculty Publications

Describes how the "Facing History" social studies curriculum (which moves students from literary and historical examples of genocide back to present-day experiences of intolerance and racism) is taught in an English class at South Boston High School. Describes various activities undertaken in the class related to this curriculum. Sketches the role and behavior of the classroom teacher.

Orts 30, 1993, The George Macdonald Society

Orts: The George MacDonald Society Newsletter

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The AGM will take place on Monday November 8th at 7.15 p.m. The meeting will be held at St. Martins in the Fields, Trafalgar Square. We hope to have an outside speaker to address the Meeting which is, of course, open to all (although only paid-up members can vote).

Review Of Loewen's "No Permanent City: Stories From Mennonite History And Life", Bill Jolliff

Faculty Publications - Department of English

No abstract provided.

When The Priest Is A Woman: Female Clergy And The Detective Novel, Linda K. Robertson

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

“I Wol Thee Telle Al Plat”: Poetic Influence In Chaucer’S Pardoner, Dana E. Aspinall

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Parnassus 1993

Parnassus

The 1993 edition of the student literary journal, Parnassus, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

‘So Unlike The Normal Lunatic’: Abnormal Psychology In Bram Stoker’S Dracula, William Hughes

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.