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Church, Chapel And Clergy In Margaret Oliphant's Chronicles Of Carlingford, Karen A. King Jan 2002

Church, Chapel And Clergy In Margaret Oliphant's Chronicles Of Carlingford, Karen A. King

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This thesis examines the fictional works of Magaret Oliphant’s Chronicles of Carlingford in order to explain her understanding of the significance of Church and Chapel communities and their clergymen within an insular and atypical provincial community in mid-nineteenth century England. By drawing on a variety of examples in the novels and in real life, the thesis argues that Oliphant was a serious commentator on religious matters and controversies and not just a teller of tales. The thesis will address the significance of Oliphant’s engagement with a range of religious and social matters concerning the Church of England with a qualified …

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Eng 4300-003: English Senior Seminar: War Stories, Kilgore Aug 2001

Eng 4300-003: English Senior Seminar: War Stories, Kilgore

Fall 2001

No abstract provided.

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Joanna Baillie And The Gothic Body: Reading Extremities In Orra And De Monfort, Diane Hoeveler Aug 2001

Joanna Baillie And The Gothic Body: Reading Extremities In Orra And De Monfort, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

At the time of their publication, Joanna Baillie's dramas were considered to be works of genius in their sustained and powerful fixation on one of the several possible human passions. In their very focus on these intense emotions, however, the plays actually reified the dangers inherent in the extremes of human passion. In other words, by fixing her attention on the passions, Baillie revealed that the emotions she was supposedly focused on often masked other, even more powerful desires. Thus, in Orra fear is the result of the heroine's hatred of male dominance, while in De Monfort hatred is shown …

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Eng 5061-001: War In Literature, John Kilgore Jun 2001

Eng 5061-001: War In Literature, John Kilgore

Summer 2001

No abstract provided.

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The Magician's Niece: The Kinship Between J. K. Rowling And C. S. Lewis, Joy Farmer Apr 2001

The Magician's Niece: The Kinship Between J. K. Rowling And C. S. Lewis, Joy Farmer

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

Looks at parallels between the Chronicles of Narnia and the Harry Potter books in terms of plot, structure, symbolism, theme, and purpose.

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Apologist For The Past: The Medieval Vision Of C. S. Lewis's "Space Trilogy" And Chronicles Of Narnia, Louis Markos Apr 2001

Apologist For The Past: The Medieval Vision Of C. S. Lewis's "Space Trilogy" And Chronicles Of Narnia, Louis Markos

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

Shows how the medieval model which Lewis articulated in The Discarded Image influenced both the Space Trilogy and the Chronicles of Narnia.

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The Invisible Can Or, Gendering Corporate Globalization Trouble: Technological Utopianism And The Language Of Erasure, Marleen S. Barr Jan 2001

The Invisible Can Or, Gendering Corporate Globalization Trouble: Technological Utopianism And The Language Of Erasure, Marleen S. Barr

Publications and Research

In the following, noted science fiction scholar Marleen S. Barr argues for an increased attention to science fiction as a literature of the potentials of globalization, a genre that has largely been marginalized in discussions of the future of a globalized techno-culture. Further, Barr argues for greater attention being paid to feminist utopian fiction which helps to reimagine women's roles in the increasingly complex, and increasingly capitalistic, globalized techno-culture that has continued to marginalize the female body (and consciousness) in much the same way that scholars have denied the possibilities of utopian science fiction.

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Futurist Fiction And Fantasy: The Racial Establishment, Gregory E. Rutledge Jan 2001

Futurist Fiction And Fantasy: The Racial Establishment, Gregory E. Rutledge

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Futurist fiction and fantasy encompasses a variety of subgenres: hard science fiction, speculative fiction, fantasy, sword-and-sorcerer fantasy, and cyberpunk. Unfortunately, even though nearly a century has expired since the advent of futurist fiction and fantasy, Richard Pryor’s observation and a call for action is still viable. Despite the growing number of Black futurist fiction and fantasy writers, the proportion of Black futurist fiction and fantasy authors to White futurist fiction and fantasy authors is dismal. This disproportion means that Black futurist fiction and fantasy authors have a limited presence in the industry. Thus, although Black futurist fiction and fantasy authors …

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Biblical Assyria And Other Anxieties In The British Empire, Steven W. Holloway Jan 2001

Biblical Assyria And Other Anxieties In The British Empire, Steven W. Holloway

Libraries

The successful “invasion” of ancient Mesopotamia by explorers in the pay of the British Museum Trustees resulted in best-selling publications, a treasure-trove of Assyrian antiquities for display purposes and scholarly excavation, and a remarkable boost to the quest for confirmation of the literal truth of the Bible. The public registered its delight with the findings through the turnstyle- twirling appeal of the British Museum exhibits, and a series of appropriations of Assyrian art motifs and narratives in popular culture - jewelry, bookends, clocks, fine arts, theater productions, and a walk-through Assyrian palace among other period mansions at the Sydenham Crystal …

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Some Early Vision Poems By Edwin Morgan, Rodney Stenning Edgecombe Jan 2001

Some Early Vision Poems By Edwin Morgan, Rodney Stenning Edgecombe

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Travelers And Tourists: Rules Of Engagement In William Mcilvanney's Detective Fiction, Robert P. Winston Jan 2001

Travelers And Tourists: Rules Of Engagement In William Mcilvanney's Detective Fiction, Robert P. Winston

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Violence And The Victimization Of Women: Engendering Sympathy For Hogg's Justified Sinner, Warren Fox Jan 2001

Violence And The Victimization Of Women: Engendering Sympathy For Hogg's Justified Sinner, Warren Fox

Studies in Scottish Literature

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The Characters And Dramaturgy Of Tennessee Williams : An Analysis Through The Presentation Of Two One-Act Plays, Lucy Eyre Jan 2001

The Characters And Dramaturgy Of Tennessee Williams : An Analysis Through The Presentation Of Two One-Act Plays, Lucy Eyre

Theses : Honours

An analysis into the background of Tennessee Williams strongly suggests that the two one-act plays, This Property is Condemned and The Lady of Larkspur Lotion are autobiographical accounts, being that the characters arc based either on Williams himself family members or friends, and indeed, the plays arc representations of the era in wh1ch they were written. Also, a simultaneous investigation into the dramaturgy of these plays shows Williams' innovative “use of all the resources of the contemporary stage” (Boxill 23). and the rehearsal process and workshop presentation was an exploration and discovery into how these resources can be implemented …

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Prayers For The Wild At Heart: Personal Essays, Michael Lewis Frizell Jan 2001

Prayers For The Wild At Heart: Personal Essays, Michael Lewis Frizell

Graduate Theses/Dissertations

It is my contention that writers wll violate their own privacy, that is, reveal their innermost thoughts and dreams, when they are comfortable with the manner and context in which their privacy is broken. Thus, the vehicle for "crossing the line" is important. By discovering their "personal voice" through utilization of the narrative personal essay, writers will be able to break the fear of writing in a voice that reveals the essence of their souls. The personal essay is not a work of fiction. In this mode, writers are forced to self-reflect on their subject, accessing a mercurial memory, then …

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Reading The Emotions Of Salome: Sympathy For The Devil Or Fear And Loathing, Diane Hoeveler Jan 2001

Reading The Emotions Of Salome: Sympathy For The Devil Or Fear And Loathing, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

In October 1876 Gustave Flaubert was engaged in writing what would become perhaps his most well-known and successful piece of short fiction, "A Simple Heart." This narrative dissects the life of an innocent servant woman, ironically named Felicity, who rransfers her love and spiritual devotion from object to object until she finally settles, afrer life's many disappointments, on a stuffed and tattered parrot as the incarnation of her god of love. The horror of Flaubert's story can be located in his dark and cynical portrayal of love and spiritual devotion as a form of fetishism, a mad scramble for apparently …

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Irresolute Ravishers And The Sexual Economy Of Chivalry In The Romantic Novel, Gary Dyer Dec 2000

Irresolute Ravishers And The Sexual Economy Of Chivalry In The Romantic Novel, Gary Dyer

English Faculty Publications

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Othello And Interpretive Traditions, Philip C. Kolin Dec 2000

Othello And Interpretive Traditions, Philip C. Kolin

Faculty Publications

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Gettysburg: An Exhibit For The First-Year Reading Experience, Patrick G. Scott Aug 2000

Gettysburg: An Exhibit For The First-Year Reading Experience, Patrick G. Scott

Faculty Publications

Based on an exhibition for University of South Carolina students reading Michael Shaara's bestselling book The Killer Angels, this catalogue recounts the story of the battle of Gettysburg day by day, with an opening section introducing the major participants and a final section dealing with the commemoration of the battle and its treatment in later American literature. All the items in the exhibition are drawn from the Francis A. Lord Civil War Collection and the Robert S. Chamberlain Military History Collection, both in Rare Books & Special Collections, University of South Carolina Libraries.

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Wordsworth, Beaumont, And The Publicity Over Captain John Wordsworth's Death At Sea, Richard Matlak Jul 2000

Wordsworth, Beaumont, And The Publicity Over Captain John Wordsworth's Death At Sea, Richard Matlak

Texts relating to the Earl of Abergavenny (ship)

A scholarly account of the sinking of The Earl of Abergavenny which considers contemporary reports and sentiments of the tragedy.

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Eng 3010g-115, John Kilgore Jun 2000

Eng 3010g-115, John Kilgore

Summer 2000

No abstract provided.

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Annotated Bibliography Of Research In The Teaching Of English, Deborah Brown, Wayne Martino, Gert Rijlaarsdam, Anne D'Antonio Stinson, Melissa E. Whiting May 2000

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 …

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What J.R.R. Tolkien Really Did With The Sampo?, Jonathan B. Himes Apr 2000

What J.R.R. Tolkien Really Did With The Sampo?, Jonathan B. Himes

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

Examines and describes the methods and ways in which Tolkien used and modified the Finnish epic The Kalevala in his creation of the tales that became The Silmarillion.

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Eng 4300-003: War Stories, John Kilgore Jan 2000

Eng 4300-003: War Stories, John Kilgore

Spring 2000

No abstract provided.

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The Pathology Of Rhetoric In Coriolanus, Yvonne Bruce Jan 2000

The Pathology Of Rhetoric In Coriolanus, Yvonne Bruce

English Faculty Publications

Coriolanus seems to be a play of action, a dramatized world of mutinous citizens, plotting tribunes, famine, war, and banishment. Yet what really happens in this world? The citizens never realize their mutiny. Brutus and Sicinius never realize their illdefined plot, Coriolanus' consulship is rescinded, the mutual banishment of Coriolanus is undone by his resolve not to make "true wars" against Rome. and the defeat of Aufidius in act one becomes a meaningless victory when Coriolanus is in turn defeated in the final scene of the play. Perhaps it is more accurate to call Coriolanus a play of action, a …

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Dracula And The Gothic Imagination Of War, Bryan Alexander Jan 2000

Dracula And The Gothic Imagination Of War, Bryan Alexander

Journal of Dracula Studies

When Jonathan Harker first describes Castle Dracula, his journals rely on the language of war. Unable to pin down the castle’s site on an Ordnance Map, Harker is able to see instead the liminal city of Bistritz in terms of a historic siege (11). As he approaches nearer, Harker relates a companion’s (mis)quotation from Burger’s “Lenore,” a line spoken by an undead soldier, all too recently at war (17). Castle Dracula itself appears textually as a mix of military and Gothic discourses, whose “frowning walls and dark window openings” (21) serve both to situate Harker in classically Gothic space, and …

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White Women, Black Revolutionaries: Sex And Politics In Four Novels By Nadine Gordimer, Nancy Topping Bazin Jan 2000

White Women, Black Revolutionaries: Sex And Politics In Four Novels By Nadine Gordimer, Nancy Topping Bazin

English Faculty Publications

As early as 1959, the white South African novelist, essayist, and short story writer Nadine Gordimer wrote an essay, "Where Do Whites Fit In?" As the black struggle for power intensified and finally achieved its primary goal of black majority rule in 1994, Gordimer continued to reflect upon this question. Her eighth novel, July's People (1981), is a psychological and political fable. It celebrates a white woman's readiness to reject the relationships and privileges that bind her to the white world and her readiness to embrace the new South Africa of an emancipated black majority. The novels written before July's …

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Gothic Drama As Nationalistic Catharsis, Diane Hoeveler Jan 2000

Gothic Drama As Nationalistic Catharsis, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

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Feminist Spiritualities: A Brief Overview, Marilyn R. Pukkila Nov 1999

Feminist Spiritualities: A Brief Overview, Marilyn R. Pukkila

Faculty Scholarship

A bibliographic essay on the early beginnings of feminist spirituality literature, from the 1960s to 1998.

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C.S. Lewis's Ontological View Of The Demonic: Satan As An Explanatory Postulate, John David Geib Nov 1999

C.S. Lewis's Ontological View Of The Demonic: Satan As An Explanatory Postulate, John David Geib

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

In his Space Trilogy, C.S. Lewis speaks on the nature of demons and angels, revealing their interactions and influence on mankind, as well as their role in God’s plan.

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

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.

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