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Cryman, Matthew Branham

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 Matthew Branham on April 18, 2000.

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.

Editorial, Theodore James Sherman

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

No abstract provided.

From Isolation To Community: Ransom's Spiritual Odyssey, Devin Brown

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

Explores Ransom’s transformation from a position of isolation at the beginning of Out of the Silent Planet to his position as Head of the community of St. Anne’s in That Hideous Strength.

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.

C.S. Lewis's Prufrockian Vision In The Great Divorce, Charles A. Huttar

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

Examines the influence of Eliot’s early poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” on Lewis’s dream vision fantasy The Great Divorce.

Top Ten Rejected Plot Twists From The Lord Of The Rings: A Textual Excursion Into The "History Of The Lord Of The Rings", David Bratman

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

Examines and details Tolkien’s developing understanding of the direction The Lord of the Rings should take—a window into the mind of a maker at work.

Three Bridge-Builders: Priest-Craft In Till We Have Faces, David W. Landrum

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

Investigates Lewis’s portrayal of priests and the divine in Till We Have Faces.

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.

Letters, William A.S. Sarjeant, Barbara L. Mccauley, Chuck Huttar, Terrence Neal Brown, Peter Schakel

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

No abstract provided.

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 …

From These Pages, Tonya Gross

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Tonya Gross on April 12, 2000.

Spoke: A Short Collection Of Poetry, Margaret A. Von Steinen

Honors Theses

No abstract available.

Book Review: The Money Demon, Andrea Kempf

Library Papers and Presentations

Review of the novel The Money Demon. Originally published in Persimmon: Asian Literature, Arts, and Culture in Spring 2000, volume 1 issue 1. Reprinted with permission. Appears as captured in The Internet Archive on May 7, 2008.

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

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Book Review: Joanne M. Braxton. Maya Angelou's I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 162p., Kathryn Rummell

English

No abstract provided.

Vol. 20, No. 2 (2000), Joan Williams, William Boozer

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

Eng 3009c-006: Myth And Culture, Michael Leddy

Spring 2000

No abstract provided.

“Tired Pens” A Review Of Ronald Weber, Hired Pens - Professional Writers In America’S Golden Age Of Print, Susanna Ashton

Publications

Is it depressing or inspiring to discover that everyone work harder than you do? After reading Hired Pens: Professional Writers in America's Golden Age of Print, one will be forced either to the keyboard or the couch. Virtually every page of this excruciatingly detailed study chronicles people who measured out their lives by their word count. We learn that Zane Grey churned out over eighty books and was never off the best-seller lists between 1917-1925. Frederick Faust published 25 million words of fiction under at least 20 different names, not the least of which was Max Brand. Janet Dailey …

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 Evolution Of A Fairy Tale, Suzanne Brecht

Whittier Scholars Program

This project demonstrates the longevity but also many changes in the form of a fairy tale, primarily focusing on three tales from European tradition: Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White. This study examines oral traditions, literary traditions, nineteenth century literature, illustrations, new media, appearance of films, mass marketing, and the future of the Fairy Tale.

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

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

My Mother's Legacy: Trying To Make A Difference Through Teaching And Research, Marilyn Edelstein

English

Asked to write about how I became interested in social justice research, I realized that the question had two parts for me: how I got interested in social justice and how I got interested in research. To answer these questions, I found myself thinking back to my early adolescence, and to my mother. I remember a day when I was about 12 and saw a TV news report on poverty and hunger in some 49 underdeveloped" part of the world. When it was over, I flung myself across my mother's bed, crying. My mother came into the room and asked …

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 …

Expectations, Interpretations And Contributions Of Basic Writing., Min-Zhan Lu, Bruce Horner

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

This essay argues that Basic Writing students, teachers, and scholarship are crucial to enabling colleges and universities to live up to their ideals of diversity, interdisciplinarity, and student-centered learning. BW scholars and teachers have developed ways to work with students to better understand the different perspectives they bring to their writing and learning, and to use those perspectives to break down barriers between academic and non-academic worlds and develop "borderland" knowledge and perspectives. The authors call for more research exploring the potential of basic writing students to develop such perspectives, and for research exploring the implications of BW scholarship for …

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 …

The Portrayal Of Evil And The Shakespearean Villain, Allie Chaffin Yarbrough

Theses & Honors Papers

This is an examination of the evil characters in Shakespearian works like Richard III, King Lear, Othello, and Titus Andronicus. It examines how the evolution of villains in Shakespeare’s from his early works to his later works. It also shows how these characters are more than just the vices of the story. They possess desires and hidden motives but are also the primary roles that push a story forward.

Composition Studies And Service Learning: Appealing To Communities?, Kevin Ball, Amy M. Goodburn

Department of English: Faculty Publications

In this essay, we wish to examine more fully how service learning is being conceptualized by compositionists, particularly through the trope of community, to consider how it functions as a practice and topic in our discipline. Our interest in doing so stems from our interests in and experiences with service learning and our desire to more fully examine why the service learning movement has been so appealing to us—in terms of the social and cultural aspirations it embodies for us as teachers at our particular institution and as scholars within the discipline. We seek to explore some of the issues …