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Representations Of Class, Social Realism And Region In "Eleven Months In Bunbury" By James Ricks, Joshua J. K. Ledger

Theses : Honours

The aim of this thesis is to explore representations of class, social realism and region in Eleven months in Bunbury by James Ricks. This novel stands outside dominant literary theory in its representations of class, realism and regionalism. It also presents opportunities to consider ideology and class through the eyes of a working class person, in the language of the class that it depicts. Thus it speaks to a class which rarely has its point of view and lives represented in conventional literature. It is therefore a useful literary and social document.

A Queer Love : The Gay Male In Young Adult Literature, Skot John Arbery

Theses : Honours

The purpose of my thesis· A Queer Love: The Gay Male in Young Adult Literature -is to offer an analysis of seven young adult novels that incorporate the construction and representation of while male homosexuality. I intend to explore what it is that can be learnt from these texts about 'being gay'. It is my assertion that I will be able to show that, although taboos have been shifted in young adult literature to allow the exploration of issues relating to gay adolescence, that which is condoned as acceptable 'gay behavior' remains restricted. I propose that in order for gay …

The Lake Of Far, Paul R. Lilly Jr.

Short Story

No abstract provided.

The Swimming Pool, Minoli Salgado

Short Story

No abstract provided.

Review Of The Best American Short Stories Of The Century And Other Collections., Sally Bishop Shigley

Short Story

No abstract provided.

Review Of Unnatural Affections: Women And Fiction In The Later 18th Century By George Haggerty, And Empowering The Feminine: The Narratives Of Mary Robinson, Jane West, And Amelia Opie, 1796-1812 By Eleanor Ty, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Gendering The Scottish Ballad: The Case Of Anne Bannerman’S Tales Of Superstition And Chivalry, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Review Of Romanticism And Masculinity By Tim Fulford, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

The Archibald Henderson Collection, Sarah Wadsworth

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Eavesdropping As Rhetorical Tactic: History, Whiteness, And Rhetoric, Krista Ratcliffe

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Fantasy, Trauma, And Gothic Daughters: Frankenstein As Therapy, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Physical Evidence For John Coote’S Eighteenth-Century Periodical Proprietorships: The Examples Of Coote’S Royal Magazine (1759-71) And Smollett’S British Magazine (1760-67), Barbara L. Fitzpatrick

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Psychoanalysis And "The Discipline Of Love", Nancy Easterlin

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Scriptural Allusion And Metaphorical Marriage In Charles Chesnutt's 'The Wife Of His Youth', Earle V. Bryant

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Poems The Big Cats Brought In (Review Article), John Gery

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Starting With Dora V: A Genealogy Of Ya Literature Specialists, Chris Crowe

Faculty Publications

This is another of those Year 2000 articles, but instead of gazing into my crystal ball to predict what the future of YA literature will be, I'm looking backward, tracing the genealogy of the people who established, refined, defended, and maintained the study of literature for adolescents.

When I was a graduate student at Arizona State University in 1982, I enrolled in Ken Donelson's adolescent literature course. I had met Donelson a few times before, and, frankly, he intimidated me. I was a lowly high school English teacher, and he was coeditor of English Joumal and one of the Big …

Dear Knucklehead: Wise Up, Chris Crowe

Faculty Publications

Dear Chris:

I am a dear friend writing to you from the futurethe year 2000, in fact-to share some hindsight that will go a long way in helping to get your brand-new career off to a better start. Trnst me on what I'm about to tell you, pal; I know you better than anyone does.

Let me get right to the point: You are a Knucklehead.

You're twenty-three years old, the ink on your diploma is barely dry, you're about to start your career as a high school English teacher, and you are too naive, obtuse, and self-conscious to know …

Muddying Boundaries: Mixing Genres With Five Paragraphs, Deborah M. Dean

Faculty Publications

The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch is a charming children's picture book. Part of its charm lies in its ability to anticipate the conventions of the fairy tale genre, creating expectations for readers, then pushing the boundaries of the genre in novel ways. As the story moves outside traditional expectations with its unexpected reversals (the princess fights the dragon to save the prince, and the fight is more mental trickery than physical battle), the boundaries of the genre are muddied, making my secondary students smile when I read to them. But it is the ending that surprises them most. …

The Disappearance Of The Author And Chicana-Chicano Critical Discourse, Hector A. Torres

English Language and Literature Faculty Publications

In "Toward a Theory of Minority Discourses,"(1990), Abdul R. JanMohammed and David Lloyd address the complex question of the economy of the author-function as it affects minority writers in multicultural America today. Certainly there are faults in their narrative articulations as there are bound to be in any theory that moves towards a comprehensive grasp of its topic. But there is also much to praise in this work and even more than ten years later we can still learn a lot from it if we can put into practice many of the theoretical protocols they put into narrative. The aim …

The Selected Language Styles Of African Americans In An Urban Environment, Danielle R. England

McCabe Thesis Collection

The overall scope of this research is to define and explain the different styles of African American English. What are they and how do they affect the American society? The means by which many African Americans communicate is different from what American deems as standard American English (SAE). To this date, the voice of Black America has been categorizes as Black Dialect, African American Vernacular English, and Black English. Only until recently has the Black voice been regarded as Ebonics. Where did these language styles originate and why do we continue to speak it? Of course, there is nothing wrong …

Victorian Concepts Of The Ideal Man As Evidenced Through His Relationships With Animals: "If She Don't Carry You, You May Shoot Her" Or "Remember Gyp When You Get Home", Mary Ann Pebbles Soles

Theses & Honors Papers

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Victorian Concepts Of The Ideal Man As Evidenced Through His Relationships With Animals: "If She Don't Carry You, You May Shoot Her" Or "Remember Gyp When You Get Home", Mary Ann Peebles Soles

Theses & Honors Papers

In Victorian fiction, the relationships between male characters and the animals with which they come in contact with are interesting. The way Victorian male characters are shown to treat animals revels something about the nature of the men themselves. Therefore, it is important to examine the concept of masculinity at the time. The gender stereotypes that prevailed in Victorian England had a tremendous impact on the portrayal of men and women in the novels written at that time. Male writers, the dominant sex, chose to preserve ideals already present. Female writers did the opposite. The Victorian novelists examined were influenced …

Manipulating Images Of Women's Power In Elizabethen England: Elizabeth I, Spenser, And Shakespeare, Amanda Kaye Martin

Theses & Dissertations

This work celebrates the influence of Elizabeth I on Elizabethan society and literature. In the opening of his Shakespearean Negotiations. Stephen Greenblatt describes writing as an outlet for the dead to speak to the living through "textual traces of themselves" that "make themselves heard in the voices of the living". These textual traces form the foundation for the critical theory of New Historicism, which perceives such traces as a conduit for literary critics to learn about an author's view of the nation, and era, in which he or she lived. In "The Elizabethan Subject and the Spenserian Text," Louis …

Review: Daniel Belgrad, The Culture Of Spontaneity: Improvisation And The Arts In Postwar America (Chicago, 1998), Wendy Martin

CGU Faculty Publications and Research

Book review.

Writing The Young Adult Novel: Analysis And Process, Lucinda Boone

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The thesis consists of two sections: research and creative. The research section includes brief analyses of five young adult novels that received the Newbery Medal, awarded annually by the American Library Association to the author of the most distinguished contribution to children's literature. The creative section is an original young adult novel that incorporates some of the characteristics uncovered in the analysis of the Newbery novels. The Newbery Medal winners analyzed for this thesis are The High King by Lloyd Alexander; Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary; Missing Maxj by Cynthia Rylant; A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle; and …

Beautiful Wreckage, Nathalie Anderson

English Literature Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Rhetorical Listening: A Trope For Interpretive Invention And A "Code Of Cross-Cultural Conduct", Krista Ratcliffe

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Redefining The Literate Self : The Politics Of Cultural Affirmation., Min-Zhan Lu

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

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George Eliot Birthday Luncheon: The Toast To The Immortal Memory 1999, Kathryn Hughes

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

It is a tremendous honour to be talking to you today. When I first started work on my biography of George Eliot back in 1993 I never imagined that I would one day be celebrating her birthday with the people to whom her life and work mean so much, the members of the George Eliot Fellowship.

Of course, when I began my research all those years ago, I knew that I would be learning about one of the greatest literary artists of the nineteenth century. But what I hadn't anticipated was just how modem and relevant George Eliot's work would …

1999 Colloquium Program, Taylor University

Colloquium Programs

No abstract provided.