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Falcandus And Fulcaudus Epistola Ad Petrum Liber De Regno Sicilie Literary Form And Author's Identity, Gwenyth Hood

English Faculty Research

In Paris, in 1550, when the printing press was still relatively new, Gervais de Tournay published a medieval chronicle under the title, Historia Hugonis Falcandi Siculi De rebus gestis in Siciliae regno iam primum typis excusa [« The History of Hugo Falcandus the Sicilian, concerning things done in the Kingdom of Sicily, now printed for the first time »]. He had discovered this history, as he explains in his preface, in a codex placed at his disposal by Matthew Longuejoue, bishop of Soissons, a codex so ravaged by time that it looked repulsive enough to poison the hand that dared …

The Pronunciation Of English Vowels By Native Arabic Speakers: The Relationship Between Age Of Learning, Perception, And Production, Joel Ramez Atallah

Archived Theses and Dissertations

Research on immigrant communities has shown that age of first exposure to a language is strongly correlated with the learner's ultimate attainment in pronunciation. Flege's Speech Learning Model, which hypothesizes a relationship between the foreign accent of late learners and their ability to perceive non-native phonetic contrasts, is one attempt to explain this phenomenon. However, few studies have compared the perception and pronunciation of sounds directly, and there is a paucity of research on age and pronunciation in formal learning environments The present study focussed on the relationship between Age of Learning and the perception and pronunciation of English vowels …

Virginia Woolf's Use Of Microcosms In Her Novel To The Lighthouse And Her Essay "The Sun And The Fish", Linda C. Scheele

Dissertations and Theses

Woolf's use of microcosms in her writing has been given little attention. They are deceptively quiet metaphors that may be overlooked at first. In her novels and essays, microcosms are part of a larger pattern of details that seem ordinary, but which are characteristic of the complexity of her writing.

The focus of this thesis is on how Woolf uses microcosms to communicate two central themes in her writing: the relation of the self to the external world, and the desire of the self to create something permanent. The paper examines Woolf's novel To the Lighthouse (1927) and her essay …

Siamese Connection, Rosecrans Baldwin

Senior Scholar Papers

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We Are Not Who We Are, Patrick Bishop

Senior Scholar Papers

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Cyborg Identity And The Destabilization Of Epistemological Boundaries In Thomas Pynchon’S V. And Gravity’S Rainbow, Scott Kaufman

Honors Capstones

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Shades Of Meaning: Perspectives On The Visual Rhetoric Of Film Noir, Jill Shepherd

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

Alone in the kitchen now, Frank watches the hamburger on the grill. Distracted by a faint clunk - something has fallen - he turns, his gaze falling to the floor where a small white tube of lipstick rolls across angular shadows cast by the windows. His eye follows the path of the lipstick back to a white, open-toed pump, and up a pair of shapely legs, past a pair of white shorts and a midriff-baring top to the insolent lovely face of Cora. He picks up the lipstick and holds it in the palm of his hand; she looks at …

From Margaret Walker To Terry Mcmillian : The Decline Of Moral Values In Female Characters In Twentieth Century African-American Fiction, Kristy A. Cage

Electronic Dissertations and Theses

"From Margaret Walker to Terry McMillan: The Decline of Moral Values in Female Characters in Twentieth Century African-American Fiction" deals with how over the course of a century female characters have gone from strong moral beings to promiscuous immoral beings. It uses four novels written by prominent African-American women to present the decline of moral values. Margaret Walker, in her novel Jubilee, set in the civil war era, presents a strong moral being in Vyry Ware Brown. Toni Morrison's Nel Wright, in Sula, is slightly less moral than Walker's Vyry. The decline in moral values begins with April Sinclair's Coffee …

Mysticism And Meaning In Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe And Mama Day, Crystal L. Carodine

Electronic Dissertations and Theses

Negative images of black females are often depicted in American fiction. Black female authors are accepting the challenge of reconstructing these negative images into more positive ones. Gloria Naylor is one of these authors who has taken on the quest of focusing on the black female in her novels. Her novels, Bailey's Cafe and Mama Day, are two of her tools used for reconstructing images of black femininity. She uses the character of Eve (Bailey's Cafe) and Mama Day (Mama Day) to depict strong, initiative women.

Eyes To The Street, Myron Macauley

The Griot

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Urban Survival, Shaun Waters

The Griot

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In The Black Forest, Shaun Waters

The Griot

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I'M Comin' Daddy, Bryon Williams

The Griot

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Directions, Shaun Waters

The Griot

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Unseen Power, Bryon Williams

The Griot

This poem acknowledges an unseen presence that intervenes and protects the narrator from life's tribulations.

American Journey Toward Female Equality With And Through Adrienne Rich's Works, Shelby Scruggs

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

What initially triggered my writing a thesis on the feminist movement in America was the question, "Will women ever truly achieve equality?" Further, will all humanity ever achieve equality? I found through the movement toward equality for women that any movement toward equality progresses toward equality for all because if one group only wants to be equal with others, then they want others to have equality as well. This thesis surveys the feminist movement in America from the 1950's to the 1990's through the realm of the works of Adrienne Rich, American female poet. Rich's progression as a political feminist …

John Donne's Sacred Aesthetics And Protestant Eschatology In La Corona, Karen R. Knudson

Master's Theses

The operative figure for describing John Donne's religious poem, La Corona, is not a circle, as it has often been characterized, but a spiral. This figure incorporates the linear narrative and climax of the poem while maintaining the circularity of on-going spiritual experience. Scholars such as Patrick O'Connell and Elizabeth Hodgson are correct in viewing the poem as Donne's "ars poetica sacra" - his apologetic for the religious poet. But such scholars see either a climax and resolution for the speaker of La Corona or an unresolved question of his place as a poet. This paper argues that while …

Poem No. 81, May 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.

At Risk In The Writing Classroom: Negotiating A Lesbian Teacher Identity, Irene G. Meaker

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

"Education is a fearful enterprise," says teacher and philosopher, Parker Palmer. Student-centered/ processoriented pedagogy asks teachers to step out from behind the relative safety of the teacher mask and to enter the risky arena of learning. For the writing teacher, a special challenge is to help students negotiate the risks inherent in the act of writing and in sharing writing with the "Other."

To prevent fears from dominating our students, teachers must model risk-taking and risk negotiation. In my own teaching, my fears around students' reactions to learning my sexual identity meant that I more often reinforced fears than dispelled …

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 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 (July through December; 1998, 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 studies 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 …

1999 Literary Review (No. 13), Sigma Tau Delta

The Greenleaf Review

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Advisory Board And Editors Of Clcweb: Comparative Literature And Culture, Ari Ofengenden

CLCWeb Library

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Reading Typos, Reading Archives, Steven J. Mailloux

English Faculty Works

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Faulkner's Narrative In The Sound And The Fury And Absalom, Absalom!, Gerard Lassahn

Theses & Honors Papers

In this, the author compares and contrasts the use of narrative in two of William Faulkner’s most famous works, The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom!. It also determines how narratives play a role in Faulkner’s work and how the reader understands the story. The author demonstrates how the narrative in Absalom, Absalom! seems to lead the reader farther away from characters while the narrative in The Sound and the Fury draws the reader closer to the characters as they are given insight into their thoughts and feelings.

Go And See The Band: Rock N' Roll As Art And How We Deal With It, Sebastian Blanco

Honors Theses

This is my ode to the curse of loving rock 'n' roll. The curse of always having to defend my love of power chords and high-energy bass lines. The curse of trying to describe to people the distinction my mind makes between Pearl Jam and Aerosmith, Ani DiFranco and Jewel. The curse of looking at someone as I explain how important rock 'n' roll is to me, and seeing they don't understand a word. I have devoted the last six years of my life to listening, understanding, learning about rock music, and I do not consider that time wasted. I …

From Literal Path To Transcendent Journey: The Pilgrim's Movement Throughout Inferno, Shelley Manning '99

Honors Projects

In his "Letter to Can Grande," Dante attributes the concept of polysemy, which means "many levels," to his poem. l In the letter, Dante states: "For the clarification of what I am going to say, then, it should be understood that there is not just a single sense in this work: it might rather be called polysemous, that is having several senses" ("Letter" 99). This concept not only applies to the mUlti-layered construction of the Divine Comedy but also to its interpretation. Although most critics rely upon the "Letter," I find his defense of hierarchical interpretation in the "Four Levels …

Ishmael's Definitions Of Self In Melville's Moby-Dick, Kenneth Potter

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

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(Re)-Defining Scottish Nationalism After Devolution. Disclosure Interviews Cairns Craig, Lisa Stein, Amy Wright

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

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Family Names, Gayle Greene

Scripps Faculty Publications and Research

I was ten when my mother changed our name from Greenberg to Greene. I had no idea why she did this, nor, presumably, did she. It had to do with the breakup of her marriage, that was clear-she no longer wanted his name. But why, I asked later, when I was old enough to wonder about such things, didn't she go back to her maiden name?

The Boy Who Would Have Been, Deborah Adelman

English Faculty Scholarship

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