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Literacy Practices At The Genoa Industrial Indian School, Amy M. Goodburn

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Despite an abundance of scholarship on federal Indian boarding schools, few studies have focused on literacy as a central term for investigation. Although literacy studies is necessarily interdisciplinary and contributes to insights about the relationship between language and, in Levinson and Holland's words, the "cultural production of the educated person," few Indian boarding-school histories have focused on the significance of particular literacy practices for understanding Indian students' school experiences. When literacy is discussed, it is usually in terms of the federal "English only" requirement that prohibited Indian languages or the drill and rote exercises used in the primary language curriculum. …

Racing (Erasing) White Privilege In Teacher/Research Writing About Race, Amy M. Goodburn

Department of English: Faculty Publications

In this essay, I examine several spheres of “race construction” and the ethical implications of these constructions for how I—as a white composition teacher/researcher—named, described, and interpreted student response in a dissertation chapter I wrote on a student discussion of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye within a writing course focused on “difference.” This essay describes my own process of coming to understand the ways that my readings of classroom events were/are shaped by my position as a white teacher/researcher and the implications for understanding what naming these moments might mean for others engaged in composition research. In particular, I examine …

"Links Of Similitude": The Narrator Of The Country Of The Pointed Firs And Author-Reader Relations At The End Of The Nineteenth Century, Melissa J. Homestead

Department of English: Faculty Publications

The narrator of The Country of the Pointed Firs is an elusive figure. A narrator who is also a character in the fiction, she nevertheless reveals very little about herself as a character in the course of her narration. She is the unnamed speaking "I," and she is "you" to Mrs. Todd and other characters. Although the narrator apparently travels to Dunnet Landing from a city, we don't know where she lives the rest of the year; and we can only assume from her time spent in the schoolhouse engaged in "literary employments" that she writes for pay. But critics …

From Roma: Si/No/Forse, Philip Fried

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 13-14

Response To Steven Weisenburger's Response, Carol Loranger

English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Beer Jesus, D C. Berry

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 3

Marva, Tim Stiles

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 38

"Who Are You, Literally?": Fantasies Of The White Self In White Noise, Tim Engles

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

No abstract provided.

Ezra And Dorothy Pound: Letters In Captivity, 1945-1946, Robert Spoo, Omar Pound

Books

These fascinating letters capture the most traumatic experience of Ezra Pound's life, when he was incarcerated at the end of World War II and indicted for treason. Omar Pound and Robert Spoo have collected and edited the unpublished correspondence between the poet and his wife, combining it with restricted military orders and extensive references to FBI documents, previously unknown photographs, and an insightful introduction, to create the definitive work on this period of Pound's life.

Carothers Mccaslin's Progeny Tracing The Theme Of Redemption Chronologically Through The Multiracial Mccaslins, Christine Reiss

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

William Faulkner' s Go Down, Moses (1942) is a novel that depicts the complicated family history of the McCaslins. There are primarily three branches of the family: the white, male-descended McCaslins, the white, female-descended Edmondses, and the multiracial, male-descended Beauchamps. The multiracial line of the family, the Beauchamps, are the progeny of the original McCaslin patriarch, old Carothers McCaslin. His act of miscegenation with one of his slaves produces a daughter, on whom he then fathers a son. This act of miscegenation and incest sets in motion a family line that struggles with the weight of its father's sin. The …

Stalker, James Morrison

CMC Faculty Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

The City's Harvest, Troy Schoultz

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 31

The Influence Of Dracula On The Lesbian Vampire Film, Sharon A. Russell

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.

Coffin Nails: Smokers And Non-Smokers In Dracula, Elizabeth Miller

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.

Separation Granted; Divorce Denied; Annulment Unlikely, Raymond Mcnally

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.

Whose Dracula Is It Anyway? Deane, Balderston And The "World Famous Vampire Play", Anne-Marie Finn

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.

From The Order Of The Dragon To Dracula, Constantin Rezachevici

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.

The Image Of Transylvania In English Literature, Carmen Maria Andras

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.

Overlooked Pearls: The Blue Oyster Cult And The Vampire In Modern Music, David F. Hallett, J. Robin Martin

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.

Ivy Leaves, 1998-1999, Ivy Leaves Editorial Staff

Ivy Leaves

The 1999 edition of the Anderson College journal of art and literature, Ivy Leaves.

The names of the known editors for this issue of Ivy Leaves were Asa Moran, Christopher Fyock, Jennifer Brown, Andy Burleson, Brian Gaines, David Parker, Emily Reese, Jill Roberts, Heather Rollins, Jeanna Simmons, Susan Wooten, and Wayne Cox. Cover art by Jill Roberts.

"His Kipling Period": Bakhtinian Reflections On Annotation, Heteroglossia And Terrorism In The Pynchon Trade, Carol Loranger

English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

A New Defense Of Nonsense; Or, Where Then Is His Phallus? And Other Questions Not To Ask, Michael Heyman

Faculty Works

Victorian literary nonsense has mostly elicited two critical responses since Edward Lear published A Book of Nonsense in 1846. On one side we find the critics who argue for the "non-sensicality" of the genre. Partly as a backlash against those who see satire or symbolism in Lear's work, this group sided with Lear in proclaiming the genre "'Nonsense,' pure and absolute" (Lear, More Nonsense iv). This approach raised a certain fear among many critics in the second half of the twentieth century: if nonsense were truly "non-sense," it would preclude further critical debate.1 Thus the sense school of criticism was …

Back Matter - Back Cover

Short Story

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From Poems To Poets: The Life And Work Of Eavan Boland, Maggie Mae Miller

Honors Theses, 1963-2015

In my thesis I take a complete, critical look at Eavan Boland's life from early on as a young Irish girl exiled from her country and living in England, through her struggle to become a poet in an overwhelmingly male-dominated profession, to a close look and analysis of her work and life today. I trace the way in which Boland has struggled to integrate her life as a woman and a poet in Ireland. In the Irish tradition handed down to Boland, if women were not present as voices behind the poems as authors, then what was their role within …

From Novel To Film: The Remains Of The Day And The Art Of Adaptation, Shirley S. Richardson

Honors Theses, 1963-2015

Both novelist and film-maker have stories to tell and both create a vision of their stories for their readers and viewers, one with words on a page, the other with pictures and spoken dialogue. A novel's descriptive passages may be very detailed or leave the reader with large visual gaps, whereas each frame of the film fills the viewer's vision with scrupulously attended images, from the props to the setting to the costumes to every gesture and expression of the actor. A novel allows the reader to pause, ponder, reread, and detect subtleties; a film takes the viewer by the …

Brazil And 12 Monkeys: Terry Gilliams' Foucauldian-Baudrillardian Dystopias, Brenden Patrick Riley

Honors Theses, 1963-2015

Terry Gilliam's films Brazil and 12 Monkeys are intricate dystopias with bizarre and eye-catching imagery. Using the theories of Michel Foucault and Jean Baudrillard, this thesis divides dystopian narrative into two distinct categories: Power and Technological. Once the boundaries for the categories are established, it becomes evident that Gilliam's masterpieces fit the specifications for both. In creating comprehensive dystopias that address both types of dystopia, Gilliam has opened up spaces for resistence to Baudrillard's hyperreality and even defies the irreversibility that Baudrillard claims is inevitable.

The Hunter's Dance, John Bullaro

Short Story

No abstract provided.

Ordinary Children Extraordinary Legacies: Childhood During The American Civil War, Deborah S. Holder

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

War heroes do not have to wear uniforms, display meritorious medals for bravery and sacrifice, or voluntarily fight for their country in military regiments. The real heroes are all people touched by conflict. The strategy of war positions the powerful against the powerless, thereby creating an absurd imbalance within society. Hence, ordinary citizens become heroes not by decision but by circumstance; had they a choice, they most certainly would not choose to participate in war. Joseph Heller once said about his war novel: "Catch-22 says that people in power have a right to do to us anything we can't stop …

Front Matter - Table Of Contents - Preface

Short Story

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Irish "Fallen Women" In Stories By Mary Beckett, Lilian Roberts Finaly And Emma Cooke, Jeanette Shumaker

Short Story

No abstract provided.