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"False Friends, Squeamish Readers, And Foolish Critics": The Subtext Of Authorship In Hogg's Justified Sinner, Regina B. Oost

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Deviations From Genre In Robert Henryson's "Robene And Makyne", Alessandra Petrina

Studies in Scottish Literature

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An Interview With Douglas Dunn In 1997, Marco Fazzini

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Freedom And Responsibility In The Bride Of Lammermoor, Gerry H. Brookes

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Forster Revisited, Andrew Monnickendam

Studies in Scottish Literature

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The Moment Of Modernism: Schopenhauer's "Unstable Phantom" In Conrad's Heart Of Darkness And Stevenson's The Master Of Ballantrae, Nels C. Pearson

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Jessie Kesson's Another Time, Another Place: A Vision Of Self, Janice L. Knudsen

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Masters And Slaves In Scottish Fiction And Ideology Of The 1930s: James Leslie Mitchell's Spartacus And William Bell's Rip Van Scotland, Manfred Malzahn

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Henryson's "Ballet Schort": A Virgin Reading Of The Testament Of Cresseid, William A. Quinn

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Rivalry And Desire In Scott's Rob Roy, Ian Dennis

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Lewis Grassic Gibbon And The Urgency Of The Modern, Jeremy Idle

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Notes And Documents: A New Burns Song, “Deluded Swain”; Ravel And Burns

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Brief Notice

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Book Reviews

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Contributors

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Loneliness Underneath Laughter : Aspects Of Alienation In The Early Plays Of Tom Stoppard, Steven Hounsome

Theses : Honours

This thesis investigates the various states of alienation that exist in the early plays of the British dramatist Tom Stoppard. By first defining alienation (and discussing the areas of contention which surround the concept), it proceeds to argue that whilst Stoppard has been greatly revered as a comic writer his works are equally consequential for their sensitivity and insight. They depict a prolificacy of characters who fail to assimilate with their society, can no longer relate to those around them and, as is often the case, reach for, but never manage to grasp a sense of their own identity. The …

Nene Gare, A Biographical Study: Australian Novelist, 1919-1994, Rosina Squarcini

Theses : Honours

This thesis undertakes an introductory biographical study of Australian writer, Nene Gare, and a critical reading of her work with special reference to The Fringe Dwellers. The author of this study has sought to establish the basis for that novel's positive literary reception. The research has been directed at correcting, in part, the comparative neglect of this writer. Nene Gare's life and work has been surveyed in the belief that this study will contribute to the current knowledge of twentieth-century Australian fiction writers as well as showing the critical reception to Nene Gare's work as a part of Australian …

The Self In ‘Fieldwork’: A Methodological Concern, Christie L. Fox, Beverly Stoeltje, Stephen Olbrys

English Faculty Publications

As concepts of reflexivity and postcolonial perspectives have advanced our understandings of the way we represent those we study, they have also introduced a consciousness of the role of the self in research. This article reviews the history of the field of folklore with regard to the method of obtaining data or texts and demonstrates that collecting material contrasts with the practice of conducting research in the field. Pointing to a moment of transition, it shows that theories of folklore had to undergo significant change before methods of research would acknowledge the identity of the fieldworker and its significance.

Coyote And The Strawberries: Cultural Drama And Intercultural Collaboration, Barre Toelken, Gorge Wasson

English Faculty Publications

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Selected Comparative Literature And Comparative Humanities Journals, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

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Annual Reports Of Clcweb: Comparative Literature And Culture 1999-, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

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Rhetorical Pragmatism And The Uses Of Literature, Steven J. Mailloux

English Faculty Works

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Yusef Komunyakaa: Questioning Traditional Metaphors Of Light And Darkness, Katarzyna Jakubiak

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The theory of language promoted by cognitive linguistics points to metaphor as the crucial element of language and thought: a mode of thinking which determines our perception of reality. Stressing the importance of metaphor in our everyday life, George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, and Mark Turner state that the nature of poetic metaphors is the same as the nature of conventional metaphors which appear in "standard" language. Creating poetic metaphors, poets simply explore "conventional" metaphors, using four major strategies: expanding, elaborating, composing, and questioning. Focusing on questioning as the main strategy through which American "multicultural" literatures can undermine basic Western concepts …

The Crime Of The Sign: Dashiell Hammett's Detective Fiction, Carl D. Malmgren

English Faculty Publications

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Imagining Machines: Time & Image In The Shorter Poems Of William Carlos Williams, Stuart Campbell

Theses : Honours

A discussion of time and image in the shorter poems of William Carlos Williams. The particular focus is Williams' short poems published between the Great War and World War II. The relationship between the form of the poems, and Williams' theories on poetry, as expressed in Spring and All, and The Wedge is examined. In turn, Williams' theories are viewed in the context of Imagism, Objectivist poetics, and the modernist machine aesthetic. Williams' application of these theories is seen to create a poetic form that generates images in the reader's imagination in synchrony with the moment.

Bilingual Creativity, Multidimensional Analysis, And World Englishes, Wendy Baker, William G. Eggington

Faculty Publications

Research in world English literatures has concentrated on qualitative measures of analysis in order to understand what is meant by `bilingual creativity.' These measures demonstrate that there are differences in rhetorical and literary style within world English literatures both in the inner and outer circle. Using Biber's multidimensional analysis (1988) to examine a large corpus of world English literatures written in Indian, West African, Britain, Anglo-American and Mexican American varieties of English, this paper examines whether quantitative analyses can also be insightful and useful in the examination of world English literatures in expanding our understanding of what `bilingual creativity' entails. …

Enterface: A Novella, Hubert Calip Mcleod

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

A computer screen places each of us in an interface and virtual reality provides a totally simulated environment, a virtual world that we can enter. Enterface is a novella that examines the question first posed by Michael Heim: How far can we enter cyberspace and still remain human? It also explores the power and the limitation of language and the role of stories to shape reality in human life. Its themes are death, technology, ethics, and love. It is informed by Wittgensteinian philosophy, Norse mythology, and the "metaphysics of virtual reality."

The plot involves Moses Mackinow, a former Air Force …

The Devil And Jane Austen: Elizabeth Bennet's Temptations In The Wildnerness, Laura Dabundo

Faculty Articles

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The Madness Of Writing: Lady Caroline Lamb's Byronic Identity, Paul Douglass

Faculty Publications, English and Comparative Literature

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Passing, Pamela Caughie

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

This chapter is the first from the text, "Passing and Pedagogy" by Dr. Pamela Caughie. Caughie's discussion of passing illuminates a recent phenomenon in academic writing and popular culture that revolves around identities and the ways in which they are deployed, both in the arts and in lived experience. Through a wide variety of texts--novels, memoirs, film, drama, theory, museum exhibits, legal cases--she demonstrates the dynamics of passing, presenting it not as the assumption of a fraudulent identity but as the recognition that the assumption of any identity, including for the purposes of teaching, is a form of passing.