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Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language And The Strangeness Of The Ordinary, Michael Fischer

English Faculty Research

In a frequently quoted remark from Philosophical Investigations. Wittgenstein comments on our overlooking things because they are familiar, or right in front of us every day: "One is unable to notice something-because it is always before one's eyes" (§129). We take these things for granted instead of appreciating their strangeness. For readers of this journal, one of these familiar things might be the very project of drawing on philosophy while discussing works of literature. Not every critic does this; the New Critics, for instance, hardly ever did. From a certain point of view, turning to philosophy feels forced or odd, …

Moses And Machiavellism, Steven Marx

English

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Vol. 17, No. 4 (1997), Cynthia Shearer, William Boozer, Dean Faulkner Wells

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

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The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 6, No. 1, The Sinclair Lewis Society

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter

“Lifting the Schorer Curse: The Burden of a Biography,” by Richard Lingeman

“Conference Celebrates Anniversaries of Lewis’s Babbitt, Kingsblood Royal,” by David Simpkins, Sauk Centre Herald

“Society and Foundation Join to Sponsor Successful Sinclair Lewis Conference,” by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University

“The Reconstruction of Minnesota’s Main Street,” by Jacqueline Koenig

“A Diary of the Sinclair Lewis Conference,” by Jacqueline Koenig

“A Bed and Breakfast at Twin Farms,” by Michael Frank

“Vermont’s Award-Winning Twin Farms,” by Jerry Weil

“Lewis’s Early Fiction Still Resonates Today,” rev. of If I Were Boss: The Early Business Stories of Sinclair Lewis, …

African-American Proverbs In Context By Sw. Anand Prahlad (Book Review), Daryl Cumber Dance

English Faculty Publications

Growing up in Hanover, Virginia, "surrounded by people who cast the world in vibrant and poetic colors," Sw. Anand Prahlad "fell in love with proverbs at an early age" (ix). This lifelong love affair has resulted in a rich collection of African American proverbs that expanded as Prahlad went through college and graduate school, and did postgraduate research. All the while, he was sharpening his critical skills and developing the theoretical framework to establish a model for use in examining the varied components of proverbial speech in the African American community, proceeding on the assumption that in order to understand …

Knowledge And Representation In The Ambassadors: Strether's Discriminating Gaze, Phyllis E. Vanslyck

Publications and Research

I propose a radically new reading of Lambert Strether's subjectivity in Henry James's The Ambassadors, one that challenges critical readings to date and suggests that Strether's journey reflects a tacit but very definite confrontation with the fundamental illusion of the core self. As he follows the trajectory of his desire, initially through identification with the "masculine" identity of Chad Newsome, Strether comes to see the limitations of conventional notions of masculinity. He discovers that the freedom he seeks is not to be found in the illusion of power characterized by masculine control and repression but rather in the vulnerable acceptance …

The "Domestic Air" Of Wilderness: Henry Thoreau And Joe Polis In The Maine Woods, Thomas Lynch

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Thoreau's "Allegash and the East Branch," from the Maine Woods collection, provides a particularly useful excursion on which to examine his wilderness ideology. It is one of the final works in the Thoreau corpus and hence suggests his mature vision. On ths trip he spent significant time in intimate contact with what he considered to be wild nature; and he did so in the company of Joe Polis, a sophisticated Penobscot Indian who was literate in white culture as well as an expert in his own culture's ways of being at home in nature. Polis lived on Indian Island in …

"I'M Gonna Git Medieval On Your Ass": Pulp Fiction For The 90s--The 1190s, Daniel Terkla, Thomas Reed, Jr.

Scholarship

Rarely does contemporary film offer any zippy ephemera to grace the office doors of medievalists, since film-makers like Quentin Tarantino do not often look to our discipline's corpus for inspiration. Imagine, then, the mix of incredulity and delight we two professors felt while taking in the pawn-shop scene in Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. After being painfully violated--anally raped, to be precise--and then rescued in a most chivalric manner by one of his minions, Marsellus Wallace swears an oath to Zed, his "hillbilly boy" rapist: "I'm gonna git Medieval on your ass" (Pulp Fiction 131). What? we thought: "Medieval"? Why, we asked, …

Review Of The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers Of The Romantic Age By Jonathan Wordsworth; And Closet Stages: Joanna Baillie And The Theater Theory Of The British Romantic Women Writers By Catherine R. Burroughs, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Review Of "Carnal Rhetoric: Milton's Iconoclasm And The Poetics Of Desire" By L. Cable, Thomas H. Blackburn

English Literature Faculty Works

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Notes On Charles Simic's New White (1997), Peter Schmidt

English Literature Faculty Works

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Floating Gardens, Nathalie Anderson

English Literature Faculty Works

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Mrs. Noah, Nathalie Anderson

English Literature Faculty Works

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Two Sorceries, Nathalie Anderson

English Literature Faculty Works

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Formic Acid, Nathalie Anderson

English Literature Faculty Works

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Romancing The Stone: "Perdita" Robinson In Wordsworth's London, Betsy Bolton

English Literature Faculty Works

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Body And Spirit, Stage And Sexuality In The Tempest, Nora Johnson

English Literature Faculty Works

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Wole Soyinka's "Dawn" And The Cults Of Ogun, Yaw Adu-Gyamfi

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Chinese Landscape Painting In Stevens's 'Six Significant Landscapes', Zhaoming Qian

English Faculty Publications

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Scam, 1997, Mike Mckennedy, Jaime Wemett, Gabriel Chabran

Literary Reviews Through the Ages

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A Retro-Prospective On Audience, Oral Literatures, And Ignorance, Kenneth M. Roemer

English Faculty Publications - Archive

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Students, Authorship, And The Work Of Composition., Bruce Horner

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Reviews the dominant pedagogical strategies compositionists have devised in response to the dilemma posed by the author/student writer binary. Reviews Raymond Williams's analysis of the approaches to the "sociality" of authorship. Describes the contradictions in which dominant composition pedagogies have become entangled.

Eng 1002c-005: Composition And Literature, Laura Flesor

Fall 1997

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Eng 3009-005-014, Christhilf

Fall 1997

No abstract provided.

Eng 3405-002: Children's Literature, John Moore

Fall 1997

No abstract provided.

Eng 3504-001, Quinn

Fall 1997

No abstract provided.

Eng 5000-001, John Simpson

Fall 1997

No abstract provided.

Eng 1001c-018-045-052: Composition And Language, Donald Crawford

Fall 1997

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Eng 1001-041: Composition And Language, Michele Tarter

Fall 1997

No abstract provided.

Eng 2205-001: Introduction To Literary Studies, R L. Beebe

Fall 1997

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