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Braid Yorkshire: The Language Of Myth?, Mary M. Stolzenbach

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Examines the use of Yorkshire dialect in The Secret Garden, as well as the imagery of gardens, mothers, food, and nature.

Dark Mirrors: The Scholar Guest Of Honor Address From The 1993 Mythopoeic Conference, Jane Yolen

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Scholar Guest of Honor speech, Mythcon 1993. In exploring the “thesis that fantasy is as much of its time as beyond it,” Yolen examines various prejudices in a number of noted Victorian to modern fantasies for children.

Awakening In Fairyland: The Journey Of A Soul In George Macdonald's The Golden Key, Mary Riso

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Sees MacDonald’s writing as a dialectic about “the conflict between what is and what seems to be.” Shows how the patterns and characters of his novels reflect his theology, especially as shown in The Golden Key.

Reflections 1995, Mandy Moonyham, Heather Love, Kevin Binfield

Reflections

The 1995 issue of Reflections is edited by Mandy Moonyham and Heather Love with Kevin Binfield serving as faculty adviser. Cover art is by Sabrina Barnes. Award winners of the student poetry contest include: Karne Brower and Charles Freeman. Award winners of the student art contest include: Sabrina Barnes, Mickie Norman, and Yasuhiro Mori. This year the Communications Department has sponsored a photography contest; winners include: Jason Kerr, Brenda Ledford, and Shawn Childress.

Growling Stomachs, James Brewbaker

Faculty Bibliography

No abstract provided.

Orts 36,1995, The George Macdonald Society

Orts: The George MacDonald Society Newsletter

The new owners of 'The Farm', Huntly—MacDonald's childhood home—are the Johannesens from California as announced in the last issue of 'Orts'. Andy and Debbie are settling happily into life in a small town in northern Scotland, according to reports and their own correspondence. They welcome visitors and overnight guests as far as the fairly limited accommodation allows, and can supply a leaflet giving their charges. Running the place as a guest-house is not of course their main aim! From a letter written in June we learn: "Every transaction has gone smoothly. Our great and glorious Lord has seen that we …

Orts 35, 1995, The George Macdonald Society

Orts: The George MacDonald Society Newsletter

An almost forgotten trace of the MacDonald family is still visible in Asheville, North Carolina, U.S.A. This is a weatherworn stone plinth, part of a memorial to Louise, the wife of George MacDonald's son Ronald, in Riverside Cemtery. Ronald had become headmaster of a local episcopal school in Asheville; Louise was taken ill soon after they arrived in America and died not long after. Lilia MacDonald came over in 1890 to act as her brother's housekeeper.

The subject has been investigated by Dale Slusser who lives in Asheville and hopes to have a plaque put on the plinth which still …

Orts 37, 1995, The George Macdonald Society

Orts: The George MacDonald Society Newsletter

The 1995 A.G.M. was held on 13 October, this time in Freda Levson's ever-hospitable flat in West London. John Docherty, Secretary for many years, has now resigned. The members are deeply grateful for his tireless hard work over these years, when he played a vital part in the Society's development, not least in keeping people in contact with our work in this country and overseas. On this occasion one visitor from outside England was present, J. J. Flynn from California, one of the American publishers of MacDonald reprints. Our distinguished poet-member, John HeathStubbs, attended also.

Beyond Irony: The Unnamable's Appropriation Of Its Critics In A Humorous Reading Of The Text, Jennifer Jeffers

English Faculty Publications

In traditional Beckett criticism, the most conventional interpretation of the narrator's activity in The Unnamable posits that the narrative is attempting to establish "his" own self-identity, but "[h]is search for self-knowledge has failed because it has produced only fiction" (Solomon 83). Another variety of this interpretation poses the Unnamable's dilemma in Existential language: "Existence affirms merely that something is; essence denotes what it is ... By the time we reach The Unnamable, the collapse of essence is virtually complete; the voice is a mere existence crying out that it exists" (Levy 104). As Dennis A. Foster argues in his Lacanian …

The Philanderer's Rebuttal, Robert Zordani

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

No abstract provided.

The Werewolf's Daughters, Robert Zordani

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

No abstract provided.

The Female Body As Icon: Edna Millay Wears A Plaid Dress, Cheryl Walker

Scripps Faculty Publications and Research

The female body has never been so prominently displayed or so critically examined as it is today under the dominance of late capitalism. The results of this display, we can now see, have been mostly negative: women regard themselves at best self-consciously, at worst with disgust. Given this emphasis on self-scrutiny, it comes as no surprise that middle-aged women experience a reduction of self-confidence regarding their physical presences and a concomitant increase in self-dissatisfaction. It is also worth noting that a querulous tone often afflicts them as they grow older, suggesting that they are at odds not only with others …

Road, Pam Bernard

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 3

Envoy, S R. Tomanek

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 41

The Night Café, 1888, L L. Harper

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 8

Untitled, Jenifer Nostrand

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 25

Burn, Jeanie Thompson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 38

Deep Red, Kyle Grimes

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 45

Fire Season, Joan Mcmillan

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 16

Rhetorical Tropes From The Black English Oral Tradition In The Works Of Toni Morrison, Yvonne Kay Atkinson

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Relating To The Rood, Christopher C. Lecluyse

Honors Papers

This essay will explore the how the poem, through the Rood, might have affirmed and challenged an Anglo-Saxon auditor's religious and cultural assumptions. Both aspects of the auditor's experience could have been inspired by the Rood's dual function within the poem: as a character, the Rood responds to the Crucifixion according to Anglo-Saxon norms; as a narrator, however, the Rood recounts and refigures Christ, who challenges the same norms it is trying to uphold. This paradox and its resolution can be explained by reconstructing the ideological "space" in which the Rood's voice would have resonated. It was a space profoundly …

Paradise Refunded, Kevin Griffith

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 7

The Meaning Of The Birds, Andrea King Kelly

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 13

Legends Of The West, Melinda Mueller

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 19

Who's Going To Walk It?, Eric Nelson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 20

Sting, R T. Smith

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 35

Hothouse Babies, Dale Tietjen

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 39-40

A Rhetorical Aspect Of Edgar Allan Poe's Short Fiction: A Reader Response Approach, James Philip Lehan

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

D.H. Lawrence's "Struggle For Verbal Consciousness": From Women In Love To Psychoanalysis And The Unconscious And Fantasia Of The Unconscious, Yvonne Martha Weatherby

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Stature, Kevin Clark

English

No abstract provided.