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Memorial Day, Elderton, Pennsylvania, Ed Ochester

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 38

To Be Consoled, Marylin Johnston

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 25

Lights And Shadows - 1994, University Of North Alabama

Lights and Shadows

Art and Literature Magazine

X-Bar Syntax In A Pedagogical Setting, Hector A. Torres

English Language and Literature Faculty Publications

In this brief essay I explore how X-bar syntax, the module in the theory of grammar that defines the head-complement relation in particular languages, may be used as an effective pedagogical tool when teaching college students encountering the theory of grammar for the first time. In particular, I pursue two distinct but interrelated objectives: (i) to show that X-bar theory, within its limits, can be used to teach such students the empirical nature of the study of constituent structure in an optimally simple way, and (ii) to propose a variant of X-bar theory that could supplement any English pedagogical grammar …

Joyce Carol Oates As Postmodern Romantic: A Postmodern Feminist Critique Of A Bloodsmoor Romance And Foxfire: Confessions Of A Girl-Gang, Christian Hansen-Knarhoi

Theses : Honours

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Booktalking On Fiction Circulation Statistics, Melinda J. Quinn

Graduate Research Papers

Five monthly booktalk programs were presented to the eighth grade reading classes at BGM School. Circulation statistics for first semester of 1992 when these students were in seventh grade were compared to the circulation statistics for the same semester of their eighth grade year in 1993 to determine if the booktalks made a significant difference in this group's reading habits.

An analysis of the data using the chi-square test indicated no significant difference at the .05 level in the circulation statistics for paperback books, hard bound books or total volumes. It seemed, though, that the students reacted positively to the …

Stereotypes Of The Native American Found In Young Adult Literature, Kim D. Zelhart

Graduate Research Papers

This research investigated the occurences of stereotyping of Native Americans in young adult literature, using the young adult novels available in the Monticello, Iowa, Jr./Sr. High School. Twenty-eight Native American fiction books were read and evaluated. Of the twenty-eight books read twenty-three had 3 or more stereotypes.

The Making Of A Literary Map, Joyce Kinkead

English Faculty Publications

David Lee, fondly known in Utah as the "pig poet" for his collection The Porcine Canticles (1984), tells the story of his seventh-grade teacher's poetry assignment from a Texas childhood:

She sent us to the li-berry to find a pome. We were supposed to change some words to make it our pome. I came back with "Hell hath no fury like a sow with pigs." She gave me an F. (Magid 1993, 1)

Today, when David Lee reads one of his pig poems to audiences around the state, they chuckle and applaud.

A New Reading Of 'Ethan Brand': The Failed Quest, Mark Harris

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Examines how the protagonist in Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story `Ethan Brand' searched for what is considered the `unpardonable sin' of divorcing one's head from one's heart and oneself from humanity. Interpretation of symbolisms in the story; Analysis of the Puritan view of sin in relation to the story.

Anne Rice's Vampire Aesthetic: Redefining The Vampire Tradition, Kurt Alan Kemp

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Feminine Other: A Study Of The Women In Shakespeare's Major Tragedies, Kurt E. Wilamowski

Masters Theses

The central examination of this thesis concentrates on the essential contributions of the female characters in Shakespeare's major tragedies--Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. Without the women's conflict with the patriarchal order, the males would be unable to recognize and combat the corrupt elements in their society. The awareness of the female characters allows them to perceive the tainted patriarchal atmosphere they dwell in and operate within it as best as they can.

In short, each woman's individual field of awareness allows her to act as the executor of the dénoucement in the tragedy. Even …

Close To Home, Donald P. Gagnon

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Thesis Without A Moral: Regarding Plum Bun And Quicksand, Dana Desjardins

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Composing The Scene: Coleridge And Picturesque Aesthetics, David W. Rogner

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Contemporary Gothicism: Straub's Shadowland, Rhonda Lee Brock

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations (1964–2006)

No abstract provided.

Demythifying Melville: Charles Johnson's Middle Passage And The Nightmare Of Slavery, Rachel Palencia '94

Honors Projects

When I first picked up Middle Passage, I was struck by an odd sense of familiarity, for having read "Benito Cereno" that same year, I immediately noted a connection to Melville. I became curious to determine not only the nature of that connection but also how an analysis of it might enhance an understanding of Johnson's text. I asked myself: "Why does Johnson deliberately choose to retell Melville?" A few reasons immediately suggested themselves: because Melville represents the canon of classic American literature and because he is an American writer who has adopted the 'European perspective of the empire. Moreover, …

The Changing Role And Portrayal Of 'The Individual' In Historical Context In Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudice And Emma, George Eliot's Middlemarch And Daniel Deronda, And Thomas Hardy's The Mayor Of Casterbridge And Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Juliana Payne

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

In an analysis of six novels published in the nineteenth century, the thesis examines the changing role and portrayal of the 'individual' in Victorian fiction. Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Emma (1816), George Eliot's Middlemarch (1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876), and Thomas Hardy's Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) and Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891) are analysed in depth. The discussion focuses on how the social and historical context shapes the development of theme, character and plot in the novels, especially focusing on literary conceptions of character as an individualistic being within the wider framework of society. The emphasis is …

Dostoevsky Speaks For Ford: A Dialogic Interpretation Of The Good Soldier, Michael Bonner

Theses : Honours

This thesis offers an original interpretation of Ford Madox Ford's novel, The Good Soldier, which focuses on the dialogic and intertextual qualities of Ford's writing. A representative body of previous critical analyses of the novel are reviewed to demonstrate that earlier interpretations, which have assessed the novel according to limited theories of epistemology or language, are inadequate to examine the social criteria for meaning that the novel invites. One of the tasks of this research is to show that the probable origins of Ford's dialogistic narrative modality lie in the writing of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Biographical materials are used to show …

Disseminating Heterotopia, Robert F. Reid-Pharr

Publications and Research

Focuses on the motion picture The Passion of Remembrance by Isaac Julien and Maureen Blackwood, and the book Tales of Neveryon by Samuel Delany. Highlights of the motion picture and the book; Author's argument that the tendency to ossify myths only leads to further confusion; Understanding of the mythic process.

Reed Way Dasenbrock, Imitating The Italians: Wyatt, Spenser, Synge, Pound, Joyce, Robert Spoo

Articles, Chapters in Books and Other Contributions to Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.

25 Years: The Mythopoeic Society Appreciations, Nancy-Lou Patterson, Mary Stolzenbach, Bernie Zuber, Diana L. Paxson

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

"The following are tributes written by readers of Mythlore" - Glen GoodKnight

Letters, Rhona Beare, Darrell Schweitzer, Paula Disante, Jan Long, Peter H. Berube, Arden Smith, David Doughan

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

No abstract provided.

The Verse Of J.R.R. Tolkien, Melanie A. Rawls

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

Largely negative criticism of Tolkien as a poet, particularly his early work in Book of Lost Tales and Lays of Beleriand. Notes, however, that “much of the verse embedded in his prose does indeed fit the purpose for which he intended it.”

Dark Sisters And Light Sisters: Sister Doubles And The Search For Sisterhood In The Mists Of Avalon And The White Raven, Melinda Hughes

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

Examines the literary device of “doubling” in Bradley’s The Mists of Avalon and Paxson’s The White Raven, as expressed in the “surrogate sister” pairs of Morgaine/ Gwenhwyfar and Branwen/Esseilte.

Twenty-Five Years With The Mythopoeic Society: A Personal Response, Glen H. Goodknight

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

Reminiscences of the history of the Society on the occasion of its 25th anniversary.

J.R.R. Tolkien, Canon Norman Power

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

No abstract provided.

Law And Disorder: Two Settings In That Hideous Strength, Doris T. Myers

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

Contrasts Bracton College, symbolic of failure to respect the natural law (or Tao), as Lewis defines it, and Belbury. The former ignores the natural law, representing alienation from nature and “licit” law, religion, and science.

"Courtesy" In Charles Williams' The Greater Trumps, Charles Beach

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

Describes the tradition of courtesy in medieval court and monastic communities. Refers to these traditions and Williams’s writings to define courtesy as he saw it. Notes the different levels of courtesy as defined by Williams.

Tolkien And I: A Brief Memoir, Richard Plotz

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

No abstract provided.

C.S. Lewis And Animal Rights, John Laurent

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

Contends that Lewis’s stance on animal rights owed “a great deal to his interest in evolutionary theory.” Notes that Lewis did not reject evolution as a scientific theory when he became a Christian; but he did reject the philosophical position of evolutionism.