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Penn, The Archivist, Michael Rosen

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 37-38

Trailing The Cry, R S. Carlson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 7

After Uncle Charley's Funeral, Anne Fowler

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 14

Silver Streak, Susan Luther

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 23

Pesach, Elton Glaser

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 15

Boy With Kite, Naomi Clark

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 8-9

One Fable, Scott Mulrane

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 32

Written In The Stars, Philip Miller

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 29

Lourdes, France, James Mersmann

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 25

Mrs. Trollope's American Novels, Linda Abess Ellis

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Frances Milton Trollope (1779-1863) was one of the most popular novelists and travel writers of her generation. Her visit to the United States (1827-32) provided her with material for her first and most famous book, Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), and for four novels set in America (The Refugee in America, 1832; Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw, 1836; The Barnabys in America, 1842; and The Old World and the New, 1849).

This study treats all four American novels, examining them against a background of other travellers' accounts and against other fiction of the early nineteenth century in order to show how …

Escaping The Alphabet: The Reading Of Silence In The Novels Of Virginia Woolf, Patricia Laurence

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

The exploration of the theme and narration of silence in Virginia Woolf's novels in this dissertation brings under scrutiny nothing less than her perceptions of the nature of gender, being, mind, knowledge and language. Woolf, searching for a language of mind amid changing concepts of mind in the twentieth century, creates a new rhetoric of silence. In defining silence as a "presence" and not just an "absence" in life and narration, Woolf displaces the privileged place of the "speaking subject" and speech or dialogue in the novel. In Chapter 1, there is an attempt to define what "silence" is in …

5. Talking God, Assorted Draft Pages Of Manuscript., Tony Hillerman

Talking God Manuscripts

This manuscript is a collection of notes, outlines and drafts of a few beginning chapters. There is also a transcript of a conversation discussing competitiveness between academics, instructions on how to save a file and a page outlining the development of Hillerman's plot ideas.

4. Talking God, Assorted Draft Pages Of Manuscript And Notes., Tony Hillerman

Talking God Manuscripts

This manuscript is a collection of notes, articles and newspaper clippings along with a few assorted draft pages from Talking God. There is also a page of drawings created by Tsaile elementary school students of the mask featured in the book.

Different Words: Response To James Paul Gee, C. Mark Hurlbert, Nancy Mack, James Thomas Zebroski

English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications

Our collective response to James Paul Gee will build on the many similar beliefs that the three of us share with Gee to examine the disputes that we have with some of his words. Our response will push forward, suggesting transformative practices that composition teachers can do to create a more democratic classroom and a more democratic profession.

The Portrayal Of Child Abuse In Children’S Literature, Stephanie P. Marsland

Graduate Research Papers

This research study was conducted to determine how child abuse was portrayed in fiction literature for children in Kindergarten through 6th grade. Sixteen novels published in or after 1978 were analyzed. All of the titles were located through the use of selective bibliographies and were positively reviewed in Booklist or School Library Journal. The novels focused on the victims of child abuse who were at least one of the main characters and who spent at least part of the book in the abusive environment.

Psychological, physical, and sexual abuse and neglect were all evident in the children's novels, with psychological …

Talking God Book Tour, 1989, Tony Hillerman

Talking God Book Tours

This file contains itineraries, notes, memos, and documents related to book tour for Talking God novel.

The Woman In Red, Cynthia Hogue

Ahsahta Press

In this collection of narrative poetry, Cynthia Hogue layers dream-like images over one another to convey a sense of what it means to be a woman—though as Pamela Stewart mentions in her preface, “there are no cozy earth-mothers, simplistic in their decorative aprons.... This is not ‘women’s poetry’ in any publisher’s-blurb sense.” Hogue’s women question identity and sex and being, as does the speaker of “The Seal Woman,” who sees her sisters transformed into humans by the calls of the men ashore. “They come down to the water to keen/ for their lost skin/...But I've caught/ their gaze and—dry so …

Men At Work, Bill Witherup

Ahsahta Press

This collection explores the tension between public and private arenas, with the figure of the laborer juxtaposed against that of the poet. Learning to “snap a line,” in Bill Witherup’s world, is as much about manual labor as it is about writing. Witherup has created a dynamic form of poetic memoir where the personal abuts the political and elegy intermingles with vivid stories about what kills us while we are alive. The poems in Men at Work concern themselves with the survival of the world as it should be, even when faced with how the world actually is: they are …

Review Of "Tabula Rosa" By R. Blau Duplessis, Nathalie Anderson

English Literature Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Teaching Blake's Psychology Of Redemption In Songs, Harold E. Pagliaro

English Literature Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

"Thinking I Was I Was Not Who Was Not Was Not Who:" The Vertigo Of Faulknerian Identity, Philip M. Weinstein

English Literature Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

The Beginning And History Of The Child Study Children's Book Committee, Josette Frank

The Center for Children's Literature

History of the Children's Book Committee going back to its start from the Child Study Association of America in 1912 to its affiliation with Bank Street College in 1977. Exact publication date unknown, between 1985 and 1989.

Multiple Identities/Multiple Narrative Strategies: Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, Gabrielle N. Dean

Honors Papers

The Chinese never meant to stay in America. The eventual integration -- or lack thereof -- of those sojourners, fortune seekers, and refugees into mainstream America was for many an economic accident, a cruel mishap twice as bitter to swallow when longing for Home was burdened with racism and ignorance of the American barbarians. Some did return (and had their American nest eggs confiscated by the Communists) but for those unfortunates who had to stay, the dream of going back to China was a taste in the mouth, verbalized and daily pressed upon the palates of offspring and kin.

Children …

The Reinscription And Qualification Of The Feminine In Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons, Jeffrey Mihok

Honors Papers

My concern in this paper is primarily with Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons, though I will close with a few observations about the canonization and exclusion of literary works. Stoddard's novel, published in 1862, holds great interest because, among other things, it is in the position of possibly attaining a wider readership, if not canonization, and yet its success is hardly assured. Independent of its particular fictive character, it is a rewarding and strange work to read because of its positioning. Its 1984 republishing, edited and with an introduction by Lawrence Buell and Sandra Zagarell, has been variously received, achieving a …

Breaking And Connecting In The Short Stories Of Flannery O'Connor: "The Look Of This Fiction Is Going To Be Wild" (Grace Minus Nature Equals Mystery), John Benjamin Schwartz

Honors Papers

Flannery O'Connor was not an author who was afraid to take drastic measures, or to be on familiar terms with a deep mystery. She, like the great mathematicians, had points she wanted to connect,. and was willing to tear her fabric to connect them. In her fiction, the disruption she uses to forge her paths has many incarnations. The generating forces of that disruption, and the forces generated by that disruption, can be focused into three immediately identifiable categories: comedy, violence, and the grotesque. In order to better understand O'Connor's fiction and the connections between the taxed analogy of complex …

A Womanist Reading Of Selected Novels By Black Women, Georgene Bess

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

No abstract provided.

Birmingham Poetry Review 3 (End Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 40-42

Penance, Peter Wild

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 39

Sunglasses, 1969, Les Bridges

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 6

Twa Corbies, Robert Lewis Weeks

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 38