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[Introduction To] Long Gone: The Mecklenburg Six And The Theme Of Escape In Black Folklore, Daryl Cumber Dance

Bookshelf

Magnitude of the Death Row escape on May 31, 1984 of six condemned men (Linwood Briley, James Briley, Earl Clanton, Jr., Willie Leroy Jones, Derick Lynn Peterson, and Lem Tuggle) incarcerated in the Mecklenburg Correction Center in Boydton, Virginia is chronicled.

The terror it inspired in Virginia and up and down the East Coast, and even into Canada, evoked memories of the numerous exploits of fugitives and out-laws on the run in Black folktales, Black toasts, Black music, and Black literature.

The Fool As A Provisional Role In Shakespeare: Three Examples, Santha Cassell

Honors Papers

In his essay "Jacobean Shakespeare," Maynard Mack explains the system of "mirroring" that produces Shakespeare's depth and unity. A "mirror" is an element that creates a dialogue with other elements, and weaves the thematic fabric of the play. This process takes place between motifs, parallel scenes, and characters who echo each other or "speak each other's minds." Very often, the mirroring character or catalyst is the licensed fool. with dramatic permission to say anything, and a reputation and tradition of madness, the fool both reveals the truth and obscures it with his inverted, debased, or metaphoric language. Just as an …

The Commercialization Of The Colloquial Voice: Raymond Carver And The Minimalist Aesthetic, Cara Diaconoff

Honors Papers

In American critical writing of the last decade, the term "minimalism", which first came into use to describe a particular aesthetic, a distinctive style of art, has begun to be used in a very different context. In literary reviews and essays it is now most frequently employed as a convenient critical label, a catchall phrase which purportedly refers to a new "reigning style" in contemporary fiction. This style in turn is generally thought to be the exclusive domain of a certain generation of writers. Roughly, the birth years of this generation could be said to span the period 1935-50; thus, …

The Function Of Forest In The Faerie Queene: Seeing The Woods For The Trees, Nicholas Randell

Honors Papers

Generally, the mention of place in regard to The Faerie Queene summons up the image of Alma's House of Temperance, the Bower of Bliss, or Isis' Temple. These settings are highly stagey: the narrative comes to a halt) and the reader is expected to interpret the composite images of the scene. The crocodile at Isis' feet enjoys the same relationship to her as justice does to equity. Equity, its allegorical representative embodied in Isis, exercises a restraining influence over the "cruel doome" of Justice, i.e., the crocodile that Isis stands on. These places smack of the unreal; they and their …

Lights And Shadows - 1987, University Of North Alabama

Lights and Shadows

Art and Literature Magazine

The Fountain And The Black Fish, Gwenyth Hood

English Faculty Research

It was late afternoon when Oscar Verplank and his mother arrived at his Aunt Penny's apartment. The boards of the porch creaked as they crossed to the heavy oak door. "The house is more than a hundred years old,"murmured his mother as she rang the bell. A buzz sounded and Oscar quickly opened the door. "They had to update the place to make it livable, Mother," he noted. As they climbed the creaky stairs, the door to the upstairs apartment was thrown open.

"Louise! It's been too long!" cried the woman who rushed out. As the sisters embraced each other, …

Sauron And Dracula, Gwenyth Hood

English Faculty Research

Superficial similarities between the Sauron of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and the Dracula of Bram Stoker's Dracula will strike anyone who reads both works. But the relationship between the two chief antagonists goes far beyond the superficial. Sauron and Dracula are tyrant-monsters of similar motives and powers. Both are counter-creators of a mode of existence associated with the powers of darkness which is parasitical on the natural life of creation and at active war with it, called not "living" but "Un-Dead" (spelled "undead" in Tolkien, III 116) in both. Both seek to draw others into this "undeath" and …

'Uproar In The Echo': Browning's Vitalist Beginnings, Leslie T. White

English Faculty Publications

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Front Matter

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Poetry Of Displacement: Sorley Maclean And His Writing, Colin Nicholson

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

On Marshak's Russian Translation Of Robert Burns, Yang De-You

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

Chaucer And The Middle Scots Poets, Walter Scheps

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

Barrie As Journeyman-Dramatist: A Study Of "Walker London", R.D.S. Jack

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

Spontaneity And The Strategy Of Transcendence In Burns's Kilmarnock Verse-Epistles, Steven R. Mckenna

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

"Let Us Burn Our Ships": Carlyle, Sarah Austin, And House-Hunting In London, Rodger L. Tarr

Studies in Scottish Literature

Provides the first full text of Carlyle's letter on 24 March 1834 from Craigenputtoch in Scotland to a friend in London who was house-hunting for him, asking questions about the "housekin" she had found for the Carlyles in Kensington, describing what he needed in a house, and expressing his forebodings about the move. They missed getting that house, but the same friend helped them find their house in Chelsea after they had moved.

Ambivalent Artifice In Dunbar's The Thrissill And The Rois, Deanna Delmar Evans

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

The Growth Of A Poem: Edwin Muir's "Day And Night", Elizabeth Huberman

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

Royalty And Self-Absorption In Drummond's Poetry, David Reid

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

Charitable Actions Reevaluated In The Novels Of Henry Mackenzie, Elaine Ware

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

Rebelling From The Right Side: Thomas Carlyle's Struggle Against The Dominant Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric, Charles A. Beirnard

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

The Genesis Of The Green Isle Of The Great Deep, Alistair Mccleery

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

The "Wofull Prisonnere" In Dunbar's Goldyn Targe, David V. Harrington

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

Brief Notice

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Book Reviews

Studies in Scottish Literature

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The Technical Achievement Of C. Rossetti In Goblin Market And Other Poems, Jay D. Fisk

Masters Theses

During Christina Rossetti's lifetime (1830-1894), and for some fifty years after her death, critical attention focused on her life, more specifically on how that life affected her poetry. Critics tried to show how her Italian ancestors, artistic brothers, spiritual mother and sister, and her many illnesses influenced her works. Other than these basic facts, little else was known.

Later, psychological critics found much sexual symbolism in the "repressed" poet's works. "Goblin Market," with its tale of strange little goblin men seducing innocent maids with their fruits seemed particularly well-suited to a Freudian approach. This poem received so much attention that …

Cooper's Fathers And Daughters: The Dialectic Of Paternity, Susan Shillinglaw

Faculty Publications, English and Comparative Literature

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Pictorial Space As Identity In The Deerslayer, Susan Shillinglaw

Faculty Publications, English and Comparative Literature

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Character Revelation In Hawthorne: A Study Of Inappropriate Laughter And The Deceptive Quality Of Appearance And Reality, Helen Garvey

Master's Theses

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Sir Walter Scott And Eyrbyggja Saga, Julian D'Arcy, Kirsten Wolf

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Contributors

Studies in Scottish Literature

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