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The Keystone Or The Cornerstone? A Rejoinder To Verlyn Flieger On The Alleged “Conflicting Sides” Of Tolkien’S Singular Self, Donald Williams

Mythcon

In “The Arch and the Keystone,” Mythlore 38:1 (Fall/Winter 2019), 5-17, Tolkien scholar Verlyn Flieger argues that the conflicts and contradictions she sees in Tolkien’s essays and fiction do not call for harmonization but rather should be embraced for what they are: “two opposing and conflicting sides of one person, whose contention makes him who he is as well as what he is, the keystone that creates the arch” of The Lord of the Rings out of the friction of the two sides (16). Unfortunately, the alleged contradictions, e.g. between the despair of the Beowulf essay and the hope for …

Adam’S Task: Naming And Subcreation In Good Omens, Janet Brennan Croft

Mythcon

Names are, in one sense, the outward indication of a power negotiation. The namer, the one who bestows a new name or uses an already-given name, reveals, through the choice of name they give or use, their relationship to that which they name. The act may indicate a more or less equal relationship; it may be an attempt to exert power over someone or something by imposing a name on it or by using a name that will influence those who hear it; or it may be a signal of submission and subordination, using a name to flatter or …

(Un)Fair(Ly) Unknown: New And Neglected Arthurian Television Programming, Carl B. Sell, Richard Fahey, Michael Torregrossa, Rachael K. Warmington

Mythcon

The Arthurian tradition abounds with Fair Unknowns, characters whose identity and true worth is revealed only slowly over the course of an adventure. In this session, we’d like to adopt the motif to look at new and neglected television series that make interesting use of the legend and deserve more recognition by scholars.

Moderator: Carl B. Sell
Panelist: Michael Torregrossa
Panelist: Richard Fahey
Panelist: Rachael K. Warmington
Tech Mod: Tim Lenz

'Her Enchanted Hair': Rossetti, 'Lady Lilith,' And The Victorian Fascination With Hair As Influences On Tolkien, Kathryn Colvin

Mythcon

The Victorian poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti appears upon first glance to be an unlikely inspiration for J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium: though both were medievalists, Tolkien’s reputation for chaste prose contrasts sharply with Rossetti’s famously “fleshly” work. However, a close reading of both—setting Rossetti’s poetry, particularly “Lady Lilith” and its accompanying painting, alongside Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and posthumously published material from The Silmarillion and The History of Middle-earth—reveals a compelling and previously unexplored connection between the Victorian cultural mythology of magic hair (as epitomized by the “hair-mad” Rossetti) and Tolkien’s detailed and often supernatural portrayals of …

Philology And The Lived Imagination: Vico, Collingwood, And Tolkien, Reno Lauro

Mythcon

This paper endeavors to uniquely address a question proposed by Tom Shippey in a guest editorial for Mallorn issue 45. “[R.G.] Collingwood and Tolkien were both Fellows of Pembroke College for nearly a decade till 1934, when Collingwood took up a Chair at C.S. Lewis’s college, Magdalen. Did the three of them ever talk about, agree about, disagree about the subject of folktales, on which Collingwood was working and publicly lecturing in the 1930s?” (Shippey 4). In order to answer Shippey’s question, I suggest that ‘folktales’ may not be the only or best way into this investigation. While we know …

Cities And Strongholds Of Middle-Earth, Part 1, Cami Agan, Birgitte Breemerkamp, Nicholas Birns, Marie Bretagnolle, Robin Anne Reid

Mythcon

The Cities and Strongholds of Middle-earth panels bring together seven of the chapters to appear in the upcoming volume of the same name from MythPress. The volume explores the habitations of Middle-earth across the ages, as well as the cultures responsible for those built structures. Presenters will briefly explain their chapters in order to leave plenty of room for discussion.

Moderator: Cami Agan
Panelist: Nicholas Birns
Panelist: Birgitte Breemerkamp
Panelist: Marie Bretagnolle
Panelist: Robin A. Reid
Tech Mod: Tim Lenz

Q&A With Mythopoeic Award Winners, Dennis Wise, James Gifford, Theodora Goss, Yoon Ha Lee

Mythcon

Q&A with Mythopoeic Award Winners (Roundtable) Steward of Mythopoeic Awards Dennis Wise will lead conversation and Q&A with some of last year’s Mythopoeic Society Award winners: James Gifford, Theodora Goss, and Yoon Ha Lee.

Tech Mod: Cait Rottler

Katie Parnell's Final Master's Portfolio, Kathryn Parnell

Master of Arts in English Plan II Graduate Projects

This portfolio includes insight, analysis, research, and pedagogy concerning the following topics:

The Lost Prince: A Multi-Theory Analysis of Peter Morgan’s Representation of Prince Charles in The Crown

Semiotic Content Analysis: Gender Stereotypes in Laundry Advertisements

Emma Extended Lesson Plan and Critical Essay

Carrying The Stories Of Las Mariposas: Literacy As Collective And Transformative, Deborah Vriend Van Duinen

Michigan Reading Journal

Literacy is often understood as the acquisition of individual skills and knowledge. In this essay, I explore different approaches to understanding literacy that focus on social meaning-making and action. Drawing on historical examples of literacy learning and my recent experiences in a community-wide reading program focused on Julia Alvarez’s (1994) In the Time of the Butterflies, I use the concept of “carrying stories” to reflect on how literacy learning can be collective and transformative for self and society.

Editor's Note, Virginia Smith

The Robert Frost Review

No abstract provided.

About The Contributors

The Robert Frost Review

No abstract provided.

Table Of Contents

The Robert Frost Review

No abstract provided.

Final Master's Portfolio, Sean Heron

Master of Arts in English Plan II Graduate Projects

Final portfolio for a master's degree in English with a specialization in English teaching

Tracey Budworth Master's Portfolio, Tracey Budworth

Master of Arts in English Plan II Graduate Projects

This portfolio contains examples of my work in association with familiarizing myself with the subaltern and working to incorporate the concept of the "other" into my teaching.

Final Master's Portfolio, Samantha Dalrymple

Master of Arts in English Plan II Graduate Projects

Diversity and inclusion are at the center of this final portfolio, showcasing the educational experience I've had as a Master of Arts in the field of English with a Specialization in English Teaching at Bowling Green State University. English as a field of study presents many career opportunities, and the pedagogies, skills, and ideas present in this portfolio will be carried and applied at some level, in any career I seek in the future. In this portfolio, I examine themes of empathy and the graphic novel in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic; diversity and the vernacular in Angie …

Existentially Guilty: Where Do I Go From Here?, Devontae Wilson

Master of Arts in English Plan II Graduate Projects

Teachers, students, parents, and even politicians have been forced to confront the by-products of not having difficult conversations about race and class. Political pundits are using this moment in history sparked by recorded injustice and the publicized murders of unarmed black people at the hands of law enforcement to demonize Critical Race Theory (CRT), a framework created to analyze how the law is racialized. This portfolio is largely a result of Dr. Rudine Sims-Bishop’s “Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Glass Doors” and contextualizing it through my personal experience as a classroom teacher, as a black man in a majority white, female …

Tolkienian Glôssology: Or A Study Of The Primitive Elvish Vocabulary Of Tolkien’S Qenya Lexicon And Gnomish Lexicon From The Late 1910’S, The Precursors Of Quenya And Sindarin (2020), By Mark T. Hooker, Andrew Higgins

Journal of Tolkien Research

Book review, by Andrew Higgins, of Tolkienian Glôssology (2020) by Mark T. Hooker

Te Bombardeo, Darilys Matos-Acevedo

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

No abstract provided.

The Green World Is Calling And She Must Go: Rhetoric Of Adventure And Betrayal In Shakespeare's Othello, Madeleine Dax Wilson

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

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Confronting Student Resistance To Ecofeminism: Three Perspectives, Jennifer Browdy De Hernandez, Holly Kent, Colleen Martell

The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal

Teaching ecofeminism is a dynamic, vital practice, demanding a great deal of both educators and students. At the heart of this essay is the question: how can we teach ecofeminism effectively? In this work, we reflect on our successes and failures teaching ecofeminism within various topics and in different settings. While each co-author of this piece brings ecofeminism into our classrooms, we do so in very different ways and have diverse approaches to making ecofeminist theories and ideas feel vital, necessary, and relevant for our students. In our essay, we aim to offer some productive and provocative suggestions and ideas …

An Unexpected Study: A Response To Ordway's "Tolkien’S Modern Reading", Maureen F. Mann

Journal of Tolkien Research

Abstract for An Unexpected Study

This essay review interrogates the polemical style of rhetoric in Holly Ordway’s Tolkien’s Modern Reading. It critiques her use of a fictional narrative to represent an adolescent Tolkien, her intertextual criteria, and her dating of Victorian fantasists and their historical moment. It questions her claims about entrenched notions concerning Tolkien, her use of evidence, and her assumptions about her audience. It concludes that Ordway is less interested in Tolkien’s contemporary reading and more interested in creating a new narrative about Tolkien the author.

Literacy, Rhetoric, Tradition, And Truth In The Age Of Bede, Gerard A. Lavin Iii

English Language and Literature ETDs

Despite his own high level of literacy and education, the Venerable Bede (672/3–735) inhabited a world in which nearly all personal, social, educational, and political discourse was conducted orally. A thorough understanding of his works will require an understanding of this discourse, but attempts to apply broad theories of “orality” derived from other cultures to early medieval England have repeatedly foundered. This dissertation establishes a set of guiding principles to produce a more nuanced and localized model of discourse in Bede’s England and observes a variety of ways oral and literate forms of rhetoric were employed by political actors in …

Machine Translation: The Cultural And Idiomatic Challenge, Nabil Alawi استاذ مساعد, Shaymaa Abdulhaq

Journal of Al-Azhar University – Gaza (Humanities)

ملخص:

بينما أصبحنا أكثر اعتماداً على الآلات في كل ناحية من حياتنا، فإن استخدام الآلات في الترجمة أاصبح تحدياً مذهلاً. نحن نفضل توفير الوقت والجهد والتكلفة في الترجمة, حيث إن هذه المتطلبات متوفرة لدى الترجمة الآلية، لكن تبقى المشكلة في الدقة والولاء للنص. الترجمة الآلية يمكن أن تكون فعالة في ترجمة بعض النصوص المعينة إلا أن الواقع الإصطلاحي والثقافي في اللغات يبقى مشكلة تواجهها الترجمة الآلية. قام الباحثان في هذه الدراسة بعرض تحليلي لبعض النصوص و ترجمتها من خلال استخدام Google Translate ومن ثم قاما بتصنيف الترجمات من حيث الإصطلاحات، والمعاني المتعددة للمصطلحات، والتعابير ذات الدلالة المتعلقة بالنص، والتعابير غير …

Character-Based Dynamicity In Thomas Hardy’S Far From The Madding Crowd: A Techno-Thematic Preview, Marwan Hamdan استاذ مساعد

Journal of Al-Azhar University – Gaza (Humanities)

Abstract:

This research examines Thomas Hardy’s multi-thematic novel Far from the Madding Crowd based on its artistic techniques and characters’ mobility. Hardy’s novel revolves around serious human values and virtues such as love, marriage, socialization, and naturalization. Such thematic values are basic themes that this paper explores their aesthetic techniques. Meanwhile, the paper tries to interpret Hardy's novel in the light of concepts of thematization and characterization, which trace the mentalities and consciousness of his major characters in the intended narrative. Hardy’s artistic vision towards male and female characters is the center of this paper, for both genders undergo …

Les Formules De Politesse À Valeur Votive: Des Actes De Langage Rassurants Aux Actes Menaçants, Riham Jaradat

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

Ever since Austin has developed his famous Speech Act Theory, it has become common knowledge that the pragmatic value of such acts carry a purely cultural nature. It is established that every linguistic system carries a host of cultural and social characteristics that allow the speech acts to deliver diverse pragmatic ends in a given discourse. This study aims to conduct a discursive analysis to discern the way the vowing act is applied in Colloquial Jordanian Arabic. Given that there is a myriad of ways to use these acts, the study is dedicated to address the mode of using the …

Shakespeare’S Revisionist Historiography Of The Crusades And Crusading, Mufeed F. Alabdullah

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This paper studies the topic of crusades and crusading in Shakespeare's King John, Richard II, 1&2 Henry IV, and Henry V within the medieval religious, political, and historical contexts seen retrospectively from the perspective of the Elizabethan England of Reformation. It surveys and analyzes Shakespeare's revisionist views of that medieval historical phenomenon, and demonstrates that he addresses the main aspects of that issue with some liberty he gathered from the cultural outlook developed after his country had sailed away from medieval ideologies and politics. Shakespeare looks back and evaluates not only the holy wars directed against the Muslims in …

English Renaissance Tragedy: Kyd’S The Spanish Tragedy And Marlowe’S Doctor Faustus In Perspective, Fuad Abdul Muttaleb

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

In this paper, I shall be trying to investigate the nature of the English Renaissance drama through two prominent examples: Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy (1556-1857) and Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus (1588-1593). In order to carry out this aim Kyd's play (probably performed 1586–7), will be looked at as the first successful English example of tragedy, for its force and originality was widely acknowledged, and Marlowe's play (probably performed 1592) as an artistic expression of the Renaissance spirit, a recreation of the Faust legend. The English idea of a Renaissance tragedy seems here to be a mixture of the ideas …

Applying Brown And Levinson's Politeness Theory On Lady Macbeth's Speech In Shakespeare’S Macbeth, Mahmood Eshreteh, Yasmin Draweesh

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This paper is an attempt to apply Brown and Levinson's (1987) politeness theory on Lady Macbeth's speech in Shakespeare's Macbeth. By analyzing her dialogues in the play, the researchers try to find the politeness strategies in these dialogues, and the reasons behind preferring the use one strategy over another. After classifying the analyzed selected parts of the play and arranging them according to Brown and Levinson’s (1987) politeness strategies, the researchers found that power, status and distance play the biggest role in preferring one strategy over the others. Moreover, the findings revealed that Lady Macbeth's ideology leads her to …

Macbeth's Political Imagination: The Struggle For Kingship In Macbeth, Fuad Abdul Muttaleb, Mohammad Khair Rawashdeh

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

Ambition and regicide are two types of evil examined very closely in William Shakespeare's play Macbeth. Hence, ambition is seen in the play as a sin, an attempt to jump the natural order and make a new one, a desire so intense it can lead a person into the hands of evil. Regicide, according to medieval European conventions, is to kill God's anointed king, and so likewise to disrupt the natural and divine order. Macbeth's illegal and immoral kingship brings death, destruction, and suffering to Scotland, whilst the good kingship of Duncan and Malcolm brings victory and happiness; the …

The Skill Of Writing From A Linguistic And Cognitive Perspective, Abdellazzez Fawa’Reh

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

Writing a text is a challenging task, accomplished through a complex writing process that is subtended by a number of skill, the aim of this study to view whether writing is both a linguistic and cognitive ability or not, through The writing samples of six students have been taken for the purpose of analysis.. The six students fall into two categories, The analysis of the 6 student transcripts have been divided into two sections Linguistic Analysis and Cognitive Analysis. The result of the study showed linguistic and cognitive are two, One cannot separate them from each other. Both play an …