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Professor Franklin’S Unannotated Bibliography Of Young Adult Literature, 2019—20, John Franklin Jan 2021

Professor Franklin’S Unannotated Bibliography Of Young Adult Literature, 2019—20, John Franklin

Open Educational Resources - English and Modern Languages

A companion to Professor Franklin’s Annotated Bibliography of Young Adult Literature, 2019—20, this is a list of the 243 books alphabetized by author or editor’s last name.


Home Is Where The Hatred Is, Richey Reeves Jan 2021

Home Is Where The Hatred Is, Richey Reeves

Theses and Dissertations

Taking inspiration from my own life and family history, this project is a fictionalized record of the type of struggles in the way of prosperity, kinship, and redemption. These themes are shown through the lives of three generations of Afro-Caribbean women as they attempt reconnection years later abroad. Rose, Grace, and Anansi Powell are the subjects in question, pressured to confront their past through the presence of one another in order to move forward with their respective futures. The grief and pain that surfaces in response to Rose’s unannounced arrival makes way for more than just a simple reunion.


Music Making Connections, Laura M. Breslin Jan 2021

Music Making Connections, Laura M. Breslin

English Department: Research for Change - Wicked Problems in Our World

The Covid-19 pandemic has made mental health issues sky rocket. Many people are suffering from anxiety, depression, OCD and many other mental health problems now more than ever. Without the in-person interactions, many people are eager to be able to hug friends and family again. People are also eager to see their favorite music artist live in concert again. In this paper, we discuss how music can help your mental health, how to prevent contracting the coronavirus, and ways you can help speed up the process of getting life back to normal.


Esl Club Newsletter Contributes To Inclusiveness On Campus, Phillip Fitzsimmons, April Miller Jan 2021

Esl Club Newsletter Contributes To Inclusiveness On Campus, Phillip Fitzsimmons, April Miller

Faculty Books & Book Chapters

The SWOSU ESL Club Newsletter (https://dc.swosu.edu/esl) is one of the many activities that contribute to inclusiveness at Southwestern Oklahoma State University, in Weatherford.


Oscar Wilde And The Invention Of A Life-Creating Fiction, Michael Lackey Jan 2021

Oscar Wilde And The Invention Of A Life-Creating Fiction, Michael Lackey

English Publications

When discussing the origins, rise, and contemporary legitimization of biofiction, Oscar Wilde is a crucial figure. This is not just because he authored one of the first and most important reflections about the aesthetic form, but also because he became the subject of many biofictions, most notably Desmond Hall's I Give You Oscar Wilde: A Biographical Novel {1965), Peter Ackroyd's The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983), Louis Edwards's Oscar Wilde Discovers America (2003), and Colm Toibin's The Master (2004). Some, of course, would question and challenge my decision to include Toibin's novel in this list, as many would say …


William Penn’S Imperial Georgic And The Vernacular Landscapes Of Pennsylvania In Eighteenth-Century Quaker Journals, Jay David Miller Jan 2021

William Penn’S Imperial Georgic And The Vernacular Landscapes Of Pennsylvania In Eighteenth-Century Quaker Journals, Jay David Miller

Faculty Publications - Department of English

This essay analyzes changes in the way Quaker writers represented the landscape of Pennsylvania, particularly the economic features of its built environment, over time. I argue that the promotional writing of William Penn constituted an “official” represent at ion of the landscape, using the genre of imperial georgic to highlight the colony’s productive and lucrative potential for an audience of investors while minimizing the role of indentured servitude, African enslavement, and Indigenous dis-possession in the process of economic development. Eighteenth- century Quaker reformers, however, developed a more “vernacular” portrayal of the landscape that was attentive to the privations of those …


Hope, Hunger, And Spiritual Liberation In Joyce's Dubliners, David P. Rando Jan 2021

Hope, Hunger, And Spiritual Liberation In Joyce's Dubliners, David P. Rando

English Faculty Research

“Hope, Hunger, and Spiritual Liberation in Joyce’s Dubliners” challenges the consensus that Dubliners is best understood as an expression of paralysis or hopelessness. Seen through Ernst Bloch’s critical theory, hope emerges as a forward-looking process in Joyce’s stories, one wary of apotheosis and tied to historical conditions such as hunger. What emerges is a new way of regarding the political operation of Joyce’s texts as adaptive, anticipatory, and unfolding. While Joyce never underestimates the material and political resistances to hope posed by the poverty and hunger that his characters suffer under colonialism and capitalism—indeed, his texts invite readers to scrutinize …


Introduction: Ireland, The Irish, And Biofiction, Michael Lackey Jan 2021

Introduction: Ireland, The Irish, And Biofiction, Michael Lackey

English Publications

No abstract provided.


Reflections On Posthumanism: In The Beginning, The Face., Russell J A Kilbourn Jan 2021

Reflections On Posthumanism: In The Beginning, The Face., Russell J A Kilbourn

English and Film Studies Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


The Bus Murals Of Anniston: Teaching The Freedom Riders History, Joanne E. Gates Jan 2021

The Bus Murals Of Anniston: Teaching The Freedom Riders History, Joanne E. Gates

Presentations, Proceedings & Performances

PBS's American Experience makes available in streaming format its documentary of the Freedom Riders from the PBS website. With that and with a more detailed photographic slide show of the information panels on Anniston's Burning Bus murals, I seek to bring my students to an awareness of ways that history, especially the history of the violence that met the Freedom Riders outside Anniston, is worthy of a revisiting in today's times. I want to bring into my classroom an appreciation for the bus murals that depict the full history of the incident so that students attending Jacksonville State University can …


Introducing Interconnections, Christine Daigle, Russell J A Kilbourn Jan 2021

Introducing Interconnections, Christine Daigle, Russell J A Kilbourn

English and Film Studies Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Hitchhike, David Kirby Jan 2021

Hitchhike, David Kirby

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 25-27


Cousins, Angela Ball Jan 2021

Cousins, Angela Ball

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 53


Eggs, Samatha Leigh Futhey Jan 2021

Eggs, Samatha Leigh Futhey

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 65-66


Wolf Trees, Katie Harstock Jan 2021

Wolf Trees, Katie Harstock

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 73-82


The Wolf Tree In Film, Katie Harstock Jan 2021

The Wolf Tree In Film, Katie Harstock

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 89


Plague, John Hodgen Jan 2021

Plague, John Hodgen

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 92


I’Ve Read That Lionesses After Miscarriages Occasionally Attempt To Suckle Cornered Prey, Eric Janken Jan 2021

I’Ve Read That Lionesses After Miscarriages Occasionally Attempt To Suckle Cornered Prey, Eric Janken

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 93-94


Inadequate Prayers, Daniel Lassell Jan 2021

Inadequate Prayers, Daniel Lassell

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 99-100


Drift, Corey Marks Jan 2021

Drift, Corey Marks

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 116-117


Carol Of Seeing Things From The Porch, Mary Moore Jan 2021

Carol Of Seeing Things From The Porch, Mary Moore

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 127-129


Two Of My Favorite Guitarists Named Their Dogs Django, Ralph Sneeden Jan 2021

Two Of My Favorite Guitarists Named Their Dogs Django, Ralph Sneeden

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 161-162


Moot Nap, A E. Stallings Jan 2021

Moot Nap, A E. Stallings

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 166


Stranger By Night, Chad Davidson Jan 2021

Stranger By Night, Chad Davidson

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 196-200


Frozen Charlotte, Cheyenne Taylor Jan 2021

Frozen Charlotte, Cheyenne Taylor

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 192-195


The Seed Vault, Anna Sudderth Jan 2021

The Seed Vault, Anna Sudderth

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 201-205


Birmingham Poetry Review 48 (End Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff Jan 2021

Birmingham Poetry Review 48 (End Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 215-227


Hiroshige, Okabe, Ricardo Pau-Llosa Jan 2021

Hiroshige, Okabe, Ricardo Pau-Llosa

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 137


What's Changed, David Yezzi Jan 2021

What's Changed, David Yezzi

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 181


Twentieth Century Pandemic Narratives And Mental Health Discourse, Kristy R. Barraza Jan 2021

Twentieth Century Pandemic Narratives And Mental Health Discourse, Kristy R. Barraza

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This paper utilizes René Girard’s theories concerning plague literature to examine twentieth century pandemic novels’ engagement with mental health discourses surrounding anxiety and melancholia. Girard argues that plague literature consists of four main elements: contamination, dissipation of differences, doubles, and sacrifice; he also argues that the plague represents violence. In 1918, a plague of influenza killed more people in the United States than all the wars from the twentieth century combined. William Maxwell’s They Came Like Swallows and Katherine Anne Porter’s Pale Horse, Pale Rider depict the trauma caused by the 1918 pandemic; Maxwell shows how the 1918 influenza disrupted …