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Playing Zeus, Mark Johnston

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 20

Christmas Eve At The Institution, Jamie Simpson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 33

Shrine, Jennifer Call

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 11

Another Journey, Charles Wyatt

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 46

"As If I Could Do Anything Except Just Sit And Stare": A Gaze Of A Viewer/Reader In Psycho And To The Lighthouse, Stephanie Hunt Hegstad

Honors Papers

At the end of Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho, the figure of Norman Bates (or maybe the figure of his mother--at this point, the distinction is fogged) hugs a blanket around him as he sits in his prison cell, staring, perfectly still except for the movements of his eyes, the expressions on his face, the slight movement of his head. He stares directly at the camera, the audience, while the phantom voice of Mother explains her trouble with her son ("he was always--bad"). The camera does not shift angles during this scene to relieve us of this penetrating gaze, but …

Meaning And Matricide: Reading Woolf Via Kristeva, Miglena I. Nikolchina

Digitized Theses

The thesis examines the psychoanalytic myth of matricide in its relevance for a feminist understanding of literary history. The first half of the dissertation explores the problem of matricide in the terms offered by Kristeva's theory. My study emphasizes the larger context of Kristeva's work which is not confined to Freud and Lacan only; the effects of its cultural substratum involving such diverse traits as Byzantine iconograpy, East Orthodox dogma, and Bulgarian language and folklore; and the implications of its form as a "polylogue"--i.e. a transmutation of Bakhtin's polyphonic novel into a theory conscious of its fictional and semiotic dimensions.;In …

The Dialogical Keats: Studies In A Bakhtinian Approach To Keats' Narrative Poems, Michael J. Sider

Digitized Theses

A tradition of criticism in Keats studies has constructed a view of the poet as a writer who is entirely disengaged from history and of his poems as completely finished products, self-contained and ahistorical. This view of the poet and his poems dominates our present understanding of Keats. This dissertation, "The dialogical Keats: Studies in a Bakhtinian approach to Keats' narrative poems," is an attempt to develop a reading of Keats' poetry which uncovers those qualities in the poems that have been denied by the tradition of Keats criticism. Bakhtin's view of language as shared social territory provides a tool …

Commercial Relations In French Farce, 1450-1550, Sharon Lynn Collingwood

Digitized Theses

Although the Farce is filled with marketplace scenes which present merchants and craftspeople engaged in everyday activities, little work has been done on the commercial elements of this bourgeois genre. This thesis studies the language and customs of the marketplace, in order to gain a better understanding of the frequent commercial humour seen in the Farce.;Chapter 1 discusses the thematic importance of money and monetary systems for the Farce, and provides a basis for an understanding of commercial activity in the following chapters. Chapter 2 examines the English manuals of French conversation, which are a rich source for the study …

"His Body Well Be Red": The Politics Of Representing The Body In "The Faerie Queene", David Sean Kinahan

Digitized Theses

This study explores the representations of the body in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene and several other early modern texts. It takes as its premise the Foucauldian notion that the body, born into culture, is never entirely present in itself, but that it is actively produced in discourse; the body is not simply the object on which power operates but the result of a negotiation of its fashionings. The apparent naturalness of bodily presence is used in discursive practice for its authority, and constructions of the body lend formative force to ideological and political ideas and organizations. The regulation of …

Lyric Trials Lyric And Rhetoric In Contemporary Poetry: Seamus Heaney, Adrienne Rich, A R Ammons, John Ashbery, Kevin Vincent Mcguirk

Digitized Theses

Lyric Trials is a comparative study of four contemporary lyric poets: Seamus Heaney, Adrienne Rich, A. R. Ammons, and John Ashbery. Lyric is important in postmodern criticism because it serves as a point of self-definition for both its defenders and its opponents. Yet lyric has itself received little critical attention. This study aims, then, to revise and complicate our received notions about lyric--as expressing pure subjectivity, as autotelic poem--by examining the work of four quite different poets, all of whom have engaged in dialogue with post-Romantic assumptions. My study concerns itself with relations between image and discourse, lyric and the …

Radical Possibilities: Literature In The English Revolution, 1640-1660, Brian Leonard Patton

Digitized Theses

This dissertation explores the circulation of radical social and political ideas in the literature of the 1640-1660 Revolution, when England's most fundamental institutions, from the monarchy to the patriarchal family, appeared in danger of annihilation. For students of literature, the period is so rich that its relative neglect seems remarkable. A lapse in government control over the nation's printing presses resulted in a veritable explosion of books, pamphlets and broadsides, and a literature that offers an unprecedented diversity of views and voices. Surveying a wide range of texts, from the familiar to the lesser-known, my study draws upon insights gleaned …

The Divided Text: Intertextual Ambivalence In Timothy Findley's Novels, Anne Elizabeth Bailey

Digitized Theses

This thesis examines the ambiguous function of intertexts within Timothy Findley's novels. His fiction is in constant dialogue with other literary texts and conventions as well as numerous social, economic, and political discourses. This intertextual dialogue politicizes Findley's work because the re-presentation of intertexts often subverts and challenges ideological biases, revealing sexist, racist, and totalitarian features. However, the repetition of intertexts not only implies difference but also similarity, a paradox which creates ambiguity within Findley's novels. I propose that this ambivalence is evident in both the form and content of Findley's work, arguing that the relationship between his own texts …

The Mockingbird - 1993, Department Of Art And Design, East Tennessee State University, Department Of Literature And Language, East Tennessee State University

The Mockingbird [magazine]

Timothy C. Barbee [Self Portrait Series; Self-Portrait Series]; Kim Barker [World Gone Mad; Untitled Graphic]; Julie Branham [Splunge; Something Wicked This Way Comes; Banzai Bar]; Joe Brown [Coral Reef]; Roger Carper [ICU; The Return]; Todd Cregger [Mocking Bird]; Norman Eades [The Color of Wind]; Melanie Edwards [Friends; Ghandi; Paradise]; Eric R. Fish [Why Not Minot?]; Nicholas Taylor Jimenez [The Ride Home]; Gediyon Kiflle [Memento Mori (Memory of the Dead)]; Miller Lyons [Vietnam, I Weep]; Thomas Keats McKnight [And They Shall Take Up Serpents; Dusty Walls]; Sierra Merrell [Embrace]; Dan Mills [90's Nippy Flippin' Through The Channels; The Double Helix]; Don …

Inertia, Mercedes Lawry

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 23

Birmingham Poetry Review 10 (Front Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. -2

Astronomy, H L. Hix

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 19

[Untitled], Jennifer Nostrand

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 26

[Untitled], Jennifer Nostrand

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 27

The Menatlly Retarded In Heaven, Louis Phillips

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 28

School Play, Lawrence Bradley

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 8

Wahing The Car, Neil S. Abbott

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 3

Nobody's Story, Jackie Bartley

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 4

Rhetorical Questions, Greg Beatty

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 5

April In America - And Jesus Appears On The Freezer, Susan Luther

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 23-25

The Fortieth Birthday, Marcia L. Hurlow

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 19

The Horse Trade, Edgar Silex

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 37-38

Dream Gas Stations, Janet Mccann

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 26

Lewis And Clark, Peter Wild

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 45

Another "Because" Poem, Edgar Silex

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 35-36

Red Plush And Brass: Prostitution As A Mirror Of Self In The Fiction Of Ernest Hemingway, Claude Caswell

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation examines the iconography and psychology of prostitution as a motif in the fiction of Ernest Hemingway. After identifying the prostitutional dynamics that form a recurring pattern throughout Hemingway's work and personal life, the discussion focuses primarily on exploring the implications of those dynamics in Hemingway's three major novels: The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), and For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940).

What this study contends is that the literal and figurative presence of prostitution as a theme in Hemingway's narratives operates on two basic levels. On one level, the prostitution elements represent the pathology …