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Dark Time Of The Soul, Lowell Jaeger

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 20

In Longueuil, Robert Lietz

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 23-24

Nature Series, Heidi Schultz

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 43

Birmingham Poetry Review 9 (Front Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. -2

How We Got Here, Philip Brady

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 4-5

Abstract, Helen Morrissey Rizzuto

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 39

Measuring, Jefferson Carter

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 7

Still Life, Martha Elizabeth

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 10

Draw Day, Stuart Friebert

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 12

Birmingham Poetry Review 8 (End Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 47-50

Maggie And Cram, Marilee Richards

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 29

Music For Atlanta, Union Seige, 1864, Gregory Byrd

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 6

Forty Nights, Marjorie Maddox

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 21

Skater, John Hildebidle

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 17

At The Raptor Center, K Subach

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 42

So Much Still, Dale Tietjen

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 45

Saul, Changed, K Subach

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 43-44

Rheginos's Reply To His Father's "Treatise On The Resurrection", Dale Tietjen

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 46

Community Versus The Imperial Mind: Images Of Civil Strife In Hawthorne's "The Marble Faun"., Henry Michael W Russell

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun allegorically represents the crisis of civil order in the American Republic in the 1850s foreshadowing the Civil War that erupted a year after the novel's publication. Hawthorne's last completed romance, set in Rome, suggests Americans must judge themselves against the community and continuity embodied in the European culture they had recently cast off. Challenging Emerson's doctrine that man may have an original relationship to history and the Creator, Hawthorne undermines the Founders' great idea: that an assembly of men could discover and formulate--in an act of the human mind--self-evident, inalienable rights that govern political and …

Echoes Of The Past In Flaubert's "L'Education Sentimentale", "Bouvard Et Pecuchet" And "Salammbo"., Deborah Lee Trott Pierce

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Flaubert's novels demonstrate how the nineteenth-century's self-conception was defined by a disciplined obsession with the past. By looking at History, past and present, Flaubert's novels attempt to comprehend the individual and his evolving social reality. As evidenced in L'Education sentimentale, Bouvard et Pecuchet and Salammbo, one of Flaubert's main concerns is that of man's personal connection with history. The historian and the novelist both work within the constraints imposed upon them by language. Both take from the world around them to construct a narrative that in many ways is similar. By the fusion of the familiar in his work the …

Contact Phase: Forms Of Postmodernism. (Volumes I And Ii)., Michael Owen Crumb

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation examines variant mimetic strategies as the basis for a major dialectic within postmodern culture. The method applies and sometimes extends largely accepted theoretical statements on literary form. This synthesis provides an accessible, if at times complex, schema for organizing types, genres, and postmodern products based on image production and forms of spatial/temporal discourse. An investigation of several theorists and artists grounds a theory of literary and cinematic expressionism as the basis for postmodern culture, with particular emphasis given to the interpenetration of literary and cinematic styles in the twentieth century. An aesthetic dialectic emerges in the movement toward …

High Drama At The Little Theatre, 1730-1737: Henry Fielding, Eliza Haywood, Charlotte Charke, And Company. (Volumes I And Ii)., Polly Stevens Fields

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Staging works unaccepted by and unacceptable to the establishment, Henry Fielding, Eliza Haywood, Charlotte Charke, and company produced a series of protest dramas at the Little Theatre in the Haymarket between 1730 and 1737. The playwrights deliberately ruptured theatric traditions and boldly presented plays challenging not only the mainstream theatre, but the current social system. Negating the age-old doctrine that tragedy properly concerns the great man, and comedy reviles the low-born, the playwrights at the Little Theatre in both their tragedies and comedies enlarged the province of the drama to include the ordinary human with real problems. By this means, …

On Her Mouth You Kiss Your Own: Lesbian Conversations In Exile, 1924-1936, Luita Deane Spangler

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation examines the work of four American lesbian expatriate novelists living and writing in Paris in the years between the two World Wars. Altogether six novels are discussed: The Uncertain Feast (1924), The Happy Failure (1925), and This Way Up (1927) by Solita Solano; The Cubical City (1925) by Janet Flanner; The One Who Is Legion (1930) by Natalie Clifford Barney; and Nightwood (1936) by Djuna Barnes.

Guided by recent conjectures on the significance of sexuality and gender development proposed by such feminist theorists as Luce Irigaray and Monique Wittig, this dissertation explores these six novels for evidence of …

John Donne's Verse Letters To Lucy Russell, Countess Of Bedford: Rhetorical Means To A Friendship., Joan Frances Faust

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

John Donne's verse letters to Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford, are more than static hyperbolic praise to a patroness interchangeable with any other patroness. Rather, they are viable and personal means by which Donne creates and sustains a friendship. Through the five verse letters examined in this dissertation, "Reason is the soules left hand," "You have refin'd mee," "T'Have written then," "To the Countesse of Bedford At New-yeares Tide," and "Honour is so sublime perfection," Donne rhetorically demonstrates his understanding of and ability to function within the various contexts of Bedford's life. Using the accepted view of the epistolary form …

Nodal Humor In Comic Narrative: A Semantic Analysis Of Two Stories By Twain And Wodehouse, Christopher Holcomb

Faculty Publications

This paper shows that a semantic theory of humor offers, despite assertions to the contrary, an adequate description of how particular instances of humor are linked to the narrative in which they appear. After Victor Raskin's script-based semantic theory of humor is summarized, and adopted as the starting point of the analysis in this paper, the humor in two short stories is described in terms of their semantic properties. In this paper, humor is said to reside not simply in jokes but in joke-like constructions, for which the term "nodal points of humor" is used. These nodes can be identified …

An Intellectual Odyssey: Intellectual And Cultural Exploration Through The Design Of An American Studies Major For Whittier College, Alycia M. Sanders-Thomas

Whittier Scholars Program

This is more than a senior project. It is also a personal exploration of America itself, a redefinition of terms, and an intellectual odyssey into the strange world of academic discourse. To complete this project, I have had to ask myself hard questions about America and what it means to me, about what I think someone should know to truly understand America, about my place in the Whittier College community and my educational philosophy for that community, and about where, if anywhere, I fit into the realm of professional academic discourse. After journeys across physical space, to Baltimore for the …

Birmingham Poetry Review 8 (Front Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. -2

Address, Al Maginnes

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 26-27

A Head Count Of The Options, Robert Miltner

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 32

Arizona Highway, Carolyn Stoloff

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 41