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The Memory Of Abortion Unexpectedly Returns, Leslie Monsour

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 26

"Mademoiselle De Maupin": A Close Reading And Study Of The Process Of Subjectivity In Theophile Gautier's Early Nineteenth Century Novel., Rebecca Lucille Tebeau

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation proposes a close reading of Theophile Gautiers's Mademoiselle de Maupin. The purpose of this reading is to explore subjectivity by first assuming that it is a process, enacted by the protagonist's explorations of their own identities, but not an object contained in their elaborations. This view of subjectivity implies both the representational strategies of the protagonists, as well as the narrative strategies of the text. Since Mademoiselle de Maupin's narrative structure is so inconsistent and self-conscious, the explorations of self within the text draw attention to both the fiction of identity and the "identity" of fiction as a …

Decolonizing The Text: Glissantian Readings In Caribbean And African-American Literatures., Debra Lynn Anderson

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation proposes to derive a critical reading from the writings of the Martinican poet, novelist, and theorist, Edouard Glissant. This reading would most directly involve, but not limit itself to, literatures written by black writers from the Caribbean and the United States. As critics such as Christopher Miller and Anthony Appiah suggest, these literatures have become the ground upon which colonization is symbolically re-enacted. Criticism colonizes these literatures by its textual appropriation, its imposition of Western critical models, and by bringing its own assumptions to the text. The critically acclaimed prefaces of Jean-Paul Sartre ("Orphee noire") and Andre Breton …

Modernity And War In The Poetry Of T. S. Eliot., Patricia Anne Gabilondo

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Although most readers of T. S. Eliot have agreed that the European experience of world war and the resultant political and cultural dislocations provided an important context and source of imagery for much of his work, what has not been recognized is Eliot's use of figures of war to represent the intimate yet antagonistic relations between the poet's writing of modernity and the text that is history. Beginning with a tropological analysis of Eliot's "A Note on War Poetry," relative to both the genre of war poetry and aesthetic modernity, this study examines the figural interpenetration of war and literary …

Silence (And Its Voluble Partner), Andrew Taylor

Research outputs pre 2011

Silence may traditionally have been golden, but how is it valued today? Can it survive the impact of a technology which can, and does, bring the apparently irresistible seductions of noise to the remotest parts of the world, and which invades the most reclusive aspects of our lives? And what place has silence in a culture such as ours which classifies it as "unproductive"?

But what is silence anyway?

Professor Taylor considers two ways in which, from the Romantic period onward, silence has been conceived. One tradition equates silence with Truth itself; the other considers it the condition which enables …

Bibl. Nat. Ms. Fr. 379: A Study In Word And Image. (Volumes I And Ii)., Adelaide Stuart Frazier

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The Bibl. Nat. ms. fr. 379 offers a religious, social, literary and artistic comment on the implications of the early sixteenth century world. The cult of the Virgin is considered as it supported and directed the poetry contests or puy at Rouen and Dieppe in their particular emphases on the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption of the Virgin, both ideas more dogmatic than scriptural. The conduct of the puy controlled the literary and artistic expressions on the subject. A detailed discussion submits the evidence that the poets reflected the secular world in their poems and the artists' illustrations often rejected …

White Lightning, Kris Dotto

Whittier Scholars Program

This project is an original novel written by the Scholar, titled White Lightning. The story is based upon the Scholar’s family background and is set in Kentucky. The afterword promises that this is just the beginning of the Scholar’s career as a novelist.

Hooked, Bill Garten

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 12

And About My Brother, John Gribble

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 15

Rainy Eclipse, Leslie Monsour

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 25

On Love, Michael D. Riley

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 38

Longing, Philip Miller

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 30

Birmingham Poetry Review 9 (Complete Issue), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

No abstract provided.

Bats In Mercury Vapor Lamplight, Lois Marie Harrod

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 16

The Natural World, Leslie Monsour

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 27

Souvenir, Rhoda Janzen

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 21

First Ones In The Office Turn On The Lights, Marilee Richards

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 37

Kiel, Wisconsin: My Latest Home, Victoria Rostovich

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 40-41

Sibling Rivalry, Amy Riddell

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 31

My Brother, Lowell Jaeger

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 17-18

Lights And Shadows - 1992, University Of North Alabama

Lights and Shadows

Art and Literature Magazine

Saturday's Women: Female Characters As Angels And Monsters In Saturday's Warrior And Reunion, Nola Diane Smith

Theses and Dissertations

Using theories of feminist criticism as explained by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, the study concludes that both Saturday's Warrior, a "home literature" style play, and Reunion, a more artistically challenging play, reflect repressive cultural images of women. Both plays cast female characters into the roles of passive Angel, domestic Angel/Monster, and active Monster.

On The Author Effect: Contemporary Copyright And Collective Creativity, Peter Jaszi

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

As exemplified by the articles in this volume, recent scholarship on "authorship" reflects various influences. Among the most important are Michel Foucault's article, What is an Author?, and Benjamin Kaplan's book, An Unhurried View of Copyright. Since the late 1960s, these two texts have influenced work in literary and legal studies respectively. Only recently, however, have the lines of inquiry that Foucault and Kaplan helped to initiate begun to converge.

The Mystic As Pilgrim: Margery Kempe And The Tradition Of Nonfictional Travel Narrative, James P. Helfers

Quidditas

Margery Kempe, fifteenth-century pilgrim and female mystic, stirred up controversy in her own day and continues to do so in the present. This controversy, then and now, centers on both Margery's spiritual life and its social expression. While she was alive, her contemporaries disagreed over the validity of her mystical experience and the way that experience manifested itself; now this conflict continues in contemporary critical debates over the nature of her literary and spiritual significance. The Book of Margery Kempe has heretofore been analyzed as autobiography, mystical treatise, devotional manual, and feminist tract. Clarissa Atkinson, for instance, sees the book …

Postmodernist Writings, Realist Readings: Peter Carey's Bliss And The Tax Inspector, Antonio Jose Dos Santos Simoes Da Silva

Theses : Honours

No abstract provided.

Lucia Novels: E. F. Benson's Comic Reflections On English Social Change, Winifred Collins Brister

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

Edward Frederic Benson's Lucia novels are comic commentaries on social change and the fragmentation of English society from the end of the Edwardian era into the Georgian, especially reflecting the disenchantment of the English people with their traditional beliefs, roles, and class structure. What Matthew Arnold referred to as the Philistines of England--the newly-risen bourgeois--struggle to imitate the upper classes and to emulate their use of leisure time. Benson's characterizations of the villagers of Riseholme and Tilling match closely the descriptions of those Philistines; however, we cannot dislike them for their weaknesses. The positive change in the author's attitude toward …

Mock-Epic Elements In Two Masterpieces: Robert Burns's "Tam O' Shanter" And Alexander Pope's "The Rape Of The Lock", Patricia Louise Beggan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

Arguing that "Tam o' Shanter" is a mock epic, this thesis defines the major epic conventions that Robert Burns uses in his masterpiece. As well as using epic features in the action portions of the narrative, Burns uses epic convention to craft a subtle episodic structure. In addition, throughout his poem, Burns subverts epic conventions associated with the epic hero as a way to create his anti-hero, Tam. Comparing Burns's poem to Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock" (the standard for English mock-epic poetry), shows Burns's familiarity with the mock-epic genre generally and with Pope specifically (Burns read and …

Nature Vs. Nurture: Filling The Parental Vacuum In "Nicholas Nickleby", "David Copperfield" And "Great Expectations", Susan Donath Aguila

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

When a boy's mother is absent--either dead or lacking in the maternal graces--it is natural for him to look to his father for additional love and guidance. However, if the father is equally ineffectual, the child may seek outside sources to fill the parental void. Natural parents do not guarantee a nurturing atmosphere. Charles Dickens's novels exhibit this form of familial erosion over and over again; his substitutes for marginal mothers (and, consequently, failing fathers) are aunts and uncles, sisters, friends, sweethearts, employers, servants, and, in some cases, the child himself. Primary substitutes are not satisfactory either; Dickens's protagonists must …

Vision And Revision: The Perceptual Modes Of Henry James, Kevin Ray Allen

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

For Henry James, artistic vision is essentially revision. It is a process of transformation: of literal experience to "felt life," of pictorial presentation to dramatic representation, of the past to the present. This process is a central element of James's fiction. The "meaning" of stories such as "The Real Thing" and "The Middle Years" and novels such as The Ambassadors depends on a growth of vision. Their protagonists must be able to overcome the limits of their imaginations. They must be reflective, both intellectually and mimetically. In demanding a finer kind of artistic perception, James pointed the way for a …

Medora : An Original Play Based On The Life Of The Marquis De Mores, Walter E. Anderson

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.