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The Trumpeter Swan, Lois Marie Harrod Jan 1991

The Trumpeter Swan, Lois Marie Harrod

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 11


Parnassus 1991 Jan 1991

Parnassus 1991

Parnassus

The 1991 edition of the student literary journal, Parnassus, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.


Birmingham Poetry Review 6 (Front Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff Jan 1991

Birmingham Poetry Review 6 (Front Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. -2


Birmingham Poetry Review 6 (Complete Issue), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff Jan 1991

Birmingham Poetry Review 6 (Complete Issue), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

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Passing An Equinox, Judith Degroote Jan 1991

Passing An Equinox, Judith Degroote

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 17


God Talks:, Lowell Jaeger Jan 1991

God Talks:, Lowell Jaeger

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 22


What I Knew Of Nature, Amanda Hope Yskamp Jan 1991

What I Knew Of Nature, Amanda Hope Yskamp

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 37-38


"India, The New Myth--A Collective Fiction": The Construction Of History In British And Indian Fiction About India's Independence Movement, Teresa Dawn Hubel Jan 1991

"India, The New Myth--A Collective Fiction": The Construction Of History In British And Indian Fiction About India's Independence Movement, Teresa Dawn Hubel

Digitized Theses

This dissertation is a study of imperialist and nationalist constructions of modern Indian history, encompassing Indo-Anglian and Anglo-Indian fiction written between 1880 and the year of India's political independence, 1947. Its theoretical approach is feminist and new historicist, and consequently it engages not only the fiction that sought to define the nationalist/imperialist moment in India but other public documents that contributed to this definition, such texts as British accounts of India's social life and moral problems, speeches, articles, and books by Indian nationalists, and analyses of the political situation written by British and Indian historians. This thesis is committed to …


Carlyle And The Economics Of Terror: A Study Of Revisionary Gothicism In "The French Revolution", Mary Desaulniers Jan 1991

Carlyle And The Economics Of Terror: A Study Of Revisionary Gothicism In "The French Revolution", Mary Desaulniers

Digitized Theses

Carlyle's The French Revolution occupies a distinctive place in literary history; its obscure and resistant style, its unrelenting use of Gothic overtones and its deliberate cultivation of equivocalness are part of a linguistic economy that challenges the currency of the sign. Reduced in function to an exchange value, the current sign participates in an arbitrary discourse which Carlyle overcomes with the motivating dynamics of German Transcendental Philosophy. To this end, paper money is exposed as an act of misrepresentation; its validity substantiated by arbitrary and conventional agreement, paper money remains a "wagered" word, a "contractual "sign or general equivalent. In …


"Operating From Bastard Territory": Attitudes Toward The Motherland And The Colonial Self In Four Australian And Canadian Novelists, Elisabeth J. Koster Jan 1991

"Operating From Bastard Territory": Attitudes Toward The Motherland And The Colonial Self In Four Australian And Canadian Novelists, Elisabeth J. Koster

Digitized Theses

This thesis explores the question, inherent to the fiction of both Canada and Australia as settler colonies, of what images are used to depict the motherland, and how this depiction affects the new colony's ability to create its sense of distinctiveness.;Examining critical studies of these national fictions in conjunction with those novels by four prominent Australian and Canadian authors which most closely examine the relationship between colony and Britain, this study uncovers four recurrent themes related to establishing a distinctive sense of self: the conception of opposing images of Britain and the new home; the experience of exile as a …


Adam Naming And Aesop Fabling: Artist-Figures In The Prose Works Of Dylan Thomas, Ann Elizabeth Mayer Jan 1991

Adam Naming And Aesop Fabling: Artist-Figures In The Prose Works Of Dylan Thomas, Ann Elizabeth Mayer

Digitized Theses

The initial impetus for this study was two-fold: to explore the rich but relatively neglected prose works of Dylan Thomas, and to examine the numerous self-referential and metafictional instances within them. Many of the prose works contain representational forms such as dreams, fantasies, maps, books, and stories. Also predominant are a variety of artist figures, through whom Thomas explores the nature of creation and the medium with which he creates, through self-conscious acts of writing and telling. Thomas's life-long concern with the primacy of words, and his self-conscious role as an artist, have been surprisingly overlooked in his work.;Many of …


The 'Bildungsgedicht' As Garden In Nineteenth- And Twentieth Century Canadian Long Poems, Wanda Ruth Campbell Jan 1991

The 'Bildungsgedicht' As Garden In Nineteenth- And Twentieth Century Canadian Long Poems, Wanda Ruth Campbell

Digitized Theses

Much of the recent interest in the Canadian long poem has centered on poems that have been written in the last two decades. This thesis links the contemporary Canadian long poem with earlier developments by examining one kind of long poem that appears throughout Canada's literary history: the Bildungsgedicht or "formation poem" in which the creation of community parallels the creation of character. Like the Bildungsroman, these poems deal with "the formative years or spiritual education" (OED) of characters, but within the context of the growth and development of communities, often using the topos of the garden with its varied …


Images Of Voice In "Paradise Lost", Elizabeth M. Sauer Jan 1991

Images Of Voice In "Paradise Lost", Elizabeth M. Sauer

Digitized Theses

This thesis examines the relative status and authority of the poetic voices of Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained within a literary and socio-political context. The case against the monological function of the primary narrator has most recently been made by critics including Donald Bouchard and Jonathan Goldberg who discuss the dialogical nature of this speaker, and by Kathleen Swaim and Barbara Lewalski who examine the exchanges among the different narrators. Another scholar, Gordon Teskey, observes that before PL "few characters in non-dramatic literature appear as free as Milton's to choose their own story" (11). Milton's interpretive model of historical intervention …


Symbol And Sacrament: The Incarnational Aesthetic Of Christina Rossetti, Mary Arseneau Jan 1991

Symbol And Sacrament: The Incarnational Aesthetic Of Christina Rossetti, Mary Arseneau

Digitized Theses

This thesis attempts to establish that Christina Rossetti's particular religious milieu (of which the Oxford Movement was a prominent feature) was a formative influence not only on her religious poetry, but also on the pervasive aesthetic and symbolic practice that unifies the general and devotional sections of her volumes of poetry. Underlying the Oxford Movement (and its emphasis on the Incarnation, its revival of ceremonial in Anglo-Catholic worship, the renewed emphasis on sacrament that it engendered, and the sacramental aesthetic characteristic of Tractarian poetics) is a belief that material creation is able to contain and communicate moral and spiritual meaning. …


Authority And Interpretation In Chaucer's "Tale Of Melibee", Dominick M. Grace Jan 1991

Authority And Interpretation In Chaucer's "Tale Of Melibee", Dominick M. Grace

Digitized Theses

Although Chaucer's concern with problems of authority is widely recognized by scholars, the Tale of Melibee, which he assigned to his persona in the Canterbury Tales, is equally widely regarded as an unambiguous assertion of moral authority. The allegory is transparent, its moral clear, and the tale a slavishly literal translation of Renaud de Louens' Livre de Mellibee et Prudence, critics argue. Though its placement in the Canterbury context raises questions of interpretation--Chaucer prefaces the tale with overt stress on the matter of the tale's sentence, and the tale is followed by Harry's misreading of it--most critics accept the view …


Metaphysical Concepts In West African Prose: Spiritual Significance And Aesthetic Implications, Kathleen A. Morrison Jan 1991

Metaphysical Concepts In West African Prose: Spiritual Significance And Aesthetic Implications, Kathleen A. Morrison

Digitized Theses

This dissertation examines how West African prose in English is informed and shaped by the underlying African world-view and its expression in the beliefs and practices of the ethnic group from which each writer originates. The world-view is of a cosmos controlled by multiple deities and spirits, a world in which the gods exist for man and in which power is not dichotomized as spiritual and physical, nor as good and evil. The study includes one autobiography and sixteen novels by eight writers from five ethnic backgrounds: Chinua Achebe (Igbo), Elechi Amadi (Ikwerre), Ayi Kwei Armah (Akan), Kofi Awoonor (Ewe), …


A World Remade: Graham Greene's Thrillers And The Nineteen-Thirties, Brian Diemert Jan 1991

A World Remade: Graham Greene's Thrillers And The Nineteen-Thirties, Brian Diemert

Digitized Theses

Within Graham Greene's large body of work stand several texts which, for reasons explored in this thesis, he originally called "entertainments". Because this label seems to suggest that these texts are not as important as his other novels, they have received relatively little critical attention. This thesis helps to redress this imbalance.;Beginning with a brief consideration of generic distinction, I argue that Greene's use of the "entertainment" label is tied to the specific historical, political, and literary context of the nineteen-thirties in Britain. At this time, Greene and other writers reacted to the literary and critical practices of the high …


The Hedonist At Brunch, John N. Miller Jan 1991

The Hedonist At Brunch, John N. Miller

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 17


The Poem Taken Home And Left Unread In The Gym Bag, Richard Hague Jan 1991

The Poem Taken Home And Left Unread In The Gym Bag, Richard Hague

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 8


Nauset Light Beach, Cape Cod, Don Boes Jan 1991

Nauset Light Beach, Cape Cod, Don Boes

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 9


After The Thaw, Mark Cunningham Jan 1991

After The Thaw, Mark Cunningham

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 14


Martha, Laura Pollard Jan 1991

Martha, Laura Pollard

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 32


To A Young Girl On The Bus, Laura Pollard Jan 1991

To A Young Girl On The Bus, Laura Pollard

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 31


Autumn Walk, Susan Rea Jan 1991

Autumn Walk, Susan Rea

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 34


Murder At Jug City, W E. Butts Jan 1991

Murder At Jug City, W E. Butts

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 12


March Invitation, Michael Jennings Jan 1991

March Invitation, Michael Jennings

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 23


Butterflies: How And Why, Diane Kendig Jan 1991

Butterflies: How And Why, Diane Kendig

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 24


Asylum Song, Olando Menes Jan 1991

Asylum Song, Olando Menes

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 29


Fishing On The Moon, Jay Blumenthal Jan 1991

Fishing On The Moon, Jay Blumenthal

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 4


Aubade, E G. Burrows Jan 1991

Aubade, E G. Burrows

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 6