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Coming Out: Decision-Making In State And Federal Sodomy Cases, Susan Ayres

Faculty Scholarship

In 1791, American states were enacting laws against sodomy at the same time they ratified the Bill of Rights, the first ten constitutional amendments meant to safeguard fundamental rights of individuals in a free society. In a March 1789 letter to James Madison, Thomas Jefferson asserted that a bill of rights was necessary to give the judiciary the power to protect such individual rights. Ironically, that which the judiciary gives, it may also take away, since "[t]he legislator is a writer. And the judge a reader."

This Article deconstructs recent sodomy cases in order to challenge judicial adoption or reinscription …

Poetry, Prose, And Pushkin's Egyptian Nights, Ludmila Lavine

Faculty Journal Articles

No abstract provided.

Et Cetera, Marshall University

Et Cetera

Founded in 1953, Et Cetera is an annual literary magazine that publishes the creative writing and artwork of Marshall University students and affiliates. Et Cetera is free to the Marshall University community.

Et Cetera welcomes submissions in literary and film criticism, poetry, short stories, drama, all types of creative non-fiction, photography, and art.

A Poetry Curriculum For Primary Teachers, Janice M. Matheny

All Graduate Projects

This project examined the role of poetry in language development and literacy acquisition in children. The review of current literature strongly supported the rationale for providing poetry experiences beginning at an early age and continuing on through the first few years of school. All stages of language development benefit from exposure to rhythm and rhyme. Poetry can be there to bridge the gap as young children speak their first words, read their first book and write their first sentence. Included is a poetry curriculum centering on the theme of Playground Rhymes. It was specifically written for primary teachers. The research …

John Skelton's "Agenst Garnesche": Poetic Territorialism, At The Court Of Henry Viii, Victor I. Scherb

Quidditas

John Skelton's 1514 flyting "Agenst Garnesche" has been subject to little critical scrutiny. This neglect can perhaps be attributed to the fact that Christopher Garnesche's contribution is missing, but it is also characteristic of the relative neglect accorded to the flyting as a genre, a neglect that has also colored the interpretation of many of Skelton's more abusive poems. One critic, for example, has dismissed the poem as being "nothing but personal abuse of a particularly virulent type . . . adorned with a singular collection of epithets and incomprehensible allusions, which serve only to befog and irritate the reader." …

Arts On The Edge Conference: 30 March - 3 April Perth 1998 Western Australia, Western Australian Academy Of Performing Arts

Research outputs pre 2011

No abstract provided.

Constructing Deseret, Dana Boam

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Constructing Deseret is an examination of the epistemological assumption that perfect knowledge equals perfect being. It follows my progression as a poet from imitation of Yeats and Shakespeare, and traditional forms, such as sonnet, villanelle and haiku, to the investigation and validation of my own styles and forms. For the early poems the reaching of insight and wisdom is the goal of the poem. Next I look at nature and the world as a source of knowledge and standard of perfection. What follows is a rejection of the pursuit of education/perfection in order to embrace a plain looking at self, …

The Lantern Vol. 64, No. 2, Spring 1997, Jim Marinell, Oana Nechita, Kristen Sabol, Tim Mccoy, Jim Maynard, Brian Hamrick, Michael Podgorski, Gudrun Ewertz, James Clarke Robinson, Jen Mintzer, Bonnie Lyons Price, Joe Catalfano, Lyndsay Petersen, Jaime Dubois, Lauren G. Newkirk, Jessica Demers, Jared Rakes, Jodi Levinthal, Gino Cerulli, Dennis Cormac Mccarthy

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Year's End, with Resolutions
• Addicted
• Muerte, Carlos
• Motions
• At the Wyeth Gallery
• Between Contexts
• I'm Allowed (and More Nonsense)
• Wall and Piece
• Timekeeper's Workspace
• The Process
• Second Sex: A Portrait of the Artist as a Woman
• On the Side of the Road
• Joe
• To Matthew Arnold
• A Deep Sleep on Hydrocodone
• Madness of a Night
• Return
• The Sudden Grave
• A Farce
• Twists of Fur
• Ambiguity
• The Odor of Continuums
• My Father's Daughter
• The Meaning of Life …

Integrated Self| Assimilated Surrealism In Later 20th Century American Poetry And Music, Ryan Turner

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Review Essay: Willbern, David. Poetic Will: Shakespeare And The Play Of Language, Frederick Kiefer

Quidditas

Willbern, David. Poetic Will: Shakespeare and the Play of Language. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1997. xix + 237 pp. $37.50.

Using Controlled Misalignment To Increase Poetry Appreciation Among High School Students, Kelli Cliff Mccrea

Master's Theses

Digitized thesis

Word And Song: The Paradox Of Romanticism, Catherine Ingram

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Among the various outcomes of the Romantic period, an interest in the relationship of the arts remains a widely recognized yet rarely examined field of study. Music and literature seemed to develop a particular kinship, yet to identify the exact relationship is as difficult as defining Romanticism itself. In this study, I attempt to do both. In exploring the concept of Romanticism, its paradoxical development from Classicism is examined through the comparison of six great composers and poets of the period. By tracing the similarities and differences in style of Beethoven/Wordsworth, Schumann/Keats, and Brahms/Tennyson, hopefully a clearer understanding of the …

The Lantern Vol. 64, No. 1, Fall 1996, Erin Gorman, Lyndsay Petersen, Joanne Sickeri, Jodi Levinthal, Tim Mccoy, Dennis Mcguire, Nina Small, Oana Nechita, Trish Daley, Lawrence Santucci, Brian Hamrick, Jessica Demers, Dennis Cormac Mccarthy, Michael Podgorski

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Sleepwalk
• Icky
• Hauling the Load
• Between Days
• First Day
• Slipping
• College Roommates
• Full Moon in Scorpio
• Summer Madness
• Learning French
• nEverglades
• The Way Around
• Rain
• Solace

The Lantern Vol. 63, No. 2, Spring 1996, Christina Dappalone, Matt Pepe, Jessica Morin, Lauren G. Newkirk, W. Keith Nunnelee, Jason Mckee, Jim Maynard, Brian Hamrick, Tim Mccoy, Erec Smith, Stacey Stauffer, Jessica Demers, Jamie Dubois, Erin Gorman, Daniel Graf, Sonny Regelman, Mike Podgorski, Morgan Wordley, Heather Mead, Jason Bechtel, Christopher Deussing, Laura Bell, Chris Bowers, Dennis Cormac Mccarthy

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Poet, Lead Me On
• St. Patrick's Day
• The Last Three Days
• The Impressionable
• Roundabout
• The Bench
• Carnivorous
• Kyrie
• Second Glance
• Porch
• Cruel Design
• A Mime
• Flaxen Crown
• My Embryonic Ocean of Love
• Stone Matrix
• Voices from the Past
• Skipping the Bullfight: Toreadors and Gaudi
• Another Part of My Lacolonialism
• Translucent Pane
• Linguistics
• Treehouse
• A Disagreeable Music Piece
• Vigil
• A Brief History of American Poetry in English

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 44, No. 2, Susan Kalcik, June Granatir Alexander, M. Mark Stolarik, Corinne Earnest, Klaus Stopp, Jobie E. Riley

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Fortune's Stepchildren: Slovaks in Pennsylvania
• Slovak Churches: Religious Diversity and Ethnic Communities
• Slovak Fraternal-Benefit Societies in Pennsylvania
• Early Fraktur Referring to Birth and Baptism in Pennsylvania: A Taufpatenbrief from Berks County for a Child Born in 1751
• The Solitary Sisters of Saron

The Zea Mexican Dairy: 7 Sept 1926 - 7 Sept 1986. By Kamau Brathwaite (Book Review), Daryl Cumber Dance

English Faculty Publications

I may be hard put to classify the latest work of noted poet, historian, literary critic, linguist, and Africanist Kamau (Eddie) Brathwaite, but I have no problem describing it - compelling, riveting, unforgettable! Begun when Brathwaite received the devastating news that his wife Doris (his Zea Mexican) was dying of cancer, it is a paean to her, a record of his efforts to deal with her dying, death, and absence, an account of their relationship, and an autobiographical confessional. The Zea Mexican Diary includes diary entries, letters, memorates, an epigraph, expressions of sympathy, confessions, autobiographical narrative, poems - but whatever …

Practicing Poetry, Teaching Law, David A. Skeel Jr.

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Before Our Eyes by Lawrence Joseph

Productive Destruction: Torture, Text, And The Body In The Old English 'Andreas', Christopher R. Fee

English Faculty Publications

Writing in the Old English Andreas is at once both a productive and a destructive activity. We first become aware of the dangerous power of the written word quite early in the poem, when we learn that the Mermedonians have subverted the normally productive activity of writing into a tool for calculating the execution dates of their prisoners (134-37). Later, the words uttered by the devil to incite the Mermedonians against Andreas illuminate the lexical relationship between the destructive nature of writing and the productive nature of torture in the semiotic context of the poem. Finally, in a sort of …

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 43, No. 1, Thomas E. Gallagher Jr., James D. Mcmahon Jr., Gary M. Johnston, Monica Mutzbauer, Robert P. Stevenson

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Causes of Diversity Between Old Order Amish Settlements
• Daniel Danner, Woodturner: An Early 19th-Century Rural Craftsman in Central Pennsylvania
• "Truth Somewhere in the Telling": The Legend of the Wigton Massacre
• The Connections Between Pennsylvania and the Palatinate in Popular 20th-Century German Literature
• The Story of One Old-Time Country Store

Approaches To Teaching The Metaphysical Poets Ed. Sidney Gottlieb (Book Review), Robin Mcallister

Sacred Heart University Review

Book review by Robin McAllister.

Gottlieb, Sidney, ed. Approaches to Teaching the Metaphysical Poets. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1990.

ISBN 9780873525299; 9780873525305 (pbk.)

Revising Palimpsest| Narrative And History In The Postmodern Novel, Peter Alexander Nowakoski

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 41, No. 1, Mary Lou Robson Fleming, Marianne Ruch, Steve Friesen, Robert P. Stevenson, Richard E. Wentz, Nancy K. Gaugler, Robin Clouser

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Jacob Maentel: A Second Look
• The Five-Plate Stove Revisited
• The Life and Death of an Appalachian Farm
• Henry Harbaugh, Quintessential "Dutchman"
• In Memoriam: William T. Parsons, 1923-1991

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 40, No. 3, Steve Friesen, Monica Mutzbauer, Christopher S. Witmer, Mary Lamey Hoffer, Harry W. Barner, Robert L. Leight, Catherine L. Emerson

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Home is Where the Hearth is
• The Hearth is Where the Cook is
• "Philipps gehn in Amerka": The Palatinate Emigration in German Schoolbooks
• The Barner Farm: A Connection to Clinton County's Pennsylvania-German Heritage
• A Teacher With a Heart: Carrie Frankenfield Horne
• Aldes un Neies (Old and New)

Gaspara Stampa's Poetry For Performance, Janet L. Smarr

Quidditas

During the mid-sixteenth century in Italy, when a remarkable number of women joined in the production of poetry, one of the channels open to their pursuit of intellectual life and fame was the Venetian saloon. There music and poetry mingled as poems were frequently sung or recited before an audience rather than read privately in silence. The poetry of Gaspara Stampa was produced for this milieu. Published in 1554, a year after her death, her collection of more than three hundred poems has been approached in two main ways: as the autobiographical self-expression of a passionate woman and more recently …

We Have To Change With The Times, Thomas Emery

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

Thomas [sic.] Emery (We Have to Change With the Times)

Ua68/6/1 Zephyrus, Western Kentucky University

Student Creative Writing

"The fine arts magazine of Western Kentucky University at Bowling Green."

Overtures - 1988, John Bergman

Overtures

Contributers include: Edison Blake, Collette Armstead, Tom Hoberg, Barry Cassilly, Terry Jacobus, Laura Nilges-Matias, Douglas Leiva, Kat Meads, B.Z. Niditch, Dan Pearson, Rane Arroyo, Janet McCann, James Langlas, Gertrude Rubin, Julie Parson, Connie Deanovich, Andrea Potos, Glenna Holloway, Paul Weinman, Sherry L. Nelms, Constance Vogel, Alexandre L. Amprimoz, Jean C. Howard, John Dickson, John Grey, James P. Quinn, Bernard Hewitt, Lolita Hernandez-Gray, Bella Donna

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 37, No. 3, Mary Lou Robson Fleming, Richard Matthews, William B. Fetterman, Erick D. Slazinski, N. F. Karlins, Leland D. Baldwin, Edward W. Chester

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Folk Artist Jacob Maentel of Pennsylvania and Indiana
• Up Another River: Fourteen Days on the St. Johns
• An Appreciation of Russell Wieder Gilbert
• Holy Images: A Brief Study of Folk Religious Belief
• Lamont Alfred "Old Ironsides" Pry, Contemporary American Folk Artist
• Synopsis of the Penburne Quintet

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 36, No. 2, Barbara Knox Homrighaus, Terry G. Jordan, Matti Kaups, Richard M. Lieffort, Ned D. Heindel, Dennis Barone, A. Day Bradley

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Immigration and Ethnicity in the Anthracite Region: The Peter Kowker Story
• Diamond Notching in America and Europe
• The Centennial of a First-Class Trip on Pennsylvania Canals: The Voyage of the Molly-Polly-Chunker
• Journey Home: Pennsylvania German Ethnicity in Wallace Stevens
• Quakers in the Lancaster Gaol, 1778

Intellectual Integration, James Boyd White

Articles

In this paper, I want to talk about the activity of intellectual integration itself: about what it can mean to integrate-to put together in a complex whole-aspects of our culture, or of the world, that seem to us disparate or unconnected; and what it can mean in so doing to integrate-to bring together in interactive life-aspects of our own minds and beings that we normally separate or divide from each other: I want to think of integration, that is-and of its opposite, disintegration-as taking place on two planes of existence at once, the cultural and the individual. For what is …