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Hemingway's Politics In His Journalism And Fiction, A Continuum Of Contradiction, Clay Morgan, Clyde Moneyhun, Jacky O'Conner, Mitch Wieland Dec 2014

Hemingway's Politics In His Journalism And Fiction, A Continuum Of Contradiction, Clay Morgan, Clyde Moneyhun, Jacky O'Conner, Mitch Wieland

Mitch Wieland

Introduction by Clay Morgan. A conversation with distinguished Hemingway experts, authors, and faculty members of Boise State University Clyde Moneyhun, Jacky O'Connor, Mitch Wieland, and Clay Morgan.


This Page Intentionally Left Blank: Janet Holmes Formats Dickinson, Jonathan Morse, Janet Holmes Dec 2012

This Page Intentionally Left Blank: Janet Holmes Formats Dickinson, Jonathan Morse, Janet Holmes

Janet A. Holmes

As they are currently appearing in poetry journals, the pages of Janet Holmes' The ms of my kin look almost entirely blank. Floating in the emptiness of each page, however, are a few fragments of verse by Emily Dickinson.


Maneuvering The Labyrinth Of University Affiliation: A Symposium, R. Berry, Alan Davis, Stephanie G'Schwind, Janet Holmes, Salima Keegan, Don Lee, April Ossmann, Mary Rockcastle Dec 2012

Maneuvering The Labyrinth Of University Affiliation: A Symposium, R. Berry, Alan Davis, Stephanie G'Schwind, Janet Holmes, Salima Keegan, Don Lee, April Ossmann, Mary Rockcastle

Janet A. Holmes

No abstract provided.


When The West Was East: Or, The Anxiety Of Exhuming The Past, Tom Hillard Nov 2012

When The West Was East: Or, The Anxiety Of Exhuming The Past, Tom Hillard

Tom J. Hillard

No abstract provided.


The Short, Happy Life Of The California Partnership Tale, Tara Penry Nov 2012

The Short, Happy Life Of The California Partnership Tale, Tara Penry

Tara Penry

No abstract provided.


The Play-Production Process As A Motivating Tool In The Esl Classroom, Chamkaur Gill Nov 2012

The Play-Production Process As A Motivating Tool In The Esl Classroom, Chamkaur Gill

Chamkaur Gill

No abstract provided.


Hemingway's Politics In His Journalism And Fiction, A Continuum Of Contradiction, Clay Morgan, Clyde Moneyhun, Jacky O'Conner, Mitch Wieland Oct 2012

Hemingway's Politics In His Journalism And Fiction, A Continuum Of Contradiction, Clay Morgan, Clyde Moneyhun, Jacky O'Conner, Mitch Wieland

Clay Morgan

Introduction by Clay Morgan. A conversation with distinguished Hemingway experts, authors, and faculty members of Boise State University Clyde Moneyhun, Jacky O'Connor, Mitch Wieland, and Clay Morgan.


Composition Quest: Constructing The Technical Writing Classroom As A Game, Carly Finseth Oct 2012

Composition Quest: Constructing The Technical Writing Classroom As A Game, Carly Finseth

Carly Finseth

Initiatives like the innovative Quest to Learn program (http://g2l.org) and Sheldon's (2012) concept of The Multiplayer Classroom have led educators around the world to explore the validity of incorporating games and gaming theory into a formalized learning environment. Many of these projects, however, focus on K-12 age groups, with the implied assumption that learning through 'play' ends once we become adults. Once in higher education, gaming frequently becomes serious; students are often only allowed to learn through play as part of a computer science or gaming theory curriculum. One area in particular that has yet to explore the immersive, collaborative, …


Trafficking Modernities: Gender And Cultural Authority In The Case Of The Woman Organist, Lilian Frost, Jane Hunt Oct 2012

Trafficking Modernities: Gender And Cultural Authority In The Case Of The Woman Organist, Lilian Frost, Jane Hunt

Jane Hunt

According to the local press, Frost as both soloist and accompanist on piano and organ was reported to exhibit a musical maturity beyond her years, and stamina considered unusual for a 'young lady', but clearly this was problematic. Jealous minded organists of the sterner sex are apt to say that ladies cannot play the organ; but the meritorious performance by Miss Frost dispels that illusion; for here is a lady who can play the organ. This appeared to provoke a shift in reportage on Frost's performances: whereas previously newspaper reports repeated an established complimentary four-lined riff, detailed reviews soon replaced …


Feminism, Ecology, Romanticism, Spencer Hall Sep 2012

Feminism, Ecology, Romanticism, Spencer Hall

Spencer Hall

This review studies gender discrimination in academic Romantic criticism. It brings to light the influence of the works of William Wordsworth on women poets. The review takes a look at the term "Wordsworth" and suggests it needs to be viewed not as a masculinist concept, but as a product of the combination of he and his wife's, Dorothy Wordsworth, works. The review states the book goes further past the knowledge that William used some of his wife's material as his "raw material" for his poetry and suggests that Dorothy intended to supply William with data.


Evolution, Bryan M. Furuness Jul 2012

Evolution, Bryan M. Furuness

Bryan M. Furuness

No abstract provided.


Psycholinguistic Theory And Modern Performance: Memory As A Key To Variants In Medieval Texts, Mary Ellen Ryder, Linda Marie Zaerr Jul 2012

Psycholinguistic Theory And Modern Performance: Memory As A Key To Variants In Medieval Texts, Mary Ellen Ryder, Linda Marie Zaerr

Linda Marie Zaerr

The study of learning and memory has greatly expanded during the last two decades. Instead of limiting themselves to highly constrained, rather artificial laboratory experiments, cognitive psychologists have begun studying tasks more closely related to daily life, such as memory for places, names and faces, testimony of eye-witnesses, and memorization of songs, poems and stories. They have found that many, if not most, such activities involve the construction and storage of complex structures in memory. For example, the evidence suggests that we store in our memories not only individual words, but also an inventory of longer expressions, which are used …


When Silence Plays Vielle: The Metaperformance Scenes Of Le Roman De Silence In Performance, Linda Marie Zaerr Jul 2012

When Silence Plays Vielle: The Metaperformance Scenes Of Le Roman De Silence In Performance, Linda Marie Zaerr

Linda Marie Zaerr

Performance-based exploration of the thirteenth-century Le Roman de Silence can extend discussions of ambiguity by clarifying the experience of the sound of the poem. Homonymic terminology breaks down the boundary between performer and text, while metaperformance elements impose identities of characters on performer and audience.


Mystical Meaning: The Bell Founder’S Window At York Minster, Linda Marie Zaerr Jul 2012

Mystical Meaning: The Bell Founder’S Window At York Minster, Linda Marie Zaerr

Linda Marie Zaerr

No abstract provided.


A Stylistic Analysis Of Le Roman De Silence, Mary Ellen Ryder, Linda Marie Zaerr Jul 2012

A Stylistic Analysis Of Le Roman De Silence, Mary Ellen Ryder, Linda Marie Zaerr

Linda Marie Zaerr

Stylistic analysis can demonstrate how the Roman de Silence incorporates deceleration, acceleration, generic expressions, and deaths in non-realized space to diminish perception of Silence’s agency.


Jerome Of Moravia's First Fiddle Tuning As An Individualized Modal Framework, Linda Marie Zaerr Jul 2012

Jerome Of Moravia's First Fiddle Tuning As An Individualized Modal Framework, Linda Marie Zaerr

Linda Marie Zaerr

Only two descriptions of fiddle tuning survive from before the fifteenth century: one by Jerome of Moravia, Paris, ca. 1280; and the other by Jean Vaillant (?), Paris, fourteenth century. Both treatises have been edited by Christopher Page. The tunings in the Jean Vaillant (?) treatise are probably designed for plucked stringed instruments (Remnant 67), especially since the tunings would be inappropriate for a flat-bridged instrument and inconvenient for a curved-bridged instrument.


Harp In The Hall: Performance As An Aid To Teaching Romance Literature, Linda Marie Zaerr Jul 2012

Harp In The Hall: Performance As An Aid To Teaching Romance Literature, Linda Marie Zaerr

Linda Marie Zaerr

No abstract provided.


A Nonsynchronous Model For The Performance Of The Middle English Tail-Rhyme Stanza With Vielle, Linda Marie Zaerr Jul 2012

A Nonsynchronous Model For The Performance Of The Middle English Tail-Rhyme Stanza With Vielle, Linda Marie Zaerr

Linda Marie Zaerr

Since historical performance of Middle English tail-rhyme romances with instrumental accompaniment is a theoretical possibility, then understanding of the parameters within which such a performance might have existed is fundamental to our understanding of the form. The binary character of a bowed stringed instrument facilitates a two-stroke performance of the three-stress line, in which the stronger down bow coincides with the third metrical stress and continues into the fourth, unrealized beat. Empirical performance of a passage from Lybeaus Desconus led to offsetting bow changes from stressed syllables in a rhythmic performance of Middle English tail-rhyme stanzas. Two pragmatic advantages result …


Sir Launfal: Performance As Interpretation Of Late Medieval English Romance, Linda Marie Zaerr Jul 2012

Sir Launfal: Performance As Interpretation Of Late Medieval English Romance, Linda Marie Zaerr

Linda Marie Zaerr

No abstract provided.


"The Tournament Of Tottenham": Music As Enhancement Of The Prosody, Linda Marie Zaerr, Joseph Baldassarre Jul 2012

"The Tournament Of Tottenham": Music As Enhancement Of The Prosody, Linda Marie Zaerr, Joseph Baldassarre

Linda Marie Zaerr

No abstract provided.


Duke Or Duck: Reading The Stories In John Gower’S Confessio Amantis, Linda Marie Zaerr Jul 2012

Duke Or Duck: Reading The Stories In John Gower’S Confessio Amantis, Linda Marie Zaerr

Linda Marie Zaerr

No abstract provided.


Music And Magic In Le Bel Inconnu And Lybeaus Desconus, Linda Marie Zaerr Jul 2012

Music And Magic In Le Bel Inconnu And Lybeaus Desconus, Linda Marie Zaerr

Linda Marie Zaerr

The thirteenth-century Old French Le Bel Inconnu and its fifteenth-century Middle English analog Lybeaus Desconus demonstrate a startling transformation that may reflect thinking about performance. Le Bel Inconnu expresses ambiguity about the moral valence of both music performance and enchantment, while Lybeaus Desconus intensifies the association of music with magic and expresses disapprobation of practitioners of both. Approaching these romances as performance texts and considering their performativity can illuminate self-referential comments on music and magic and explain motivation for revision of the story.


A Modern Mephistopheles: Louisa May Alcott's Exorcism Of Patriarchy, Rena Sanderson Jul 2012

A Modern Mephistopheles: Louisa May Alcott's Exorcism Of Patriarchy, Rena Sanderson

Irene (Rena) M. Sanderson

Focuses on the subversive and conformist creativity in Louisa May Alcott's novel `A Modern Mephistopheles.' Reinscription of the creativity of conflicts of creativity as conflicts of gender and sexual politics; Nature of Alcott's feminist theme in the novel.


Who's Your Daddy?: Representations Of Masculinity And Coming Of Age In Television’S The Vampire Diaries, Kimberley Mcmahon-Coleman Jun 2012

Who's Your Daddy?: Representations Of Masculinity And Coming Of Age In Television’S The Vampire Diaries, Kimberley Mcmahon-Coleman

Kimberley McMahon-Coleman

Fantasy narratives often use the metaphor of the werewolf for the adolescent identity-forming process. The Vampire Diaries goes one step further in the character of Tyler Lockwood, a teen wolf/vampire hybrid. An aggressive and abused teen, Tyler loses his father in Season 1 and his replacement father figure, a paternal uncle, in Season 2. In Season 3, he is “sired” by the Original hybrid, Klaus. In the face of these competing influences, Tyler struggles to come to terms with his own identity. The program uses the fictional township of Mystic Falls, populated by witches, werewolves, vampires and ghosts, to examine …


Edgar Allan Poe's 'Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym', Beverly Hume Apr 2012

Edgar Allan Poe's 'Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym', Beverly Hume

Beverly A. Hume

No abstract provided.


Mesmeric Effects: The Art Of Discovery In Poe's "Mesmeric Revelation", Beverly Hume Apr 2012

Mesmeric Effects: The Art Of Discovery In Poe's "Mesmeric Revelation", Beverly Hume

Beverly A. Hume

No abstract provided.


Expanding The West: Melville's Devilish Jesting In The Confidence-Man, Beverly Hume Apr 2012

Expanding The West: Melville's Devilish Jesting In The Confidence-Man, Beverly Hume

Beverly A. Hume

No abstract provided.


Mary Austin's 'A Woman Of Genius', Beverly Hume Apr 2012

Mary Austin's 'A Woman Of Genius', Beverly Hume

Beverly A. Hume

No abstract provided.


Melville's Moby-Dick: A Post-Mortem Reading, Beverly Hume Apr 2012

Melville's Moby-Dick: A Post-Mortem Reading, Beverly Hume

Beverly A. Hume

No abstract provided.


The Dark Comedy Of Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper", Beverly Hume Apr 2012

The Dark Comedy Of Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper", Beverly Hume

Beverly A. Hume

No abstract provided.