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Joan Rivers And Queen Elizabeth, Marleen S. Barr Oct 2012

Joan Rivers And Queen Elizabeth, Marleen S. Barr

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An Author And A Bookshop: Publishing Marlowe’S Remains At The Black Bear, Andras Kisery Jul 2012

An Author And A Bookshop: Publishing Marlowe’S Remains At The Black Bear, Andras Kisery

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Bookshops and the spaces occupied by the early modern book trade have received attention as social environments. This study of the early publication history of Christopher Marlowe's poems -- Hero and Leander, his translation of Lucan, as well as the lyric now known as "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" -- shows that, the bookshops may also turn out to be agents shaping the fate of books, authors, and literary afterlives. Shifting our emphasis from the individual bookseller to the networks of a plurality of human agents and environments allows us to consider the intersections of various commercial and …


Negrocity: An Interview With Greg Tate, Camille Goodison Jul 2012

Negrocity: An Interview With Greg Tate, Camille Goodison

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The Search For Pan: Difference And Morality In D. H. Lawrence’S St. Mawr And The Woman Who Rode Away, Ria Banerjee Apr 2012

The Search For Pan: Difference And Morality In D. H. Lawrence’S St. Mawr And The Woman Who Rode Away, Ria Banerjee

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Both St. Mawr (1925) and The Woman Who Rode Away (1928) were written at the height of Lawrence’s fascination with New Mexico and demonstrate a continuum of thought about the position of the European and the Indian, but what is most interesting about these stories when read in conjunction is their attitude towards difference. Lou Carrington, the protagonist of St. Mawr, holds herself separate from other women of her class, from other men, from her mother and her Indian groom, finally finding a temporary peace in seeking affinity in a landscape; the woman who rides away from home and …


Brain Memoirs, Neuroscience, And The Self: A Review Article, Jason Tougaw Apr 2012

Brain Memoirs, Neuroscience, And The Self: A Review Article, Jason Tougaw

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Power Of The Narrator (Review), Veronica Schanoes Mar 2012

Power Of The Narrator (Review), Veronica Schanoes

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Reviews the book Narrative Power: Encounters, Celebrations, Struggles by L. Timmel Duchamp. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2010


Picturing The Wake: Arcimboldo, Joyce And His ‘Monster,’, Václav Paris Jan 2012

Picturing The Wake: Arcimboldo, Joyce And His ‘Monster,’, Václav Paris

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This essay considers Finnegans Wake through the lens of Arcimboldo's art. Drawing on surrealism, French theory, and close readings of parts of Joyce's most difficult book, it shows the work to be visually richer and stranger than we imagined.


Writing At Transitions: Using In-Class Writing As A Learning Tool, Nate Mickelson Jan 2012

Writing At Transitions: Using In-Class Writing As A Learning Tool, Nate Mickelson

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Drawing on the fundamentals of Writing to Learn pedagogy, this article describes how teachers across the disciplines can use in-class writing as a learning tool. Because in-class writing activities foreground the power of writing as a means for processing and integrating information, using writing prompts during times of transition common to every class—at the beginning or end of class, when moving from topic to topic or activity to activity, or at the conclusion of a particularly rich discussion—can serve to focus and extend student engagement. Offering practical advice and examples from his own teaching experiences, the author shows how structuring …


Carribean Folk: Engendering The Color Politics Of Claude Mckay's Banana Botttom (1933), Charmaine Dacosta Jan 2012

Carribean Folk: Engendering The Color Politics Of Claude Mckay's Banana Botttom (1933), Charmaine Dacosta

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Fearless Children And Fabulous Monsters: Angela Carter, Lewis Carroll, And Beastly Girls, Veronica L. Schanoes Jan 2012

Fearless Children And Fabulous Monsters: Angela Carter, Lewis Carroll, And Beastly Girls, Veronica L. Schanoes

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No abstract provided.


Stella’S Voice: Echo And Collaboration In Astrophil And Stella 57 And 58, Laura Kolb Jan 2012

Stella’S Voice: Echo And Collaboration In Astrophil And Stella 57 And 58, Laura Kolb

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No abstract provided.


Johnson Teaches, Researches The English Language, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2012

Johnson Teaches, Researches The English Language, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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No abstract provided.


Disclaiming Legitimacy, And The Stories Of Katherine Mansfield, Mathew Mead Jan 2012

Disclaiming Legitimacy, And The Stories Of Katherine Mansfield, Mathew Mead

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No abstract provided.


`The Only Beguiled Person?': Accessing Fantomina In The Feminist Classroom., Kate Levin Jan 2012

`The Only Beguiled Person?': Accessing Fantomina In The Feminist Classroom., Kate Levin

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This article explores how Eliza Haywood's 18th-century novella Fantomina serves as an allegory for the challenges of maintaining a feminist classroom.


Recollecting Turbulence: Catastrophe And Sacrifice In The "History Of My Life" By Henry Darger, Carl Watson Jan 2012

Recollecting Turbulence: Catastrophe And Sacrifice In The "History Of My Life" By Henry Darger, Carl Watson

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This study of "The History of My Life" the 5,086 page autobiographical text by the outsider artist/author Henry Darger, uses non-linear modes of analysis, such as chaos and complexity theory, to explore the meaning of Darger's epic narrative. Beginning with the idea that turbulence, seemingly chaotic, actually comes about as a compensatory restructuring of inadequate or unstable system dynamics, this study goes on to show that, as both influence and effect, turbulence is found at every level of Darger's life and art, both in theme and structure. "My Life" is a prime example: an extended narrative describing a cataclysmic tornado, …


Reading Through Prayer: Lectio Divina And "Liturgical Reading" In Some Medieval Texts, Marie Schilling Grogan Jan 2012

Reading Through Prayer: Lectio Divina And "Liturgical Reading" In Some Medieval Texts, Marie Schilling Grogan

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Prayer texts found in a variety of medieval genres merit more careful scrutiny from literary critical perspectives. Such attention to the verbal artifacts, prayers, that memorialize an activity of central importance in medieval culture, praying, deepens our understanding not only of the prayers and the works in which they are found, but also of the milieu that produced them. This study seeks to model such a critical turn by reading three particular works "through" the prayers that constitute, punctuate and frame them -- privileging the prayers as the starting points for the investigation of their literary and devotional settings. This …


Topic Modeling And Figurative Language, Lisa M. Rhody Jan 2012

Topic Modeling And Figurative Language, Lisa M. Rhody

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Located at the center of Jorie Graham’s collection The End of Beauty, “Self Portrait as Hurray and Delay” crafts a portrait of the artist, poised at a precarious moment in which thought begins to take shape. Like Penelope, Graham entertains the illusion, if only momentarily, of a choice between bringing a creative impulse into form or allowing it to come undone. A weaver of language, Graham subtly, deftly, but unsuccessfully attempts to delay the inevitable moment in poetic creation in which complexity of thought adopts form through language, and so realized is also reduced. In The End of Beauty, the …