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“Sketches Of Spain”: Richard Wright's Pagan Spain And African-American Representations Of The Hispanic, Guy J. Reynolds
“Sketches Of Spain”: Richard Wright's Pagan Spain And African-American Representations Of The Hispanic, Guy J. Reynolds
Department of English: Faculty Publications
At the start of Pagan Spain (1957), Richard Wright recalled a 1946 conversation with Gertrude Stein; she encouraged him to visit Spain: “ ‘You'll see what the Western world is made of. Spain is primitive, but lovely. ’ ” Wright meditated on his fascination with that country, an obsession rooted in the Civil War's political upheaval: “The fate of Spain hurt me, haunted me; I was never able to stifle a hunger to understand what had happened there and why” (PS, 10). Wright wrote as a leftist, as a political writer who had published anti-Franco articles. In his …
Escapades On Third Street: Chapters 2-4, Gregory E. Rutledge
Escapades On Third Street: Chapters 2-4, Gregory E. Rutledge
Department of English: Faculty Publications
It’s early summer, 1971, and school has just recessed. Benjamin Thomas, a typical eleven-year-old boy, has his hopes set on three months of escapades unchecked by the tedium of teachers and books and classrooms. The first few weeks of unadulterated storytelling, exuberant play at The Park, treasure hunting in Piney Forest, rescuing ripe fruit from neighbors’ trees, and a host of deeds and misdeeds, send Ben, his sisters, and his best friends well on their way to an unforgettable summer of fun. . . But then Vincent Solomon comes to town, bringing with him the ideals and enthusiasm of the …
To Honor Impermanence: The Haiku And Other Poems Of Gerald Vizenor, Thomas Lynch
To Honor Impermanence: The Haiku And Other Poems Of Gerald Vizenor, Thomas Lynch
Department of English: Faculty Publications
Poems on a page bear a decidedly, yet deceptively, fixed being. The Western literary tradition (if I may invoke such a creature) has historically preferred fixed texts. Even when confronting slippery oral traditions, an enormous effort has been expended to canonize an originary Ur-form of each tale. Such a tendency, akin to mounting a bird species rather than pondering the flight of feathers, is the antagonist of Vizenor's poetic art. In what follows I seek to explore some of the ways Vizenor's haiku and longer poetry melt fixation and celebrate the transformative possibilities of impermanence.
Composition Studies And Service Learning: Appealing To Communities?, Kevin Ball, Amy M. Goodburn
Composition Studies And Service Learning: Appealing To Communities?, Kevin Ball, Amy M. Goodburn
Department of English: Faculty Publications
In this essay, we wish to examine more fully how service learning is being conceptualized by compositionists, particularly through the trope of community, to consider how it functions as a practice and topic in our discipline. Our interest in doing so stems from our interests in and experiences with service learning and our desire to more fully examine why the service learning movement has been so appealing to us—in terms of the social and cultural aspirations it embodies for us as teachers at our particular institution and as scholars within the discipline. We seek to explore some of the issues …
Collaborating Toward Intellectual Practice: Re-Imagining Service In English Studies, Amy M. Goodburn, Joy Ritchie
Collaborating Toward Intellectual Practice: Re-Imagining Service In English Studies, Amy M. Goodburn, Joy Ritchie
Department of English: Faculty Publications
This essay chronicles the story of our collaborations as scholars, teachers, colleagues, friends, and co-coordinators of the first-year writing program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. We believe our narrative can lead to an expanded vision of service in the profession by illuminating how ongoing discussions about collaboration can help us construct and imagine service as intellectual work. As two faculty members (one assistant and one associate professor) responsible for collaboratively coordinating a first-year-writing program, we hope to question what it means to do administrative service collaboratively, to examine this hydra-headed authority that we wield and attempt to implement within our …
The Costs Of Scholarly Teaching And Learning, Amy M. Goodburn
The Costs Of Scholarly Teaching And Learning, Amy M. Goodburn
Department of English: Faculty Publications
At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) I come to SoTL work from several different locations: As an English professor in composition and rhetoric; as an associate dean for faculty within the College of Arts and Sciences; and as cocoordinator of a faculty teaching development program. This past spring was especially challenging as the country’s economic free-fall led to a year filled of budget-planning exercises, which then turned into budget-cut proposals, and now impending--but still not determined--budget cuts. In many ways, UNL has fared better than most other universities nationwide. The state of Nebraska received national attention when it was named …
Reading Through Galileo's Telescope: Margaret Cavendish And The Experience Of Reading, Elizabeth Spiller
Reading Through Galileo's Telescope: Margaret Cavendish And The Experience Of Reading, Elizabeth Spiller
Department of English: Faculty Publications
This essay reassesses the role of reading in the context of seventeenth-century natural philosophy by analyzing Galileo Galilei’s Starry Messenger and Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World. The unreliability of telescopic vision becomes a dominant metaphor for the unreliability of reading printed texts. Where Galileo sought to put the reader in his own position as a scientific observer by making reading a form of observation, Cavendish used the telescopic image to show how readers become the makers of their own fictions. From the recognition that reading and observation finally reveal our relationship to the world rather than the world itself comes …