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Green Worlds And Ecosemiotics, Paul Siewers
Green Worlds And Ecosemiotics, Paul Siewers
Faculty Conference Papers and Presentations
"Overlay landscapes" in Early Insular literatures, and how they connect early medieval cosmology with current-day ecosemiotics..
Ecopoetics And The Origins Of English Literature, Paul Siewers
Ecopoetics And The Origins Of English Literature, Paul Siewers
Faculty Contributions to Books
An ecocritical survey of early English literature, focusing on the "green world" trope.
The Ecosemiosphere: Story And Region In Insular Medieval Literatures, Paul Siewers
The Ecosemiosphere: Story And Region In Insular Medieval Literatures, Paul Siewers
Faculty Conference Papers and Presentations
Reflections on the interrelation of environmental humanities studies, physics and semiotics, as part of an international panel introducing ecosemiotics and biosemiotics to the North American ecocriticism communtiy at large.
"What's A Goin' On?" People And Place In The Fiction Of Edythe Squier Draper, 1924-1941, Aubrey R. Streit Krug
"What's A Goin' On?" People And Place In The Fiction Of Edythe Squier Draper, 1924-1941, Aubrey R. Streit Krug
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This essay is devoted to looking back into the life and fiction of Edythe Squier Draper, a twentieth-century writer in Oswego, Kansas. Many of Draper’s stories are set in southeastern Kansas. Through them, we gain a sense of how she attempted—and at times failed—to perceive, articulate, and adapt to her place on the Great Plains. Draper claimed the identity of a rural woman writer by writing herself into narratives of colonial, agricultural settlement, and she both complicated and perpetuated stereotypes of class and race in her fiction. By examining her and her characters’ perspective on their place in the Great …