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Redeeming The Symbols: Madeleine L'Engle And The Interpreting Of Contemporary Geometry In The Christian Tradition, C. Christopher Smith

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

In Madeleine L’Engle’s book, A Stone for a Pillow, she discusses how the Christian faith is often concerned with redeeming symbols into something good. This paper examines the redemption of contemporary geometry and how it reflects the truths of the Christian faith.

Full Issue 1999 (Volume Ii)

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

No abstract provided.

Past The Ravening Lion Of Presentism: C.S. Lewis In The Next Century, Richard Hill

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

One of C.S. Lewis’s pet peeves was the phenomenon he called “chronological snobbery,” a concept other writers have termed “presentism.” The notion involves the smug certainty that today’s idea on anything are automatically improvements on what people in the past thought on the same subjects. This paper examines the concepts of presentism and how it relates to Lewis and current culture.

Examining Eustace's Transformation And Its Mythic Antecedents In The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader, Devin Brown

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

This paper examines the transformation of Eustace and the redemption of his character in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

Gender And Inklings Friendship, Candice Frederick, Sam Mcbride

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

This paper discusses C.S. Lewis’s views on women and friendship between the sexes.

George Macdonald On The Logic Of Faith, Barbara Amell

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

Although not often called a philosopher, George MacDonald’s writings reflect repeated attempts to apply logic to faith. This paper traces this theme throughout his various works to demonstrate that he was largely successful in his efforts to provide the public with reasons to believe.

Irrigating Deserts: C.S. Lewis On Education, Joel D. Heck

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

This paper explores C.S. Lewis’s experiences with education and, while his views on education aren’t clearly known, how he presented an approach to education through his writings.

C.S. Lewis: The Abolition Of Man, Christopher Horton

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

In The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis calls the natural, moral law of the universe by the name Tao. This essay seeks to define Lewis’s idea of the Tao, demonstrate where the principle of the Tao is reinforced in Lewis’s fictional works, and conclude with Lewis’s ‘prophetical’ warnings to modern humanity’s rebellion against the Tao.

The Necessity Of Doubt In George Macdonald's Within And Without, James Washick

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

While the Scottish author George MacDonald is currently remembered as a writer of fiction and fantasy, in his own time he was well known for his poetry as well, even preferring to think of himself as a poet rather than a novelist. This paper examines his poetry, focusing on the theme of doubt and its role in the life of a Christian.

Annotated Bibliography Of Research In The Teaching Of English, Deborah Brown, Wayne Martino, Gert Rijlaarsdam, Anne D'Antonio Stinson, Melissa E. Whiting

Faculty Publications

Twice a year in die May and November issues, RTE publishes a selected bibliography of recent research in the teaching of English. Most of the studies appeared during the six-month period preceding the compilation of the bibliography (January through June, 1999, for the present bibliography), but some studies that appeared earlier are occasionally included. The listing is selective; we make no attempt to include all research and research-related articles that appeared in the period tinder review Comments on the bibliography and suggestions about items for inclusion may be directed to the bibliography editors. We encourage you to send your suggestions …

Feminist Spiritualities: A Brief Overview, Marilyn Pukkila

Marilyn R. Pukkila

A bibliographic essay on the early beginnings of feminist spirituality literature, from the 1960s to 1998.

Fortifying The Ideal Ego: Idealization In Morrison's Tar Baby And In Some White Feminist Cross-Race Fantasies, Jean Wyatt

Jean Wyatt

No abstract provided.

Inklings Bibliography, Wayne G. Hammond

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Brief reviews of ten selected Inklings-related items published 1988–1998.

Fantasy And Reality: J.R.R. Tolkien's World And The Fairy-Story Essay, Verlyn Flieger

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Examines how Tolkien applied a central concept of “On Fairy-stories,” the idea that fantasy must be firmly based in reality, to his writing of The Lord of the Rings.

Three Views Of Faerie In C.S. Lewis's "The Queen Of Drum", Joe R. Christopher

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Notes “The Queen of Drum” is nearly unique among Lewis’s works in offering a third choice—Heaven, Hell, and Elfland—rather than a strict either/or choice between heaven and hell.

J.R.R. Tolkien: The Achievement Of His Literary Life, Wayne G. Hammond, Christina Scull

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

An overview of Tolkien’s achievements in both fiction and scholarship, and an account of their work on editing the posthumous children’s story Roverandom.

The Commonplace Book: Charles Williams's Early Approach To The Arthurian Poetry, Georgette Versinger

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Examines Williams’s handwritten notebook, in which he jotted ideas and references for his Arthurian poetry, for clues about influences, style, themes, and characters.

King Arthur 'Lite': Dilution Of Mythic Elements In Arthurian Film, Eleanor M. Farrell

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Concentrates on films and television that use elements of the Arthurian legends, rather than retellings of the main story.

Editorial, Theodore James Sherman

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

No abstract provided.

Balder The Beautiful: Aslan's Norse Ancestor In The Chronicles Of Narnia, Salwa Khoddam

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Because of Lewis’s typological approach to his use of sources, it is possible to see Aslan not just as a straight allegory of Christ but as embodying elements from other mythic systems; in this case, Balder, a figure from Norse mythology. This is supported by Lewis’s known love for northern myths and his particular reaction to the lines about Balder from Longfellow’s “Tegnér’s Drapa.”

Excavating The New Republic: Post-Colonial Subjectivity In Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Christopher Wise

English Faculty and Staff Publications

However, in the context of contemporary late capitalist society, especially in the United States and Western Europe, there would seem to be obvious difficulties in bringing the Igbo experience of being, as described by Achebe, into the interpretive horizon of a dramatically different First World orientation towards social reality.4 Still, I would insist that meaningful and benign experiences of collective being have by no means been wholly eradicated from contemporary existence in the West, uncanny though they may be. Here, I would cite Jameson's pertinent observation that oppositional scholars today need to reappropriate an authentically dialectical concept of ontology, or …

A Black Range Christmas Tree, Thomas Lynch

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Driving north from Las Cruces on I-25, one departs the relative green of the sheltered town of tree-lined streets and enters stark desert. The view while skirting the southern edge of the Jornada del Muerto is hardly promising for an expedition, like ours, in search of a Christmas tree.

Reading Space As Time In Great Plains Recollective Architecture, Paul A. Olson

Department of English: Faculty Publications

It is a long way from Black Elk's tipi to the Stuart building. Clearly most cultures and periods impose one or more narrative plots on time and space (I have written of four that were part of the recent past of this state). It may be that we will need soon to return again to a celebration of the cyclical in our architecture. If the ethos of domination that goes with linear, progressive notions of time is as destructive to our environment as the Club of Rome (and other successor study groups looking at the future of the planet) have …

Discourse Knowledge And Activity Type In Social Service Interview Openings: ‘Okay Miss Debby Girl Tell Me What’S Going On.’, Frank Bramlett

English Faculty Publications

The purpose of this study is to investigate the nature of interview styles at a privately funded social service agency. At this agency, which helps people in a financial emergency, clients are interviewed by volunteers to determine the clients' eligibility for financial assistance. In this paper, I test Levinson' s (1992) definition of activity type through an examination of how interviewers, within the beginning moments, share knowledge of the social service interview with the clients. Specifically, I explore how two volunteer interviewers open sessions with their clients. Three different interviews were recorded for each of eleven interviewers at the agency. …

Vol. 19, No. 4 (1999), Ruel E. Foster, M. Thomas Inge

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

The Premature Belatedness Of Victorianism's Boyhood: Clough And The Rugby Magazine, 1835-1837, Patrick G. Scott

Faculty Publications

Explores the attitudes and pressures on early Victorian teenagers through an examination of contributions by the poet Arthur Hugh Clough and other students at Rugby School to a short-lived quarterly, the Rugby Magazine (1835-1837). Originally presented at the Victorians Institute conference, Richmond, VA, 1999.

Desire, Violence, And The Passion In Fragment Vii Of "The Canterbury Tales": A Girardian Reading, Curtis Gruenler

Faculty Publications

Part of a special issue on René Girard. The tales of fragment 7 of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales collectively address the problem of human violence and the potential of literature to perpetuate or remedy this problem. The narrative that links the two middles tales of fragment 7 provides a critique of violence that goes beyond mere opposition to war. In this narrative, Chaucer alludes to Christ's crucifixion and death in order to speak as a witness to suffering. In the first three tales of fragment 7—The Shipman's Tale, The Prioress's Tale, and Sir Thopas,—Chaucer depicts the tendencies to mythologize violence in …

Giving The Devil His Due: Leeching And Edification Of Spirit In The Scarlet Letter And The Witches Of Eastwick, James Plath

Scholarship

The essays collected here evaluate the religious dimension of Updike's prodigious literary vision, looking broadly at Updike's understanding of religion in ordinary human experience, in the context of historic Christianity, and in contemporary American culture.

Giving The Devil His Due: Leeching And Edification Of Spirit In The Scarlet Letter And The Witches Of Eastwick, James Plath

James Plath

Mary Elizabeth Braddon: Reconstructing Beauty From Portent Of Innocence To Potential Threat In Aurora Floyd And Lady Audley's Secret, Susan Bryant Cook

Theses & Honors Papers

This explores the “sensation novels”, Lady Audley’s Secret and Aurora Floyd by Mary Elizabeth Braddon during the Victorian Era. These “sensation novels” ushered in characters that were not who they seemed to be which evoked mystery in the story. Braddon also centered on the idea of not relying on a woman’s appearance but rather seeing the woman as she truly is.