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A Myth Of Transformation, Transformed Again, Julie A. Sparks Jan 2012

A Myth Of Transformation, Transformed Again, Julie A. Sparks

Faculty Publications, English and Comparative Literature

No abstract provided.


A Myth Of Transformation, Transformed Again, Julie A. Sparks Jan 2012

A Myth Of Transformation, Transformed Again, Julie A. Sparks

Julie A. Sparks

No abstract provided.


Wiping Blood From The Walls: Medea’S Pleasures Of Terror, Clark Lunberry Mar 2006

Wiping Blood From The Walls: Medea’S Pleasures Of Terror, Clark Lunberry

English Faculty Research and Scholarship

I was there and then I wasn’t. The actors were before me and then they weren’t. The curtain opened, it closed, and—in the play of appearances and disappearances—something was seen in the vanishings. Remaining, what I now write is a kind of recollected narrative, a reportorial account of British director Deborah Warner’s recent adaptation of Euripides’ Medea. As a member of its audience one evening, I look back from the strict vantage of the remembered event, from the dual perspective of having seen the performance, but of seeing it no longer, of having been a spectator to the play, but …


Publications “Playwrights’ Progress: The Evolution Of The Play Cycle, From Shaw’S ‘Pentateuch’ To Angels In America, Julie A. Sparks Jan 2005

Publications “Playwrights’ Progress: The Evolution Of The Play Cycle, From Shaw’S ‘Pentateuch’ To Angels In America, Julie A. Sparks

Faculty Publications, English and Comparative Literature

Traces the development of playwright George Bernard Shaw's play cycles. Analysis of his plays "Man and Superman", "Heartbreak House", and "Back to Methuselah"; His belief about the importance of lengthy works; Production difficulties of his plays; Comparison of Shaw's views with play cycles.


Publications “Playwrights’ Progress: The Evolution Of The Play Cycle, From Shaw’S ‘Pentateuch’ To Angels In America, Julie A. Sparks Jan 2005

Publications “Playwrights’ Progress: The Evolution Of The Play Cycle, From Shaw’S ‘Pentateuch’ To Angels In America, Julie A. Sparks

Julie A. Sparks

Traces the development of playwright George Bernard Shaw's play cycles. Analysis of his plays "Man and Superman", "Heartbreak House", and "Back to Methuselah"; His belief about the importance of lengthy works; Production difficulties of his plays; Comparison of Shaw's views with play cycles.


So Much Depends: Printed Matter, Dying Words, And The Entropic Poem, Clark Lunberry Apr 2004

So Much Depends: Printed Matter, Dying Words, And The Entropic Poem, Clark Lunberry

English Faculty Research and Scholarship

Growing up in Rutherford, New Jersey, in the 1940s, Robert Smithson would periodically visit his pediatrician, William Carlos Williams, who had his home and medical practice across town at Nine Ridge Road. There were, no doubt, the routine checkups, the childhood ailments and inoculations, the doctor looking into the mouth, the ears, the eyes of the little boy. Many years later, in 1958—Williams by then retired and Smithson a young artist—they would once again meet informally at the poet’s home.1 Nearing the end of his long life, Williams—no longer practicing medicine—was nonetheless still very much practicing poetry, laboring away at …


Quiet Catastrophe: Robert Smithson’S Spiral Jetty, Vanished, Clark Lunberry Apr 2002

Quiet Catastrophe: Robert Smithson’S Spiral Jetty, Vanished, Clark Lunberry

English Faculty Research and Scholarship

Maps to Nowhere: Seen from above, Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty emerges dramatically from the rocky shores of Utah's Great Salt Lake. Like a swirling vortex steadied and then stilled, the earthwork begins as a straight line of stone extending far into the water, the form then curving, arching and coiling in upon itself until abruptly coming to an end. Rocks and boulders are seen in various shapes and sizes, with brown soil packed and flattened within the spiral, making a broad path that one might walk upon. The water washes upon the earthwork's shaped shores, surrounding and filling it, a …


Cavemen In Eden? Bernard Shaw And Mark Twain Offer Radical Revisions Of Genesis, Julie A. Sparks Jan 2001

Cavemen In Eden? Bernard Shaw And Mark Twain Offer Radical Revisions Of Genesis, Julie A. Sparks

Faculty Publications, English and Comparative Literature

No abstract provided.


Cavemen In Eden? Bernard Shaw And Mark Twain Offer Radical Revisions Of Genesis, Julie A. Sparks Jan 2001

Cavemen In Eden? Bernard Shaw And Mark Twain Offer Radical Revisions Of Genesis, Julie A. Sparks

Julie A. Sparks

No abstract provided.


An Overlooked Source For Eliza? W. E. Henley’S London Types, Julie A. Sparks Jan 1998

An Overlooked Source For Eliza? W. E. Henley’S London Types, Julie A. Sparks

Faculty Publications, English and Comparative Literature

No abstract provided.


An Overlooked Source For Eliza? W. E. Henley’S London Types, Julie A. Sparks Jan 1998

An Overlooked Source For Eliza? W. E. Henley’S London Types, Julie A. Sparks

Julie A. Sparks

No abstract provided.


Shaw For The Utopians, Capek For The Anti-Utopians, Julie A. Sparks Jan 1997

Shaw For The Utopians, Capek For The Anti-Utopians, Julie A. Sparks

Faculty Publications, English and Comparative Literature

No abstract provided.


Shaw For The Utopians, Capek For The Anti-Utopians, Julie A. Sparks Jan 1997

Shaw For The Utopians, Capek For The Anti-Utopians, Julie A. Sparks

Julie A. Sparks

No abstract provided.