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"A Draught Of Sweet Poison": Love, Food, And Wounds In Jane Eyre And Villette, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Review Of Psychoanalysis And Black Novels: Desire And The Protocols Of Race By Claudia Tate, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Reading The Wound: Wollstonecraft’S The Wrongs Of Woman, Or Maria And Trauma Theory, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

Discusses the theory of trauma presented in Mary Wollstonecraft's novel 'Wrongs of Woman, Or Maria.' How the novel was both personally therapeutic for the author and historically significant for what it reveals about women's lives under patriarchy; The repeated dissection of Wollstonecraft's wounds which stem from sexual betrayal; The character of Maria as a representation of the psychological and sexual abuses that wound all women.

Review Of Virginia Woolf And The Essay By Beth Carole Rosenberg & Jeanne Dubino, Krista Ratcliffe

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Manuscript With Publisher's Suggested Edits., Tony Hillerman

Hunting Badger Manuscripts

This is a copy of the manuscript of Hunting Badger with a Publisher's letter addressing some minor edits.

Yusef Komunyakaa: Questioning Traditional Metaphors Of Light And Darkness, Katarzyna Jakubiak

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The theory of language promoted by cognitive linguistics points to metaphor as the crucial element of language and thought: a mode of thinking which determines our perception of reality. Stressing the importance of metaphor in our everyday life, George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, and Mark Turner state that the nature of poetic metaphors is the same as the nature of conventional metaphors which appear in "standard" language. Creating poetic metaphors, poets simply explore "conventional" metaphors, using four major strategies: expanding, elaborating, composing, and questioning. Focusing on questioning as the main strategy through which American "multicultural" literatures can undermine basic Western concepts …

Social Class Depiction In Selected Award-Winning Children's Narrative Fiction, Edward L. Starkenburg

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

This qualitative content analysis was designed to meet the following three objectives: to build an awareness of the depiction of social class in children's literature, to bolster the literature base on this depiction, and to better inform those who work with children's literature of its content in order to facilitate knowledgeable decisions regarding the selection and discussion of this literature. Eisner's (1991) connoisseurship and criticism heuristic guided the research throughout the data gathering as well as the inductive and deductive analyses of that data. The results of the study facilitate understanding and discerning social class in future experiences with children's …

Generation Ebb: A Novella, Matthew Aaron Eberhart

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

This is a novella that captures the feelings and moods of Jason Ebley, an alienated youth growing up in the Midwest What sets this work apart from other "coming-of-age" stories is that it is told from the perspective of a shadow figure who appears when the main character nearly drowns at a young age. This unique narrator gives insights into the conflicts Jason faces as he attempts to decide what his future holds. A few examples of what his struggles include: romantic relationships, friendships, family, abuse, suicide and much more.

The Crime Of The Sign: Dashiell Hammett's Detective Fiction, Carl D. Malmgren

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Charles Chesnutt's Southern Black Jew: Rena Walden's Masquerade In The House Behind The Cedars, Earle V. Bryant

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Rescuing Reluctant Readers, Chris Crowe

Faculty Publications

Let me tell you about Jonathan.

He's a tall, intelligent, handsome high school junior who's taking Japanese, calculus, physics, English, and a handful of other colleg preparatory courses. While he's not a perfect student, he is diligent, usually spending two hours or more a night on homework. After school, he plays the drums for the marching band, and after that he works a couple hours each day, as a custodian at the local elementary school. He earned his Eagle Scout award about two years ago, and now in his spare time he lifts weights, practices his drums, and hangs out …

Dear Teachers: Please Help My Kids Become Readers, Chris Crowe

Faculty Publications

Dear Mr. or Ms. English Teacher:

I hope that by the time this arrives the hectic first days and weeks of school are behind you and that you are settled into the work that you and I both love teaching young people about writing, language and of course, literature. I have a keen interest in your work this year, not just because I, too, am a teacher, but also because three of my children are in your English classes. Joanne, my youngest, is in eighth grade and looking forward to her last year of middle school. Carrie, a ninth grader, …

English Teachers Are From Mars, Students Are From Venus (But Ya Books Can Help Interplanetary Understanding), Chris Crowe

Faculty Publications

When I was a kid, people blamed the misunderstandings and tensions between grown-ups and teenagers on the "generation gap." Adolescents and adults butted heads because they were born in different times, into different circumstances. As a teenager with limited experience and understanding, I accepted that explanation as the reason why I didn't think or act the way my parents and teachers did.

Bilingual Creativity, Multidimensional Analysis, And World Englishes, Wendy Baker, William G. Eggington

Faculty Publications

Research in world English literatures has concentrated on qualitative measures of analysis in order to understand what is meant by `bilingual creativity.' These measures demonstrate that there are differences in rhetorical and literary style within world English literatures both in the inner and outer circle. Using Biber's multidimensional analysis (1988) to examine a large corpus of world English literatures written in Indian, West African, Britain, Anglo-American and Mexican American varieties of English, this paper examines whether quantitative analyses can also be insightful and useful in the examination of world English literatures in expanding our understanding of what `bilingual creativity' entails. …

"That Damned Morality": Willa Cather's Reaction Against Victorian Female Roles In O Pioneers! And Tje Song Of The Lark, Sarah Elizabeth Moore Horne

Theses & Honors Papers

Reacting against Victorian ideal that influenced her childhood, Cather creates numerous gender reversal throughout her fiction. This thesis notes the gender ironies contained within her works to conclude that Cather was herself a liberal, demanding that society’s status quo be eliminated. While America’s political climate did affect Cather’s work, her political ideologies remain difficult to interpret when contrasted with her fiction. Throughout much of her fiction, Cather attempts to raise the social status of certain facets of society and dispels many myths concerning gender.

Private Voices Teaching Public Values In The Fiction Of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary Wilkins Freeman, And Sarah Orne Jewett, Angela Gonzalez

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This thesis re-examines the purpose and value of New England women's local color fiction, asserting that local color functions as the groundwork on which the standards and practices of literary realism are based and as the way that nineteenth-century women writers could promote their domestic ministry. Furthermore, the thesis maintains that Stowe, Freeman, and Jewett utilized literary realism to publicize alternative theologies and progressive communities.

Professionalizing Ta Training: Commitment To Teaching Or Rhetorical Response To Market Crisis?, Carrie Shively Leverenz, Amy M. Goodburn

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Although English Studies as a discipline is often seen as fractured and contentious, there is one subject about which most of us can agree: the job market for new PhDs in English is bad and not likely to improve any time soon. In Bettina Huber’s widely cited survey of the results of the 1993-1994 job search, only 45.9% of candidates found tenure-track jobs. The recent report from the MLA Committee on Professional Employment projects similar figures for the foreseeable future. The fact that the number of graduate students with PhDs in English—especially those with concentrations in literary studies or creative …

The Novelist As Historian, Michael Boyd

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

The Hammer And The Anvil: The Concept Of Irony With Continual Reference To Kierkegaard, Michael T. Carper

English Theses, Dissertations, and Student Creative Activity

In this thesis, the author explores a novel way of formulating the otherwise old and tired trope of irony. Chapter one begins by examining some common literary critical views of irony. Wayne C. Booth conceives of irony mostly as a very finite operation--the author states something in such a way that the clever reader realizes the author in fact means the opposite of what he says. The reader, then, performs what Booth calls a "reconstruction," and once the reconstruction is finished, so is the irony's "effect." Paul Bove wants to replace irony with what he calls a "destructive poetics." Irony, …

George Eliot Birthday Luncheon: The Toast To The Immortal Memory 1998, Tenniel Evans

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

Sixty-two years ago, almost to the day - a freezing 25 November 1936 - I arrived at the London docks from Africa and came, without realizing it at the time, to live in the country of my background. I was to live with Alison and Rupert Winser and their family in the Rectory at Allesley, just outside Coventry, and it became my home for the next five years. By the end of that time, of course, the war had blown away the old life and it would never be the same again. So I was lucky that at least I …

Cognitive And Affective Learning In The Basic Course: Effects Of Delivery Format, Immediacy, And Communication Apprehension, Susan J. Messman, Jennifer Jones-Corley, David Mezzacappa, Deborah J. Crusan

English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications

A quasi-experimental design was used to investigate changes in learning outcomes for students enrolled in large-lecture/break-out sections versus in self-contained sections of the basic communication course.More precisely, the study explores the relationship between communication apprehension, immediacy and learning outcomes for the two class formats.Results indicate that students' cognitive learning outcomes are slightly higher in the large-lecture/break-out sections versus self-contained sections. In addition, affective learning decreases for all students from the first day of class and slightly more for students in the large-lecture/break-out sections. However, when the teacher is perceived as highly immediate, there is no difference in formats. (Contains 5 …

Bibliography, Cultural Studies, And Rare Book Librarianship: Tennyson's "Crossing The Bar" And The Cultural Significance Of Unauthoritative Texts, Patrick G. Scott

Faculty Publications

For a conference discussion of textual bibliographers and rare book librarians on the topic "Who needs textual studies?," this paper examines three different appearances of Alfred Tennyson's poem "Crossing the Bar": (1) a manuscript facsimile, (ii) its reuse as a hymn and in a giftbook; and (iii) the paperback Armed Services Edition distributed to US troops overseas during World War II, and argues that with the shift from literary studies to cultural studies such later "unauthoritative texts" have a new importance for scholars and students, and deserve increased attention from bibliographers, collectors, and rare book librarians. Originally presented at the …

Poem No. 80, November 1998, Huntsville Literary Association (Huntsvile, Ala.)

POEM

The Huntsville Literary Association was founded in 1967 to provide a community for writers, readers, and artists through workshops, readings, and educational programs. One of their key contributions is the literary magazine titled POEM which showcases original writings from both established and emerging writers. This issue features poems from various writers.

Annotated Bibliography Of Research In The Teaching Of English, Deborah Brown, Melissa Whiting, Richard L. Larson

Faculty Publications

Twice a year, in the 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, 1998, 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 studies that appeared in the period under 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 …

Resolving The "Hateful Siege/Of Contrarie": The Regeneration Of Ideal Desire In Milton's Paradise Lost, Jody Lawton

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

No abstract provided.

Vol. 18, No. 4 (1998), Ruel E. Foster, Jim Dees

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

Defoe And The Black Legend: The Spanish Stereotype In A New Voyage Round The World, Kathryn Rummell

English

No abstract provided.

The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 7, No. 1, The Sinclair Lewis Society

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter

“Sinclair Lewis—Minnesota Rustic,” by George Killough, College of St. Scholastica

“Backwoods Isolationism versus Medical Imperialism in Sinclair Lewis’s Arrowsmith,” by Stephanie Browner, Berea College

“The Anniversary Editions of Sinclair Lewis Novels,” by Jeffrey M. Halperin

“Sinclair Lewis on Western Writers,” by Martin Bucco, Colorado State University

“Teaching Babbitt,” by Ralph Goldstein

“On the Road to Babbitt,” Review of If I Were Boss: The Early Business Stories of Sinclair Lewis, edited by Anthony Di Renzo; by Clare Eby, University of Connecticut-Hartford

“Uncle Hal: Isabel Lewis Agrell’s Sinclair Lewis Remembered,” rev. by George Killough, College of St. …

Matriarchal Mythopoesis: Naylor's Mama Day, David Cowart

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Postgothic Fiction: Joyce Carol Oates Turns The Screw On Henry James, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.