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Ailing Hearts, Go Home: Ethnographic Storytelling And The Levels Of Experience, Bryan D. Tilt

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

I visited Primary Children's Medical Center on a fresh snow morning near the beginning of last winter. The hospital was not where it had been in my childhood, a quiet neighborhood in "the avenues" section of Salt Lake City; several years ago the hospital moved to a new location farther east on the Wasatch Mountain foothills, near the University of Utah Medical Center. The old brick building now sits sedate and empty at the top of a shaded hill. My memory of the old hospital is as a bright and oppressive place, full of the stuff of life and death. …

Cut To The Quick: Lorena Bobbitt And America Gender Ideology, Jessica Staheli

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

On the morning of June 23rd, 1993, Lorena Bobbitt severed her husband's penis with a kitchen carving knife, literally enacting the old myth of women as castrators. America reacted to Lorena's and her husband John's situation first with horror and then with humor. Soon after the attack was made public, jokes and commentaries proliferated on television and in magazines, journals, and newspapers. Because Americans were so shocked by Lorena's action, they scrambled to represent and explain it in a manner that made the act morally comprehensible. Looking at interviews, jokes, commentaries, and John's subsequent career in pornography reveals the specific …

Literacy Research: Issues Of Authority, Ownership, And Representation, Amy M. Goodburn

Department of English: Faculty Publications

With the “social turn” of language in the past decade within English studies, ethnographic and teacher research methods increasingly have acquired legitimacy as a means of studying student literacy. And with this legitimacy, graduate students specializing in literacy and composition studies increasingly are being encouraged to use ethnographic and teacher research methods to study student literacy within classrooms. Yet few of the narratives produced from these studies discuss the problems that frequently arise when participant observers enter the classroom. Recently, some researchers have begun to interrogate the extent to which ethnographic and teacher research methods are able to construct and …

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

Faculty Publications

Twice a year, in the May and December issues, RTE publishes a selected bibliography of recent research in the teaching of English. Most of the studies listed appeared during the six-month period preceding the compilation of the bibliography (July through December, 1997, for the present bibliography), but some studies that appeared earlier are occasionally included. The listing is selective; it makes 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 …

Poem No. 79, May 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.

Lost Souls, Bryon Williams

The Griot

Poem about the effects of drug addiction.

O Lenço Da Minha Mãe...A Reflection, Alicia Veiga

The Griot

A young Cape Verdean woman reflects on the head scarf worn by her mother. The head scarf serves as a symbol of her mother's strength, culture and constant presence in her life despite a move from Cape Verde to the United States.

1998 Forces, Peggy Brown

Forces

No abstract provided.

The Novel And The Transformation Of History: Midnight’S Children, Allegory, And The Dialogical, Adam W. Ducote

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

Perspectives On History: New Orleans's Women In William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! And Anne Rice's The Feast Of All Saints, Stacey Morgan Ford

Theses & Honors Papers

The thesis examines the perspectives on history in New Orleans ' women in William Faulkner 's Absalom, Absalom and Anne Rice's The Feast of All Saints. This thesis looks at historical sources, the most detailed and unbiased of which have been written within the last twenty-five years. The information is then applied to the works of Faulkner and Rice. The thesis concludes that both of the writes provide portrayals which serve their own purposes. Faulkner’s image of the world is vivid, but, it is still only an image, a picture. Faulkner’s purposes serve only as the symbol of slavery at …

Whiteness & Meritocracy. Disclosure Interviews Christopher Newfield, Julie A. Cary, David E. Magill

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

No abstract provided.

The Art Of The Novel: How Kundera Helps Us Read The Unbearable Lightness Of Being, Matt Plavnick

Honors Theses

In all of Kundera's writing there is the search, the yearning, to understand more of the world around us~specifically around Kundera. His fiction deals both with the lives of people caught up in this world, some happily, some miserably, each undeniably held by human constraints, and also with how these people are affected by their natural constraints. His critical writing offers further examination and theory about these constraints: what they are, specifically, how they work, and how they affect people. With this comes a detailed assessment of our epoch, which he calls "The Modern Era," and the phenomena that characterize …

"They Always Leave Us’: Lord Jim, Colonialist Discourse, And Conrad's Magic Naturalism, Richard Ruppel

English Faculty Articles and Research

"Today, this information about Jewel's origins and her great fear that Jim will desert her because he is white and she is not must be gleaned rather painstakingly from the novel. But Conrad's contemporary readers would have understood her situation and her fear immediately, for the instability of white/non-white romances is a very common trope of late-nineteenth century colonialist fiction. In colonialist stories, the white man always leaves, and the non-white woman often knows that he will."

Vol. 18, No. 2 (1998), Betsy J. Baker, Dean Shackelford

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

Joseph Conrad And The Ghost Of Oscar Wilde, Richard Ruppel

English Faculty Articles and Research

"Conrad walks a similar tight- rope in his exploration of the homosocial continuum--pushing out the boundaries a little and then pulling back to accommodate a conventional audience that would have been hostile to a more overt exploration. In other words, Conrad could only press his artistic investigations of the potential relationships between men so far because those investigations were threatened by the ghost of Oscar Wilde."

Et Cetera, Marshall University

Et Cetera

Founded in 1953, Et Cetera is an annual literary magazine that publishes the creative writing and artwork of Marshall University students and affiliates. Et Cetera is free to the Marshall University community.

Et Cetera welcomes submissions in literary and film criticism, poetry, short stories, drama, all types of creative non-fiction, photography, and art.

Et Cetera, Marshall University

Et Cetera

Founded in 1953, Et Cetera is an annual literary magazine that publishes the creative writing and artwork of Marshall University students and affiliates. Et Cetera is free to the Marshall University community.

Et Cetera welcomes submissions in literary and film criticism, poetry, short stories, drama, all types of creative non-fiction, photography, and art.

Clarissa's Treasonable Correspondence: Gender, Epistolary Politics, And The Public Sphere, Rachel Carnell

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

It’S A Question Of Faith: Discourses Of Fundamentalism And Critical Pedagogy In The Writing Classroom, Amy M. Goodburn

Department of English: Faculty Publications

In the past decade, the discourses of critical pedagogy (Giroux, Kincheloe, McLaren, Simon) have shaped the arena of composition studies (Berlin & Vivion, Bizzell, Fox, Hurlbert & Blitz, Knoblauch & Brannon, Shor). As compositionists turn to writing pedagogics that explore how issues of difference shape people’s lives, many have begun to examine how social constructs of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and so on account for the ways that students read and write about texts. While these constructs are clearly important for students to examine in terms of their personal and social identities, there is another difference that usually remains …

Behold The Last Prophetess! Feminist Apocalypse In Mary Shelley’S The Last Man, Amy Louise Montz

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

"Who Is't Can Read A Woman?": Shakespeare's Cymbeline And The Renaissance Woman, Nicole Williams '98

Honors Projects

At the end of Shakespeare's Cymbeline, the villainous Iachimo unravels the sordid details ofhis scheme to convince Posthumus that he has "enjoyed the dearest bodily part of [his] mistress," and Posthumus is struck with the horrible realization that he has commanded the murder ofhis innocent wife (1.4.40-1). Referring to his wife as a "temple / of virtue," Posthumus laments that he has destroyed Imogen's physical body, a holy space that contained a pure and righteous spirit. To his great relief, he discovers moments later that his wife is still alive and that the beauty ofboth her body and her spirit …

Land Of Lincoln, Angela Sorby

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Kate Fox, Angela Sorby

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

1998 Literary Review (No. 12), Sigma Tau Delta

The Greenleaf Review

No abstract provided.

The Pain Of An Amputated Limb: Subjective Morality And Existentialism In Anne Rice's Interview With The Vampire, Aaron J. Klamer

Honors Theses

Over the last century, perhaps no genre of literature has so enthralled, interested, and provoked the public's intellect as those pieces which fall under the somewhat ambiguous appellation, "existentialist" literature. Novels by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Albert Camus spawned generations of followers, including Ernest Hemingway, Richard Wright, and Franz Kafka. Today, Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, and especially the first book Interview With the Vampire, exemplify the characteristics of an existential novel. No doubt much of the reason for the popularity of the existential novel has to do with empathy, we see ourselves reflected in the characters. In order …

Literary Review (No.12), Sigma Tau Delta, Brandy Quinn, Raul Rios, Nathalie Yuen, Toni Panetta, Elizabeth Freudenthal, Emma Varesio, Damien Marienthal, Nicole Salim

Literary Reviews Through the Ages

No abstract provided.

The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 6, No. 2, The Sinclair Lewis Society

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter

“Chicagoland Theatre Presents Musical of Lewis’s Elmer Gantry,” by Robert L. McLaughlin, Illinois State University

“Devoto’s Mountain Time: Arrowsmith after Arrowsmith,” by Robert E. Fleming, University of New Mexico

“A Guide to Films Based on the Works of Sinclair Lewis,” by Stephen E. Pastore

“Robert Bly Urges ‘Writing with Soul,'” by David Simpkins, Sauk Centre Herald

Really Barely There, Angela Sorby

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

A Visit From St. Nicholas: The Poetics Of Peer Culture, 1872-1900, Angela Sorby

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Defiance Or Despair?, Rania Maged Al Malky

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.