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Review Of Red Under The Skin By Natasha Saje, Angela Sorby

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Politics In Paradise: Teaching Literature And Jesuit Values, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Vindicating Northanger Abbey: Wollstonecraft, Austen, And Gothic Feminism, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Review Of An Obsession With Anne Frank: Meyer Levin And The Diary By Lawrence Graver, Angela Sorby

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Writing For Change: When Motive Matters, Nancy Mack

English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications

The writer calls for a change in the teaching practices of college composition classes such that students' motives to write are respected. She advocates the use of active critique, ethnographic inquiry, and local advocacy as ways in which students can be instructed in writing for change. The writer discusses language and the motive to write, the meaningful memoir, the importance of respecting students' motives, and the teacher's motives. She presents an excerpt from an essay by a student in an undergraduate composition course as an example of writing that comes from a student's own ethical answerability and writing that gives …

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"Lost Books" And Publishing History: Two Annotated Lists Of Imprints For The Fiction Titles Listed In The Circulating Library Catalogs Of Thomas Lowndes (1766) And M. Heavisides (1790), Of Which No Known Copies Survive, Edward Jacobs, Antonia Forster

English Faculty Publications

Almost immediately upon the British Library's publication of The Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue on CD-ROM (hereafter ESTC), there emerged criticism and controversy respecting the design and execution of that monumental bibliography, and of its access software. However, amidst these discussions and those surrounding the on line version, little notice has been taken of the historical inaccuracies inevitably entailed by the fact that ESTC and other union-catalog-type bibliographies only include books of which copies have survived. Certainly, for most scholars it makes sense to give bibliographical priority to cataloging books of which we still have copies, since those are the …

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A Previously Unremarked Circulating Library: John Roson And The Role Of Circulating-Library Proprietors As Publishers In Eighteenth-Century Britain, Edward Jacobs

English Faculty Publications

The entry in The Eighteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue on CD ROM2 for The History of Miss Dorinda Catsby and Miss Emilia Faulkner (London: printed and sold by S. Bladon, 1772) notes that it contains between volumes one and two an advertisement for the catalog of John Roson's circulating library. However, Roson's library is not included in the lists of known English circulating libraries compiled by Hilda Hamlyn and by Paul Kaufman, and evidently no actual copy of a Roson catalog has survived. Still, merely the advertisement for this catalog tells us much about Roson's library business, and the discovery that …

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Anonymous Signatures, Circulating Libraries, Conventionality, And The Production Of Gothic Romances, Edward Jacobs

English Faculty Publications

Ever since circulating libraries first became commercially successful during the second half of the eighteenth century, social and literary critics have analyzed them primarily as institutions for distributing books. The dominant view has been that circulating libraries vulgarized literature, by pandering fiction to women, servants, and other people who had previously been excluded from reading by the high cost of books or by illiteracy. For instance, near the end of The Rise of the Novel, Ian Watt argues, as many eighteenth-century critics did, that during the last quarter of the eighteenth century "the pressures toward literary degradation which were …

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Southern Africa And The Themes Of Madness: Novels By Doris Lessing, Bessie Head, And Nadine Gordimer, Nancy Topping Bazin

English Faculty Publications

However different their lives, Doris Lessing, Bessie Head, and Nadine Gordimer share the common heritage of having grown up in southern Africa. All three were profoundly affected by that experience. Their responses to the colonialist, racist, and sexist attitudes that permeated their lives have determined, to a major extent. the nature of their fiction. Their novels reflect the grotesque situations and bizarre human relationships created by prejudice, injustice, and the desire to dominate. These three authors focus on the mad nature of this social and political situation in southern Africa. In their works, dystopian and utopian visions of the future …

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Betrayals Of The Body Politic: The Literary Commitments Of Nadine Gordimer, Nancy Topping Bazin

English Faculty Publications

Reviews the book `Betrayals of the Body Politic: The Literary Commitments of Nadine Gordimer,' by Andrew Vogel Ettin.

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"Proving A Thing Even While You Contradict It": Fictions, Beliefs, And Legitimation In The Memoirs Of Barry Lyndon, Esq., Robert P. Fletcher

English Faculty Publications

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How Crows Talk And Willows Walk, Gary Esarey

Ahsahta Press

Though the preface to Gary Esarey’s volume claims “this little book [is] not art and craft but a parody of art, a grim bouffe stiffened by hard weather and cold,” it is a fitting introduction to the playful and often hilarious poems within. With titles such as “Pinch ruddy those cheeks of slumber” (“Pastel-gray on black/ the streaks of May do jog awake,/ the clouding night the day/ doth disendarkle...”) and “Trixi leaves town behind” (“Tacoma—/ it rebuffs improvement/ with time its smell diminishes/ its virtue is not overpraised...”), Esarey tips off the reader: expect parody, musical language, and humor …

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Prayers For The Dead Ventriloquist, D.J. Smith

Ahsahta Press

In Prayers for the Dead Ventriloquist, his first collection of poems, Smith mines childhood memories—snapshots not only of family, but of a mischievous youth—with a precise poetic vision. “This harsh, particular light,” writes Dorianne Laux in her introduction to Smith’s book, “falls first on the people who pass through his small world.” Smith relates episodes of a reality unclean and unpolished, even at times horrific, yet always strangely beautiful. It is this beauty alone that offers reconciliation—the rising hair of woman in an automobile slowly consumed by flames, the metallic body of a hummingbird, the delicate bones of a …

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The Battle Rages On: The Psychomachia And The Faerie Queene, Book I, Aparajita Nanda

English

The conception of Christian life as a pilgrimage towards God, a war against the forces of evil, has been reiterated right through the literature of late antiquity and the Middle Ages well into the Renaissance. This 'war' between Virtues and Vices, who fight for dominion over the Christian soul, possibly found its first poetic representation in Prudentius' Psychomachia. The action of this personification-allegory is fairly simple. The Christian Virtues led by Faith, despite certain initial reversals, ultimately triumph over the Vices in a series of combats and move on to build a holy city (in man's soul) in which will …

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2. Research Materials For Novel, Finding Moon (Ii), Tony Hillerman

Finding Moon Research Materials

This file contains articles, papers and notes that Tony Hillerman compiled in preparation for writing Finding Moon. There are 8 articles in this file, totaling 132 pages.

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1. Research Materials For Novel, Finding Moon (I), Tony Hillerman

Finding Moon Research Materials

This file contains articles, papers and notes that Tony Hillerman compiled in preparation for writing Finding Moon. There are 11 articles in this file, totaling 76 pages.

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"Why Don't He Like My Hair?": Constructing African-American Standards Of Beauty In Toni Morrison's "Song Of Solomon" And Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God", Bertram D. Ashe

English Faculty Publications

African-Americans, with their traditionally African features, have always had an uneasy coexistence with the European (white) ideal of beauty. According to Angela M. Neal and Midge L. Wilson, "Compared to Black males, Black females have been more profoundly affected by the prejudicial fallout surrounding issues of skin color, facial features, and hair. Such impact can be attributed in large part to the importance of physical attractiveness for all women" (328). For black women, the most easily controlled feature is hair. While contemporary black women sometimes opt for cosmetic surgery or colored contact lenses, hair alteration (i.e., hair-straightening "permanents," hair weaves, …

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Morning Glory, Joan Mcmillan

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 15

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Untitled, Jenifer Nostrand

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 21

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Est. 1846, Jennifer Horne

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 11-12

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Cricket, Willow, First Moon After Easter, R T. Smith

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 33-34

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Lights And Shadows - 1995, University Of North Alabama

Lights and Shadows

Art and Literature Magazine

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The Earthly Paradise In Tolkien’S The Lord Of The Rings, Gwenyth Hood

English Faculty Research

Valinor, modelled on the Earthly Paradise, is described more fully in Tolkien's posthumously published works than in The Lord of the Rings. Yet the fleeting Valinorean images within the trilogy have a powerful impact, heightening and simultaneously providing consolation for the horrors of Mordor.

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Thomas Bernhard: Der Sprachbesessene (The Language Fanatic), Jeffrey Heynen

Whittier Scholars Program

This project surrounds an in depth analysis of Thomas Bernhard’s prose and drama, more specifically the language he uses. This study examines his most popular drama, Die Jagdgesellschaft (The Hunting Community) where the influences of his theatrical language will be examined and compared to the languages utilized in his autobiographical pieces. This study also considers Bernhard’s political and social commentary as extensions of his childhood war experiences.

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The Sexual Identities Of Moll Cutpurse In Dekker And Middleton's The Roaring Girl And In London, Susan Krantz

English Faculty Publications

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The Chorus In Elizabeth Cary's 'Tragedy Of Mariam', Viona Falk

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

This thesis examines Elizabeth Cary’s use of the Chorus in The Tragedy of Mariam (pub. 1613). Imitating classical dramatists, Cary portrays the Chorus as a specific cultural group. Mariam’s Chorus consists of “a company of Jews” whose commentary on the play’s events is informed by its participations in patriarchal culture. The Chorus’s prescriptions for wifely virtue and judgements of Mariam’s moral standing frequently contain contradictions. Comparing the contradictions in the Chorus’s statements with similar contradictions in early modern domestic conduct guides, I argue that Cary uses the Chorus to interrogate patriarchal ideology. I consider Cary’s employment of the Chorus in …

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Speaking Magic Realism: Selected Short Stories Of Peter Carey, Raymond Driehuis

Theses : Honours

This thesis is an analysis determined by the investigative proposition, what is a magic realist speech act? Of the schools of thought available to any philosophical undertaking in literature, this thesis makes particular use of the principles of speech act theory, genre theory, and poststructuralism. With genre theory, the emphasis is on the subgeneric construction of the narrative structure, and this thesis will incorporate three short stories from Peter Carey's The Fat Man in History as the most overt evidence for what the thesis is proposing to analyse and illuminate. But on the whole, readers will understand that, while …

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Flight And Hand Imagery, Jennifer L. Fosnough-Osburn

Graduate Thesis Collection

This paper will fill in the gaps in the current criticism regarding Toni Morrison's use of flight imagery and will also introduce a parallel line of criticism regarding Morrison's narrative focus on hands and hand gestures, an important and overlapping phenomenon in her novels. This phenomenon serves to elucidate Morrison's larger ideological project, in which she points out the core of one's life is creativity. Flight imagery and hand gestures work together to show a progression in Morrison's novels; thus, they must be considered together in order to completely comprehend characters and their actions as Morrison had intended.

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A Genetic Model Of Duality In Latin American Magical Realism, Keith Spear

Masters Theses

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An Analysis Of Personal Pronouns In Middle English Literary Texts, Melissa Jill Bennett

Masters Theses

This thesis examines the evolution of personal pronouns from the tenth to the fourteenth centuries, with a particular focus upon the southern literary dialects of that era. The baseline text for this analysis is the Anglo-Saxon poem The Dream of the Rood, although Bright's paradigm of Anglo-Saxon pronouns is also employed. The Owl and the Nightingale (circa 1200), The Fox and the Wolf (circa 1275), Piers Plowman (circa 1375), and Parliament of Fowls (circa 1375) are used to illustrate the changes in the forms of the pronouns over four centuries, Chaucer's Parliament serving to represent the emerging London standard. …

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Review Of Red Under The Skin By Natasha Saje, Angela Sorby

English Faculty Research and Publications

Politics In Paradise: Teaching Literature And Jesuit Values, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

Vindicating Northanger Abbey: Wollstonecraft, Austen, And Gothic Feminism, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

Review Of An Obsession With Anne Frank: Meyer Levin And The Diary By Lawrence Graver, Angela Sorby

English Faculty Research and Publications

Writing For Change: When Motive Matters, Nancy Mack

English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications

"Lost Books" And Publishing History: Two Annotated Lists Of Imprints For The Fiction Titles Listed In The Circulating Library Catalogs Of Thomas Lowndes (1766) And M. Heavisides (1790), Of Which No Known Copies Survive, Edward Jacobs, Antonia Forster

English Faculty Publications

A Previously Unremarked Circulating Library: John Roson And The Role Of Circulating-Library Proprietors As Publishers In Eighteenth-Century Britain, Edward Jacobs

English Faculty Publications

Anonymous Signatures, Circulating Libraries, Conventionality, And The Production Of Gothic Romances, Edward Jacobs

English Faculty Publications

Southern Africa And The Themes Of Madness: Novels By Doris Lessing, Bessie Head, And Nadine Gordimer, Nancy Topping Bazin

English Faculty Publications

Betrayals Of The Body Politic: The Literary Commitments Of Nadine Gordimer, Nancy Topping Bazin

English Faculty Publications

"Proving A Thing Even While You Contradict It": Fictions, Beliefs, And Legitimation In The Memoirs Of Barry Lyndon, Esq., Robert P. Fletcher

English Faculty Publications

How Crows Talk And Willows Walk, Gary Esarey

Ahsahta Press

Prayers For The Dead Ventriloquist, D.J. Smith

Ahsahta Press

The Battle Rages On: The Psychomachia And The Faerie Queene, Book I, Aparajita Nanda

English

2. Research Materials For Novel, Finding Moon (Ii), Tony Hillerman

Finding Moon Research Materials

1. Research Materials For Novel, Finding Moon (I), Tony Hillerman

Finding Moon Research Materials

"Why Don't He Like My Hair?": Constructing African-American Standards Of Beauty In Toni Morrison's "Song Of Solomon" And Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God", Bertram D. Ashe

English Faculty Publications

Morning Glory, Joan Mcmillan

Birmingham Poetry Review

Untitled, Jenifer Nostrand

Birmingham Poetry Review

Est. 1846, Jennifer Horne

Birmingham Poetry Review

Cricket, Willow, First Moon After Easter, R T. Smith

Birmingham Poetry Review

Lights And Shadows - 1995, University Of North Alabama

Lights and Shadows

The Earthly Paradise In Tolkien’S The Lord Of The Rings, Gwenyth Hood

English Faculty Research

Thomas Bernhard: Der Sprachbesessene (The Language Fanatic), Jeffrey Heynen

Whittier Scholars Program

The Sexual Identities Of Moll Cutpurse In Dekker And Middleton's The Roaring Girl And In London, Susan Krantz

English Faculty Publications

The Chorus In Elizabeth Cary's 'Tragedy Of Mariam', Viona Falk

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

Speaking Magic Realism: Selected Short Stories Of Peter Carey, Raymond Driehuis

Theses : Honours

Flight And Hand Imagery, Jennifer L. Fosnough-Osburn

Graduate Thesis Collection

A Genetic Model Of Duality In Latin American Magical Realism, Keith Spear

Masters Theses

An Analysis Of Personal Pronouns In Middle English Literary Texts, Melissa Jill Bennett

Masters Theses