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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
How Do Comics Artists Create Sound Effects In Spanish And English?, Frank Bramlett
How Do Comics Artists Create Sound Effects In Spanish And English?, Frank Bramlett
English Faculty Publications
In 2009, I happened upon a one-shot Spider-Man & Human Torch story. Side-by-side on the rack at my local comic book store were an English-language version and a Spanish-language version, both of which were called ¡Bahía de los Muertos! (literally Bay of the Dead). The Spanish version was also marked “Edición Boricua en Español,” meaning that it was the Puerto Rican edition. I’ve included two images, below. The one on the left is from the Spanish version and the one on the right is from the English. In panel 1, Johnny is getting hit by a monster. In panel …
Romantic Transports: Tabitha Tenney's Female Quixotism In Transatlantic Context, Rachel Carnell, Alison Tracy Hale
Romantic Transports: Tabitha Tenney's Female Quixotism In Transatlantic Context, Rachel Carnell, Alison Tracy Hale
English Faculty Publications
A literary criticism of several books including "Female Quixotism" by Tabitha Tenney, "The Female Quixote" by Charlotte Lennox, and "Angelina" by Maria Edgeworth is presented. According to the authors, these novels constitute a transatlantic genre which highlights the moral and cultural complexities faced by women in the 18th and 19th centuries. Particular focus is given to the novels' political contexts. Realism, the French Revolution, and republican government are also discussed.
This I Believe: The Do-Over, Meredith Doench
This I Believe: The Do-Over, Meredith Doench
English Faculty Publications
I believe in second chances. Even thirds. There’s nothing like the power of a sincere do-over.
As a junior and senior high student, school was never my forte. It wasn’t for lack of effort on my parents’ part—my mother had been a fourth grade teacher and my father, a doctor, worked hard to keep me in one of the best districts in our area. Still, I bucked most school activities. Study groups? No way. Extra-curriculars? Not unless my friends were doing it. Math club? Please!
My junior year I fell into an anxious depression so severe, I required hospitalization. All …
The Protestant Whore: Courtesan Narrative & Religious Controversy In England, 1680-1750 (Review), Rachel K. Carnell
The Protestant Whore: Courtesan Narrative & Religious Controversy In England, 1680-1750 (Review), Rachel K. Carnell
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Defoe And The Project Of "Neighbors Fare", Joanne Myers
Defoe And The Project Of "Neighbors Fare", Joanne Myers
English Faculty Publications
This article argues that Daniel Defoe’s essay, Upon Projects (1695), works to imagine and restore neighborly connections amongst people increasingly distances from one another due to social and economic changes in Restoration life. Although Defoe’s novels are often understood to promote a typically modern individualism, his social-improvement projects present an alternative view of Defoe as committed to a robust sociability.
Wait Six Months, Cynthia N. Malone
Book Review: Women And Ireland As Beckett's Lost Others, Jennifer Jeffers
Book Review: Women And Ireland As Beckett's Lost Others, Jennifer Jeffers
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Seduction Narrative In Britain By Katherine Binhammer. (Review), Rachel Carnell, Katherine Binhammer
The Seduction Narrative In Britain By Katherine Binhammer. (Review), Rachel Carnell, Katherine Binhammer
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Jewish Non-Governmental Organizations, Michael Galchinsky
Jewish Non-Governmental Organizations, Michael Galchinsky
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Virtual Volunteerism: Review Of Librivox And Volunteermatch, Ashley J. Holmes
Virtual Volunteerism: Review Of Librivox And Volunteermatch, Ashley J. Holmes
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Compulsory Homosexuality And Black Masculine Performance, Vershawn A. Young
Compulsory Homosexuality And Black Masculine Performance, Vershawn A. Young
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
[Review Of The Books: The Kenning Anthology Of Poets Theater: 1945–1985 And Poets At Play: An Anthology Of Modernist Drama], Heidi R. Bean
[Review Of The Books: The Kenning Anthology Of Poets Theater: 1945–1985 And Poets At Play: An Anthology Of Modernist Drama], Heidi R. Bean
English Faculty Publications
Review of the books:
- The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater: 1945–1985. Edited by Kevin Killian and David Brazil. Chicago: Kenning Editions, 2010.
- Poets at Play: An Anthology of Modernist Drama. Edited by Sarah Bay-Cheng and Barbara Cole. Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna University Press, 2010.
Ode To The Beet, Christine Stewart-Nunez
Ode To The Beet, Christine Stewart-Nunez
English Faculty Publications
This poem appeared in Paddlefish No.5 (2011).
Amnesia, Lover, Christine Stewart-Nunez
Amnesia, Lover, Christine Stewart-Nunez
English Faculty Publications
This poem appeared in Paddlefish No.5 (2011).
Review: Vivian Shipley All Of Your Messages Have Been Erased, Christine Stewart-Nunez
Review: Vivian Shipley All Of Your Messages Have Been Erased, Christine Stewart-Nunez
English Faculty Publications
In All of Your Messages Have Been Erased (Louisiana Literature Press, 2010) award-winning poet Vivian Shipley anchors readers deep in the emotional waters of devotion. And Shipley delves into the most complicated kindsdevotion to principle in the face of death, devotion to lover despite adultery, and devotion to one's own particular vision of the world. Shipley gives us Holly Stevens' fastidious protection of her father's memory and work, Paula Hitler's painful attachment to her brother, and Papusza's commitment to her Romani community even in exile, just to name a few. By bearing witness to "how firmly the heart roots before …
My Language Of Love Is Not Polish, Christine Stewart-Nunez
My Language Of Love Is Not Polish, Christine Stewart-Nunez
English Faculty Publications
This poem appeared in Paddlefish No.5 (2011).
Review Of Early Modern Nationalism And Milton's England By David Loewenstein And Paul Stevens, Brooke Conti
Review Of Early Modern Nationalism And Milton's England By David Loewenstein And Paul Stevens, Brooke Conti
English Faculty Publications
The article reviews the book Early Modern Nationalism and Milton's England, edited by Paul Stevens and David Loewenstein.
Introduction: Culture And Political Community (Special Issue "Arendt, Politics, And Culture"), Graham Macphee
Introduction: Culture And Political Community (Special Issue "Arendt, Politics, And Culture"), Graham Macphee
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Escape From Responsibility: Ideology And Storytelling In Arendt’S The Origins Of Totalitarianism And Ishiguro’S The Remains Of The Day, Graham Macphee
Escape From Responsibility: Ideology And Storytelling In Arendt’S The Origins Of Totalitarianism And Ishiguro’S The Remains Of The Day, Graham Macphee
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Benjamin, Joyce, And The Disappearance Of The Dead, Graham Macphee
Benjamin, Joyce, And The Disappearance Of The Dead, Graham Macphee
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Imagining Jefferson And Hemings In Paris, Suzanne W. Jones
Imagining Jefferson And Hemings In Paris, Suzanne W. Jones
English Faculty Publications
In Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics, cultural critic Bell Hooks argues that "no one seems to know how to tell the story" of white men romantically involved with slave women because long ago another story supplanted it: "that story, invented by white men, is about the overwhelming desperate longing black men have to sexually violate the bodies of white women." Narratives of white exploitation and black solidarity have made it difficult to imagine consensual sex and impossible to imagine love of any kind across the color line in the plantation South. Hooks predicted that the suppressed story, if …
Education, Elisabeth Rose Gruner
Education, Elisabeth Rose Gruner
English Faculty Publications
In both Keywords (Williams 1983a) and New Keywords (Bennett, Grossberg, and Morris 2005), "education" (Keywords has "educate") is primarily an institutional practice, which, after the late eighteenth century, is increasingly formalized and universalized in Western countries. Bearing the twin senses of "to lead forth" (from the Latin educare) and "to bring up" (from the Latin educare), "education" appears chiefly as an action practiced by adults on children. The Oxford English Dictionary thus defines the terms as "the systematic instruction, schooling, or training given to the young in preparation for the work of life."
Inside And Outside Southern Whiteness: Film Viewing, The Frame, And The Racing Of Space In Yoknapatawpha, Peter Lurie
Inside And Outside Southern Whiteness: Film Viewing, The Frame, And The Racing Of Space In Yoknapatawpha, Peter Lurie
English Faculty Publications
Though neither film nor film viewing is ever named in As I Lay Dying, both the apparatus of cinema and what we might term its sociohistorical effects are evoked powerfully by and in the novel. These include the passing before the reader’s “gaze” of the discrete, separate “frames” of the various characters’ monologues, as well as, in particular section, a fascination with watching machinery that resembled the interest of early film biewers in the cinematic apparatus (see Doane 108).
If Vardaman and his family are not explicitly depicted as film viewers, they nevertheless show signs of what has been …
Trauma And Temporal Hybridity In Arundhati Roy’S The God Of Small Things, Elizabeth Outka
Trauma And Temporal Hybridity In Arundhati Roy’S The God Of Small Things, Elizabeth Outka
English Faculty Publications
Arundhati Roy’s novel, The God of Small Things, presents an often bewildering mix of different times: images, stories, and sensations from the past blend together with present moments and even future experiences. Critics have noted this temporal blending and have cited this feature as reflecting the novel’s magical realism, or postcolonialism, or postmodernism, which are all associated with various forms of time play.1 Indeed, as writers from Joyce to Woolf to Rushdie remind us, time is always to some extent a mixture, as the present must be understood as a complex amalgamation and negotiation of past moments. Roy’s …
Repugnant Aboriginality: Leanne Howe’S Shell Shaker And Indigenous Representation In The Age Of Multiculturalism, Monika Siebert
Repugnant Aboriginality: Leanne Howe’S Shell Shaker And Indigenous Representation In The Age Of Multiculturalism, Monika Siebert
English Faculty Publications
Surprisingly for a novel evidently invested in representations of contemporary Choctaw traditionalism as a viable alternative to settler society, LeAnne Howe’s 2001 Shell Shaker gives unrelenting play to the gruesomeness, horror even, of the traditional rituals it depicts, at the risk of reinforcing stereotypes of Indian savagery. And yet, these depictions of the repugnant, that is, of ancient practices now prohibited by law or found reprehensible by a public sense of ethics, allow Howe to escape the integrative thrust of contemporary multiculturalism by pre-emptying identification through difference, an interpretive logic according to which we are all the same because we …
Building A Collaborative Online Literary Experience, Joe Essid, Fran Wilde
Building A Collaborative Online Literary Experience, Joe Essid, Fran Wilde
English Faculty Publications
Key Takeaways
-Educators and students collaborated in constructing an immersive literary experience at the University of Richmond and then reenacted the narrative as a team.
-Considerable planning goes into such simulations to make them effective collaboration spaces.
-In creating a simulation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, a team of distributed groups negotiated different approaches to believably embody Poe's characters and period.
-Despite limitations in the software and the planning process during and after a beta test, students experienced Poe's story in a new and rewarding way.
Effective virtual simulations can embed participants in imaginary …
Book Review Panel: When Souls Had Wings: Pre-Mortal Existence In Western Thought, Terryl Givens, James L. Siebach, Dana M. Pike, Jesse D. Hurlbut, David B. Paxman
Book Review Panel: When Souls Had Wings: Pre-Mortal Existence In Western Thought, Terryl Givens, James L. Siebach, Dana M. Pike, Jesse D. Hurlbut, David B. Paxman
English Faculty Publications
On October 13, 2011, BYU Studies sponsored a program reviewing Terryl Givens’s important Oxford book on the idea of the premortal existence of souls in various lines of Western philosophy and religion. Because this first volume of its kind covers literature from so many different civilizations, the editors of BYU Studies saw no way to do this book justice without involving a panel of reviewers from several disciplines. After portions of Robert Fuller’s forthcoming review in Church History were read, the program proceeded with reviews, responses, and open discussion.
Preface: Monsters And Mormons, Terryl Givens
Preface: Monsters And Mormons, Terryl Givens
English Faculty Publications
In the nineteenth century, Mormonism seemed grist for everybody's mill. Humorists like Artemus Ward and Mark Twain made hay out of polygamy; conspiracy theorists like Thomas deWitt Talmage imputed President Garfield's assassination to the Mormons; pseudo-memoirists like "Maria Ward" recounted their seduction, imprisonment, and torture at the hands of Mormon mesmerists; the Republican jump-started their political party with a promise to expunge the Mormon "relic of barbarism"; and pulp fiction writers and serious novelists alike fueled sales with stories of bloodthirsty Danites, lecherous elders, and grief maddened Mormon wives who murdered competitors.
Book Review: Understanding The Book Of Mormon, Terryl Givens
Book Review: Understanding The Book Of Mormon, Terryl Givens
English Faculty Publications
With over 150 million copies in circulation, the Book of Mormon has yet to find its niche in historical, religious or literary studies. Largely ignored by scholars and berated by Evangelicals, the text may find a more successful path to a larger audience, hopes historian Grant Hardy, if historical and religious questions are bracketed in deference to the work’s surprisingly complex and interesting literary dimensions
Book Review: The Mormon Menace: Violence And Anti-Mormonism In The Postbellum South, Terryl Givens
Book Review: The Mormon Menace: Violence And Anti-Mormonism In The Postbellum South, Terryl Givens
English Faculty Publications
“Whereas anti-Mormon violence had been characteristic of virtually every northern locale of Mormon settlement during the antebellum period,” Patrick Mason writes in his history of the subject, “violent assaults on Mormon missionaries became an increasingly southern practice in the years after the Civil War” (93). What distinguishes Mason’s book from other chapters in the sad saga of religious persecution is his excellent analysis of the complexities that result when political agendas, regional norms and interests, and theories on the proper role and limits of government all collide in the face of religious heterodoxy. Virtually all late nineteenth-century citizens and politicians …