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Literature And Popular Culture In Early Modern England, Phebe Jensen Jan 2012

Literature And Popular Culture In Early Modern England, Phebe Jensen

English Faculty Publications

"All students of popular culture," Tim Harris wrote in 1995, "would acknowledge the intellectual debt they owe to Peter Burke's seminal study Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe." (1) Now in a third edition with substantial revisions and a new preface, the book defines "popular culture" as the culture of "ordinary people," which included "folksongs and folktales; devotional images and decorated marriage chests; mystery plays and farces; broadsides and chapbooks; and, above all, festivals...." Burke's central claim was that in 1500, the elite were culturally "amphibious," participating in this popular "little tradition" but also in the "great tradition" of the …


Review Of Quotidiana By Patrick Madden, Jennifer Sinor Mar 2010

Review Of Quotidiana By Patrick Madden, Jennifer Sinor

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Writing On Demand, Virginia Exton Jan 2010

Writing On Demand, Virginia Exton

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


The Certainty Of Spinning, Jennifer Sinor Dec 2008

The Certainty Of Spinning, Jennifer Sinor

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Running Through The Dark, Jennifer Sinor Jun 2008

Running Through The Dark, Jennifer Sinor

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Confluences, Jennifer Sinor Jan 2008

Confluences, Jennifer Sinor

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Review Of While They Slept By Kathryn Harrison, Jennifer Sinor Jan 2008

Review Of While They Slept By Kathryn Harrison, Jennifer Sinor

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Openings, Jennifer Sinor Jun 2007

Openings, Jennifer Sinor

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Placing The Academy: An Essay In Three Voices, Jeffrey M. Buchanan, Rona Kaufman, Jennifer Sinor Dec 2005

Placing The Academy: An Essay In Three Voices, Jeffrey M. Buchanan, Rona Kaufman, Jennifer Sinor

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


The Marlin, Jennifer Sinor Oct 2004

The Marlin, Jennifer Sinor

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Inscribing Ordinary Trauma In The Diary Of A Military Child, Jennifer Sinor Jun 2003

Inscribing Ordinary Trauma In The Diary Of A Military Child, Jennifer Sinor

English Faculty Publications

Using her own diary as a case study, the author examines how the life writing of a military child inscribes ordinary trauma, defining ordinary trauma as a response to extraordinary events masked as ordinary. For the military child, the possibility of war is made ordinary and rendered such in her writing.


Reading The Ordinary Diary, Jennifer Sinor Jan 2002

Reading The Ordinary Diary, Jennifer Sinor

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Communities Of Practice: A Framework For Fostering Coherence In Virtual Learning Communities, Jim Rogers Jan 2000

Communities Of Practice: A Framework For Fostering Coherence In Virtual Learning Communities, Jim Rogers

English Faculty Publications

This paper presents a case study of an on-line workshop that was conducted via the WWW. Using the participant dialogues from the workshop bulletin boards, the author investigates whether Wenger’s (1998) Community of Practice framework can be applied to this educational setting. The results indicate that participants interactions in the workshop demonstrated the characteristics of mutual engagement, joint enterprise, and shared repertoire. These three characteristics are what Wenger posits contribute to a cohesive community of practice. Using this framework, some principles are derived that educators can use to design more cohesive learning communities.


The Internet: Emergent Technologies In Two West African Countries, Jim Rogers Sep 1998

The Internet: Emergent Technologies In Two West African Countries, Jim Rogers

English Faculty Publications

Being connected for most Africans means something completely different from most of us in more (technologically) "developed" countries. Compared to those who have virtually unlimited and relatively cheap access to e-mail and the World Wide Web (WWW), most Africans have limited access to e-mail only. Outside of South Africa, which hosts 70 full Internet Service Providers (ISPs); Egypt, which hosts 25; and Morocco, which hosts 15, most African countries have well under 10 ISPs, the average being loser to 1 or 2 (Jensen, 1998). This example demonstrates the diversity of the African continent; one cannot simply typify the African example. …