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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Wordsworth And The Recovery Of Hope, Michael Fischer
Wordsworth And The Recovery Of Hope, Michael Fischer
English Faculty Research
No abstract provided.
Maine Now Times (Fall 1992), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff
Maine Now Times (Fall 1992), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Silence (And Its Voluble Partner), Andrew Taylor
Silence (And Its Voluble Partner), Andrew Taylor
Research outputs pre 2011
Silence may traditionally have been golden, but how is it valued today? Can it survive the impact of a technology which can, and does, bring the apparently irresistible seductions of noise to the remotest parts of the world, and which invades the most reclusive aspects of our lives? And what place has silence in a culture such as ours which classifies it as "unproductive"?
But what is silence anyway?
Professor Taylor considers two ways in which, from the Romantic period onward, silence has been conceived. One tradition equates silence with Truth itself; the other considers it the condition which enables …
Nodal Humor In Comic Narrative: A Semantic Analysis Of Two Stories By Twain And Wodehouse, Christopher Holcomb
Nodal Humor In Comic Narrative: A Semantic Analysis Of Two Stories By Twain And Wodehouse, Christopher Holcomb
Faculty Publications
This paper shows that a semantic theory of humor offers, despite assertions to the contrary, an adequate description of how particular instances of humor are linked to the narrative in which they appear. After Victor Raskin's script-based semantic theory of humor is summarized, and adopted as the starting point of the analysis in this paper, the humor in two short stories is described in terms of their semantic properties. In this paper, humor is said to reside not simply in jokes but in joke-like constructions, for which the term "nodal points of humor" is used. These nodes can be identified …
The Constitution As Literature, James Boyd White
The Constitution As Literature, James Boyd White
Book Chapters
Although presumably no one would say that the Constitution offers its readers an experience that cannot be distinguished from reading a poem or a novel, there is nonetheless a sense in which it is a kind of highly imaginative literature in its own right (indeed its nature as law requires that this be so), the reading of which may be informed by our experience of other literary forms. But to say this may be controversial, and the first step toward understanding how such a claim can be made may be to ask what it is we think characterizes imaginative literature …
The Jurisprudence Of Jane Eyre, Anita L. Allen
The Jurisprudence Of Jane Eyre, Anita L. Allen
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.