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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Tennessee Williams & Elia Kazan: A Collaboration In The Theatre, Philip C. Kolin
Tennessee Williams & Elia Kazan: A Collaboration In The Theatre, Philip C. Kolin
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Symposium On Basic Writing, Conflict And Struggle, And The Legacy Of Mina Shaughnessy., Patricia Laurence, Peter Rondinone, Barbara Gleason, Thomas J. Farrell, Paul Hunter, Min-Zhan Lu
Symposium On Basic Writing, Conflict And Struggle, And The Legacy Of Mina Shaughnessy., Patricia Laurence, Peter Rondinone, Barbara Gleason, Thomas J. Farrell, Paul Hunter, Min-Zhan Lu
Faculty Scholarship
Two articles in the December 1992 College English presented historical perspectives on the field of Basic Writing. In "Conflict and Struggle: The Enemies or Preconditions of Basic Writing?" Min-Zhan Lu argued for the value of a pedagogy in which conflict and struggle help Basic Writers to reposition themselves; she suggested that resistance to such a pedagogy is traceable to three pioneers in the field, Kenneth Bruffee, Thomas Farrell, and Mina Shaughnessy, and the historical context in which they worked. In "Waiting for an Aristotle, " Paul Hunter analyzed the special issue of the Journal of Basic Writing published in 1980 …
The Right Hand Of Light: Dark And Light Imagery In The Science Fiction Of Ursula K. Le Guin, Patricia Lynn Keister
The Right Hand Of Light: Dark And Light Imagery In The Science Fiction Of Ursula K. Le Guin, Patricia Lynn Keister
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Ursula K. Le Guin uses dark and light imagery to emphasize her theme of dynamic equilibrium. This theme can be found throughout her work; the novels discussed are The Left Hand of Darkness, The Lathe of Heaven, The Dispossessed, and The Beginning Place. In each novel, Le Guin focuses on a different aspect of dynamic equilibrium. The themes are respectively, gender identity, chaos and order, and the individual versus the community. The final novel, The Beginning Place, unites and sums up all three themes. In each novel, one or more main characters suffers from imbalance …
Second Thoughts On Rossetti: Tennyson’S Revised Letter Of October 12, 1882, Terry L. Meyers
Second Thoughts On Rossetti: Tennyson’S Revised Letter Of October 12, 1882, Terry L. Meyers
Arts & Sciences Articles
"Although Cecil Y. Lang and Edgar F. Shannon, Jr. include in The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson the incomplete draft of a letter Tennyson prepared to send William Sharp (1855-1905), the writer, poet, and friend and biographer of D. G. Rossetti, they overlook a printing of the letter as actually sent, after Tennyson revised it significantly..."
James Dickey's To The White Sea: A Critical Controversy, Douglas Keesey
James Dickey's To The White Sea: A Critical Controversy, Douglas Keesey
English
No abstract provided.
Delicate Subjects: Romanticism, Gender, And The Ethics Of Understanding [Review], Michael Fischer
Delicate Subjects: Romanticism, Gender, And The Ethics Of Understanding [Review], Michael Fischer
English Faculty Research
We are still trying to sort out the complex legacy of romanticism. "We" here includes philosophers Stanley Cavell and Richard Rorty, feminist critics Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, and a remarkable variety of literary theorists, from Northrop Frye, M. H. Abrams, Paul de Man, and Harold Bloom through Hazard Adams and Jerome J. McGann. Julie Ellison's important book, Delicate Subjects, focuses on an especially difficult problem we have inherited from the romantics: the problem of defining the ethics of interpretation. According to Ellison, male romantic writers worry that in literary interpretation, we murder to dissect (to paraphrase Wordsworth). Criticism, from …
Wittgenstein As A Modernist Philosopher, Michael Fischer
Wittgenstein As A Modernist Philosopher, Michael Fischer
English Faculty Research
Much attention has recently been given to Martin Heidegger and his disturbing relationship to fascism. I want here to look at another philosopher in this context: Ludwig Wittgenstein. As a source of insight into the politics of modernism, Wittgenstein would seem to have at least three strikes against him. His explicit political pronouncements are rare; his relationship to literary modernism is unclear; and the political implications of his philosophical writings are notoriously difficult to assess. Perhaps for these reasons, discussions of modernism usually omit Wittgenstein, and discussions of Wittgenstein usually ignore modernism. Stanley Cavell is an important exception to this …
Matriarchs, Doves, And Nymphos: Prevalent Images Of Black, Indian, And White Women In Caribbean Literature, Daryl Cumber Dance
Matriarchs, Doves, And Nymphos: Prevalent Images Of Black, Indian, And White Women In Caribbean Literature, Daryl Cumber Dance
English Faculty Publications
Universally, male writers have tended to create images of women which reveal the familiar male tendency to view women merely as functionaries whose role basically is determined by male needs, male motivations, male fears, and male fantasies. When woman is submissive, docile and pure, she is to be protected and revered; then, she is the virgin/goddess. When she is assertive and strong, she is to be avoided and despised; then, she is the bitch/shrew. When she is passionate and active, she is to be resisted and feared; she is the whore/temptress. While this genera] categorizing of women characters carries over …
Ezra Pound's Encounter With Wang Wei: Toward The 'Ideogrammic Method' Of The Cantos, Zhaoming Qian
Ezra Pound's Encounter With Wang Wei: Toward The 'Ideogrammic Method' Of The Cantos, Zhaoming Qian
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Résumé, Fred G. Leebron
Résumé, Fred G. Leebron
English Faculty Publications
I sat at the back of a pale classroom and watched my father teach. "Creative Inspiration," my father lectured, "is what you have as soon as you are born and the doctor slaps you on your bottom. That first cry, because you're hungry or tired or just glad to be breathing, is your first creative inspiration." I leaned back in my chair to ease the heat rising in my face. "Incidentally," my father said, grinning at the under graduates, "I've read the Sexual Harassment pamphlet, and I want you all to know I don't slap bottoms." [excerpt]
Lovelock, Fred G. Leebron
Lovelock, Fred G. Leebron
English Faculty Publications
Presents a short story about Benjamin Scott, an ex-convict whose life turned a different course after a one-night stand with a retarded woman in Lovelock, Nevada. Promise of a job in San Francisco; Memories of traveling from state to state to get to his destination; Meeting Ana and her sister Lisa; Feelings of guilt for sleeping with Ana; Apologizing to the sisters; Decision to follow Ana to San Diego.
Sidney's Astrophil And Stella, Sonnet 108, Jeffrey P. Cain
Sidney's Astrophil And Stella, Sonnet 108, Jeffrey P. Cain
English Faculty Publications
Contends that although sonnet 108 is now considered to represent Sir Philip Sidney's final statement on the relationship of the two lovers, it remains largely ignored in most critical treatments of `Astrophil and Stella.' Need for a thorough understanding of its unique alchemical and emblematic imagery; Strong evocation of esoteric Renaissance science of alchemy; Sidney's reference to the `wretch'; Horizontal axis along which Stella's thoughts pass to Astrophil.
A Problem In Rhetoric: Teaching Writing With Western Culture, Steven Marx
A Problem In Rhetoric: Teaching Writing With Western Culture, Steven Marx
English
But rather than the large theoretical questions of canon revision that grabbed national headlines last year, I want to talk about a more mundane and limited question that I tried to deal with while teaching at Stanford between 1984 and June 1988. That question addresses one of the practical concerns of this conference on core curriculum: how does one effectively combine a course in English Composition with a course in Western Culture? The problem delegated to me was to work out a curriculum that would adapt the topics of English Comp to the readings and lectures-a curriculum for a course …
Mythcon 24 - Down The Hobbit-Hole & Through The Wardrobe: Fantasy In Children's Literature, The Mythopoeic Society
Mythcon 24 - Down The Hobbit-Hole & Through The Wardrobe: Fantasy In Children's Literature, The Mythopoeic Society
Mythcon Programs
Mythcon XXIV is pleased to offer you a wide selection of daytime programming, including scholarly papers, panel discussions, readings, storytelling, and other events, beginning at 1:00 p.m. on Friday. We recommend studying our Pocket Program to choose the events you wish to attend each hour and to plan when to visit our Art Show and Dealers' Room.
The Latest Model, Gwenyth Hood
The Latest Model, Gwenyth Hood
English Faculty Research
Though it was only superficial, the lesion on the three-year old's arm looked sinister. Oddly symmetrical and oval, it looked like a pinkish field of delicate needlepricks on the pudgy arm and elbow, oozing a little and forming a crust the color of lemon yogurt on the edges. The child sniffled as Sandra gently explored his injury. His cheekswere still red from bawling.
Swinburne’S Copyright: Gone Missing, Terry L. Meyers
Swinburne’S Copyright: Gone Missing, Terry L. Meyers
Arts & Sciences Articles
"For seventy-six years William Heinemann Ltd. has controlled Swinburne's copyright. Now the firm has abandoned it. Given the uncertainty that results, any other claimant should step forward..."
Two Poems By Swinburne: ‘Milton’ And On Wagner’S Music, Terry L. Meyers
Two Poems By Swinburne: ‘Milton’ And On Wagner’S Music, Terry L. Meyers
Arts & Sciences Articles
"In working on an edition of Swinburne's correspondence, I have in the last several years discovered two previously unknown poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne. One has existed for decades in the British Library's Ashley Collection, unrecognized probably because it survives in the form of a copy not in Swinburne's hand. The other, a signed holograph which I bought from a bookseller in Texas, has a provenance that is unknown. Swinburne appears to have wanted to publish both, though circumstances in each case made that infeasible..."
South Carolina And The Hogg Edition, Patrick G. Scott, Jep C. Johnson
South Carolina And The Hogg Edition, Patrick G. Scott, Jep C. Johnson
Faculty Publications
Reports on work done at the University of South Carolina for the Stirling-South Carolina Edition of the Scottish poet and novelist James Hogg, including bibliographical research for the South Carolina Working Papers in Scottish Bibliography. Originally presented by Jep C. Johnson at the James Hogg Society Conference, Dumfries, Scotland, July 1993.
(Un)Dress And (Dis)Empowerment): The Relationship Between Women And Dress From The Cavaliers To The Romantics, Kimberly A. Elashik
(Un)Dress And (Dis)Empowerment): The Relationship Between Women And Dress From The Cavaliers To The Romantics, Kimberly A. Elashik
Honors Projects
References to women and their dress continually recur in British literature, especially predominant between the mid-seventeenth century (the Cavaliers) and the early nineteenth century (the Romantics). Clothing, or lack thereof, becomes one means for male authors to write about women. In John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667), Robert Herrick's "Upon Julia's Clothes" and "Delight in Disorder" (1648), and John Keats' "The Eve of St. Agnes" (1819), the authors undress the individuals to render them vulnerable, often weaving eroticism and voyeurism into their examinations. Other works, such as Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock (1714) and Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders (1722), …
Eating Away: A Study Of Women's Relationship With Food In Literature, Sheila Bauer '93
Eating Away: A Study Of Women's Relationship With Food In Literature, Sheila Bauer '93
Honors Projects
Women struggle against a male dominated structure to grasp control and shape their own identities. In her analysis of the "feminine mystique," Betty Friedan states "It is my thesis that the core of the problem for women today is not sexual but a problem of identity -a stunting or evasion of growth" (Chernin 17). Friedan is correct--many women cannot define the boundaries of the self and, further, cannot find an identity within the larger social structure to claim for themselves. These three issues--self, autonomy, and identity--are interwoven as causes behind the development of eating disorders.
[Review Of] Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets. First Series, Robert A. Aken
[Review Of] Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets. First Series, Robert A. Aken
Library Faculty and Staff Publications
No abstract provided.
Meet Me In The Semiotic Glen: The Evolution Of Gender Communication In The Early Novels Of Robert Penn Warren, Lisa Day
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Sexuality in the early novels of Robert Penn Warren is generally not appealing, intimate, or indicative of love between partners, in part due to the seeming coldness of the female characters and the near-asexuality of the males. However, when both social and personal interactions between the characters are analyzed semiotically according to the theories of Julia Kristeva, a pattern emerges which explains the harshness of the bond between men and women.
The Ideology Of Detection In Pynchon And Delillo, Douglas Keesey
The Ideology Of Detection In Pynchon And Delillo, Douglas Keesey
English
No abstract provided.
The Case Of Mary Carleton: Representing The Female Subject, 1663-73, Mihoko Suzuki
The Case Of Mary Carleton: Representing The Female Subject, 1663-73, Mihoko Suzuki
English Articles and Papers
An abstract for this item is not available.
Smith Wells: Stagecoach Inn On The Nine Mile Road, H. Bert Jenson
Smith Wells: Stagecoach Inn On The Nine Mile Road, H. Bert Jenson
English Faculty Publications
By THE MIDDLE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY the forging furnaces of western expansionism had wrought a tough breed of pioneers who were making their way into the Uintah Basin of eastern Utah. As early as October 3, 1861, the date President Lincoln established the Uintah Indian Reservation in that area, some white settlers were circumscribed by reservation boundaries. Other whites followed to establish trading posts among the Utes and to perform government service in connection with the newly named Indian lands.
Swinburne Shapes His Grand Passion: A Version By ‘Ashford Owen.’, Terry L. Meyers
Swinburne Shapes His Grand Passion: A Version By ‘Ashford Owen.’, Terry L. Meyers
Arts & Sciences Articles
"That a blighted love lies at the heart of many of Swinburne's works has long impelled scholars and biographers to search for details as to the who, the where, and the when of the affair. The first candidate was nomi- nated by Edmund Gosse and Thomas James Wise and was supposed to be a young miss, a Jane "Boo" Faulkner. Her candidacy, however, withered under the scrutiny of John Mayfield and Cecil Y. Lang, and a substitute was found: the poet's first cousin Mary Charlotte Julia Gordon Leith (1840-1926), a writer who married a military man, Col. Robert William Disney …
Gossip, Angela Sorby
"Facing History" At South Boston High School, Thomas Klein
"Facing History" At South Boston High School, Thomas Klein
English Faculty Publications
Describes how the "Facing History" social studies curriculum (which moves students from literary and historical examples of genocide back to present-day experiences of intolerance and racism) is taught in an English class at South Boston High School. Describes various activities undertaken in the class related to this curriculum. Sketches the role and behavior of the classroom teacher.
Rethinking Writing - Kuriloff, Pc, Evelyn Ashton-Jones
Rethinking Writing - Kuriloff, Pc, Evelyn Ashton-Jones
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Uses Of Binary Thinking, Peter Elbow
The Uses Of Binary Thinking, Peter Elbow
English Department Faculty Publication Series
When thinkers encounter a contradiction they have traditionally tended to take one of three courses: to try to figure out which side is right; to figure out which side should be seen as hierarchially dominant; or to figure out or how to use a dialectic process synthesize them into a higher concept. In this essay I argue for the value of trying to learn to affirm both sides in all their contrariness.