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Blond Mare, Iredell County, Nc (1870-1896), William Wright Jan 2012

Blond Mare, Iredell County, Nc (1870-1896), William Wright

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 126


Parenthood As Bad Theology, Al Maginnes Jan 2012

Parenthood As Bad Theology, Al Maginnes

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 95-96


Parenthood As Correspondence Course, Al Maginnes Jan 2012

Parenthood As Correspondence Course, Al Maginnes

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 93-94


The Assertion Of Identity: Storytelling And Testimony In The Works Of Edwidge Danticat, Michael R. Kurban Jan 2012

The Assertion Of Identity: Storytelling And Testimony In The Works Of Edwidge Danticat, Michael R. Kurban

Honors Theses

Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat evokes the Haitian tradition of storytelling in many of her novels and short story collections. A tradition formulated by vodou religion and the amalgamation of African cultures, storytelling acts to entertain, educate and enlighten the people of Haiti. Additionally, her novels are often written in the context of traumatic events in Haitian history. While Danticat's works have been studied with focus on their depiction of storytelling and of trauma, little has been done on the restorative power that storytelling provides. In this thesis, I seek to examine the potential for Danticat's characters and works to create …


Integration Of Literature Into An Online Creative Writing Classroom, Steve Russel Linstrom Jan 2012

Integration Of Literature Into An Online Creative Writing Classroom, Steve Russel Linstrom

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

The study of Literature was once the cornerstone of a creative writer's training, but lost significance when creative writing workshops became the pedagogical vehicle of choice. Online instruction provides technological and logistical advantages that bring the study of literature back to the forefront of creative writing instructional theory. A presentation of an upper level, literature focused, online creative writing course illustrates how creative writing and the study of great writers can be effectively integrated in an online environment.


Seven Strategies For Teaching The Novel, James Young Jan 2012

Seven Strategies For Teaching The Novel, James Young

The Utah English Journal

Most elementary and secondary teachers have independent reading programs that allow students to choose novels based on their interest and reading levels. After reading the novel on their own at home, students are either given short comprehension tests or asked to write reports to give them credit for the work they have completed. Sometimes, however, teachers want all of the students in a class to experience the same novel together. He or she might want to teach the class a reading technique associated with a novel, like how to locate the conflict in a story or how to examine the …


Lola Ridge : Poet And Renegade Modernist, Anna Hueppauff Jan 2012

Lola Ridge : Poet And Renegade Modernist, Anna Hueppauff

Theses : Honours

This thesis examines the poetry of Lola Ridge as a form of alternative Modernism. Poet, editor, anarchist, Lola Ridge is largely an unknown identity in Modernist discourses. Primarily recognised as a social justice poet, her work has been viewed through a traditional Modernist lens and excluded to the periphery as ‘sentimental’. This thesis argues that Ridge personally and professionally exceeds these categories. She modelled a practice of engagement in her personal life by actively participating in rallies and protests against injustice, and living in poverty in solidarity with the poor, giving her work an authenticity worth investigating. Her poetry provides …


"Una Conversacion Con Borges": Notas A Una Entrevista De Jose Donoso, Maria Laura Bocaz-Leiva Jan 2012

"Una Conversacion Con Borges": Notas A Una Entrevista De Jose Donoso, Maria Laura Bocaz-Leiva

Modern Languages & Literatures Articles

En dos de los cuadernos de trabajo de Jose Donoso contenidos en el archivo de la Universidad de Iowa se encuentra un conjunto de anotaciones autografas en las que se hace evidente que el escritor no se encontraba trabajando en uno de sus proyectos literarios, sino en una entrevista a Jorge Luis Borges. Tras el hallazgo en el ano 2007 trate por diversos medios de encontrar la version publicada de este texto, ya que la importancia del entrevistado asi como la precaria situacion en la que se encontraba Donoso para entonces --sin trabajo, con poco dinero, apenas en los inicios …


Dispensation: Latter-Day Fiction, Scott Hales, Angela Hallstrom Jan 2012

Dispensation: Latter-Day Fiction, Scott Hales, Angela Hallstrom

BYU Studies

In her preface to Dispensation, Angela Hallstrom writes that "immersing oneself in a completely foreign place or time is one of the fundamental pleasures of reading good literature," which is certainly the lesson I learned from reading Hemingway, Steinbeck, and countless other writers in my teenage years. Even today, I make a habit of reading books by authors of various backgrounds so that my scope does not become too narrow, my worldview too restricted. But, like Hallstrom, I agree that "recognizing oneself in a work of fiction is an exhilarating experience, too." The good news is that I no longer …


The Cuban Ripple Effect: Writing Cubanidad In The Diaspora, Isabel Valiela Jan 2012

The Cuban Ripple Effect: Writing Cubanidad In The Diaspora, Isabel Valiela

Spanish Faculty Publications

The article, inspired by Antonio Benítez-Rojo’s postmodern work on Caribbean identity, The Repeating Island, applies the metaphor of a ripple effect to the writers of the Cuban Diaspora. These are writers who have left Cuba after the Cuban Revolution, but who belong to different generations, have left at different times, have established themselves in different countries, and write in different languages on themes unique to their particular experiences and interests. Yet, they share a Cuban identity based on the experience of displacement from their place of origin. Their collective trajectory resembles the ripple effect in water, which expands and changes …


Birmingham Poetry Review 39 (Front Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff Jan 2012

Birmingham Poetry Review 39 (Front Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

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Regarding Inhuman Fate, Harry Leeds, Georgy Ivanov Jan 2012

Regarding Inhuman Fate, Harry Leeds, Georgy Ivanov

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 79


Farming Accidents, Austin Macrae Jan 2012

Farming Accidents, Austin Macrae

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 91


On Migration, Upon Finding An Old Map, Michelle Peñaloza Jan 2012

On Migration, Upon Finding An Old Map, Michelle Peñaloza

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 115-117


Western Summer, Rebecca Parson Jan 2012

Western Summer, Rebecca Parson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 113


Tag, Nikki Zielinski Jan 2012

Tag, Nikki Zielinski

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 130


Roller Coaster, David Mcaleavey Jan 2012

Roller Coaster, David Mcaleavey

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 97


Cornelius' Gas Grill, Michael Casey Jan 2012

Cornelius' Gas Grill, Michael Casey

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 29


An Old Man Finds A Bench, David Bottoms Jan 2012

An Old Man Finds A Bench, David Bottoms

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 4


Local Men, Travis Wayne Denion Jan 2012

Local Men, Travis Wayne Denion

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 46


Giant Lilies, Tim Liardet Jan 2012

Giant Lilies, Tim Liardet

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 84


For Richard, My Student, Michael Milburn Jan 2012

For Richard, My Student, Michael Milburn

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 105


Joseph Van Gilreath (1922-1990), Nick Mcrae Jan 2012

Joseph Van Gilreath (1922-1990), Nick Mcrae

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 100-101


God's Grace, Ronald Wallace Jan 2012

God's Grace, Ronald Wallace

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 123


Magi, Doug Ramspeck Jan 2012

Magi, Doug Ramspeck

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 119


“To Say Nothing”: Variations On The Theme Of Silence In Selected Works By Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz, Sandra Cisneros, And María Luisa Bombal, Hannah M. Frantz Jan 2012

“To Say Nothing”: Variations On The Theme Of Silence In Selected Works By Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz, Sandra Cisneros, And María Luisa Bombal, Hannah M. Frantz

Student Publications

This paper explores the various ways in which Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s La Respuesta, Sandra Cisneros’s “Woman Hollering Creek,” and María Luisa Bombal’s “The Tree” address the theme of silence. It interrogates how the female characters in each of these works are silenced as well as their responses to that oppression. Meaning is subjective, so writing is a safe outlet for the oppressed. These works each identify an oppressor, either a husband or the male dominated church, as well as an oppressed individual, who is the female lead. In La Respuesta, the Catholic church, and specifically …


My Kingdom: Sentimentalism And The Refinement Of Hymnody, Claudia Stokes Jan 2012

My Kingdom: Sentimentalism And The Refinement Of Hymnody, Claudia Stokes

English Faculty Research

Few features of mid-nineteenth-century American women’s literature seem as foreign and outdated today as the omnipresence of hymns. In countless literary works, hymns are quoted, sung, discussed, and contemplated. Hymns in these texts are rivaled in influence only by the Bible and are potent catalysts of religious experience, sparking conversion in the unbeliever and offering reassurance to the faithful during times of trouble. In the literary world of the American mid-century, the singing of a hymn can bring tears to the eyes of even the most hardened unbeliever. Such scenes pervade fiction of the period. During Ellen Montgomery’s sorrowful trip …


Pecan Grove Review Volume 13, St. Mary's University Jan 2012

Pecan Grove Review Volume 13, St. Mary's University

Pecan Grove Review

Creative writings by students, faculty, and staff of the St. Mary's University community.


The Haitian Connection In Connie May Fowler’S Sugar Cage, Suzanne W. Jones Jan 2012

The Haitian Connection In Connie May Fowler’S Sugar Cage, Suzanne W. Jones

English Faculty Publications

In her first novel, Sugar Cage (1992), Connie May Fowler, a white Floridian with Cherokee ancestry and an early exposure to Voodoo, employs some of the narrative conventions of magical realism as a way around the impasse of Southern race relations in Florida in the 1960s. Her otherwise modernist narrative technique of nine first-person narrators emphasizes the isolation of her characters at the same time that the variety of viewpoints encourages readers to see both the interracial and international connections that elude or confuse her characters. The cultural and transnational complexities she explores, especially as regards the importation of African …


Prayer To Worms, William Wright Jan 2012

Prayer To Worms, William Wright

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 127