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Strangers In Blood: Relocating Race In The Renaissance, Jean Feerick

English

Strangers in Blood explores, in a range of early modern literature, the association between migration to foreign lands and the moral and physical degeneration of individuals. Arguing that, in early modern discourse, the concept of race was primarily linked with notions of bloodline, lineage, and genealogy rather than with skin colour and ethnicity, Jean E. Feerick establishes that the characterization of settler communities as subject to degenerative decline constituted a massive challenge to the fixed system of blood that had hitherto underpinned the English social hierarchy.Considering contexts as diverse as Ireland, Virginia, and the West Indies, Strangers in Blood tracks …

Afters, Anna Evans

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 27

Hot Tamale Charlie Speaks Of Rabbit Ice, Greg Alan Brownderville

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 12-13

Shells, Joline L. Scott

ETD Archive

This thesis combines four short stories which revolve around themes of loss and disorientation. The first three stories, "Costa Rica," "Greece," and "On the Way Down to Florida" are derived from a larger work entitled GhostShells, and are connected by character development and a common mystery. The fourth piece, "Car Crash," is an independent piece that centers around a minor auto accident and the community activity it creates. All four pieces are linked by a central assertion that our physical bodies are merely shells for the souls within, and may be empty or full depending on the state of the …

Invasive Species, Jason Gray

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 33

Stout Villanelle, Jason Gray

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 35

Saint Roch Cemetery, Amy Arthur

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 7

Landscape With Falling Birds; Kerosene, Leslie Harrison

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 39

Dream Love Poem 12, Richard Bausch

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 10

Ago, Richard Bausch

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 9

The Magic Of Song, Greg Alan Brownderville

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 16-17

From A Nationally Televised Press Conference Starring The Poetic Sheriff Joseph Kilpatrick Conway After A Van Gogh Painting Is Stolen From A Little Rock Exhibit And Recovered In Monroe County, Greg Alan Brownderville

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 18

On First Tasting Rabbit Meat, Luke Johnson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 46

Accidental Imperialism, Rebecca Morgan Frank

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 28

Salt, Leslie Harrison

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 38

Hopper In The Twenty-First Century, John Hart

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 40-41

Toy Workshop, Hastings Hensell

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 42

The Periodical Reading Room, Austin Segrest

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 81

From Cairns, Ashley Anna Mchugh

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 69-73

The Sons-In-Law, Sodom, Ricardo Pau-Llosa

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 75

The Winchester Mansion, Joanna Pearson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 76

Disgruntled, Austin Segrest

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 80

Villanelle For Theodore Roethke, Casey Ward

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 84

Choir Of The South, Anthony Bursi

Whittier Scholars Program

This project is a short fiction piece set in the South where the author’s intentions were to create realistic and multifaceted characters, taking inspiration from Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood and William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury. This story also includes inspiration from an article read in 2009 which dealt with the moral obligations of a Brazilian doctor and the scrutiny and criticism he received for his actions towards a patient, which he claimed were in her best interest. This story is a narrative about consequences of character’s decisions.

Faust And The Faustian (Fall 2010), Robert D. Tobin

Syllabi

Faust—the scholar who makes a deal with the devil in order to achieve knowledge, love and power—is one of the great myths of modernity. Faust makes his deal with the devil because he despairs of living in the ivory tower and wants to effect real, positive, change in the world. This course thus gives us a chance to think critically about their own desires to “challenge convention and change the world.” Clark University’s Motto, “Challenge Convention and Change the World,” comes directly out of the Faustian tradition, as does the very conception of a socially activist research university.

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The National Imagination (Spring 2010), Robert D. Tobin, Belen Atienza, Alice Valentine

Syllabi

What images make people think of the United States of America? Cowboys? The flag? And are there similar icons in other cultures that help define cultural identity? The National Imagination explores the concept of a national community as constructed and critiqued through literary and cinematic narratives, as well as other cultural texts.

Our underlying premise is that national languages and cultures promote the identity of particular communities. We are interested in examining those subjective expressions of culture—images, symbols, narratives—that lead people to feel that they are members of the communities we call nations. We are also interested in discovering points …

Boganis In America: The American Adventures Of Karen Blixen's Father, Wilhelm Dinesen

The Bridge

Sick at heart and world-weary at the age of twenty-seven, Captain Wilhelm Dinesen (1845-95) turned his back on Europe and set sail for America. The year was 1872. Danish immigration was on the rise, and many immigrants dreamed of making their fortune in the land of opportunity. Dinesen had other reasons. His fortune was already secure, for he had been born to wealth and privilege. As a young man, however, he had gone to war, but war had led to defeat, and defeat to bloody civil war. How could he forget the horrors he had seen and experienced? What he …

Piet Hein ( 1905-1996): A Renaissance Man, Inger M. Olsen

The Bridge

A man who in the year 2000 had had his collections of poems and Crooks published in 1,700,000 copies, who had invented lamp shades, a sundial, and the super ellipse as well as games, who had received the Dansk Design Center's annual prize in 1989 should be easy to locate among people whose biography have been written. Those were my thoughts when I started researching this paper, and great was my surprise when I found that was not at all the case.

Charlot Francais: Charlie Chaplin, The First World War, And The Construction Of A National Hero, Libby Murphy

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Flexible Literacies, Cultural Crossings And Global Identities : Three Singaporean Adolescent Boys' Reading And Identity Practices' In A Globalized World, Chin Ee Loh

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

This case examines the reading and identity practices of three highly literate adolescent boys from an elite all-boys school in Singapore, focusing on how they constructed their identities as global and local citizens through their reading practices. There have not been any studies examining the reading and identity practices of adolescent boys who have had every access to literacy, and this study contributes to much-needed research on youth literacy, identity, and globalization. The data consist of survey and interview data, classroom observations and email reading logs collected from September 2008 to September 2009.