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Movers, Gregory Fraser Jan 2008

Movers, Gregory Fraser

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 13-14


Bless His Heart, Bill Rector Jan 2008

Bless His Heart, Bill Rector

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 37


Asides As Discourse: The Pendulum Of Power Between The Sexes In Shakespeare's Richard Iii And Titus Andronicus, Rosalinda Simone Jan 2008

Asides As Discourse: The Pendulum Of Power Between The Sexes In Shakespeare's Richard Iii And Titus Andronicus, Rosalinda Simone

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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Taking The Last Of The Sun, Jo Lecoeur Jan 2008

Taking The Last Of The Sun, Jo Lecoeur

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 25


One Big Self: An Investigation / The Kitchen Sink: New And Selected Poems, Matthew Ladd Jan 2008

One Big Self: An Investigation / The Kitchen Sink: New And Selected Poems, Matthew Ladd

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 48-54


The Great Hinckley Hunt Of 1818, Susan Grimm Jan 2008

The Great Hinckley Hunt Of 1818, Susan Grimm

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 18


Capriccio At The Museum Of Art, John Hart Jan 2008

Capriccio At The Museum Of Art, John Hart

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 21


Nocturne, Stan Sanvel Rubin Jan 2008

Nocturne, Stan Sanvel Rubin

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 39


Untitled, Sudie Nostrand Jan 2008

Untitled, Sudie Nostrand

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 36


Miami Song, Andrew Glaze Jan 2008

Miami Song, Andrew Glaze

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 16


Intuition, Or Methods Of Transportation, Liz Robbins Jan 2008

Intuition, Or Methods Of Transportation, Liz Robbins

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 38


Lights And Shadows - 2008, University Of North Alabama Jan 2008

Lights And Shadows - 2008, University Of North Alabama

Lights and Shadows

Art and Literature Magazine


Repossessing Identity: The Work Of Rita Ann Higgins, Jeanine Alene Bator Jan 2008

Repossessing Identity: The Work Of Rita Ann Higgins, Jeanine Alene Bator

All Master's Theses

William Butler Yeats's (1865-1939) work harkens back to an idyllic Ireland-a mythic land of heroes. Through his and others' depiction of Ireland as an idealized space, Yeats furthered the myth of the Mother Ireland figure. Due to this representation, female Irish writers, like Eavan Boland (1944- ), find that Irish women have not only been written out of the canon, but also out of the fabric of history. Thus, this study examines the works of lrish poet Rita Ann Higgins (1955-) through the lens of the Yeatsian tradition, which has long defined Irish identity. Higgins writes in direct contrast to …


Elements Of Mythmaking In Witness Accounts Of Colonial Piracy, Plamen Ivanov Arnaudov Jan 2008

Elements Of Mythmaking In Witness Accounts Of Colonial Piracy, Plamen Ivanov Arnaudov

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Focusing on historical accounts (1684-1734) by English, French, and Spanish witnesses, this dissertation establishes a continuity in fictionalized representations of anti-heroic pirates from the buccaneering period to the Golden Age of Piracy. Informed by history, literary, myth, and performance theory, the analysis identifies significant distortions in reports by observers and participants. The distortions that pertain to mythmaking patterns are classified and analyzed further. Conflicting and ambivalent representations of the pirate as an anti-hero are resolved through the positing of a literary scapegoat hypothesis drawing from René Girard and Joseph Roach. While demonstrating mythical archetypes at work in the construction of …


Vol. Xliv, No. 5: Beautiful Lamptown: The Writings Of Dawn Powell, Nicholas Birns Dec 2007

Vol. Xliv, No. 5: Beautiful Lamptown: The Writings Of Dawn Powell, Nicholas Birns

The Hollins Critic

No abstract provided.


Realists And Reformers In The Nineteenth Century, Claudia Stokes Nov 2007

Realists And Reformers In The Nineteenth Century, Claudia Stokes

English Faculty Research

Amid the violence and tensions of contemporary globalization, it is perhaps unsurprising that American literary historians of the last decade have been preoccupied by literary transnationalism. As with the work of such critics as Anna Brickhouse, Wai Chee Dimock, and Kirsten Silva Gruesz (among many others), this field of research has carefully exposed the international contexts of American literature and put pressure on the nationalist borders that have always delimited literary history. Amanda Claybaugh’s new book, The Novel of Purpose, is a worthy contribution to this growing field of transnational literary history.


An Existentialist Interpretation Of Four Novels By Alberto Moravia, Megan Chiusaroli Oct 2007

An Existentialist Interpretation Of Four Novels By Alberto Moravia, Megan Chiusaroli

Honors College Theses

This analysis seeks to explore the existential qualities in four novels by Alberto Moravia: The Time of Indifference, The Woman of Rome, The Conformist, and Boredom


Vol. Xliv, No. 4: Think Your Way To Feeling: The Principal Writings Of William Steinkraus, Henry Taylor Oct 2007

Vol. Xliv, No. 4: Think Your Way To Feeling: The Principal Writings Of William Steinkraus, Henry Taylor

The Hollins Critic

No abstract provided.


Blasted’S Hysteria: Rape, Realism, And The Thresholds Of The Visible, Kim Solga Oct 2007

Blasted’S Hysteria: Rape, Realism, And The Thresholds Of The Visible, Kim Solga

Department of English Publications

A curious blind spot remains in the critical response to Sarah Kane’s Blasted : the rape of Cate by Ian. In a play famous for its onstage violence, why is this rape, one of its pivotal moments of brutality, left unstaged? My article seeks to worry this lacuna by exploring the theoretical and historical dimensions of the ‘‘missing’’ in Kane’s play. I argue that Kane’s representation of Cate’s rape as missing signals both her engagement with the history of rape’s representation – an elusive, evasive history rather than an outrageous, in-yer-face one – as well as a deft understanding of …


Beyond Fidelity: Teaching Film Adaptations In Secondary Schools, Nathan C. Phillips Jul 2007

Beyond Fidelity: Teaching Film Adaptations In Secondary Schools, Nathan C. Phillips

Theses and Dissertations

Although nearly every secondary school English teacher includes film as part of the English/language arts curriculum, there is, to this point, nothing published about effectively studying the relationship between film adaptations and their print source texts in secondary school. There are several important works that inform film study in secondary English classrooms. These include Alan Teasley and Ann Wilder's Reel Conversations; William Costanzo's Reading the Movies and his updated version, Great Films and How to Teach Them; and John Golden's Reading in the Dark. However, each of these mention adaptation briefly if at all. Rather, they approach film as a …


El Impacto De "Viernes" En La Poesía Venezolana, William Martínez Jul 2007

El Impacto De "Viernes" En La Poesía Venezolana, William Martínez

World Languages and Cultures

This essay presents a historical review of the poetic production in Venezuela in the 30's and 40's. It reviews the role that "Viernes," a poetic group, had in developing the modern literary movements in Venezuelan literature. The impact that several members of the group had while in and then later after their departure from the group is examined. Equally, the poetic influences inherited by the group, both national and international, are discussed. Finally, the essay deals with the dissolution of the group and its impact in the literature of Venezuela and Latin America after World War II.


Abandoned To Lust: Sexual Slander And Ancient Christianity – By Jennifer Wright Knust [Review Of The Book Abandoned To Lust: Sexual Slander And Ancient Christianity By J. W. Knust], Rubén R. Dupertuis Jul 2007

Abandoned To Lust: Sexual Slander And Ancient Christianity – By Jennifer Wright Knust [Review Of The Book Abandoned To Lust: Sexual Slander And Ancient Christianity By J. W. Knust], Rubén R. Dupertuis

Religion Faculty Research

The author argues that accusations of sexual depravity in early Christian literature, whatever their historical value, must be placed in the broader context of Greco-Roman rhetorical traditions in which charges of sexual deviance were stock elements of rhetorical slander. The first chapter, “Sexual Slander and Ancient Invective,” shows the degree to which the discourses of status and gender were intertwined in the Greco-Roman world. In this context, accusations of sexual deviance served the construction and maintenance of an elite identity understood as a male who is able to control his passions and avoid excess. In four subsequent chapters she tracks …


Vol. Xliv, No. 3: A World Of Irony In The Fiction Of Edward P. Jones, James Robert Saunders Jun 2007

Vol. Xliv, No. 3: A World Of Irony In The Fiction Of Edward P. Jones, James Robert Saunders

The Hollins Critic

No abstract provided.


Toward Salvation: Italo Calvino’S Wakeful Phenomenology, May C. Peckham May 2007

Toward Salvation: Italo Calvino’S Wakeful Phenomenology, May C. Peckham

Senior Honors Projects

“Lightness.” The word remains inescapable when attending to the mysterious work of Italo Calvino. It appears elusively in the texts of his novels and acts as a catalyst to many of his critical endeavors. Calvino addresses most explicitly this concept of lightness in his collection of lectures entitled Six Memos for the Next Millennium. Although these lectures were never delivered, they exist as a testament to the idea that “the boundless universe of literature” contains “new avenues to be explored, both very recent and very ancient, styles and forms that can change our image of the world” (Six Memos 7-8). …


The Power Of Ridicule: An Analysis Of Satire, Megan Leboeuf May 2007

The Power Of Ridicule: An Analysis Of Satire, Megan Leboeuf

Senior Honors Projects

Satire is an art form that has existed throughout recorded history. Examples of satirical work exist from long before the genre had even been defined, and this powerful tool for social critique is alive and well today, perhaps even more prevalent than ever. The use of absurdity and often humor to demonstrate the problems with a particular human behavior, vice, or social issue makes satire engaging and persuasive in a way that a direct statement of the facts is not. These qualities make satire the perfect tool for advocating social and political change in times of unrest. In recent years, …


Perpetuality In Print: Musing Nature In Sylvia Plath’S The Bell Jar, Kacey Silvia May 2007

Perpetuality In Print: Musing Nature In Sylvia Plath’S The Bell Jar, Kacey Silvia

Senior Honors Projects

I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another …


Secrets And Hiding Places: The Worth Of Women In Nicholas Nickleby, Elizabeth Redmond May 2007

Secrets And Hiding Places: The Worth Of Women In Nicholas Nickleby, Elizabeth Redmond

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

In early Victorian England, married women were denied the legal right to own property, and social convention remanded them to ostracism if they chose to remain single. Likewise, jobs that were available to women failed to pay a living wage, so women were placed under tremendous economic and social pressure to marry. In Charles Dickens' novel, Nicholas Nickleby, he depicts how marriage becomes manipulated within the working and middle classes as a means to acquire wealth. Dickens also compares the repression of women to the abuse suffered by school children in the Yorkshire schools, which had a reputation for neglecting …


La Double Vie De Baudelaire: Le Trouble Bipolaire Et La Dépendance À L’Opium, Kristen Murphy May 2007

La Double Vie De Baudelaire: Le Trouble Bipolaire Et La Dépendance À L’Opium, Kristen Murphy

Senior Honors Projects

Charles Baudelaire (April 9th, 1821- August 31st,1867) the nineteenth century French poet, was an eccentric and scandalous character who pushed the boundaries of decency and literature quotidianly. Today he is considered the father of the modernist literary movements and is well respected in literary circles. However, during Baudelaire’s lifetime, his great work Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) was censored by the French government, he was constantly bankrupt, attempted suicide once, and was an opium addict. Charles Baudelaire did not lead a cheerful life and his works show this darkness. In Les Fleurs du Mal, Baudelaire constantly refers …


Emersonian Perfectionism: A Man Is A God In Ruins, Brad James Rowe May 2007

Emersonian Perfectionism: A Man Is A God In Ruins, Brad James Rowe

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Ralph Waldo Emerson is a great American literary figure that began his career as a minister at Boston’s Second Church. He discontinued his ministry to become an essayist and lecturer and continued as such for the remainder of his life. This thesis was written with the intent of demonstrating that, in spite of leaving the ministry, Emerson continued to be religious and a religionist throughout his life and that he promulgated a unique religion based upon the principle of self-reliance. At the heart of Emerson’s religion of self-reliance is the doctrine of perfectionism, the infinite capacity of individuals. This thesis …


Never November, Michael Ettel Apr 2007

Never November, Michael Ettel

Whittier Scholars Program

This is a two-part project. Part one is a 181-page novel titled Never November. The novel explores many universal questions about what it means to be human and to be alive. Part two is an afterword, notes on writing the story, a creative database of characters and important terminology, and a bibliography.