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“Plain Broad Narratives Of Substantial Facts”: Credibility, Narrative, And Hakluyt’S Principall Navigations, Julia Schleck

Department of English: Faculty Publications

This article compares voyage narratives printed in Richard Hakluyt’s 1589 Principall Navigations to contemporaneous travel histories in an effort to contextualize the epistemological status of each group of texts and debunk the former’s reputation for greater factuality. It critiques the use commonly made of Hakluyt’s narratives in literary studies, arguing that the privileging of these texts over other sources results in postcolonial studies that ironically valorize a type of writing which promoted the colonial mindset these studies seek to expose.

The Travel Imagination And The Hybrid Reality In The Wake Of Colonialism, James Mclaughlin

Honors Theses

The “traveling imagination,” is of paramount importance to both western and postcolonial travelers. Since both groups create “travel imaginations” by extensive reading, the nature of the books that inform them must directly affect their travels. A westerner, for example, who reads only colonial-era accounts has the “travel imagination” of a different generation. If all perspectives were represented equally in libraries, the “travel imagination” of a given person would be entirely his/her own. But usually the “traveler’s imagination” is biased by prevailing opinion. Libraries are not democracies, and sometimes extensive reading only indoctrinates the reader with the biases of the canon. …

A Comparative Investigation Of The Concept Of Nature In The Writings Of Henry M. Morris And Bernard L. Ramm, Andrew M. Mutero

Dissertations

The study examines two major contrasting theological accounts of nature within the contemporary North American Evangelical community as articulated by Henry Morris and Bernard Ramm. In doing so, the dissertation analyzes nature considered diachronically in three epochs namely: (1) Natura Originalis (the origin of nature); (2) Natura Continua (the contemporary status of nature); and (3) Natura Nova (the future of nature).

The purpose of this research is to discover, describe, analyze, and compare the shape of the two contrasting concepts of nature articulated respectively by Morris, a strict concordist and a special creationist and Ramm, a broad concordist and a …

Repression And Reduction: The Apparatchik's Discourse In The Works Of Ammianus Marcellinus, Denis Diderot, Victor Serge And George Orwell, Jason Paul Juneau

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

In monopolizing political power, the state claims to possess the best idea towards leading a society and solving its problems. While these claims may vary according to regime, all face the eventual failure of expectation on the part of its subjects. No regime can master all the variables in running the country, and so it must convince their subjects otherwise of its legitimacy, despite the reality of their failure. The apparatchik’s discourse is the interaction of the state’s discourse and that of its institutions. This discourse is used to uphold the state’s legitimacy through the expertise of its institutions. The …

Reading Trauma In Postmodern And Postcolonial Literature: Charlotte Delbo, Toni Morrison, And The Literary Imagination Of The Aftermath, Sylviane Finck

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Some personal or collective histories can never be completely integrated into the continuum of one's emotional life. Such stories produced in traumatic times or in disastrous events are likely to remain only partially understood or accepted. Examining the human consequence of traumatic events such as the enslavement of Africans in the United States or the attempted extermination of the Jewish people in Europe is one challenging focus of this work. It is comparatively productive, however, if these events are approached from the perspective of the trauma they have produced-an approach that suspends chronological and geographical barriers of time and space. …

Money And Tragedy In The Nineteenth-Century Novel, Clany Soileau

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The nineteenth-century novelists studied in this dissertation used tragic form to investigate economic and social changes taking place around them. Honoré de Balzac’s Le Père Goriot (1834), William Dean Howells’ The Rise of Silas Lapham (1884-1885), Giovanni Verga’s Mastro-don Gesualdo (1888), Benito Pérez Galdós’s Miau, (1888), and Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks (1901) reflect the interest of writers in France, the United States, Italy, Spain, and Germany in questions concerning how money in an evolving capitalist society not only had a major role in shaping the behavior and personalities of specific individuals but also affected such institutions as the family. Under these …

The Gods Within: Checkhov, Lorca, And The Internalization Of Tragic Fate, Gabriela A. Nirenburg

Honors Papers

This paper will attempt to prove the continuation of fate into modern tragic theater, using the plays of Chekhov (a Naturalist) and Lorca (a post-Romantic) as representative examples. After setting up these authors in their proper cultural contexts, I will examine their works against well-established definitions of tragedy, both classical and modern. I will then closely analyze the internal workings of the tragic heroes of these plays, ultimately demonstrating how they have managed to create and fulfill their destinies, even in the absence of gods.

Front Matter, Tom Mack,

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

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Freud’S “On The Universal Tendency To Debasement In The Sphere Of Love” As A Lens For Thomas’S “When, Like A Running Grave”, Christina Braswell

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

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Back Matter, Tom Mack, Ph.D.

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

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A Contemporary Reading Of Augustine’S Confessions, Sharon Cantor

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

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“Passions That Were Not My Own”: Critique And Preservation Of True Pastoral Life In Wordsworth’S “Michael”, Katie Homar

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

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What Hath Wittenberg To Do With Stratford-Upon-Avon?: The Protestant Reformation In Hamlet, Jason Adkins

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

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Contents, Tom Mack, Ph.D.

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

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The Oswald Review Undergraduate Research And Criticism In The Discipline Of English: Volume 8 Fall 2006

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

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Life Into Art: Solzhenitsyn’S Bread Of Life, Ruth Trimmer

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

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Contesting The Gendered Flâneuse Of The Arab Metropolis: Literary Representations Of Gender, The Body And Urban Space In Selected Urban Writings Of Salwa Bakr, Leila Aboulela And Hanan Al-Shaykh, Mona Bur

Archived Theses and Dissertations

This study attempts to identify salient motifs and critical themes relating to flânerie (street strolling) of women in the city as represented in two short stories and a novel by three Arab women- Egyptian, Sudanese, and Lebanese.

Review Of The Conformist, Michael Adams

Publications and Research

Review of Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist: http://www.media-party.com/discland/2007/01/the-conformist.html

Blurred Genres, Blended Memories: Engendering Dissidence In Nawal El Saadawi's Memoirs Of A Woman Doctor And Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions, Katwiwa Mule

World Literature: Faculty Publications

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Orientalism And Religion In The Romantic Era-Rammohan Ray’S Vedanta(S), Amit Ray

Articles

Abstract:

This chapter examines how Raja Rammohan Ray utilized Vedanta philosophy as a strategic response to colonial critiques of Hinduism during the early nineteenth century. Ray emerged as a pivotal figure who navigated between British orientalist discourse and Indian religious reform, employing Advaita Vedanta to counter accusations of idolatry and polytheism leveled against Hindu practices. The analysis demonstrates how Ray's translations of the Upanishads and his promotion of Vedantic monotheism served dual purposes: defending indigenous civilization against missionary attacks while accommodating European notions of rational religion. Ray's approach involved significant textual interventions, including rendering the neuter brahman as masculine "God" …

That ‘Vital Spark Of Genius’: Lady Caroline Lamb’S Writing Before Byron, Paul Douglass, Rosemary March

Faculty Publications, English and Comparative Literature

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Aesop's Fables And George Eliot's Brother And Sisters Sonnets, Margaret Wolfit

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

It is always exciting to discover something new and to come upon it unexpectedly. That was my happy experience a few years ago. I had decided to try my hand at devising a biographical programme on George Eliot and to attempt to portray her at the end of her life, reminiscing on past events. I wanted to absorb as much as I could about her, starting with her early days. What were the influences that shaped her life and writing? What books had she read as a child?

She tells us: 'I could not be satisfied with the things around …

Malory Meets Wagner In Madrid: Albéniz's Merlin And The Mythologizing Of Arthur, Robert S. Haller

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Essay preapred for the Modern Language Association on Catalan composer Isaac Albéniz's opera Merlin and the mythologizing of Arthur.

谷崎潤一郎與"高貴的大陸"語言 = Tanizaki Jun'ichirō And Narrating "Transcendental China", Kan Nozaki, Shao Yang Lin

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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嶺南大學與日本詩人草野心平 = Lingnan University And Japanese Poet Kusano Shinpei, Shadako Ikegami

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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"文"與"現實" : 由東京新感覺派、上海新感覺派至當代香港小說的一個探索譜系 = "Wen" And "Reality" : From Tokyo New Sensation School, Shanghai New Sensation School To Contemporary Hong Kong Fictions : A Genealogy, Shao Yang Lin

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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Bordwell, David. Planet Hong Kong : Popular Cinema And The Art Of Entertainment = 大衛．鮑德威爾 :《香港電影王國 : 娛樂的藝術》, Lori Morimoto

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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The Rise And Fall Of Taipei Cinema League : Film Revolution In 1930'S Modern City = 臺北電影聯盟的盛衰 : 三○年代現代城市的電影革命, Shozo Fujii, Faye Kleeman Yuan

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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Notes On Contributors = 作者簡介

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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Lu, Sheldon H. China, Transnational Visuality, Global Postmodernity = 盧小鵬 :《中國，跨國視覺，全球後現代性》, Zhen Zhang

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

No abstract provided.