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Midwife And Mother: Maternal Metaphors In The Composition Classroom, Cynthia Britt

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This study examines the maternal metaphors of midwife and mother used to describe instructors and teaching practices in the composition classroom. In the introduction the author describes her interest in the topic based on her own experiences as a mother and as a beginning composition instructor. The paper explains the initiation of the metaphors, what the metaphors and maternal pedagogy mean in terms of classroom practices and philosophies, criticisms of maternal practices, and the relevancy and legitimacy of the metaphors and maternal pedagogy in classrooms today. Section one explores the development of the metaphors to describe composition teachers related to …

Blues For Ron, Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

No abstract provided.

Boomer In A Boom Town, Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

No abstract provided.

Natural Trouble, Scott Hightower

Poetry

Natural Trouble continues Scott Hightower’s investigation begun in Tin Can Tourist. Themes of inheritance extend through changes of landscape and bad weather to hungers, urgencies, inequities, and bereavements. Hightower also reminds us that the practice of writing is at the core of democracy: poetry seeks a foundation in the truth of the individual, guaranteed and restored through the integrity of language.

Southern Star., Shanda Schrae Miller

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

“Southern Star” follows protagonist Sally Gayle through the cycle of maturation. Complex family relationships and secrets hinder Sally as she searches for her identity in this bidungsroman set in a small, rural area of Southern Appalachia. Taking a minimalist, cinematic approach, “Southern Star” experiments with form and technique in an attempt to convey pure story to the reader. The work particularly focuses on character development, authentic dialogue, and a sense of place.

Ruling Powers, Scot A. Hanson

Theses and Dissertations

While the fantasy genre is one of the most widely read modes of writing, literary criticism and academic discussion of the genre takes place at a much lower level. This imbalance has developed in part because of a misconception that fantasy genre writings cannot accomplish significant, literary purposes. This thesis first offers an argument for why the fantasy genre should receive more attention in scholarly circles, then presents an excerpt of a fantasy novel. The argument draws from the limited amount of existing criticism to highlight the strengths of the fantasy genre, building a case that, in most respects, works …

Our Americano, Denise Duhamel

Bryant Literary Review

An apple pie Americano -- attaboy! -- got the ax for being asleep

"Prefer Slick, Feverish Grooves Over Funky Backbeats", Ace Boggess

Bryant Literary Review

blessed rock'n'roll R & B funk folk acid jazz

What Happens To Kurt Cobain, William Snyder Jr.

Bryant Literary Review

Courtney Love carries Kurt Cobain's ashes on the jets she flies in.

Rope Dancers, Jessica Newton

Bryant Literary Review

When you walk a tightrope you have to think of it as getting across the first third, then the second third, which makes it the last third a piece of cake

Getting Married In Vegas, Natalia Cortes Chaffin

Bryant Literary Review

Maggie woke up to the stop and start of a car outside her bedroom window.

Short Attention Span Scripture, Tommy Graves

Bryant Literary Review

My neighbor across the street was a hundred and ninety years old and she could fly

Questioning The Superstructure: A Marxist Critique Of The Rainbow And Women In Love, Diantha Acevedo

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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Questioning The Superstructure: A Marxist Critique Of The Rainbow And Women In Love, Diantha Acevedo

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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Look Now, Charlotte Mandel

Bryant Literary Review

Bronze oak leaves like cupped hands

offer rainwater

Still Life, Brian Arundel

Bryant Literary Review

We live a few hundred yards from a drive-in theater at the end of a dead end street on the edge of a small Virginia town called Spotsylvania that people only pass through on their way to someplace else.

When Quoddy Head Falls Into The Sea, Karl Foss

Bryant Literary Review

It does not mean the world is about to end.

Go inland, where the black of water and sky separate.

The @'S Of Your %'S, Ken Fifer

Bryant Literary Review

The : )'s in my e-mail remind me how

our actual lives are also composed

of punctuation, and of punctuation's

Verso

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.

Editor's Note

Bryant Literary Review

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The Present, Fred Muratori

Bryant Literary Review

It's taken all our lives to get here,

and the consciousness of that

is like a pause. But we

Table Of Contents

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.

Granny's Tumor, T. M. Bemis

Bryant Literary Review

"What?" I asked again, and the Indian doctor repeated it."

Title Page

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.

What Isn't Anchored, Mark Brazaitis

Bryant Literary Review

I confessed I was drifting from you.

Days later, your hand in mine,

you reminded me, in hopeful mockery,

of what I'd said.

The Tooth Fairy, Charles Harper Webb

Bryant Literary Review

What would a fairy want with all those teeth?

Daylight Savings, Charles Harper Webb

Bryant Literary Review

The body wakes at erstwhile 7:00

When The Music Stops, Tony Leuzzi

Bryant Literary Review

The sequined queen of sass says not on your life

Mother's Skeleton, Audrey Doire

Bryant Literary Review

I was sixteen when she

told me I wasn't her first.

Another Life, Kenneth Pobo

Bryant Literary Review

Shirley MacLaine claims she

made it with Charlemagne.