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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 …

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 …

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

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

our actual lives are also composed

of punctuation, and of punctuation's

Mother's Skeleton, Audrey Doire

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I was sixteen when she

told me I wasn't her first.

The Tooth Fairy, Charles Harper Webb

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What would a fairy want with all those teeth?

Our Americano, Denise Duhamel

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

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

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

Kindergarten, Lisa Zimmerman

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It's hard to know

how much they love their children,

these mothers and fathers

Daylight Savings, Charles Harper Webb

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The body wakes at erstwhile 7:00

What Happens To Kurt Cobain, William Snyder Jr.

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

Getting Married In Vegas, Natalia Cortes Chaffin

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

Second Showing, Todd Balazic

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I do get to say

the clever thing I say

about Nietzsche and the pathos of distance

Arabia, Jeffrey David Peckham

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Although he feels just fine, Neil still takes the morning off and keeps his appointment.

Explanation, Peter Johnson

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What should I tell you? That it rained for five straight days, that the gutters leaked in spite of the duct tape,that a rat ate through the cellar screen and killed the cat.

Short Attention Span Scripture, Tommy Graves

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

Bad Poet's Epitaph, Candice Rowe

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If I die on the Martha's Vineyard ferry,

Water the arbutus,

Contributors

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The Present, Fred Muratori

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It's taken all our lives to get here,

and the consciousness of that

is like a pause. But we

Granny's Tumor, T. M. Bemis

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

An Innocent Heart, Catherine Harris

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I lived in a share house then, with embossed gold paisley wallpaper in the living room and rising damp in the hall.

Still Life, Brian Arundel

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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 The Music Stops, Tony Leuzzi

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The sequined queen of sass says not on your life

Solitaire, Priscilla Atkins

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The computer version

leaves me cold

I want the slippery

Rope Dancers, Jessica Newton

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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