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Parnassus 1998

Parnassus

The 1998 edition of the student literary journal, Parnassus, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

Cinderella, Marie Antoinette, And Sara: Roles And Role Models In A Little Princess, Elisabeth Rose Gruner

English Faculty Publications

Role-model criticism, the easiest and often most logical form of criticism for children’s literature, has fallen out of favor in our more theoretically sophisticated times. Toril Moi, surveying the state of feminist criticism in 1985, devoted a chapter to “Images of Women” criticism, finding it overly prescriptive and frequently self-contradictory in its calls for a “realistic” or accurate depiction of women’s lives simultaneously with the desire for “strong, impressive female characters” (47). Since many real women (and men!) are neither strong nor impressive, the effort is doomed from the start. And the specific call for “role models” is problematic in …

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The Mockingbird, Department Of Art And Design, East Tennessee State University, Department Of Literature And Language, East Tennessee State University

The Mockingbird

William Abbott [Another Resurrection; I Was Crawlin' through the underground]; Jennifer Anderson [Untitled Drawing]; William Arwood [The Daydream Soldier]; Brandon Bragg [A Cat's Hide]; Scott Braswell, Brad Owens [Interview with Dr. Perez Firmat]; Deborah Bryan [Domestic Pattern #4; Interior #2]; Cameron Byrd [Pale Rider's Mount]; Emily Carmichael [VI.; Untitled Drawing]; Margarita Casanova [el Paquette; el Nopal]; Meg Day [Wolf]; Deborah S. Deloach [Hospital Survival for the Emotionally Challenged]; Tonya Elswick [Ghostly Sentinels of Mt. Leconte]; Russell R. Forsyth [The Cherry]; Missy Gathright [Bones]; Dennis Greenwell [Untitled Print]; Joshua Hathaway [Untitled Drawing]; Jeanette Henry [Untitled Photograph]; Elizabeth Hickman [Untitled Photograph]; John …