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Conquering The Sublime: Terror And Control In Moby-Dick, Matthew William Burkett Aug 2008

Conquering The Sublime: Terror And Control In Moby-Dick, Matthew William Burkett

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Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick represents an experiment in Romantic literature. In addition to relying on the works of British Romantic poets such as William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Melville also applies Edmund Burke's ideas of the sublime to depict the inherent terror of hunting whales on the open ocean. According to Burke, the sublime is anything that inspires fear in the human mind, and Melville describes whaling in sublime terms. Melville also employs the sublime to critique 19th-century American society. The novel attacks humanity's drive to conquer both the natural world and other human beings. I will examine …


Creating A Space For Yal With Lgbt Content In Our Personal Reading: Creating A Place For Lgbt Students In Our Classrooms, Katherine Mason Jul 2008

Creating A Space For Yal With Lgbt Content In Our Personal Reading: Creating A Place For Lgbt Students In Our Classrooms, Katherine Mason

Faculty Articles

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Hodes, Jane Ellen (Sachs), 1918-2009 (Sc 1633), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Hodes, Jane Ellen (Sachs), 1918-2009 (Sc 1633), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1633. Correspondence between Jane Ellen (Sachs) Hodes, Oakland, California and librarians at the Kentucky Library & Museum related to photos and papers in the manuscript collection of Hodes's mother and author, Emanie (Nahm) Sachs Arling Philips. Includes a 1940s letter from Philips to Hodes.


Bibliography Of Works By And About Imre Kertész, Nobel Laureate In Literature 2002, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek Mar 2008

Bibliography Of Works By And About Imre Kertész, Nobel Laureate In Literature 2002, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

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The Study Of Literature And Culture Online (Theory And Application), Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek Mar 2008

The Study Of Literature And Culture Online (Theory And Application), Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

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Morton, David, 1886-1957 (Mss 50), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Morton, David, 1886-1957 (Mss 50), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 50. Correspondence of David Morton, correspondence concerning Morton Collection, speeches, essays, MSS: "Entries for a Diary," and MSS: "The Amateur Listener" -- diary, poems, pamphlets, and miscellaneous items of Morton, a poet and English professor born in Elkton, Kentucky.


History Of Ricl: Research Institute For Comparative Literature, University Of Alberta 1985-1999, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek Feb 2008

History Of Ricl: Research Institute For Comparative Literature, University Of Alberta 1985-1999, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

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Title Page (Volume 8), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2008

Title Page (Volume 8), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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Editor’S Foreword (Volume 8), Mark D. Miller Jan 2008

Editor’S Foreword (Volume 8), Mark D. Miller

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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Contents (Volume 8), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2008

Contents (Volume 8), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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The Box, The Glittering Strings, And The Unbearable Hillbillyness Of Being: Warren’S The Cave, Country Music, And Vanderbilt Fugitive-Agrarianism, H.R. Stoneback Jan 2008

The Box, The Glittering Strings, And The Unbearable Hillbillyness Of Being: Warren’S The Cave, Country Music, And Vanderbilt Fugitive-Agrarianism, H.R. Stoneback

Robert Penn Warren Studies

The Fugitive magazine and the evolution of Nashville Agrarianism were exactly coincident and contiguous, geographically and historically, with the Grand Ole Opry and the evolution of hillbilly and country music, yet at Vanderbilt, it was something called traditional balladry or true folksong that was highly respected, and taught in courses in the English Department curriculum. It was from within these contexts that singer/songwriter and then graduate student, H. R. “Stoney” Stoneback, first wrote about Robert Penn Warren’s The Cave. Forty years later, singer/songwriter and now Distinguished Professor Stoneback revisits the question of the guitar, the songs, and the hillbillyness of …


Brooks And Warren In Heaven: A Short Story With Endnotes, James A. Perkins Jan 2008

Brooks And Warren In Heaven: A Short Story With Endnotes, James A. Perkins

Robert Penn Warren Studies

A personal and professional friendship “made in heaven” continues there. What passions persist? How do these two old friends pass the timelessness? And how do you cite a visit to heaven?


Breathing New Life Into Warren Studies: A Project In Secondary Education, Wes Berry, Kristina Rice, Angela Sloan Jan 2008

Breathing New Life Into Warren Studies: A Project In Secondary Education, Wes Berry, Kristina Rice, Angela Sloan

Robert Penn Warren Studies

In his introduction to this pedagogy project, Wes Berry ponders how teaching Robert Penn Warren’s work in high schools could help to promote Warren’s overall literary status. The following essays outline efforts to teach Warren’s fiction in two Kentucky high schools. In spring 2007, Angela Sloan taught Warren’s All the King’s Men and The Cave to A.P. English students using a comparative, intertextual approach. She details the successes of her class and includes students’ responses to their study of Warren. Furthermore, Kristina Rice presents creative approaches to making Warren’s stories accessible to high school students, including comparative thematic studies that …


Notes On Contributors (Volume 8), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2008

Notes On Contributors (Volume 8), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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Where It All Began (Volume 8), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2008

Where It All Began (Volume 8), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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Rpw, Sibelius, And The Dream, Marshall Walker Jan 2008

Rpw, Sibelius, And The Dream, Marshall Walker

Robert Penn Warren Studies

In All the King’s Men Jack Burden says, “I eat a persimmon and the teeth of a tinker in Tibet are put on edge,” but what could link a Finnish composer to a writer, forty years younger, from the American South? “The creations of American literature generally are no doubt more given to the speculative, − less given to the realistic, − than are those of English literature,” says Anthony Trollope in his essay, “The Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne.” “On our side of the water we deal more with beef and ale, and less with dreams.” Both Sibelius and Warren …


Recreating Faulkner: Cleanth Brooks’ Use Of Faulkner As New Critical Exemplar, Dana W. Mcmichael Jan 2008

Recreating Faulkner: Cleanth Brooks’ Use Of Faulkner As New Critical Exemplar, Dana W. Mcmichael

Robert Penn Warren Studies

Cleanth Brooks’ emphasis on textual structure helped move Faulkner criticism in new directions. Though early reviews and critical treatments of William Faulkner’s works frequently speculated on his literary intentions, combed his words for various ideologies, or sought a Jamesian realism, Brooks’ earliest studies of Faulkner insisted that his novels and stories be appreciated for their mastery of form. Although Brooks’ later studies have received much of the attention they deserve, his earliest essays on Faulkner have been largely neglected. Cumulatively, Brooks’ many articles and book-length studies of Faulkner’s fiction seek to repackage him as a Modernist writer whose works are …


An “Unreligious” Affair: (Re)Reading The American Civil War In Foote’S Shiloh And Warren’S Wilderness, Kyle Crews Jan 2008

An “Unreligious” Affair: (Re)Reading The American Civil War In Foote’S Shiloh And Warren’S Wilderness, Kyle Crews

Robert Penn Warren Studies

A comparative analysis of Robert Penn Warren’s Wilderness and Shelby Foote’s Shiloh reveals a similar historiography that both writers apply to the American Civil War. From a narratological standpoint, the novels are very different; however, the underlying theme is the same: the Civil War is an “unreligious” episode in an often oversimplified period in American history.


About The Center (Volume 8), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2008

About The Center (Volume 8), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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About The Advisory Group To The Center (Volume 8), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2008

About The Advisory Group To The Center (Volume 8), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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About The Circle (Volume 8), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2008

About The Circle (Volume 8), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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About The Birthplace (Volume 8), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2008

About The Birthplace (Volume 8), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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Dedication Page (Volume 8), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2008

Dedication Page (Volume 8), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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Discreetly Depicting "An Outrage": Graphic Illustration And "Daisy Miller"'S Reputation, Adam Sonstegard Jan 2008

Discreetly Depicting "An Outrage": Graphic Illustration And "Daisy Miller"'S Reputation, Adam Sonstegard

English Faculty Publications

Rendering the first illustrated edition of "Daisy Miller" in 1892, Harry Whitney McVickar had to reconcile the novella's scandalous reputation with the polite medium of graphic illustration. McVickar highlights insignificant scenery, shows solitary figures instead of social interaction or playful flirtation, and nearly omits the heroine. His depictions and omissions contain the characters' indiscretions, and ensure that aspiring flirts and would-be Winterbournes who view his images do not "get the wrong idea." Cinematic adaptations amplify Daisy's public displays and encourage Winterbourne's voyeurism, but "Daisy Miller"'s first graphic illustrations strove instead to redeem the reputation of James's "outrage on American girlhood."


Front Matter, Tom Mack, Ph.D. Jan 2008

Front 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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Contents, Tom Mack, Ph.D. Jan 2008

Contents, Tom Mack, Ph.D.

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

No abstract provided.


A Place For Originality Within Intertextuality: The Texts And Intertexts Of Dorothy Gale And The Wizard Of Oz, Savannah Ganster Jan 2008

A Place For Originality Within Intertextuality: The Texts And Intertexts Of Dorothy Gale And The Wizard Of Oz, Savannah Ganster

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

No abstract provided.


“But Business Is Business, And Business Must Grow”: A Take On The Lorax, Rebecca L. Hahn Jan 2008

“But Business Is Business, And Business Must Grow”: A Take On The Lorax, Rebecca L. Hahn

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

No abstract provided.


Reading Beyond Modern Feminism: Kate Chopin’S The Awakening, Christina R. Williams Jan 2008

Reading Beyond Modern Feminism: Kate Chopin’S The Awakening, Christina R. Williams

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

No abstract provided.


Back Matter, Tom Mack, Ph.D. Jan 2008

Back Matter, Tom Mack, Ph.D.

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

No abstract provided.