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Review: Rooftoppers, Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Ages 10-12

CHARACTER THEMES: Caring, Cleverness, Community, Coping, Courage, Creativity, Cunning, Determination, Encouragement, Fairness, Fearlessness, Friendship, Hope, Imagination, Independence, Inventiveness, Love, Loyalty, Passion, Perseverance, Resilience, Selflessness, Sharing, Spunk, Survival, Trustworthiness, Wonder

Review: The Pocket Daring Book For Girls: Wisdom And Wonder (Revised), Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Ages 10-12

CHARACTER THEMES: Ambition, Citizenship, Courage, Independence, Ingenuity

Review: Sitting Bull: Lakota Warrior And Defender Of His People, Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Ages 10-12

CHARACTER THEMES: Boldness, Courage, Confidence, Coping, Determination, Devotion, Dignity, Ethnic pride, Faithfulness, Leadership, Loyalty, Passion, Pride, Resolve, Steadfastness

Review: George Muller: The Guardian Of Bristol’S Orphans, Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Ages 10-12

CHARACTER THEMES: Boldness, Caring, Community, Compassion, Courage, Dedication, Dependability, Determination, Devotion, Diligence, Discernment, Diversity, Endurance, Enthusiasm, Faith, Faithfulness, Generosity, Giving, Gratitude, Honesty, Hope, Inspiration, Joyfulness, Kindness, Knowledge, Leadership, Love, Obedience, Originality, Patience, Resolve, Resourcefulness, Respect, Responsibility, Reverence, Sacrifice, Selflessness, sharing, Spunk, Thrift, Trust, Trustworthiness, Wisdom, Wonder, Work ethic

Review: Heart And Soul: The Story Of America And African Americans, Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Ages 10-12

CHARACTER THEMES: Boldness, Citizenship, Coping, Courage, Dedication, Determination, Diversity, Ethnic pride, Fairness, Fearlessness, Inspiration, Leadership, Persistence, Resilience, Resolve, Respect, Strength, Survival (Emotional), Work ethic

Review: Insignificant Events In The Life Of A Cactus, Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Ages 10-12

CHARACTER THEMES: Confidence, Coping, Courage, Diversity, Empathy, Encouragement, Endurance, Family love, Fear, Friendship, Independence, Initiative, Leadership, Optimism Perseverance, Resilience, Resolve, Respect, Self-respect, Sharing, Steadfastness, Survival (Emotional), Trust, Trustworthiness

Review: Hand In Hand: An American History Through Poetry, Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Ages 10-12

CHARACTER THEMES: Ambition, Boldness, Citizenship, Coping, Courage, Dedication, Determination, Diversity, Endurance, Faith, Fearlessness, Hope, Independence, Initiative, Knowledge, Leadership, Patriotism, Persistence, Pride, Resolve, Sacrifice, Strength, Survival, Wonder, Work ethic

Review: A Long Walk To Water, Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Ages 10-12

Character Themes: Compassion, Coping, Courage, Endurance, Leadership, Perseverance, Resilience, Survival

Review: Counting By 7s, Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Ages 10-12

CHARACTER THEMES:

Appreciation of nature, Caring ,Community, Compassion, Cooperation, Coping, Dependability, Determination, Diversity, Duty, Encouragement, Generosity, Hope, Humor, Individuality, Initiative, Kindness, Leadership, Patience, Resilience, Responsibility, Sacrifice, Sharing, Spunk, Thrift, Unselfishness, Work ethic

Review: Crenshaw, Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Ages 10-12

CHARACTER THEMES: Coping, Fairness, Family love, Honesty, Hope, Perseverance, Resourcefulness, Sacrifice, Survival (emotional), Thrift, Trustworthiness, Understanding

Review: Irena Sendler And The Children Of The Warsaw Ghetto, Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Ages 10-12

CHARACTER THEMES: Boldness, Courage, Dedication, Determination, Devotion, Fearlessness, Ingenuity, Inspiration, Love, Passion, Resolve, Resourcefulness, Sacrifice, Selflessness, Strength, Trustworthiness, Unselfishness

Review: Hate That Cat (Revised), Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Ages 7-9

CHARACTER THEMES: Creativity, Honesty, Humor, Imagination, Inspiration, Kindness

Review: A Week In The Woods (Revised), Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Ages 10-12

CHARACTER THEMES: Cooperation, Courage, Fairness, Persistence

Review: Soar, Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Ages 10-12

CHARACTER THEMES: Ambition, Cheating, Competitiveness, Confidence, Coping, Courage, Determination, Devotion, Family love, Friendship, Hope, Initiative, Inspiration, Leadership, Love, Resilience, Sacrifice, Self-respect, Steadfastness, Teamwork, Trustworthiness, Work Ethic

Review: Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie, Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Ages 10-12

CHARACTER THEMES:

Acceptance, Caring, Community, Coping, Fairness, Family love, Fear, Humor, Pride, Selflessness, Sharing, Survival

Review: Echo, Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Ages 10-12

CHARACTER THEMES: Caring, Citizenship, Cooperation, Courage, Craftsmanship, Creativity, Determination, Devotion, Diversity, Duty, Family love, Family loyalty, Forgiveness, Friendliness, Friendship, Hope, Initiative, Inspiration Kindness, Knowledge, Love, Neighborliness, Obedience, Pride, Respect, Responsibility, Sacrifice, Tolerance, Work ethic

Review: The Secret School, Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Ages 10-12

CHARACTER THEMES: Cooperation, Coping, Courage, Determination, Duty, Friendship, Hope, Independence, Ingenuity, Initiative, Leadership, Maturity, Passion, Resolve, Resourcefulness, Responsibility, Spunk, Strength, Trustworthiness, Work ethic

Review: Genevieve’S War, Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Ages 10-12

CHARACTER THEMES: Cooperation, Cleverness, Coping, Courage, Devotion, Endurance, Family loyalty, Patriotism, Resilience, Responsibility, Self-reliance, Spunk, Survival (Physical), Trustworthiness

Teaching Persuasion In Multiple Contexts, Peter J. Capuano

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Teaching Persuasion in Multiple Contexts by Peter J. Capuano, a chapter in Approaches to Teaching Austen's Persuasion, edited by Marcia McClintock Folsom and John Wiltshire, published by the Modern Language Association of America, New York, 2021.

Introduction

Jane Austen's more well-known fiction has inspired strong attachments from many people (instructors and students alike), but Persuasion might be Austen's most dynamic and teachable novel. In fact, one of the many advantages of teaching Persuasion is that so many students-even the ones who come into my courses already professing their love for Austen's works-have never read the text before. They are …

Roberto Bolaño’S 2666, The Funneling Effect Of Capitalism, And The Production, Consumption, And Proliferation Of Violence For Profit, John Timlin

Dissertations and Theses

Roberto Bolaño's novel 2666 is a realist text, one that reflects the simple fact that in contemporary capitalism, the physical destruction of female bodies is a profitable enterprise; one that forces its readers to confront their complicity or outright participation in violence against women; and one that relates directly to violence against women as consumable entertainment in American mass culture.

The Economy Of (Dis)Honor In The Americas: A Transnational Rupturing Of American Literature Through Faulkner, García Márquez, And Silko, Clayton Neil Cobb

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Honor is misunderstood within popular culture, but it is also misunderstood within academic contexts. This is due to a decoupling of the term from its long historical significance, a significance that must not be ignored. That is because honor in the Americas is a structure of the hemisphere’s colonial legacy, its manifestation in the cultural fabric a result of the invasion of the continents by European settlers and colonizers. In the case of history, philosophy, and social science, the study of honor is beginning to undergo appropriate theorization to recognize that legacy; however, within literary studies disciplines, critical understanding of …

From The Womb To The Word: Pregnancy And Pregnancy Metaphors In 16th And 17th Century English Literature, Kelly S. Westeen

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation employs a feminist theoretical lens in exploring the gendered uses of pregnancy and pregnancy metaphors in the production and dissemination of literary works in early modern England. By also examining the history of the printing press and the role it played in gendered textual production, early modern constructs of family and the role of mothers, as well as obstetric medicine and childbirth, I aim to demonstrate that mothering and authorship were congruent activities for female writers. Conversely, I argue that male writers of the period who employed metaphors of gestation did so not to try to claim biological …

Sex, Lies, And Murder: Feminized Detective Fiction And The English Estate Novel, Meaghan Lanctot

The Criterion

In Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca and Ian McEwan’s Atonement, the protagonists unravel the events of egregious crimes and their own complicity with the central tragedies. Set against the backdrop of crumbling English estates, the crimes highlight the erosion of the British ruling class at the onset of the 20th century. The unnamed narrator of Rebecca and Briony, the narrator of Atonement, are bound by their youth, age, and gender in their respective investigations into the sinister events that plague the history of Manderley and the Tallis estate, respectively. We see how the English estate is a hotbed of illicit …

Interiority And Narrative Temporality In Jane Austen’S Persuasion, Margaret Flahery

The Criterion

Jane Austen’s last completed work, Persuasion, explores protagonist Anne Elliot’s female agency through use of free indirect discourse and time shifts. In the novel, published in 1817, Austen mediates between different time periods — the present day and seven years prior — to demonstrate Anne’s maturity and the evolved perspective of a woman’s status in society. Anne’s shifting interiority reflects what it means to be a woman in the Regency era, and, perhaps, across time, as she breaks out of the mediated and subjective perceptions placed upon her by herself and other characters. The result is a revolutionary conception of …

Examining Fatherhood Through Historical Empathy In Tristram Shandy, Marygrace King

The Criterion

Laurence Sterne’s eighteenth-century novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy follows the tangential musings of Tristram Shandy — musings so roundabout and convoluted that they force modern readers either to eyerolls of frustration or to a reconceived sense of humor. Within this essay, I explore the character of Tristram’s father, Walter Shandy, through a lens of historical empathy. To twenty-first century standards, Walter’s fatherhood is lacking and distant, even uncaring; yet when viewed through the lens of an eighteenth-century perspective, Walter’s motivations and eccentricities begin to make sense in the context of eighteenth-century mortality rates. I explore his unorthodox …

The Many Paths Of Thoreau’S Writing: A Response To Buranelli’S Critique, Stephen Conde

The Criterion

Henry David Thoreau, a transcendentalist famous for his writings and poetry, lived and wrote during the mid-nineteenth century. Some of his most enduring works include his memoir-like book Walden, which documents his experience living remotely in nature as well as his essay Civil Disobedience, which offers his critiques of society and the government. The scholar Vincent Buranelli, who lived roughly a century after Thoreau, wrote “The Case Against Thoreau” in 1957. His essay criticized, among other aspects, the hyperbole and complexity in Thoreau’s writing and his anarchistic urgings. However, analyzing Thoreau’s works and their context, and consulting the works of …

Light And Darkness In The Epiphanies Of Henry James’ Heroines, Rose Grosskopf

The Criterion

The famed author Henry James, who lived from 1843 to 1916, occupies a middle-ground between the romantic authors of the nineteenth century and the modernists of the twentieth. Two of his novels, The Portrait of a Lady and Washington Square, demonstrate his evolving sensibilities, as he bridges the traditional and the modern by marrying romantic stories with unconventional conclusions. His technique is present in his use of light symbolism, which, due to an etymological connection from the era of Enlightenment, has accompanied moments of learning and understanding. Through his symbolic and literary gestures, James explores a nuanced definition of “brightness,” …

Song: The Emotional Storyteller In The Tales Of Edgar Allan Poe, Sadie O'Conor

The Criterion

Edgar Allan Poe argues in his Marginalia column that “indefiniteness is an element … of the true musical expression.” Music is a powerful device for expression because of its intangible yet deeply rooted connection to human emotion; it captures ideas that cannot always be put into words. In a similar way, we can never truly “hear” music if it is only described on a page. Poe used this phenomenon on a literary level to illustrate a character’s deep, almost indescribable longing for something that they would rarely reveal to the other people in their stories. The references to instrumental music …

“Oceania Is Us:” An Intimate Portrait Of Chamoru Identity And Transpacific Solidarity In From Unincorporated Territory: [Lukao], Maressa Park

The Criterion

Guåhan’s history of Spanish colonization and inflicted genocide, Japanese occupancy, and American militarization poses profound effects on CHamoru land, rights, physical health, and language survival. These include instances of “celebration colonialism” such as Liberation Day, in which CHamorus celebrate the date that the United States dropped 124 tons of bombs on Guåhan to liberate them from the Japanese ([lukao] 44). Through an analysis of his 2017 anthology from unincorporated territory: [lukao], this essay examines how Dr. Craig Santos Perez casts light on the complex inheritance of native CHamorus via an intimate portrait of diasporic CHamoru identity. Furthermore, I argue that …

Narrator’S Attitudes Toward Slavery In Oroonoko And Robinson Crusoe, Meghan Gavis

The Criterion

Oroonoko by Aphra Behn and Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe are narrated by speakers encountering enslaved people in South America during English imperialism. The narrators’ respective sentimental and practical voices are manifested through the details of their narratives: Behn’s speaker tends to dwell on romantic points, like Oroonoko’s relationship with his lover, while Crusoe favors pragmatic details, like the quantification of supplies. The narrators’ perspectives color their relationships with enslaved individuals. Behn’s narrator’s relationship with Oroonoko is filtered through her romantic lens, enabling a dynamic and communicative relationship with the Prince that exhibits her sympathy towards his enslavement. In contrast, …