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Beings Of Magic: A Comparison Of Saruman The White In Tolkien’S The Lord Of The Rings And Simon The Clerk In Williams’ All Hallows’ Eve, Kathryne Hall

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

No abstract provided.

The Image Of The Library In The Life And Work Of Charles Williams, Michael J. Paulus Jr.

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

No abstract provided.

Friendship And Hierarchy In Tolkien And Lewis, Grace Tiffany

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

No abstract provided.

C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, And Esemplastic Friendship, Paul E. Michelson

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

No abstract provided.

Chesterton In Heaven, Jennifer Woodruff Tait

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

No abstract provided.

Can Love Be Blind?, Bethany Russell

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

No abstract provided.

The Inklings, In Memoriam: A Cycle Of Poems, Donald T. Williams

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

No abstract provided.

An Answer For Orual: C. S. Lewis As Defender Of The Faith, Donald T. Williams

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

No abstract provided.

Joy And Poetic Imagination: An Introduction To C. S. Lewis’S “Incessant Disputation” With Owen Barfield, Stephen Thorson

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

No abstract provided.

Afterword: About The Center For The Study Of C. S. Lewis And Friends At Taylor University, Lisa Ritche

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

No abstract provided.

“Don’T Believe In Anything That Can’T Be Told In Colored Pictures”: Notes On A Dramatic Reading Of Poems By Lewis, Tolkien, Chesterton, And Williams, Jennifer Woodruff Tait

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

Author’s Note: This read was an excerpt of a larger, hour-long presentation that I gave at the New York C. S. Lewis Society in June 2008 and at the Taylor bi-monthly C. S. Lewis meetings in April 2010. Poems read the 2016 Colloquium are in bold.

Take This Job And Love It: Dorothy Sayers On Work, Kimberly Moore-Jumonville

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

No abstract provided.

Canto Xxxiii, M. J. Paulus

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

No abstract provided.

The Temptation Of Brother Thomas: A Stop-Motion Animated Short Film, J. Stephan Leeper

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

The Temptation of Br. Thomas is a short animated film that celebrates beauty and examines our preconceptions of what we consider sacred. Thomas Acquinas serves both as namesake to the central character and an inspiration to the ideas put forth in the film. The Temptation of Brother Thomas draws from the rich legacy of art within the Western Church while it challenges the modern assumptions that true art needs to be cut loose from orthodox faith in order to flourish. True to Aquinas’ writings, it also challenges contemporary religious notions that art and beauty are somehow superfluous to a life …

Dog City After Dark After Reading The Great Divorce, Rick Hill

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

No abstract provided.

Owen Barfield And C. S. Lewis: A Critical Friendship, Colin Duriez

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

No abstract provided.

The Words In The World, Luke A. Wildman

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

Author’s Note: This story is an excerpt from a longer project I’m working on, titled Song of the Searching. It’s the story of Alp searching across a magical world for his sister, told from the perspectives of those he meets along his journey.

“But What Is The Moral?”: A Dramatized Bibliographic Study Of The Relationship Of George Macdonald’S “The Light Princess” To Adela Cathcart, Joe Ricke, Abby Palmisano, Blair Hedges, Cara Strickland

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

No abstract provided.

The Future Of Inklings Studies: Keynote Panel Discussion (4 June 2016), Joe Ricke, Diana Glyer, Sørina Higgins, Colin Duriez

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

Transcription of panel discussion with Diana Gyler, Sørina Higgins, Colin Duriez, and Joe Ricke. (Transcribed and edited by Joe Ricke.)

2016 Printed Program

Colloquium Schedules

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Heavy Expectations: Reading Pregnancy In The Victorian Novel, Livia Arndal Woods

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation articulates the tendency of Victorian novels to make legible only the pregnant bodies of immodest characters who transgress gendered ideologies while the pregnant bodies of modest characters tend to go undescribed. Tracing the medicalization of pregnancy and childbirth over the course of the long nineteenth century, my chapters demonstrate the function of moralizing narrative conventions in the representation of pregnancy in mid-Victorian novels, of a self-conscious use of free indirect diagnosis in high-Victorian fiction, and a shift at the fin-de-siècle from pregnancy as a signifier of morality to a symptom of unstable minds. The novels I read closely …

Scotland In European Perspective: The Mainz-Germersheim Conference Before The Referendum, Patrick G. Scott

Studies in Scottish Literature

Reviews the published papers on political, literary, and cultural aspects of Scottish cultural identity from a conference held at Johnannes Gutenberg University-Mainz at Germersheim, Germany, in October 2013, before the narrowly-unsuccessful Scottish Independence referendum of the following year ["Indyref"], and discusses their continuing relevance in Scottish attitudes to the upcoming United Kingdom referendum on British withdrawal from the European Union ["Brexit"].

Adam Smith For Our Time, I: Necroeconomics, Patrick G. Scott

Studies in Scottish Literature

Reviews a wide-ranging new American study of the Scottish philosopher and economist Adam Smith (1723-1790), examining its treatment of Smith as critic and rhetorical theorist, as well as of his better-known writings on moral philosophy in his Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) and economic theory in The Wealth of Nations (1776), and discusses briefly the value for Scottish cultural history of interpretative practices developed originally in other national traditions, concluding that the book is "important for scholars of 18^th century Scottish literature... because it approaches Smith’s work through disciplinary practices that are common enough in other literary fields but …

A Dickensian Utilitarianism, Zachary Allentuck

Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019

This paper argues that Charles Dickens' political and world views were in sympathy with Utilitarianism, as defined by Jeremy Bentham. The Utilitarianism Dickens attacked in A Christmas Carol, Hard Times, and Little Dorrit was not real utilitarianism; it was utilitarianism appropriated by England's middle-class.

How Lust Was Lost: Genre, Identity And The Neglect Of A Pioneering Comics Publication, Robert Hulshof-Schmidt

Student Research Symposium

In 1950, St. John Publications published what is arguably the first graphic novel. It Rhymes With Lust was illustrated by Matt Baker, one of the first and most prolific African Americans in the comics industry. It was written by Arnold Drake – a long-time comics creator – and Leslie Waller – a respected novelist. Despite the talent arrayed and the historical significance of its timing, the novel has been largely ignored by comics scholars, historians, fans, and collectors. This paper carefully lays out the historical context for the publication of this “picture novel,” reviewing the state of the comics industry, …

"Do Not Fashion The Other": Representing Contemporary Haudenosaunee Literature 2016, Michael Patrick Brewster

Master's Theses

Historically, the issue of representation in postcolonial studies is one of some contention. While scholarship might recognize the necessity for highlighting the plights and struggles attendant to postcolonial societies, the primary literature being studied is most often written by natives of those societies themselves. This gap is especially evident with Indigenous cultures, because there are relatively few Indigenous scholars working in the academy. We are at the point now when we have a multiplicity (but not a plurality) of Indigenous voices writing literature (poetry, memoir, fiction, film, etc.) and academic criticism. However, there is value in non-Natives reading and writing …

'The Letter Killeth': The Obscurity Of Language And Communication In Thomas Hardy's Jude The Obscure 2016, Victoria T. Corning

Master's Theses

While the epistolary novel is a genre closely associated with 18th century England, 19th century Victorian literature also incorporates letter writing as a significant form of communication. Written messages convey what can often not be said out loud, as it is easier to hide behind a pen and paper, write in solitude, and be absent when the letter is read by the recipient. Impulsive and emotional thoughts and feelings can be written down immediately and then later edited, which makes writing an unstable form of communication. Is the author conveying true feelings or concealing true feelings? Layering multiple modes of …

William Faulkner's Southern Landscape, Rachel V. Ford

English Undergraduate Honors Theses

The American South is a region full of rich and complicated history, undergoing slavery, war, poverty, ecological devastation, and racial violence. One of the most famous and distinctly southern writers of the twentieth century is William Faulkner, whose works challenge the idealistic Lost Cause mentality of white supremacy and highlight major issues within southern society. Faulkner’s writings are set in Mississippi, grounded with a distinct sense of place. The southern landscape provides more than simply a backdrop to the stories, but plays an active role in plot and character development. This thesis examines three of Faulkner’s novels, discussing their historical …

"Mother, I Will": Female Subjectivity And Religious Vision In The Brontës Novels, Amanda Scott

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Anne, Charlotte, and Emily Brontë have long attracted sustained critical attention, in

large part because of their strong female protagonists. These strong-willed women self-assuredly reject oppression and model new paradigms for the Victorian woman to empower her subjectivity. This subjectivity serves, in turn, not only as the ability to form and express views counter to outworn social prescriptions, but it also serves as the centralized interior focus that allows their protagonists to think of themselves as the foremost subjects of their lives, rather than see themselves as pawns to be moved about in the games of patriarchal hierarchy. This study …

The Threat At Court: Subversive Uses Of Translation, Transcription, And Tradition In The Henrician Court, Rebecca Marie Moore

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This project aims to consider the use, at the Henrician court, of the strategies of translation, transcription, and tradition to cushion and to code the presentation of dangerous and radical ideas. Each of these strategies allows the authors deniability, while nonetheless allowing them to communicate clearly with their readers. These writers speak in a code that can be interpreted by anyone at court, but use that code to create just enough distance to avoid overt confrontation with the king. This is further complicated, though, by the king’s own deeply influential role in the creation of that code. Each strategy also …