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"Song Is The Simple Rhythmic Liberation Of An Emotion": Stephen Dedalus' Musical Martyrdom, Colleen E. Mulhern

The Criterion

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, published in 1916, is Joyce’s semi-autobiographical bildungsroman centered on Stephen Dedalus’ struggle to reconcile Catholic teachings with his own artistic ambitions. In Portrait, music aids Stephen’s epiphanies. Stephen uses music to express emotions unable to be conceived of in – what Joyce calls –“cut-and-dry language.” He appreciates the ability of songs to arouse emotion and induce thought; the songs that Stephen encounters help to form his identity, first as a martyr and, later, as a creator.

Awarded The Leonard J. McCarthy, S.J., Memorial Prize for 2018

Review: Time, Domesticity And Print Culture In Nineteenth-Century Britain, Katherine Malone

English Faculty Publications

This is review of Time, Domesticity, and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Maria Damkjaer was published on the website Review 19.

Eng 200: Protection Vs. Slavery In The Tempest, Emily Caldwell

English 100-200-300 Conference

No abstract provided.

Debt's Poetry In Timon Of Athens, Laura Kolb

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Theatrical Weddings And Pious Frauds: Performance And Law In Victorian Marriage Plots, Adrianne A. Wojcik

Dissertations (1934 -)

This study investigates how key Victorian novelists, such as Anne and Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, emphasize performativity in their critiques of marriage. Given the performative nature of wedding ceremonies, this project focuses on wedding descriptions in select novels by the aforementioned authors. Such a focus highlights an interesting dilemma. Although we often think of Victorian novels as overwhelmingly concerned with marriage, the few wedding descriptions found in Victorian fiction are aborted, unusually short or announced after the fact. Those Victorian novelists who do feature weddings often describe them …

An Exploration Of Female Sexuality, Class Status, And Art In Hardy’S Short Stories, Erin M. Lanza

Student Publications

In this paper, I examine Hardy’s treatment of female sexuality as mediated by art in two short stories: “The Fiddler of the Reels” and “An Imaginative Woman.” Given Hardy’s role as an artist, his noted compassion for women, and his interest in Victorian attitudes toward sexuality, my analysis of these topics in his short stories is particularly relevant. Hardy’s investment in class issues is also pertinent, as I consider how Hardy uses his heroines’ relationships with art to underline the distinct disadvantages of lower-class women. While Ella, the middle-class heroine of “An Imaginative Woman,” uses poetry to channel stagnant sensual …

Who Cries?: Tears And Otherness In The Middle Ages, Hyeree Ellis 18

Honor Scholar Theses

No abstract provided.

Spenser’S Narrative Figuration Of Women In The Faerie Queene, Judith H. Anderson

Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

Concentrating on major figures of women in The Faerie Queene, together with the figures constellated around them, Anderson's Narrative Figuration explores the contribution of Spenser's epic romance to an appreciation of women's plights and possibilities in the age of Elizabeth. The figures she highlights encompass the idealization of Una, humanized by parody; the historicized fixation of Belphoebe; the cross-dressed complexity of Britomart; and the psychological misery of Serena, a throwback to Amoret. They range from cartoons to a fullness sharing numerous features with the Shakespearean women salient in recent debates about character. The critical lens most revealing for each …

The Third Gender And Ælfric's Lives Of Saints, Rhonda L. Mcdaniel

Richard Rawlinson Center Series

In The Third Gender, McDaniel addresses the idea of the "third gender" in early hagiography and Latin treatises on virginity and then examines Ælfric's treatment of gender in his translations of Latin monastic Lives for his non-monastic audiences. She first investigates patristic ideas about a "third gender" by describing this concept within the theoretical frameworks of monasticism provided by the four Latin Doctors and illustrated in the early Latin Lives of Roman martyrs, revealing the importance of memory in the construction of the monastic "third gender." In the second section McDaniel turns to creating a historical and theological cultural …

Turning “Bad Jews Into Worse Christians”: Hermann Adler And The London Society For Promoting Christianity Amongst The Jews, Robert Ellison

English Faculty Research

This paper explores how sermons contributed to Jewish-Christian relations in Victorian England. I begin with a rhetorical analysis of sermons preached on behalf of the London Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews, the largest and best known missionary organization of its kind. I then examine a collection of sermons in which Hermann Adler, then rabbi of London’s Bayswater Synagogue and later Chief Rabbi of the British Empire, pushes back against their efforts, offering the “true explanations” of passages which, in his view, had been improperly employed by Christian preachers. Finally, I trace a kind of “feedback loop” in which …

Romola: The Failure Of A Husband And Triumph Of A Wife, Ryan Harding

Seaver College Research And Scholarly Achievement Symposium

George Eliot’s fifteenth century romance Romola follows the coming of age and independence of the titular character, an Italian noblewoman during the Renaissance. This essay examines the development of the relationship between Romola and her husband Tito’s common law wife, Tessa, specifically through the impact of Tito’s personal failures on both women. Throughout the novel, Romola struggles with her failed marriage, her need for personal connection, and Tito’s poor treatment of Tessa. Using the knowledge gained from her experiences and Tito’s poor behavior as an example, Romola transforms herself into the proper husband figure for Tessa: a provider, protector, and …

Parallels Of Morality: Wilde And Nietzsche’S Challenge To Social Obligation, Amzie A. Dunekacke

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

This thesis explores Irish author Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray in relation to a selection of texts by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. To demonstrate the similarities between Wilde and Nietzsche’s challenges to European morality, this work considers these themes, which are present in the ideologies of both Wilde and Nietzsche: the body and sensual pleasure, social construction, and the hypocrisy of altruism. Both radical thinkers castigate Platonic notions of the body as ignoble and weak, and they mock European propriety’s shyness of the body. In addition, Wilde and Nietzsche offer similar criticisms of social laws, adopting a …

"Christen It With Thy Dagger's Point": Maternal Mistreatment In Shakespeare's Roman Plays, Anne Mcilhaney

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.

"She May Strew Dangerous Conjectures": The Political Sedition And Social Potency Of _Hamlet_'S Ophelia, Christina M. Luiggi

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.

Sadomasochistic Cyclicality: Appropriations Of Shakespeare's "Dark Lady" Sonnets In Dickens's _Great Expectations_, Daniel G. Lauby

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.

Young Shakespeare: Culture, Patrons, And Connections, David George

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.

Hubert's Encounters With The Succession In Shakespeare's King John, Marcia Eppich-Harris

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.

Encountering Shakespeare's Cleopatra: The Subversion Of The Occident's Threat Of Objectification, Amany El-Sawy

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.

Front Matter, Emily Isaacson

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.

Language As Communication Vs. Language As Art: J.R.R. Tolkien And Early 20th-Century Radical Linguistic Experimentation, Dimitra Fimi

Journal of Tolkien Research

This article situates Tolkien’s “A Secret Vice” (and its accompanying notes and papers) within the cultural and intellectual milieu of the early 20th century. It claims that at the heart of Tolkien’s exploration in this material is the question of language as communication vs. language as art. It argues that Tolkien’s language invention navigates the (perceived) binary between a utilitarian aim for language invention (contemporary International Auxiliary Languages) vs. an aesthetic linguistic pursuit (contemporary Modernist and other avant-garde linguistic experimentation), by choosing a third (middle) way. It examines Tolkien's linguistic invention alongside the work of Sapir, Jespersen, Joyce, Stein, and …

Robert Burns’S Politics And The French Revolution, G. Ross Roy

Selected Essays on Robert Burns by G. Ross Roy

A sympathetic survey of Burns's changing political ideas before, during and after the French Revolution

Preface, Patrick Scott

Selected Essays on Robert Burns by G. Ross Roy

A brief introduction to Ross Roy's Selected Essays with a note on editorial procedure

Details On Printed Volume: Prelims, Dedication, Abbreviations, Contents Page, Patrick Scott, Elizabeth Sudduth, Jo Durant

Selected Essays on Robert Burns by G. Ross Roy

Consolidated prelims pages from the print edition of this book, giving seties and publication information (including ISBN), the dedication to Lucie Roy (1924-2018), abbreviations, and contents page.

Robert Burns: A Self-Portrait, G. Ross Roy

Selected Essays on Robert Burns by G. Ross Roy

An essay looking at Burns as he portrays himself in his letters, notable for looking at how different correspondents bring out different aspects of his character.

The Bible In Burns And Scott, G. Ross Roy

Selected Essays on Robert Burns by G. Ross Roy

Surveys and compares the use of Biblical reference and allusion in two major Scottish writers, Robert Burns and Walter Scott

Editing Robert Burns In The Nineteenth Century, G. Ross Roy

Selected Essays on Robert Burns by G. Ross Roy

Surveys and assesses the major Burns editors from James Currie and Robert Cromek, through Allan Cunningham and Robert Chambers, to Scott Douglas, and the Chambers-Wallace and Henley-Henderson editions.

Robert Burns And The Brash And Reid Chapbooks, G. Ross Roy

Selected Essays on Robert Burns by G. Ross Roy

A survey and discussion of the poems and songs by Robert Burns included in one of the major Scottish late-18th century chapbook series, published by Brash and Reid of Glasgow, and collected in their series Poetry Original and Selected.

Robert Burns And The Merry Muses Of Caledonia, G. Ross Roy

Selected Essays on Robert Burns by G. Ross Roy

An introduction for a reprint of the first edition of The Merry Muses of Caledonia, collection of (sometimes) bawdy songs, including some by Burns, first printed in 1799, probably in Edinburgh, for the Crochallan Fencibles. an Edinburgh social club to which Burns belonged.

Addenda To "Publications By G. Ross Roy: A Checklist", Patrick Scott

Selected Essays on Robert Burns by G. Ross Roy

The original checklist of Ross Roy’s published writings, 1954-2011, compiled by Patrick Scott and Justin Mellette, appeared in Robert Burns and Friends, ed. Scott and Simpson (2012), 162-180. The list here notes a few earlier items retrieved from Ross Roy’s own files and updates the checklist to cover more recent publications, through 2015.

Sources And Acknowledgements, Patrick Scott

Selected Essays on Robert Burns by G. Ross Roy

A consolidated list with the pubication history of each essay, original publication venue, copyright status (which is G. Ross Roy, and Estate of G. Ross Roy/Studies in Scottish Literature unless otherwise specified), and where permission from the original publisher(s) or their successors.