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Synthesizing The Sublime And Beautiful: Aesthetics In Shelley's "Hymn To Intellectual Beauty", Christopher T. Lough
Synthesizing The Sublime And Beautiful: Aesthetics In Shelley's "Hymn To Intellectual Beauty", Christopher T. Lough
Student Publications
As a Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley bristled at rationalistic attempts to definitively categorize the human condition. Taking Edmund Burke’s treatise “On the Sublime and Beautiful” as his chief foil, Shelley explored aesthetic categories that certain strains of Enlightenment thought had held apart from one another. In my brief exegesis of his “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” from 1816, I build on Rudolf Otto’s concept of the numinous and the work of intellectual historian Frank Ankersmit to argue that Shelley presents a holistic account of experience with the ineffable.
Béchamel, Jhanvi C. Ramaiya
Béchamel, Jhanvi C. Ramaiya
Student Publications
"In fluid, confident prose, this essay deftly moves through fascinating historical background on one of the ‘mother sauces’ and into a story of mother-to-daughter education before turning its focus to a story of learning through a blend of past teachings and independent experiences.” - Elissa Washuta, Author, Judge for the Virginia Woolf Essay Prize
Souvenir, Kathryn Rhett
Souvenir, Kathryn Rhett
Gettysburg College Faculty Books
A collection of autobiographical essays
Souvenir, a collection of autobiographical essays rooted in the present, investigates travel, staying put, and how it is that our experience of being here right now includes so much of being elsewhere at another time. Rhett reconciles present to past in serious encounters with birth and death, alongside lighter observations. In a world that makes no sense except the sense we make of it, Souvenir plays with the dynamics of home and away to represent the fullness of daily life. [From the publisher]
On Loss, Abigail E. Ferguson
Everything, Hannah M. Frantz
Everything, Hannah M. Frantz
Student Publications
This is a memoir piece that details a tumultuous period in my life between departing for my study abroad experience in Rwanda and Uganda, struggling with what I encountered there, and then attempting to reintegrate into the same life prior to my departure. Specifically, it focuses on my time in northern Uganda, and a women I met in an IDP (internal displaced persons) camp who really made me think about what my role should be both there and at home. This piece explores a number of themes including guilt, blame, and, ultimately, a certain amount of forgiveness.
Just Another Girl, Julia D. Marshella
Just Another Girl, Julia D. Marshella
Student Publications
A non-fiction piece that explores the causes of the author’s depression while in college. While she is able to pinpoint specific events that have led to her unhappiness, she realizes that accepting her life in spite of these obstacles will allow her to move forward.
Cold And Calculating, Kathryn E. Slezak
Cold And Calculating, Kathryn E. Slezak
Student Publications
This nonfiction essay investigates the relationship between eye contact and power in different situations. It brings up the idea that animals and humans are less different than often thought to be, and how body language is transcendent. It uses this underlying theme to investigate the author’s changing relationship with her father.
Red Rose, Sara Lauren Purifoy
Red Rose, Sara Lauren Purifoy
Student Publications
Red Rose follows the narrator’s innermost thoughts and feelings of abruptly being immersed into a culture very different from her own. While hiking with her brother, a second year environmental Peace Corps volunteer, to visit the home and garden of a Nicaraguan native, she reflects on the changes she sees in her brother and her inability to communicate in a foreign country. She struggles to overcome her feelings of linguistic isolation while still being fascinated by the culture around her. The piece ends on a lovely image of universal understanding.
Snap, Krista L. Mccormick
Ashes, Matthew Haines
Untitled, Sarah A. Turner
Ross Adams: The Moment Of, Stephen Lin
Shake It Out, Christina M. Gallo
The One That Got Away, Jeremiah D. Johnston
A Painful "Yet To Be", Joshua R. Granberry
Your Life As A Minority At Gettysburg College, Margaret J. Johnson
Your Life As A Minority At Gettysburg College, Margaret J. Johnson
The Mercury
No abstract provided.
Breathless Sleep, Karl O. Utermohlen
Sanguine, Kathryn Rhett
Sanguine, Kathryn Rhett
English Faculty Publications
Health care in America: even my doctor lines up for the community multiphasic blood screening, rather than going to the regular lab.
It costs thirty-two dollars for the usual screen, plus ten dollars for thyroid, or PSA or B-12. The blood-drawing used to be held at the local rec park building. Now it’s at the county emergency services building, outside of town on a brand-new winding country road. They could just as well hold it at the public library, or firehouse, or agricultural center—any large room usable for voting, or the traveling reptile show, could be set up for phlebotomy. …
The Crash, Amanda C. Kreuter
Lessons Learned From The World's Oldest Dad, Rebecca L. Johnson
Lessons Learned From The World's Oldest Dad, Rebecca L. Johnson
The Mercury
No abstract provided.
For Elise, Victoria J. Reynolds
The Trouble With Empathy, Morgan H. Marianelli
Flipped, Mariah A. Wirth
What Are The Odds?, Kristyn M. Turner
Addiction For Dummies, Anthony Mccomiskey
Culture Shock, Rachel E. Ciniewicz
Wayward, Kathryn Rhett
Wayward, Kathryn Rhett
English Faculty Publications
It’s hard to imagine, now, how it was that I took up with that boy in South Carolina, but facts are facts. William Buchanan Redmond was lawless and drawling, full of sideways glances and outrageous proposals. He went by Cannon.
One night on Hilton Head Island, where I was staying with a friend’s family (thanks to private school I had friends with houses on Nantucket, etcetera, though I lived in a modest house with my mother and sister that we were renovating to resell), he approached me at an outdoor concert. A guitarist was playing a sing-along rendition of “Take …
Ms-086: Kathrine Kressmann Taylor (Rood) Papers, Catherine Q. Perry
Ms-086: Kathrine Kressmann Taylor (Rood) Papers, Catherine Q. Perry
All Finding Aids
The Kathrine Kressmann Taylor (Rood) collection consists of materials relating to her writing career, 1938-1978. These primarily include several versions of typed manuscripts, editions of the journals or magazines in which Taylor (Rood’s) stories appeared, several editions of her books, articles, and book reviews.
Special Collections and College Archives Finding Aids are discovery tools used to describe and provide access to our holdings. Finding aids include historical and biographical information about each collection in addition to inventories of their content. More information about our collections can be found on our website https://www.gettysburg.edu/special-collections/collections/.
Conception: A Personal History, Kathryn Rhett
Conception: A Personal History, Kathryn Rhett
English Faculty Publications
November 19 is Remembrance Day in Gettysburg, the day that Lincoln dedicated part of the battlefield as a cemetery for the Civil War dead in 1863. That year in July the dead lay on the battlefield, on the farmers’ fields planted with crops and in the summer-green woods where they had taken positions behind boulders and tree trunks. Some lay covered with dirt, and others just lay bare to the weather. When land for a cemetery was set aside, the townspeople moved the dead to proper graves.
As a citizen of Gettysburg more than a century later, I carry no …
In Transit, Kathryn Rhett
In Transit, Kathryn Rhett
English Faculty Publications
There is the birthplace and there is the deathplace. We are in the deathplace. The deathplace is Bad Aibling, in southern Germany, just north of the Austrian border. To get here, we have driven through the Tyrol, the Italian-Austrian-German alpine region in which gingerbread houses stack up on the green slopes of valleys.
Bad Aibling sounds fitting for a deathplace, a bad place, though in fact “bad” means “bath.” As we drive on a two-lane road, we see cars parked in bunches on the grassy shoulder, and it seems people might be bathing, dipping their feet in the country creeks …