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Of Blockheads And Elitists, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe Jan 2012

Of Blockheads And Elitists, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Hal Blythe

No abstract provided.


Mason's Shiloh, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe Jan 2012

Mason's Shiloh, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Hal Blythe

No abstract provided.


Death Imagery In Bobbie Ann Mason's 'Shiloh', Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe Jan 2012

Death Imagery In Bobbie Ann Mason's 'Shiloh', Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Hal Blythe

No abstract provided.


Pop Goes The Culture, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe Jan 2012

Pop Goes The Culture, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Hal Blythe

No abstract provided.


Mason's 'Shiloh', Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe Jan 2012

Mason's 'Shiloh', Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Hal Blythe

No abstract provided.


The Ties That Bind, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe Nov 2011

The Ties That Bind, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Hal Blythe

Discusses the bond between the readers and characters of a story. Information on how to create a character for a story; Background on some characters of a story, including Lady Macbeth in the book 'Heart of Darkness,' by Joseph Conrad; Details of some specific character traits that create a bond with readers.


More Than A Place, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe Nov 2011

More Than A Place, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Hal Blythe

Many stories fail to capture the reader's interest even though they have a clear point of view, well-rounded characters and an interesting plot. What's missing? One key element that writers frequently overlook is setting. They treat it merely as backdrop.


"Shiloh": A Mini-Casebook Approach To Upper-Division Literature Courses, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe Nov 2011

"Shiloh": A Mini-Casebook Approach To Upper-Division Literature Courses, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Hal Blythe

Shows how the mini-casebook approach, with a few modifications, works well with upper-division writing assignments. Notes that a mini-casebook approach is nothing more than a self-published document including a primary work of literature, selected secondary sources on that work, and a selection of several specified topics on the primary source. Presents eight suggestions for implementing the mini-casebook approach


Hawthorne's Dating Problem In "The Scarlet Letter", Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe Nov 2011

Hawthorne's Dating Problem In "The Scarlet Letter", Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Hal Blythe

This article explores the dating problem in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, The Scarlet Letter. In The Custom House, Hawthorne relates how he discovers several foolscap sheets written by a predecessor, Mr. Surveyor Pue, about Hester Prynne. These six sheets supposedly offer two types of accounts about Hester: aged persons, alive in the time of Pue and from whose oral testimony he had made up his narrative, remembered her, in their youth and those who had heard the tale from contemporary witnesses. A dating problem arises with the first group. Critics concur that historical documents place the events in The Scarlet Letter …


Hemingway's "The Killers", Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe Nov 2011

Hemingway's "The Killers", Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Hal Blythe

In his seminal study Hemingway and the Dead Gods, John Killinger relates Papa's fictional world to existententialism, concluding that Hemingway sees that individuality is not a quality which can be superimposed externally on a man, but that it must be internally achieved by a decision to be at all times an authentic person and to accept the full responsibility of action proper to a primary agent. In his philosophy, as in that of Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Sartre, the opportunity for such a decision is presented as a moment of crisis, which, for him, is produced by confronting death or violence.


Blues For Ron, Linda Niemann Oct 2003

Blues For Ron, Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

No abstract provided.


Boomer In A Boom Town, Linda Niemann Oct 2003

Boomer In A Boom Town, Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

No abstract provided.


Performed Subjectivity: The Absence Of Interiority In Pamela, Adrianne Wadewitz Sep 2003

Performed Subjectivity: The Absence Of Interiority In Pamela, Adrianne Wadewitz

Adrianne Wadewitz

In this paper I will challenge the dominant reading of Pamela that argues that Richardson constructs an interiorized character in Pamela through her letters and her occupation of the private space of the closet. I will contend, on the other hand, that Pamela does not have an independent, identifiable private self because of the performative nature of her letters and her movements; she develops subjectivity only when she performs. Furthermore, she performs various ‘roles’ such as maid, wife and lover, thus not inhabiting any one identity. Pamela does not so much present either a publication of the private or a …


Gender In Sartre's Early Fiction: The Making Of Femininity And Masculinity In "The Room" And Dirty Hands, Jean Wyatt Sep 2003

Gender In Sartre's Early Fiction: The Making Of Femininity And Masculinity In "The Room" And Dirty Hands, Jean Wyatt

Jean Wyatt

No abstract provided.


More Than A Place, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe Aug 2003

More Than A Place, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Charlie Sweet

Many stories fail to capture the reader's interest even though they have a clear point of view, well-rounded characters and an interesting plot. What's missing? One key element that writers frequently overlook is setting. They treat it merely as backdrop.


Doubting Thomas’: The Failure Of Religious Appropriation In The Age Of Reason, Adrianne Wadewitz Aug 2003

Doubting Thomas’: The Failure Of Religious Appropriation In The Age Of Reason, Adrianne Wadewitz

Adrianne Wadewitz

No abstract provided.


The Overdetermining Religious Rhetoric(S) Of Blake’S And Paine’S Theosophies, Adrianne Wadewitz Jun 2003

The Overdetermining Religious Rhetoric(S) Of Blake’S And Paine’S Theosophies, Adrianne Wadewitz

Adrianne Wadewitz

Emphasizing a conflict between Paine the rationalist and Blake the prophet, scholars studying the relationship between Blake’s and Paine’s religious writings have chosen to focus more heavily on the political rather than the religious aspects of the texts. For example, John Coates writes that ‘Paine and Blake epitomise the two poles of a revolutionary dialectic between political pragmatism, action, rational planning on the one hand, and on the other, the constant need for visionary flexibility, a relation to change as a whole process, rather than one final goal’ (Woodcock and Coates, Combative Styles 104-5). This is, I believe, a simplified …


Race, Gender, Interpellation, Jean Wyatt May 2003

Race, Gender, Interpellation, Jean Wyatt

Jean Wyatt

No abstract provided.


Draw Play, Hal Charles Apr 2003

Draw Play, Hal Charles

Charlie Sweet

No abstract provided.


How The Axe Falls: A Retrospective On Twenty-Five Years Of Sir Gawain And The Green Knight Performance, Linda Marie Zaerr Mar 2003

How The Axe Falls: A Retrospective On Twenty-Five Years Of Sir Gawain And The Green Knight Performance, Linda Marie Zaerr

Linda Marie Zaerr

No abstract provided.


The Ties That Bind, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe Feb 2003

The Ties That Bind, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Charlie Sweet

Discusses the bond between the readers and characters of a story. Information on how to create a character for a story; Background on some characters of a story, including Lady Macbeth in the book 'Heart of Darkness,' by Joseph Conrad; Details of some specific character traits that create a bond with readers.


First Class Exercise, Linda Niemann Jan 2003

First Class Exercise, Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

No abstract provided.


Of Blockheads And Elitists, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe Dec 2002

Of Blockheads And Elitists, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Charlie Sweet

No abstract provided.


Death Imagery In Bobbie Ann Mason's 'Shiloh', Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe Dec 2002

Death Imagery In Bobbie Ann Mason's 'Shiloh', Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Charlie Sweet

No abstract provided.


Lof En Eigi Háð? The Riddle Of Grettis Saga Verse 14, Russell Poole Dec 2002

Lof En Eigi Háð? The Riddle Of Grettis Saga Verse 14, Russell Poole

Russell Poole

No abstract provided.


Ralph Ellison And The Politics Of The Novel, H. Rice Dec 2002

Ralph Ellison And The Politics Of The Novel, H. Rice

H. William Rice

No abstract provided.


Hawthorne's Dating Problem In "The Scarlet Letter", Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe Dec 2002

Hawthorne's Dating Problem In "The Scarlet Letter", Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Charlie Sweet

This article explores the dating problem in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, The Scarlet Letter. In The Custom House, Hawthorne relates how he discovers several foolscap sheets written by a predecessor, Mr. Surveyor Pue, about Hester Prynne. These six sheets supposedly offer two types of accounts about Hester: aged persons, alive in the time of Pue and from whose oral testimony he had made up his narrative, remembered her, in their youth and those who had heard the tale from contemporary witnesses. A dating problem arises with the first group. Critics concur that historical documents place the events in The Scarlet Letter …


Out Of It: Alienation And Coercion In D. H. Lawrence, Anne Fernald Dec 2002

Out Of It: Alienation And Coercion In D. H. Lawrence, Anne Fernald

Anne E Fernald

No abstract provided.


"Shiloh": A Mini-Casebook Approach To Upper-Division Literature Courses, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe Dec 2002

"Shiloh": A Mini-Casebook Approach To Upper-Division Literature Courses, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Charlie Sweet

Shows how the mini-casebook approach, with a few modifications, works well with upper-division writing assignments. Notes that a mini-casebook approach is nothing more than a self-published document including a primary work of literature, selected secondary sources on that work, and a selection of several specified topics on the primary source. Presents eight suggestions for implementing the mini-casebook approach


Mason's 'Shiloh', Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe Dec 2002

Mason's 'Shiloh', Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Charlie Sweet

No abstract provided.