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Defining Gender Differences In Suriname Through Language, Shaun Hunley, Dr. David Bowie
Defining Gender Differences In Suriname Through Language, Shaun Hunley, Dr. David Bowie
Journal of Undergraduate Research
For the people of Suriname, the word “Sranan” is more than just a word, it is a symbol of national pride and independence. “Sranan” is the native word for Suriname, a small country on the northeastern coast of South America. Throughout its remarkable history, Suriname has transformed into a nation rich in culture and values. Its unique society bears the scars of Dutch colonialism while absorbing facets of African, Indian, and Indonesian cultures.
Treatment Of Gender In Adolescent Fantasy Literature: An Analysis Of J.K. Rowling And Robin Mckinley, Amberly Draper, Dr. Joyce Nelson
Treatment Of Gender In Adolescent Fantasy Literature: An Analysis Of J.K. Rowling And Robin Mckinley, Amberly Draper, Dr. Joyce Nelson
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Gender portrayal is a topic at the forefront of literacy studies; current research seems to indicate that both boys and girls have been negatively affected by exposure to inequitable portrayals of gender in adolescent literature. My research has focused on two popular fantasy fiction writers in an attempt to show examples of young adult literature depicting positive and enabling gender roles and characteristics, portrayals which I think are capable of helping girls and boys. This report will relate some of the history of gender based literary analysis, give an overview of the works of Rowling and McKinley, and then give …
What I Meant To Say… My Experiment In Writing A First Novel, Olivia Debbie Birdsall, Dr. Louise Plummer
What I Meant To Say… My Experiment In Writing A First Novel, Olivia Debbie Birdsall, Dr. Louise Plummer
Journal of Undergraduate Research
I find it difficult to begin this report with a generalization about my topic of study, as most ORCA recipients do, because there is no generalization that seems appropriate for the subject of writing, or what my experience with it over the last year has been. Writing a novel, especially your first, is bound to be as unique an experience for each writer as the novels they produce. One great quandary simply doesn’t exist, nor does one great solution, nor one infallible technique or manner of writing. I did not set out to solve a problem that affects all of …
Gerard Manley Hopkins And Old English Poetic Compounds, Ryan Christensen, Dr. Don Chapman
Gerard Manley Hopkins And Old English Poetic Compounds, Ryan Christensen, Dr. Don Chapman
Journal of Undergraduate Research
It has become almost commonplace to assume a strong connection between the poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, a Victorian poet, and the Old English tradition. Hopkins himself noted similarities, as have critics from the year his poems were first published. One aspect of Hopkins’ style that has often been assumed to be similar to Old English is his use of compound words. Because compound words are such a noticeable feature both of Hopkins’ work and of the Old English poems, many have implied that Hopkins’ compounds are somehow derivative of their Old English counterparts.
God’S Youngest Son: A Novel Of The Taiping Rebellion, Adam H. Greenwood, Dr. Chris Crowe
God’S Youngest Son: A Novel Of The Taiping Rebellion, Adam H. Greenwood, Dr. Chris Crowe
Journal of Undergraduate Research
The Taiping, a native Chinese Christian movement and rebellion in the 1850s and 1860s, had prophecy, polygamy, and wanted to set up God’s kingdom here on the earth. These positions earned them the opposition of China’s missionaries and colonial powers, not to mention that of their own government, the Manchu Imperial dynasty.
Nineteenth Century Mormon Poetry, Samuel S. Harkness, Dr. Richard H. Cracroft
Nineteenth Century Mormon Poetry, Samuel S. Harkness, Dr. Richard H. Cracroft
Journal of Undergraduate Research
I still recall the day over four years ago when a General Authority proclaimed the LDS hymnal to be a ‘book of scripture.’ His seemingly bold declaration surprised me; but after reconsideration, it made sense. Some of the most spiritual times in my life have been accompanied by these “songs of the heart” (Doctrine and Covenants 45) Thus, the Preface of the hymnal reads, “Some of the greatest sermons are preached by the singing of hymns” (First Presidency ix). From then on, I viewed the hymns in a different light.
Sarcasm In The Bible: Old Testament Prophets And The Unbridled Tongue, Leanna Kowallis, Dr. Steven Walker
Sarcasm In The Bible: Old Testament Prophets And The Unbridled Tongue, Leanna Kowallis, Dr. Steven Walker
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Studying the Bible as literature, as opposed to studying it solely as scripture, opens up many insights into the meaning of the text. These insights are gained by viewing the text through different lenses, one of which is humor, and more specifically, sarcasm. Whether they are blatant or subtle, sarcastic remarks are found throughout the Bible in many different anecdotes and personalities. Although it is commonly believed that humor and sarcasm have no place in scripture, I believe they do have value as tools to understanding what is happening in the text.
Making Thai Literature Available To The English Speaking Audience: Translating Ganokpong Songsomphan’S Stories From Thai To English, Lewis Jones, Dr. Alma Keith Lawrence
Making Thai Literature Available To The English Speaking Audience: Translating Ganokpong Songsomphan’S Stories From Thai To English, Lewis Jones, Dr. Alma Keith Lawrence
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Currently many readers are beginning to turn to translated literature to add some spice to their readings. Magazines such as Harper’s and The New Yorker are publishing more and more translated literature as the demand for it continues to grow. Much of the translated literature which is published is Asian literature; however, it is mainly Chinese and Japanese literature which is currently being translated. When I searched online to find the Thai literature available, I was disappointed to find that it consisted mainly of cook books. I thought that the Asian literature audience, if given the chance, would appreciate Thai …
The Impact Of Latino Folklore On The Future Of American Culture, Sally M. Giles, Dr. Trenton Hickman
The Impact Of Latino Folklore On The Future Of American Culture, Sally M. Giles, Dr. Trenton Hickman
Journal of Undergraduate Research
A wide variety of nationalities have come together in this country to create what we now call American culture. As any culture develops, the folklore that is passed down from one generation to the next, in the form of stories and anecdotes, plays a vital role. Recently, Latinos have become the largest minority group in the United States, and rising. In order to understand the future of American culture, we must examine the stories that Latinos are currently passing down to their children.
Metatheatrical Gender: The Empowerment Of Female Roles In Renaissance Theater, Elisa Clements, Dr. Gideon O. Burton
Metatheatrical Gender: The Empowerment Of Female Roles In Renaissance Theater, Elisa Clements, Dr. Gideon O. Burton
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Discussions about women in our 21st century era when awareness of feminist issues is intensified ultimately boil down to questions of identity and roles. The different roles that women play, the hats that they wear on a daily basis and trade regularly for other hats, require different things of them–a different performance in each role. Tradition, society, culture, and religion each influence their performance and their script. Why do they wear these multiple hats and what do these shifting costumes indicate about their true identities? In a situation similar to our modernday focus on women, during the English Renaissance questions …
Resolving Ethical Issues In Creating A Web Site, Leigh Brown, Heather Kirby, Doris R. Dant
Resolving Ethical Issues In Creating A Web Site, Leigh Brown, Heather Kirby, Doris R. Dant
Journal of Undergraduate Research
For many people today, the Internet and its technical components are still fairly new. While building websites has become a popular pastime, many people want to join in. The web site Heather and I have been creating offers helpful guidelines for creating a website and discusses important ethical issues regarding publishing on the web. Our home page navigation bar consists of seven menu items: Being Reliable, Maintaining Accurate Content, Getting Permissions, Linking Ethically, Registering, Copyrighting, and Being Aware of Other Issues. Each of these homepage items links to a separate page on the site. On each page we discuss, in …
Tutoring Techniques In Online Vs. Face-To-Face Environments, Melissa Helquist, Dr. Beverly Zimmerman
Tutoring Techniques In Online Vs. Face-To-Face Environments, Melissa Helquist, Dr. Beverly Zimmerman
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Online tutoring is a commonly used, but rarely evaluated, pedagogical extension of the traditional campus writing center. Online tutoring moves one-on-one student/ tutor conferences from a familiar face-to-face environment to the less familiar environment of the Internet (via email, chatrooms, MOOs, etc.) I conducted a qualitative study, observing over the course of a semester the workings of UVSC’s online tutorial system. I initially planned to focus on the student side of the issue, to document how students were helped or hindered by tutorials in the online environment; however, because of low student involvement in my research project, my focus moved …
Re-Scripting Mexican-Americans In Chicana/O Juvenile Literature, Xóchitl Michaela Anson, Dr. Trenton Hickman
Re-Scripting Mexican-Americans In Chicana/O Juvenile Literature, Xóchitl Michaela Anson, Dr. Trenton Hickman
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Previous to this project I gathered information (photographs, newspaper articles and reviews, advertisements, and dime novels) interrogating misconceptions and stereotypes of Mexican- Americans that have dominated the American literary canon for at least the last two centuries. For this project I focused primarily on 20th century Chicana/o texts in two fundamental ways. Firstly, I considered particular political, social and economic events directly affecting Mexican- Americans and how much these events account for the flood of Chicana/o texts throughout the Chicano movement to the present. Secondly, by combining my first directive with my previous research, I expected to better identify the …
Melancholy, Medicine, And Religion In Early Modern England: Reading The Anatomy Of Melancholy: Book Review, Samara Anne Cahill
Melancholy, Medicine, And Religion In Early Modern England: Reading The Anatomy Of Melancholy: Book Review, Samara Anne Cahill
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
In Melancholy, Medicine and Religion in Early Modern England: Reading The Anatomy of Melancholy (2010), Mary Ann Lund challenges what she sees as the excesses, on one hand, of attempting to shoehorn Robert Burton's idiosyncratic text into a single genre and, on the other, of reader-response interpretations of the Anatomy. Lund tackles the Anatomy's notorious unwieldiness by treating the text as a guidebook intended to combat all types of melancholy for any type of reader. In other words, the excessiveness of the Anatomy's form suggests the generosity of an author and pastor who sought to help everyone, …
Basnage De Beauval's "Reformation" Of The Dictionnaire Universel, David Eick
Basnage De Beauval's "Reformation" Of The Dictionnaire Universel, David Eick
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
Henri IV's Edict of Nantes (1598) granted official tolerance to French Protestants and ended the Wars of Religion that had raged throughout France during the second half of the sixteenth century. On October 22, 1685, Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes. Some two hundred thousand French Protestants sought exile in neighboring countries and in North America. The economic effects of the Protestant diaspora were disastrous for France; its cultural effects, unexpected and far-reaching. Much of the French publishing industry set up shop outside of France's national borders, in London, Geneva, Rotterdam, and Amsterdam, where publishers circumvented French regulations and …
The Empty Link: Zen Meditative Harmonics And Intimations Of Enlightenment In Pope1s Essay On Man And Shakespeare's Merchant Of Venice, John G. Rudy
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
Commenting on its status as "unmistakably a poem of its period;' Frank Brady complains that Alexander Pope's An Essay on Man . has not fared as well among readers as have other representative epics, specifically The Prelude and Paradise Lost: "While we still retain enough of the Romantic attitude toward life to understand Wordsworth, and enough knowledge, at least, of Christianity to understand Milton, the philosophical basis of Pope's viewpoint has disappeared todaf' The problem, according to Brady, lies in the relationship between reason, the quality which lends the period one of its names, and philosophical optimism, the basis …
Milton In Context: Book Review, Angela Eward-Mangione
Milton In Context: Book Review, Angela Eward-Mangione
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
John Milton evades literary categorization more than any of his early modern contemporaries. William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe primarily elicited fame through their contributions to English drama and poetry. John Donne is recognized as a master of both the sonnet and the sermon, though his love poetry remains a significant object of study as well. Milton, however, who wrote primarily as a poet and a pamphleteer, also worked as a government employee, actively engaging his social and political circumstances perhaps more than any other literary writer in early modern England. Milton's activism later led T. S. Eliot, when repenting his …
Theatre Of Crisis: The Performance Of Power In The Kingdom ·Of Ireland, 1662-1692: Book Review, Dave Mcginnis
Theatre Of Crisis: The Performance Of Power In The Kingdom ·Of Ireland, 1662-1692: Book Review, Dave Mcginnis
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
Patrick Tuite's book Theatre of Crisis ostensibly details the political and social underpinnings of play development and performative aesthetics in Ireland between 1662 and 1692. From a purely historical point of view, this alone would merit the writing of the text as a point of serious study since Irish drama has traditionally lagged behind its English counterpart, even during the very years on which Tuite focuses. In pursuing this subject, Tuite has crafted a text that not only encapsulates the aesthetic preferences of the relevant era on Ireland's dominant stage at the time, the Smock Alley Theatre, but he has …
Of Broomsticks, The "Moderns;' And Self-Expression, Nathalie Zimpfer
Of Broomsticks, The "Moderns;' And Self-Expression, Nathalie Zimpfer
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
Broomsticks have a history of making their way into Jonathan Swift's works. One might recall that such is the object of Peter's theologico-interpretive rantings in A Tale of a Tub, in which "after some pause the Brother so often mentioned for his Erudition, who was very skill'd in Criticisms, had found in a certain Author, which he said should be nameless, that the same Word which in the Will is called Fringe, does also signify Broom-stick." More conspicuously, said object is also at the heart of A Meditation upon a Broomstick, an amusing opuscule whose full title, A …
Concerning The Mysteries Of The Egyptians, J. V. B. M. V. St.
Concerning The Mysteries Of The Egyptians, J. V. B. M. V. St.
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
I t is a tragedy for the investigating intellect to have both its own resilience and the power to lift itself to something higher chained when it attempts to track the progress of human knowledge in the annals of the world, the shaping of the intellect, and the refinement of morals. The scholar is fettered in his desire to collect data, which contributed to the enlightenment of nations and which, so to speak, fermented the human mind so that it was able to lift itself up into higher regions and throw off prejudices. He is hindered in his work when …
Buddhism As Caricature: China And The Legitimation Of Natural Religion In The Enlightenment, Jeffery D. Burson
Buddhism As Caricature: China And The Legitimation Of Natural Religion In The Enlightenment, Jeffery D. Burson
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
Europe was unusually familiar with the ancient civilizations of East Asia, but however familiar China may have seemed, European missionaries and those who utilized and subverted their accounts in the literature of the eighteenth century made sense of China through their own hermeneutical lenses. David Porter's work Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europeargues that Jesuit missionaries and Enlightenment philosophers imposed upon China their Eurocentric quest for "representational legitimacy;' which Porter defines as "the presence of an originary wellspring of meaning that gives rise to a succession of grounded signifiers in which the living image of the origin …
Wesley And Methodist Studies: Book Review, Kathryn Stasio
Wesley And Methodist Studies: Book Review, Kathryn Stasio
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
Wesley and Methodist Studies once again provides carefully researched, worthwhile material demonstrating the important niche that the annual occupies. The word niche seems more applicable to volume 3 than to volume 2. This is certainly not a complaint or a criticism, but the primary articles of volume 3 are highly specialized and less likely to attract a wide audience. Clearly, the title of the annual alerts readers to its specialization, but some of the authors could have framed their arguments to show the reader the bigger picture instead of, for example, offering conclusions that summarize.
Under The Cape Of Religion: Herder And Shamanism In The Eighteenth Century, Vera Jakoby
Under The Cape Of Religion: Herder And Shamanism In The Eighteenth Century, Vera Jakoby
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
I f one were to undertake a genealogy of how Western Europe established a concept of otherness, the eighteenth century would be one of the most rewarding "information hubs" for such a study. Ethnography, ethnology, anthropology, and other new knowledge fields exploring global populations and environs were founded in this century, analyzing and systematizing the waves of travel reports that had been flooding Europe since the time of Columbus and Vasco da Gama. Stories and images of paradisiacal and terrorizing spaces, peculiar humans, and wondrous animals and plants had taken root in the Western imagination beginning in the sixteenth century. …
Sentimentality In The Service Of Methodism: John Wesley's Abridgment Of Henry Brooke's The Fool Of Quality ( 17 65-1770), Mary Peace
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
This article examines the relationship between Methodist and sentimental discourses in the second half of the eighteenth century through the lens of John Wesley's abridgment of Henry Brooke's sentimental novel The Fool of Quality (1765-70). John Wesley's abridgment was published in 1781 under the title the History of Henry Earl of Moreland. My article is driven by the question of how a worldly Enlightenment text such as Brooke's Fool might have seemed ripe for the propagation of a Methodist theology that had abandoned the possibility of any true virtue existing in the world. In considering the relationship between Brooke's …
"Conversing With Animal Forms Of Wisdom'': Blake's Visions Of Eternity In Context, Judith C. Mueller
"Conversing With Animal Forms Of Wisdom'': Blake's Visions Of Eternity In Context, Judith C. Mueller
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
Had anyone been paying attention, the endings of Blake's major prophecies-Milton, The Four Zoas, and Jerusalem-might have either puzzled or appalled Blake's Christian contemporaries. Each ends in a movement out of the fractured, fallen state and, in the case of The Four Zoas and Jerusalem, into the promised, eternal paradise, if only for a brief glimpse. Blake's visions of the restored or "heavenly" state respond to common eighteenth-century Christian depictions of the afterlife, most of which he treats with suspicion, even disdain. Scholars have shown how conceptions of heaven shift during the period; theocentric eternities of …
''A Dreadful Phenomenon At The Birches": Grace, Nature, And Industry In The Ministry And Writings Of John Fletcher Of Madeley, Peter S. Forsaith
''A Dreadful Phenomenon At The Birches": Grace, Nature, And Industry In The Ministry And Writings Of John Fletcher Of Madeley, Peter S. Forsaith
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
n the morning of Thursday, May 27, 1773, the evangelical Vicar of Madeley, Shropshire, the Reverend John Fletcher, went with throngs of other curious onlookers to view the dramatic scene of a landslip that had occurred in the early hours on the edge of his parish, at a location known locally as "the Birches." Meeting several of his parishioners there, he announced that he would return the following evening to preach a sermon on this "Dreadful Phenomenon:' He took for his text "If the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up ... …
Living With Religious Diversity In Early Modern Europe: Book Review, Michael Mclaughlin
Living With Religious Diversity In Early Modern Europe: Book Review, Michael Mclaughlin
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
This volume, consisting of many different approaches to religious diversity and religious coexistence, is part of the extensive series St. Andrews' Studies in Reformation History and is the successful product of a conference on religious diversity held at Carl von Ossietzky Universitat (Oldenberg, Germany) in September 2007. An introduction by C. Scott Dixon and a concluding attempt to theorize religious diversity by Mark Greengrass frame the volume.
Front Matter, Criterion: A Journal For Literary Criticism
Front Matter, Criterion: A Journal For Literary Criticism
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
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Editor's Note, Tyler Corbridge, Shane Peterson
Editor's Note, Tyler Corbridge, Shane Peterson
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
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