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The War Of The Worlds, Wells, And The Fallacy Of Empire, John C. Hawley
The War Of The Worlds, Wells, And The Fallacy Of Empire, John C. Hawley
English
In his summary of the contemporary reviews of The War of the Worlds (1898), William J. Scheick notes that their extensive number suggests that readers now recognized that Wells was an emerging writer whom they could not ignore. "There were, again," Scheick notes, "reservations about slipshod style, hasty plotting, vulgar content and cheap effects; but these doubts were overrun by the general verdict that this romance was one of the most ingenious stories of the year and the best work to date of an author who was one of the most original of the younger English novelists" (Scheick 5). Earlier …
A Mediatic Pedagogy: Rhetoricizing Images Within Composition Curriculum, Brenda M. Helmbrecht
A Mediatic Pedagogy: Rhetoricizing Images Within Composition Curriculum, Brenda M. Helmbrecht
English
My dissertation explores how students’ interactions with visual media inform their subject positions as students, writers, and rhetoricians. I use a cross-disciplinary approach that intertwines Composition and Rhetoric scholarship with work from Media Studies to understand how visual media affect the way students write, read, and use language. Throughout my dissertation, I work with the theory of “remediation” to demonstrate how new media, such as the Internet, have been conceptualized, revised, and reformed as a result of their relationship to preexisting, or “old”, media like film and television. I predict that remediation can encourage students to position the texts they …
Postcolonial Theory, John C. Hawley
Postcolonial Theory, John C. Hawley
English
Colonialism and its aftermath prompt a form of cultural studies that seeks to address questions of identity politics and justice that are the ongoing legacy of empires. Postcolonial theory has its origins in resistance movements, principally at the local, and frequently at nonmetropolitan, levels. Among its early thinkers, three seem of special importance: Antonio Gramsci, Paulo Freire, and Frantz Fanon. Antonio Gram sci ( 1891- 193 7) was a founder of the Communist Party in Italy. In his Prison Notebooks (1971 ), he wrote insightfully about the proletariat, designated by him as subalterns; his thoughts regarding the responsibilities of public …
Epistolarity, Anticipation, And Revolution In Clara Howard, Michelle Burnham
Epistolarity, Anticipation, And Revolution In Clara Howard, Michelle Burnham
English
In the critical hierarchy of Charles Brockden Brown's six published novels, Clara Howard has traditionally ranked dead last. While Brown's four socalled major novels have long been redeemed from aesthetic disdain and continue to receive increasing attention and acclaim, his last two novels are routinely bracketed off from this earlier work and described in derisive and dismissive terms, when they have not been ignored completely. Critics, moreover, seem to agree that of these two late epistolary romances, both published in 1801, Clara Howard is worse even than Jane Talbot.1 From Mary Shelley's 1814 remark that Clara Howard is "very …
Mapping Utopia: Spatial And Temporal Sites Of Meaning, John C. Hawley
Mapping Utopia: Spatial And Temporal Sites Of Meaning, John C. Hawley
English
In classic imaginings of places that are pointedly Not Here (More's Utopia itself, Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Butler's Erewhon, Hilton's lost Horizon, Hudson's Green Mansions, Barrie's Peter Pan) one could argue that such sites are proposed specifically to provide a unique angle of vision on the society against which they are "placed": their rules for living are offered as implied commentary on the (less acceptable) rules of the author's home land. In such worlds, the critique frequently enough casts the "real" world as a dystopia, one that may or may not be open to improvement. A softer version of the critique …
The Vigil Of Astonishment, Kevin Clark
Automitografías: The Border Paradigm And Chicana/O Autobiography, Juan Velasco
Automitografías: The Border Paradigm And Chicana/O Autobiography, Juan Velasco
English
For Chicana/o cultural critics, the border paradigm has defined the boundaries of writing and experience in contemporary Chicana/o autobiography, and has constituted a valuable contribution to American Studies. In fact, the unique voices coming from Chicana/o autobiography are expressed through a network of cultural codes involving liminality and hybridity, the rewriting of borders, and the challenging of boundaries created by mainstream cultures and official truth. Based on this deep relationship of border paradigm, Chicana/o experience, and the writing and representation of that experience, in this article I will discuss the possibility of building an organic and systematic methodology for studying …
Review Of The Dramatic Art Of Athol Fugard: From South Africa To The World, Jeanne M. Colleran
Review Of The Dramatic Art Of Athol Fugard: From South Africa To The World, Jeanne M. Colleran
English
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The Grapes, Kevin Clark
The New Naturalism And The New Nature Poet: Ralph Black’S Lyric Of Doubt, Kevin Clark
The New Naturalism And The New Nature Poet: Ralph Black’S Lyric Of Doubt, Kevin Clark
English
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Cast-Mistresses: The Widow Figure In Oroonoko, Kristina Bross, Kathryn Rummell
Cast-Mistresses: The Widow Figure In Oroonoko, Kristina Bross, Kathryn Rummell
English
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Review: Time And Space In American Literary History, Michelle Burnham
Review: Time And Space In American Literary History, Michelle Burnham
English
In one of the 26 contributing essays to Finding Colonial Americas, Kevin Hayes reconstructs the reading experience of the early eighteenth-century historian Thomas Prince, who scrupulously read the Virginia texts of John Smith and consulted French historiographic as well as English and colonial American historical texts before writing his own history of New England. The essay wonderfully illustrates the dependence of this local history on a transregional and intercontinental network of texts. The many books Prince consulted helped him to define the temporal mode of his history as well as its spatial shape, for among Prince's sources was Pierre Le …
Loss, History And Melancholia In Contemporary Latin American Cinema, Juan Velasco
Loss, History And Melancholia In Contemporary Latin American Cinema, Juan Velasco
English
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