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Fabulating Romania: Review Of Filip Florian’S Little Fingers And Alta Ifland’S Elegy For A Fabulous World, Ania Spyra
Fabulating Romania: Review Of Filip Florian’S Little Fingers And Alta Ifland’S Elegy For A Fabulous World, Ania Spyra
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In 2007 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania launched a public image campaign in an effort to create a new brand for the country, a brand that would build a positive image, rather than only counteract – defensively – negative stereotypes. An advertising agency created the new brand by merging the words fabulous and spirit into “fabulouspirit” – a word, which ended up sounding better in Romanian than it does in English even though it was intended for an Anglophone audience. The campaign encountered so much criticism that despite the plans to implement it over several years, the word …
Problematizing Literature Circles As Forums For Discussion Of Multicultural And Political Texts, Amanda Haertling Thein, Megan Guise, Deann Long Sloan
Problematizing Literature Circles As Forums For Discussion Of Multicultural And Political Texts, Amanda Haertling Thein, Megan Guise, Deann Long Sloan
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In a six-week literature circle unit in a tenth-grade classroom, one group of students discussed Dorothy Allison's novel Bastard out of Carolina. By criteria frequently used to judge the quality of discussion, this literature circle was successful. However, several key moments are highlighted that point to the limits of literature circles as they are typically implemented for engaging students in the full critical depth of multicultural and political texts. Finally, suggestions are offered for rethinking literature circle pedagogy with the goal of offering students a more nuanced and robust experience with such texts.
The Poetics Of James Dickey: The Early Motion, Douglas Keesey
The Poetics Of James Dickey: The Early Motion, Douglas Keesey
English
No abstract provided.
Review Of Super 8, Directed By J.J. Abrams, Douglas Keesey
Review Of Super 8, Directed By J.J. Abrams, Douglas Keesey
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No abstract provided.
Review Of The Killer Inside Me, Directed By Michael Winterbottom, Douglas Keesey
Review Of The Killer Inside Me, Directed By Michael Winterbottom, Douglas Keesey
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Mary Shelley’S Frankenstein: The Creature’S Attempt At Humanization, Noelle Webster
Mary Shelley’S Frankenstein: The Creature’S Attempt At Humanization, Noelle Webster
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The Backwards Making Of A Heroine: Mary Cowden Clarke’S Girlhood And Its Importance In The Shakespearean Conversation, Jillian Caramanna
The Backwards Making Of A Heroine: Mary Cowden Clarke’S Girlhood And Its Importance In The Shakespearean Conversation, Jillian Caramanna
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Without A Place But Always Trying To Be Placed: Between Hope And Impossibility In Samuel Beckett’S Molloy, Joseph Stepansky
Without A Place But Always Trying To Be Placed: Between Hope And Impossibility In Samuel Beckett’S Molloy, Joseph Stepansky
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Black Magic And White Guilt: Voodoo In Angel Heart, Douglas Keesey
Black Magic And White Guilt: Voodoo In Angel Heart, Douglas Keesey
English
On first viewing, Alan Parker’s 1987 film Angel Heart may seem like just another in a long line of films that equate voodoo with Satanism, blacks with the black arts. However, the film also struggles toward an acknowledgment of white guilt, an admission that evil resides within the self. Evil’s repression and projection onto the “black other” must be understood as a defensive strategy for denying one’s own guilt. The difference between good whites and bad blacks must be redefined as a difference within, the capacity for good and evil inherent in each of us, regardless of skin color or …
Intertwinings Of Death And Desire In Michele Soavi’S Dellamorte Dellamore, Douglas Keesey
Intertwinings Of Death And Desire In Michele Soavi’S Dellamorte Dellamore, Douglas Keesey
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This article engages in an in-depth discussion of Michele Soavi's Dellamorte Dellamore/Cemetery Man, a 1993 film based on a bestselling novel and on Italy's most popular comic-book series (Dylan Dog). Close analysis reveals that, rather than being just another forgettable splatter movie or ridiculous horror comedy, this zombie thriller is a film of great psychosexual complexity, along the lines of Edgar Allan Poe's 'Ligeia' (1838) and Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958). In Dellamorte Dellamore, horror becomes the vehicle for the female character's struggle with guilt over infidelity to her deceased husband, with fear of phallic sexuality and with masochistic …
Illuminating The Need For Fiction To Love Within A Postmodern Reality, Alexandria Lightsey
Illuminating The Need For Fiction To Love Within A Postmodern Reality, Alexandria Lightsey
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Jonathan Safran Foer in his novel Everything is Illuminated (2002), engages and overturns traditional notions of love. In his work, love, as an exalted feeling, does not exist outside of animalistic desire. Instead, as Foer proposes through the numerous and complex relationships of his characters, love exists in an illusion as the individual defines and creates it. To love is to willfully choose to believe in this idealism. For this idealism, whose existence is impossible within the broken nature of this world, must be sustained in an artifice once-removed from reality. Everything is Illuminated thus suggests that without fiction, reality …
Review Of Shutter Island, Directed By Martin Scorsese, Douglas Keesey
Review Of Shutter Island, Directed By Martin Scorsese, Douglas Keesey
English
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Review Of Mikko Tuhkanen, The American Optic: Psychoanalysis, Critical Race Theory, And Richard Wright, J. Bradford Campbell
Review Of Mikko Tuhkanen, The American Optic: Psychoanalysis, Critical Race Theory, And Richard Wright, J. Bradford Campbell
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Gender, Genre And Slavery: The Other Rowson, Rowson's Others, Eileen Elrod
Gender, Genre And Slavery: The Other Rowson, Rowson's Others, Eileen Elrod
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Readers familiar with Susanna Rowson as the author of Charlotte Temple (1791, 1794) do not think of her as an abolitionist. But in 1805 Rowson articulated an anti-slavery position in Universal Geography, a textbook addressed to schoolgirls such as those she herself taught at the Young Ladies Academy in Boston. Condemning those who viewed sugar and slavery as a winning equation that would make them rich, Rowson denounced the “purchase and sale of human beings,” and insisted that anyone “enlightened by reason and religion” would oppose the “horrid trade,” and see it as she did, as “a disgrace to humanity.”1 …
Trade, Time, And The Calculus Of Risk In Early Pacific Travel Writing, Michelle Burnham
Trade, Time, And The Calculus Of Risk In Early Pacific Travel Writing, Michelle Burnham
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In the 2005 Common-place issue on early America and the Pacific, historians Edward Gray and Alan Taylor observe that the Atlantic studies paradigm, which moves "beyond nations and states as the defining subjects of historical understanding, turning instead to large scale processes" is also particularly "useful for understanding Pacific history" since "dis- ease, migration, trade, and war effected [sic] the Pacific in much the way they effected [sic] the Atlantic." A similar transfer of the Atlantic world model to the Pacific informs David Igler s insistence that, like the Atlantic, the Pacific world was "international before it became national."1 Igler …