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Review Of The Killer Inside Me, Directed By Michael Winterbottom, Douglas Keesey
Review Of The Killer Inside Me, Directed By Michael Winterbottom, Douglas Keesey
English
No abstract provided.
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
English
No abstract provided.
Mary Shelley’S Frankenstein: The Creature’S Attempt At Humanization, Noelle Webster
Mary Shelley’S Frankenstein: The Creature’S Attempt At Humanization, Noelle Webster
English
No abstract provided.
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
English
No abstract provided.
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
English
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
English
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 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
English
No abstract provided.
Review Of Shutter Island, Directed By Martin Scorsese, Douglas Keesey
Review Of Shutter Island, Directed By Martin Scorsese, Douglas Keesey
English
No abstract provided.
Gender, Genre And Slavery: The Other Rowson, Rowson's Others, Eileen Razzari Elrod
Gender, Genre And Slavery: The Other Rowson, Rowson's Others, Eileen Razzari Elrod
English
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
English
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 …
Review Of Inception, Directed By Christopher Nolan, Douglas Keesey
Review Of Inception, Directed By Christopher Nolan, Douglas Keesey
English
No abstract provided.
Split Identification: Representations Of Rape In Gaspar Noé’S Irréversible And Catherine Breillat’S A Masoeur!/Fat Girl, Douglas Keesey
Split Identification: Representations Of Rape In Gaspar Noé’S Irréversible And Catherine Breillat’S A Masoeur!/Fat Girl, Douglas Keesey
English
This article critically examines rape scenes in two films of the new extreme cinema, Gaspar No's Irrversible (2002) and Catherine Breillat's A ma sur!/Fat Girl (2001). On the surface, No's disturbing long-take rape scene is clearly designed to foster empathy with the woman's experience and to induce a physical aversion to rape. However, a deeper examination of the scene's ambiguous techniques reveals that they actually work to split the viewer's identification between the rapist and the woman he attacks. One function of this split is to lead the viewer who is presumed to be male along an emotional path from …
The Schizophrenic Solution: Dialectics Of Neurosis And Anti-Psychiatric Animus In Ralph Ellison’S Invisible Man, J. Bradford Campbell
The Schizophrenic Solution: Dialectics Of Neurosis And Anti-Psychiatric Animus In Ralph Ellison’S Invisible Man, J. Bradford Campbell
English
This essay argues that Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (1952)provides promising ground and a certain imperative to investigatethe underexamined intersections between literature and the historyof psychiatry. Especially where African American literatureis concerned, there has been a general reluctance to approachthese categories together, even while anecdotally history recordsnumerous engagements between the two. Ellison, for example,worked closely with Richard Wright and Dr. Fredric Wertham toestablish Harlem's LaFargue Clinic, the first and, in its time,only such institution committed to providing modern psychiatricservices to any and all who needed them. Ellison found in theclinic's practices a model of social psychiatry that did muchto address the …
Reluctant Cosmopolitanism In Dickens's Great Expectations, John S. Mcbratney
Reluctant Cosmopolitanism In Dickens's Great Expectations, John S. Mcbratney
English
No abstract provided.
Ignatian Values In The Core Curriculum, Phyllis Brown, Diane Jonte-Pace
Ignatian Values In The Core Curriculum, Phyllis Brown, Diane Jonte-Pace
English
In this essay we examine three major resources for revising the core curriculum in Jesuit universities, commenting on how each can contribute to an integrated Ignatian core, guiding us toward answers to our questions about content and pedagogy. Our rich Jesuit tradition is one of these resources. Two other important resources are contemporary publications about promoting citizenship in higher education and about supporting student learning through assessment.
Holocaust Remembrance: Making Meaning Through Oral History Across The Generations, Gail Gradowski, Jill Goodman Gould, Anne Saldinger
Holocaust Remembrance: Making Meaning Through Oral History Across The Generations, Gail Gradowski, Jill Goodman Gould, Anne Saldinger
English
Our university writing course, "Visual Media and Holocaust Narrative," brings students closer to the Holocaust through affective engagement with the stories of survivors. With its informative and performative properties, video testimony engages the intellect and emotions of the students and reveals the dignity and humanity of the interviewees. The course requires writing a proposal for a film based on the lives of the survivors as well as creating a short promotional trailer made as a digital story. Preparatory assignments include archiving work for the oral history project, reading and discussing theoretical texts, watching and discussing Holocaust films, and writing an …
Book Review: Adam N. Mckeown. Soldier Poets In The Age Of Shakespeare, Steven Marx
Book Review: Adam N. Mckeown. Soldier Poets In The Age Of Shakespeare, Steven Marx
English
No abstract provided.
Re-Writing The Bhabhian “Mimic Man”: Akin, The Posthuman Other In Octavia Butler’S Adulthood Rites, Aparajita Nanda
Re-Writing The Bhabhian “Mimic Man”: Akin, The Posthuman Other In Octavia Butler’S Adulthood Rites, Aparajita Nanda
English
Cultural critics have sought to define the term posthuman1 as primarily a condition that does away with hierarchical forms of power and control. It recognizes a transformation of the human species into a subject position that moves from an oppositional politics of segregating the human “self” from the “other” to one of acknowledging the “other” as part of the human “self.” 2 With the advent of the posthuman condition comes the need to re-define human rights in a posthuman context. Octavia Butler’s science fiction novel Adulthood Rites3 introduces us to Oankali, gene-trading aliens who travel through space. They …
The Tales That The Universe Told: An Original Manuscript Of Poetry, Calvin Cantrell
The Tales That The Universe Told: An Original Manuscript Of Poetry, Calvin Cantrell
English
This is an original manuscript of poetry.
Byzantium 2010: Cal Poly's 20th Literary Annual, Mateja Lane, Beth Shirley
Byzantium 2010: Cal Poly's 20th Literary Annual, Mateja Lane, Beth Shirley
English
The concept behind this year's theme, "Bold," actually came from concepts our art director, Melissa, showed us during our first meeting. We had tossed around ideas of "Timeless," "Enduring," and "Vintage," amidst our discussions of how in the world we were going to raise money for the journal this year. With the economy tanking, we knew art programs like ours would be the first to suffer. We wanted to find a theme that captured how we felt about art and how art made us feel. We kept coming back to the same idea: We have to just be bold and …
Shriveled Veins Of My Stories, Jacob W. Franks
Shriveled Veins Of My Stories, Jacob W. Franks
English
This is a manuscript of original poetry.
Ambush, Anna K. Bush
The Dynamics Of Male/Female Relationships In Jon Donne's Love Poetry, Amanda Boyd
The Dynamics Of Male/Female Relationships In Jon Donne's Love Poetry, Amanda Boyd
English
No abstract provided.
“Tragical History” And “Tragedy” As Inquisitive Vehicles: Examining The Implications Of Marlowe’S Two Faustus Texts, Joseph Sturcken
“Tragical History” And “Tragedy” As Inquisitive Vehicles: Examining The Implications Of Marlowe’S Two Faustus Texts, Joseph Sturcken
English
No abstract provided.
Chetco Marine, Gavin Pruitt
Chetco Marine, Gavin Pruitt
English
This is a manuscript of original poetry. My inspiration comes from a combination of events in life that have affected me in profound ways, as well as moments of imagination that transport me away from the realm of personal experience.
Christ Being Hopkins And Hopkins Being Christ, Cory Ames
Christ Being Hopkins And Hopkins Being Christ, Cory Ames
English
This paper compares and contrasts Gerard Manly Hopkins’ sonnet “As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame” to the “terrible” sonnet “Carrion Comfort.” It asserts that since both sonnets explore opposite ends of a paradoxical relationship between man and Christ, which Hopkins often meditated over, both sonnets should work together as spiritual complements of one another, rather than proof of Hopkins’ spiritual derailment.
"In Memory Of W. B. Yeats": Elegy For A Man And An Ideal, Travis Mcdonald
"In Memory Of W. B. Yeats": Elegy For A Man And An Ideal, Travis Mcdonald
English
Travis McDonald: “‘In Memory of W. B. Yeats’: Elegy for a Man and an Ideal” W. H. Auden’s 1939 elegy for W. B. Yeats recognizes the passing of his contemporary as well his own belief in the social efficacy of poetry. The form of the elegy serves the traditional commemorative purpose while simultaneously enabling Auden to critique both Yeats and politically intentioned art.
Realism In Russian Literature: Capturing Truth And Eliciting Responses, Leanne Lopes
Realism In Russian Literature: Capturing Truth And Eliciting Responses, Leanne Lopes
English
The Russian realist authors Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn communicate the importance of questioning social conventions and religion in order to gain personal and political freedom and avoid living a mediocre life. They challenge readers to recognize selfish tendencies and strive to improve society.
Defying The Feminist Dilemma: Eavan Boland's "Listen. This Is The Noise Of Myth", Rachel Newman
Defying The Feminist Dilemma: Eavan Boland's "Listen. This Is The Noise Of Myth", Rachel Newman
English
Boland creates a narrative poem, “Listen. This is the Noise of Myth,” that repudiates all legends that show men to be stronger and the savior of women, and suggests both that there are endless ways to depict any myth.