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Surrey (For Joan And Tony), Craig Williamson

English Literature Faculty Works

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Romancing Visual Women: From Canon To Console, Roberta Sabbath

English Faculty Research

This dissertation juxtaposes the romantic modal treatment of powerful, admired women which canonical male authors and feminist authors and critics construct with those constructed by contemporary women for the visual mass media of video, broadcast television, and computer. The discourse of the former produces the figure of a fragmented woman who is rare, supernatural, marginalized, and impossible. The discourse of the latter produces the figure of a psychologized woman who is typical, natural, mainstream, and possible. To examine the discourse of impossibility, I use three canonical works: Augustine's Confessions; Chretien de Troyes' Perceval; and Dante's Divine Comedy. I also survey …

Professing Multiculturalism : The Politics Of Style In The Contact Zone., Min-Zhan Lu

Faculty Scholarship

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A Study Of The Linguistic Semantic And Sociolinguistic Components Of The English Modal System, Jeffery Hutcheson

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

In this thesis I examine the linguistic, semantic and sociolinguistic components of the English modal system and the difficulty the system presents to both instructors and learners of English as a second language (ESL). The purpose of this study was to determine what these components are and how they affect communication. I begin by defining what modality is and how it is manifested in English. The focus is upon the one-word modals and not the phrasal modals; however, some phrasal modals are explicated when a contrast exists between the meaning of the one-word modal and its phrasal equivalent. After the …

Casual Discourse Lost: The Separation Of Adam And Eve, Jay Curlin

Articles

The critical separation scene between Adam and Eve in Book IX of Paradise Lost has long been something of a crux for Milton's readers. Recent critical opinion of the passage has seen in it chiefly an indictment of Adam: for one group of readers, he ls the overbearing husband trying to suppress the burgeoning independence of his wife; for another, he fails as a spiritual leader in not suppressing that independence enough. I would like to offer an alternative reading of the passage by redirecting our attention to the simple dynamics of what we must remember is ultimately a pre …

Hotel Room With My Brother, Fred G. Leebron

English Faculty Publications

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The Zea Mexican Dairy: 7 Sept 1926 - 7 Sept 1986. By Kamau Brathwaite (Book Review), Daryl Cumber Dance

English Faculty Publications

I may be hard put to classify the latest work of noted poet, historian, literary critic, linguist, and Africanist Kamau (Eddie) Brathwaite, but I have no problem describing it - compelling, riveting, unforgettable! Begun when Brathwaite received the devastating news that his wife Doris (his Zea Mexican) was dying of cancer, it is a paean to her, a record of his efforts to deal with her dying, death, and absence, an account of their relationship, and an autobiographical confessional. The Zea Mexican Diary includes diary entries, letters, memorates, an epigraph, expressions of sympathy, confessions, autobiographical narrative, poems - but whatever …

We Wretched Of The Earth: The Search For A Language Of Justice, John C. Hawley

English

"In the beginning was the Word," writes John-God's revealing utterance that "was made flesh and lived among us." This incarnational character of the Word, this "living among us," has demanded of Christians in each age a reinterpretation of its original and ongoing meaning. If the protean nature of God's self-expression has seen a continuing "translation" in each age, though, it is becoming increasingly evident among church members that a similar task is also required in each ethnic milieu. The "us" among whom the Word lives is made up of many communities of discourse, and a logocentric theology like Christianity must …

Revising Lives: Bernard Shaw And His Biographer, Sarah Wadsworth

English Faculty Research and Publications

Shaw's galley revisions of Archibald Henderson's 1932 biography, Bernard Shaw: Playboy and Prophet, reveal a unique collaboration between biographer and subject. The result is a subversion of biographical conventions, in which the assumed voice of the biographer lends credence and authority to the disguised voice of the subject.

Mythcon 25 - The Language Of Myth, The Mythopoeic Society

Mythcon Programs

I would like to welcome you all to Mythcon 25. This is a special occasion for the Mythopoeic Society - it's the twenty-fifth Mythcon and the first to be held on the east coast of the United States.

"That Reason Wonder May Diminish": As You Like It, Androgyny, And The Theater Wars, Grace C. Tiffany

English Faculty Publications

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Two Women On The Verge Of A Contextual Breakthrough: Using 'A Feminist Dictionary' In The Literature Classroom, Sheila Reiter, Barbara Dibernard

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Barbara: The following dialogue relates our experiences using A Feminist Dictionary (AFD) in literature classes. My perspective is that of a feminist teacher who has found AFD to be a useful tool in bringing feminist theory and practice into alignment in the classroom. I believe it is crucial to connect the personal and the public and to connect theory and practice. One of my primary goals as a teacher is to get students to see them selves as agents who are capable of resistance and of personal and social change. In order to facilitate that, we examine hierarchy and power …

Museum Piece, Angela Sorby

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Order And Orderlessness In Gravity's Rainbow: A Dialectic, Richard A. House '94

Honors Projects

Gravity's Rainbow is a notoriously unreliable text. The perspectives of the strange narrator and various characters give an account of the novel's events that is clearly problematic in terms of the degree of "reality" that can be ascribed to various episodes: fantasies, hallucinations, and paranoid delusions are often indistinguishable from the events which may cause them or to which they may refer. To an unusual degree, then, the fundamental plot-question-"What happens?"-becomes a point of depa.rt"u!e for a sort of textual metaphysics. Often, arguments about the significance of passages may be upstaged by arguments about the plot itself: what "really" happens …

F. Scott Fitzgerald's Female Characters An Author's Changing Perspective, Todd Dykes

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

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The Price, Kevin Clark

English

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Laguardia Literary Magazine: Indigo, Spring, 1994, Laguardia Community College

LaGuardia Community College Publications

Editor-in-chief: Vanesa Yi-Perez, Associate Editor: Humaira Qureshi, Assistant Editor: Russell Alvarez, Editors: Ivy Gosine, Tanya Naiken, Verai Ramsammy Faculty Advisor: Dr. Tom Fink

Et Cetera, Marshall University

Et Cetera

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An Interview With Armand Schwerner, Willard Gingerich

Department of English Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Armand Schwemer was born in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1927 and came to the United States in 1936. He has worked as a performance artist and musician with Jackson MacLow, Jerome Rothenberg, Gum Velez and others, and has published over fifteen books of poetry. His The Tablets, an ongoing work begun in the 1960s, remains one of the most protean and provocative, though underacknowledged, explorations of open composition to have emer­ged since mid-century. The following interview, conducted by Willard Gingerich, is excerpted from a longer series of exchanges which took place between April 4 and June 29, 1993.

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A Simple Matter, Deborah Adelman

Faculty Scholarship

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Review Of Our Ladies Of Darkness: Feminine Daemonology In Male Gothic Fiction By Joseph Adriano, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

It takes a brave soul to publish a "post-Jungian" study of female archetypes in fiction written by nineteenth-century men these days. Let's face it: if the neo-Freudians do not aim first, the feminists will. And then, of course, the Foucaultians will not be far behind. As a critic who has subscribed at various times to all three of those discourse systems, I want to state at the outset that I learned something from reading Joseph Andriano's book, even if I ultimately did not find his methodology persuasive or convincing.

Cultures Of Letters: Scenes Of Reading And Writing In Nineteenthcentury America. By Richard H. Brodhead., Steven J. Mailloux

English Faculty Works

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Review Of Romanticism And Gender By Anne K. Mellor, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

"Does Romanticism have a gender?" Anne Mellor poses this straightforward question at the beginning of her latest book, a valuable and most welcome addition to the burgeoning field of English Romanticism and gender studies. Her affirmative answer, supported by examining twenty of the most influential women publishing between 1780 and 1830, allows her to claim that "a paradigm shift in our conceptual understanding of British literary Romanticism occurs when we give equal weight to the thought and writing of the women of the period" (p. i). Indeed, Mellor's response to her initial question succeeds in complicating our understanding of the …

Ua12/2/1 Hillside, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

Special magazine edition of the College Heights Herald:

• Anna, Cara. Keeping the Balance – Ralph Willard, Kevin Willard, Basketball
• Armes, Anya. Giving the Gift to Others – Jim Wayne Miller

The Two Handles Of Israel Potter, Kris Lackey

English Faculty Publications

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Mapping Errors And Expectations For Basic Writing : From The "Frontier Field" To "Border Country"., Bruce Horner

Faculty Scholarship

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Northrop Frye's Bible, Steven Marx

English

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"The Wife's Went Bazook" Comedic Feminism In The Poetry Of Ruth Stone, Kevin Clark

English

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Vilifying The Enemy: The Christian Right And The Novels Of Frank Peretti, Jay R. Howard

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Peretti's novels provide a clear statement of the worldview of conservative Christians who hold the Bible to be literally true and without error. Not only is the reader presented with doctrinal positions, but the implications of those positions for life in modern society are spelled out as well. In this essay, I analyze Peretti's views of the modern world, its heroes and villains, and argue they are representative of the views of the New Christian Right (Liebman and Wuthnow) in the late 1980s and the 1990s.

A New Reading Of 'Ethan Brand': The Failed Quest, Mark Harris

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Examines how the protagonist in Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story `Ethan Brand' searched for what is considered the `unpardonable sin' of divorcing one's head from one's heart and oneself from humanity. Interpretation of symbolisms in the story; Analysis of the Puritan view of sin in relation to the story.