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Why Thoughts Are Better Than Music Or Emily Dickinson's Fascicle 18 As A Lyric Sequence, Robert Bray

Robert Bray

Recently, an old argument concerning the existence of God has made a comeback: the "Argument from Design." Some scientists, physicists and biologists especially, have declared that the cosmos, from tiniest micro to uttermost macro, not only reveals a design, but one so complex as to be impossible by accident, hence entailing a designer. From perceived real design they infer an imperceptible ideal designer-God the Creator. Invert this and you have the position in which I find myself while studying Emily Dickinson's "fascicles" (a frankly ugly and pseudo-technical name for a beautiful phenomenon in poetry). The physical evidence of the sewn, …

The Representation Of Samson's Eyes In Samson Agonistes, Timothy J. Burbery

English Faculty Research

Everyone knows that in Samson Agonistes Milton altered many details in the judges narrative of Samson, changing Dalila from a concubine to a wife, for instance, and inventing the characters of Harapha and the Public Officer. Yet one alteration that has gone unnoticed is the fact that Samson's eyeballs remain intact and his face looks normal and uninjured even after his being violently blinded by the Philistines.

Annotated Bibliography Of Research In The Teaching Of English, Deborah Brown, Richard L. Larson, Melissa Whiting

Faculty Publications

Twice a year, in the May and December issues, RTE publishes a selected bibliography Of recent research in the teaching of English. Most of the studies listed appeared during the six-month period preceding the complication of the bibliography (January through lune, 1997, for the present bibliography), but some studies that appeared earlier are occasionally included. The listing is selective; it makes no attempt to include all research and research-related studies that appeared in the period under review. Comments on the bibliography and suggestions about items for inclusion may be directed to the bibliography editors. We encourage you to send your …

The Stone And The Seed In The Myth Of Sisyphus By Albert Camus, And Season Of Migration To The North By Tayeb Salih, Mark Andrew Taylor

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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The Theme Of Childhood In William Blake's Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience & Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, Nabil Fayez Saad

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Reflection/Reflected The Construction Of Female Subjectivity In Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September And The Death Of The Heart, Laura Bartlett

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

As I read Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September and The Death of the Heart, questions arose, persisted, and remained unanswered until I undertook the project of applying poststructuralist theories to these novels. Reading The Last September, I puzzled over the female protagonist's relationship to an ancillary character, which Bowen repeatedly represents in terms of the father-daughter relationship. Reading both The Last September and The Death of the Heart, I was struck by the fact that although Bowen is typically categorized as a "classical realist," she embarks upon the quest of depicting the identity construction of two female adolescents but abandons …

Collage: Your Cheatin' Art, Peter Elbow

Peter Elbow

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1997 Colloquium Program, Taylor University

Colloquium Programs

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1997 Printed Program

Colloquium Schedules

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Interpellation And Trauma In Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye And Tar Baby, Jean Wyatt

Jean Wyatt

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Gender-Influenced Language: The Undressing Of Pornography, Caryn Blow

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the College of Humanities at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Communication by Caryn Blow in November of 1997.

The Purloined Self In The Fictional Letter, Walid Abd El Aal El Hamamsy

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Roy Campbell And The Inklings, Joe R. Christopher

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Traces the history of poet Roy Campbell’s contacts with the Inklings, particularly Tolkien and Lewis.

The Fantastic Sublime: Tolkien’S ‘On Fairy-Stories’ And The Romantic Sublime, David Sandner

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Discusses Romantic views of the sublime as they relate to Tolkien’s “On Fairy-stories.” Distinguishes the Gothic (“the literature of fear”) from fairy-stories and most children’s fantasy (“the literature of joy”).

J.R.R. Tolkien’S Use Of Nature: Correlations With Galicians’ Sense Of Nature, Maria Garcia De La Puerta

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Presents attitudes toward nature held by the inhabitants of the province of Galicia in Spain, and notes similarities to Tolkien’s view of nature. Reproduces bookplate and title page of a Galician dictionary owned by Tolkien.

"I Seek No Dream … But Rather The End Of Dreams": The Deceptions Of The Story Of The Glittering Plain, Norman Talbot

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Detailed examination of William Morris’s story, especially of its hero Hallblithe.

The Ultimate Time Travel Machine, Devin Brown

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Response to earlier Mythlore article by Beare (issue #81). Addresses issue of time-travel, putting it in broader context—focusing not on the character but on the reader.

Reviews, Diana Pavlac Glyer, Nancy-Lou Patterson

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator. Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

C.S. Lewis: Companion and Guide. Walter Hooper. Reviewed by Diana Pavlac Glyer.

The Rhetoric of Vision: Essays on Charles Williams. Ed. by Charles A. Huttar and Peter J. Schakel. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

Poetry of Dorothy L. Sayers. Ed. by Ralph E. Hone. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

Inklings of Reality: Toward a Christian Philosophy of Letters. Donald T. Williams. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

C.S. Lewis: Mere Christian. Kathryn Linskoog. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

C.S. Lewis: Readings for Reflection and Meditation. Ed. by Waiter Hooper. Reviewed …

An Inklings Bibliography (57), Joe R. Christopher

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

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Moses And Machiavellism, Steven Marx

English

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Knowledge And Representation In The Ambassadors: Strether's Discriminating Gaze, Phyllis E. Vanslyck

Publications and Research

I propose a radically new reading of Lambert Strether's subjectivity in Henry James's The Ambassadors, one that challenges critical readings to date and suggests that Strether's journey reflects a tacit but very definite confrontation with the fundamental illusion of the core self. As he follows the trajectory of his desire, initially through identification with the "masculine" identity of Chad Newsome, Strether comes to see the limitations of conventional notions of masculinity. He discovers that the freedom he seeks is not to be found in the illusion of power characterized by masculine control and repression but rather in the vulnerable acceptance …

Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language And The Strangeness Of The Ordinary, Michael Fischer

English Faculty Research

In a frequently quoted remark from Philosophical Investigations. Wittgenstein comments on our overlooking things because they are familiar, or right in front of us every day: "One is unable to notice something-because it is always before one's eyes" (§129). We take these things for granted instead of appreciating their strangeness. For readers of this journal, one of these familiar things might be the very project of drawing on philosophy while discussing works of literature. Not every critic does this; the New Critics, for instance, hardly ever did. From a certain point of view, turning to philosophy feels forced or odd, …

African-American Proverbs In Context By Sw. Anand Prahlad (Book Review), Daryl Cumber Dance

English Faculty Publications

Growing up in Hanover, Virginia, "surrounded by people who cast the world in vibrant and poetic colors," Sw. Anand Prahlad "fell in love with proverbs at an early age" (ix). This lifelong love affair has resulted in a rich collection of African American proverbs that expanded as Prahlad went through college and graduate school, and did postgraduate research. All the while, he was sharpening his critical skills and developing the theoretical framework to establish a model for use in examining the varied components of proverbial speech in the African American community, proceeding on the assumption that in order to understand …

Chinese Landscape Painting In Stevens's 'Six Significant Landscapes', Zhaoming Qian

English Faculty Publications

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"I'M Gonna Git Medieval On Your Ass": Pulp Fiction For The 90s--The 1190s, Daniel Terkla, Thomas Reed, Jr.

Scholarship

Rarely does contemporary film offer any zippy ephemera to grace the office doors of medievalists, since film-makers like Quentin Tarantino do not often look to our discipline's corpus for inspiration. Imagine, then, the mix of incredulity and delight we two professors felt while taking in the pawn-shop scene in Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. After being painfully violated--anally raped, to be precise--and then rescued in a most chivalric manner by one of his minions, Marsellus Wallace swears an oath to Zed, his "hillbilly boy" rapist: "I'm gonna git Medieval on your ass" (Pulp Fiction 131). What? we thought: "Medieval"? Why, we asked, …

Body And Spirit, Stage And Sexuality In "The Tempest", Nora Johnson

English Literature Faculty Works

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Formic Acid, Nathalie Anderson

English Literature Faculty Works

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Review Of "Carnal Rhetoric: Milton's Iconoclasm And The Poetics Of Desire" By L. Cable, Thomas H. Blackburn

English Literature Faculty Works

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Mrs. Noah, Nathalie Anderson

English Literature Faculty Works

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Floating Gardens, Nathalie Anderson

English Literature Faculty Works

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