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"That Damned Morality": Willa Cather's Reaction Against Victorian Female Roles In O Pioneers! And Tje Song Of The Lark, Sarah Elizabeth Moore Horne

Theses & Honors Papers

Reacting against Victorian ideal that influenced her childhood, Cather creates numerous gender reversal throughout her fiction. This thesis notes the gender ironies contained within her works to conclude that Cather was herself a liberal, demanding that society’s status quo be eliminated. While America’s political climate did affect Cather’s work, her political ideologies remain difficult to interpret when contrasted with her fiction. Throughout much of her fiction, Cather attempts to raise the social status of certain facets of society and dispels many myths concerning gender.

Private Voices Teaching Public Values In The Fiction Of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary Wilkins Freeman, And Sarah Orne Jewett, Angela Gonzalez

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This thesis re-examines the purpose and value of New England women's local color fiction, asserting that local color functions as the groundwork on which the standards and practices of literary realism are based and as the way that nineteenth-century women writers could promote their domestic ministry. Furthermore, the thesis maintains that Stowe, Freeman, and Jewett utilized literary realism to publicize alternative theologies and progressive communities.

Professionalizing Ta Training: Commitment To Teaching Or Rhetorical Response To Market Crisis?, Carrie Shively Leverenz, Amy M. Goodburn

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Although English Studies as a discipline is often seen as fractured and contentious, there is one subject about which most of us can agree: the job market for new PhDs in English is bad and not likely to improve any time soon. In Bettina Huber’s widely cited survey of the results of the 1993-1994 job search, only 45.9% of candidates found tenure-track jobs. The recent report from the MLA Committee on Professional Employment projects similar figures for the foreseeable future. The fact that the number of graduate students with PhDs in English—especially those with concentrations in literary studies or creative …

The Novelist As Historian, Michael Boyd

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

The Hammer And The Anvil: The Concept Of Irony With Continual Reference To Kierkegaard, Michael T. Carper

English Theses, Dissertations, and Student Creative Activity

In this thesis, the author explores a novel way of formulating the otherwise old and tired trope of irony. Chapter one begins by examining some common literary critical views of irony. Wayne C. Booth conceives of irony mostly as a very finite operation--the author states something in such a way that the clever reader realizes the author in fact means the opposite of what he says. The reader, then, performs what Booth calls a "reconstruction," and once the reconstruction is finished, so is the irony's "effect." Paul Bove wants to replace irony with what he calls a "destructive poetics." Irony, …

George Eliot Birthday Luncheon: The Toast To The Immortal Memory 1998, Tenniel Evans

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

Sixty-two years ago, almost to the day - a freezing 25 November 1936 - I arrived at the London docks from Africa and came, without realizing it at the time, to live in the country of my background. I was to live with Alison and Rupert Winser and their family in the Rectory at Allesley, just outside Coventry, and it became my home for the next five years. By the end of that time, of course, the war had blown away the old life and it would never be the same again. So I was lucky that at least I …

Cognitive And Affective Learning In The Basic Course: Effects Of Delivery Format, Immediacy, And Communication Apprehension, Susan J. Messman, Jennifer Jones-Corley, David Mezzacappa, Deborah J. Crusan

English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications

A quasi-experimental design was used to investigate changes in learning outcomes for students enrolled in large-lecture/break-out sections versus in self-contained sections of the basic communication course.More precisely, the study explores the relationship between communication apprehension, immediacy and learning outcomes for the two class formats.Results indicate that students' cognitive learning outcomes are slightly higher in the large-lecture/break-out sections versus self-contained sections. In addition, affective learning decreases for all students from the first day of class and slightly more for students in the large-lecture/break-out sections. However, when the teacher is perceived as highly immediate, there is no difference in formats. (Contains 5 …

Bibliography, Cultural Studies, And Rare Book Librarianship: Tennyson's "Crossing The Bar" And The Cultural Significance Of Unauthoritative Texts, Patrick G. Scott

Faculty Publications

For a conference discussion of textual bibliographers and rare book librarians on the topic "Who needs textual studies?," this paper examines three different appearances of Alfred Tennyson's poem "Crossing the Bar": (1) a manuscript facsimile, (ii) its reuse as a hymn and in a giftbook; and (iii) the paperback Armed Services Edition distributed to US troops overseas during World War II, and argues that with the shift from literary studies to cultural studies such later "unauthoritative texts" have a new importance for scholars and students, and deserve increased attention from bibliographers, collectors, and rare book librarians. Originally presented at the …

Poem No. 80, November 1998, Huntsville Literary Association (Huntsvile, Ala.)

POEM

The Huntsville Literary Association was founded in 1967 to provide a community for writers, readers, and artists through workshops, readings, and educational programs. One of their key contributions is the literary magazine titled POEM which showcases original writings from both established and emerging writers. This issue features poems from various writers.

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

Faculty Publications

Twice a year, in the May and November issues, RTE publishes a selected bibliography of recent research in the teaching of English. Most of the studies appeared during the six-month period preceding the compilation of the bibliography (January through June, 1998, for the present bibliography), but some studies that appeared earlier are occasionally included. The listing is selective; we make 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 suggestions …

Resolving The "Hateful Siege/Of Contrarie": The Regeneration Of Ideal Desire In Milton's Paradise Lost, Jody Lawton

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

No abstract provided.

Vol. 18, No. 4 (1998), Ruel E. Foster, Jim Dees

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

Defoe And The Black Legend: The Spanish Stereotype In A New Voyage Round The World, Kathryn Rummell

English

No abstract provided.

The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 7, No. 1, The Sinclair Lewis Society

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter

“Sinclair Lewis—Minnesota Rustic,” by George Killough, College of St. Scholastica

“Backwoods Isolationism versus Medical Imperialism in Sinclair Lewis’s Arrowsmith,” by Stephanie Browner, Berea College

“The Anniversary Editions of Sinclair Lewis Novels,” by Jeffrey M. Halperin

“Sinclair Lewis on Western Writers,” by Martin Bucco, Colorado State University

“Teaching Babbitt,” by Ralph Goldstein

“On the Road to Babbitt,” Review of If I Were Boss: The Early Business Stories of Sinclair Lewis, edited by Anthony Di Renzo; by Clare Eby, University of Connecticut-Hartford

“Uncle Hal: Isabel Lewis Agrell’s Sinclair Lewis Remembered,” rev. by George Killough, College of St. …

Matriarchal Mythopoesis: Naylor's Mama Day, David Cowart

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Postgothic Fiction: Joyce Carol Oates Turns The Screw On Henry James, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Christian Plain Style: The Evolution Of A Spiritual Ideal, Jameela A. Lares

Faculty Publications

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The Colored Girl In The Ring: A Guyanese Woman Remembers By Brenda Chester Doharris (Book Review), Daryl Cumber Dance

English Faculty Publications

Brenda Chester DoHarris's The Colored Girl in the Ring: A Guyanese Woman Remembers joins the company of some of the most memorable works of Caribbean literature, those classic accounts of coming-of-age, such as George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin, V. S. Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas, Michael Anthony's The Year in San Fernando, Merle Hodge's Crick Crack, Monkey, Erna Brodber's Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home, Zea Edgell's Beka Lamb, Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John, and Beryl Gilroy's Sunlight on Sweet Water. Like most of the bildungsromans - and …

The Internet: Emergent Technologies In Two West African Countries, Jim Rogers

English Faculty Publications

Being connected for most Africans means something completely different from most of us in more (technologically) "developed" countries. Compared to those who have virtually unlimited and relatively cheap access to e-mail and the World Wide Web (WWW), most Africans have limited access to e-mail only. Outside of South Africa, which hosts 70 full Internet Service Providers (ISPs); Egypt, which hosts 25; and Morocco, which hosts 15, most African countries have well under 10 ISPs, the average being loser to 1 or 2 (Jensen, 1998). This example demonstrates the diversity of the African continent; one cannot simply typify the African example. …

Eng 2901-004, Timothy Shonk

Fall 1998

No abstract provided.

Eng 3805-001: Restoration And Eighteenth-Century Literature, Linda Coleman

Fall 1998

No abstract provided.

Eng 5005-001: Victoria's Secret: Appropriating The Nineteenth-Century Novel, Hecimovich

Fall 1998

No abstract provided.

Eng 1001c-006: Composition And Language, Kathy Olsen

Fall 1998

No abstract provided.

Eng 3405-003: Children's Literature, John Moore

Fall 1998

No abstract provided.

Eng 3504-001: The Grotesque, Quinn

Fall 1998

No abstract provided.

Eng 3804-001: Milton, Martone

Fall 1998

No abstract provided.

Eng 2011c-001: Poetry , Miller

Fall 1998

No abstract provided.

Eng 2011c-002: Literature, The Self, And The World- Fiction, John Moore

Fall 1998

No abstract provided.

Eng 2601-002, William Searle

Fall 1998

No abstract provided.

Eng 2850-003: Post-Colonial Literatures In English, Michael Loudon

Fall 1998

No abstract provided.