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Ngugi Wa Thiong’O., John C. Hawley

English

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o was born the fifth child of the third of his father's four wives; he had twenty-seven siblings. The family lived in Kamiriithu Village, twelve miles northeast of Nairobi, Kenya. His father, Thiong'o wa Nducu, was a peasant farmer dispossessed by the British Imperial Land Act of 1915 and therefore forced to become a squatter on property meted out to one of the few native Africans who had profited from the act. His father's condition was similar to that of most of the Kikuyu with whom Ngũgĩ grew up.

Letter To The Editor, Squidge Boodle

The Mythic Circle

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Galatea, Kelly Searsmith

The Mythic Circle

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Letter From The Co-Editor, Trent M. Walters

The Mythic Circle

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The Dog Medusa, Tony Tost

The Mythic Circle

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The Man In The Oxford Shirt / At The Bowling Alley, Zach Schomburg

The Mythic Circle

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Stem Of The Sun, Vadim Anton Volant

The Mythic Circle

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Skin's Milk / Pride, Bobbi Sinha Morey, Melissa Edwards

The Mythic Circle

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Magnetic Country, C. S. Thompson

The Mythic Circle

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The Tail Of The Boggleman, Ed Humpnal

The Mythic Circle

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The Attic, Douglas J. Alford

The Mythic Circle

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The Witching Of Wellman Dairy, Kelly Searsmith

The Mythic Circle

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Message To The King, Mark David Schaefer

The Mythic Circle

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Mythic Circle #21, Gwenyth E. Hood

The Mythic Circle

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Revolutionary Trickster Communities: Re-Presenting Folk Heroes In Contemporary African American Novels, Susan C. Stinson

Theses & Honors Papers

In this thesis, the three novelists, as tricksters, manipulate one’s reading process by overlapping the visible with the invisible world. This thesis explores the tricksters communities and will focus on the novelists as trickster. Sherley Anne Williams, Ernest Gaines, and Gloria Naylor parody the rebel or loner trickster tradition in literature and conceptualize a world in which African Americans, white Americans, and Native Americans work communally to deconstruct the stereotypes associated with race, age, and gender. The authors use parody as a humorous narrative technique. The humor enables the modern reader to look into the past at the wrongs imposed …

"Designed Anarchy" In Mavis Gallant's The Moslem Wife And Other Stories, Tamas Dobozy

English and Film Studies Faculty Publications

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History, Nation, And The Satiric Almanac, 1660-1760, Frank Palmeri

English Articles and Papers

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Vol. 18, No. 3 (1998), Robert L. Blake Jr., Samuel M. Tumey, Wendy Goldberg, Lisa C. Hickman

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

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Constructing Jefferson's Nephews: A Speech To The Kentucky Library Association, Lexington, Kentucky, November, 1979, Boynton Merrill Jr.

The Kentucky Review

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Things Exist In You Without Your Knowing It: Robert Penn Warren's "The Ballad Of Billie Potts" As A Conglomeration Of Myth And Folklore, Joe Sarnowski

The Kentucky Review

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The Poetic Art Of Aldhelm, Scott Gwara

Faculty Publications

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The History Never Written: Bards, Druids, And The Problem Of Antiquarianism In Poly Olbion, John E. Curran Jr.

English Faculty Research and Publications

The rise of antiquarianism in late Elizabethan/early Jacobean England posed a threat to the common and traditional notion of continuity through time of British institutions and culture, including the transmission of historical texts. This threat was a major preoccupation for the poet Michael Drayton, and his response to it can be examined in his depictions of bards and druids in Poly Olbion. Conservatives in the historiographical debate put forth these ancient British poet/priests as an explanation for how ancient British history could have been transmitted through the centuries. But while Drayton in the Poly Olbion certainly uses bards and …

Wreath-Laying In Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey 1998, Roy Hattersley

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

I take a strange pleasure in being associated, no matter how vicariously, with the greatest novelist in the English language. I am by no means sure that she would approve of this event. Asked about God, Immortality and Duty - strange topics of conversation to be raised during an afternoon's stroll - 'she pronounced with terrible earnestness how inconceivable was the first, how unbelievable the second and how peremptory and absolute the third'. But there she is in black, polished marble on the floor of Westminster Abbey - the junkyard of the nation's vanities.

She keeps appropriate company, in a …

Guidelines For Alternative Spring Break, Christopher A. Meyer

Honors Theses

According to the 1997 Statistical Abstract of the United States, some 93 million Americans - 48.8% of the nation's adults - volunteered an average of 4.2 hours a week in 1995, donating time and talents to benefit various worthy causes. These "causes" ranged from churches to museums to schools, from private arrangements to national (even international) organizations. And the work, from building houses to holding hands to cleaning homes to answering tax questions, covered every possible talent and ability that volunteers had to offer.

Eng 3808-051: Twentieth-Century British Literature, Susan Bazargan

Summer 1998

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Eng 3009c-021, Michael Leddy

Summer 1998

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Eng 3703-001: 20th Century American Literature, Roger Whitlow

Summer 1998

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Eng 3009c-002: Myth And Culture, Quinn

Summer 1998

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Eng 2901-001, F Preston

Summer 1998

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Eng 3802-001: Shakespeare, John Moore

Summer 1998

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