Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

English Language and Literature Commons

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

2000

Discipline
Institution
Keyword
Publication
Publication Type
File Type

Articles 571 - 600 of 689

Full-Text Articles in English Language and Literature

Inside Here, Diana Spechler Jan 2000

Inside Here, Diana Spechler

Bryant Literary Review

This is the first summer of my life that I've gotten through without a single mosquito bite.


Handwriting, Ace Boggess Jan 2000

Handwriting, Ace Boggess

Bryant Literary Review

In the Fourth Grade, my teacher--
that aptly named Mrs. Johnson,


The Word Box, Christopher Brookhouse Jan 2000

The Word Box, Christopher Brookhouse

Bryant Literary Review

We can't sleep.


Fair Trade, Cathleen Calbert Jan 2000

Fair Trade, Cathleen Calbert

Bryant Literary Review

Young women turn to older men for power,
acclaim, and money. In exchange, they offer beauty,


Fate, Albert Sgambati Jan 2000

Fate, Albert Sgambati

Bryant Literary Review

In an isolated incident people were taken from the bus.


The Flummoxed Flummoxer, Thomas Dorsett Jan 2000

The Flummoxed Flummoxer, Thomas Dorsett

Bryant Literary Review

Speckled guppies, young and old,
almost worthless, 12 cents each,


Bread, Sean Thomas Dougherty Jan 2000

Bread, Sean Thomas Dougherty

Bryant Literary Review

I transmutate from the dead leaves
of late autumn
into a loaf of bread,


Daughter, Richard Dry Jan 2000

Daughter, Richard Dry

Bryant Literary Review

I saw a father and daughter
playing catch


House On Munday Road, Trent Busch Jan 2000

House On Munday Road, Trent Busch

Bryant Literary Review

Where the road curves back
against the hill to miss


A Bright Summer Day In Boston, Geoffrey Jarok Jan 2000

A Bright Summer Day In Boston, Geoffrey Jarok

Bryant Literary Review

The tubes that lead to nowhere.
The boredom of the sunshine,


Black Jellies, Eggs, And The Pearling Of Ovaries, Cathleen Calbert Jan 2000

Black Jellies, Eggs, And The Pearling Of Ovaries, Cathleen Calbert

Bryant Literary Review

The fire is stoked, kindling set in triangles.
Black jellies are sealed with wax, and loaves


Pedagogy, Allison Joseph Jan 2000

Pedagogy, Allison Joseph

Bryant Literary Review

Sometimes I dream about my students--
how they yawn and fidget in indifference


The Hand, Brady Rhoades Jan 2000

The Hand, Brady Rhoades

Bryant Literary Review

All winter my left hand has assumed
The death grip, as if it knows something


Forced To Read A Big, Black, Boring Textbook In The Rain, Jeb Santos Jan 2000

Forced To Read A Big, Black, Boring Textbook In The Rain, Jeb Santos

Bryant Literary Review

It's the opposite of inspiring
Dark soggy day


Documentary, J. R. Solonche Jan 2000

Documentary, J. R. Solonche

Bryant Literary Review

Rome burns. Then London.


Snow, Janet Mccann Jan 2000

Snow, Janet Mccann

Bryant Literary Review

Whiteness like the birth of memory.
Now a glitter.


Upon Awakening, Janet Proulx Jan 2000

Upon Awakening, Janet Proulx

Bryant Literary Review

The alarm clock makes me feel so wise
18 when I'm dreaming, 50 when I rise


Minuet, Gary J. Whitehead Jan 2000

Minuet, Gary J. Whitehead

Bryant Literary Review

Its keys as yellowed as false teeth,
the piano I imagine my father's mother owns


Doing Seventy On The Highway, J. R. Solonche Jan 2000

Doing Seventy On The Highway, J. R. Solonche

Bryant Literary Review

Doing seventy on the highway,
I look over at my wife.


Table Of Contents Jan 2000

Table Of Contents

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.


Dedication, Allan Peterson Jan 2000

Dedication, Allan Peterson

Bryant Literary Review

A cat, the color of my napkin plays
Twitching on a blue boat, a cat itself,


Hum Of Thoughts, C. J. Morrissey Jan 2000

Hum Of Thoughts, C. J. Morrissey

Bryant Literary Review

I have made a blanket with words
and have placed it on the mantel for safekeeping.


Verso Jan 2000

Verso

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.


There Are Gods, Rob Cook Jan 2000

There Are Gods, Rob Cook

Bryant Literary Review

creating a new species of shadow. there are gods smoking cigarettes in
cheap hotels on the rings of saturn. there are gods lurking inside


"A Man In A Painted Garment:" The Social Functions Of Jesting In Elizabethan Rhetoric And Courtesy Manuals, Christopher Holcomb Jan 2000

"A Man In A Painted Garment:" The Social Functions Of Jesting In Elizabethan Rhetoric And Courtesy Manuals, Christopher Holcomb

Faculty Publications

Many Elizabethan rhetoric and courtesy manuals offer jesting as a powerful rhetorical strategy for managing specific situations. Although highly pragmatic, the manuals' treatments of the subject imply a sociology of humor that classifies jests according to the broader social functions they serve: jests which preserve existing social relations and jests which disrupt, or even challenge, them. What eludes this classificatory scheme, however, are the properties of jesting itself. Jesting is always a flirtation with disorder and often serves conservative and disruptive functions simultaneously. If this is so, then the manuals' discussions of jesting replay (and magnify) ambiguities and anxieties characteristic …


Orthoparadoxy: The Temptation (From The Modern Testament), Michael Theune Jan 2000

Orthoparadoxy: The Temptation (From The Modern Testament), Michael Theune

Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Othoparadoxy: Part Iii, Michael Theune Jan 2000

Othoparadoxy: Part Iii, Michael Theune

Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Theune Reviews "Smokes" By Susan Wheeler, Michael Theune Jan 2000

Theune Reviews "Smokes" By Susan Wheeler, Michael Theune

Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Deepstep Come Shining By C.D. Wright, Michael Theune Jan 2000

Deepstep Come Shining By C.D. Wright, Michael Theune

Scholarship

Review originally published in Verse, Volume 16, Numbers 3/Volume 17, Number 1, 2000, pages 202-204.


How Many More Of Them Are You? By Lisa Lubasch, Michael Theune Jan 2000

How Many More Of Them Are You? By Lisa Lubasch, Michael Theune

Scholarship

Review originally published in Verse, Volume 16, Numbers 3/Volume 17, Number 1, 2000, pages 134-135.