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Mythcon 32 - Many Dimensions: Modern Supernatural Fiction, The Mythopoeic Society Aug 2001

Mythcon 32 - Many Dimensions: Modern Supernatural Fiction, The Mythopoeic Society

Mythcon Programs

Mythcon 32 - Many Dimensions: Modern Supernatural Fiction

Mythcon 32’s conference theme focuses on exploration of Charles Williams’ role as a “father” of modern supernatural fiction, as well as allowing discussions of other authors (living or dead) who write (or wrote) in this genre.


Book Review: Cultural Haunting: Ghosts And Ethnicity In Recent American Literature By Karen Brogan, Tim Engles Aug 2001

Book Review: Cultural Haunting: Ghosts And Ethnicity In Recent American Literature By Karen Brogan, Tim Engles

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

No abstract provided.


Book Review: Cultural Haunting: Ghosts And Ethnicity In Recent American Literature By Karen Brogan, Tim Engles Aug 2001

Book Review: Cultural Haunting: Ghosts And Ethnicity In Recent American Literature By Karen Brogan, Tim Engles

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

No abstract provided.


Unsettling Identities In Two Novels By Leslie Marmon Silko, Olivia Smith Aug 2001

Unsettling Identities In Two Novels By Leslie Marmon Silko, Olivia Smith

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Throughout Native American Literature the state of identity in connection to one’s tribal culture, nature, and spirituality is vital to understanding both the struggles that Native Americans have endured during contact with Europeans and then Americans and the current ongoing cultural negotiations of contemporary tribal peoples. Native American writers use literature as a venue to reclaim and reconstruct identity, particularly in relation to a rapidly changing and commercial world.

Grounded in identity theory and Native American literary criticism, this thesis explores how Native American author Leslie Marmon Silko “unsettles” identities in her two novels Almanac of the Dead and Gardens …


Going To Nowhere : Narratives Of Patagonian Exploration, Mark W. Bell Aug 2001

Going To Nowhere : Narratives Of Patagonian Exploration, Mark W. Bell

Master's Theses

Since its discovery on Magellan's circumnavigation, Patagonia has been treated differently than any other region in the world. Effectively, Patagonia has been left empty or vacated by the North. But this emptiness and blankness have compulsively attracted curious travel writers who have filled the emptiness of Patagonia with self-reflexive projections. From Charles Darwin and W.H. Hudson to Bruce Chatwin and Paul Theroux, Northern commentators have found in Patagonia a landscape that accommodates their desire for self-reflexivity and self-consciousness. Thus, Patagonia has been simultaneously filled and evacuated by the Northern mind. As a result, Patagonia has become increasingly about the self …


Oscar Wilde: Constructing The Self, Elisabeth Erin Pankl Aug 2001

Oscar Wilde: Constructing The Self, Elisabeth Erin Pankl

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines Oscar Wilde's construction of the self. Three major aspects of Wildean literary work serve as handles for this thesis examination. They are the Wildean interpretation of theoria, Wilde's literary technique and philosophical assertion of masks and poses and Wilde's favor of the social dandy.

In addition to these three aspects, this thesis utilizes four of Wilde's works as primary sources. These are The Pictureo f Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest, "The Decay of Lying," and "The Critic as Artist."

Like most current critiques of Wilde, this thesis relies on many of the reading strategies of …


Eliza Haywood's Feigning Femmes Fatale: Desirous And Deceptive Women In "Fantomina," Love In Excess, And The History Of Miss Betsy Thoughtless., Emily Kathryn Booth Aug 2001

Eliza Haywood's Feigning Femmes Fatale: Desirous And Deceptive Women In "Fantomina," Love In Excess, And The History Of Miss Betsy Thoughtless., Emily Kathryn Booth

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Within the pages of Eliza Haywood's novels, masquerade is often used by female characters as a means by which to gain control or power. More specifically, Haywood's female characters often misrepresent themselves as a means by which to achieve sexual power and even to obtain sexual gratification.

Haywood also explores the theme of women's uses of deception and even disguise as methods by which to skirt the confines of a male dominated society and as modes devoted to escaping the boundaries they inflict upon themselves in trying to maintain their virtue.


God In The Darkness: Mysticism And Paradox In The Poetry Of George Herbert And Henry Vaughan., Elizabeth Anne Acker Aug 2001

God In The Darkness: Mysticism And Paradox In The Poetry Of George Herbert And Henry Vaughan., Elizabeth Anne Acker

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

While aspects of mysticism appear in the poetry of both George Herbert and Henry Vaughan, the general consensus among critics has acknowledged the mysticism of Vaughan while ignoring its roots in Herbert's writings. Among the leading authorities on the poetry of Herbert, there has been a general tendency to dismiss, ignore, or explain away mystical elements. A study of representative works by prominent critics to ascertain their positions on this issue reveals not only what can be known for certain about Herbert's theology, but also the interpretations that have been offered for his most famous poems. While these interpretations are …


James Joyce And Rolando Hinojosa: Artists In A Colonial Milieu, John Clark Owen Aug 2001

James Joyce And Rolando Hinojosa: Artists In A Colonial Milieu, John Clark Owen

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

This study puts James Joyce's Dubliners and Rolando Hinojosa's The Valley in a common context and shows how colonialism impacts the lives of the archetypal protagonists as they move from childhood through adolescence and into mature adulthood. This reveals not only the destructive nature of colonialism that so concerns Joyce and Hinojosa but also shows clearly how cooperation of the church, the colonizer, and of some of the colonized makes the imposition of a colonial culture possible. In light of findings from the study, a new reading of "Eveline" is offered.

After establishment of a common historical background, the focus …


Joanna Baillie And The Gothic Body: Reading Extremities In Orra And De Monfort, Diane Hoeveler Aug 2001

Joanna Baillie And The Gothic Body: Reading Extremities In Orra And De Monfort, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

At the time of their publication, Joanna Baillie's dramas were considered to be works of genius in their sustained and powerful fixation on one of the several possible human passions. In their very focus on these intense emotions, however, the plays actually reified the dangers inherent in the extremes of human passion. In other words, by fixing her attention on the passions, Baillie revealed that the emotions she was supposedly focused on often masked other, even more powerful desires. Thus, in Orra fear is the result of the heroine's hatred of male dominance, while in De Monfort hatred is shown …


Linda Grace Hoyer Updike: Woman, Author, And Mother, Leslie Hoffman Jul 2001

Linda Grace Hoyer Updike: Woman, Author, And Mother, Leslie Hoffman

Library Summer Fellows

Linda Grace Hoyer was a brilliant individual. She graduated from Ursinus College at the age of nineteen, received a master's from Cornell University, and after many years of diligent work, published two novels and a myriad of short stories. She lived an unusual life: reflective, feminine in her thought processes, but nevertheless somewhat stubborn in a time when women were meant to fill a subordinate role. I have found through my research that Hoyer's brilliance did not lie in her intellect and writing alone. In fact, as demonstrated by her literature's autobiographical nature, her brilliance as a writer seemed to …


Narnian Spring, Nicholas Ozment Jul 2001

Narnian Spring, Nicholas Ozment

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


Contributors, Gwenyth E. Hood Jul 2001

Contributors, Gwenyth E. Hood

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


Editorial, Gwenyth E. Hood Jul 2001

Editorial, Gwenyth E. Hood

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


The Master Juggler, J. M. R. Harrison Jul 2001

The Master Juggler, J. M. R. Harrison

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


For Eustace, John Savoie Jul 2001

For Eustace, John Savoie

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


The Lady Wears Gloves, Lala Heine-Koehn Jul 2001

The Lady Wears Gloves, Lala Heine-Koehn

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


The Story, Ed Cates Jul 2001

The Story, Ed Cates

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


It Was Rather Strange, Lala Heine-Koehn Jul 2001

It Was Rather Strange, Lala Heine-Koehn

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


The Frog's Tale / What Mr. Ai Didn't Learn, J. M. R. Harrison, Joe R. Christopher Jul 2001

The Frog's Tale / What Mr. Ai Didn't Learn, J. M. R. Harrison, Joe R. Christopher

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


Reviewing Peter Jackson's Movie, Trent Walters Jul 2001

Reviewing Peter Jackson's Movie, Trent Walters

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


The High Priest Of Turmiz, Lee Clark Zumpe Jul 2001

The High Priest Of Turmiz, Lee Clark Zumpe

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


The Bridge, Richard Reilly Jul 2001

The Bridge, Richard Reilly

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


Cumal, Debra A. Kemp Jul 2001

Cumal, Debra A. Kemp

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


Walentyna, Maria Ott Tatham Jul 2001

Walentyna, Maria Ott Tatham

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


Retirement: A Masque, Joe R. Christopher Jul 2001

Retirement: A Masque, Joe R. Christopher

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


Trolls At Teatime / The Unexplained Plague Of Laryngitis Among The Mermaids, J. M. R. Harrison Jul 2001

Trolls At Teatime / The Unexplained Plague Of Laryngitis Among The Mermaids, J. M. R. Harrison

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


Under Cloak Of Night / Direction, D. John Gangnagel Jul 2001

Under Cloak Of Night / Direction, D. John Gangnagel

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


To The Fates / The One-Eyed Rooster, D. John Gangnagel, Lala Heine-Koehn Jul 2001

To The Fates / The One-Eyed Rooster, D. John Gangnagel, Lala Heine-Koehn

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


The White Queen Soliloquy, Lala Heine-Koehn Jul 2001

The White Queen Soliloquy, Lala Heine-Koehn

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.