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Untold Stories Told (Book Review), Linda Niemann Oct 2003

Untold Stories Told (Book Review), Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

Review of the book "Eclipse: Stories," by Jeanne Bryner. Huron, OH: Bottom Dog Press, 2003.


Blues For Ron, Linda Niemann Oct 2003

Blues For Ron, Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

No abstract provided.


Boomer In A Boom Town, Linda Niemann Oct 2003

Boomer In A Boom Town, Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

No abstract provided.


Jacobite Past, Loyalist Present, Michael Newton Oct 2003

Jacobite Past, Loyalist Present, Michael Newton

e-Keltoi: Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies

This article is the first analysis of Gaelic sources relating to the involvement of Scottish Highlanders in warfare in North America from the opening of the French and Indian War to the end of the American Revolution. A careful reading of these primary sources — almost totally unknown to historians — can provide a unique window on the sentiments and reasoning of Highlanders regarding these conflicts. This analysis of contemporary Gaelic poetry demonstrates that there is a high degree of continuity and consistency in the ideological framework of the lines of political argumentation from the Jacobite era through the end …


Mother Courage And Its Abject: Reading The Violence Of Identification, Kim Solga Oct 2003

Mother Courage And Its Abject: Reading The Violence Of Identification, Kim Solga

Department of English Publications

No abstract provided.


Re-Inventing Sicily In Italian-American Writing And Film, Fred L. Gardaphé Oct 2003

Re-Inventing Sicily In Italian-American Writing And Film, Fred L. Gardaphé

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.


Painting, Photography And Fidelity In The Tragic Muse, Adam Sonstegard Oct 2003

Painting, Photography And Fidelity In The Tragic Muse, Adam Sonstegard

English Faculty Publications

Photographs can approach the elegance of paintings, but reproductions can show the distortion of photographs - so The Tragic Muse (1890) suggests, complicating critical understandings of James and visual art. Dramatizing artists' fidelity, James resists assuming that families, races, and genders provide similar options. Fidelity in art can mean 'infidelity' in life, lead to 'adulterated' reproductions, and impugn understandings of inherited and performed identities - concerns which resurface in The American Scene (1907) when James contemplates immigrant populations and in A Small Boy and Others (1913) when a family daguerreotype becomes evidence of his own fidelity.


Can The Cosmopolitan Speak: The Question Of Indian Novelists’ Authenticity, John C. Hawley Oct 2003

Can The Cosmopolitan Speak: The Question Of Indian Novelists’ Authenticity, John C. Hawley

English

The marketing of books is often beyond the control of their authors; nonetheless, dust jackets sometimes offer amusing evidence of the audience that publication houses, if not authors, wish to reach. Thus, in Red Earth and Pouring Rain ( 1995), Vikram Chandra apparently offers readers the sto1y of "an eighteenth-century wan-ior poet (now reincarnated as a typewriting monkey) and an Indian student home from college in America ... [and] ranging from bloody battles in colonial India to college anomie in California, from Hindu gods to MTV." By way of context, consider Lee Siegel's academic novel, Love in a Dead Language …


Departures From Karachi Airport: Some Reflections On Feminist Outrage, Ambreen Hai Oct 2003

Departures From Karachi Airport: Some Reflections On Feminist Outrage, Ambreen Hai

English Language and Literature: Faculty Publications

Prefatory Note: This essay revisits an experience - my encounter with an airport border control official as I was leaving Pakistan - that occurred in October 2000. At First, this otherwise trivial incident seemed to me illustrative of several postcolonial and/feminist concerns, such as the regulation of national and gender identities at sites of border crossing, or the patriarchal oppressiveness of state power and practices. But as I retold the story, I began to realize that there were additional dimensions to it that called for something else, that required me to re-examine, though not altogether repudiate, my initial indignation. This …


Onno Oerlemans, Romanticism And The Materiality Of Nature, James C. Mckusick Oct 2003

Onno Oerlemans, Romanticism And The Materiality Of Nature, James C. Mckusick

English Faculty Publications

A Review by James C. McKusick. In Romanticism and the Materiality of Nature, Onno Oerlemans embarks upon an ambitious project to re-situate Romantic poetry in the hard, physical reality of the material world. This study endeavors to place several of the Romantic poets, especially Wordsworth and Shelley, within the larger intellectual and material contexts of their period, attending not only to the social and cultural currents that shape poetic discourse, but also to the concrete physical substrate of poetic production.


Chocolate Bunnies And Pork For Passover: The School And Home: A Symbiosis For Family Literacy, Karen C. Waters Oct 2003

Chocolate Bunnies And Pork For Passover: The School And Home: A Symbiosis For Family Literacy, Karen C. Waters

Education Faculty Publications

This article explores the literacy partnership between school and family when intergenerational stories are made public.


Un Glossario Bernense, Scott Gwara Oct 2003

Un Glossario Bernense, Scott Gwara

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Review Of Forming The Collective Mind: A Contextual Exploration Of Large-Scale Collaborative Writing In Industry, By Geoffrey A. Cross., Barbara Couture Oct 2003

Review Of Forming The Collective Mind: A Contextual Exploration Of Large-Scale Collaborative Writing In Industry, By Geoffrey A. Cross., Barbara Couture

Department of English: Faculty Publications

We have come a long way in studies of writers in professional settings, learning with each exploration how these behaviors differ from and relate to the processes we have taught beginning writers in our classroom. Studies of these processes have become increasingly more sophisticated since Selzer (1983) treated researchers to his intriguing account of a technical writer’s composing processes. Next, we saw case studies of writers designed to produce real-world writing contexts for students—such as Cases for Technical and Professional Writing, which I coauthored with Rymer Goldstein (1985)—and then more detailed descriptions of how writers learn to become proficient communicators …


An Evening To Remember, Ivan Davis Oct 2003

An Evening To Remember, Ivan Davis

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


What Part English, What Part Spanish?, Frank Bramlett Oct 2003

What Part English, What Part Spanish?, Frank Bramlett

English Faculty Publications

Back in July, I was sitting in my office at school, working on a syllabus for a new sophomore- level class on language and society. I was exploring the U.S. Census Bureau website to get a sense of the most current information we have about language communities in the United States. I had the radio on, too, and while I was browsing census data about Nebraska, I heard an advertisement on one of the FM stations. The ad was primarily an English-language ad, but it also had a few Spanish words. It turned out to be a job advertisement for …


The Current State Of Composition Scholar/Teachers: Is Rhetoric Gone Or Just Hiding Out?, Krista Ratcliffe Oct 2003

The Current State Of Composition Scholar/Teachers: Is Rhetoric Gone Or Just Hiding Out?, Krista Ratcliffe

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Performed Subjectivity: The Absence Of Interiority In Pamela, Adrianne Wadewitz Sep 2003

Performed Subjectivity: The Absence Of Interiority In Pamela, Adrianne Wadewitz

Adrianne Wadewitz

In this paper I will challenge the dominant reading of Pamela that argues that Richardson constructs an interiorized character in Pamela through her letters and her occupation of the private space of the closet. I will contend, on the other hand, that Pamela does not have an independent, identifiable private self because of the performative nature of her letters and her movements; she develops subjectivity only when she performs. Furthermore, she performs various ‘roles’ such as maid, wife and lover, thus not inhabiting any one identity. Pamela does not so much present either a publication of the private or a …


Iron Age Chariots And Medieval Texts: A Step Too Far In "Breaking Down Boundaries"?, Raimund Karl Sep 2003

Iron Age Chariots And Medieval Texts: A Step Too Far In "Breaking Down Boundaries"?, Raimund Karl

e-Keltoi: Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies

Analysing “Celtic” chariots by using Iron Age archaeological material and Early Medieval Irish texts might seem to be more than just one step too far in breaking down boundaries. Considering the huge chronological and geographical gaps between the sources, the objections raised against the concept of “Celticity” by Celtosceptics, and the antinativist school of thought in Irish literature, such an approach might look like outright nonsense to many archaeologists and scholars in medieval literature alike. Using a “functional” method according to the new Viennese approach to Celtic Studies, to allow cross-disciplinary comparison of archaeological, historical, iconographic, legal, linguistic, literary and …


Natural Trouble, Scott Hightower Sep 2003

Natural Trouble, Scott Hightower

Poetry

Natural Trouble continues Scott Hightower’s investigation begun in Tin Can Tourist. Themes of inheritance extend through changes of landscape and bad weather to hungers, urgencies, inequities, and bereavements. Hightower also reminds us that the practice of writing is at the core of democracy: poetry seeks a foundation in the truth of the individual, guaranteed and restored through the integrity of language.


Gender In Sartre's Early Fiction: The Making Of Femininity And Masculinity In "The Room" And Dirty Hands, Jean Wyatt Sep 2003

Gender In Sartre's Early Fiction: The Making Of Femininity And Masculinity In "The Room" And Dirty Hands, Jean Wyatt

Jean Wyatt

No abstract provided.


Freud’S Theory Of Metaphor: Beyond The Pleasure Principle, Nineteenth-Century Science And Figurative Language, Suzanne Raitt Sep 2003

Freud’S Theory Of Metaphor: Beyond The Pleasure Principle, Nineteenth-Century Science And Figurative Language, Suzanne Raitt

Arts & Sciences Book Chapters

At the beginning of the final lecture in Freud's 1933 publication, New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, Freud declared summarily and triumphantly that psychoanalysis was a science. 'As a specialist science, a branch of psychology ... it is quite unfit to construct a Weltanschauung of its own: it must accept the scientific one.'1 This was a view he continued to stress as his career drew to a close. In 1940, seven years after the lecture on the Weltanschauung, he noted that psychology was ca natural science like any other', asking defiantly: (What else can it be?'2


Pynchon's Age Of Reason: Mason & Dixon And America's Rise Of Rational Discourse, Jason Mcentee Sep 2003

Pynchon's Age Of Reason: Mason & Dixon And America's Rise Of Rational Discourse, Jason Mcentee

English Faculty Publications

By drawing upon astronomer Charles Mason and surveyor Jeremiah Dixon for the unlikely protagonists of Mason & Dixon (1997), Thomas Pynchon develops a revisionist history of these two Englishmen as they come to terms with America in the so-called Age of Reason, which was informed by a European philosophical movement with its roots in rational discourse aimed at cultural and political intellect that eventually served as the foundation for American independence and democracy. But as Thomas Paine suggests, time wields a stronger power than does reason, and what history calls the Age of Reason may remind one of an ideal …


Review Of Perspectives On American Book History: Artifacts And Commentary, Melissa J. Homestead Sep 2003

Review Of Perspectives On American Book History: Artifacts And Commentary, Melissa J. Homestead

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Perhaps the best place to begin a review of this excellent new book is where the editors themselves begin in their preface, by defining what the book is not. Namely, it is not "a reader that merely reprint[s] scholarly essays" on the history of the book (that niche has recently been filled by The Book History Reader [2002] from Routledge), nor is it "a definitive history of the book and print culture in North America" (Cambridge University Press and the American Antiquarian Society aim to fill that niche with the multi-volume History of the Book in America, currently in …


Personalism In John Donne's Art, Phillip Shaw Sep 2003

Personalism In John Donne's Art, Phillip Shaw

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This study examines personalism in John Donne's art: to what extent his poems are a product of his personality over and above conscious invention and artifice. It argues that Donne writes the way he does because, for the most part, he fails to attain distance from his work. The subjects that he writes about regularly are straight from his own life, and his take on them is highly personal. This paper brings in some biographical details but in general is concerned with scrutinizing Donne's writings in order to understand his imagination. Its primary method is to trace the repetition, resonance, …


More Than A Place, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe Aug 2003

More Than A Place, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Charlie Sweet

Many stories fail to capture the reader's interest even though they have a clear point of view, well-rounded characters and an interesting plot. What's missing? One key element that writers frequently overlook is setting. They treat it merely as backdrop.


Doubting Thomas’: The Failure Of Religious Appropriation In The Age Of Reason, Adrianne Wadewitz Aug 2003

Doubting Thomas’: The Failure Of Religious Appropriation In The Age Of Reason, Adrianne Wadewitz

Adrianne Wadewitz

No abstract provided.


Pivotal Transformations: The Changing Voice In Anne Sexton's Poetry, Lara L. Plate Aug 2003

Pivotal Transformations: The Changing Voice In Anne Sexton's Poetry, Lara L. Plate

Theses & Honors Papers

Critics such as Ralph Mills, Suzanne Juhasz, and Jane McCabe have generally focused on the confessional or feminist aspects of Anne Sexton's poetry, most especially in To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960), All My Pretty Ones (1962), Live or Die (1966), and Love Poems (1969). Those who have examined Transformations (1971)-and its fairy-tale world-have also paid particular attention either to its feminist approach or its confessional connections. These critics suggest that Sexton exists in her poetry as a confessional poet striving to move beyond parental restrictions and childhood experiences or they reveal Sexton as either "Madonna or Witch." These …


Guenevere's Conflict: Pagan Love Or Christian Ethics, Jacquelyn Sweeney Johnson Aug 2003

Guenevere's Conflict: Pagan Love Or Christian Ethics, Jacquelyn Sweeney Johnson

Theses & Honors Papers

This thesis examines the character of Guenevere in the broader, historical story of King Arthur. Analyzing newer, pagan, and feminist interpretations of her character as opposed to her original characterization in the Christian tale, it discusses the changes made in reinterpretation, especially as it relates to her relationship with Sir Lancelot.


Eng 3804-001, Olga Abella Aug 2003

Eng 3804-001, Olga Abella

Fall 2003

No abstract provided.


Eng 1000-001, English Department Aug 2003

Eng 1000-001, English Department

Fall 2003

No abstract provided.