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Representations Of Anglo-Saxon England In Children's Literature, Kirsti A. Bobo

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis surveys the children's literary accounts of Anglo-Saxon history and literature that have been written since the mid-nineteenth century. Authors of different ages emphasize different aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture as societal need for and interpretation of the past change. In studying these changes, I show not only why children's authors would choose to depict the Saxons in their writing, but why medievalists would want to study the resulting literature.

My second chapter looks at children's historical fiction and nonfiction, charting the trends which appear in the literature written between 1850 and the present day. I survey the changes made …

[Untitled], Amanda Lyn Gustavson

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

More Borrowing From Bellegarde In Delarivier Manley's Queen Zarah And The Zarazians, Rachel Carnell

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Age Dependence; Of Spiral Grain In Widte Oaks (Quercus Alba) In Southcentral Illinois, Julia Rauchfuss

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Spiral grain, the alignment of wood fibers (trachejds) to the longitudinal axis of h·ees, is thought to be an indicator of old age and is a phenomenon that has been only stndied with destrnctive sampling methods (cutting down trees). In this study, the usefulness of non-fatal sampling methods and existing methods to quantify spiral grain patterns in Jiving and dead deciduous trees are examined, particularly in white oaks (Qi1ercus alba). 111e overall goal is to detem1ine if spiral grain growth is a reasonable indicator of h·ee age. Methods that were tested included the use of a 12 mm increment borer …

Sexuality And Power In Elizabeth Inchbald's A Simple Story., Michelle Martini

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A Simple Story is controversial because of Inchbald's seemingly conflicting statements about women's "proper" education and because the most powerful character in the novel openly defies social norms. Miss Milner, the heroine of the first half of A Simple Story, overtly displays her sexuality and uses it to gain control of men. Her guardian Dorriforth, a Catholic priest, attempts to repress her sexual power. Miss Milner dies in exile, but Inchbald rewards her by saving her from a marriage in which her husband subdues her sexuality. Contrarily, Miss Milner's daughter Matilda represses her sexuality and conforms to eighteenth-century standards …

The Meaning Of The Moment: A Collection Of Short Stories., Jonathan David Benton

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis consists of three short stories in very different genres but tied together by a intensely personal look at the lives of its protagonists culminating in epiphanies. One of these epiphanies is intended solely for the reader, but in two cases, the reader and character gains the insight. “The Tears of Angels” looks at the effect one person in a moment, even a stranger, can have on the protagonist’s life. “Climbing Heaven and Gazing on Earth” focuses on the haunting power of history and the need we as humans can feel to share a story, to make sense of …

Carnival Glass: A Collection Of Poems, Rachel Marie Fairbanks

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This creative thesis, entitled Carnival Glass: A Collection of Poems, contains a series of poems representative of the writer's expanding vision and growth as a poet. An introduction precedes the work, wherein the writer attempts to draw explicit connections between the tangible world and the page on which it is recorded and recreated. The subject matter of these poems reflects aspects of daily living filtered through the writer's personal experience. Poems in the collection are grouped under headings that signify four major areas of content: "Keepsake-Breakables," with poems examining the relationship between self and family; "Worn But Polished Surfaces," with …

V.S. Naipaul And A Journey To Trinidad, Arnold Girdharry

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

The War Of The Worlds, Wells, And The Fallacy Of Empire, John C. Hawley

English

In his summary of the contemporary reviews of The War of the Worlds (1898), William J. Scheick notes that their extensive number suggests that readers now recognized that Wells was an emerging writer whom they could not ignore. "There were, again," Scheick notes, "reservations about slipshod style, hasty plotting, vulgar content and cheap effects; but these doubts were overrun by the general verdict that this romance was one of the most ingenious stories of the year and the best work to date of an author who was one of the most original of the younger English novelists" (Scheick 5). Earlier …

Cultural-Competency Training For School-Based Mental Health Service Providers, Natasha Lian Smith

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Literature on cultural competence has primarily developed in the fields of counseling psychology and counselor education. The field of school psychology has responded to the increased focus of cultural competency by providing recommended skills needed to provide psychological services in schools to diverse individuals and groups. Currently, research in effective cultural competency training has primarily focused on graduate training programs. This study extends the literature on cultural competency training by developing a training model that is appropriate for professionals who are already working in the field. This study first evaluated the impact of a needs assessment on the preparation of …

Resituating Faulkner: Faulkner, Proletarian Literature, And Post-Depression Culture, Peter J. Kee

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

Leaving Her Story: The Path To The Second Marriage In The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall And Middlemarch, Angela Myers Thompson

Theses and Dissertations

During the Victorian period marriage proved to be a dominant theme in fiction. Female writers especially focused on the topic of marriage and wrote stories of women whose first marriages were imperfect. Anne Brontë and George Eliot dedicated themselves to portraying in their stories realistic heroines who deal with their own flaws as well as those of the men they marry. Their heroines distance themselves from their expected roles, moving beyond their first failed marriages to wiser second marriages.

Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall follows Helen Huntingdon as she attempts to fulfill the self-appointed role of Savior to …

Review Of Race And The Modern Artist, John Kerkering

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

No abstract provided.

Poem No. 92, November 2004, 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.

His Dark Materials: A Look Into Pullman's Interpretation Of Milton's Paradise Lost, Karen D. Robinson

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Explores ideas of duality and other concepts from Milton’s Paradise Lost that influenced Pullman’s Dark Materials trilogy.

A Note On Charles Williams's Phillida, Joe R. Christopher

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Considers sources for William’s representation of Phyllis Jones in The Masques of Amen House under the name of Phillida.

Lewis's Screwtape Letters: The Ascetic Devil And The Aesthetic God, Larry D. Harwood

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Considers “the puzzle of pleasure” in Screwtape Letters: why the devils cannot understand the reasons for which God created sensual pleasure.

The Lord Of The Rings As Elegy, Patrice Hannon

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Discusses the elegiac theme of loss which permeates The Lord of the Rings.

A Larger World: C. S. Lewis On Christianity And Literature, Donald T. Williams

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Discusses Lewis’s literary criticism and his conviction that “a love for and a sound approach to literature” are crucial to the health of the individual and the Church.

"The Young Perish And The Old Linger, Withering": J.R.R. Tolkien On World War Ii, Janet Brennan Croft

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Discusses the impact of World War II on the themes and style of The Lord of the Rings, and particularly in Tolkien’s depiction of families affected by war.

So Familiar, Yet So Strange: Mythic Shadows Of The Medieval Gawain Romance In Iris Murdoch's Green Knight, Carla A. Arnell

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Discusses Murdoch’s The Green Knight, which uses themes and plot elements from Gawain, but interpreted in her own fashion.

The Marlin, Jennifer Sinor

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 13, No. 1, The Sinclair Lewis Society

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter

“Memories of the Sinclair Lewis Memorial Service,” by John Kleinschmidt

“Fay Wray, Lewis’s Theatrical Collaborator, Dies”

“Our Literary Diogenes”: rev. of Sinclair Lewis as Reader and Critic by Martin Bucco, by Frederick Betz, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale

Abstracts from Sinclair Lewis at the ALA Conference:

“Sinclair Lewis and Americans Abroad,” by Stephen L. Tanner, Brigham Young University

“From the Cultural Margin: Sinclair Lewis’s Quest for Symbolic Goods,” by Madeline Walker, University of Victoria, Canada

“Japanese Adventures with Sinclair Lewis,” by Rusty Allred

“Babbitt’s Mysterious Inscription,” by Ingrid Wilson

“Lewis and the Literary Immortality Polls of 1936 and 1948,” by Frederick Betz, …

A Charismatic Iranian American Engineer, Jane Meehan

English Faculty Publications

This is the story of Iranian engineer Mostafa Jamshidi and his twenty-five years in Nebraska: his student days, his experiences with the immigration department and his eventual citizenship, his work history, and his personal life as told by his English teacher and surrogate mother. His language skills, soccer playing, and personality enabled him to combat his homesickness and the harassment of the immigration officials. The University of Nebraska at Omaha and the Nebraska Department of Roads gave him a place to learn and grow despite the time and geography in which he was born. The Great Plains, with its friendliness, …

Echoing Narratives, Or Chris Anson At Work And Play, Beth Godbee, Beth Burmester, Tanya R. Cochran

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Andrew Joron's Fathom, Michael Theune

Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Small Town, Granville Hicks, Warren F. Broderick

Literature

Granville Hicks was one of America's most influential literary and social critics. Along with Malcolm Cowley, F. O. Matthiessen, Max Eastman, Alfred Kazin, and others, he shaped the cultural landscape of 20th-century America.

In 1946 Hicks published Small Town, a portrait of life in the rural crossroads of Grafton, N.Y., where he had moved after being fired from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for his left-wing political views. In this book, he combines a kind of hand-crafted ethnographic research with personal reflections on the qualities of small town life that were being threatened by spreading cities and suburbs. He eloquently tried to …

An Essay On The Work Of Composition : Composing English Against The Order Of Fast Capitalism., Min-Zhan Lu

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

This is an attempt to define what being a responsible and responsive user of English might mean in a world ordered by global capital, a world where all forms of intra- and international exchanges in all areas of life are increasingly under pressure to involve English. Turning to recent work in linguistics and education, I pose a set of alternative assumptions that might help us develop more responsible and responsive approaches to the relation between English and its users (both those labeled Native-Speaking, White or Middle Class, and those Othered by these labels), the language needs and purposes of individual …

An Application Of Contemporary Technical Writing Standards To Benjamin Franklin's Works., Edward Robert Milhorn

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Force Is With You: Dylan Thomas's Force As It Exists In His Poetry And Drama., Josh Archer

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In Dylan Thomas's poetry, he refers to an inexorable, amoral force that exists within the universe. This force exists in all things, yet cannot be manipulated. His first collection, 18 Poems, serves as the premier source for defining and understanding the existence of this force. Two poems in particular, "A Process in the Weather of the Heart" and "The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower," provide the most comprehensive examination of the force. However, his idea of the force is not confined to his poetry. During the last years of his life, he completed a play …