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Contents (Volume 6), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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Aesop's Fables And George Eliot's Brother And Sisters Sonnets, Margaret Wolfit

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

It is always exciting to discover something new and to come upon it unexpectedly. That was my happy experience a few years ago. I had decided to try my hand at devising a biographical programme on George Eliot and to attempt to portray her at the end of her life, reminiscing on past events. I wanted to absorb as much as I could about her, starting with her early days. What were the influences that shaped her life and writing? What books had she read as a child?

She tells us: 'I could not be satisfied with the things around …

Malory Meets Wagner In Madrid: Albéniz's Merlin And The Mythologizing Of Arthur, Robert S. Haller

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Essay preapred for the Modern Language Association on Catalan composer Isaac Albéniz's opera Merlin and the mythologizing of Arthur.

Famous Infidelity: Geoffrey Chaucer's Criseyde And Robert Henryson's Cresseid, Erin R. Johnson

Honors Capstones

Capstone submitted as a graduation requirement for the BSU Honors program.

A Psychological Literary Critique From A Jungian Perspective Of E. M. Forster's A Passage To India., David W. Elliott

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This paper is a psychological reading of E. M. Forster's A Pasage to India. It uses the psychological theories of C. G. Jung and the methodological postulates of Jungian literary critic, Terence Dawson, to examine the psychological implications of the text, especially in relation to the novel's characters. Attention is given to biographical material related to Forster, particularly his homosexuality, that is important for understanding the psychological implications of the text as well as Forster's art. The paper concludes that the Marabar Caves is the the central psychological symbol of the narrative, representing what Jung calls the collective unconscious. Both …

Indefinite Ethnicity In Fact And Fiction: "Invisible Color" Or "Honkified Meanderings"?, Anita Louise Hughes

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Passing, both standard and reverse, is the process of changing ethnicity. The methodology of reverse passing varies, but claiming "no color" is ineffective in fact and fiction as can be seen in James McBride's The Color of Water, Shirlee Taylor Haizlip's The Sweeter the Juice, Danzy Senna's Caucasia, and Rosellen Brown's Half a Heart. The characters in these texts attempt indefinite ethnicity by denying color and are prone to restlessness and failure until they accept racial duality.

Cognitive, Personality, And Demographic Attributes Of Student Change, Jeanne Marie Hemy

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study was an examination as to whether cognitive, personality, and demographic attributes of students have changed over time. Archival data for 10 cohorts of freshman students from a private Midwest engineering institution were used. Data consisted of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) results, Learning Environment Preferences (LEP) results, and demographics. ANOV As were performed for all interval data and Chi-Square analyses for all nominal data. Statistical significance was found for MBTI Thinking-Perceiving and Sensing-Intuition scales, LEP Cognitive Complexity Index scores, and demographic variables including age, parental education level, and SAT scores. Results are discussed in terms of practical significance, trends …

Ascending Into Ecstasy: Sex And Religion In Three Albee Plays, Carolyn M. Rodkey

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study is an investigation of American playwright, Edward Albee, and how he uses the themes of sex and religion to develop the plots and characters in three of his major works. Foremost, this analysis is devoted to the exploration of Albee's 1964 drama, Tiny Alice; however, this work also contains two secondary studies of Three Tall Women and The Play about the Baby. "The Origins of the Themes" presents biographical information relevant to the study of sex and religion. Albee's religious skepticism and spiritual self-discoveryalong with his volatile relationship with his mother brought on, in part, by his homosexuality-are …

Playing Underground: A Critical History Of The 1960'S Off-Off-Broadway Movement, Philip C. Kolin

Faculty Publications

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“New Words, New Everything”: Fragmentation And Trauma In Jean Rhys, Maren Linett

Department of English Faculty Publications

Jean Rhys’s novels present an intriguing case study for thinking about the status and meaning of fragmented text. With their polyvocal, nonlinear narration, often presented through interior monologues, novels such as Voyage in the Dark and Good Morning, Midnight exemplify modernist fragmentation while intimating a deeper sense of pain and loss than most accounts of such fragmentation acknowledge. In spite of the strong undertone of psychological damage it conveys, the fragmentary nature of Rhys’s writing is sometimes celebrated by critics as evidence of a subversive stance, either in Rhys or in her characters. Such a response is not peculiar to …

Placing The Academy: An Essay In Three Voices, Jeffrey M. Buchanan, Rona Kaufman, Jennifer Sinor

English Faculty Publications

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Smoke And Mirrors: Internalizing The Magic Lantern Show In Villette, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

With considerable historical background in mind, I would like to examine a number of the stock gothic tropes, including the mysterious nun, the paintings of women, the theater scene, and the fête in Villette as examples of not simply one of last gasps of high Victorian gothicism, but also of the internalization and critique of gothic theatrical technology. As Castle observes, the "phantasmagoria should [have] become a kind of master trope in nineteenth-century romantic writing," and certainly she applies the representation in provocative ways to the symbols and imagery in Thomas Carlyle's French Revolution. In a similar fashion, I …

Vestiges, Mark Y. Herring

Dacus Library Faculty Publications

Can intelligent design be found?

An Interview With Wendell Berry, Birkin Gilmore

Honors Theses

In choosing which questions to ask of Mr. Berry, I was interested in the environment, physical and spiritual, that gives rise to the poems. The Sabbath poems, for instance, come from the author's meditations as he passes through places and spaces of time where, as Mr. Berry has written, "the heart and mind are open and aware." As Mr. Berry is intimately concerned with cultivating land, so these are moments to be cultivated whose fruits are poems. I am interested in how the place in which the poems are written participates in their creation. If we are to keep alive …

Sunday In The Park With George: A Musical Curation By Stephen Sondheim, Amy Riordan

English Theses - Archive

This analysis serves to reveal the strong interconnectedness between museums and theatre (mentioned only briefly by other scholars) as uniquely demonstrated by Stephen Sondheim's musical, Sunday in the Park with George. Because Sondheim chose George Seurat's museum-housed painting, Sunday on the Island La Grande Jatte, as the foundation for his show, museum practices including labels, titles, ways of seeing, and curatorial authority--to which Seurat's painting has already been subjected--can also be located in Stephen Sondheim's musical. However, in the musical the artist is returned authority over his painting, above museum practice and curator bias. By granting the artist such dominion …

Teilhard De Chardin's View Of Diminishment And The Late Stories Of Flannery O'Connor, Steven Watkins

English Dissertations - Archive

ABSTRACT Scholars have used different approaches to study and interpret the work of Flannery O'Connor; those approaches have ranged from Feminism to New Criticism to religious (Christian and non-Christian) to psychological. These attempts to analyze and interpret her work have produced a diverse approach to understanding this intriguing author, who lived only to the age of thirty-nine because of lupus erthymatosus. The approach of this dissertation is that the presence of this disease in her life caused her to look for ways to resolve and adapt to the limitations of the disease. One prominent source for reflecting and resolving the …

Poem No. 94, November 2005, 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.

Every Kiss Is A Prayer, Joseph Warren

Lake Union Herald

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Book Ownership And Authorial Identity: Reconstructing The (Im)Personal Library Of Arthur Hugh Clough, Patrick G. Scott

Faculty Publications

Describes the different evidence that survives for the personal libraries owned by two Victorian poets, Alfred Tennyson and Arthur Hugh Clough, and discusses the ways in which such book-ownership is (and is not) usable as evidence about the author's thought and writing. This paper was originally presented at the North American Victorian Studies Association Conference, Charlottesville, VA, October 1, 2005.

The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 14, No. 1, The Sinclair Lewis Society

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter

“Society Sponsors Third Lewis Conference in Sauk Centre,” by Robert L. McLaughlin, Illinois State University

“Erumaa Gantorii,” by Rusty Allred (discussion of Japanese translation of Elmer Gantry)

“The German Translator of It Can’t Happen Here,” by Frederick Betz, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale

“The Lorinda Mystique,” by Mary Krones, Illinois State University (about women in It Can’t Happen Here)

“On a First Name Basis,” by Michael Carroll Dooling (a friendship that Lewis shared with E. Robert Stevenson)

“Clearing the Smoke: Babbitt’s ‘Curious Inscription,'” by Michael Carroll Dooling

Fragment Of An Analysis Of A Case Of Technical Writing, Bonnie Noonan

Faculty and Staff Publications

At the time of this study, I was primarily a compositionist becoming acclimated into the field of technical writing. I was used to teaching "universal" concepts of the writing process (pre-writing, drafting, editing, and proofreading) and historical concepts ofrhetoric (writer, audience, purpose). Furthermore, I am a liberal, from the 70s no less. I emerged into my young adulthood believing that positive social change could be effected primarily by resistance to corporate culture, a culture I perceived as antithetical to individuality. In this study of one document produced by one writer in a large corporate organization, however, I noted a dynamic, …

Review Of Anglo-Irish Autobiography: Class, Gender, And The Forms Of Narrative By Elizabeth Grubgeld, Tyler Farrell

English Faculty Research and Publications

The article reviews the book "Anglo-Irish Autobiography: Class, Gender, and the Forms of Narrative," by Elizabeth Grubgeld.

Review Of The Doctor's House: An Autobiography, By James Liddy, Tyler Farrell

English Faculty Research and Publications

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The Poet's Hymn, Tyler Farrell

English Faculty Research and Publications

Reviews the book "The Doctor's House: An Autobiography," by James Liddy.

Emc’S Quiet Superman, Meredith Jones-Gray

Faculty Publications

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The Research Paper As An Act Of Citizenship: Possibilities And Pragmatism, Tim Taylor

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

By focusing on local problems or issues, student writers can craft research essays that exemplify civic engagement, a practice that reaffirms composition’s tacit tradition from classical rhetoric and the educational philosophy of John Dewey.

Review Of Rhetorical Democracy: Discursive Practices Of Civic Engagement, Edited By Gerard Hauser And Amy Grim, Tim Taylor

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

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Review Of Rhetorical Democracy: Discursive Practices Of Civic Engagement, Edited By Gerard Hauser And Amy Grim, Tim Taylor

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

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The Research Paper As An Act Of Citizenship: Possibilities And Pragmatism, Tim Taylor

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

By focusing on local problems or issues, student writers can craft research essays that exemplify civic engagement, a practice that reaffirms composition’s tacit tradition from classical rhetoric and the educational philosophy of John Dewey.

Pages Perspective, Kristen N. Denslow

Lake Union Herald

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