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Analysis Of The Function Of Songs And Poetry In J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings, Lisa Soderberg

Honors Capstones

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

Ua68/6/1 Cherry Hall Bulletin, Wku English

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by the English Department. This issue highlights the Robert Penn Warren Centennial, Kentucky Writers Conference and Book Fest, faculty achievements and student activities.

Readings In Place: Recent Publications In Southwestern Literature And Studies, Thomas Lynch

Department of English: Faculty Publications

The "Southwest" is nearly always defined along the intersection of two axes, one cultural and the other natural. Certain characteristics of these two axes are obvious in the six works considered here. Culturally, the region is most distinguished from the rest of the US by the existence of two enduring ethnic communities, the indigenous and the Hispanic, with the presence of the Mexican border exerting a powerful influence. In very different ways, Molly H. Mullin’s Culture in the Market Place: Gender, Art, and Value in the American Southwest, Audrey Goodman’s Translating Southwestern Landscapes: The Making of an Anglo Literary …

The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 14, No. 2, The Sinclair Lewis Society

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter

“Introducing Sinclair Lewis’s Novels to Adults,” by Patrick and Mary Killough

“PR Campaign Cycle Enforces Middle Class Message,” by Laurie Fumea, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

“A Citizen of the Mirage,” by Sinclair Lewis, part 1., Introduction by Todd Stanley

“Sinclair Lewis Conference 2005: A Journal,” by Jacqueline Koenig

Merely A Pictorial Subject: The Turn Of The Screw, Adam Sonstegard

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Pensive Lullabies: Re-Examining Children's Stories Through Visual Representation, Megan Jensen

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Stopping At The Half-Way House: The Theme Of Aging In Byron’S Don Juan, Melanie Parker

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

Becoming The Bridge: Border-Crossing, Intersectionality, And Wave Theory In Contemporary Feminist Movement, Meagan Lynn Weatherby

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

The self-proclaimed “third wave” ofUnited Statesfeminism, which rose from the abyss of “postfeminist” 1980s conservatism in the early 1990s, is a vibrant movement that is quickly picking up the pace of feminist organizing in the new millennium. Third wave feminists envision themselves as taking up the torch of the 1960-1970s “second wave” of feminism, but expanding upon it by emphasizing intersectionality (the complex interaction of multiple oppressions, e.g. sexism, racism, classism) and making room for sexiness, joy, and fun in feminist organizing and theorizing. It is a discourse that strives toward and privileges intersectional analyses that create space in which …

The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 13, No. 2, The Sinclair Lewis Society

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter

“The Great American Jewish Nightmare,” by Ralph Goldstein (about Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America)

“Sinclair Lewis and Bret Easton Ellis, ‘He-Man’ to ‘It-Boy’: A Study of Commodity Culture through Generations,” by Paul Vincent McInnes, University of Glasgow, Scotland

“‘A Warrior of the Spirit’: Dorothy Thompson, 1893-1961,” by Thomas P. Raynor

“If George Babbitt Were a Woman,” by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University, Illinois State University (on the Emma McChesney series by Edna Ferber)

“One View of The God-Seeker,” by Dave Rowe

“The Algonquin: Hotel for Artists and Writers”

“Meeting Sinclair Lewis: First Encounters and Initial Impressions, …

Colonial Romance: Williams's Dark "Supplying Female", Peter Schmidt

English Literature Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Opus 2004-2005, Issue Iii, Suny Geneseo English Club

Opus

POETRY
9 Dana LePage, Dusty Wooden Panel
10 Duncan Carranza, Petty Games
13 Terasa Hahn, Sensation
17 Nicole Schwartz, Center Stage
17 Schuyler Woos, Night Terrors
18 Harrison Watkins, E is for
18 Meg Vasey, So You Grow Up
18 Beth Pinkerton, Sleep
22 Michael Chin, Good Night for a Cigarette
22 Dana Lepage, Together Descending
23 Alex Egan, I Think I'm Starting to Understand Why I Always Wear Black
30 Duncan Carranza, Typo
30 Pia Fleischmann, Homage to Night
30 Meg Vasey, it's a good romantic movie, In the bullshit kind of way
31 Jessica Allen, Stagnant
31 James …

Postcolonial Melodrama : The Satanic Verses, The Mimic Men, The Namesake, Jason Przybylski

Honors Theses

The goal of this project is to explain the appropriateness of the genre of melodrama for understanding postcolonial literature. Throughout this paper I examine how reading postcolonial fiction as melodrama may help us both to understand postcolonial issues in new ways and, at the same time, to grasp how postcolonial literature changes and enhances the notion of melodrama.

Treasuring Identity : Subject-Object Relations In Beowulf, Becky Workman

Honors Theses

Beowulfs introspection leads him to seek glory and wealth to preserve his memory after death. Unlike the battles against Grendel and Grendel's mother, Beowulfs actions against the dragon clearly prioritize the winning of treasure over the safety of the people. Beowulf seems to believe that revenge upon the dragon is a justification for risking not only his life, but the stability of the leadership of his nation. The hoard that he wins illustrates how material objects are not necessarily longer lasting or more stable than mortals. Treasure's intimate connection with the human body in the social structure of the community …

The Performative Letter, From Medieval To Modern, Michael Heyman

Faculty Works

Sometimes letters seem to behave badly. They can be eaten, in alphabet soup and Alphabits™ cereal; they can build structures unrelated to letters, with wooden alphabet blocks; they can be a physical impediment or challenge, as with the alphabet superhero "Letterman" on The Electric Company who, in Superman-style, used to leap a capital T and run "faster than a rolling O"; they can even become abstract art, as in the urban institution of "tagging," or signing a name in outlandish, highly stylized and often-unrecognizable graffiti letters. While these functions of letters may seem counter to what might be taught in …

Strange Embedded Fellows: The Socio-Narrative Radicalism Of Ann Radcliffe's Gothic Romance, E. Jordan Sellers Jr.

English Theses & Dissertations

Through a close narratological analysis of Ann Radcliffe's romances, this thesis will demonstrate that the form of Radcliffe's novels is fundamentally linked to her contemporary cultural contexts. Although traditional criticism of Radcliffe rather dubiously labels her a conservative writer and regularly cites her heroines and servants as idealized and submissive stock devices, this project will demonstrate that her characters have significant subversive agency based in narrative structure, which subtly points to the radicalism of Radcliffe's politics. These conventional readings of Radcliffe's novels have too long separated the concerns of servants, women, and Radcliffe's own politics. It is only when we …

Ambitions And Text, Tyler Farrell

English Faculty Research and Publications

Reviews the book "Well Dreams: Essays on John Montague," edited by Thomas Dillon Redshaw.

Community Building In Online Writing Centers, Beth Godbee

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Vital Disconnection In Howards End, Leslie T. White

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Casting No Shadow: Incarceration, Architecture, And Love In Canto 90, John Gery

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Finding Where I Am: A Collection Of Creative Nonfiction - Creative Thesis, Jana Lloyd

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is a collection of five pieces of creative nonfiction written over the academic years 2003—2005. Creative nonfiction is a genre that, in some form or another, has always existed, though trends in form and style are constantly in flux. Based on the experiences of the actual author, creative nonfiction seeks to present the journey of a mind at work, in a style that is candid, quirky, and insightful. It seeks to persuade its reader by establishing a likeable and trusted narrator; by relating interesting facts that teach the reader something about the subject at hand; and by appealing …

The Byronic Myth In Brazil: Cultural Perspectives On Lord Byron's Image In Brazilian Romanticism, Matthew Lorin Squires

Theses and Dissertations

Byron's reception in one of the nineteenth century's largest and most culturally significant post-colonial outposts, Brazil, has been virtually ignored in English studies. The implications of Lord Byron's influence in Brazil are extensive since he was overwhelmingly popular among poets but also subversive to the nationalistic aims of Brazilian Romanticism. Nearly all of the well known Brazilian Romantics were not only influenced by him, but translated him. Their notion of what it meant to be "Byronic," however, differed from ideas held in Europe. The Brazilian Byronic hero was more extreme, macabre, and sentimental, lonelier, darker, and deadlier. Byron had various …

Translating Huck: Difficulties In Adapting "The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn" To Film, Bryce Moore Cundick

Theses and Dissertations

Filmmakers have had four main difficulties adapting The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to film: point of view, structure, audience and the novel's ending. By studying the different approaches of various directors to each obstacle, certain facts emerge about both the films and the novel. While literary scholars have studied Huck from practically every angle, none have sufficiently viewed the book through the lens of adaptation, despite the fact that it has been adapted to film and television over twenty times. The few critics who have studied the adaptations have done so using dated methodologies that boil down to little more …

Negotiating Hope And Honesty: A Rhetorical Criticism Of Young Adult Dystopian Fiction, Lauren Lewis Reber

Theses and Dissertations

Young adult dystopian fictions follow the patterns established by the classic adult dystopias such as George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, but not completely. Young adult dystopias tend to end happily, a departure from the nightmarish ends of Winston Smith and John Savage. Young adult authors resist hopelessness, even if the fictional world demands it.

Using a rhetorical approach established by Wayne Booth in The Rhetoric of Fiction and The Company We Keep, this thesis traces the reasons for the inclusion of hope and the strategies by which hope is created and maintained. Booth's rhetorical …

The Translator's (In)Visibility In Ann Patchett's Bel Canto, Amy Dawn Glauser

Theses and Dissertations

Transferring words and ideas from one language to another has always been a puzzling and difficult matter for those involved in it. For centuries, English-speakers and translators have dealt with these difficulties by enforcing, through professional codes of ethics and through publishing contracts, what Lawrence Venuti calls "the translator's invisibility," as chronicled in his book by the same name. By evaluating translation solely on the transparency and fluency of the target language translation (that is, by making a translation not seem like a translation), English translators and audiences assured that translators remained faithful to original authors' intents, or so they …

The Rewards Of Summer: Iwca Summer Institute, Anne Ellen Geller, Michele Eodice

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Replacing The Patient: The Fiction Of Prosthetics In Medical Practice, Laura L. Behling

Scholarship and Professional Work of the Associate Provosts

The invention of computer simulations used for practicing surgical maneuvers in a video game-like format has an ancestry in the artificial limbs of history and is reflected, grotesquely, in Edgar Allan Poe's short story, "The Man That Was Used Up ". The nineteenth century worked to ensure that the incomplete body did indeed retain a sense of self by creating prostheses to mimic corporeal wholeness. Our present-day technology seems intent on doing precisely the opposite, deliberately fragmenting the body and challenging our understanding of the body and the prosthetic.

2003 - 2004 Literary Review (No. 17), Sigma Tau Delta

The Greenleaf Review

No abstract provided.

A (Re)Cognition Of Peerness As Friendship, Beth Godbee

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

The Search For Identity Through Self-Alienation In Charles Dickens's Great Expectations And Naguib Mahfuz's Palace Of Desire, Sahar Salah El-Din El-Khatib

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Death Of The Hero: A Study In Modern And Postmodern Literature, Sarah R Yeslam

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.