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A Phantom Fly And Frightening Fish: The Unconscious Speaks In Sports Night, Douglas Keesey

English

No abstract provided.

Rhizome National Identity: "Scatlin's Psychic Defense' In Trainspotting, Jennifer Jeffers

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

A Review Of "A True Account Of The Great Tryals And Cruel Sufferings Undergone By Those Two Faithful Servants Of God, Katherine Evans And Sarah Cheevers: La Vicenda Di Due Quacchere Prigioniere Dell’Inquisizione Di Malta" By Stefano Villani, Julie Campbell

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

No abstract provided.

Children's Literature And The "New Negro", Fern Kory

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

Children’s Literature of the Harlem Renaissance is a timely addition to schol-arship on both African American literature and children’s literatureof the early twentieth century. The scope of Katharine Capshaw Smith’swork makes it a particularly welcome follow-up to DonnaRaeMacCann’s award-winning White Supremacy in Children’s Literature(Routledge 1998), which focused on the relationship of African Ameri-can children to mainstream children’s literature from 1830 to 1900.Dr. Smith moves us to the next stage, focusing on the emergence ofan African American children’s literature in the first half of the twen-tieth century. Smith looks at major players in African Americanchildren’s literature in roughly chronological order, starting …

Terra Teratalogica, Nathalie Anderson

English Literature Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Racial And Criminal Types: Indian Ethnography And Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Sign Of Four', John S. Mcbratney

English

No abstract provided.

Facing Tough Realities And Inspiring Change: The Comic Satire Of Sherman Alexie, Jill Alison Henry

Theses Digitization Project

Examines the comic modes Sherman Alexie uses, the purposes behind his critical, yet humorous, commentary, the multiple audiences toward which his satire is aimed, and the desired outcomes of his satire. Explores the theme of alcoholism in Alexie's writings that plays a role in the degradation of Native American lives in modern times and why alcoholism has become a problem for the Native American community. Also, examines why Native Americans have become so dependent on White handouts and how this passivity and acceptance has created problems in Indian society. Finally, offers insights into Alexie's use of humor as a means …

Sabbatical Report, Umeeta Sadarangani

Sabbaticals

No abstract provided.

Enduring The Altar Valley, Jeff Alfier

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 4

"In The Center Of Her Painting", Anne Hoff

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 18

Building An Ethical Architecture: Habitat And The Shape Of Radical Humanism, Kim Solga

Department of English Publications

No abstract provided.

The Cultural-Historical Origins Of The Literary Vampire In Germany, Heidi Crawford

Journal of Dracula Studies

Before British authors began writing vampire literature, culminating in 1897 with Bram Stoker’s Dracula, eighteenth-century German poets, most significantly Heinrich August Ossenfelder, Gottfried August Bürger, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, had begun to adapt the curious phenomenon of vampirism from Central Europe for the creative literature they were producing in the enlightened West. Possibly the most striking observation about the origins of the vampire figure in German poetry is that the German poets seem to have drawn more on Central European than German folklore. The reason for this is that the literary vampire was introduced into eighteenth-century German ballad poetry …

The People Of Bram Stoker's Transylvania, Duncan Light

Journal of Dracula Studies

One of the defining features of Bram Stoker’s Dracula is the “specific and detailed geographical context that sets this novel apart from other gothic novels” (Florescu & McNally 5). Indeed, although Stoker had not visited Transylvania, he is known to have read widely in preparing Dracula.1 While his historical research has come under particular scrutiny, little attention has been paid to his representation and understanding of the region’s geography.2 As a human geographer with research interests in Romania, I find that there is something not “quite right” about Stoker’s Transylvania. In particular, where are the Romanians? And why are there …

Echoes Of Dracula: Racial Politics And The Failure Of Segregated Spaces In Richard Matheson's I Am Legend., Kathy Davis Patterson

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.

"Betwixt Sunset And Sunrise": Liminality In Dracula, Mark M. Hennelly Jr.

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.

Dracula And The Afterlife: A Psychological Explanation, Jack D. Maser

Journal of Dracula Studies

Until relatively recently, the primary psychological approach to understanding Bram Stoker’s Dracula and the folklore of vampires has been psychoanalysis. Maurice Richardson asserted in 1956 that Dracula must be seen from a Freudian standpoint, since “from no other does the story really make any sense” (427). However, the psychoanalytic approach shares little with modern, scientifically based psychology. Fascinating though it may be, psychoanalytic theory has almost no measurable attributes and may itself be as mythical as vampires and an afterlife. Rather, psychoanalysis is a creative theory of human cognition and behavior that can be neither proven false, objectively replicated, nor …

Ivy Leaves, 2004-2005, Ivy Leaves Editorial Staff

Ivy Leaves

The 2005 edition of the Anderson College journal of art and literature, Ivy Leaves.

The names of the known editors for this issue of Ivy Leaves were Joshua Burdette, Darcie Davis, Leanne Gray, Maghan Lush, Jessica Sopolosky, Marissa Sullivan, Sarah Swofford, Becky Bradstreet, Brian Burrell, Kayla Evett, Anthony Gonzalez, Melissa Johnson, Kari Pettit, Donavon Schmidt, Ashely Smoak, Alice Wilkins, Wayne Cox, and Jane Dorn. Cover art by Kari Pettit.

Beyond The Pale: Women, Cultural Contagion, And Narrative Hysteria In Kipling, Orwell, And Forster, Alan Blackstock

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

"That Could Happen": Nature Writing, The Nature Fakers, And A Rhetoric Of Assent, David Thomas Sumner

Faculty Publications

Much has been made about the relationship between nature writing and science. The foundation of the genre is empirical observation of the more-than-human world. That’s not the whole of it, however. Because of the pairing of empiricism and other human experience, readers come to the genre with certain assumptions: they assume the text will tell them something independently verifiable about the object world--something they could see, hear, or touch if they were in the same location at the same time. They assume they are reading nonfiction, and for most readers, that distinction is important. Readers also come to nature writing …

The Attractive-Repulsive American: Thomas Chandler Haliburton's Sam Slick, Gerald Lynch

Short Story

No abstract provided.

The Passion Of The Christ, Barry Ballard

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 7

To Jump, Sean Case

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 11

The Happy Fall, Scott Gallaway

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 19

Leaving The Fair, Charlene Fix

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 18

Mckee-Wilson Eye Hospital, 1943 My Grandmother Visits, Jeff Daniel Marion

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 35

Your Palm Pressed To Mine, Gwendolyn Cash

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 7

Paperback Writer, Jennifer Vanderhoof

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 46

Bernardsville, Kristen Henderson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 17

The Senses You Can Live Without, Jessica Barksdale Inclan

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 22

Waiting For Snow, Marcia L. Hurlow

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 21