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Verso Jan 2005

Verso

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.


Table Of Contents Jan 2005

Table Of Contents

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.


Circles And Circularity In The Writings Of John Mcgahern, Eamon Maher Jan 2005

Circles And Circularity In The Writings Of John Mcgahern, Eamon Maher

Articles

Material reproduced by kind permission of Nordic Irish Studies


How Much Does Chaos Scare You?: Politics, Religion, And Philosophy In The Fiction Of Philip K. Dick, Aaron Barlow Jan 2005

How Much Does Chaos Scare You?: Politics, Religion, And Philosophy In The Fiction Of Philip K. Dick, Aaron Barlow

Publications and Research

"Certain themes appear with surprising consistency in Dick’s fiction. They crop up in the early short stories, called by some critics, including Kim Stanley Robinson, Dick’s “apprentice” fiction. They appear in the novels of Dick’s most productive period, the 1960s. And they are a part of the last novels, the VALIS trilogy and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer—written when Dick was, according to Eric Rabkin and others, insane. These themes fall into three inter-related categories: metaphysics, religion, and politics. The first concerns perception and the world, and the individual’s interaction with both. The second, the moralities of creator/creation relationships. The …


Cravens, Margaret (1881-1912), Robert Spoo Jan 2005

Cravens, Margaret (1881-1912), Robert Spoo

Articles, Chapters in Books and Other Contributions to Scholarly Works

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Faux, Flawed, Failed: Alice Fulton's Fuzzy Poetry And Poetics On Cascade Experiment By Alice Fulton, Michael Theune Jan 2005

Faux, Flawed, Failed: Alice Fulton's Fuzzy Poetry And Poetics On Cascade Experiment By Alice Fulton, Michael Theune

Scholarship

Alice Fulton is a poet and a theoretician who, for over 25 years, has tried to make much of, and even to occupy, this new fuzzy space. As many of her notebook entries (collected in The Poet’s Notebook: Excerpts from the Notebooks of Contemporary American Poets. Ed. Stephen Kuusisto, et al. NY: W.W. Norton, 1995) attest to, Fulton refers to and privileges the gap, the between. One entry mulls over the possibilities opened up by fuzzy logic, stating, “Conventional logic is based on the idea that a statement…is either true or false. Fuzzy logic deals with the degree of truth, …


Reginald Shepherd's The Iowa Anthology Of New American Poetries, Michael Theune Jan 2005

Reginald Shepherd's The Iowa Anthology Of New American Poetries, Michael Theune

Scholarship

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Resistance To The Resistance To Poetry On The Resistance To Poetry, Michael Theune Jan 2005

Resistance To The Resistance To Poetry On The Resistance To Poetry, Michael Theune

Scholarship

James Longenbach’s previous book of criticism, Modern Poetry after Modernism (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1997), opens by reworking Randall Jarrell’s claim in the essay "The End of the Line" that "Romantic poetry holds in solution contradictory tendencies which, isolated and exaggerated in modernism, look startlingly opposed to each other and to the earlier stages of romanticism." Replacing the references to romanticism with modernism, and the reference to modernism with postmodernism, Longenbach begins his argument against the continued use of the "breakthrough narrative," a faulty critical construct based on an overly simple idea of a too-easy distinction between modernism and postmodernism, suggesting …


Angel Mows The Lawn, Carolyn Elkins Jan 2005

Angel Mows The Lawn, Carolyn Elkins

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 14


Angel Takes A Hike, Carolyn Elkins Jan 2005

Angel Takes A Hike, Carolyn Elkins

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 16-17


Bleach, Ralph Tejeda Wilson Jan 2005

Bleach, Ralph Tejeda Wilson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 52


The Empty Boat, Jim Mersmann Jan 2005

The Empty Boat, Jim Mersmann

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 48-51


Finding The Remains Of A Dead Sheep At Wild Oughtershaw, Imogene Bolls Jan 2005

Finding The Remains Of A Dead Sheep At Wild Oughtershaw, Imogene Bolls

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 9


The Third Wish, Victoria Givotovsky Jan 2005

The Third Wish, Victoria Givotovsky

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 20


Love Is Simple, Taylor Graham Jan 2005

Love Is Simple, Taylor Graham

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 15


The Buddha On My Shelf, Neil Carpathios Jan 2005

The Buddha On My Shelf, Neil Carpathios

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 6


Backyard Birthday Party A Child Turns Five, Tina Egnoski Jan 2005

Backyard Birthday Party A Child Turns Five, Tina Egnoski

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 10


From The Choir Left, Joseph Saling Jan 2005

From The Choir Left, Joseph Saling

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 41


Arrivals, Sandra Kohler Jan 2005

Arrivals, Sandra Kohler

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 25


Index: A Road Trip For Two, Scott Welvaert Jan 2005

Index: A Road Trip For Two, Scott Welvaert

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 48-50


Just Another Cut Of Meat, Saul Bennett Jan 2005

Just Another Cut Of Meat, Saul Bennett

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 3


Angel Pays A Visit, Carolyn Elkins Jan 2005

Angel Pays A Visit, Carolyn Elkins

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 13


Death Washes Windows, Joanne Lowery Jan 2005

Death Washes Windows, Joanne Lowery

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 31


Publications “Playwrights’ Progress: The Evolution Of The Play Cycle, From Shaw’S ‘Pentateuch’ To Angels In America, Julie A. Sparks Jan 2005

Publications “Playwrights’ Progress: The Evolution Of The Play Cycle, From Shaw’S ‘Pentateuch’ To Angels In America, Julie A. Sparks

Faculty Publications, English and Comparative Literature

Traces the development of playwright George Bernard Shaw's play cycles. Analysis of his plays "Man and Superman", "Heartbreak House", and "Back to Methuselah"; His belief about the importance of lengthy works; Production difficulties of his plays; Comparison of Shaw's views with play cycles.


Morphine-Addicted Doctors, The English Opium-Eater, And Embattled Medical Authority, Barry Milligan Jan 2005

Morphine-Addicted Doctors, The English Opium-Eater, And Embattled Medical Authority, Barry Milligan

English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications

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Short Fiction By Women In The Victorian Literature Survey, Elisabeth Rose Gruner Jan 2005

Short Fiction By Women In The Victorian Literature Survey, Elisabeth Rose Gruner

English Faculty Publications

The first time I taught a Victorian Literature survey, fresh out of a curriculum integration workshop in graduate school, I taught ten authors: five male and five female. One student evaluation after the course was over complained that despite the promise of “great” Victorian writers, half of those on the syllabus were women. While this did take place in the dark ages of the early nineties, I still find myself, as I design my syllabi, caught in the familiar conundrum as to what to teach, what to cut, and why. In my case, it seems simple: The Victorian period is …


Joanna Brooks, American Lazarus: Religion And The Rise Of African And Native American Literatures, Eileen Razzari Elrod Jan 2005

Joanna Brooks, American Lazarus: Religion And The Rise Of African And Native American Literatures, Eileen Razzari Elrod

English

One might imagine Joanna Brooks's American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures in the tradition of Jones and Allen's historical record straightening. Her detailed, lucidly presented narrative of contexts, communities, and texts (including that of Jones and Allen) is notable not only for its thorough explication of


Spirits Of Defiance: National Prohibition And Jazz Age Literature, 1920-1933, Kathleen Morgan Drowne Jan 2005

Spirits Of Defiance: National Prohibition And Jazz Age Literature, 1920-1933, Kathleen Morgan Drowne

English and Technical Communication Faculty Research & Creative Works

National Prohibition (1920-1933) ranks as one of the most divisive political controversies of the twentieth century, and its reverberations echoed through nearly every facet of American popular culture. Not surprisingly, many novelists and short story writers added their voices to this contentious public debate by incorporating into their works their interpretations of the wildly controversial federal liquor laws. In Spirits of Defiance, the first book to examine how American writers responded to the far-reaching effects of the Eighteenth Amendment, Kathleen Drowne analyzes the literary portrayals of bootleggers, moonshiners, revenuers, speakeasies, cabarets, and other specifically Prohibition-era characters and settings in a …


"Let Me Play A While": Storytelling Characters And Voices In The Works Of Mark Twain, William Faulkner, And Lee Smith, Kenneth Mark Broyles Jan 2005

"Let Me Play A While": Storytelling Characters And Voices In The Works Of Mark Twain, William Faulkner, And Lee Smith, Kenneth Mark Broyles

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation focuses on the difference between narrators and characters in fiction who tell stories. It also argues that traditional orality persists in American culture and is a significant influence in the fiction of Mark Twain, William Faulkner and Lee Smith. In their work, they try to overcome what some perceive as a structural discrimination inherent in the novel and imbue their characters' speaking voices with authority that is determined by something other than their position in the structural hierarchy. All three authors attempt to give their characters speaking voices which are not necessarily inferior to the narrative or authorial …


Alice's Shadow: Childhood And Agency In Lewis Carroll's Photography, Illustrations, And Alice Texts, R. Nichole Rougeau Jan 2005

Alice's Shadow: Childhood And Agency In Lewis Carroll's Photography, Illustrations, And Alice Texts, R. Nichole Rougeau

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The nineteenth century marks the emergence of a new literary market directed at the entertainment of children. However, a dichotomy exists concerning the image of childhood. Adults tended to idolize childhood in literature to reflect on their own lives ignoring the needs of children to possess an identity of their own. Essentially children are shadows of adults. Examinations of the shadows of childhood—children as shadows of adults, children shadowed by adults, the shadows as identifying children, and the shadows children themselves cast—lead to a discussion of agency over childhood. Lewis Carroll, entering this new literary market with his Alice series, …