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Bombadil's Role In The Lord Of The Rings, Michael Treschow, Mark Duckworth

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

Investigates the oft-maligned Tom Bombadil chapters of The Lord of the Rings, revealing their centrality to Tolkien’s philosophy and Tom’s frequently overlooked symbolic importance at later points in the book.

Editorial, Janet Brennan Croft

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

No abstract provided.

"In The Hilt Is Fame": Resonances Of Medieval Swords And Sword-Lore In J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit And The Lord Of The Rings, K. S. Whetter, R. Andrew Mcdonald

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

Examines legends and lore of famous swords in medieval Germanic, Norse, Celtic and English literature, and how Tolkien adapted and added them to his rich history in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

The Theory And Practice Of Alliterative Verse In The Work Of J.R.R. Tolkien, Mark F. Hall

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

Studies Tolkien’s use of alliterative meter in his poetry, both that embedded in The Lord of the Rings and that published separately elsewhere.

The Shell-Shocked Hobbit: The First World War And Tolkien's Trauma Of The Ring, Michael Livingston

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

Describes the Battle of the Somme and Tolkien’s participation in it. Pointing out the parallels between the battle-scarred landscapes of Northern Europe and Middle-earth, Livingston notes that while they are worth cataloging, it is Tolkien’s nuanced and sympathetic depiction of Frodo’s post-traumatic stress disorder that is the most compelling result of the author’s war experiences. Provides a good overview of Tolkien’s war experiences and his literary response to them.

Playing By The Rules: Kipling's "Great Game" Vs. "The Great Dance" In C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, Teresa Hooper

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

Shows C.S. Lewis in dialogue with Rudyard Kipling about the themes of the Great Game and the Inner Circle, which Lewis resolves in the resonant image of the Great Dance.

An Unexpected Guest, Anne Amison

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

Traces the unexpected influence of William Morris’s Icelandic Journals and News From Nowhere on The Hobbit and the world of The Shire.

Dreaming Of Dragons: Tolkien's Impact On Heaney's Beowulf, Felicia Jean Steele

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

On the influence of Tolkien’s Beowulf essay, and his subtle shaping of our current cultural conception of dragons, on Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf.

From Isolation To Community: Frodo's Incomplete Personal Quest In The Lord Of The Rings, Devin Brown

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

Studies the inner quest that takes Frodo from isolation to community in The Lord of the Rings.

"Where Is That Worthless Dreamer?" Bottom's Fantastic Redemption In Hoffman's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Frank P. Riga

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

A study of Michael Hoffmann’s reinterpretation of Bottom in his 1999 film of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which treats Bottom and his interactions with Faërie seriously rather than farcically and resonates throughout the film in a shifting of focus from the aristocratic court to the dignity of the common man and his worthiness to enter Faërie.

Stanley Cavell And Criticizing The University From Within, Michael Fischer

English Faculty Research

This article discusses the views of professor Stanley Cavell on academic philosophy and corporate universality. He regards academic philosophy as the genuine present of the impulse and the history of philosophy which represents in public intellectual life. He is worried whether values and philosophy are teachable in universities and colleges. He stayed in the profession to show how to withstand moral cynicism and respond to the failures of academic institutions.

Agendas, Arguments, And Political Theory, John D. Harman, Deborah Vanderbilt

English Faculty/Staff Publications

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Conformist Subversion: The Ambivalent Agency In Revelations Of A Lady Detective, Dagni A. Bredesen

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

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Review Of Henry S. Turner, The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, And The Practical Spatial Arts, 1580–1630, Elizabeth Spiller

Department of English: Faculty Publications

In The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts, Henry Turner argues that English stage practice emerged out of practical geometry and related mechanical arts. The book is part of a new critical attention to the interconnections between literature and science, one that depends on the recognition that art involved the creation not just of aesthetic objects but also of knowledge itself. Stage practice drew from geometry to develop the concepts of plat-plot and to define its use of scenes as both spatial divisions and dramatic structures. Drama also provided audiences with forms of practical knowledge …

Memoirs Of A Bathroom Stall: The Women’S Lavatory As Crying Room, Confessional, And Sanctuary, Melissa R. Ames

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

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Book Review: Auto/Biography And Identity: Women, Theatre And Performance, Kim Solga

Department of English Publications

Even as interest in feminist theory and criticism in theatre and performance studies continues to wane (or, perhaps, finds itself remapped and redirected), interest in women, autobiography and performance is on the upswing. Auto/biography and Identity enters the field two years after the publication of Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson's collection Interfaces: Women, Autobiography, Image, Performance, but, in some contrast to this earlier text and its emphasis on the visual, Auto/biography locates itself specifically at the nexus between women's autobiographical writing and performance. As Gale and Gardner note in their introduction, by exploring theatrical women's writing about themselves alongside …

The Beggar's Opera And Its Criminal Law Context, Ian Gallacher

College of Law - Faculty Scholarship

This chapter seeks to take the characters and situations of Gay's The Beggar's Opera and consider how closely the play's portrayal matches the historical record. Although the view offered by the play is a restricted one, the chapter concludes that the picture it offers is as close to historical reality as any other document from the period.

The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 15, No. 1, The Sinclair Lewis Society

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter

“The American Village in a Global Setting Conference”

“Babbitt in the Advertising Age,” by Quentin Martin, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

“Strangers: Sinclair Lewis Back on Broadway,” by Robert L. McLaughlin, Illinois State University

“A Citizen of the Mirage,” by Sinclair Lewis, part 2

“A New Stage Production of Babbitt in Southern California,” by Ralph Goldstein

“Babbitt Still Visible in the Big Picture: A Review of Victoria de Grazia’s Irresistible Empire,” by George Killough, College of St. Scholastica

Poetry Alive, Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Do you struggle to find poetry that students will read? This presentation introduces current poets who speak to the needs of middle school students.

Achieving Balance In Graduate Programs: Negotiating Best Practices, Dawn Latta Kirby

Faculty Articles

The narrative introduction to the graduate catalogue at the state university where I work probably reads pretty much like the one at your college or university. The program of study for the masters degree specifies that inservice graduate students are to engage in an extensive study of content- related literature, theory, and research. Despite the rhetoric of graduate catalogs, teachers who enter graduate school programs begin their advanced studies, expecting- and sometimes vociferously demanding- coursework that will provide them with a practical framework for teaching English language arts in secondary schools. Their interest in studying theory and research is often …

Approaches To Teaching The Brontës One More Time, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

Instructors of courses on the Brontë family now have another large encyclopedic resource to use in their teaching of the lives and works of the family. Like Heather Glen’s recently published Cambridge Companion to the Brontës (2002), this companion surveys the lives and writings of all of the family, including the father, Patrick, and brother, Branwell, while also covering some of the minute details in the works of the three sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne. The question that I will address here is not which companion to use but how to use this particular resource. Of what use to instructors …

W.E.B. Du Bois's Unamerican End, Jodi Melamed

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Conception: A Personal History, Kathryn Rhett

English Faculty Publications

November 19 is Remembrance Day in Gettysburg, the day that Lincoln dedicated part of the battlefield as a cemetery for the Civil War dead in 1863. That year in July the dead lay on the battlefield, on the farmers’ fields planted with crops and in the summer-green woods where they had taken positions behind boulders and tree trunks. Some lay covered with dirt, and others just lay bare to the weather. When land for a cemetery was set aside, the townspeople moved the dead to proper graves.

As a citizen of Gettysburg more than a century later, I carry no …

Review [Of Writing Across Borders], Beth Godbee, Kate Vieira

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Review Of Wordsworth In American Literary Culture By Joel Scott And Matthew Pace, Angela Sorby

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Good To Great, Scott Moncrieff

Faculty Publications

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From Caricature To Character: The Intellectually Disabled In Dickens's Novels (Part 3), Paul Marchbanks

English

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Review Of Imagining The Primitive In Naturalist And Modernist Literature By Gina M. Rossetti, Melissa J. Homestead

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Rossetti (St. Xavier Univ.) argues that representations of characters as “primitives” in late 19th and early-20th century literary texts served to “limn the boundaries of American Identity.” Much like Walker Been Michaels in Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism (CH, Mar’ 96, 33-3775), she focuses primarily on ways that literary representations seek to constitute the national family as white in the face of increasing numbers of ethnic and racial others. Rossetti brings an interesting set of nonliterary texts to this conversation, namely writings by late-19th- and early 20th-centruy sociologists and other cultural analysts, and the juxtapositions these provide allow interesting …

Synthetic Review Of Moving Beyond Academic Discourse: Composition Studies And The Public Sphere By Christian R. Weisser And Tactics Of Hope: The Public Turn In English Composition By Paula Mathieu., Tim Taylor

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

No abstract provided.

Synthetic Review Of Moving Beyond Academic Discourse: Composition Studies And The Public Sphere By Christian R. Weisser And Tactics Of Hope: The Public Turn In English Composition By Paula Mathieu., Tim Taylor

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

No abstract provided.