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Birmingham Poetry Review 33 (End Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 59-66

Slide It In Under The Wire, Mr. Mann, John Mann

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 41

As I Enter The Asylum, Maureen Alsop

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 4

Flite, Stephen Glosecki

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 17-22

Submarine Races, Al Maginnes

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 39-40

Birmingham Poetry Review 33 (Complete Issue), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

No abstract provided.

Situating The Cetacean: Science And Storytelling In Witi Ihimaera's The Whale Rider, Lee Elton Dionne

Theses Digitization Project

This thesis analyzes two major discourses that intersect and inform one another in Witi Ihimaera's The whale rider: storytelling and modern science.

Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl Novels: Contemporary Subversive Tales, Amy Ruth Wilson Clark

Theses Digitization Project

Drawing especially on Donna Haraway's notion of the cyborg, this thesis argues that Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl novels, through their depiction of the cyborg and their use of metafiction, intertextuality, and irony, subvert binaries and hierarchies that cause social injustice. Chapter one argues that Colfer's characters disrupt the oppressive binary opposition between innocence and experience that characterizes children's literature. Chapter two argues that Colfer's fairy hierarchy satirizes the human hierarchy. Chapter three argues that Colfer's cyborg, by disrupting the boundary between machine and organism, breaches the wall around the pervasive garden hierarchy of childhood innocence. Chapter four argues against the …

"What Now?": Willa Cather's Successful Male Professionals At Middle Age, Deena Michelle Baker

Theses Digitization Project

This thesis examines three male characters from Willa Cather's writing that epitomize the American Dream of professional and material success but they find no contentment once they achieve it. This disillusionment is particularly so with Cather's driven male professionals, Bartley Alexander (an architectural scholar), and Clement Sebastian (a critically acclaimed, international opera singer). Cather situates these characters at middle age and at the peak of their professional careers, which makes the examination of them an interesting study as to the effects of the encroaching modern age on successful men. This thesis begins with a brief overview of Cather's work, including …

Birmingham Poetry Review 33 (Front Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. -3

Defending Donne: ‘The Flea’ And “Elegy Xix’ As Compliments To Womankind, Karley Adney

Scholarship and Professional Work of the Provost's Staff

The Wife of Bath is one of Geoffrey Chaucer’s most famous characters; she was a woman strong enough to govern her own life. One may assume that this woman, penned by a man, could be labeled now as a feminist. It is possible, though, that Chaucer created this boisterous, opinionated woman not simply to assert that women are capable of being independent, but merely to show that women who attempt to do so are all as rude and coarse as she. So, her statements about life, love, and marriage may not be her own sentiments, but merely an echo of …

The Necessity Of Disability In Flannery O’Connor’S ‘Good Country People’ And ‘The Lame Shall Enter First', Laura L. Behling

Scholarship and Professional Work of the Associate Provosts

Yet there is incongruence in O'Connor's portrayals. As A. R. Coulthard suggests, "Good Country People" and "The Lame Shall Enter First" both "leave the question of salvation unanswered" (55), and the disabled who embody the imperfect human form are rarely saved. I would like to redeem Hulga Hopewell and Rufus Johnson, however, and to use their disability to do so. Specifically, I suggest that the non-disabled humanity in these texts is, in fact, corrupt, selfish, and unforgiving, and that this view arises because of characters such as Hulga and Rufus. The disabled are, in fact, necessary in order to expose …

Cornbread & Sushi: A Journey Through The Rural South, John E. Lane, Deno P. Trakas

College Books

"This book is a collaborative product of the Cornbread & Sushi Seminar at Wofford College 2005-2006"

The seminar was led by the faculty members John Lane and Deno Trakas. The contributors (including Wofford students, faculty, and staff, and Southern authors) are: Austin Baker, Elizabeth Bethea, Butch Clay, Hal Crowther, Ivy Farr, Tom Franklin, William Gay, Frye Gaillard, Steve Harvey, Casey Lambert, Martin Lammon, John Lane, Lewis Lovett, Trish Makres, Karen Sayler McElmurray, Larry McGehee, Jim Morgan, Mary Mungo, Mark Olencki, Wilson Peden, Jason Rains, Hallie Sessoms, Ron Rash, Dori Sanders, Bettie Sellers, George Singleton, Lee Smith, Deno Trakas, Laura Vaughn, …

Robert Scholes. Paradoxy Of Modernism, Alan Blackstock

English Faculty Publications

Readers familiar with Scholes' The Rise and Fall o/English should find his latest book equally engaging. Cyril Connolly's characterization of the work of Dornford Yates, quoted with admiration by Scholes in Chapter Six of this book, might apply equally well to Scholes' own work, as it exhibits "a wit that is ageless united to a courtesy that is extinct." What Scholes finds so admirable in the phrase is "not merely its elegant syntax, but the way that the syntax balances against each other and thus emphasizes the words 'ageless' and 'extinct'-suggesting that the admirable quality of Yates' work derives from …

Incineration, Susan Allen Ford

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 16

Notes On Contributors (Volume 6), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.

The Warren Family's 2005 Gift Of Audio-Visual Materials To The Robert Penn Warren Collection Of The Kentucky Library At Western Kentucky University, Joseph R. Millichap

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.

A Self, Out Of The Wild: Wilderness In The Works Of Robert Penn Warren, Alan Miller

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.

The New Critic Teaches Writing: Brooks And Warren's Modern Rhetoric, Jonathan S. Cullick

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.

Zephyrus, Western Kentucky University

Student Creative Writing

The fine arts magazine of Western Kentucky University at Bowling Green.

Magritte, James Doyle

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 14

Evening Thunder, Michael Henson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 28

Boffin's Books And Darwin's Finches: Victorian Cultures Of Collecting, Michael W. Hancock

Faculty Publications & Research

Although wealthy continental virtuosos had passionately and selectively accumulated a variety of natural and artificial objects from the Renaissance onwards, not until the nineteenth century did collecting become a conspicuous national pastime among all classes in Britain. As industry and empire made available many new and exotic goods for acquisition and display, the collection as a cultural form offered the Victorians a popular strategy of self-fashioning that was often represented in the literature of the age as a source of prestige and social legitimation. Through interdisciplinary readings of Victorian fiction, narrative nonfiction, and poetry, my study examines how textual representations …

Isolated But Not Oblivious: A Re-Evaluation Of Emily Dickinson’S Relationship To The Civil War, Peggy Henderson Murphy

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Emily Dickinson’s physical isolation and her disinterest in publishing have led scholars to conclude that Dickinson had no interest in the outside world. Although Dickinson’s poems do contain war imagery, scholars have argued that these images are used by Dickinson to deal with her own inner struggles and are not directly related to the Civil War. However, Karen Dandurand’s discovery of poems published by Dickinson in a Civil War fund-raising magazine compels us to reconsider Dickinson’s supposed disinterest. It is evident by Dickinson’s letters and her poems that the war energizes and inspires her by providing questions about life, death, …

Dedication Page (Volume 6), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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Shadowing Old Red: The Editor As Gumshoe, William Bedford Clark

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.

Time And Space Connect The World In Robert Penn Warren's All The King's Men, Amy K. Lavender

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.

About The Center (Volume 6), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.

Selected Bibliography, Robin L. Condon

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.

Charms, Carol A. Leibiger

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.