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The Blade Against The Burden: The Iconography Of The Sword In The Lord Of The Rings, Michael J. Brisbois

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

Invites us to consider the deeper social implications of carrying and using a sword in the medieval world of Middle-earth—how bearing a sword not only indicates leadership and service, but provides an opportunity for social mobility, in addition to its more obvious military meanings. Considers as examples Merry and Pippin swearing oaths to, respectively, Théoden and Denethor; Éowyn’s heroic deeds; and especially Aragorn’s use of Narsil/Andúril as a symbol of legitimacy and service to his people.

Reconstructing Arda: Of Fëanor And The Unchaining Of Melkor, Douglas C. Kane

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

Discusses Tolkien’s Silmarillion and how it was constructed from the materials later published in the twelve-volume History of Middle-earth, in particular the version of “Of Fëanor and the Unchaining of Melkor” in the published Silmarillion compared with the source material given in Morgoth’s Ring. The author finds intriguing patterns in what Christopher Tolkien used and did not use from the original material.

Editorial, Janet Brennan Croft

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

No abstract provided.

In Memoriam: Pauline Baynes, Wayne G. Hammond, Christina Scull

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

A brief appreciation of artist Pauline Baynes’s life and work, particularly her illustrations for the works of Tolkien and Lewis, with reminiscences of the authors’ friendship with her.

Pauline Baynes In Mythlore, Janet Brennan Croft, Edith Crowe

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

A listing of artist Pauline Baynes’s appearances in Mythlore as illustrator or author, or as the subject of articles or reviews.

Gandalf And Merlin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Adoption And Transformation Of A Literary Tradition, Frank P. Riga

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

Concerns the roots of the wizard Gandalf’s character in the legendary figure of Merlin, tracing Merlin’s development through a variety of English and continental literature up through the twentieth century, and showing how various authors, including Tolkien, interpreted and adapted the wizard for their purposes.

Dragons And Serpents In J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series: Are They Evil?, Lauren Berman

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

Investigates the role and symbolism of dragons and serpents in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, with side excursions into Lewis and Tolkien for their takes on the topic. Concludes that dragons are morally neutral in her world, while serpents generally represent or are allied with evil.

Time And J.R.R. Tolkien's "Riddles In The Dark", Marie Nelson

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

Close reading of the two riddle games in The Hobbit—the first between Bilbo and Gollum, and the second a three-sided game where both Smaug and the reader try to decode Bilbo’s riddling self-references. Discusses “priming” in riddling, how riddles work as a speech act, and the sources of riddles used in these games. Includes a translation of Bilbo’s riddles to Smaug into Old English.

So Far From The Shire: Psychological Distance And Isolation In The Lord Of The Rings, Ginna Wilkerson

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

Considers Frodo’s psychological isolation in The Lord of the Rings and offers a perspective on Frodo and post-traumatic stress syndrome, looking closely at what was happening to him during his quest rather than after and using current understanding of the dynamics of domestic abuse to provide a framework for understanding his experiences and reactions.

Letters, Ruth Lacon

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

No abstract provided.

Award-Winning War Novelist To Visit Iwu, Isu, Jessica Block ‘09

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

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Dystopian Matriarchies: Deconstructing The Womb In Angela Carter's Heroes And Villains And The Passion Of New Eve, Hope Jennings

English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications

Much of contemporary women’s writing attempts to offer significant tactics for the reclamation of women’s bodies with the aim of mapping out new territories of female autonomy. The British author Angela Carter (1940-1992) demonstrates in the majority of her writings an intensive concern with how embodied sites of power are often created or reinforced through various mythological narratives or frameworks. More specifically, Carter interrogates the extent to which the privileging or reappropriation of the maternal body as a source of feminine power poses itself as a problematic terrain in various feminist discourses. In contrast to the majority of Carter’s earlier …

Review Of Removing Barriers: Women In Academic Science, Technology Engineering And Mathematics (Bystydzienski And Bird, Eds.), And Women, Gender, And Technology (Fox, Johnson And Rosser, Eds.), And Science And Social Inequality: Feminist And Postcolonial Issues (Harding, Ed), Mary A. Armstrong

English

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Book Review: Virginia Zimmerman. Excavating Victorians, John Glendening

English Faculty Publications

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Susan Manly. Language, Custom And Nation In The 1790s: Locke, Tooke, Wordsworth, Edgeworth, James C. Mckusick

English Faculty Publications

A Review by James C. McKusick. In Language, Custom and Nation in the 1790s, Susan Manly demonstrates how a populist and materialist philosophy of language contributed to the radical politics and poetics of the British Romantic period. The distinctive scholarly contribution of Language, Custom and Nation, in the 1790s is to show how a Lockean theory of language provided a conceptual framework for some of the most radical and transformative political ideas of the 1790s.

Footnotes, Issue 2, Fall 2008, Department Of English

Footnotes: Department of English Newsletter (2008-2012)

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The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 17, No. 1, The Sinclair Lewis Society

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter

“The Other Lewis: Fred Kermott Lewis,” by Ted Fleener

“Impossible Ici: Raymond Queneau’s Translation of It Can’t Happen Here,” by Frederick Betz, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale

“Habeas Corpus,” by Sinclair Lewis, part 1

“The Opera of Elmer Gantry“

“Lewis and the 150 Best Minnesota Books,” by Patrick Coleman, Minnesota Historical Society

“It Can’t Happen Here and A Cool Million,” by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University

Book Review: Modernism, Drama, And The Audience For Irish Spectacle, Kathleen A. Heininge

Faculty Publications - Department of English

In a book about drama and Irish spectacle, one would naturally assume that the reactions to Synge's The Playboy of the Western World, Yeats's and Gregory's The Countess Cathleen, and O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars would be discussed, and one might be concerned - that this is all well-worn territory. While the reactions to these plays are discussed in Modernism, Drama. and the Audience for Irish Spectacle, by Paige Reynolds, and while the treatments of the plays and the concomitant situations themselves offer little that is really surprising or new, what is surprising and new is the context of …

The Camera's Eye And Mine: An Experience Of Creating Video, Teal Gardner

Laurus: Undergraduate Literature Journal of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln

The Camera's Eye and Mine: An Experience of Creating Video. This piece won the "Laurus Award for Outstanding Creative Writing" from the Department of English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, presented to the author, Teal Gardner, April 30, 2009. Accompanied by a video, "Attention: Opposing 1," available on YouTube.

Grips, Teal Gardner

Laurus: Undergraduate Literature Journal of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln

GRIPS, a poem by Teal Gardner, won the "Laurus Award for Outstanding Creative Writing" from the Department of English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, presented April 30, 2009.

Victorian Writers, Remembered & Forgotten, Patrick G. Scott

Faculty Publications

Based on a library exhibition at the University of South Carolina, summarizes the career and writings of many well-known British Victorian novelists, poets and non-fiction writers (including Dickens, Thackeray, Carlyle, Darwin, Tennyson, E.B. and Robert Browning, the Brontes, George Eliot, R.L.Stevenson), in contrast with the achievements of lesser-known writers also represented in the library's special collections (including G. W. M. Reynolds, Elizabeth Sewell, William North, Rhoda Broughton, and George Douglas Brown). Originally developed as an exhibition for the 2008 meeting of the Victorians Institute.

The View From The Masthead: Maritime Imagination And Antebellum American Sea Narratives, Robin Miskolcze

English Faculty Works

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Binding The Will: George Eliot And The Practice Of Promising, Melissa J. Ganz

English Faculty Research and Publications

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The Death Of Sigmund Freud: The Legacy Of His Last Days [Review], Michael Fischer

English Faculty Research

Sigmund Freud has been on Mark Edmundson’s mind at least since his 1990 book, Towards Reading Freud: Self-Creation in Milton, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Sigmund Freud. In that book, Edmundson uncovers a tension between two sides of Freud: the normative Freud committed to a rigid understanding of human behavior, and the romantic Freud whose restlessness with all given conventions inspired endless self-reinvention in his own writing. This side of Freud shows his kinship to Wordsworth, Emerson, and other writers and provides grounds of resistance to what is most stultifying in his own work. In Edmundson’s view, we need the imaginative …

Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005 [Review], David P. Rando

English Faculty Research

Like Stranger Shores (2000), Inner Workings collects J. M. Coetzee’s recent literary essays, many of which first appeared in The New York Review of Books or as introductions. Bound together, they accrue a taste and texture that readers might not have suspected if they encountered these essays in their original publications. Coetzee engages a compelling cluster of twentieth-century writers, including, among others, Italo Svevo, Walter Benjamin, Paul Celan, W. G. Sebald, Samuel Beckett, Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, Gabriel García Márquez, V. S. Naipaul, and, likely of special interest to this journal’s readers, Philip Roth. Walt Whitman is the lonely denizen …

Mentors’ Views About Developing Effective English Teaching Practices, Peter Hudson, Jan Millwater

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

Effective mentoring in English is considered paramount to a preservice teacher’s development. What are mentors’ views about developing effective English teaching practices in their mentees? This study used quantitative data (survey) and qualitative data (questionnaire) on 24 mentors’ perceptions of mentoring second-year preservice teachers for teaching English and, in particular, the teaching of writing. Quantitative data measured mentors’ perceptions of their attributes and practices across five factors for mentoring (i.e., Personal Attributes, System Requirements, Pedagogical Knowledge, Modelling, and Feedback) with 67% or more of these mentors (n=24) agreeing or strongly agreeing they provided all of the advocated attributes and practices …

A Western Man Of Color: Richard Wright And The World, Guy J. Reynolds

Department of English: Presentations

Richard Wright had become by the mid 50s an analyst of what it means to be ‘of’ the West. He was by now a firmly-established émigré, and had become a French citizen in 1947. His journeys, in a way, had only just become: Europe was a stage or an inauguration into further mappings of the self and society. Those mappings took the extraordinary geo-political shifts of the mid-century as their subject. In the wake of the Second World War, severely damaged economically and in terms of sheer power, European nations were finally forced to give ground to the nationalist movements …

Spirituality In The Underground, Eamon Maher

Articles

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A Comment On "Pedagogical "In Loco Parentis": Reflecting On Power And Parental Authority In The Writing Classroom", Tim Taylor

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

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The Mother Church: Mary Baker Eddy And The Practice Of Sentimentalism, Claudia Stokes

English Faculty Research

“The Mother Church” analyzes the influence of literary sentimentalism on the writings and doctrine of Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science. Having attempted a career as a sentimental poet in her early life, Eddy imported sentimental notions of motherhood and parent-child separation into Christian Science belief and iconography.