English Language and Literature | Open Access Articles

The Art Of Dying, Tom Montgomery-Fate

English Faculty Scholarship

A lonely act of surrender on the streets of downtown Chicago

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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 Language Of The Spirit: An Interview With Scott Russell Sanders, Tom Montgomery-Fate

English Faculty Scholarship

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Playing For His Side: Kipling’S ‘Regulus,’ Corporal Punishment, And Classical Education, Emily A. Mcdermott

Classics & Religious Studies Faculty Publication Series

Rudyard Kipling’s short story, “Regulus,” revolves around the flogging of a student who has let loose a mouse in the drawing classroom of a turn-of-the-century British public school. The first part of the story is devoted to a fifth-form Latin class’s line-by-line explication of Horace’s fifth Roman ode, in which the story’s title character is presented as a paradigm of manly virtue; the remainder is given over to narration of the mouse-miscreant’s progress toward punishment, in thematic counterpoint to the Regulus exemplum. Within that idiosyncratic framework, the story tackles as ambitious a topic as the purposes of education, with particular …

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The Tractarians' Political Rhetoric, Robert Ellison

English Faculty Research

This article examines the political speaking and writing of John Keble, John Henry Newman, and other leading figures of the Oxford Movement. It argues that while they were essentially conservative in the pulpit, where they spoke as official representatives of the Established Church, they were more critical and outspoken in other works, where they enjoyed more of the freedom afforded to private citizens.

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