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To ‘Noob Or Not To ‘Noob, That Is The Question, Joey Hall, Lee Tucciarone Jan 2008

To ‘Noob Or Not To ‘Noob, That Is The Question, Joey Hall, Lee Tucciarone

The Corinthian

After watching a documentary entitled Black on White, by Robert MacNeil, we realized that many people still tend to make a distinction between white and black English. Since the documentary was rather dated, we decided to pursue this topic to further investigate whether or not the views expressed in the film are still the general consensus of the population. Some of the people we interviewed for this project did indeed express the belief that white and black English differ very much one from the other. In fact, as we began to investigate this topic, we realized that it is …


Colonialism And Language, Tony Crowley Jan 2008

Colonialism And Language, Tony Crowley

Scripps Faculty Publications and Research

No abstract provided.


Marxism And Language, Tony Crowley Jan 2008

Marxism And Language, Tony Crowley

Scripps Faculty Publications and Research

No abstract provided.


Nationalism And Language, Tony Crowley Jan 2008

Nationalism And Language, Tony Crowley

Scripps Faculty Publications and Research

No abstract provided.


Memory And Forgetting In A Time Of Violence: Brian Friel’S Meta-History Plays, Tony Crowley Jan 2008

Memory And Forgetting In A Time Of Violence: Brian Friel’S Meta-History Plays, Tony Crowley

Scripps Faculty Publications and Research

In the 1980s, Brian Friel, one of Ireland’s most successful twentieth century dramatists, authored two plays – Translations and Making History – which were concerned with major events in colonial history. Given the context in which the plays were written – Northern Ireland was in a state of war at the time – ­the playwright’s choice of topics (the introduction of the National Schools and the Ordnance Survey in the nineteenth century and the failed Gaelic revolt against English rule and the Flight of the Earls in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) was both pointed and politically contentious. Yet, the …


Contents (Volume 8), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2008

Contents (Volume 8), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


The Box, The Glittering Strings, And The Unbearable Hillbillyness Of Being: Warren’S The Cave, Country Music, And Vanderbilt Fugitive-Agrarianism, H.R. Stoneback Jan 2008

The Box, The Glittering Strings, And The Unbearable Hillbillyness Of Being: Warren’S The Cave, Country Music, And Vanderbilt Fugitive-Agrarianism, H.R. Stoneback

Robert Penn Warren Studies

The Fugitive magazine and the evolution of Nashville Agrarianism were exactly coincident and contiguous, geographically and historically, with the Grand Ole Opry and the evolution of hillbilly and country music, yet at Vanderbilt, it was something called traditional balladry or true folksong that was highly respected, and taught in courses in the English Department curriculum. It was from within these contexts that singer/songwriter and then graduate student, H. R. “Stoney” Stoneback, first wrote about Robert Penn Warren’s The Cave. Forty years later, singer/songwriter and now Distinguished Professor Stoneback revisits the question of the guitar, the songs, and the hillbillyness of …


Brooks And Warren In Heaven: A Short Story With Endnotes, James A. Perkins Jan 2008

Brooks And Warren In Heaven: A Short Story With Endnotes, James A. Perkins

Robert Penn Warren Studies

A personal and professional friendship “made in heaven” continues there. What passions persist? How do these two old friends pass the timelessness? And how do you cite a visit to heaven?


Breathing New Life Into Warren Studies: A Project In Secondary Education, Wes Berry, Kristina Rice, Angela Sloan Jan 2008

Breathing New Life Into Warren Studies: A Project In Secondary Education, Wes Berry, Kristina Rice, Angela Sloan

Robert Penn Warren Studies

In his introduction to this pedagogy project, Wes Berry ponders how teaching Robert Penn Warren’s work in high schools could help to promote Warren’s overall literary status. The following essays outline efforts to teach Warren’s fiction in two Kentucky high schools. In spring 2007, Angela Sloan taught Warren’s All the King’s Men and The Cave to A.P. English students using a comparative, intertextual approach. She details the successes of her class and includes students’ responses to their study of Warren. Furthermore, Kristina Rice presents creative approaches to making Warren’s stories accessible to high school students, including comparative thematic studies that …


Notes On Contributors (Volume 8), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2008

Notes On Contributors (Volume 8), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


Where It All Began (Volume 8), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2008

Where It All Began (Volume 8), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


Rpw, Sibelius, And The Dream, Marshall Walker Jan 2008

Rpw, Sibelius, And The Dream, Marshall Walker

Robert Penn Warren Studies

In All the King’s Men Jack Burden says, “I eat a persimmon and the teeth of a tinker in Tibet are put on edge,” but what could link a Finnish composer to a writer, forty years younger, from the American South? “The creations of American literature generally are no doubt more given to the speculative, − less given to the realistic, − than are those of English literature,” says Anthony Trollope in his essay, “The Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne.” “On our side of the water we deal more with beef and ale, and less with dreams.” Both Sibelius and Warren …


Recreating Faulkner: Cleanth Brooks’ Use Of Faulkner As New Critical Exemplar, Dana W. Mcmichael Jan 2008

Recreating Faulkner: Cleanth Brooks’ Use Of Faulkner As New Critical Exemplar, Dana W. Mcmichael

Robert Penn Warren Studies

Cleanth Brooks’ emphasis on textual structure helped move Faulkner criticism in new directions. Though early reviews and critical treatments of William Faulkner’s works frequently speculated on his literary intentions, combed his words for various ideologies, or sought a Jamesian realism, Brooks’ earliest studies of Faulkner insisted that his novels and stories be appreciated for their mastery of form. Although Brooks’ later studies have received much of the attention they deserve, his earliest essays on Faulkner have been largely neglected. Cumulatively, Brooks’ many articles and book-length studies of Faulkner’s fiction seek to repackage him as a Modernist writer whose works are …


An “Unreligious” Affair: (Re)Reading The American Civil War In Foote’S Shiloh And Warren’S Wilderness, Kyle Crews Jan 2008

An “Unreligious” Affair: (Re)Reading The American Civil War In Foote’S Shiloh And Warren’S Wilderness, Kyle Crews

Robert Penn Warren Studies

A comparative analysis of Robert Penn Warren’s Wilderness and Shelby Foote’s Shiloh reveals a similar historiography that both writers apply to the American Civil War. From a narratological standpoint, the novels are very different; however, the underlying theme is the same: the Civil War is an “unreligious” episode in an often oversimplified period in American history.


About The Center (Volume 8), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2008

About The Center (Volume 8), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


Literary Retrospection In The Harlem Renaissance, Claudia Stokes Jan 2008

Literary Retrospection In The Harlem Renaissance, Claudia Stokes

English Faculty Research

In 1925, book collector and Harlem Renaissance patron Arthur A. Schomburg began the essay "The Negro Digs Up His Past," published in Alain Locke's landmark anthology The New Negro (1925), by proclaiming that the "American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future. ... So among the rising democratic millions we find the Negro thinking more collectively, more retrospectively than the rest, and opt out of the very pressure of the present to become the most enthusiastic antiquarian of them all" (231). These words might be surprising to the beginning student of the Harlem Renaissance, seduced by …


B 7th, Ken Autrey Jan 2008

B 7th, Ken Autrey

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 6


Scene In Dan Xue, Taiwan, 1981, Allen Jih Jan 2008

Scene In Dan Xue, Taiwan, 1981, Allen Jih

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 23


The Cardboard Shirt, Elisabeth Murawski Jan 2008

The Cardboard Shirt, Elisabeth Murawski

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 31


Teeth, Carolyn Elkins Jan 2008

Teeth, Carolyn Elkins

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 11


To Have You Back, Kathryn Kirkpatrick Jan 2008

To Have You Back, Kathryn Kirkpatrick

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 24


Property Taxes, James Mersmann Jan 2008

Property Taxes, James Mersmann

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 27-28


Lotus Lilies, Robert Miltner Jan 2008

Lotus Lilies, Robert Miltner

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 30


Amoskeag Quarry, Paul Nelson Jan 2008

Amoskeag Quarry, Paul Nelson

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 33-34


The Beautiful, Stan Sanvel Rubin Jan 2008

The Beautiful, Stan Sanvel Rubin

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 40


Birmingham Poetry Review 35 (End Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff Jan 2008

Birmingham Poetry Review 35 (End Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 57-66


Hemingway And Bullshit, Nathan R. L. Eilers Jan 2008

Hemingway And Bullshit, Nathan R. L. Eilers

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This paper uses Harry Frankfurt's definition of bullshit as a lens to re-examine Ernest Hemingway's aesthetic of factual details and omission. Frankfurt argues that bullshit consists of speech made with indifference to its veracity, and one who makes a habit of bullshitting may lose touch with reality. By studying three works across the author's career, "Big Two-Hearted River," "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," and The Old Man and the Sea, one sees that Hemingway's prose style evolves and eventually contradicts his artistic statements. Given the fact that he promotes his aesthetic while discarding it, his theory becomes bullshit. …


Dust, Trent Busch Jan 2008

Dust, Trent Busch

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 9


“Selfing” The Other: A Colonial Reading Of Je And Wss, Tika Lamsal Jan 2008

“Selfing” The Other: A Colonial Reading Of Je And Wss, Tika Lamsal

Rhetoric and Language Faculty Publications and Research

No abstract provided.


Birmingham Poetry Review 35 (Front Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff Jan 2008

Birmingham Poetry Review 35 (Front Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. -5