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Montclair State University’S Secondary English Education Program : Perceptions And Expectations Of Pre-Service And Beginning Teachers Of Writing, David B. Malter Jan 2008

Montclair State University’S Secondary English Education Program : Perceptions And Expectations Of Pre-Service And Beginning Teachers Of Writing, David B. Malter

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

No abstract provided.


In Search Of Female Space : Resistance And Creation In Tsitsi Dangarembga’S Nervous Conditions And She No Longer Weeps, Diana Mckenna Jan 2008

In Search Of Female Space : Resistance And Creation In Tsitsi Dangarembga’S Nervous Conditions And She No Longer Weeps, Diana Mckenna

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

In this paper I explore how with Nervous Conditions (1988) and She No Longer Weeps (1987), Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga creates alternative literary forms in her representation of architectural, bodily and narrative spaces and their relationship to female identities. These physical spaces the women characters inhabit, resist and in which they assert their voices must be cleared of patriarchal control in order for female-centered space to be produced. Moreover, the creation of a new speech paradigm, one that affirms the female voice, is crucial to the journey towards female autonomy. Inasmuch as Dangarembga explores the ways in which physical spaces …


The Many Masks Of Louisa May Alcott’S Gothic Heroines, Lisa Poggi Jan 2008

The Many Masks Of Louisa May Alcott’S Gothic Heroines, Lisa Poggi

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

Many of the female characters in the Gothic thrillers of Louisa May Alcott wear masks or are or portrayed as “actresses” who conceal their passion with the appearance of being the typical domestic woman. This idea is most clearly presented in “Behind a Mask” and “Pauline’s Passion and Punishment.” In these thrillers, hidden passion causes problems in each heroine’s life, either because her strong will is an unacceptable female characteristic and she will therefore be shunned in some way by society or by those dear to her; or, expressing her passion will result in disaster of some kind. This representation …


The Politicization Of Everyday Life In Cleave's Weekly Police Gazette (1834-36), Edward Jacobs Jan 2008

The Politicization Of Everyday Life In Cleave's Weekly Police Gazette (1834-36), Edward Jacobs

English Faculty Publications

With circulation as high as 40,000, Cleave's Weekly Police Gazette, published 1834–36, was one of the first and most popular unstamped newspapers to mix political news with coverage of non-political events like sensational crimes, strange occurrences, and excerpts from popular fiction. Scholars have differed widely in their interpretations of the fact that the paper's mixture of radical politics and "entertainment" outsold unstamped papers that offered undiluted political news, such as Hetherington's Poor Man's Guardian (1831–35), whose circulation peaked at around 16,000. Some, like Louis James and Virginia Berridge, argue that Cleave's helped to co-opt legitimate working-class political discourse by …


Female Body As Geosomatic Apotrope In Chaucer, Shakespeare, And Middleton, Maura Giles-Watson Jan 2008

Female Body As Geosomatic Apotrope In Chaucer, Shakespeare, And Middleton, Maura Giles-Watson

English: Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Writing Degree ∞ (On Recent Haiku), Michael Theune Jan 2008

Writing Degree ∞ (On Recent Haiku), Michael Theune

Scholarship

On the following: Hipster Haiku. Siobhan Adcock. Broadway Books, 2006. She Was Just Seventeen. Billy Collins. Modern Haiku Press, 2006. Gnoetry. Eric Elshtain & John Trowbridge. www.beardofbees.com Listen to the Landscape. Linda Nemec Foster & Dianne Carroll Burdick. William B. Eerdman’s Publishing Co., 2006. Hockey Haiku: The Essential Collection. John Poch and Chad Davidson. Thomas Dunne Books, 2006. Office Haiku: Poems Inspired by the Daily Grind. James Rogauskas. Thomas Dunne Books, 2006. Haiku Mama. Kari Anne Roy. Quirk Books, 2006. Wheat and Distance. Austin Smith. Longhouse, 2007. Baseball Haiku: The Best Haiku …


Trees, Andrew Glaze Jan 2008

Trees, Andrew Glaze

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 17


Birmingham Poetry Review 35 (Complete Issue), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff Jan 2008

Birmingham Poetry Review 35 (Complete Issue), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

No abstract provided.


Charon's Sister, Gregory Fraser Jan 2008

Charon's Sister, Gregory Fraser

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 12


Movers, Gregory Fraser Jan 2008

Movers, Gregory Fraser

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 13-14


Bless His Heart, Bill Rector Jan 2008

Bless His Heart, Bill Rector

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 37


Splitting The Cartesian Hair, Mary Rose O'Reilley Jan 2008

Splitting The Cartesian Hair, Mary Rose O'Reilley

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

The "Believing Game," at its deepest level, protects a space where students and teacher can contemplatively ponder what they will choose to love.


Prophets, Priests, And Kings: John Milton And The Reformation Of Rights And Liberties In England, John Witte Jr. Jan 2008

Prophets, Priests, And Kings: John Milton And The Reformation Of Rights And Liberties In England, John Witte Jr.

Faculty Articles

In this Article, I focus on the development of rights talk in the pre-Enlightenment Protestant tradition. More particularly, I show how early modem Calvinists-those Protestants inspired by the teachings of Genevan reformer John Calvin (1509-1564)-developed a theory of fundamental rights as part and product of a broader constitutional theory of resistance and military revolt against tyranny. With unlimited space, I would document how various Calvinist groups from 1550 to 1700 helped to define and defend each and every one of the rights that would later appear in the American Bill of Rights and how these Calvinists condoned armed revolution to …


'Grung Tell Me Wud': An Introduction To Karl, Daryl Cumber Dance Jan 2008

'Grung Tell Me Wud': An Introduction To Karl, Daryl Cumber Dance

English Faculty Publications

Olive Senior informs us in 'The Poem as Gardening, the Story as Su-Su: Finding a Literary Voice' that Jamaican elders believe the ground is the place where ancestral wisdom is located and they will explain and validate their warning or advice by saying, 'Grung tell me wud' (36). Jamaican linguist/literary critic/poet/and novelist Velma Pollard has put her ear to the ground of Jamaica and shared many important words of ancestral wisdom with us. This was a natural development for the talented girlchild born into an artistic family in Woodside, Jamaica, a rural community rich in folk traditions: her father was …


Exploring Sexuality Within The Modernist Bildungsroman, Mathew J. Kochis Jan 2008

Exploring Sexuality Within The Modernist Bildungsroman, Mathew J. Kochis

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

No abstract provided.


Asides As Discourse: The Pendulum Of Power Between The Sexes In Shakespeare's Richard Iii And Titus Andronicus, Rosalinda Simone Jan 2008

Asides As Discourse: The Pendulum Of Power Between The Sexes In Shakespeare's Richard Iii And Titus Andronicus, Rosalinda Simone

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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Coetzee's Foe: Susan Barton's (Un) Reliable Narration And Her Revelation Through Misreading, Jason Price Jan 2008

Coetzee's Foe: Susan Barton's (Un) Reliable Narration And Her Revelation Through Misreading, Jason Price

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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Retelling The Composition-Literature Story, Laura Brady Jan 2008

Retelling The Composition-Literature Story, Laura Brady

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Teaching Lolita In A Course On Ethics And Literature, Marilyn Edelstein Jan 2008

Teaching Lolita In A Course On Ethics And Literature, Marilyn Edelstein

English

The late 1980s saw a resurgence of interest in ethics and literature, with the publication of new books on the subject by major scholars like J. Hillis Miller and Wayne Booth. In recent years, many critics and theorists (including some Nabokov scholars) have (re)turned to ethical questions about literature: Does literature imitate life, and will readers, in turn, imitate the actions (whether virtuous or ignoble) of characters in literary texts? How and why can literary works be ethically beneficial or harmful for their readers? Are authors responsible for any ethical effects-positive or negative-their works may produce in readers? What are …


Apocalypse South: Judgment, Cataclysm, And Resistance In The Regional Imaginary, Anthony Hoefer Jan 2008

Apocalypse South: Judgment, Cataclysm, And Resistance In The Regional Imaginary, Anthony Hoefer

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This project investigates manifestations of Apocalypse in selected works of southern fiction, each of which simultaneously draws upon the cosmology of southern evangelical Protestantism and disrupts that cosmology’s power to govern the discourses of race, class, and gender in the U.S. South. Apocalypse South proposes that invocations of the Apocalypse are signs of deferred meaning—of hidden histories of undifferentiation, hybridity, and contradiction which defy the prevailing discourses that configure social relationships in southern spaces and places. Southern religious culture maps Apocalypse onto the boundaries of race, class, and gender and imparts catastrophic consequences to their violations. However, the works investigated …


The Perils And Empowerments Of Mountain Literacies: Reading Loss And Shifting Identities In Appalachian Memoirs And Novels, Erica Abrams Locklear Jan 2008

The Perils And Empowerments Of Mountain Literacies: Reading Loss And Shifting Identities In Appalachian Memoirs And Novels, Erica Abrams Locklear

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation analyzes the literary portrayal of literacy events in memoirs and novels written by Appalachian women during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Drawing from contemporary literacy scholarship, my project engages several definitions of the term "literacy," including theories defining it as a technical skill, a social act, cultural knowledge, or a potent form of ideological power. In a region historically (and often inaccurately) stigmatized as illiterate, "literacy" is a loaded term, a concept doubly associated with cultural pride and with cultural loss. By applying literacy theories to Appalachian literature, I analyze the identity conflicts literacy attainment causes for several …


Sitting In Darkness: New South Fiction, Education, And The Rise Of Jim Crow Colonialism, 1865-1920, Peter Schmidt Jan 2008

Sitting In Darkness: New South Fiction, Education, And The Rise Of Jim Crow Colonialism, 1865-1920, Peter Schmidt

English Literature Faculty Works

Sitting in Darkness explores how fiction of the Reconstruction and the New South intervenes in debates over black schools, citizen building, Jim Crow discrimination, and U.S. foreign policy towards its territories and dependencies. The author urges a reexamination not only of the contents and formal innovations of New South literature but also its importance in U.S. literary history. "Many rarely studied fiction authors (such as Ellwood Griest, Ellen Ingraham, George Marion McClellan, and Walter Hines Page) receive generous attention here, and well-known figures such as Albion Tourgee, Mark Twain, Frances E. W. Harper, W. E. B. Du Bois, Sutton Griggs, …


Review Of "Global Economics: A History Of The Theater Business, The Chamberlain's/King's Men, And Their Plays, 1599-1642" By M. D. Aaron, Nora Johnson Jan 2008

Review Of "Global Economics: A History Of The Theater Business, The Chamberlain's/King's Men, And Their Plays, 1599-1642" By M. D. Aaron, Nora Johnson

English Literature Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Anonyma's Authors, Rachel Sagner Buurma Jan 2008

Anonyma's Authors, Rachel Sagner Buurma

English Literature Faculty Works

This article examines the publication history of a popular group of loosely related, variously authored anonymous Victorian novels about women of the London "demimonde" (such as Anonyma, or, Fair but Frail, 1864), showing how successive republications worked to create an increasingly coherent set of texts with a single, yet unstable, author function. I argue specifically that these novels' hybrid representations of authorship - which changed dramatically between the 1864, 1869, and 1884 publications of the increasingly standardized "series" - engage with the novels' representational practices, and that an analysis of this engagement has broader implications for our understanding of Victorian …


Conducting Research In The Gray Space: How Writing Associates Negotiate Between Wac And Wid In An Introductory Biology Course, Jill M. Gladstein Jan 2008

Conducting Research In The Gray Space: How Writing Associates Negotiate Between Wac And Wid In An Introductory Biology Course, Jill M. Gladstein

English Literature Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Jack Spicer And The Phenomenology Of Meaning, Benjamin J. Kossak Jan 2008

Jack Spicer And The Phenomenology Of Meaning, Benjamin J. Kossak

Honors Papers

Jack Spicer’s poetry is often a mess of obscenity, convoluted references, and opaque language. It resists any attempts to reduce it to a system of proscriptions or abstract ideas. However, it consistently engages the reader on the level of bodily interaction. In the introduction to Admonitions, Spicer describes his poetry as a “frightening hall of mirrors,” and this grotesque exploration of the body demands a sympathetic awareness in the body of the reader. Further, the obscenity scattered throughout his work evokes a response not only through the attractive/repulsive paradox of any obscenity, but also in that it showcases an orality …


An Eelnet Made For The Eel Fighting: Layers Of Obscurity And The Continuous Present In The Space Of Robert Lowell's Poetry, Alena Jones Jan 2008

An Eelnet Made For The Eel Fighting: Layers Of Obscurity And The Continuous Present In The Space Of Robert Lowell's Poetry, Alena Jones

Honors Papers

In this essay I undertake to describe how the continuous present might persist on Lowell's page. I move from "Epilogue" first to a Heideggerian critic, Adam Kirsch, and then to Heidegger, whose theory of language establishes a space where the continuous present is always possible on the page. But here, where Heidegger says it should succeed, language proves insufficient for Lowell. Lowell exposes his own failure to shape his material using literary devices like journey and climax. His attempts to align his writing with visual media allow his specific literary failures to become sites of the successful preservation of a …


An Infinity Of Questions: Dramatizing Science On Stage, Emily Miranker Jan 2008

An Infinity Of Questions: Dramatizing Science On Stage, Emily Miranker

Honors Papers

My Honors thesis, An Infinity of Questions, explores the performance of science on stage using two plays: The Life of Galileo, challenging the status quo, by Bertolt Brecht and Copenhagen, examining the origins of intention, by Michael Frayn. I focus on these two plays because not only because they impress me personally, but both spring from historical events and are thematically concerned with physics and the atomic bomb. They also make an interesting juxtaposition since Galileo has a decidedly political agenda, while Copenhagen is a philosophic inquiry. I argue that these dramas are exceptional science plays because of how they …


Colored Man: The Ambiguous White Male Body In "Parker’S Back", Charles Andrews Jan 2008

Colored Man: The Ambiguous White Male Body In "Parker’S Back", Charles Andrews

English Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Taking The Last Of The Sun, Jo Lecoeur Jan 2008

Taking The Last Of The Sun, Jo Lecoeur

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 25