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A Collaborative Approach To Information Literacy: First-Year Composition, Writing Center, And Library Partnerships At West Virginia University, Laura Brady Jan 2009

A Collaborative Approach To Information Literacy: First-Year Composition, Writing Center, And Library Partnerships At West Virginia University, Laura Brady

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

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(Im)Possible Encounters, Possible (Mis)Understandings Between The West And Its Other: The Case Of The Maghreb, Tanja Stampfl Jan 2009

(Im)Possible Encounters, Possible (Mis)Understandings Between The West And Its Other: The Case Of The Maghreb, Tanja Stampfl

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

My work deals with what I call (im)possible encounters, possible (mis)understandings between the West and the Rim of the World (in my case The Maghreb). I focus on writers (such as Paul Bowles, Patricia Highsmith, Edith Wharton, Tayeb Salih, Ahlam Mosteghanemi, Ahdaf Soueif) who stepped across the cultural dividing line to claim a voice of their own; a voice that enabled them to represent and at times misrepresent the host culture they chose to live in, and which acts as a “lieu” and at times “milieu de mémoire.” It is what the late Edward Said aptly called “intertwined histories, overlapping …

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Blood Culture And The Problem Of Decadence, Jeffrey P. Cain Jan 2009

Blood Culture And The Problem Of Decadence, Jeffrey P. Cain

English Faculty Publications

This paper examines the commodification of hunting practices via the deterritorializing function of capitalism described by Deleuze and Guattari. It also studies counter trends-- predicted by or consistent with Deleuzean theory--that indicate a subtending authenticity displayed by certain hunting practices apparently resistant to commercial exploitation. "Blood culture" is my term for inauthentic hunting activity--a distinction drawn directly by Deleuze in his televised interviews with Claire Parnet. Aspects of "becoming-animal" and other transversal and cross-disciplinary flows of thought are also of course in play. As in some of my former work, I again argue for a Deleuzean cultural mechanics of the …

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Edward I And The Appropriation Of Arthurian Legend, Rachealle Marie Sanford Jan 2009

Edward I And The Appropriation Of Arthurian Legend, Rachealle Marie Sanford

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

In recent years, an increasing interest in the appropriation of folklore by political leaders has led scholars to investigate potential instances where this may have occurred in the past. This work follows that tradition, examining the life and actions of King Edward I of England to determine if there are instances where he is making deliberate use of folk narrative for his own political aims. An analysis of several events discussed by past historians indicates that the king was intentionally manipulating the Arthurian legend, which was highly popular in Europe during the thirteenth century, to justify his claims to authority …

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"Survival With Honor": The Battle Between The Flesh And The Spirit In The Dramas Of Tennessee Williams, Kirby Watkins Jan 2009

"Survival With Honor": The Battle Between The Flesh And The Spirit In The Dramas Of Tennessee Williams, Kirby Watkins

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Tennessee Williams struggled his entire life with sexuality and spirituality. His view of God and sex were continuously intermingled in confusion, and the resulting chaos found its way into many of Williams’ plays. This thesis focuses on Williams’ entire career, from his very first plays to some of his last. The theme of flesh versus spirit is examined closely. Williams attempted in many ways to find a balance between the two and his characters exemplify this search.

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Modernism, Philip M. Weinstein Jan 2009

Modernism, Philip M. Weinstein

English Literature Faculty Works

This article examines the impact of modernism on philosophy and literature. It proposes two defining dimensions of modernist texts: their initial difficulty and their experimental departure from earlier conventions of thinking. It considers in some detail the practice of novelists Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, and William Faulkner with the aim of shedding light on central strategies and powers of modernism. It shows that the formal practices of my novelists enact a philosophic stance through their particular way of deploying materials.

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Strangers In The Postcolonial World, Thomas F. Halloran Jan 2009

Strangers In The Postcolonial World, Thomas F. Halloran

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation analyzes American writing from and about the former British and French colonies in order to critique postcolonial theory and also to establish a new genre of expatriate literature. Focusing on the works of J. P. Donleavy, Edith Wharton, Paul Bowles, and Paul Theroux, I argue that reading these Americans disrupts the binary concepts encouraged by postcolonial theory. This project rethinks important dichotomies such as colonizer/colonized, center/margin, metropolis/margin, civilized/primitive, and white/non-white by examining the ambiguous American character in the postcolonial context. I argue that by categorizing the themes of American literature in the colonies, and analyzing the similarities and …

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Joanne Diaz, Bill Morgan Jan 2009

Joanne Diaz, Bill Morgan

Interviews for WGLT

Joanne Diaz, Assistant Professor of English, reads her poem, Clarinet for WGLT's Poetry Radio. The poem is included in the collection, The Lessons available from amazon.com.

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Cosmological Vision(S) : History, Modernism, And American Renewal In Hart Crane's The Bridge, Lauren Grewe Jan 2009

Cosmological Vision(S) : History, Modernism, And American Renewal In Hart Crane's The Bridge, Lauren Grewe

Honors Theses

With the help of recent Crane studies, along with my own ear, I intend to prove the worth of Crane's myth of bridging as a way of responding to and eventually reforming the Elitonian vision of the modem world. The Bridge counters Eliot as a way to offer hope to the modem world in place of despair, as a way to offer a system of belief that is neither dogmatic nor futile, that incorporates a vision of the future just as much as a vision of the past.

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Why Floods Be Served To Us In Bowls: Emily Dickinson's Souvenirs, Hannah Lee Jan 2009

Why Floods Be Served To Us In Bowls: Emily Dickinson's Souvenirs, Hannah Lee

Honors Papers

This paper examines the uncanny object in Emily Dickinson's poems and letters through the lens of critic Susan Stewart's writing on souvenirs.

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Exile: The Implications Of Separation From Language During Genocide, Kehan Desousa Jan 2009

Exile: The Implications Of Separation From Language During Genocide, Kehan Desousa

Honors Papers

This essay examines the function of language during a time of genocide as displayed in Imre Kertesz's novel Fatelessness, the story of a young Hungarian's experiences in Auschwitz. Language provides the tool for fate's imposition, here the imposition of an identity, a history, and a future upon an individual that does not necessarily cohere with the experience of the individual. Since language provides the mechanism for the unwinding of fate, a fate ultimately hostile to victims of genocide, the old language (the native language of the victim, whether it be French, Yiddish, Hungarian, etc.) becomes an inadequate vehicle of communication—but …

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A Review Of Poetry And Ecology In The Age Of Milton And Marvell By Diane Kelsey Mccolley, Nicolle M. Jordan Jan 2009

A Review Of Poetry And Ecology In The Age Of Milton And Marvell By Diane Kelsey Mccolley, Nicolle M. Jordan

Faculty Publications

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Turn, Mark Jarman Jan 2009

Turn, Mark Jarman

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 24

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Against War Movies, Jehanne Dubrow Jan 2009

Against War Movies, Jehanne Dubrow

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 22

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If I Had A Nickel For Every Time, Juliana Gray Jan 2009

If I Had A Nickel For Every Time, Juliana Gray

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 32

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Tennessee Snapshot, Carrie Jerrell Jan 2009

Tennessee Snapshot, Carrie Jerrell

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 17

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Birmingham Poetry Review 36 (End Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff Jan 2009

Birmingham Poetry Review 36 (End Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 59-66

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Birmingham Poetry Review 36 (Front Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff Jan 2009

Birmingham Poetry Review 36 (Front Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. -4

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The Ferns, Isabel Galbraith Jan 2009

The Ferns, Isabel Galbraith

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 26

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Stateside, Jehanne Dubrow Jan 2009

Stateside, Jehanne Dubrow

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 20

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Persephone Smashes Clocks, Charlene Fix Jan 2009

Persephone Smashes Clocks, Charlene Fix

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 48

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The Hunter, Isabel Galbraith Jan 2009

The Hunter, Isabel Galbraith

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 27

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What’S With The Love Below?, Bianca Longmire Jan 2009

What’S With The Love Below?, Bianca Longmire

The Corinthian

Is hip hop dead? We began to ask ourselves this question many years after the hip hop culture emerged. Due to the sudden shift in function from social protest and community building to gross commercialism, the images of black masculinity within the hip hop world began to change, and people began to wonder about the viability of hip hop’s existence. But how can an entire culture that is ever changing and constantly shifting be cast to an eternity of non-existence? The question in itself would imply that those who critique the hip hop cultural form have the power to give …

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I Hear A City: A Picture Book For Three- Four- And Five-Year-Olds, Adam Schneider Jan 2009

I Hear A City: A Picture Book For Three- Four- And Five-Year-Olds, Adam Schneider

Graduate Student Independent Studies

I Hear A City is an original children's book that delineates the daily routines of a city and the people who live within it. The book is designed to be read with three- four- and five-year-olds because its content corresponds with that age group's interests and their desire to understand their surroundings. I Hear A City recounts the story of the life of a city and the universal routines that exist there. The ideas and events expressed within the book are basic and relate to young children. The life and activities of a city and its inhabitants are integrated and …

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Literary Animal Agents, Susan Mchugh Jan 2009

Literary Animal Agents, Susan Mchugh

English Faculty Publications

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Cosmopolitanism After Derrida: City, Signature And Sovereignty, Puspa Damai Jan 2009

Cosmopolitanism After Derrida: City, Signature And Sovereignty, Puspa Damai

English Faculty Research

Cosmopolitanism in Derrida's works sounds like an afterthought in comparison to other more recurring themes of his texts, like 'writing', 'differance', 'supplement', 'metaphysics', or 'violence'. Cosmopolitanism seems to belong to deconstruction, which is often associated with decentring, fragmentation, and critique of totality and universality, only as an intimate other, a foreign element grafted in the body by force, or by miracle. That is the reason why, perhaps, hardly any cosmopolitanist refers to the issue of cosmopolitanism in Derrida or in deconstruction, so much so that even Derrida has written very sparsely on it as it belongs perhaps to the dormant, …

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Spectrogenetic Translation In Arundhati Roy's The God Of Small Things And Elsewhere, Puspa Damai Jan 2009

Spectrogenetic Translation In Arundhati Roy's The God Of Small Things And Elsewhere, Puspa Damai

English Faculty Research

South Asians, in their attempts to articulate post-colonial subjectivity, have themselves only reinscribed various aspects of colonial exoticism in their work. South Asian author Arundhati Roy’s rendering of untouchability in terms of godliness in The God of Small Things resonates with colonial ideologies that read “subalterns” as objects, not as subjects. Roy’s invocation of colonial methods of translation envisions untouchability in “absolutist terms”—a strategy that may ultimately mitigate against a recognition of the highly varied experiences, social agencies, and subjectivities of dalits living in South Asia and abroad.

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Heroic Orual And The Tasks Of Psyche, Gwenyth Hood Jan 2009

Heroic Orual And The Tasks Of Psyche, Gwenyth Hood

English Faculty Research

C.S. Lewis's last novel, Till We have Faces: A Myth Retold, concerns transformations. After all, it deals with the myth of Psyche. In Greek, Psyche means not only soul but also butterfly.1 This brings to mind the metamorphosis of a crawling caterpillar into a winged butterfly, analogous to the protagonist's transformation from mortal to goddess. In Lewis's retelling, not only does a mortal human becomes an immortal goddess,2 but also, an ugly soul turns beautiful, a coarse, barbaric populace grows into a gracious civilization, and cruel divinities with a thirst for human blood become loving guardians of the …

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Gender Performativity In H.D.'S Sea Garden, Angela Sanigar Jan 2009

Gender Performativity In H.D.'S Sea Garden, Angela Sanigar

Theses : Honours

Sea Garden was the first book of poetry written by H.D. in 1916. Read through the lens of Judith Butler's theory of performativity, the book can be interpreted as an investigation of gender and identity in ways that challenge the confines of heteronormativity. Ultimately, I will argue that the poems work in ways close to Judith Butler's sense of 'queer', although as will become clear, my 'queer' reading of H.D.'s Sea Garden differs from the dominant queer readings of her work that currently exist. To this end, I will then discuss how Sea Garden operates as a community of different …

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Transcultural Transformation: African American And Native American Relations, Barbara S. Tracy Jan 2009

Transcultural Transformation: African American And Native American Relations, Barbara S. Tracy

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The intersected lives of African Americans and Native Americans result not only in Black Indians, but also in a shared culture that is evidenced by music, call and response, and story. These intersected lives create a dynamic of shared and diverging pathways that speak to each other. It is a crossroads of both anguish and joy that comes together and apart again like the tradition of call and response. There is a syncopation of two cultures becoming greater than their parts, a representation of losses that are reclaimed by a greater degree. In the tradition of call and response, by …

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