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Colonialism And Mandates, John C. Hawley Jan 2012

Colonialism And Mandates, John C. Hawley

English

Daily life in contemporary African countries must be understood as determined by their status as members of an interlocking network of postcolonies, striving to imagine themselves as related through Pan-Africanism but struggling first to realize themselves as fully functioning nations. Even though Ethiopia and Liberia are generally spoken of as the only countries in Africa that were not colonized, this actually suggests the level of subjugation the rest of the continent did experience. After all, if Italy failed in its attempt to take over Ethiopia in the 1880s, Mussolini succeeded in doing so in 1936; Liberia was, in fact, a …


Swarthmore College: The Early Novels Database And Undergraduate Research: A Case Study, Rachel Sagner Buurma, Anna T. Levine , '12, Richard Li , '11 Jan 2012

Swarthmore College: The Early Novels Database And Undergraduate Research: A Case Study, Rachel Sagner Buurma, Anna T. Levine , '12, Richard Li , '11

English Literature Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


The Common Reader And The Archival Classroom: Disciplinary History For The Twenty-First Century, Rachel Sagner Buurma, L. Heffernan Jan 2012

The Common Reader And The Archival Classroom: Disciplinary History For The Twenty-First Century, Rachel Sagner Buurma, L. Heffernan

English Literature Faculty Works

The essay draws on archival research to reconstruct the midcentury classrooms of Cleanth Brooks and Edmund Wilson. Our description of these classrooms - the participants, texts, and the exemplary as well as the undertheorized moments gathered within them - dissolves the divisions between research and teaching, historicist and formalist methods, skeptical critics and invested common readers, disciplinary spaces and public ones, that have particularly plagued the discipline of English in recent years. In Brooks's classroom - long figured as a foundational site for our discipline - we draw out, alongside Brooks's strong theory of the marginal and rarified status of …


Love's Labour's Lost 2.0: Exploring Identity Formation On Facebook And Beyond, Mitchell Watson Hobbs Jan 2012

Love's Labour's Lost 2.0: Exploring Identity Formation On Facebook And Beyond, Mitchell Watson Hobbs

Honors Theses

An adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same name, Love's Labour's Lost 2.0 utilizes the social network website Facebook as its stage so as to explore the unique problems and opportunities that social media affords identity creation. Through this lens, I find that identity creation in this digital world is discursively composed, much like identity in the analog world, and serves to shunt dissent or action that may threaten the status quo. Facebook's ultimate promise to this constantly composing individual is the comfort and security of an audience.


Adaptation As Anarchist: A Complexity Method For Ideology-Critique Of American Crime Narratives, Kristopher Mecholsky Jan 2012

Adaptation As Anarchist: A Complexity Method For Ideology-Critique Of American Crime Narratives, Kristopher Mecholsky

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Particularly through their relation to ideology, crime narrative adaptations expose the conflict between individuals and communities on one side and the State on the other. Adaptations take the already defamiliarizing effect of narrative and continue to defamiliarize, creating a narrative cubist effect through various audiences and discursive orderings of events. Hence, they question the ideological prefiguring that lies at the foundation of narrative understanding. Insofar as ideologies are simplified ways to legitimate actions and project images of identity, the fact that a society’s narratives necessarily inherit ideology from the State obscures that society and State’s inevitable deviations from their self-images. …


Sway Of The Ottoman Empire On English Identity In The Long Eighteenth Century, Emily Kugler Jan 2012

Sway Of The Ottoman Empire On English Identity In The Long Eighteenth Century, Emily Kugler

Department of Literature and Writing Faculty Publications

Within popular culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, the intermingling of Islamic and English Protestant identity was a recurring topic of debate and anxiety in the English cultural imagination. Examining the shifting representations from Early Modern Era to nineteenth-century concepts of race, nation and empire, Sway presents the eighteenth century as a turning point in public perceptions, the moments when English subjects began to believe British imperial power was a reality rather than an aspiration. 


"And The Light Flood Over The Land": Reading Region In Marilynne Robinson's Gilead, Joshua Davidson Jan 2012

"And The Light Flood Over The Land": Reading Region In Marilynne Robinson's Gilead, Joshua Davidson

Honors Papers

An interdisciplinary analysis of Marilynne Robinson's second novel Gilead. Investigates the novel's interactions with various figurations of the Middle West, specifically the production of an affective reality in this supposedly affectless region. Uses the contributions of New Regionalist social historians to frame Robinson's work.


A Poetics Of Space: Opening Up A World Through Vessel Metaphors In Modern And Contemporary Poetry, Lili Pariser Jan 2012

A Poetics Of Space: Opening Up A World Through Vessel Metaphors In Modern And Contemporary Poetry, Lili Pariser

Honors Papers

This project follows the strangely consistent fascination in modern and contemporary poetry with vessel objects. From Wallace Stevens' "jar [placed] in Tennessee," to "That vase" of Philip Larkin or James Merrill's "clear vase of dry leaves vibrating on and on," even so far back in literary history as the shapely "Grecian Urn" of John Keats' famous ode among numerous others, the genre is teeming with vessels. I argue that these kinds of objects open up distinctive possibilities for poetic exploration because of the unique way that they engage with space. Consequently, by using these objects as metaphors, poets are able …


Pledging Peace In Aldous Huxley’S Eyeless In Gaza, Charles Andrews Jan 2012

Pledging Peace In Aldous Huxley’S Eyeless In Gaza, Charles Andrews

English Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Low-Stakes, Reflective Writing: Moving Students Into Their Professional Fields, Joyce Neff, Garrett J. Mcauliffe, Carl Whithaus, Nial P. Quinlan Jan 2012

Low-Stakes, Reflective Writing: Moving Students Into Their Professional Fields, Joyce Neff, Garrett J. Mcauliffe, Carl Whithaus, Nial P. Quinlan

English Faculty Publications

This study examines low-stakes, written commentaries from a graduate counseling course to better understand the role writing plays in the transition from being a student to becoming a professional practitioner. The cross disciplinary research team used methods from Grounded Theory to analyze 60 commentaries and found that: (1) low-stakes, reflective writing revealed changes in self-awareness from Situational Self-Knowledge to Pattern Self-Knowledge (Weinstein & Alschuler, 1985); (2) low-stakes writing provided evidence of students connecting personally to learning and then connecting learning to professional practice; and (3) low-stakes writing encouraged the instructor to make mid-course adjustments to his teaching methods. This study …


Pecan Grove Review Volume 13, St. Mary's University Jan 2012

Pecan Grove Review Volume 13, St. Mary's University

Pecan Grove Review

Creative writings by students, faculty, and staff of the St. Mary's University community.


Prayer To Worms, William Wright Jan 2012

Prayer To Worms, William Wright

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 127


Featured Poet: David Bottoms, Birmingham Poetry Review Staff Jan 2012

Featured Poet: David Bottoms, Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 1-2


A Man Seeking Experience Enquires The Way Of The Woman In The Pamplemousses Garden, Tim Liardet Jan 2012

A Man Seeking Experience Enquires The Way Of The Woman In The Pamplemousses Garden, Tim Liardet

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 83


Temporary Portables, David Rosenthal Jan 2012

Temporary Portables, David Rosenthal

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 120


Measuring The Moon (1956), Ron Houchin Jan 2012

Measuring The Moon (1956), Ron Houchin

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 72


Thirteen, Nikki Zielinski Jan 2012

Thirteen, Nikki Zielinski

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 132-133


Birmingham Poetry Review 39 (Complete Issue), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff Jan 2012

Birmingham Poetry Review 39 (Complete Issue), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

No abstract provided.


Lake Alice Epithalamium, Heather Hamilton Jan 2012

Lake Alice Epithalamium, Heather Hamilton

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 69


The Wall Board Knife, Michael Casey Jan 2012

The Wall Board Knife, Michael Casey

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 26


Ficus Carica (Fig ), Amy Glynn Greacen Jan 2012

Ficus Carica (Fig ), Amy Glynn Greacen

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 58-59


Amygdalus Persica (Peach), Amy Glynn Greacen Jan 2012

Amygdalus Persica (Peach), Amy Glynn Greacen

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 53-55


To My Jailor, Rebecca Parson Jan 2012

To My Jailor, Rebecca Parson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 110


Stars Pay Back The Dark, Noel Conneely Jan 2012

Stars Pay Back The Dark, Noel Conneely

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 36


Thematics Of Dirt, Cal Freeman Jan 2012

Thematics Of Dirt, Cal Freeman

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 49


Complaint Of The Cubicle Jockey, Charles Jensen Jan 2012

Complaint Of The Cubicle Jockey, Charles Jensen

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 75-76


Baltimore Mist, Dave Smith Jan 2012

Baltimore Mist, Dave Smith

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 122


Take A Third Option: Multigender In Middlesex, Cohen M. Edenfield Jan 2012

Take A Third Option: Multigender In Middlesex, Cohen M. Edenfield

The Corinthian

Jeffery Eugenides’ Middlesex presents a protagonist, Calliope, coming to terms with hir gender identity. For some critics, the final stage of this development is Calliope’s return to hir family and decision to live as a man. By this understanding, they mistakenly conflate the end of that narrative with the narrative of the framing device, set in the present. They ignore the fact that Cal’s time as a firmly-defined man is even worse than hir time as a woman, a sad reality that has not changed in the present.


Lights And Shadows - 2012, University Of North Alabama Jan 2012

Lights And Shadows - 2012, University Of North Alabama

Lights and Shadows

Art and Literature Magazine


Spirits, Vitality, And Creation In The Poetics Of Tommaso Campanella And John Donne, Anthony P. Russell Jan 2012

Spirits, Vitality, And Creation In The Poetics Of Tommaso Campanella And John Donne, Anthony P. Russell

English Faculty Publications

In discussions over the meaning of "genius" in the Renaissance, there is at the very least agreement that the term was associated with heightened powers of perception and creativity. Whether defined in terms of Neoplatonic notions of inspiration, Aristotelian/Galenic theories of the humors (and of melancholy in particular), or rhetorical theories of invention, ingegno is acknowledged as having denoted an unusual mental energy and flexibility which facilitated the creative process. It is the psychic mobility with which ingegno was consistently linked that I intend to emphasize here, and in particular its frequent identification with those volatile spirits that were centrally …