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Somebody’S Saints March In, Nathalie Anderson Jan 2016

Somebody’S Saints March In, Nathalie Anderson

English Literature Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Minding The White Horse, Nathalie Anderson Jan 2016

Minding The White Horse, Nathalie Anderson

English Literature Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Agency From A Stone: Shelley’S Posthumanist Experiments In "Mont Blanc", Betsy Bolton Jan 2016

Agency From A Stone: Shelley’S Posthumanist Experiments In "Mont Blanc", Betsy Bolton

English Literature Faculty Works

This article reads Shelley’s ‘Mont Blanc’ as an extended exploration into possible modes of relationship linking the human mind to the material world. The modes of relationship considered by Shelley anticipate many of the structures and strategies developed by posthumanist theory, including structural coupling, strategic anthropomorphism, imagistic translation, and human-nonhuman assemblages. After summarizing Kantian and post-Kantian readings of ‘Mont Blanc,’ the essay works through an extended close reading of the poem to elucidate its proto-posthumanist elements.


Jill Gladstein: A Data-Driven Researcher, C. Rutz, Jill M. Gladstein Jan 2016

Jill Gladstein: A Data-Driven Researcher, C. Rutz, Jill M. Gladstein

English Literature Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


“Animal Spirits”, Peter Schmidt Jan 2016

“Animal Spirits”, Peter Schmidt

English Literature Faculty Works

In “Animal Spirits” looks in some depth at several of Williams’s poems about dogs or cats written over the course of his career, from “Sub Terra” (1917); “Poem (As the cat)” (from the 1930s); the dogs of Paterson; and “To a Dog Injured in the Street,” which exemplifies the elegiac poetics and representational paradoxes of Williams’s late triadic style. Cats for Williams exemplify energy in precise control, its perfection in form—and that was his lifelong quest. Dogs, on the other paw, embodied for Williams the boundary-breaking force of uncorraled creativity breaking form. Both spirits, figured as animals, were totems central …


Crystal's "Making A Point: The Persnickety Story Of English Punctuation" (Book Review), Mark Tubbs Jan 2016

Crystal's "Making A Point: The Persnickety Story Of English Punctuation" (Book Review), Mark Tubbs

The Christian Librarian

A review of Crystal, D. (2015). Making a point: The persnickety story of English punctuation. New York: St. Martin’s Press. 378 pp. $24.99. ISBN 9781250060419


Writing Practice: Invention And Pedagogy In Composition, Nathaniel Street Jan 2016

Writing Practice: Invention And Pedagogy In Composition, Nathaniel Street

Theses and Dissertations

My dissertation re-engages a central question of composition and rhetoric – can writing be taught? – as a means of interrogating the relationship between form and response. In so doing, I argue that writing can be trained as a set of capacities and dispositions through repeated practice with rhetorical forms. In advancing this claim, I demonstrate that formal practices, such as modal writing, imitation, and repetition, have been unfairly dismissed as overly rote and mechanical because form has traditionally been understood as a technical means of achieving a particular end. I argue that, instead, repeated engagement with and movement between …


[Introduction To] In Search Of Annie Drew: Jamaica Kincaid's Mother And Muse, Daryl Cumber Dance Jan 2016

[Introduction To] In Search Of Annie Drew: Jamaica Kincaid's Mother And Muse, Daryl Cumber Dance

Bookshelf

There is perhaps no other person who has been so often and obsessively featured in any writer’s canon as Jamaica Kincaid’s mother, Annie Drew. In this provocative new book, Daryl Dance argues that everything Kincaid has written, regardless of its apparent theme, actually relates to Kincaid’s efforts to free herself from her mother, whether her subject is ostensibly other family members, her home nation, a precolonial world, or even Kincaid herself. A devoted reader of Kincaid’s work, Dance had long been aware of the author’s love-hate relationship with her mother, but it was not until reading the 2008 essay "The …


[Introduction To] Pedagogical Matters: New Materialisms And Curriculum Studies, Nathan Snaza, Debbie Sonu, Sarah E. Truman, Zofia Zaliwska Jan 2016

[Introduction To] Pedagogical Matters: New Materialisms And Curriculum Studies, Nathan Snaza, Debbie Sonu, Sarah E. Truman, Zofia Zaliwska

Bookshelf

This edited collection takes up the wild and sudden surge of new materialisms in the field of curriculum studies. New materialisms shift away from the strong focus on discourse associated with the linguistic or cultural turn in theory and toward recent work in the physical and biological sciences; in doing so, they posit ontologies of becoming that re-configure our sense of what a human person is and how that person relates to the more-than-human ecologies in which it is nested. Ignited by an urgency to disrupt the dangers of anthropocentrism and systems of domination in the work of curriculum and …


Of Shining Sea And Rising Sun: Cultural Storytelling In The Genre Of Horror In Video Games, Anna C. Webster Jan 2016

Of Shining Sea And Rising Sun: Cultural Storytelling In The Genre Of Horror In Video Games, Anna C. Webster

Undergraduate Research Posters

In the modern era, video games are hardly the simple, mindless medium that they used to be. Rather, they are now being used as a vehicle for artistic expression and storytelling worldwide, creating a colorful and comprehensive new approach to the storytelling experience that was previously reserved for books or movies. The immersive nature of the medium provides for a richer and more stimulating experience, from which the genre of horror greatly benefits. Rather than the more passive experience the viewer gets from watching a movie or reading a book, video games allow for the player to be completely immersed, …


To Come Alive In Our Experience: The Sounds Of Listening In Sigurd F. Olson, Allison Fulton Jan 2016

To Come Alive In Our Experience: The Sounds Of Listening In Sigurd F. Olson, Allison Fulton

Honors Papers

My research explores the reflective qualities of nature that can lead to different ways of being in and of the world. In The Singing Wilderness, Sigurd Olson details his experiences in the Quetico-Superior region, an international wilderness of lakes and forests on the border of Canada and Minnesota that is replete with spaces for reflection. Olson encourages his readers to listen to the sounds, songs, and silences of the wilderness. I address his creation of a literary terrain he made accessible to his readers by acting as a guide to the imaginative wilderness with a literary canoe and paddle.


The Reader's Complicity: Universality In Waiting For The Barbarians, The Laramie Project, And The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, Aubrey Kosa Jan 2016

The Reader's Complicity: Universality In Waiting For The Barbarians, The Laramie Project, And The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, Aubrey Kosa

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.


Skin And Smoke, Kelly Anne Baker Jan 2016

Skin And Smoke, Kelly Anne Baker

Graduate Theses/Dissertations

My thesis consists of the first ten chapters of a horror novel, entitled Skin and Smoke. My novel focuses on the character of Violet Masterson and her attempts to create her own identify and reconcile with her family's past actions. Violet lives in the small, recently unincorporated town of Nuovita in central Washington. Following her grandmother's death, she must face the paranormal events occurring in Nuovita, while her father leaves on an unknown journey. My thesis addresses themes of loss, identity, and revenge. In Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces, he proposes that the monomyth ends with the …


Religion In The Early British Literature Classroom: The Challenges Of Teaching Religion And Literature To Students Of Faith, Bob De Smith Jan 2016

Religion In The Early British Literature Classroom: The Challenges Of Teaching Religion And Literature To Students Of Faith, Bob De Smith

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

No abstract provided.


Tarred And Floral: Femininity, Race, And The Abject In Bayou, Chalice Ritter Jan 2016

Tarred And Floral: Femininity, Race, And The Abject In Bayou, Chalice Ritter

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis analyzes abjection in the African-American female experience using Bayou, a graphic novel series by Jeremy Love and Patrick Morgan. I examine the relationship between the protagonist, Lee, and her late mother, Tar Baby, to reveal the latter as an abject component of the former’s identity. The project continues a trend of reading abjection into the African-American experience using gothic fiction and focuses on multiple scenes that serve as intersections of violence and femininity. It draws on sociological and psychological studies concerning black womanhood and beauty politics to extend investigation to the Mississippi community Lee and Tar Baby share. …


From The Multi To The Modal: Relations In Multimodal Composition, Sebastian Ivy Jan 2016

From The Multi To The Modal: Relations In Multimodal Composition, Sebastian Ivy

Theses and Dissertations

In response to the development of multimodal composition over the last twenty years, significant questions regarding its relationship to traditional composition and the discipline’s pedagogical practices have been posed. These questions are most often raised regarding the way that multimodal composition isolates media and modes, and is thus “tacked on” to composition courses. These concerns are primarily due to the way that multimodality has been theorized, which is usually rooted in the work of the New London Group. Developing a version of multimodal composition that can avoid both isolating its various parts and being tacked on to traditional concerns requires …


Pecan Grove Review Volume 17, St. Mary's University Jan 2016

Pecan Grove Review Volume 17, St. Mary's University

Pecan Grove Review

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


No Sorrow In Sight, Jeff Hardin Jan 2016

No Sorrow In Sight, Jeff Hardin

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 98-99


Discussing The Crucifixion With Jehovah’S Witnesses At The F. Scott And Zelda Fitzgerald House In Montgomery, Alabama, Barbara Hamby Jan 2016

Discussing The Crucifixion With Jehovah’S Witnesses At The F. Scott And Zelda Fitzgerald House In Montgomery, Alabama, Barbara Hamby

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 96-97


The Belt, Mike James Jan 2016

The Belt, Mike James

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 102


Where Justice And Whimsy Lead: An Interview With Barbara Ras, Megan Sexton Jan 2016

Where Justice And Whimsy Lead: An Interview With Barbara Ras, Megan Sexton

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 9-17


On The Nineteenth-Century Chinese Teapot, Mary Moore Jan 2016

On The Nineteenth-Century Chinese Teapot, Mary Moore

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 121-122


Perpetual Morning, Ron Houchin Jan 2016

Perpetual Morning, Ron Houchin

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 101


Here At The Ofh, Kathryn Starbuck Jan 2016

Here At The Ofh, Kathryn Starbuck

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 138-139


Teragon, L S. Asekoff Jan 2016

Teragon, L S. Asekoff

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 48


The Penitent Magdalene, J Bruce Fuller Jan 2016

The Penitent Magdalene, J Bruce Fuller

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 79


Heaney At Halftime, Kieran Quinlan Jan 2016

Heaney At Halftime, Kieran Quinlan

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 31-38


A Full Shelf Also Hides Its Shame, Joshua Gottlieb-Miller Jan 2016

A Full Shelf Also Hides Its Shame, Joshua Gottlieb-Miller

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 81-82


Frances Of The Pleiades, Laura Van Prooyen Jan 2016

Frances Of The Pleiades, Laura Van Prooyen

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 146


Pajama Potluck, Kerry James Evans Jan 2016

Pajama Potluck, Kerry James Evans

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 76-78