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Literacy And Citizenship: Helping Students Learn The Importance Of Being An Informed And Educated Citizen, Luke H. Schlegel Jul 2016

Literacy And Citizenship: Helping Students Learn The Importance Of Being An Informed And Educated Citizen, Luke H. Schlegel

English and Creative Writing Summer Fellows

My project utilizes the concept of Understanding by Design, as outlined by education experts Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins, to craft a 12-week curriculum for high school junior and senior English students. McTighe and Wiggins use backwards planning to create long-term learning goals for students. Rather than superficially trying to cover a wide range of material in class, which results in short-term acquisition of knowledge mostly forgotten in the long run, McTighe and Wiggins focus on “big ideas,” that generate conceptual understanding. Ultimately, students will be able to transfer this knowledge to settings outside of the classroom. To help them …

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Harken Not To Wild Beasts: Between Rage And Eloquence In Saruman And Thrasymachus, Dennis Wilson Wise Jul 2016

Harken Not To Wild Beasts: Between Rage And Eloquence In Saruman And Thrasymachus, Dennis Wilson Wise

Journal of Tolkien Research

One of the giant gaps in Tolkien scholarship has been to miss how deeply Saruman answers the age-old antagonism between rhetoric and philosophy. Like John Milton, Tolkien cannot bring himself to trust rhetoric. It threatens the unitary truth of a divinely-revealed moral order and, ironically, Tolkien applies great rhetorical skill to convince his reader of rhetoric’s illusionary nature. In this matter Tolkien has been largely successful, since few readers (if any) question the de-privileging of Saruman’s perspective. In the process, though, I suggest that Tolkien has developed in his master rhetorician a new relationship between rhetoric (eloquence) and rage ( …

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The Finest Jest, William H. Wandless Jul 2016

The Finest Jest, William H. Wandless

The Mythic Circle

*Begin Transmission* The scientist in me could not help but admire the elegance of your plan. It was simple, logical, pitiless. If everything went smoothly, only one of us would die.

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After The Black Chrysalis, Marly Youmans Jul 2016

After The Black Chrysalis, Marly Youmans

The Mythic Circle

Cracked. Cracked open—praise To that, for that, praise That the black, feathery lint Was washed clean from my face, That the black, feathery lint Came off in wisps and shreds And crinkled threads Like thrums from a loom, Like lines of false poetry, Like cat fur in the mouth On waking.

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Editorial, Gwenyth E. Hood Jul 2016

Editorial, Gwenyth E. Hood

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.

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Contributors, Gwenyth E. Hood Jul 2016

Contributors, Gwenyth E. Hood

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.

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Brackenstead, Myles Buchanan Jul 2016

Brackenstead, Myles Buchanan

The Mythic Circle

When the morrith trees started to thin and I no longer had to stoop and crawl, I nearly started weeping with relief. I’d been travelling through the Morrithwood for nearly five days, and all that was left of the rations for the journey there were a few scraps of deer jerky I’d been putting off eating.

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Solitude / Sin, Chelsi Robichaud Jul 2016

Solitude / Sin, Chelsi Robichaud

The Mythic Circle

Reduced to a great nothingness, a lack of a lack, I wonder where my friends have gone. But surely it matters not in this loathsome sea. ///// I have sinned. Though the masses say it is no crime, I know of the dirt that covers me.

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Creüsa, Gania Barlow Jul 2016

Creüsa, Gania Barlow

The Mythic Circle

If Aeneas doesn’t see Creüsa dead or dying, alive or living, what is she?

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Siren's Call, Chelsi Robichaud Jul 2016

Siren's Call, Chelsi Robichaud

The Mythic Circle

I cry my grief out to the sky, the grief that Aphrodite would not calm. The Siren's call that lured him now sings me to my death.

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A Visit From The Moon, Georgia Ann Banks-Martin Jul 2016

A Visit From The Moon, Georgia Ann Banks-Martin

The Mythic Circle

From the beach, you could see the island. My mother said no one lived there anymore and she didn’t know why. I wanted to live there. I wanted to be a goddess and live forever.

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The Great Hall Of Ahkurst, Lee Clark Zumpe Jul 2016

The Great Hall Of Ahkurst, Lee Clark Zumpe

The Mythic Circle

Tarak limped along the long corridor, muttering to himself beneath the flickering florescents. The subterranean passage stretched out before and behind him, a serpentine artery curving gently beneath the surface of the planet.

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The Ferrens Of Tar Kiln, Charlie W. Starr Jul 2016

The Ferrens Of Tar Kiln, Charlie W. Starr

The Mythic Circle

I can’t expect you to believe everything I’m going to tell you. The story at least begins truly enough with a caving adventure one October day in Eastern Kentucky.

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The Undiplomatic Girl, Ryder W. Miller Jul 2016

The Undiplomatic Girl, Ryder W. Miller

The Mythic Circle

The knight Gawain watched as the young lady walked away again. She was fair and slight of form. There was also a wonderful shimmer of silver in the green dress she wore, but Gawain found her perplexing.

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Poem For The Lost Library Of La Mancha, Gania Barlow Jul 2016

Poem For The Lost Library Of La Mancha, Gania Barlow

The Mythic Circle

After the books are burned there is a hush and then a flutter of ashy syllables out into the world

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Mythic Circle #38, Gwenyth E. Hood Jul 2016

Mythic Circle #38, Gwenyth E. Hood

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.

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The Pedagogical Use Of Loss, Alice Pitt Jul 2016

The Pedagogical Use Of Loss, Alice Pitt

Occasional Paper Series

No abstract provided.

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Near & Far, Madeleine R. Grumet Jul 2016

Near & Far, Madeleine R. Grumet

Occasional Paper Series

No abstract provided.

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Toward A More Loving Framework For Literacy Education, Clio Stearns Jul 2016

Toward A More Loving Framework For Literacy Education, Clio Stearns

Occasional Paper Series

In this provocative and moving essay, Clio Stearns, a Bank Street educated teacher, toggles back and forth between moments with her young daughter who daily grows more attached to books and moments with her fifth grade students who remain disconnected from her carefully chosen texts. Refracted through a psychoanalytic lens and a deeply caring heart, Stearns’ description of her classroom practices offers a canny account of all that she must give up in order to see through and past her students’ resistance. In a surprising turn of events she learns to join with her students as they become curious …

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Unfolding: An Academic Autobiography, Aaron Barlow Jul 2016

Unfolding: An Academic Autobiography, Aaron Barlow

Publications and Research

An academic autobiography of one who came to academia later in life than most, Unfolding uses blog post from the past decade stitched together by a narrative of what brought one person to teaching.

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Exile And Identity: Chaim Potok's Contribution To Jewish-American Literature, Sarah Anne Hamner Jul 2016

Exile And Identity: Chaim Potok's Contribution To Jewish-American Literature, Sarah Anne Hamner

MA in English Theses

Questions of identity and exile are deep in the bones of the Jewish people. In this thesis I will discuss the manifestations of exile and identity in the works of Chaim Potok, a Jewish-American novelist. Potok’s work has long been excluded from the canon of Jewish-American criticism. I suspect this exclusion is due to critical oversight, as Potok’s characters lead more traditional Jewish lives in terms of religious beliefs, backgrounds, and behaviors. In order to prove the critical value of Potok’s work I will note the gaps in Jewish-American criticism where Potok’s work is missing. Then I will concentrate around …

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A Woman's Voice And Identity: Narrative Métissage As A Solution To Voicelessness In American Literature, Kali Lauren Oldacre Jul 2016

A Woman's Voice And Identity: Narrative Métissage As A Solution To Voicelessness In American Literature, Kali Lauren Oldacre

MA in English Theses

The objective of this thesis was to analyze the progression of a woman’s voice in literature looking particularly at three American women writers spanning the 20th and into the 21st century—Kate Chopin, Zora Neale Hurston, and Edwidge Danticat. In conjunction, these three novels show a progression through the history of American women’s literature, demonstrating the successes and failures of voice and silence in their works and the ways in which creating an identity through voice is necessary, even if one must create it complexly. Ultimately, the authors establish a voice in their works that lays the foundation for writers who …

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Toward "What Bleeds Or Trembles": Reflections On Bergman's Wild Strawberries, Paul Eisenstein Jul 2016

Toward "What Bleeds Or Trembles": Reflections On Bergman's Wild Strawberries, Paul Eisenstein

English Faculty Scholarship

By way of its protagonist Isak Borg, Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries (1957) enacts and exemplifies a psychoanalytic understanding of change. Bergman’s film, in its form and content, presents and ultimately overturns a narcissistic world of “living death”—a form of living closed off to constitutive features of desire and to meaningful relationships with others. By the film’s end, rather than a “living death,” Bergman stages a life that has been achieved—a life that embraces anew the risks and joys of desire.

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The Scandal Of Jewish Rage In William Styron's Sophie's Choice, Michael Lackey Jul 2016

The Scandal Of Jewish Rage In William Styron's Sophie's Choice, Michael Lackey

English Publications

Scholars have suggested that William Styron’s Nathan in Sophie’s Choice is insane or depraved—a character whose motivations lack rationality at best and are unambiguously evil at worst. Elie Wiesel, the author of the famous Holocaust memoir Night, has been very critical of Styron’s novel. Ironically, by using the Yiddish version of Wiesel’s memoir Night, it is possible to demonstrate that Nathan’s behavior is more “logical” than scholars have previously understood. This approach offers us a new way of reading and interpreting Styron’s novel by clarifying how Nathan’s character functions within a well-established tradition of sociopolitical outrage about racial oppression, …

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Pop, Hip Hop, And Empire, Study Of A New Pedagogical Approach In A Developmental Reading And English Class, Karen Denise Taylor Jul 2016

Pop, Hip Hop, And Empire, Study Of A New Pedagogical Approach In A Developmental Reading And English Class, Karen Denise Taylor

MA in English Theses

This thesis focuses on the impact of studying students’ identities after using the television show, Empire as a Hip Hop studies based text in a developmental reading and English class. I frame the pedagogical approach to reading and writing by using the television show as a doorway into the varied language practices of the Hip Hop culture as opposed to Standard American English (SAE). This research uses James Paul Gee’s discourse analysis as a method for coding and analysis of the responses of the interviewees to survey questions. The questions were designed to determine from the students’ responses their attitudes …

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The Nature, Function, And Value Of Emojis As Contemporary Tools Of Digital Interpersonal Communication, Nicole L. Bliss-Carroll Jul 2016

The Nature, Function, And Value Of Emojis As Contemporary Tools Of Digital Interpersonal Communication, Nicole L. Bliss-Carroll

MA in English Theses

The roles and characteristics of emojis are rapidly expanding within computer-mediated communication spaces, forcing many to acknowledge their seemingly inescapable social influence as tools of digital written communication. These colorful, contemporary icons—which became widely available through a range of global, technical platforms in 2011—convey interpersonal emotional expressions in a much more sophisticated manner than their charming appearance initially indicates. Communicators can learn a great deal about the processes of interpretation that are contributing to the continued and expanding use of emojis. An emoji’s perceived meaning can paradoxically be clear in one instance and ambiguous in another when utilized by individuals …

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Technology Usage Versus Technology Integration In Esl Classrooms: Drivers And Barriers, Ayman Serag Jul 2016

Technology Usage Versus Technology Integration In Esl Classrooms: Drivers And Barriers, Ayman Serag

Capstone and Graduation Projects

Technology integration is a significant aspect of teaching and learning in the 21st century. This study examines faculty technology integration in the Department of English Language Instruction (ELI) at the American University in Cairo (AUC). It also explores the factors that facilitate or inhibit their computer usage, and also their perceptions about the professional development opportunities in technology that are available to them. Using a case-study design, the researcher used semi-structured interviews conducted with 19 ELI instructors to understand the phenomenon at hand. Eight of the 19 instructors also served dual administrative roles as department chair, committee and program coordinators. …

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Honey, Wax, And The Dead Bee, Keith Botelho Jul 2016

Honey, Wax, And The Dead Bee, Keith Botelho

Early Modern Culture

No abstract provided.

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When Is A Panther Not A Panther? Representing Animals In Early Modern English Heraldry, Kathryn Will Jul 2016

When Is A Panther Not A Panther? Representing Animals In Early Modern English Heraldry, Kathryn Will

Early Modern Culture

No abstract provided.

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Ear To The Battleground: New Books On Hearing What Is Lost, Howard S. Axelrod Jul 2016

Ear To The Battleground: New Books On Hearing What Is Lost, Howard S. Axelrod

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Of the five senses, vision tends to get the glory. We hail great innovators as visionary, praise writers for their insight, and thank friends for offering perspective. We call prophets seers, but also admire daily perspicacity and seek to avoid myopia and blind spots. Just consider the words spectacles and spectacular, and you catch a glimpse—not a whisper, a glimpse—of the divergence between vision in the optometrist’s office and vision in our cultural construction of it. But while vision gets the glory, hearing has our trust. We want justice to be blind during court hearings. In times of …

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