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Ghosts And Angels In The House: Cecilia De Noel And The Search For Faith In The Late Nineteenth Century, Christine Sutphin

English Faculty Scholarship

The nineteenth century, so often thought of as the age of scientific theory, technological change, and realism in fiction, abounds with supernatural phenomena. While some readers and observers of culture could define practices and texts related to the supernatural as pernicious because irreligious or unscientific, others could appreciate ghost stories at least as imaginative entertainment resulting in pleasurable fear but not otherwise significant. However, these stories can be read as serious and profound explorations of the unknown and the moral, philosophical, and spiritual questions with which we continue to struggle.

Of all the ghost stories published during the period, perhaps …

Book Review: Staging Intercultural Ireland: New Plays And Practitioner Perspectives, Kathleen A. Heininge

Faculty Publications - Department of English

All scholars of world literature, especially those trained in the traditions of Western thought, must ultimately grapple with the question of privilege: In opening up a space for all voices to be heard, care must be taken to avoid coopting those voices. Academics must always be aware of our own motivations so that discussions of multi-cultural literature do not appear anthropological, mere examinations of other cultures from a worldview that seems ubiquitous but which comes from a place of unconscious-perhaps- superiority. Critics from Edward Said, in Orientalism, to Gayatri Spivak, in "Can the Subaltern Speak?" to Chinua Achebe in …

Ellen Burton Harrington. Conrad's Sensational Heroines: Gender And Representation In The Late Fiction Of Joseph Conrad. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 173 Pp. Isbn: 9783319632964., Joyce Wexler

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

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The Shadow Of The War: Postwar Destabilization, Nostalgia, And Fragile Truth In The Works Of A. A. Milne, Sarah E. Johnson Labarbera

Masters Essays

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The Prairie Connect Spring 2016, English Discipline, University Of Minnesota, Morris

The Prairie Connect (English Discipline Newsletter)

The Prairie Connect is the bi-annual English discipline newsletter.

Featuring the Faculty Feature: The Publishing Process with Chrissy Kolaya, Creative Writing: "When, With Autumn Hands, We Dig" by Joshua Johnson, Student Profiles: Brittany Grady and Dan Nicla, Alumni Profiles: Jessie Hennen and Don Lifto, Feature Story: One Degree, Five Paths to Success, and Student, Alumni, and Faculty News

White Trash Compactor, Jacob Heflin

Honors Capstones

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There’S An Identity Label For Me?: Perceptions By First-Generation College Students Of An Institutional Label, Curtis A. Green-Eneix

McNair Scholars Research Journal

Although first-generation college students (FGCS) have been entering universities in large numbers, and even with past quantitative studies to understand this demographic, a major percentage continue to drop out of college within their first two years. Past research has resulted in an overall picture of this demographic. This qualitative study explores: (1) how FGCS perceive their social identity in relation to a college community, and (2) how interacting with support programs, such as Boise State’s Student Success Program (SSP), shapes their understanding of support. In interviews with nine FGCS students, most of them did not know this first-generation label applied …

Talk About Writing: The Tutoring Strategies Of Experienced Writing Center Tutors Jo Mackiewicz And Isabelle Kramer Thompson New York, Ny; Routledge, 2015; $47.95; Isbn: 978-1-315-76859-5 (Ebk), David Aguilar

Journal of South Texas English Studies

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The Rat Kingdom, Laura Gauggel

Honors Capstones

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“Ain’T He A Beauty”: Black Queer Aesthetics And Disidentification In American Literature And Film, Rory Tolbert Boothe

Honors Capstones

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Owen Barfield And "Is Man A Myth?", Phillip Joe Fitzsimmons

Faculty Articles & Research

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Carson's Christianity And Environmental Crises, Andrew Wadsworth

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism

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Poetic Myths: American Nationalism And The War Of 1812, Amber Shoopman

McNair Scholars Research Journal

“The Star Spangled Banner” is one of the best known patriotic songs in the United States; however, most people do not know it originated as a poem during a much understudied, but highly influential time. “The Star Spangled Banner” is one of several poems that helped build unity in America during and after the War of 1812. This project analyzes early 19th century American poetry and the influence it had on building foundational ideologies of American nationalism. It focuses on the role poetry played in creating nationalistic myths by using primary texts to explore and analyze the different themes, words, …

Madness, Death, And Civilization: Non-European Women Under Patriarchy And Imperialism, Mengying Li

Masters Theses

In light of Wide Sargasso Sea, through which Jean Rhys intends to provide the madwoman Bertha in Jane Eyre with a voice and a life, this thesis attempts to reread Jane Eyre from a postcolonial perspective, arguing that both texts can be read as critiques of the cruelty and inhumanity of European civilization. After the English beat the Spanish at sea, and complete the First Industrial Revolution, it establishes the country as the greatest imperialistic power in the world. The need of labor, raw material, and new market leads them to develop colonies in remote areas like the Caribbean. By …

The Said And The Unsayable : Silence In Jane Austen's Sense And Sensibility, Mansfield Park, And Persuasion, Laura Evelyn Thurber

Theses, Dissertations, and Projects

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How To Write About Writing, Monica Reyes

Journal of South Texas English Studies

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Liberation, Renewal, And The Re-Imagination Of Self: Wild And Garlic And Sapphires, Sarah Foust Vinson, Susan Larkin

Journal of South Texas English Studies

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Editors' Note, Chelsea Lee And Sarah Barlow

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism

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The Weight Of “Glory”: Emily Dickinson, George Eliot, And Women’S Issues In Middlemarch, Megan Armknecht

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism

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Criterion: A Journal Of Literary Criticism, Vol. 9: Iss. 1, Criterion: A Journal Of Literary Criticism

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism

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Forum Prompt, Laura Dabundo

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism

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'Letters Full Of Love': Wayne Booth's Theories Of The Implied Author And Reader In Brad Marsh's Wwii Correspondence, Josephine A. Just

Honors Theses

This project consists of a qualitative study of the WWII correspondence of Captain Brad Marsh from the collection of letters donated by his daughter on April 26, 2013. I draw from the narrative theory and works of Wayne Booth to examine Marsh’s construction of self as an implied author by examining how he presents his experiences and portrays his emotions. I also examine how Marsh constructs his implied self by paying attention to details such as the information he shares with Lynn and how he presents it. I explore the nature of the implied author and reader in the correspondence …

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 24, No. 2, The Sinclair Lewis Society

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter

“Arrowsmith, A Synergy of Talents,” by Jan Peter Verhave, Van Raalte Institute, Hope College

“Babbitt in Paperback, 1946,” by Roger Lathbury, George Mason University

“Carl Van Vechten, Sinclair Lewis, and The Tattooed Countess,” by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University

“What Were They Reading Then?: The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson, 1923,” by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University

“What Were They Reading Then?: In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow, 1941,” by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University

“What Were They Reading Then?: Moon-Calf by Floyd Dell, 1920,” by Ted G. Fleener, Waterloo Community Schools …

Activism, Community And Cultural Heritage: “Communitism” In Creek Literature, Rachel Maria Cain

Honors Theses

"Communitism" refers to literature that encourages activism by celebrating and promoting American Indian communities. This thesis investigates how the literary works, The Fus Fixico Letters (1902 – 1908) and Drowning in Fire (2004), are communitist by supporting specific political and social changes in Creek communities. Through The Fus Fixico Letters Alexander Posey promoted his progressive political convictions, including that Creeks should embrace land allotment and endorse the creation a separate state for American Indians. Drowning in Fire, by Craig Womack, takes place throughout 1904 – 1993 and relates traditional Creek stories and practices to modern life. The novel delves …

Poetry And The Post-Apocalyptic Paradox: North American Indigenous Disruptions To The Westernized Self, Joseph Benjamin Ziegler Ferber

Honors Theses

This three-chapter project explores the work of three poets, each identifying with different North American indigenous tribes. Their work challenges western poetic conventions and notions of individualism to offer alternative worldviews and complicate mainstream oversimplifications of American Indian identity. Brandi MacDougall investigates assumptions of the Western Self represented by the "I" Perspective common in Western thought; Sherman Alexie revises the sonnet form to portray the complexity of how contemporary American Indians navigate the blending of capitalist institutions and native traditions; Kristi Leora offers readers an enlightened conception of self-hood by balancing processes of western socialization with native cosmology. Ultimately, this …

Ulysses Live Tweet, Samantha Starkey, Katie Cunningham

Joyce and Woolf: EL422H

A live-tweet event based on characters from James Joyce's Ulysses, incorporating content from the novel, external content, and posted in the real time of the novel. Link to Twitter handles:Leopold Bloom @PoldyPotato, Joyce's Arranger @JoyceArranger, Molly Bloolm @mrsmarionlaredo, and Stephen Dedalus @scornfulStephen.

More Than A 'Mere Painted Scene': The Role Of Theatricality And The Carnivalesque In 'The Mayor Of Casterbridge', Christine R. Vahaly

Student Publications

This essay examines the role of Thomas Hardy's scenes of community theatre, drawing examples from Far from the Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native, and The Mayor of Casterbridge. Only in such scenes from The Mayor of Casterbridge does Hardy employ Mikhail Bakhtin's carnivalesque, reversing the roles of the spectator and the creator of spectacle, the supporting cast and the lead actor, in order to magnify the fall of protagonist Michael Henchard.

The Subversion Of Traditional Gender Roles In Thomas Hardy’S 'The Mayor Of Casterbridge', Emma S. Shaw

Student Publications

This essay examines Thomas Hardy's understanding and subversion of gender roles in The Mayor of Casterbridge by focusing on the novel's two most prominent characters and their respective progressions over the course of the narrative. Michael Henchard’s hypermasculine behavior and eventual undoing is juxtaposed with Elizabeth-Jane’s active rejection of the male gaze, as well as her unique role as a proxy for the reader. In his 1886 novel, Hardy questions the legitimacy of gender expectations by acknowledging and subsequently undermining patriarchal traditions.

“One Feeling In Such A Solitude”: Representations Of Love And Marriage In The Works Of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley And Percy Bysshe Shelley, Jenna E. Fleming

Student Publications

The early nineteenth century was characterized by a dynamic literary discussion and debate over the nature and effects of human relationships. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley, two of the foremost writers of the period, experimented with and drew conclusions about differing images of marriage within their works. Making use of this public literary genre, the couple engaged in a conversation with one another as they explored and refined their views and judgments of relationships including their own. The title of the paper is taken from the seventh chapter of the third volume of Frankenstein, in which Victor Frankenstein, …

Selected Nick Adams Stories: Ernest Hemingway’S Sense Of Place, Brendan M. Raleigh

Student Publications

This thesis examines how Ernest Hemingway’s use of natural imagery and physical elements in several of his semi-autobiographical Nick Adams stories offer insights into his character, especially Nick Adams. It analyzes Adams’s interactions with the physical world and compares these interactions with his interpersonal relationships and his own development. The short stories that this thesis examines include “Indian Camp,” “The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife,” “Now I Lay Me,” “The End of Something,” “The Three Day Blow,” and “Big Two-Hearted River.” In these stories, Hemingway uses the natural world as a defense mechanism for Nick Adams, a character who turns …