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A Hateful Cawing Of The Crows: W. E. Aytoun's Satirical Misfire, Mischa Willett Jan 2018

A Hateful Cawing Of The Crows: W. E. Aytoun's Satirical Misfire, Mischa Willett

SPU Works

W. E. AYTOUN’S SATIRICAL VERSE DRAMA, Firmilian (1854), an anti-radical, scattershot missive meant to re-align British poetic tastes1 by reversing the aesthetic gains made by Romanticism in the decades prior to its publication, has been called “one of the most successful pieces of literary criticism ever written” (Morton 849). Despite its broad ambitions, however, it has often been read as a narrow attack on the individual poets popular during the summer of its appearance, creating a school where one had not existed before, turning the poets Philip James Bailey, Alexander Smith, Sydney Dobell and others into “the Spasmodic School.” But, …


Reading Carlos Bulosan/Documenting The Filipino Diaspora: An Editorial Introduction To Writer In Exile/Writer In Revolt: Critical Perspectives On Carlos Bulosan, Jeffrey Arellano Cabusao Jan 2018

Reading Carlos Bulosan/Documenting The Filipino Diaspora: An Editorial Introduction To Writer In Exile/Writer In Revolt: Critical Perspectives On Carlos Bulosan, Jeffrey Arellano Cabusao

English and Cultural Studies Journal Articles

This editorial introduction to Writer in Exile/Writer in Revolt: Critical Perspectives on Carlos Bulosan (2016) sheds light on the diasporic scope of Bulosan’s literary imagination and the literary scholarship on his diverse body of writing. Writer in Exile/Writer in Revolt gathers for the first time nearly sixty years of literary criticism by scholars in the United States and the Philippines on Bulosan, a pioneering twentieth-century Filipino writer in the United States. The editorial introduction highlights the ways in which Writer in Exile/Writer in Revolt documents the unfolding of Bulosan’s radical literary imagination which straddles the colonial and neocolonial periods of …


Three Cheers For "Freaks", Misfits And Immigrants: About Inclusiveness In Children's Books, Don Bosco Jan 2018

Three Cheers For "Freaks", Misfits And Immigrants: About Inclusiveness In Children's Books, Don Bosco

Social Space

Since 2011, I have been writing and publishing books for children though my start-up, Super Cool Books. We began with making book prototypes and story products for reluctant readers, and eventually published serialised fiction in collaboration with much more established publishing partners. The modest business growth over these years has brought many challenges. As our titles continue to reach a wider audience, it has been a practical lesson in practising inclusiveness in an active and authentic way. This is a significant creative challenge that always keeps me motivated and inspired in fresh and surprising ways.


La Variedad De Los Cráneos, Michael Wheeler Jan 2018

La Variedad De Los Cráneos, Michael Wheeler

Open Access Books

La variedad de los cráneos was written and illustrated in 2018 by Michael Wheeler. The original text was edited and translated by Mackensy Asbell and Madeline Strelec. New, original illustrations were created by Rina Sato.


Un Cumpleaños Colorido, Tejas Kandharkar Jan 2018

Un Cumpleaños Colorido, Tejas Kandharkar

Open Access Books

Un cumpleaños colorido was written and illustrated in 2018 by Tejas Kandharkar. The original text was edited and translated by Mackensy Asbell and Madeline Strelec. New, original illustrations were created by Rina Sato.


Transcendent Realities: The Search For Meaning In The Modernisms Of Yeats, Joyce, And Pound, David A. Price Jan 2018

Transcendent Realities: The Search For Meaning In The Modernisms Of Yeats, Joyce, And Pound, David A. Price

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation examines the binary of transcendence and immanence in the poetry of W. B. Yeats, The Cantos of Ezra Pound, and James Joyce’s Ulysses. Utilizing a theoretical lens provided primarily through the writings of Jacques Derrida and an historical context established by Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age, the paper argues that the literary texts of Yeats, Pound, and Joyce deconstruct a Western cultural history of a transcendent-immanent binary and seek to revive elements of the transcendent as a cure to the consequences of the dominant materialist-immanent worldview of Enlightenment modernity. This paper relies on the distinction between twentieth century …


Student And Teacher Perceptions Of Multiliterate Assignments Utilizing 21st Century Skills, Jessica Kennedy Miller Jan 2018

Student And Teacher Perceptions Of Multiliterate Assignments Utilizing 21st Century Skills, Jessica Kennedy Miller

MA in English Theses

Today’s society requires students to be knowledgeable in both content and skill to be successful. In the secondary classroom it is important to fully prepare students for their futures in the post-secondary classroom or for their career, and through the implementation of Common Core State Standards, this focus has been emphasized in educational pedagogy. This thesis outlines a study and the implications of the perceptions of teachers and students on utilizing 21st century skills in the secondary English classroom through the implementation of multiliterate assignments. This thesis outlines reasons for the study, important terminology to ground the study, the methodology, …


The Storytellers’ Trauma: A Place To Call Home In Caribbean Literature, Ilari Pass Jan 2018

The Storytellers’ Trauma: A Place To Call Home In Caribbean Literature, Ilari Pass

MA in English Theses

This thesis is an examination gathering of trauma, unhomeliness, and the use of non-traditional narrative structure in Caribbean literature. While literature helps the reader travel inside the skin of the character, the mystery of another human being, Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea, Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies, and Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker, also help readers to explore the complicated process of identity formation in each work through the lenses of the imperialism, colonialism, racism and sexism that the protagonists experience. A non-traditional narrative structure enables this process of healing from trauma and allows for a new …


The Effects Of Social Media As Low-Stakes Writing Tasks, Roxanne Loving Jan 2018

The Effects Of Social Media As Low-Stakes Writing Tasks, Roxanne Loving

MA in English Theses

nspired by a recognition of high school students’ frequent disengagement during reading and their lack of comfort and confidence with finding ways to engage with texts, the purpose of this research was to examine the impact of social-media formatted low-stakes writing tasks in the high school English classroom. Drawing from research on writing instruction, reading engagement, literacy, and social media practices, the study utilized social media as a familiar writing format for high school students, bridging out-of-school literacy practices with classroom-based literacy practices. During the six-week study in a 10th-grade English course, student participants used Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook …


Fan Fiction In The English Language Arts Classroom, Kristen Finucan Jan 2018

Fan Fiction In The English Language Arts Classroom, Kristen Finucan

MA in English Theses

Inspired by the observation of an obvious deficit in students’ comprehension of higher level literature, as well as an apparent weakness in both verbal and written critical analysis skills, this study explores the creation of collaborative fan fiction by students as they read the classic text, The Great Gatsby. Fueled by research in the areas of fan fiction, participatory culture, and cooperative learning, this inquiry took place over the course of six weeks in a high school English class comprised of 10th and 11th grade students. Throughout the study, the researcher examined student survey results, videos of students as they …


Transferring The Mantle: The Voice Of The Poet Prophet In The Works Of Elizabeth Barrett Browning And Emily Dickinson, Heidi Brown Hyde Jan 2018

Transferring The Mantle: The Voice Of The Poet Prophet In The Works Of Elizabeth Barrett Browning And Emily Dickinson, Heidi Brown Hyde

MA in English Theses

Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Emily Dickinson are arguably two of the most recognized names in nineteenth-century poetry. One was famous in her lifetime, a pioneer of women’s poetics with a searing vision of what her world was, her place in it and how to live. The other was only recognized for her poetic genius after her death, and but for the love of her family and friends, her poetic voice would have never transformed the landscape of American literature. Although these two women were separated by culture and geography, they both had a shared Congregationalist heritage, a poetic gift and …


“The Shawl”: Of Which Bears The Facade, Giselle Carter Jan 2018

“The Shawl”: Of Which Bears The Facade, Giselle Carter

Geifman Prize in Holocaust Studies

I looked at Cynthia Ozick's "The Shawl" and analyzed the three main characters in her short story as symbols of different effects of trauma during the Holocaust.


Exporting America Via Leipzig, Germany: Tauchnitz Editions And The International Popularization Of American Literature, Charles Johanningsmeier Jan 2018

Exporting America Via Leipzig, Germany: Tauchnitz Editions And The International Popularization Of American Literature, Charles Johanningsmeier

English Faculty Publications

In the twenty-first century, making a literary work readily available and potentially famous worldwide can, via the internet, be accomplished quite easily and almost instantaneously. During the nineteenth and most of the twentieth century, however, because works of fiction were published only in paper formats, and the existing means for distributing such materials and information about them were quite limited, this process was much more difficult and took considerably longer. Somewhat surprisingly, the companies that in the past actually made American literary works available to readers outside the United States have thus far received comparatively little scholarly attention. Understanding these …


Reception Claims In Supernatural Horror In Literature And The Course Of Weird Fiction, John Glover Jan 2018

Reception Claims In Supernatural Horror In Literature And The Course Of Weird Fiction, John Glover

VCU Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications

This chapter explores H. P. Lovecraft's essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature," considering the ways in which Lovecraft attempted to construct favorable conditions for the reception of his own work. The writing of the essay was a pivotal moment in Lovecraft's career and authorial self-fashioning. Both it and he went on to influence the development of weird fiction in Lovecraft's lifetime and subsequently, lasting well into the current period of reevaluation of the author's legacy and person.


American Jewish Writing In The Twenty-First Century: New Global Directions, Victoria Aarons Jan 2018

American Jewish Writing In The Twenty-First Century: New Global Directions, Victoria Aarons

English Faculty Research

No abstract provided.


Nelle 1 (Front Matter), Nelle Staff Jan 2018

Nelle 1 (Front Matter), Nelle Staff

Nelle (literary magazine)

pp. -2


Dear Mrs. Trzaski, William Prezioso Jan 2018

Dear Mrs. Trzaski, William Prezioso

Common Reading Essay Contest Winners

Third Place


The Harsh Reality, Chanelle Kendrick Jan 2018

The Harsh Reality, Chanelle Kendrick

Common Reading Essay Contest Winners

Second Place


Tip Of The Tongue, Jason Gray Jan 2018

Tip Of The Tongue, Jason Gray

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 105


Late Epithalamium With Perrenials, Shara Lessley Jan 2018

Late Epithalamium With Perrenials, Shara Lessley

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 126


Baby Rat, Gerald Stern Jan 2018

Baby Rat, Gerald Stern

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 14


"And I Go On And On": Gerald Stern’S Poetics Of Protest, Lucy Biederman Jan 2018

"And I Go On And On": Gerald Stern’S Poetics Of Protest, Lucy Biederman

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 4-13


Meadow, Gerald Stern Jan 2018

Meadow, Gerald Stern

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 20


Blood Of The Father, Dan Albergotti Jan 2018

Blood Of The Father, Dan Albergotti

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 68


In This World Of Dust And Duty, Dick Allen Jan 2018

In This World Of Dust And Duty, Dick Allen

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 69-70


Doppler Radar, Stephanie Bryant Anderson, Andrea Spofford Jan 2018

Doppler Radar, Stephanie Bryant Anderson, Andrea Spofford

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 73


Rictus, Charles Bardes Jan 2018

Rictus, Charles Bardes

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 79


Lararium, Charles Bardes Jan 2018

Lararium, Charles Bardes

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 80


Octopus, Jason Gray Jan 2018

Octopus, Jason Gray

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 106


Memoirs Of An Invisible Man, Andrew Kozma Jan 2018

Memoirs Of An Invisible Man, Andrew Kozma

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 123