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The Man Steps Into The Weightless Rain, Reid Bateh

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.

The Man Steps Into The Weightless Rain, Reid Bateh

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.

Return To The Country Of The Crime, Dan Grossman

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.

Veiled Victorian Vampires: What Literary Antagonists Reveal About Societal Fears Of 19th Century England, Jenna Harford

Honors Theses

In my thesis paper I look at three primary texts, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray to analyze their main antagonists through a vampiric lens. I explain how the characters of Bertha Mason, Miss Havisham, and Dorian Gray are all written with veiled vampiric traits that revolve around themes of sexuality, secrecy and seclusion, and unbridled physical and emotional violence. Although none of these texts is obviously a “vampire novel”, the authors lean into vampire tropes including eerie physical description, doubled relationships, and other vampire lore that can be best …

"Laziness" And How It Affects Our Students, Wren Jenkins

ATU Scholars Symposium

This article analyzes the use of the term “lazy” in the educational setting, how this term affects students, and the pedagogical approaches educators can take within their subject areas to reduce stress for their students. Pedagogical decisions affect student stress, and this article provides suggestions to prevent student burnout in order to improve curricula offerings in secondary and higher-level classrooms. Results show that students often reduced to “lazy” are most likely struggling with an underlying cause for their lack of performance, such as stress, burnout, depression, anxiety-induced procrastination, unknown and undiagnosed mental challenges, and misguided apathy. Results concluded that to …

"Cabined, Cribbed, Confined": Tyrannical Anxiety And Maternal Power In Shakespeare, Elle J. Nieuwsma

Masters Theses

The tyrannical king, a common trope in Shakespearean plays, is on the surface a powerful and confident character. He is motivated, though, by overwhelming anxiety and fear about losing his power and the freedom he experiences through it. In other words, he suffers from a metaphorical claustrophobia and is terrified of being confined to physical, social, and sexual inadequacy. In order to protect himself and maintain his freedom, the tyrant must project his anxiety onto someone else, and interestingly, the Shakespearean tyrants choose a shared target: mothers.

Through a series of close-readings and analysis, this article explores how several different …

Dismantling Dualisms: Jane’S Liminal Agency In Charlotte Brontë’S Jane Eyre, Nicole Baniukaitis

Masters Theses

Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is a complex and, at times, seemingly paradoxical novel. Through Jane’s journey, I argue that Charlotte Brontë offers possibilities that can be explained and understood through Val Plumwood’s ecofeminist lens of dismantling or escaping dualisms in order to make these crucial changes and rewrite the traditional story. Jane’s liminality throughout the novel empowers her, offers her access to alternative modalities, and allows her to notice the oppressive dualistic structures governing all aspects of life. Due to her unique liminal positioning, Jane is aligned with nature and fights against oppressive dualisms to shape her life in a …

Review Of C. S. Lewis Pre-Evangelism For A Post-Christian World: Why Narnia Might Be More Real Than We Think, Josiah Peterson

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Josiah Peterson: Review of Brian Williams, C. S. Lewis Pre-Evangelism for a Post-Christian World: Why Narnia Might be More Real Than We Think (Cambridge, Ohio: Christian Publishing House, 2021). 308 pages. $15.95. ISBN 9781949586152.

Review Of Splendour In The Dark: C. S. Lewis’S Dymer In His Life And Work, Crystal Hurd

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Crystal Hurd: Review of Jerry Root, Splendour in the Dark: C. S. Lewis’s Dymer in His Life and Work (Downers Grove, Illinois: IVP Academic, 2020). 240 pages, including Contributors and Indices. $20.00. ISBN 9780830853755.

Review Of Holly Ordway, Tolkien’S Modern Reading: Middle-Earth Beyond The Middle Ages, Lauren Spohn

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Lauren Spohn: Review of Holly Ordway, Tolkien’s Modern Reading: Middle-earth beyond the Middle Ages (Park Ridge, Illinois: Word on Fire Academic, 2021). 382 pages, including pictures and Appendix. $28.47. ISBN 9781943243723.

Review Of The Reading Life: The Joy Of Seeing New Worlds Through Others’ Eyes, Corey Latta

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Corey Latta: Review of C. S. Lewis, The Reading Life: The Joy of Seeing New Worlds Through Others’ Eyes, ed. by David Downing and Michael Maudlin (Harper Collins: New York, NY: 2019). 171 pages. $14.79. ISBN 9780062849977.

Review Of From Spare Oom To War Drobe: Travels In Narnia With My Nine-Year-Old Self, Sarah R. A. Waters

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Sarah Waters: Review of Katherine Langrish, From Spare Oom to War Drobe: Travels in Narnia with my Nine-Year-Old Self (London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 2021). 286 pages. $26.00. ISBN 9781913657079.

Review Of The Inklings And Culture: A Harvest Of Scholarship From The Inklings Institute Of Canada, Joel D. Heck

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Joel D. Heck: Review of Monika B. Hilder, Sara L. Pearson, and Laura N. Van Dyke, eds., The Inklings and Culture: A Harvest of Scholarship from the Inklings Institute of Canada (Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020). 397 pages. ISBN 9781527560147.

Review Of Waking The Dead: George Macdonald As Philosopher, Mystic, And Apologist, Carol Propst

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Carol Propst: Review of Dean Hardy, Waking the Dead: George MacDonald as Philosopher, Mystic, and Apologist (Hamden, CT: Winged Lion Press, 2020). 231 pages. $18.99. ISBN 9781935688211.

Review Of Dorothy L. Sayers, A Biography: Death, Dante, And Lord Peter Wimsey, Gary L. Tandy

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Gary L. Tandy: Review of Colin Duriez, Dorothy L. Sayers, A Biography: Death, Dante, and Lord Peter Wimsey (Summertown, Oxford: Lion Hudson Limited, 2021). 224 pages. $14.95. ISBN 9780745956923.

Review Of Subversive: Christ, Culture, And The Shocking Dorothy L. Sayers, Barbara L. Prescott

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Barbara L. Prescott: Review of Crystal Downing, Subversive: Christ, Culture, and the Shocking Dorothy L. Sayers (Minneapolis, Minnesota: Broadleaf Books, 2020). 240 pages. $24.99. ISBN 9781506462752.

Annotated Listing Of The C.S. Lewis Collection At The Lanier Theological Library, Charlie W. Starr, Crystal Hurd

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

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C.S. Lewis Manuscripts At The Lanier Theological Library, Charlie W. Starr, Crystal Hurd

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

In addition to a substantial collection of Lewis first editions, the Lanier Collection contains several handwritten Lewis manuscripts. Previously published Lewis pieces in the Lanier collection include eleven letters or excerpts from letters, a manuscript draft of “Learning in Wartime” from the collection The Weight of Glory, an early version of the poem “A Cliché Came Out of its Cage,” and a penciled outline of notes for Beyond Personality, later included in Mere Christianity. Fourteen Lewis manuscripts in the Lanier Collection are published here for the first time.

Woman, Queer, Jewish: The Sociopolitical Importance And Impact Of Identity Labels, Megan Polun

Honors Projects in English and Cultural Studies

In this thesis, I trace and analyze the historical, social, and political uses of three identity labels: woman, queer, and Jewish. These three identity categories are personally important to me because I identify as a queer, Jewish woman. The questions motivating this analysis are as follows: How have these words been defined and who gets to define them? What has it meant historically to move through the world with one of these labels, and what does it look like today? What qualifies someone to identify with one of these labels, and what experiences or qualities do we share? What challenges …

Exploring The Connection: The Scale Of Time And Effort Within American Baked Goods, Grace Guindon

Honors Program Theses and Projects

Through the use of memoir and historical occurrences this paper will discuss the spectrum and correlations that all baked goods lie on. There are two scales: the spectrum of labor versus leisure, and the spectrum of specialness versus overindulgence. They have a positive correlation relationship. Often when something is on the high end of the leisure scale, it is also high in the overindulgence scale. Then that means the opposite end is true- high in labor can significantly relate to being higher in specialness. These relations of labor and specialness and leisure and overindulgence can tell us something about who …

From Story To Song: Exploring The Storytelling Potential Of Instrumental Music, Celine Darr

Honors Projects

For this project, I have composed a piece of program music with the aim of capturing scenes from Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid" through music. The project seeks to answer questions regarding the elements that make instrumental music "programmatic", or able to portray a story.

Adapting The Classics: Making The Invisible Visible, Kate Isabel Foley

Theater Honors Papers

This project seeks to answer the question, “How can a writer use an old story to shine new light on modern issues and make the invisible visible?” My adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is a genderbent retelling with queer themes while my adaptation of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan is a dark reimagining of Mrs. Darling as an antihero protagonist who must become Captain Hook to try to save her children. Both my research and these two plays focus on bringing visibility to marginalized communities, specifically women and members of the queer community.

Teaching Empathy For Others Through Young Adult Literature, Madison Boeckman

Honors Projects

Literature can let a reader grow in empathy by learning about a character’s experiences and cultures. Teaching literature with diverse characters to young people can help combat bias and hatred towards people who are perceived as different.

This project uses Rudine Sims Bishop’s metaphor of mirrors, windows, and doors, Gloria Ladson Billings’ Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, and Gholdy Muhammad’s Culturally Responsive Pedagogy as foundation for creating activities for diverse literature. These activities are for the texts Ms. Marvel: No Normal, The Poet X, and The Marrow Thieves, all texts that are academically enriching with diverse characters that would …

Review Of Looking For The King: An Inklings Novel, Annelise Holwerda

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Annelise Holwerda: Review of David C. Downing, Looking for the King: An Inklings Novel (San Francisco, 2010). 278 pages. $15.96. ISBN 9781586175146.

Review Of Death And Fantasy: Essays On Phillip Pullman, C.S. Lewis, George Macdonald, And R.L. Stevenson, Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson: Review of William Gray, Death and Fantasy: Essays on Philip Pullman, C. S. Lewis, George MacDonald, and R. L. Stevenson (Newcastle upon Tyne, 2008). 136 pages. $24.99. ISBN 9781847188717.

Review Of War Of The Fantasy Worlds: C.S. Lewis And J.R.R. Tolkein On Art And Imagination, Charles Franklyn Beach

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Charles Franklyn Beach: Review of Martha C. Sammons, War of the Fantasy Worlds: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien on Art and Imagination (Santa Barbara, 2010). xv + 237 pages. $44.95. ISBN 9780313362828.

Review Of Encyclopedia Of Contemporary Christian Fiction: From C.S. Lewis To Left Behind, Stephen F. Hayes

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Stephen F. Hayes: Review of Nancy M. Tischler, Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Fiction: From C. S. Lewis to Left Behind (Santa Barbara, 2009). 352 pages. $96. ISBN 9780313345685.

Review Of The Hidden Story Of Narnia: A Book-By-Book Guide To C.S. Lewis' Spiritual Themes, Stephen Yandell

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Stephen Yandell: Review of Will Vaus, The Hidden Story of Narnia: A Book-by-Book Guide to C. S. Lewis’ Spiritual Themes (Cheshire, Connecticut, 2010). ii + 135 pages. $19.97. ISBN 9781936294022.

Review Of The Narnia Code: C.S. Lewis And The Secret Of The Seven Heavens, Sørina Higgins

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Sørina Higgins: Review of Michael Ward, The Narnia Code: C. S. Lewis and the Secret of the Seven Heavens (Carol Stream, Illinois, 2010). 193 pages, including “For Further Reading” and Discussion Guide. $13.99. ISBN 9781414339658.

Review Of Shadows And Chivalry: Pain, Suffering, Evil And The Goodness In The Works Of George Macdonald And C.S. Lewis, P. H. Brazier

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

P.H. Brazier: Review of Jeff McInnis, Shadows and Chivalry: Pain, Suffering, Evil and Goodness in the Works of George MacDonald and C. S. Lewis (Eugene, Oregon, 2008). 307 pages. $39.00. ISBN 9781556356650.