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Eng 4904-001: Studies In Film, P.A. Boswell

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.

Eng 1001-007: Composition & Language, Robert Zordani

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.

Eng 5502-001: Mentored Composition Teaching, Tim Taylor

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.

Eng 3009-001: Myth And Culture, M. Leddy

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.

Eng 2009-001: Love, Hate, Ovsession, R. Beebe

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.

Eng 1002-022: Composition And Literature, Donna Binns

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.

Eng 2005-001: Creative Writing: Drama, Olga Abella

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.

Eng 3705-001: Multicultural American Literature, Robin Murray

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.

Finding Aid For The Eileen M. Curran Papers, Eileen M. Curran, Colby College Special Collections

Finding Aids

The collection comprises working files, dissertation materials, photographs, personal documents and artifacts, published reference materials, and accruals by and about Eileen Curran, a librarian, professor of English, and authority on Victorian-Era British literature and periodicals.

Eileen M. Curran was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1927, the only child of Edward O. and Laura (Meyer) Curran. She received a B.A. degree with highest distinction from Cornell University in 1948; an Honours B.A. from Cambridge University (England) in 1950; an M.A. from Cambridge University in 1953; and a Ph.D. from Cornell in 1958. She was instructor of English at the University …

Grid, Laura Goldstein

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

No abstract provided.

Tolkien And Gifted Students: Blending Creative And Critical Thinking, Adam Kotlarczyk

Faculty Publications & Research

In “The American Scholar,” Emerson warns against letting books become tyrants. As education “reformers,” political forces, and other special interests continue to pull modern teachers in so many different pedagogical directions, Emerson’s warning is increasingly powerful. Books tyrannize, Emerson says, when we use them passively by simply absorbing information from them, rather than actively by catalyzing our own thinking and actions with them. In effect, he claims that books are not something simply to be learned, memorized, or analyzed, but should help us to create. Today’s gifted student, her schedule usually overflowing with work and co-curriculars in an environment often …

Writing The Nation, Amy Berke, Robert R. Bleil, Jordan Cofer, Doug Davis

OER Main

A concise introduction to American Literature from 1865 to present. The book is broken into chapters based on time period and writing style from Late Romanticism to recent post-modernism.

The Wisdom In Folly: An Examination Of William Shakespeare's Fools In Twelfth Night And King Lear, Siri M. Brudevold

Scripps Senior Theses

This thesis explores the complexities to be found in the characters of Lear's Fool from King Lear and Feste from Twelfth Night. It begins with an investigation of the history behind the taxonomy of fools that William Shakespeare created in his works. The rest of the thesis is devoted to examining the many facets of the two aforementioned fools, with the goal of discovering just how important and influential they are to their respective plots and to the world of literature. Finally, there is a brief coda that explores the other striking similarities that the two plays have in …

The Modernist Novel In Its Contemporaneity, Pamela L. Caughie

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Through the writings of Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, and Nella Larsen, this chapter considers the temporality of the now, the modernist novel in its contemporaneity, to show how the ambient environment of daily life takes shape in, and shapes, the modernist novel.

And Have Not Mercy, I Am Waiting: Conscious Inaction As Postcolonial Resistance In Patrick Kavanagh's "The Great Hunger" And Derek Walcott's "The Fortunate Traveller", Christopher Lowell Stuck

Theses and Dissertations

This project examines Patrick Kavanagh’s “The Great Hunger” and Derek Walcott’s “The Fortunate Traveller” as sites of postcolonial resistance. As presented in these poems, the main characters are caught between the memories of the colonial and anti-colonial pasts and the faltering promises of postcolonial independence. Instead of choosing between being defined solely by the past or accepting an independence under contrived terms, or attempting to reconcile the two, Walcott’s and Kavanagh’s poems propose conscious inaction in order to resist the apparent inevitability of the choice. Written at similar moments in their respective postcolonial regions, placing these two poems together for …

Stand-Up Comedy And Self-Deprecating Humor, Amelia M. Bell

UROP Posters

Stand-up comedy has been around for centuries, making people laugh for generations. Through the years the forms and techniques stand-up comedians use have shifted back and forth. Self-deprecation humor is one of these forms of humor, where the comedian pokes fun at his or herself, and it has recently become more incredibly popular in today’s society. Stand-up comedians like Louis C.K. have risen to newfound popularity by using self-deprecating humor almost completely in their sets. This paper attempts to answer the question of why audiences respond so positively to stand-up comedians who use self-deprecating humor. It does so by arguing …

Libyan Graduate Students Encounter English-Writing Difficulties While Attending U.S. Universities, Abdelsalam A. Mustafa El Raggas

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study investigated the writing difficulties that Libyan graduate students encounter while attending universities in the United States. Libyan graduate students have difficulties in writing effective paragraphs and essays. Most of their academic writing tasks have numerous grammatical errors and their writing style appears elementary-like. The main purpose of this study was to diagnose writing issues such as grammar, unity, style, diction, and language interference that the students encounter and find solutions for existing problems. A mixed-methods approach was employed in this study. One hundred Libyan graduate students studying at U.S. universities were sought as participants. Data were collected by …

Eng 3001-001: Advanced Composition, Suzie Park

Fall 2014

No abstract provided.

Eng 3504-001: Film And Literature, Robin Murray

Fall 2014

No abstract provided.

Eng 1001g-023_034: Composition And Language, Kathy Olsen

Fall 2014

No abstract provided.

Eng 1001g-039: Composition And Language, Angela Vietto

Fall 2014

No abstract provided.

Eng 2009g-001: Literature And Human Values, John Allison

Fall 2014

No abstract provided.

Eng 2091-099: Literature, Self, And The World: Science Fiction (Honors), Jad Smith

Fall 2014

No abstract provided.

Eng 2760-001: Introduction To Professional Writing, Angela Vietto

Fall 2014

No abstract provided.

Eng 2601-001: Backgrounds Of Western Literature, Michael Leddy

Fall 2014

No abstract provided.

Eng 3805-001: Alien Encounters: Study Of British Literature And Culture From 1660-1790, Charles Wharram

Fall 2014

No abstract provided.

Hic 2000g-001: Biological Evolution In The Humanities, Charlotte Pence, Gary Fritz

Fall 2014

No abstract provided.

Eng 2007-001: Creative Writing: Fiction, Daiva Markelis

Fall 2014

No abstract provided.

Eng 1002g-004: Composition And Literature, Leann Akins

Fall 2014

No abstract provided.

Eng 1002g-012: Composition And Literature, Julie Campbell

Fall 2014

No abstract provided.