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Sympathy, Skepticism And Conversation In Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy And Henry Mackenzie's The Man Of Feeling, Ahoud Turki Al Ghmiz Jan 2017

Sympathy, Skepticism And Conversation In Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy And Henry Mackenzie's The Man Of Feeling, Ahoud Turki Al Ghmiz

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While Tristram Shandy and The Man of Feeling have received continuous literary attention, few has been done in reading the skeptical and sentimental aspects of the two novels. This thesis glances through “conversation”, a reader-author conversation may be defined as a dialogue with a reader which is mediated by text. Both Sterne and Mackenzie engage in a conversation with readers by making them laugh, question, criticize, sympathize, and reflect on the deeper meaning of the novels. Moreover, this author-reader conversation is impossible without the wide use of conversations in both novels, through which characters convey their emotions and thoughts. Both …


Hook Echo, J P. Grasser Jan 2017

Hook Echo, J P. Grasser

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 167


Upcycling Paumanok, Stephen Kampa Jan 2017

Upcycling Paumanok, Stephen Kampa

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 259-268


Wharton's Library: For Born Readers Only, Christine Primisch Jan 2017

Wharton's Library: For Born Readers Only, Christine Primisch

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Edith Wharton is known for her depictions of the changing New York aristocracy and marriage market in the early twentieth-century. Critics have previously examined Wharton’s views on upper-class New York society and social climbers attempting to insert themselves into that society. What has not been studied as extensively in existing criticism is the way in which the exponential increases in the size of the reading public and the type of literature available at the time Wharton was publishing negatively impacted Wharton’s perception of the lower-class and nouveau riche readers and caused insecurities over her literary legacy. These insecurities influence her …


Eldritch Horrors: The Modernist Liminality Of H.P. Lovecraft's Weird Fiction, Dale Allen Crowley Jan 2017

Eldritch Horrors: The Modernist Liminality Of H.P. Lovecraft's Weird Fiction, Dale Allen Crowley

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In the early part of the twentieth century, the Modernist literary movement was moving into what was arguably its peak, and authors we would now unquestioningly consider part of the Western literary canon were creating some of their greatest works. Coinciding with the more mainstream Modernist movement, there emerged a unique sub- genre of fiction on the pages of magazines with titles like Weird Tales and Astounding Stories. While modernist writers; including Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, William Faulkner, and T.S. Elliot – among others – were achieving acclaim for their works; in …


Writing Through The Lower Frequencies: Interpreting The Unnaming And Naming Process Within Richard Wright's Native Son And Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, Sarah M. Lacy Jan 2017

Writing Through The Lower Frequencies: Interpreting The Unnaming And Naming Process Within Richard Wright's Native Son And Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, Sarah M. Lacy

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The search for identity within Richard Wright’s Native Son and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man has long been analyzed, yet the fact that each protagonist’s search for self is brought to a point of crisis during an intimate interaction with a white woman has often been neglected. Here, I analyze each author’s strategic use of a nameless narrator by utilizing the work of W.E.B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon, arguing that the act of “literary unnaming” is used to critique the development of black American identity during the time of Jim Crow. The use of a nameless narrator is explored through …


Towards A Synthesis: Tracing The Evolution Of Masculinity In The Eighteenth-Century Novel, Anthony Necastro Necastro Jan 2017

Towards A Synthesis: Tracing The Evolution Of Masculinity In The Eighteenth-Century Novel, Anthony Necastro Necastro

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Studies of eighteenth-century British novels are typically centered on the alleged “rise” of the novel; that is, the formation of the novel as a genre distinguished from the epics, dramas, romances, and satires of past centuries. These new novels betray the critical trajectory of masculinity throughout the politically turbulent long British eighteenth century (1688-1815). While critics have studied individual constructions of masculinity within particular novels, or masculinity presented by a single author’s corpus, this paper tracks the various constructions of masculinity and demonstrates the relationship between masculinity and political change. The novel’s century-long “rise” presents the reflection of the English …


Shriekers, Jessica Leigh Johnson Jan 2017

Shriekers, Jessica Leigh Johnson

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In every horror sub-genre, there is a fear that the narrative exploits. In ghost stories, the fear is that of the unknown; in alien movies, it is the fear of the other; and in stories involving the undead we are confronted with the nature of living itself. In using creatures that were once human but now act only on instinct, we are forced to examine ourselves. Further, most stories involving zombies are set in a world where society is crumbling or has crumbled, and humans are forced to make difficult decisions, which brings us to question the nature of survival.


I Hate It, But I Can't Stop: The Romanticization Of Intimate Partner Abuse In Young Adult Retellings Of Wuthering Heights, Brianna R. Zgodinski Jan 2017

I Hate It, But I Can't Stop: The Romanticization Of Intimate Partner Abuse In Young Adult Retellings Of Wuthering Heights, Brianna R. Zgodinski

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In recent years, there has been a trend in young adult adaptations of Wuthering Heights to amend the plot so that Catherine Earnshaw chooses to have a romantic relationship with Heathcliff, when in Bronte’s novel she decides against it. In the following study, I trace the factors that contribute to Catherine’s rejection of Heathcliff as a romantic partner in the original text. Many critics have argued that her motives are primarily Machiavellian since she chooses a suitor with more wealth and familial connections than Heathcliff. These are indeed factors; however, by engaging with contemporary research on adolescent development, I show …


Birmingham Poetry Review 44 (Front Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff Jan 2017

Birmingham Poetry Review 44 (Front Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

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We Were Three, Claribel Alegría Jan 2017

We Were Three, Claribel Alegría

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 23-24


Featured Poet: Claribel Alegría, Carolyn Forché Jan 2017

Featured Poet: Claribel Alegría, Carolyn Forché

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 1-5


Gimpel The Adjunct, Ned Balbo Jan 2017

Gimpel The Adjunct, Ned Balbo

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 104-106


I Sit Atop A Compost Toilet, David Basilico Jan 2017

I Sit Atop A Compost Toilet, David Basilico

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 107


My Paradise In Mallorca, Claribel Alegría Jan 2017

My Paradise In Mallorca, Claribel Alegría

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 19-20


To My Mother, Claribel Alegría Jan 2017

To My Mother, Claribel Alegría

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 17


Mind Of Winter, Nausheen Eusuf Jan 2017

Mind Of Winter, Nausheen Eusuf

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 159


About Halfway Down The Page, Michelle Boisseau Jan 2017

About Halfway Down The Page, Michelle Boisseau

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 109


Comeback With Swans, Eamon Grennan Jan 2017

Comeback With Swans, Eamon Grennan

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 175


I'M Not Really A Waitress, Lisa Hammond Jan 2017

I'M Not Really A Waitress, Lisa Hammond

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 176-177


Overture, Anna Lena Phillips Bell Jan 2017

Overture, Anna Lena Phillips Bell

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 108


Dodo, Stephen Kampa Jan 2017

Dodo, Stephen Kampa

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 180


Four Broken Ways To Pray, Rob Cook Jan 2017

Four Broken Ways To Pray, Rob Cook

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 146-147


The Chauffeur's Daughter Recalls Miss Borden, Juliana Gray Jan 2017

The Chauffeur's Daughter Recalls Miss Borden, Juliana Gray

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 171-173


Particle Search In D Minor, Jeffrey N. Johnson Jan 2017

Particle Search In D Minor, Jeffrey N. Johnson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 178


A Scholar's Vacation, Kyle Norwood Jan 2017

A Scholar's Vacation, Kyle Norwood

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 216-217


A Half Wave, Will Schutt, Francesco Scarabicchi Jan 2017

A Half Wave, Will Schutt, Francesco Scarabicchi

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 226


Hibakusha, Tyler Mills Jan 2017

Hibakusha, Tyler Mills

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 209-210


Pietà, Rachel Morgan Jan 2017

Pietà, Rachel Morgan

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 212


Our House On Fire, Burt Myers Jan 2017

Our House On Fire, Burt Myers

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 213