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Review Of Women Talking—Miriam Toews, Sabrina Völz Jun 2020

Review Of Women Talking—Miriam Toews, Sabrina Völz

Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies

Women Talking is Canadian writer Miriam Toews’ seventh novel. She has also written a memoir about her father and starred in the 2007 art house film about Old Colony Mennonites in Mexico, Silent Light, written and directed by Mexican filmmaker, Carlos Reygada. Toews has won numerous awards, including the prestigious Governor General’s Award for her novel, A Complicated Kindness in 2004. [First paragraph]


A New Oral Poetry: Improvisation And Performance In Robert Lowell's Poetry Readings, Madelyn Taylor Jun 2020

A New Oral Poetry: Improvisation And Performance In Robert Lowell's Poetry Readings, Madelyn Taylor

Undergraduate Honors Theses

This thesis examines elements of improvisation and performance in the poetry readings of Robert Lowell from 1955 to 1977 by analyzing audio recordings of Lowell’s readings and comparing them to his early drafts and published work. As a poet known for incessantly editing his poetry, Robert Lowell uses poetry readings as a venue for experimenting with his poetry before publication, for catering his work to specific audiences, and for memorializing his life in prose. The time period this thesis is concerned with correlates with a rise in New Oral Poetry in the U.S., which created popular new venues for poetry …


Eng 1001g-600: College Composition I, Randall Beebe Jun 2020

Eng 1001g-600: College Composition I, Randall Beebe

Summer 2020

No abstract provided.


Power Struggles: Sovereignty And The Nonhuman In South Africa, Taelin Wilford Jun 2020

Power Struggles: Sovereignty And The Nonhuman In South Africa, Taelin Wilford

Undergraduate Honors Theses

This thesis uses the theoretical backbone of Jacques Derrida’s The Beast and the Sovereign to look at the theme of the nonhuman in connection with sovereignty in three novels representing three major time periods in South Africa. Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness uses the nonhuman in the form of the supernatural to reveal the limits of sovereignty in Colonial South Africa. J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace makes use of the nonhuman in the form of animals to talk about the transient nature of sovereignty in post-Apartheid South Africa. Lauren Beukes’ Zoo City is set in an alternate future South Africa and …


Making Room For One's Own: Literal And Literary Feminine Space In The Works Of Virginia Woolf, Annika Hawkinson Jun 2020

Making Room For One's Own: Literal And Literary Feminine Space In The Works Of Virginia Woolf, Annika Hawkinson

Honors Projects

In this project I explore Virginia Woolf’s modernist preoccupation with representing ordinary, female life in her fiction. Reading her novel Mrs. Dalloway alongside some of her more explicitly feminist essays, I analyze the way that her female protagonist, Clarissa, navigates the physical world around her, and why the spaces she occupies are so crucial to her character. Because I am primarily interested in the question of feminine space, this project is divided in two parts that respectively explore Clarissa’s relationship with the “outside” world of the city and the “inside” world of her home. It is my belief that by …


Renderings Of The Self: The Inception Of Autobiographical Writing In Robinson, Wollstonecraft, And Wordsworth, Hannah M. Dewitt Jun 2020

Renderings Of The Self: The Inception Of Autobiographical Writing In Robinson, Wollstonecraft, And Wordsworth, Hannah M. Dewitt

Honors Projects

This paper covers the origination of British autobiography and investigates why authors began to write autobiographically through the analysis of three pioneering autobiographical works: The Prelude by William Wordsworth, Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark by Mary Wollstonecraft, and Memoirs of Mary Robinson, “Perdita,” by Mary Robinson. In each section of this paper, I examine these stories and authors individually and attempt to unearth what pushed each author toward autobiographical writing in relation to what drove them to publish their work. I argue that autobiography is centered around rendering oneself, and that self-renderings …


Index To The Journal Of Tolkien Research Volume 1 Through Volume 9 Issue 1, Douglas A. Anderson Jun 2020

Index To The Journal Of Tolkien Research Volume 1 Through Volume 9 Issue 1, Douglas A. Anderson

Journal of Tolkien Research

An Index to The Journal of Tolkien Research from Volume 1 through Volume 9 issue 1


Utopian And Dystopian Themes In Tolkien's Legendarium (2020), By Mark Doyle, John D. Rateliff Jun 2020

Utopian And Dystopian Themes In Tolkien's Legendarium (2020), By Mark Doyle, John D. Rateliff

Journal of Tolkien Research

Book review by John D. Rateliff of Utopian and Dystopian Themes in Tolkien's Legendarium (2020) by Mark Doyle


The Language Of The Draughtsboard Sharks: A Conlang Project, Trent Garlin Jun 2020

The Language Of The Draughtsboard Sharks: A Conlang Project, Trent Garlin

English Department: Linguistics ENG 334

The language of the draughtsboard sharks is a fictional conlang. This paper describes the history, physical anatomy, means of articulation, morphology, syntax, and grammar of the language through the entirely fictional lens of a research team studying shark communication in New Zealand. Notable aspects of the conlang are its portrayal of imaginary, non-human speech organs created to eliminate a shark’s realistic inability to speak, as well as the absence of a written element to the language largely due to the lack of opposable thumbs (or fingers at all) on sharks. The language also includes IPA charts for both consonants and …


Review Of Joyce Carol Oates's Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars., Eric K. Anderson Jun 2020

Review Of Joyce Carol Oates's Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars., Eric K. Anderson

Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies

A review of Joyce Carol Oates's novel Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars. considering its relation to current social protests and previous works by the author.


Guest Editor's Note, Natalie Gerber Jun 2020

Guest Editor's Note, Natalie Gerber

The Robert Frost Review

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Editor's Page, Jonathan N. Barron Jun 2020

Editor's Page, Jonathan N. Barron

The Robert Frost Review

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'Where Many Paths And Errands Meet': Travel Writing In The Lord Of The Rings, Will Glover Jun 2020

'Where Many Paths And Errands Meet': Travel Writing In The Lord Of The Rings, Will Glover

Journal of Tolkien Research

In this paper I examine The Lord of the Rings through the lens of genre criticism. I take issue with the commonplace characterisation of the work as an ‘epic’ or a ‘romance’, a tendency that has restricted interpretations of the work and tied criticism of it too exclusively to that of medieval literature. I argue that the work should be viewed as a modern novel: an open-ended and capacious text comprised of numerous generic traditions, including the previously overlooked genre of travel literature. After establishing a working definition of travel writing, I analyse The Lord of the Rings's paratextual …


A Harpy's Love, C. R. Schabel Jun 2020

A Harpy's Love, C. R. Schabel

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


Ye Cinnamon Beare, Angelee Sailer Anderson Jun 2020

Ye Cinnamon Beare, Angelee Sailer Anderson

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


Bleeding-Heart: A Love Story, Margaret Nevinski Jun 2020

Bleeding-Heart: A Love Story, Margaret Nevinski

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


Head Over Heels, H. Lovekin Jun 2020

Head Over Heels, H. Lovekin

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


The Tobacco Seekers, Douglas A. Rossman Jun 2020

The Tobacco Seekers, Douglas A. Rossman

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


The Swan-Chariot, Gwenyth E. Hood Jun 2020

The Swan-Chariot, Gwenyth E. Hood

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


The Fleeing Woman, William Saxton Jun 2020

The Fleeing Woman, William Saxton

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


Editing The Sky, Debbie Fersht Jun 2020

Editing The Sky, Debbie Fersht

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


The Dance Of The Blind, Jefferson P. Swycaffer Jun 2020

The Dance Of The Blind, Jefferson P. Swycaffer

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


The Song Of The Mother Of Waters, Evelyn Cooper Jun 2020

The Song Of The Mother Of Waters, Evelyn Cooper

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


Dry Leaves, Jo Anna Dale Jun 2020

Dry Leaves, Jo Anna Dale

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


The Unicorn Tapestry / Another Poem, Lawrence Schimel, Gary Barwin Jun 2020

The Unicorn Tapestry / Another Poem, Lawrence Schimel, Gary Barwin

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


Camelot Station, Lawrence Schimel Jun 2020

Camelot Station, Lawrence Schimel

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


Sonnet For A Mystical Son, Angelee Sailer Anderson Jun 2020

Sonnet For A Mystical Son, Angelee Sailer Anderson

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


Poem, Gary Barwin Jun 2020

Poem, Gary Barwin

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


Two Poems By Jo Anna Dale, Jo Anna Dale Jun 2020

Two Poems By Jo Anna Dale, Jo Anna Dale

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


Letters Of Comment, Janet P. Reedman, Mary Mcdermott Shideler, Joe R. Christopher, Cindy Rako, Pat Reynolds, Diane Lynne Pavlac, Sarah Beach, Angelee Sailer Anderson, Stanley E. Anderson, Ron Blizzard Jun 2020

Letters Of Comment, Janet P. Reedman, Mary Mcdermott Shideler, Joe R. Christopher, Cindy Rako, Pat Reynolds, Diane Lynne Pavlac, Sarah Beach, Angelee Sailer Anderson, Stanley E. Anderson, Ron Blizzard

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.