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Aave Be-Deletion In Quotative Be Like, Hayley Franklin

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

Elf-Queens And Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs And The Medieval Church, By Richard Firth Green. Reviewed By Jared Lobdell., Jared Lobdell

Mythprint Book Reviews

Mythprint is the quarterly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local discussion groups.

Ignatian Pedagogy Certificate Final Written Project: The Five Domains In Epistolary Form, Alyson Paige Warren

Ignatian Pedagogy Educational Resources

No abstract provided.

Under Western Eyes And Terrorism Today, Joyce Wexler

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Although historians and literary critics discount the practical information about terrorism in Under Western Eyes, social science research corroborates Conrad's account of terrorism and counter-terrorism in nineteenth-century Russia. According to this research, terrorists are indistinguishable from the general population until they decide to join a terrorist group, and the best way to prevent terrorism is to study the specific mindset of terrorist groups. The novel animates these findings in its depiction of fundamental similarities between the bomber and the informer. Haldin and Razumov pursue community as well as autonomy, although their paths are quite different. The novel not only …

Upping The Anti: Tracing The Literary Antihero From Its Edifying Roots To Its Potent Threat Upon The Behavior Of American Youth, Sarah E. Dunlap

Selected Honors Theses

The literary antihero is continually increasing in potency, emerging today in its most morally egregious form; thus, while the chasm between the antiheroes’ edifying ethical roots and present state of criminal agency expands rapidly, the threat of the antiheroes’ morally ambiguous plots become mimetically transferential to contemporary American youth. This thesis explores the rise in potency in three literary periods. Outlining one foundational novel for each respective era, through Roland Barthes’ structuralism, reveals, on the one hand, the underlying cultural causalities of aberrant behavior and, on the other hand, each character’s unique mental conditions. In Model A, the tenets of …

The Sinister Student, By Kel Richards. Reviewed By Shannyn Jordan., Shannyn Jordan

Mythprint Book Reviews

Mythprint is the quarterly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local discussion groups.

The Golden Key: A Victorian Fairy Tale, By George Macdonald. Reviewed By Janet Brennan Croft., Janet Brennan Croft

Mythprint Book Reviews

Mythprint is the quarterly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local discussion groups.

Root And Neal's "The Surprising Imagination Of C. S. Lewis" (Book Review), James L. Sauer

The Christian Librarian

A review of Root, J. & Neal, M. (2015). The surprising imagination of C. S. Lewis. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press. 270 pp. $34.99. ISBN 9781426795107

Recording Angels: Examining Female Narrators In Vampire Fiction And Film, Jacqueline T. Bashaw

College Honors Program

Authors of vampire fiction often grapple with the shifting gender norms of the late nineteenth century. They explore these shifting tensions through the creation of complex narrative structures, some of which incorporate female narrators. By making these women narrators, these authors carefully consider female perspectives and the authority women can wield, both as narrators in their respective texts, and as women in late nineteenth-century British society who were confined to rigid gender roles. The narrative tension that arises between the narrator and the text then allows these authors to use literature to explore and theorize about broader societal tensions.

This …

Chinese Origin Of The Term Pagoda: Liang Sicheng's Proposed Etymology, David Robbins Tien, Gerald Leonard Cohen

Arts, Languages and Philosophy Faculty Research & Creative Works

Western reference works regard the architectural term pagoda as being of uncertain origin, but an overlooked etymology proposed by Liang Sicheng convincingly solves the mystery: The word is Chinese, with the literal meaning “eight” (pa) “cornered” (ko) “tower” (La). Liang Sicheng, who pioneered the serious study of classical Chinese architecture, pointed out:

‘The octagonal pagoda, which first appeared in the Tomb Pagoda of Ching-tsang in 746, was the first “pa-go-da” in the real sense of the term.’

This 746 date is of course centuries before the first appearance of pagoda in a European language, viz. 1516 in Portuguese, so the …

West By Midwest, Lucas Shepherd

English Language and Literature ETDs

His family died in a car accident, but the vehicular mayhem of demolition derby still attracts former aircraft mechanic Sid Rivers. Rules of the road change on the track: you must crash. In between county fair derbies, Sid hunts for the hit-and-run driver who killed his family, but everything changes the night he gives a ride to the wrong hitchhiker: Eden, a recovering meth addict on the run. With her in tow, Sid must dodge a crucible of crooked cops, ex-football stars, and a taxidermist who doesn’t limit his work to the animal kingdom. Just before Sid ditches his troublesome …

Writing Language : Composition, The Academy, And Work., Bruce Horner

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

This paper argues that while college composition courses are commonly charged with remediating students by providing them with the literacy skills they lack, they may instead be redefined as providing the occasion for rewriting language and knowledge. By bringing to the fore the dependence of language and knowledge on the labor of writing, a pedagogy of recursion, mediation, and translation of knowledge through writing and revision counters neoliberalism’s commodification of knowledge and language, and offers an alternative justification for continuing education as the occasion for students to remediate language and knowledge through writing.

Portfolio Vol. Iv N 4, Dick Wager, Toby Raymond, John Wyman, Virginia Benson, Peg Collins, Leslie Seagrave, Molly White, Duke Smith, Ed Stocker, John Saunders

Portfolio

Wager, Dick. "Collective Bargaining." Prose. 3-5.

Raymond, Toby. "Lochinvar Rides Again." Poetry. 6.

Wyman, John. "Lily of the Alley." Prose. 8-9.

Benson, Virginia. "Lost Cause." Prose. 10.

Collins, Peg. "The Curtain Falls." Prose. 11.

Dorsey, Ann. "Jack." Picture. 12.

Sulke, Jim. "Old Pete." Picture. 12.

Myers, Sue. "Jerry." Picture. 12.

Rosenthal, Joan. "Canadian Farmhouse." Picture. 13.

Deeds, Ed. "Mirror Lake." Picture. 13.

Peters, Doris. "Trees." Picture. 13.

Seagrave, Leslie. "Chinese Coins." Poetry. 14.

White, Molly. "Thoughts in the Rain." Poetry. 14.

Smith, Duke. "Keeping the Records Straight." Prose. 15.

Stocker, Ed. "Joe." Prose. 16-17.

Saunders, John. "Seven Year's Luck." Prose. …

Portfolio Vol. Iv N 3, Virginia Benson, Alison Phillips, Margaret Shields, Thelma Willett, Karl Eschman, Bob Maxwell, John Wyman, Dorothy Hart, Roger Reed, William Mather, John Hammer, Duke Smith, Edward Stransky, Leslie Seagrave

Portfolio

Benson, Virginia. "Rejected." Prose. 3.

Phillips, Alison. "Lure in April." Poetry. 6.

Shields, Margaret. "Wedding Morning." Prose. 7.

Willett, Thelma. "Ex Libris: G.K.W." Poetry. 8.

Benson, Virginia. "High Note." Poetry. 8.

Maxwell, Bob. "Discovery." Poetry. 8.

Eschman, Karl. "The Case for Modern Music." Prose. 8-9.

Wyman, John. "Dissonance." Prose. 10-11.

Hart, Dorothy. "The Origin of Memorial Day." Prose. 12.

Reed, Roger. "Notes on the Drama." Prose. 13.

Parker, Mab. "Black Girl." Picture. 14.

Mather, William. "The Pasquin." Prose. 15.

Hammer, John. "Over the Green Grass." Prose. 16.

Maxwell, Bob. "Genesis..." Poetry. 19.

Maxwell, Bob. "We Three." Poetry. 19.

Stransky, Ed. …

Portfolio Vol. Iv N 2, Danner Mahood, Mary Virginia Lay, Dorothy Card, John Kinney, Adela Beckham, Robert Bridge, Gordon Seagrave Md, David K. Chin, Charles Jones, Duke Smith, Dave Siegfried, Margaret Shields, Adela Beckham, Toby Raymond, Horace King

Portfolio

Mahood, Danner L. "War Sonnets." Poetry. 2.

Lenser, Eugene. "Landscape." Picture. 2.

Lay, Mary Virginia. "Damned Laughter." Prose. 3-4.

Card, Dorothy. "They Call It Love." Prose. 5.

Kinney, John. "Maestro." Prose. 7-9.

Anstaett, Joe. "Styleglance." Picture. 6.

Beckham, Adela. "Still the Echo." Poetry. 10.

Bridge, Robert. "Design for Life." Prose. 11.

Seagrave, Dr. Gordon. "Letter from Burma." Prose. 12-13.

Chin, David K. "To know their theatre is to know the Chinese people." Prose. 15.

Jones, Charles. "The Bookshelf." Prose. 16.

Smith, Duke. "Keeping the Records Straight." Prose. 17.

Beckham, Adela. "If Love Could Be." Prose. 19.

Raymond, Toby. "The Courtship …

Portfolio Vol. Iii N 4, Willie Moll, John Barrington, Arthur Ward Lindsey, John Stewart, Allison Phillips, Lindsey E. Yoxall, Adela Beckham, Brooks Fields, Dorothy Deane, Duke Smith, David Timrud

Portfolio

Moll, Willlie. "I Was in Kitchener Camp." Prose. 5-6.

Barrington, John. "The Pledging of Homer McGunk." Prose. 7-9.

Stewart, John. "In Time of Death." Prose. 10.

Lindsey, Arthur Ward. "Retrospect." Prose. 11-13.

Phillips, Allison. "Blue Moon." Poetry. 14.

Yoxall, Lindsey E. "Pro Patria." Prose. 15-16.

Beckham, Adela. "Wind--Dreams." Poetry. 18.

Fields, Brooks. "The Doctor Takes a Trip." Prose. 19-20.

Deane, Dorothy. "Review of New Books." Prose. 21.

Smith, Duke. "Review of New Recordings." Prose. 21.

Timrud, David. "Refugee." Prose. 22-23.

Portfolio Vol. Iv N 1, Alison Phillips, John Hammer, Kenneth I. Brown, Mary Virginia Lay, Margaret Shields, Tom Rogers, Ira Price Iii, Betty Tinnerman, Virginia Benson, William Wilson, Leslie Seagrave, Bob Chester, Audrey Wurdmann, Joseph Auslander, Jean Koncana, David Timrud, Margaret Roach

Portfolio

Phillips, Alison. "Reflection." Poetry. 2.

Rood, John. "The Accused." Picture. 2.

Lay, Mary Virginia. "Irony." Poetry. 6.

Lay, Mary Virginia. "Not Know God?" Poetry. 6.

Shields, Margaret. "Hope." Poetry. 6.

Rogers, Tom. "Football and Education." Prose. 7.

Hammer, John. "Red?" Prose. 3-4.

Brown, Kenneth I. "The Christmas Guest." Prose. 5.

Price III, Ira. "Thomas Carlyle-Political Reactionary." Prose. 8-10.

Tinnerman, Betty. "Greater Love Hath No Man." Prose. 11.

Hall, Jim. "Gentlement--To Arms!" Prose. 12-13.

Benson, Virginia. "Drop That Hammer!" Prose. 14-15.

Wilson, William. "Thomas Wolfe--Volcano." Prose. 16.

Seagrave, Leslie. "Trelawney." Prose. 16.

Chester, Bob. "Keeping the Records Straight." Prose. 17.

Wurdman, …

Jack Apple And Blanche Cream, Annette Lust

The Tuxedo Archives

Cook: (narrating) One afternoon, after I finished preparing dinner, an apple with rosy cheeks and a pitcher full of thick white foamy cream stood on the kitchen table.

Cuckoo: Cuckoo! Look at handsome Jack Apple and sweet Blanche Cream! ~excerpt from short story

You Will Forget You Are Even Burning, Cheramie Johnson

The Tuxedo Archives

"There's places around here," Rego's mother told him once, outside on their front porch over coffee and tea, "where demons walk."

"Demons, then?" He was always playful, he always catered to her.

"Devils," she whispered harshly, and her skinny fingers shivered against her cigarette. ~excerpt from short story

Strange New World, Marcus Bowlus

The Tuxedo Archives

The trip between Egypt and Jerusalem had taken hours already, the environmental shielding on his sand skimmer shone a faint orange, the barren wastes flying by below were scattered with husks of tanks and bones, scorch marks still clinging to a battle field no one wanted to remember. ~excerpt from the short story

The Last Lesson, Travis Lyons

The Tuxedo Archives

Transmission sounds like it’s got maybe a day left in it before I really got to take it in. Put it off long enough now; ain’t like I’ve had any spare cash to pay for it. So now the damn thing sounds like it’s had enough. Fucking lovely. Refrigerator blew out yesterday; dropped my last light bulb while trying to replace the one in the kitchen. ~excerpt from short story

Waiting, Alexis Brown

The Tuxedo Archives

“Thinking about someone special?” a young woman with big round brown hazel eyes asked me as I sat waiting for my time to come. I didn’t really have anything else to think about while I sat on the old moldy looking chair inside the 36B Airport Terminal. All I could replay in my mind was the thought of my wife smiling at me when I finally got home. That is, if I ever got home. ~excerpt from short story

Gunman Slays 4 At Texas Church, Then Kills Self, Alexis Brown

The Tuxedo Archives

They were laughing at me, I knew it. I brushed the sweat off of my brow and looked forward at the tall looming steeple that had haunted my dreams for the better part of a year. I could see their false angelic faces staring back at me, mocking me, waiting to see if I would complete my mission. ~excerpt from short story

Winter Wings, Jennifer Jensen

The Tuxedo Archives

Aideen’s eyes glowed with envy as she watched her older sister Fia dance the Burning Dance in the center of the circle. Fia’s hair was a drifting mass of golden tendrils, and her thin, graceful limbs writhed in perfect unison with the movements of the flames. ~excerpt from short story

Jack In The Box, Laura L. Reiche

The Tuxedo Archives

Behold the bloodless puppet rising
out a cheap quadrangular man-hole.
Fluorescent mandarin hair forming
a deceptive heart around alabaster skin,
framing his daisy petal eyes, his pink colossal nose,
and boomerang mouth.

~excerpt from poem

Doors, Laura L. Reiche

The Tuxedo Archives

Staunch sentries of decision

gloating and imposing

tempting and untrustworthy. ~excerpt from poem

Dragon 04, Jennifer Jensen

The Tuxedo Archives

No abstract provided.

Dragon 03, Jennifer Jensen

The Tuxedo Archives

No abstract provided.

Dragon 01, Jennifer Jensen

The Tuxedo Archives

No abstract provided.

The White Light, Michael White

The Tuxedo Archives

No abstract provided.