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Fiction In Fact And Fact In Fiction In The Writing Of Joyce Carol Oates, Tanya L. Tromble Jan 2015

Fiction In Fact And Fact In Fiction In The Writing Of Joyce Carol Oates, Tanya L. Tromble

Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies

Joyce Carol Oates draws extensively on news stories, as well as on elements of her own family’s past, to find inspiration for her works of fiction. She has written about the Chappaquiddick incident involving Ted Kennedy and the JonBenet Ramsay murder case. She has worked the Niagara Falls Love Canal environmental scandal into the framework of The Falls and taken inspiration from sordid events from her own family’s past in the beginning of The Gravedigger’s Daughter. However, in none of these examples does Oates purport to relate the precise real-life “facts” of the historical events. Indeed, for an author …


A Model Citizen: Ethos, Conservation, And The Rhetorical Construction Of Aldo Leopold, Daniel Cryer Jan 2015

A Model Citizen: Ethos, Conservation, And The Rhetorical Construction Of Aldo Leopold, Daniel Cryer

English Language and Literature ETDs

This dissertation explores the changing, multifaceted ethos of Aldo Leopold (1887-1948), one of the twentieth centurys most versatile environmental communicators. Drawing on scholarship in environmental rhetoric, rhetorical genre theory, citizenship theory and ecofeminism, I argue that throughout his career Leopold offered evolving rhetorical versions of himself as ideals of ecological behavior to be emulated by his readers. The chapters analyze Leopold's ethos as it was constructed in his early-career writings in the New Mexico Game Protective Association Pine Cone, a wildlife protection broadsheet; in the Report on a Game Survey of the North Central States, his first book; in reports …


January 26, 2015: Rogers Shakespeare Essay Contest 2015, Department Of English Jan 2015

January 26, 2015: Rogers Shakespeare Essay Contest 2015, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.


January 26, 2015: Attention Medievalist Grad Students: Medieval Studies Workshop At Newberry Library, Department Of English Jan 2015

January 26, 2015: Attention Medievalist Grad Students: Medieval Studies Workshop At Newberry Library, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.


Review Of The Sacrifice, Eric K. Anderson Jan 2015

Review Of The Sacrifice, Eric K. Anderson

Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies

Review of Joyce Carol Oates's novel The Sacrifice focusing on how racial politics in America can transform individuals into symbols, erasing their human complexity.


Sammye Greer, Sammye Greer Jan 2015

Sammye Greer, Sammye Greer

All oral histories

Professor of English Sammye Greer was on faculty at IWU from 1970-1982. On behalf of the newly-formed 2014 Women's Caucus, Greer was asked to provide any recollections she had of the ca. 1970s IWU Women's Caucus, including any records or documentation that might still exist. Her remarks describe the campus climate for female faculty, events of the Caucus in her era, and perspectives on the issues she encountered as department chair.

Dr. Greer received IWU's Teaching Excellence Award and gave an Honors Day Convocation address in May 1978. The text for that address may be found at http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/teaching_excellence/42


The Oil Man And The Sea: Navigating The Northern Gateway By Arno Kopecky, Patricia H. Audette-Longo Jan 2015

The Oil Man And The Sea: Navigating The Northern Gateway By Arno Kopecky, Patricia H. Audette-Longo

The Goose

Review of Arno Kopecky's The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway.


Imperiling Our Children: An Interview With Fred Stenson About Who By Fire, Jon Gordon Jan 2015

Imperiling Our Children: An Interview With Fred Stenson About Who By Fire, Jon Gordon

The Goose

This interview with Alberta novelist Fred Stenson focuses on his most recent novel, Who By Fire. The discussion examines the role of environmentalists and the legal system in responding to the oil and gas industry in Alberta, as well as other issues connected to Stenson's work.


The Dove In Bathurst Station By Patricia Westerhof, Matthew Zantingh Jan 2015

The Dove In Bathurst Station By Patricia Westerhof, Matthew Zantingh

The Goose

Review of Patricia Westerhof's The Dove in Bathurst Station.


Invisible Dogs By Barry Dempster, David Huebert Jan 2015

Invisible Dogs By Barry Dempster, David Huebert

The Goose

Review of Barry Dempster's Invisible Dogs.


Outside, Inside By Michael Penny, Mark Byers Jan 2015

Outside, Inside By Michael Penny, Mark Byers

The Goose

Review of Michael Penny's Outside, Inside.


After Alice By Karen Hofmann, Dania Tomlinson Jan 2015

After Alice By Karen Hofmann, Dania Tomlinson

The Goose

Book review of Karen Hofmann's After Alice.


Pastoral By André Alexis, Alec Follett Jan 2015

Pastoral By André Alexis, Alec Follett

The Goose

Review of Pastoral by André Alexis.


Rewriting The Break Event: Mennonites And Migration In Canadian Literature By Robert Zacharias, Jenny Kerber Jan 2015

Rewriting The Break Event: Mennonites And Migration In Canadian Literature By Robert Zacharias, Jenny Kerber

The Goose

Review of Rewriting the Break Event: Mennonites and Migration in Canadian Literature by Robert Zacharias.


Conversations With A Dead Man: The Legacy Of Duncan Campbell Scott By Mark Abley, Rebecca Phillips Jan 2015

Conversations With A Dead Man: The Legacy Of Duncan Campbell Scott By Mark Abley, Rebecca Phillips

The Goose

This review explores Mark Abley's book on the legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott, the poet/bureaucrat responsible for the development and implementation of Canada's failed residential schools policy for indigenous children. The book places Scott in the context of his time while examining the results of his agency's policies.


In The Interval Of The Wave: Prince Edward Island Women's Nineteenth- And Early Twentieth-Century Life Writing By Mary Mcdonald-Rissanen, Joshua Bartlett Jan 2015

In The Interval Of The Wave: Prince Edward Island Women's Nineteenth- And Early Twentieth-Century Life Writing By Mary Mcdonald-Rissanen, Joshua Bartlett

The Goose

Review of In the Interval of the Wave: Prince Edward Island Women's Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Life Writing by Mary McDonald-Rissanen.


Journey With No Maps: A Life Of P.K. Page By Sandra Djwa, Mckay Mcfadden Jan 2015

Journey With No Maps: A Life Of P.K. Page By Sandra Djwa, Mckay Mcfadden

The Goose

Review of Journey With No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page by Sandra Djwa.


Sybil Unrest By Larissa Lai And Rita Wong, Emily Mcgiffin Jan 2015

Sybil Unrest By Larissa Lai And Rita Wong, Emily Mcgiffin

The Goose

Review of Sybil Unrest by Larissa Lai and Rita Wong.


In Antarctica: An Amundsen Pilgrimage By Jay Ruzesky, Jennifer Schell Jan 2015

In Antarctica: An Amundsen Pilgrimage By Jay Ruzesky, Jennifer Schell

The Goose

Review of In Antarctica: An Amundsen Pilgrimage by Jay Ruzesky.


Eng 1002-004, 015, 025: Composition And Literature, Tammy Veach Jan 2015

Eng 1002-004, 015, 025: Composition And Literature, Tammy Veach

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.


Eng 4775-001: Literary Theory, Culture, And Criticism, Ruben Quesada Jan 2015

Eng 4775-001: Literary Theory, Culture, And Criticism, Ruben Quesada

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.


Eng 3901-001: Language And Linguistics, Davia Markelis Jan 2015

Eng 3901-001: Language And Linguistics, Davia Markelis

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.


Eng 4275/5960-001, 003: Internship In Professional Writing, Terri Fredrick Jan 2015

Eng 4275/5960-001, 003: Internship In Professional Writing, Terri Fredrick

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.


Eng 4300/4390-001, 099: Science Fiction By Women, Majorie Worthington Jan 2015

Eng 4300/4390-001, 099: Science Fiction By Women, Majorie Worthington

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.


Eng 4801-001: Integrating The English Language Arts, Donna Binns Jan 2015

Eng 4801-001: Integrating The English Language Arts, Donna Binns

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.


Eng 4950-001: Literary History, Diversity, And The Cultural History Of Authorship, Angela Vietto Jan 2015

Eng 4950-001: Literary History, Diversity, And The Cultural History Of Authorship, Angela Vietto

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.


Eng 5020-001: Graduate Workshop In Creative Writing, Charlotte Pence Jan 2015

Eng 5020-001: Graduate Workshop In Creative Writing, Charlotte Pence

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.


Eng 1001-001: Composition & Language, Dan Tessitore Jan 2015

Eng 1001-001: Composition & Language, Dan Tessitore

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.


Eng 1002-003: Composition And Literature, L. A. Berry Jan 2015

Eng 1002-003: Composition And Literature, L. A. Berry

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.


Eng 1002-007: Real And Imagined: Literature And The World, Melissa Caldwell Jan 2015

Eng 1002-007: Real And Imagined: Literature And The World, Melissa Caldwell

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.