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Publications:
| Through the Bricks and into a Book | |||
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This presentation examines how non-traditional students (Vietnam and Iraq-war veterans at a government veterans' facility) wrote and produced a book, Voices from the Rock, from a world of institutionalized brick. |
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| “Dialogic” as Diversity: Considering Bakhtin’s Theory of the Novel as Template for a Multi-cultural Curriculum in a Literature or Language Arts Classroom | |||
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Mikhail Bakhtin theorized how the novel “denies the absolutism of a single unitary language” and grows from divergent languages. Why can’t a teacher’s multi-cultural curriculum reflect a similar approach? |
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| Exhuming the Community, Undressing the Ritual | |||
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A Madagascar exhumation ritual, Famadihana, becomes the blueprint for classroom discourse the same way a Famadihana creates a “dialogue” between the living and the dead. |
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| The Muse in Mourning: Or Why the Author Mopes and Starves in a Garret | |||
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When did the writer starve for art? This romantic conception has its roots in Robert Burton’s 17th century work, The Anatomy of Melancholy, a work that still defines authorship today. |
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| Rebels with a Cause: How the Female Teen Protagonist is Challenging the Traditional Male Coming of Age Story in Fiction Used in the Classroom | |||
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Teen male rebels without a cause are established literary protagonists. But the female rebels of two recent novels, Push, and Persepolis, show that you can rebel with a cause. |
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| Embracing the Marginalized: How the ‘Diversity’ of Exile Creates Identity in Carolina Maria De Jesus’ Diary Child of the Dark and James Joyce’s Autobiographical Novel a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | |||
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Exile: an unlikely state to find community. Yet in two literary works (a diary and novel) the authors find community in exile: a state rich in diversity, rich in possibility. |
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| Seceding from the Narrative: How the Criminal Underworlds in William Burroughs’ Naked Lunch Map out a Non-Linear Narrative through the Creation of “Temporary Autonomous Zones” | |||
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In various criminal underworld scenes, William Burroughs secedes from traditional linear narrative to create a subversive non-linear landscape that reconfigures the text into a series of interrelated "temporary autonomous zones." |
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| “Not Numbering and Counting, but Ripening Like a Tree”: How Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet can Provide for both Students and Teachers a Framework for this Fuzzy Thing “Creativity” | |||
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Is there a way to define this often fuzzy concept, "Creativity"? Yes. In Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, creativity is like a Socratic dialogue the artist has with nature. |
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