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Artifacts : a journal of undergraduate writing, Issue 1, 2008 Summer : contents page
(Campus Writing Program, 2008)
The Circulation of Poetry in the Eighteenth Century: The Case of Charles Plumptre's Manuscript Volume
(Folger Shakespeare Library, 2005)
On September 7, 1728 Charles Plumptre began a manuscript miscellany book of poetry, A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (Folger MS M.a.104). Much of what Plumptre carefully copies is light verse of the kind that might ...
What You Looking At Me For? : The Black Comedian as Fetish Object [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Through numerous descriptions of Africans and indigenous peoples, travel writing and other historical documents reveal that Europeans continually fetishized the bodies of the people they encountered. By thrusting the ...
Spying on Lazarus in the Cave: Keats and the Still Body in The Fall of Hyperion [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
If accepted for the conference, my presentation will be a critical exploration of John Keats' craft in The Fall of Hyperion, particularly his description of bodies. I contend that in his choice to describe still bodies, ...
The Death of Maternity : Decaying Female Bodies in Mary Shelley's Fiction [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
In this paper, I examine the trope of the dying woman in Mary Shelley's early works, including Frankenstein, Mathilda, and her short fiction. Critics are in general agreement that two of Frankenstein's essential subjects ...
Identifying and transforming normalcy : challenges to compulsory able-bodied oppression in the deaf community [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
This paper integrates excerpts taken from a fieldwork-based, thesis-length project that examines the personal experience narratives of Deaf and Hearing mothers of Deaf children. Driven by the goal of joining folkloric ...
Producing the Body : Habeas Corpus and Closure in Burney's Court Diaries [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
This paper is part of a larger project which investigates the ways in which eighteenth-century novelist Frances Burney's body of work (novels, plays, and life-writing) create a sense (or no-sense) of an ending. In this ...
The Outer Space : Representations of White Bodies in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart uses white bodies to connote abnormalcy in African culture at the start of colonialism. Written as a counter-hegemonic strategical novel in response to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, ...
The Suburban Body in American Modern Poetry [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Critics seem only recently to have taken note of the prevalence of the suburbs as content in American poetry. Robert Van Hallberg ends his American Poetry and Culture, 1945-1980 with a brief discussion of the poetry that ...
Jane Austen's Dirty Jokes [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
While folklorists, including Katherine Briggs, have asserted that Jane Austen's novels contain no folklore, Jill Heydt-Stevens and other Austen scholars have argued that Austen knowingly inserts obscene humor, puns, and ...
Look into My Eyes: Subalternity and Physicallity in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
In Gayatri Spivak's "Can the Subaltern Speak?" She maintains that no the subaltern cannot speak. This is because the subaltern's identity has been constructed and shaped by western ideologies, and there is no space outside ...
Annexing the planets : the colonization of the alien body in science fiction [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Science fiction has its historical beginnings in the late colonial era, and the discourse of colonialism shares with the discourse of science fiction a terminology of discovery, exploration, conquest, mapping and the ...
Mighty Maidenhood: Medieval Women and the Attempt to Break Free from the Curse of Eve [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Throughout the middle ages, women were seen -- and condemned -- as daughters of Eve, representing the flesh and sexual desire. However, women were not left with Eve as their sole role model, since Eve has an exact opposite ...
The Rhetoric of Guilt and the Body [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Guilt is an emotion common to most individuals. It is also a less common rhetorical device used to persuade an audience toward making one decision or another. Yet, when we look at the history of rhetoric, Aristotle in ...
Rendering the Body: Creative Expressions and Body Projects [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
This panel will consist of five graduate students from the Department of English: three poets (John A. Nieves, Liz Fletcher, Marc McKee), a fiction writer (Joanna Luloff) and a creative non-fiction writer (Robert Foreman). ...
The Logic of Recovery [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
"Body," as vague of a term as it is, can encompass any number of possibilities. My creative nonfiction essay The Logic of Recovery discusses the intersection of "body" as a physical, mental and emotional form existing ...
The Evolution of the format for physics of thin films
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
It is crucial that a scholarly journal develop over time to adapt to the advancing needs and demands of its readers. Every change, though not always drastic, should be an attempt to improve the quality of information ...
The birth of a union : an archival history of Missouri's Memorial Union
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
In the early 20th century, the University of Missouri made the decision to create a memorable Student Union. However, it was not until sometime in 1919, after the end of the World War it was suggested there should be a ...
A History of the Maneater
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
In 1955 when Joel J. Gold, better known at the time as Joe Gold, was approached with the opportunity to become editor of The Maneater, he was unaware of the change he was about to make. He was also unaware of the impact ...
Identification with the need to achieve
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
How an ad featured in Seventeen magazine appeals to the need to achieve.