|
 Fury
of the Pen is a collection of scholarship and creative work designed
for the composition student. The scholarship is intended as example
for the student, of MLA format and solid and substantive argument
in the field of literary analysis. The creative works are all
original examples for students to use in their own literary analyses
often required in composition courses. The text is designed to
help in the prevention of plagiarism of scholarship on literary
work. None of the creative work is available anywhere else.
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in English -- New Mexico State University,
Las Cruces, New Mexico, 1985.
Master of Arts (M.A.) in English -- Middlebury College, Middlebury,
Vermont, 1998.
Master of Letters (M.Litt.) in 19th Century Intertextuality in
British Literature -- Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont,
2004.
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in English -- University of Texas at
Arlington, Arlington, Texas. ABD. Dissertation Topic: Filial Obligation
in Medieval Literature.
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CHAPTER
THE FIRST: SCHOLARSHIP
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Fictive
Kinship and the Failure of Hispanic Collectivity
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10
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College
Composition: Revising the Dream
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26
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Bread
Loaf Commencement Address, 1998
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45
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Bread
Loaf Commencement Address, 2004
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50
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Master
of Letters Comprehensive Written Examination, 2004
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59
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Beowulf's
Heroism: An Hero's Lack of Humanity
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69
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Griselda
and Sacrifice: What Had To Be Done
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87
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| The
Lollard Tendencies in the Wife of Bath's Prologue |
95
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| Odysseus'
Relationship With Athena: He Must Be Allowed To Be A Man |
110
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| The
Return and Goodbye of the Great Epic Hero in Tennyson's "Ulysses" |
117
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| Interpretations
of Familial Importance in Book 6 of the Iliad and Book 23
of the Odyssey |
125
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| The
Melodrama of Collins' The Woman In White |
139
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| Elizabeth
I and the Epistemology of Rhetorical Concealment |
148
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| Silas
and Michael: Two of a Kind |
168
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| CHAPTER
THE SECOND: SHORT STORIES |
| Tom's |
178
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| The
Teliad - An Mini Epic |
188
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| Passage |
209
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| Allie |
210
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| Broke,
But Not Poor |
226
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| Sumner
Lake |
230
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| Rhapsody
In Fire |
236
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| Girlfriend
In Central Philly |
252
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| Funeral
For A Fly |
254
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| Toro! |
255
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| In
The Sound Of A Bell |
256
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| When
Yellow Sky Turned Blue (A Reworking of Stephen Crane's "Bride
Comes to Yellow Sky") |
258
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| CHAPTER
THE THIRD: POETRY (sort of) |
| How
To Make A Tortilla |
267
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| As
I Eat My Burrito |
267
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| Bridge |
268
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| Nonconformity |
268
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| Eye |
268
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| Haiku
1 |
269
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| Haiku
2 |
269
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| Overload |
269
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| Coquette |
269
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| Reprieve |
270
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| I
Get Off On: |
270
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| Major
Minor |
270
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| The
Bee |
271
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| Muldoon
Exercise |
271
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| Asher's
Pain, My Pain |
272
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| Innocence
at Johnson Pond |
272
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| Sonnet
I |
273
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| Sonnet
II |
273
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| Cuckold |
273
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| Coming
Home Again |
274
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| You |
275
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| From
A Waiter's Perspective |
275
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| Maestro |
276
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| Promises
and Lies |
276
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| Spectacles
of Life |
277
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| No
Reason - No Excuse |
278
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