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ScholarWorks@Towson is an institutional repository for scholarly and other professional works created by members of the Towson University community. It is a part of the Maryland Shared Open Access Repository (MD-SOAR) initiative, a consortial institutional repository for institutions of higher learning throughout the state.
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Symbolic landscaping: Housman's Bredon hill
(Housman Society, 1982)[From article]: Structured by a series of juxtaposed images, A.E. Housman’s Bredon Hill articulates in a tautly symbolic way some of the elemental themes of A Shropshire Lad (1896), the book of poems in which it appears. -
Inspiring humanity through truth: rescue and resistance archived by the Holocaust Museum LA
(2022)The Holocaust Museum LA (HMLA) was founded in 1961 by Holocaust survivors and is the oldest survivor-founded Holocaust museum in the United States. HMLA’s mission is “to commemorate those who perished, honor those who ... -
Main lines of criticism of Fielding's Tom Jones, 1900-1978
(Anglo-American Associates, 1980)Except when questions of its morality got in the way of dispassionate criticism, as they did for Richardson, Johnson, and Hawkins, Tom Jones has continually been recognized as a masterpiece of design. As early as 1834 such ... -
Broadsides on the Thames: the social context of The rape of the lock, II, 47-52
(Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1986)[From article]: As Reuben Brower has shown, allusion in Pope is a resource equivalent to metaphor and imagery in other poets1 1 R. A. Brower, Alexander Pope: The Poetry of Allusion (Oxford, 1959). . Yet it is not merely ... -
Main lines of criticism of Fielding's Joseph Andrews, 1925-1978
(Anglo-American Associates, 1981)[From article]: Unlike the inferences of a vicious Fielding that the critics draw from Shamela or a gloomy Fielding from Jonathan Wild, those from Joseph Andrews uniformly depict him as a cheerful man highly conscious of ... -
Tarsicius: a hagiographical allusion in Joyce's "Araby"
(Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 1991)[From article]: In his story "Araby" Joyce alludes to a Roman martyr both to designate a comic touch by the narrator and to deepen the themes of disillusionment and deflated romanticism. This purposefully melodramatic ... -
Pricing water's true cost
[From paper]: Recently, a California panel rejected a proposal for a USD 1.4 billion desalination plant to convert ocean water into drinking water. The developer had hoped the plant would address the state’s megadrought ... -
An analysis on the United States' approach to resolving statelessness
(2021-05)[From Introduction:] Experts on statelessness emphasize that if the goals of the #IBelong are to be reached by 2024, drastic changes will have to be enacted by key international players. The United States, a global power ... -
The Progress of Patriotism and Biography: The Battle of Trafalgar in Southey's The Life of Nelson
(United States Air Force Academy. Department of English and Fine Arts, 1997)[From article]: "Every poet," said Ovid, "bears the burden of Homer" (I.i). And every biographer faces the problems and looks to the standard of Plutarch. But the biographer of a contemporary bears the burden of his times ... -
Intentional failure and Rhianna's tattoo as pedagogy
(Elsevier, 2022-07-05)Academic teaching librarians are often classroom visitors, with limited time to build relationships with students and teach them something useful. To maximize impact, librarians commonly deploy a canned search to demonstrate ... -
Steele's "Curs" and Fielding's Hounds
(Oxford University Press, 1979-12)A discussion of the source of the names for the squire's dogs in Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews. -
Can a Gentleman Rage?: Ben Franklin on the Curve of Satire
(Central Piedmont Community College (Charlotte, N.C.), 2011)[From article]: It was the Golden Age of satire, the eighteenth century in England, and Swift, Pope, Gay, Addison and Steele, Fielding, and Jane Austen were the gold standard. Never has a country before or since produced ... -
The rationalization of craft beer from medieval monks to modern microbrewers: A Weberian analysis
(West Virginia University Press, 2017)[From chapter Introduction]: In this chapter, I explore how the production of craft beer is thoroughly rationalized and involves a surprising amount of technical expertise and scientific standardization that have become ... -
The Tone in the Tune: An Echo of Burns in Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush"
(Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017)[From article:] The most anthologized of Thomas Hardy's poems, "The Darkling Thrush," is also a site of contesting themes of skepticism, agnosticism, denial, and regret [...] Yet there is a chorus of agreement about the ... -
War in British Romantic Literary Scholarship
(University of Chicago. Press. Journals Division, 2017-11)[From article] But for almost a century since Henry Beers’s History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century (New York, 1899), the mainlines of literary scholarship, criticism, and popular thought have viewed the ... -
Monastic asceticism and the rationalization of beer-making in the Middle Ages
(Association Villard de Honnecourt for Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science and Art, 2011)[From Introduction] [...] what appears to be unique about the relation-ship between the Church and beer is both the scale and skill that were applied to its production by monks in the Middle Ages. As Unger (2004, 26) ... -
Fandom as religion: a social-scientific assessment
(Intellect (Firm), 2021-06)My objective in this article is to outline both a conceptual and a methodological reframing of the ‘fandom as religion’ comparison from a social-scientific perspective. This comparison is familiar territory by now. It has ... -
The globalization of comic-con and the sacralization of popular culture
(Palgrave Macmillan (Firm), 2018)In 1970, the Golden State Comic-Con was held in San Diego, California, with about 300 people in attendance. At the time, it was a relatively small convention of writers, artists and enthusiasts of comic books as well as ... -
The inherent violence of queer love (as told with deconstructuralism within queer theory)
(2022-05)[From paper]: The poem “You Are Jeff” by Richard Siken is a non-linear, multi-paragraph, highly metaphorical piece that depicts a deeply unsettling ideal of love in the eyes of the narrator. There is a character, Jeff – ... -
Evaluating the Consistency and Quality of Search Strategies and Methodology in Cochrane Urology Group Systematic Reviews
(2018)Introduction: Systematic reviews (SRs) are the foundation of evidence-based medicine. As essential tools for synthesizing and evaluating evidence, they guide informed decision-making for clinicians and other stakeholders. ...