Theatre Arts

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Edith Wharton's "Book of the Grotesque": Sherwood Anderson, Modernism, and the Late Stories

Discusses Edith Wharton's "The Looking Glass" and "The Day of the Funeral" in relation to macabre humor and Anderson's theory of the grotesque

A literary Expatriate: Hamlin Garland, Edith Wharton, and the Politics of a Literary Reputation

Analyzes Hamlin Garland's three autobiographical accounts of his 1924 meeting with Edith Wharton as an index of her reputation as novelist and expatriate

More than a Family Resemblance? Agnes Crane's "A Victorious Defeat" and Stephen Crane's The Third Violet1

Analyzes Stephen Crane's The Third Violet in the context of his sister Agnes Crane's vacation story "A Victorious Retreat.

A Forgotten Daughter of Bohemia: Gertrude Christian Fosdick’s Out of Bohemia and the Artists’ Novel of the 1890s

This article provides a biographical sketch of Gertrude Christian Fosdick and analyzes her little-known novel of a female artist, Out of Bohemia (1894), in the context of Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady and Hawthorne's The Marble Faun

“Have you read my ‘Christ’ story?”: Mary Austin’s The Man Jesus and London’s The Star Rover

Analyzes Jack London's The Star Rover and Mary Austin's The Man Jesus in light of their correspondence

The Current Structure of Intellect Remediation Lab as an Intervention for Deficient Readers in Grades 3, 4, and 5

Problem. Educational testing procedures focus on identification and classification of students rather than on remediation for their abilities. The Structure of Intellect (SOI) model proposes a multidimensional view of intelligence with a focus on remediation for underdeveloped or nonexistent abilities as they relate to school achievement. Purpose. The purposes of this study were to determine if participation in the SOI remediation lab had a measurable effect on reading achievement with third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade students, and to describe SOI learning profiles of students with below grade reading skills. Methodology. The subjects for this quasi-experimental study were third-, fourth-, and fifth-graders from two public schools. Eleven subtests from the SOI Learning Abilities Tests, Forms CR and L, purportedly related to reading, were used as pre- and post-test measures. ANCOVA was used to analyze data from these 11 subtests. The Burns & Roe Informal Reading Inventory was a pre/post measure of reading. Chi-square was used to analyze the pro-portions of students making gains in reading achievement. The SOI learning profiles were analyzed descriptively. Findings and conclusions. The results supported the SOI Intervention lab as a useful intervention for remedial reading. Students who participated in the SOI remediation labshowed significant increases in reading achievement. The 11 subtests proposed as prerequisite skills for reading and comprehension did not uniformly increase as did the reading levels. Gains were only noted on 4 of the 11 subtests. There were no discernable patterns of SOI learning profiles that predicted below grade level reading skills. It appears that the SOI remediation lab could serve as an effective intervention for students with deficient reading skills in grades three though five. The lack of discernable distinct learning profiles limits the Forms CR and L of the Structure of Intellect Learning Abilities tests as a possible option for identification