The Dual Literary Biography of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton: A Review of Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton by Gail Crowther

This book review provides an overview of the newest biography about Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton

Open access transport models: A leverage point in sustainable transport planning

A large and growing body of evidence suggests fundamental changes are needed in transport systems, to tackle issues such as air pollution, physical inactivity and climate change. Transport models can play a major role in tackling these issues through the transport planning process, but they have historically been focussed on motorised modes (especially cars) and available only to professional transport planners working within the existing paradigm. Building on the principles of open access software, first developed in the context of geographic information systems, this paper develops and discusses the concept of open access transport models, which we define as models that are both developed using open source software and are available to be used by the public without the need for specialist training or the purchase of software licences. We explore the future potential of open access transport models to support the transition away from fossil fuels in the transport sector. We do this with reference to the literature on the use of tools in the planning process, and by exploring an example that is already in use: the ‘Propensity to Cycle Tool’. We conclude that open access transport models can be a leverage point in the planning process due to their ability to provide robust, transparent and actionable evidence that is available to a range of stakeholders, not just professional transport planners. Open access transport models represent a disruptive technology deserving further research and development, by planners, researchers and citizen scientists, including open source software developers and advocacy groups but, in order to fulfil their potential, they will require both financial and policy support from government bodies

La política sexual en "La Tierra Baldía": tratamiento de Eliot de la mujer y su cuerpo en «Una Partida de Ajedrez» y «El Sermón de Fuego»

El tratamiento de la violación en The Waste Land (1922) permite establecer una conexión entre la víctima traumatizada y el también traumatizado mundo moderno. La Primera Guerra Mundial fue un desencadenante de la „literatura del trauma« subsiguiente, un acontecimiento amenazador que llevó a una generación de escritores a lidiar con el desplazamiento de su noción del mundo y a reevaluar el estado del mundo de la posguerra. A través de The Waste Land, se identifican los males sociales de la modernidad, pero el tratamiento que da Eliot a la mujer y a su cuerpo en «A Game of Chess» y «The Fire Sermon» subraya una identificación femenina así como un apoyo hacia un sistema de creencias diferente al capitalismo patriarcal. Mediante el estudio de la poética de Eliot y de su política sexual, este trabajo propugna la reconsideración de The Waste Land como obra literaria feminista.Rape in The Waste Land (1922) works on one level to allow for a connection between the traumatized rape victim and the traumatized modern world. World War I was the impetus for the trauma literature that followed it, a life-threatening event that caused a generation of writers to grapple with the displacement of their notions about the world and to reevalulate the state of the postwar world. Throughout The Waste Land, the social ills of modernity are addressed, but Eliot’s treatment of women and their bodies in «A Game of Chess» and «The Fire Sermon» underscores a feminine identification, as well as advocacy for a belief system other than patriarchal capitalism. Through an examination of Eliot’s poetics and sexual politics, this paper urges for a reconsideration of The Waste Land as a feminist literary work

Modernist Style, Identity Politics, and Trauma in Hemingway’s Big Two-Hearted River and Stein’s Picasso

Examines and compares the two texts as literary artifacts of and responses to the modernist moment. Finds that Hemingway surpasses his mentor’s work through his treatment of masculinity and trauma, capturing the violence and chaos of the modern world

Representations of war and trauma in embodied modernist literature : the identity politics of Amy Lowell, Djuna Barnes, H.D., and Gertrude Stein

This study situates the literary works of Amy Lowell, Djuna Barnes, H.D., and Gertrude Stein in a genealogy of American modernist war writing by women that disrupts and revises patriarchal war narrative. These authors take ownership of war and war-related trauma as subjects for women writers. Combining the theories of Dominick LaCapra, Judith Butler, Elaine Scarry, and Elizabeth Grosz with close readings of primary texts, I offer feminist analyses that account for trauma and real-world materiality in literary representations of female embodiment in wartime. This framework enables an interdisciplinary discussion that focuses on representations of war and trauma in conjunction with identity politics.I examine Lowell's poetry collection Men, Women and Ghosts (1916), Barnes's novel Nightwood (1936), H.D.'s poem Trilogy (1944-1946), and Stein's novel Mrs. Reynolds (1952). The chapters highlight the progressively feminist and personal ownership of war and trauma embedded in the texts. Lowell and Barnes begin the work of deconstructing gendered binary constructions and inserting women into war narrative, and H.D. and Stein continue this trajectory through cultivation of more pronounced depictions of women and their bodies in war narrative.The strategies are distinct and specific to each author, but there are common characteristics in their literary responses to World War I and World War II. Each author protests war: war is destructive for Lowell, perverse for Barnes, traumatic for H.D., and disruptive for Stein. Additionally, each author renders female bodies as sites of contested identity and as markers of presence in war narrative. The female bodies portrayed are often traumatized and marked by the ravages of war: bodily injury and psychological and emotional distress. H.D. and Stein envision strategies for resolving (if only partially) trauma, but Lowell and Barnes do not.This project recovers alternative war narratives by important American modernist women writers, expands the definition and canon of war literature, contributes new scholarship on works by the selected authors, and constructs an original critical framework. The ramifications of this study are an increased awareness of who was writing about war and the shape that responses to it took in avant-garde literature of the early twentieth century.Department of EnglishThesis (Ph. D.

Representations of war and trauma in embodied modernist literature : the identity politics of Amy Lowell, Djuna Barnes, H.D., and Gertrude Stein

This study situates the literary works of Amy Lowell, Djuna Barnes, H.D., and Gertrude Stein in a genealogy of American modernist war writing by women that disrupts and revises patriarchal war narrative. These authors take ownership of war and war-related trauma as subjects for women writers. Combining the theories of Dominick LaCapra, Judith Butler, Elaine Scarry, and Elizabeth Grosz with close readings of primary texts, I offer feminist analyses that account for trauma and real-world materiality in literary representations of female embodiment in wartime. This framework enables an interdisciplinary discussion that focuses on representations of war and trauma in conjunction with identity politics.I examine Lowell's poetry collection Men, Women and Ghosts (1916), Barnes's novel Nightwood (1936), H.D.'s poem Trilogy (1944-1946), and Stein's novel Mrs. Reynolds (1952). The chapters highlight the progressively feminist and personal ownership of war and trauma embedded in the texts. Lowell and Barnes begin the work of deconstructing gendered binary constructions and inserting women into war narrative, and H.D. and Stein continue this trajectory through cultivation of more pronounced depictions of women and their bodies in war narrative.The strategies are distinct and specific to each author, but there are common characteristics in their literary responses to World War I and World War II. Each author protests war: war is destructive for Lowell, perverse for Barnes, traumatic for H.D., and disruptive for Stein. Additionally, each author renders female bodies as sites of contested identity and as markers of presence in war narrative. The female bodies portrayed are often traumatized and marked by the ravages of war: bodily injury and psychological and emotional distress. H.D. and Stein envision strategies for resolving (if only partially) trauma, but Lowell and Barnes do not.This project recovers alternative war narratives by important American modernist women writers, expands the definition and canon of war literature, contributes new scholarship on works by the selected authors, and constructs an original critical framework. The ramifications of this study are an increased awareness of who was writing about war and the shape that responses to it took in avant-garde literature of the early twentieth century.Thesis (Ph. D.)Department of Englis

Teaching Gender and Culture in Interdisciplinary Ways: An English and International Business Partnership

We will show how English and International Business collaborated to develop an interdisciplinary class session focusing on gender and culture. The lesson plan and the research results that verified its effectiveness will be presented. In our class, students were introduced to theories about gender and culture, and they read literature that reflects and contradicts an index of gender used in International Business. A questionnaire that asks students to report their views on gender and culture before and after the activity was administered. The qualitative data demonstrated that students\u27 learning outcomes were achieved. After the activity, students possessed a more complex and sophisticated understanding of gender as a cultural construction and something that is not an easily-defined dimension of identity. Attendees can expect to gain knowledge in building collaboration with other professors and in developing strategies for introducing interdisciplinary topics that foster critical thinking in the classroom

A history of the ancient world,

Contains bibliographies.Mode of access: Internet