The Victorian Newsletter (Fall 1993)

The Victorian Newsletter is sponsored for the Victorian Group of Modern Language Association by Western Kentucky University and is published twice annually.Eros and Logos in Some Fairy Tales by Oscar Wilde: A Jungian Interpretation / Clifton Snider -- "The Central Truth": Phallogocentrism in Aurora Leigh / Patricia Thomas Srebnik -- "I Magnify My Office": Christina Rossetti's Authoritative Voice in Her Devotional Prose / Joel Westerholm -- The Sterile Star of Venus: Swinburne's Dream of Flight / Peter Anderson -- Bringing to Earth the "Good Angel of the Race" / Michael Schiefelbein -- The Flawed Craft of A. E. Housman / A. R. Coulthard -- The Physiological Determinism Debate in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray / Terri A. Hasseler -- Overdetermined Allegory in Jekyll and Hyde / Cyndy Hendershot -- Books Received -- Group New

Liberatory Design Mindsets and Revolutionary Problem-Solving

Global Foundations of Character and Leadership is a first-year course that introduces students to learning skills within the liberal arts. I focus on complicating transactional leadership styles by developing liberatory design mindsets. Liberatory design mindsets encourage values that are grounded in recognizing oppression and inspiring courage. To do this, I integrate Augusto Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed activities. TO uses games and dramatized problems to help the audience identify problems and practice solutions. I argue that this work improves students’ ability to recognize oppression, manage fear and conflict, engage in creative problem solving, and challenge existing power dynamics