Browsing SEGue: Symposium for English Graduate Students by Issue Date
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“Virtues do not all belong to the whites”: The Portrayals of Americanization and Miscegenation in Sui Sin Far’s Mrs. Spring Fragrance
(2016-04-23)The works of Sui Sin Far, who is widely recognized as the first Asian-American writer, revolve around questions of identity that capture the dissenting voices surrounding Asian-American immigration. A biracial woman of ... -
Rosamond: A study in the Importance of Greek Mythology
(2016-04-23)The paper that I wish to present is from my master’s thesis. It deals with Henry the II’s mistress Rosamond and how an author in the 16th century present her story. The author that I would talk about is Samuel Daniel and ... -
Justifying Existence: Positioning Autism in a World of Capitalist Expectation
(2016-04-23)In Glen Finland’s memoir Next Stop, a mother confronts the decades-old American parenting ritual of helping a child to obtain their first job. Finland’s experience with her first two sons proved relatively typical; the ... -
“Hie Thee Hither”: Female Sexuality as the “Supernatural Solicitor” in Goold’s Macbeth (2010).
(2016-04-23)Who bears the responsibility for the tragedies of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth? To what extent are each of them culpable for the destruction they unleash on themselves, each other, and Scotland? Rupert Goold’s Macbeth (2010) ... -
The Death of the Angel in the House and the Rise of the Tomboy in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women and Carson McCullers’ The Member of the Wedding
(2016-04-23)Through an examination of Beth March in Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women” and John Henry West in Carson McCullers’s “The Member of the Wedding,” each as representatives of the angel in the house, this paper considers the ... -
Registration & Refreshments
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“Grandma Jane"
(2016-04-23)This poem was originally a poem created for a dedication book given to my grandmother on her 90th birthday. After several revisions, and a few white lies, (poems are always better when you lie), I hope I’ve created a worthy ... -
The Moss Will Grow Over Us
(2016-04-23)I would like to present an original poem for the SEGue Conference. The poem, called “The Moss Will Grow Over Us,” mainly focuses on the difficulties of loving and supporting a person with mental illness, specifically when ... -
Can't Shake Koinonia
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Sweet Apology
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Xiao Hua
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De-capitalizing the “I”: Worlds both Inner and Shared in the Whitmanian Lyric
(2016-04-23)When critics and scholars attempt to define the lyric poem as entirely individual—a prison song overheard—or social—a “privileging of the political over the private spheres” (Dubrow 120)—one risks overlooking the nuanced ... -
The Un-Unsexing of Lady Macbeth
(2016-04-23)To hear Lady Macbeth tell it, all she needs is a little more testosterone to become a bile-breasted, baby-bashing, king killer. “Unsex me,” she cries, appealing to magical spirits to fill her with cruelty so that she does ... -
LUNCHEON
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The Fifth Floor; Cantrip For My Capture
(2016-04-23)She placed a leg in her mouth and dragged the frog’s meat apart from the bone with her teeth. The princess then licked the blood off her fingers, peered up at me and smiled. “The French could never keep their promises.” ... -
"Ten Ways of Looking at an Addict"
(2016-04-23)This piece is broken into ten sections. Each section focuses on the titular addict, but takes a different approach to describing her. It juxtaposes the positives and the negatives of the person, a mother, from the eyes of ... -
Interesting Dialogue: Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Amy Blair, and Edith Wharton's “Vice of Reading”
(2017-04-29)This essay seeks to explore Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in relation to Edith Wharton's "The Vice of Reading" and Amy Blair's Reading Up, which contains detailed analysis of the societal conditions that so ... -
Will Executors as Oath-Takers: A Comparison of the Lombard Laws and Wills in the Middle Ages
(2017-04-29)Although at first glance the practices of oathtaking mentioned in the Lombard Laws and the legal function of Anglo-Saxon wills or testaments may seem different, in fact they often serve the same or very similar purposes. ... -
The Truth of the Angel in the House
(2017-04-29)The nineteenth century in the United States was a time that saw a resurgence of beliefs that would keep the modern family together. The Angel in the House is a phrase that is used to describe the type of woman that was ... -
Crazy Cards by Jane
(2017-04-29)
