Browsing SEGue: Symposium for English Graduate Students by Issue Date
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The Un-Unsexing of Lady Macbeth
(4/23/2016)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 ... -
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
(4/23/2016)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 ... -
“Virtues do not all belong to the whites”: The Portrayals of Americanization and Miscegenation in Sui Sin Far’s Mrs. Spring Fragrance
(4/23/2016)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 ... -
"Ten Ways of Looking at an Addict"
(4/23/2016)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 ... -
Registration & Refreshments
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The Fifth Floor; Cantrip For My Capture
(4/23/2016)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.” ... -
“Grandma Jane"
(4/23/2016)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 ... -
Justifying Existence: Positioning Autism in a World of Capitalist Expectation
(4/23/2016)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).
(4/23/2016)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
(4/23/2016)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 ... -
The Moss Will Grow Over Us
(4/23/2016)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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LUNCHEON
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Rosamond: A study in the Importance of Greek Mythology
(4/23/2016)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 ... -
It's Not Real Because It's in an Organ They Cannot See.
(4/29/2017)This is a feminist poem that focuses on body issues, controlling behaviors and society's way of bending identities to fit stigmas. Told through the metaphors of Chinese foot binding and the body's way of processing sugars, ... -
William Shakespeare’s The Tempest: Caliban is a Black African
(4/29/2017)Caliban’s character in The Tempest is very complex. Though his race is not mentioned by Shakespeare in The Tempest, many writers and critics try to investigate and know what his race is in the play. For example, Caliban ... -
Crazy Cards by Jane
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Fairy Godmother & The Tea Party
(4/29/2017)
