Fall 2006 Longwood Senior Seminar Conference

ENGL 461/562:
Literary Criticism
(Senior Seminar)

Fall 2006 Conference

Saturday, 2 December 2006

Location: Ruffner 115

Beverages and light refreshments will be available.

For more information on the Fall 2006 Senior Seminar Conference
contact Dr. Heady at: headycr@longwood.edu.

Gayle Robinson “Stitching the Letter A: Constructions of Gender in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter”
Rachel Poore “The Troubling Conflicts of Huck Finn and His Place in the Classroom”
Adrienne Keller “Men Are Such Animals: Gender in Frank Norris’ McTeague”
Heather Stocker “Silent Dialogue and Southern Discourse: A Bahktinian Reading of Carson McCullers’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter”

Panel 2: 9:25-10:40
Topic: British Literature, from the 18th Century to the Romantic Period
Jennifer Sanders “‘Well Said, My Pretty Preacher’: Creating Meaning Through the Epistolary Technique in Samuel Richardson’s Pamela”
Alice Hampton “Henry Fielding, Derrida’s Handyman: Deconstruction and Shamela”
Jessica Maynard “For Love or Money: A Study of Marriage and Class System within Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice”
Audra Long “What Women Really Say: A Rhetorical Study of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice”

Erica Abbott “The Contrary Marys: A Study of Gender in C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe”
Ivy Walton “Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree: A Reader-Response Analysis”
Laurie Borslein “A Tale of Three Heroes: A Marxist Analysis of Social Hierarchy in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”

Rebecca Doroshenko “God is Great vs. God is Good: The Search for Divine Justice in the Book of Job”
Holly Overstreet “‘Two Roads Diverged in the Text: A Reader Response Analysis of Robert Frost’s Poetry”
Christopher Robinson “‘I Like Fidel Castro and His Beard’: A Marxist Interpretation of Bob Dylan’s Early Electric Recordings”

Joel Manner “Lost Meaning and the Horror of Darkness: A Deconstructionist Reading of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness”
Karen Weiss “Sign Language: A Deconstruction of James Joyce’s ‘Clay’”
Allison Nataro “Just a Step Away from Happiness: Exploring Gender Roles in James Joyce’s ‘Eveline’”
Beau Weaver “The Homosocial American: Gender and Power in Graham Greene’s The Quiet American”

Shannon Frick “Flying the Coop: A Marxist Analysis of Oppression and Revolt in Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”
Chelsea Keating “Feminism and Gender Roles in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale”
Kathy Cole “‘Why Must I Always Act Like a Lady: A Feminist Examination of
Mother/Daughter Relationships in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club”
Victoria Davis “Will We Ever Grasp the Real Truth?: Nietzsche, Derrida, and the Controversy over Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11”

Jessica Laffoon "Moonbeams in Lightning: The 'Hidden Dialogues' of Manfred and Wuthering Heights"
Julia Stancampiano “The Struggle Between Classes: A Marxist Reading of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist”
Shannon Blankenship “Change Your Voice, Change Yourself: Class and Social Structure in G.B. Shaw’s Pygmalion”

Selected essays from previous semesters have been published in The Grainger Review, the Longwood English program's journal of student essays. Students who would like to purchase a copy of The Grainger Review for $4.00 should contact Lisa Seamster in the main English and Modern Languages office (you will need to pay for the journal at the Cashiering office in Lancaster and then present the receipt to Lisa, who will give you a copy).

For more information on The Grainger Review,
contact Dr. Smith at: smithsb@longwood.edu.