College English, Vol. 59, No. 7, November 1997

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• Charles Johnson's Middle Passage as Historiographic Metafiction

  Barbara Z. Thaden

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  Abstract: Suggests that what makes Charles Johnson's "Middle Passage" significant and eminently teachable is that it is an accessible example of "historiographic metafiction"-bestselling postmodern novels set in the past. Notes that students find the novel "easy" and enjoyable and that teaching the novel with some of its intertexts, such as H. Melville's "Moby Dick," can be a rewarding experience.

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• "A Real Vexation": Student Writing in Mount Holyoke's Culture of Service, 1837-1865

  JoAnn Campbell

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  Abstract: Examines hundreds of compositions from 19th-century students at Mount Holyoke and other institutions. Finds that the first generation of women to attend United States colleges negotiated competing demands of service (to family and community) and of individual intellectual performance. Contrasts women's compositions to men's. Illustrates effects of gender on service, both as a concept and as an activity.

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• Methods of Memory: On Native American Storytelling

  Bruce Ballenger

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  Abstract: Notes that in Native American storytelling, memory is seen through an already existing story or recognized as a familiar category of experience that is widely shared. Suggests that the implications of the merging of tribal memory and personal memory are profound and that the reach of the storyteller's memory extends beyond his own lifetime, her own experience.

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• Le Style est L'Homme Meme: The Action of Literature

  Marshall Brown

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  Abstract: Suggests that doing literary criticism is how teachers and students hear other voices as they read, instead of projections of themselves. Espouses the study of style as the vehicle of literary criticism. Proposes a definition of style.

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• POEMS

  Janice Northerns, Len Roberts

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• REVIEWS: Empirical Studies in Composition

  Ellen L. Barton

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• Feminism, Ecology, Romanticism

  Spencer Hall

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• COMMENTS & RESPONSE: A COMMENT ON “THE (IN)VISIBILITY OF THE PERSON(AL) IN ACADEME”

  Paley / Space; Ackerman / Severino

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