College English, Vol. 60, No. 2, February 1998

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• Service Learning and English Studies: Rethinking "Public" Service

  Aaron Schutz and Anne Ruggles Gere

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  Abstract: Uses the example of service learning to examine connections between and definitions of public and private as they are deployed in writing, literacy studies, and the field of English. Argues that, done effectively, service learning fits well into an English Studies that is reconsidering its own boundaries and internal relationships.

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• Magic and Memory in the Contemporary Story Cycle: Gloria Naylor and Louise Erdrich

  Karen Castellucci Cox

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  Abstract: Examines representatives of the story cycle genre--Louise Erdrich's "Love Medicine" and Gloria Naylor's "The Women of Brewster Place." Examines a revisionary episode from each text to situate story cycles in a frame that embraces both Western and non-Western traditions. Suggests that scholars, teachers, and students see and celebrate the diverse realities of spirituality, magic, and communal memory.

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• "Persuasion Dwelt on Her Tongue": Female Civic Rhetoric in Early America

  Janet Carey Eldred and Peter Mortensen

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  Abstract: Taps research in American studies to learn more about rhetoric and writing instruction in post-Revolutionary America. Merges the separate (and gendered) histories of early 19th-century American rhetoric, breaking down the separate spheres in contemporary historical and literary scholarship. Examines civic rhetoric found in texts that represent women's schooling.

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• POEMS

  Neil Carpathios, Marc Levy

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• REVIEW: "Our Great Confused West": Redefining Mark Twain

  Harold K. Bush, Jr.

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• REVIEW: English and Emerging Technologies

  Charles Moran

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• COMMENTS & RESPONSE: FIVE COMMENTS ON “STUDENTS’ GOALS, GATEKEEPING, AND SOME QUESTIONS OF ETHICS”

  Flanagan, von der Osten, Gorzelsky, Tinberg, Cushman / Smith

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