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From the “Missing Narrative” to Becoming “Part of the Vernacular:” Representation, Language, and Identity Formation in “Korean American” Literature
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Role Playing as a Pedagogy
No full textRole playing can be an effective pedagogy for engaging students in exploring big ideas within the context of complex historical events. In higher education, this concept has been promoted by the Reacting Consortium, an alliance of colleges, universities, and individual faculty committed to developing and publishing the Reacting to the Past series of role playing games. During these games students immerse themselves in a historical context, adopting roles informed by classic texts, and acting out controversies of the past. Student do their own research and make their own speeches bringing together political, ideological, and philosophical conflicts in a way that can be compelling, emotional, fun and surprisingly motivating.
Shoshana Brassfield, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Frostburg State University, Maryland, explores the pedagogical uses of role playing in her presentation for the Hamilton College Summer Program in Philosophy held in Clinton, New York. Professor Brassfield\u27s talk focuses on lessons learned from a two week course centered on the role-playing game The Threshold of Democracy: Athens in 403 BCE
Poetry and Animals: Blurring the Boundaries with the Human
No full textIn Poetry and Animals, Onno Oerlemans explores a broad range of English-language poetry about animals from the Middle Ages to the contemporary world. He presents a taxonomy of kinds of animal poems, breaking down the categories and binary oppositions at the root of human thinking about animals. The book considers several different types of poetry: allegorical poems, poems about “the animal” broadly conceived, poems about species of animal, poems about individual animals or the animal as individual, and poems about hybrids and hybridity. Through careful readings of dozens of poems that reveal generous and often sympathetic approaches to recognizing and valuing animals’ difference and similarity, Oerlemans demonstrates how the forms and modes of poetry can sensitize us to the moral standing of animals and give us new ways to think through the problems of the human-animal divide.https://digitalcommons.hamilton.edu/books/1032/thumbnail.jp
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Witness, Warning, and Prophecy: Quaker Women\u27s Writing, 1655–1700
No full textThe forty texts collected in this volume offer a small but representative sample of Quaker women’s tremendous literary output between 1655 and 1700. They include examples of key Quaker literary genres — proclamations, directives, warnings, sufferings, testimonies, polemic, pleas for toleration — and showcase a range of literary styles and voices, from eloquent poetry to legal analyses of English canon and civil law. In their varied responses to the core Quaker belief in the indwelling Spirit, these women left a rich literary legacy of an early countercultural movement.https://digitalcommons.hamilton.edu/books/1073/thumbnail.jp