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U.S. President Bill Clinton announces the administrations new policy on illegal immigration
No full textPresident Clinton announces the administrations new policy on illegal immigration. Other speakers are Vice President Al Gore and Attorney General Janet Reno
Feminism, Femininity, and Arkansas First Ladies: Hillary Rodham Clinton and Janet McCain Huckabee
No full textThrough the 1970s and into the 2000s, Hillary Clinton and Janet Huckabee served as first ladies. Their husbands were elected and ran campaigns for Arkansas Governor and President of the United States. While the two men were the elected officials that constituents cast their votes for on election day, Hillary and Janet were beside the men playing a tremendous role in securing or discouraging votes. Third wave feminism ran rampant throughout these two decades and resulted in higher numbers of women in the workforce, later years of marriage, less children, and greater awareness of sexual harassment and sex discrimination. Hillary Clinton and Janet Huckabee served alongside their husbands on opposing ends of the political spectrum— Clinton, a registered Democrat and Huckabee, a registered Republican. The Clinton’s and Huckabee’s served as state leaders not only during a contested political party struggle, but during the height of what is referred to as “third-wave” feminism. Hillary Clinton and Janet Huckabee’s presentation of feminism and femininity affected their husbands’ public approval and dissent among Arkansan and later Americans at large. Each woman’s response to the public scrutiny they received while serving as first ladies was also consequential. This thesis examines how the feminism and femininity of Hillary Clinton and Janet Huckabee influenced their husbands’ political campaigns, shaped their own political ambitions and responded to public scrutiny
Giving Evil a Name: Buffy's Glory, Angel's Jasmine, Blood Magic, and Name Magic
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Review of Tolkien, J.R.R., trans; ed. Christopher Tolkien. Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
No full textReview of Tolkien's Beowulf translation focuses on its relation to his other works rather than the translation per se
Psyche in New York: The Devil Wears Prada Updates the Myth
No full textThe Psyche and Cupid story is a central myth of female maturation, among its other meanings. At its core, it is a story of a powerful older woman, a mother-figure, controlling a younger woman’s path to maturity, seemingly blocking her way by imposing impossible tasks, but through these tasks teaching her what she needs to learn to become an adult. In the Greek myth, the marker of maturity is full and socially sanctioned union with the god/husband; in the movie The Devil Wears Prada, the marker becomes a job that both “pays the rent” and that the young woman can hold with integrity and independence. I will also look at such diverse sources as the Tam Lin legend, Hayao Miyazake’s Spirited Away, C.S. Lewis’s retelling of the Psyche myth in Till We Have Faces, and the movie Julie & Julia as variants of the underlying “mother”/maiden conflict.This is the Version of Record (VoR) of the article originally published in Mythlore (2012). Mythlore is available in the electronic database Expanded Academic ASAP.Peer reviewe
[Review of] Fastitocalon: Studies in Fantasticism Ancient to Modern 4.1/2, editor in chief Thomas Honegger and Fanfan Chen; and Tolkien Studies XI, editors Michael D.C. Drout, Verlyn Flieger, and David Bratman.
No full textReview of special issue of Fastitocalon and the eleventh issue of Tolkien Studies.This is the Version of Record (VoR) of the article originally published in Mythlore (2015). Mythlore is available in the electronic database Expanded Academic ASAP
Review of The Body in Tolkien's Legendarium, ed. Chris Vaccaro
No full textReview of edited essay collection. Considers each item in the collection individually and the collection as a whole.This is the Version of Record (VoR) of the article originally published in Mythlore (2014). Mythlore is available in the electronic database Expanded Academic ASAP
World Clothing and Fashion: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Social Influence
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Barrel-rides and She-elves: Audience and "Anticipation" in Peter Jackson's Hobbit Trilogy
No full textPeter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy, to the audience that loved the Lord of the Rings films, is an exciting opportunity to revisit Tolkien’s fantastic world and see favorite characters acting out their earlier adventures. The reader of the books, though, is often likely to find the difference in tone between the children’s book and the vastly expanded films jarring. This talk will explore audience expectations, the difficulties of filming a “prequel” after a “sequel,” and issues of “anticipation” in relation to character development
Tolkien's Faerian Drama: Origins and Valedictions
No full textIn "On Fairy-Stories," Tolkien introduces the concept of Faerian drama: plays which the elves present to men, with a "realism and immediacy beyond the compass of any human mechanism," where the viewer feels he is "bodily inside its Secondary World" but instead is "in a dream that some other mind is weaving." It is "a potion too strong" and the viewer/participant can't help but give it primary belief while it is happening. Faerian drama is a form of Elvish art one can almost but not quite grasp and understand, something the witness/participant will ponder and work through for the rest of his life. I will suggest that Tolkien may have been influenced in his development of the concept by Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the dream-like events that Gawain experiences and what he learns from them. I will examine some examples of Faerian drama in Tolkien's fiction and poetry, concentrating especially on his final story, Smith of Wootton Major, and the experiences Smith has in Faery.This is the Version of Record (VoR) of the article originally published in Mythlore (2014). Mythlore is available in the electronic database Expanded Academic ASAP.Peer reviewe
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