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Shining a Light: Early Protest Art
Shining a Light: Early Protest Art
Josiah Wedgwood, creator of the still-coveted matte-style pottery of the same name, was also a staunch abolitionist. He designed the…
Kelly Plante
Nov 8, 2018
“The Wheel Is Come Full Circle; I am Here”: An Inter-text Approach to King Lear, act 5
“The Wheel Is Come Full Circle; I am Here”: An Inter-text Approach to King Lear, act 5
This lesson plan builds upon recent scholarship in history of the book such as Cynthia Clegg’s essay, “King Lear and Early…
Kelly Plante
Nov 8, 2018
The Reputation of a Woman: Female (Self) Authorship, Journaling, and the Rise of the Epistolary…
The Reputation of a Woman: Female (Self) Authorship, Journaling, and the Rise of the Epistolary…
“Remember, my dear Evelina, nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all…
Kelly Plante
Nov 5, 2018
Habermas’s Rise of the Public Sphere: “News Paper” & Novel Consumerism in 18th Century England
Habermas’s Rise of the Public Sphere: “News Paper” & Novel Consumerism in 18th Century England
Solely by the act of translating Habermas, and in articulating “why now?” for multiple rhetorical spheres/readerships, this translation in…
Kelly Plante
Nov 5, 2018
Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Original Non-conforming Conformists
Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Original Non-conforming Conformists
The Romantic subjectivity of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge — and the sharpened skill of their wordsmithing — draw…
Kelly Plante
Nov 5, 2018
Shakespeare as Intro-to-Philosophy Instructor/guide: King Lear and Kierkegaard
Shakespeare as Intro-to-Philosophy Instructor/guide: King Lear and Kierkegaard
This lesson plan uses Shakespeare’s King Lear as a framework for introducing and considering important philosophical questions–in this…
Kelly Plante
Nov 5, 2018
In the spirit of academic self-care, this week my reading response will consist in a reflection on…
In the spirit of academic self-care, this week my reading response will consist in a reflection on…
Luckily, prior to embarking on the Ph.D. process, I formed a strong relationship with task management and goal mastery texts that seem so…
Kelly Plante
Oct 28, 2018
“More” Tribulations of the Self: I Fashioneth, I Taketh Away
“More” Tribulations of the Self: I Fashioneth, I Taketh Away
Stephen Greenblatt’s chapter “At the Table of the Great: More’s Self-fashioning and Self-cancellation,” in Renaissance Self-fashioning…
Kelly Plante
Oct 28, 2018
Found in Translation: Braving the Storm in King Lear Act 2 and Kurosawa’s Ran
Found in Translation: Braving the Storm in King Lear Act 2 and Kurosawa’s Ran
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Kelly Plante
Oct 28, 2018
It’s All in the Family (Business): Divided Power and Organizational Behavior in King Lear Act 2
It’s All in the Family (Business): Divided Power and Organizational Behavior in King Lear Act 2
“Thou think’st ‘tis much that this contentious storm invades us to the skin. So ‘tis to thee, But where the greater malady is fixed the…
Kelly Plante
Oct 28, 2018
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