Ken Eckert
Biographic Data
| ID | 5400977 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ken Eckert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ken |
| FAMILY NAME | Eckert |
| SIGNATURE | ECKERT K |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6514-0894 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Teaching liberal arts content via Wikipedia page authoring in an English language learning context
Wikipedia is one of the most important innovations of the Internet age and has been analysed and criticised within higher educational settings for how it is utilised by students or academics for essay assignments or research. Less work has been done on how content writing for Wikipedia may be deployed as an instructional tool and its pedagogical implications, particularly for English language learners. This case study describes an in-class editin…
Mr. Collins’s Secret Sermon in Pride and Prejudice
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Numerological and Structural Symbolism in the Auchinleck Stanzaic Guy of Warwick
Although numerical symbolism has been recognized as a rich and sophisticated poetic system in the “high” literature of the middle ages, such as Pearl and The Divine Comedy, its use in the Middle English romances is usually misrecognized as evincing formulaic or sub-standard writing. Yet numbers are used in the romances to subtly underscore or evoke deeper meanings, typically binary twos, triplets or other philosophically or theologically meaningf…
Three Types of “Messengers” in the Middle English Athelston
Exodus Inverted
John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath has been read typically as period social activism, as sentimental Marxist fable, and as watered-down Christian theology via its failed preacher, Jim Casy. Religious interpretations have at best seen the text as an allegorical reenactment of Exodus. Yet such criticism requires a willful misreading of the text, as the Joads end the story not in a promised land but destitute. The novel makes more sense, however, …
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Exodus Inverted
John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath has been read typically as period social activism, as sentimental Marxist fable, and as watered-down Christian theology via its failed preacher, Jim Casy. Religious interpretations have at best seen the text as an allegorical reenactment of Exodus. Yet such criticism requires a willful misreading of the text, as the Joads end the story not in a promised land but destitute. The novel makes more sense, however, …
Three Types of “Messengers” in the Middle English Athelston
Numerological and Structural Symbolism in the Auchinleck Stanzaic Guy of Warwick
Although numerical symbolism has been recognized as a rich and sophisticated poetic system in the “high” literature of the middle ages, such as Pearl and The Divine Comedy, its use in the Middle English romances is usually misrecognized as evincing formulaic or sub-standard writing. Yet numbers are used in the romances to subtly underscore or evoke deeper meanings, typically binary twos, triplets or other philosophically or theologically meaningf…
Teaching liberal arts content via Wikipedia page authoring in an English language learning context
Wikipedia is one of the most important innovations of the Internet age and has been analysed and criticised within higher educational settings for how it is utilised by students or academics for essay assignments or research. Less work has been done on how content writing for Wikipedia may be deployed as an instructional tool and its pedagogical implications, particularly for English language learners. This case study describes an in-class editin…
Mr. Collins’s Secret Sermon in Pride and Prejudice
Few marriage proposals in English literature are as memorable as that of Mr. Collins to Elizabeth Bennet in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813). The proposal scene is significant at numerous l
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