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An Ecocritical Exploration Of The Unique Nature Of Early Modern Oceans In The Blazing World And The Tempest
(English, 2011-03-03)Early modern perceptions of oceanic space diverged from standard perceptions of nature on land (or land-nature) because oceans presented a different type of wilderness. Because oceans defied early modern definitions of ... -
EXPLORING THE SCP WIKI: COMMUNITY, DIGITAL HORROR, AND APOCALYPTIC FICTION
(2022-12-16)The SCP is a body of user-submitted fiction broadly classified as horror and often compared to other user-submitted horror such as Creepypasta. While these comparisons have been made in research and among the SCP community, ... -
Falling Into The Rabbit Hole: Monstrosity, Modesty, And Mary Toft
(English, 2008-08-08)The obstetrical hoax perpetrated by Mary Toft in eighteenth-century England is worth the further attention of English scholars, not only because numerous literary texts are inspired by or linked to the incident, but also ... -
Feeling Better Than Most People Think: Nature And The Body In Wallace Stegner's All The Little Live Things And The Spectator Bird
(English, 2008-09-17)Much of the critical scholarship on Wallace Stegner has focused, and continues to focus, on his role in the conservationist movement, on his environmental non-fiction, or on his skill as a teacher of writing. While these ... -
The Feminine Alternative: Men And Women In Modernist European Literature
(English, 2013-07-22)My work examines four seminal pieces of modernist European literature: Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Gide's The Immoralist, and Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. I show two aspects of gender ... -
Finding Deaf Gain: Changing Languages, Changing Lenses, Changing Society
(2015-12-09)Most literature is analyzed through various lenses, or more accurately, schools of thought informed by life experience and cultural knowledge. Literature created in American Sign is no different than any other literature ... -
Freeze-Frame: Time And Vision In Three Early Welty Stories
(English, 2007-10-08)Eudora Welty's early short stories provide a fitting career transition from photographer to writer. In particular, her creative figuration of time--enriched by her employment of photographic vision--graces her earliest ... -
"God Is Dead... Now There Danceth A God In Me." Bringing Modernist Darkness To Light Through The Apollonian And Dionysian Dichotomy
(English, 2012-04-11)Friedrich Nietzsche's theory of the Apollonian and Dionysian dichotomy can be seen at work in the texts of canonical modernist writers such as Virginia Woolf, Hermann Hesse, Albert Camus, Rainer Maria Rilke, William B. ... -
A Graduate English Major's Search For Meaning: Toward A Pedagogy Of Creative Rhetoric
(English, 2013-03-20)Building upon recent work by Gerald Graff, Tim Mayers, Douglas Hesse, and Graeme Harper and Jeri Kroll, I propose a pedagogical approach that integrates creative writing with rhetoric, much as the emerging "creative writing ... -
HAPPILY-EVER-AFTER: AN EXPLORATION OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY LAWS, MARRIAGE, AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN REPRESENTATION
(2020-08-18)This thesis moves beyond the moral messages of true womanhood found in eighteenth century British-American sentimental novels to examine the alternative lessons taught in nineteenth century African-American literature. In ... -
The Hip-Hop Academy: "Let no one ignorant of' poetry "enter"
(English, 2014-07-14)I intend to explore the conceptual relationship between classical rhetoric and Hip-Hop. I will argue that Hip-Hop music embodies principles of classical rhetoric and applies rhetorical strategies, creating a space for a ... -
Hold Your Tongue: Female Speech And Male Anxieties In Early Modern England
(English, 2007-08-23)For early Modern England, containing female speech was essential to maintaining order. Through their speech, women could raise questions about and subvert patriarchal power. The frequency of this trope shows that there ... -
Identifying Loss, Animating Melancholy: Asian-American Narratives in Avatar: The Last Airbender, Spirited Away, and Bao
(2022-08-01)Animated film provides a complex illustration of the creativity behind constructing narratives. This thesis aims to explore the way that racial and cultural identity are displayed within animated film. The purpose of this ... -
Implicit Learning In The Remedial English Classroom: Steps Towards A Pedegogy Of Literacy
(English, 2012-07-25)This paper discusses the dynamics of implicit learning in the Remedial English classroom. In order to elucidate the topic, the area of explicit learning is also covered. By tracing the history of implicit learning theoretically ... -
In Another Time With (an)other Race: Representations Of Race And National Narratives In Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim And Fallout 3
The video games Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 3 provide simulations of systems of racial marginalization within the context of competing narratives of nation. By utilizing Ian Bogost’s concept of unit operations in ... -
Inside Out: The Dialogics Of Codeswitching In Ana Castillo's So Far From God And Ibis Gómez-vega's Send My Roots Rain
(English, 2014-03-12)In the process of narration, codeswitching, the use of words from one or more language by the same speaker within the same speech situation, reflects certain resistant strategies within the written text, forging a bridge ... -
INVOKING LA LLORONA: ABJECTION AS A SITE OF POWER IN JOVITA GONZÁLEZ, CHERRIE MORAGA, AND JAYRO BUSTAMANTE
(2023-05-19)This thesis seeks to analyze how La Llorona’s abjection allows her and those who call on her to exist as specters, haunting the space of their personal, cultural, or historical trauma to make sense of their abuses and gain ... -
"Is This Her Fault Or Mine?": An Examination Of The Overregulation Of Sexuality In Measure For Measure As An Argument Against Early Modern Anti-theatricalism
(English, 2007-08-23)The early modern anti-theatricalist movement sought to permanently close the playhouses, arguing that theaters breed immorality through their association with prostitution and the female body. This thesis examines how ... -
Japan In The Mirror Of Language: The Failure Of Language To Represent Objects In Travel Narratives On Japan
(English, 2011-03-03)The travel narrative is, ostensibly, little more than representation of foreign places and things, foreign objects. The language of the travel narrative seems, on the surface, to succeed in representing the foreign. None ... -
JUSTICE FOR THE FALLEN WOMAN
(2021-04-27)By analyzing the experiences of four different incidents of shaming women—Dallas police officers photographing partially nude prostitutes during booking, Anita Hill, Monica Lewinksky, and Christine Blasey-Ford—in contemporary ...