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At Play In Her Clearing: Centering The Personal Experience Of Disability Within Irigarayan Philsophy
(English, 2009-09-16)
From a theoretical perspective, the disabled woman can be seen as `doubly othered' within patriarchal culture. Because the disabled woman faces this dual otherness, she is barred from both masculine language and able-bodied ...
Death Of The American Dream: The Revolutionary Meaning Of Infant Mortality And Mourning In Hannah Webster Foster's the Coquette
(English, 2007-10-08)
This thesis explores the broader implications of Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette through an acknowledgment and assessment of a male audience. The Coquette is a seduction narrative that is linked through form and ...
Negotiated Authorship: A Rhetorical Analysis Of Professional Writer Job Postings
(English, 2009-09-16)
This qualitative study (a rhetorical/discourse analysis) explores the genre of job postings, particularly postings for writing-related jobs in the financial services sector, to determine how words like "author" and "writer" ...
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 collection, A Curtain of Green. In this paper, I apply a critical approach based on the narrative theory of time by Paul Ricoeur to discover meaning in three of those stories: "A Curtain of Green," "The Key," and "A Memory." Using Ricoeur's proposition of three mimetic stages--prefiguration, configuration, and refiguration--and taking the liberty to peer through the camera lens, I identify a unifying theme of feminine emergence that finds its definition within Welty's stop-action narrative style....
Cracked Foundations: St. Antony, Textual Production, And Genre
(English, 2008-09-17)
St. Antony is a saint who defies description. The foundational text about Antony--Athanasius' Life of Antony--is a text that introduces many of the paradigmatic elements of the hagiographic genre yet actually subverts ...
Opinions In Context: Reconsidering Endoxa In Aristotle's On Rhetoric
(English, 2009-09-16)
In On Rhetoric, Aristotle describes rhetoric as an ability of seeing the available means of persuasion. Rather than suggesting that rhetoric is persuasive discourse, Aristotle presents it as a skill one utilizes to assess ...
"Black Sounds": Hemingway And Duende
(English, 2007-08-23)
Along with his efforts to revitalize the Spanish arts in the 1920's and 1930's, Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca gave an address entitled "Play and Theory of Duende" in which he claims duende as a distinctly ...
The Magical Sublime: A New-old Lens On Magical Realism
(English, 2007-08-23)
While magical realist critics often refer to magical realism's generic heritage of primitive cultures and indigenous mythology, Franz Roh's magischer realismus, and Surrealism, I will point to the sublime as a less recognized ...
Ladies And Loners: A Comparative Gender Study Of The Romance And Popular Western
(English, 2007-08-23)
Despite the efforts of readers, writers and cultural critics, the fact remains that romance and the Western genres are considered low art. The real impetus behind this paper is not whether or not or even why they are ...
"The Curse Never Fell Upon Our Nation Till Now": History And Fear In Philip Roth's The Plot Against America
(English, 2007-08-23)
In The Plot Against America, Philip Roth questions the common perception of historic "inevitability" by creating a counter-factual history, placing himself and his childhood family into a fictional World War II America. ...