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The Many Masks of a Writer: A Dramaturgical Approach to Composition Pedagogy and Literature Analysis
(2017-12-04)Audience theories discuss many aspects of the entity of audience, from specific, concrete individuals to general, abstract readers. Composition pedagogical approaches to audience, however, seem limited. Writers, at times, ... -
The Rhetoric of Academic Discourse: A Qualitative, Phenomenological Study of Students' Self-Investigation of the Acquisition of Academic Discourse in First-Year Writing Courses
(2018-04-19)Whether at a four-year university or a two-year community college, students who choose to pursue higher education will likely be required to demonstrate their eligibility to enroll in college-level writing courses. At a ... -
THROUGH THE NARROW GATE: CONDUCT, CONVERSION, AND COMMUNITY IN NINETEENTH- AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY WOMEN'S NOVELS
(2020-09-29)Conversion scenes and the theme of conversion are key in conduct fiction, a genre that developed from the medieval and early modern tradition of nonfiction conduct manuals. Conversion is a character’s entrance into the ... -
The Tool/maker: the bird, the cage, the radio, the sea, the rock, the eye, the space
(English, 2014-07-14)As street politics began to operate academically after the civil rights eras, academic turns toward socio-constructive theories dominated critical philosophies of the subsequent eighties and nineties (especially in the ... -
Toward A Theory Of Narrative Rhetoric
(English, 2012-07-25)This dissertation suggests that the question of whether or not America should employ torture as a means of fighting a post-9/11 War on Terror was not so much debated as it was asserted (in the affirmative) by the presidential ... -
Tracking Whiteness: Portrayals Of Whites In American Indian Literature
(English, 2008-08-08)Although whites have pervaded the lives and literatures of American Indians since contact, their own portrayals of whites have remained, for the most part, unexplored. I examine selected works of nineteenth and twentieth-century ... -
US Poets Laureate: A Literary And Cultural History
(English, 2012-04-11)In 1985 the US Congress changed the title of Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, which was created in 1937, to Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. The significance in the change is a signal to enhance awareness ... -
WRAITHS AND WHITE MEN: THE IMPACT OF PRIVILEGE ON PARANORMAL REALITY TELEVISION
(2020-08-05)Modern paranormal TV walks the fine line between infotainment and propaganda that older white men are rational while marginalized communities, such as youths, lower social classes, women, and minorities are hysterical and ...