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Chicken And Dumplings: The Motif Of Food In Appalachian Literature
(English, 2011-03-03)Food is an important element of literature. It can help to establish setting, conflicts, a hero and heroine, relationships with nature and other humans, comfort to readers as well as characters in fictional texts, class ... -
Colonial Shame and its Effect on Puerto Rican Culture
(2017-06-01)I explore how American influence affects Puerto Rican culture through colonial shame. My dissertation is informed by the following questions: (1) In what ways does Puerto Rican culture attempt to move away from colonial ... -
"A Condition Of Potentiality": American Women's Utopian And Science Fiction, 1920-1960
(English, 2009-09-16)The 1920-1960 period of women-authored United States utopian and science fiction deserves a reassessment. This study focuses on utopian texts and science fiction texts with strong utopian emphasis and recovers 41 women-authored ... -
Confronting The Spectacle Of The Other (than Human): Posthumanism And The Convergence Of Art, Aesthetics, And Ethics
This project argues that humans should recognize the intersection of aesthetics and ethics in literature, film, and art that use or represent nonhuman animals. Too often, the right of artists to express their "message" ... -
Constructing Mothering Performances: The Motherhood Ideal In Caldecott And Newbery Winners, 1980-2014
This project examines representations of motherhood in Caldecott and Newbery winners from 1980-2014 and is informed by feminist literary theory, juvenile literary theory, and motherhood studies. While motherhood studies ... -
Crip Mothering: Representation of Disability and Motherhood in Post-1980 American Films
(2021-08-30)Most scholarship on the topic of disability and motherhood tends to be of an empirical nature common to social, education, and psychology studies (Landsman 2008; Wilson and Cellio 2011, Filax and Taylor 2014). Despite the ... -
DECENTERING WHITE SPACE IN THE TWO-YEAR COLLEGE ENGLISH CLASSROOM: A PERSPECTIVE THROUGH CRT, TRIBALCRIT, AND LATCRIT
(2021-05-06)White space in the educational system is an attitude, environment, ideology dominated by the white dominant voice and creed. This white space intimidates and oppresses Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) students, ... -
The Destroyer Of Souls: The Rhetoric Of Fear In Old English Literature
(English, 2014-03-10)This dissertation explores representations of fear in Old English literature and examines their rhetorical purposes. Although Anglo-Saxon writers were often unconcerned with or even hostile to the use of rhetorical techniques, ... -
Directive/Facilitative Commenting in the Disciplines and its Effects on Student Revision
(2019-05-01)The purpose of this study was to build on the findings by Patton and Taylor (2013) in faculty commenting so that administrators, researchers, and faculty can address how to improve writing pedagogy for students in their ... -
Disabling Sex Education: Science, Narrative, and the Female Body in Feminist Medical Fiction, 1874-1916
(2017-05-05)This dissertation offers a feminist disability theory approach to women’s medical fiction during the Comstock Law Era. I argue that, in responding to Comstockian censorship, women authors of medical fiction resisted sexed ... -
Down And Back Again: A Swimmer's Body Moves Through Feminism, Young Adult Sport Literature And Film
(English, 2007-08-23)Contemporary material feminism is interested in finding new ways of writing and liberating women's bodies in literature, and some of these feminists are looking at sport literature to do so. Down and Back Again: A Swimmer's ... -
Embodied Climate Change: Materiality, Language, Mediation, And The Legitimation Of The Unintelligible
“Embodied Climate Change: Materiality, Language, Mediation and the Legitimation of the Unintelligible” examines the intersections of language, technology, and the human and nonhuman worlds through the example of climate ... -
Envisioning A Postfeminist Composition Studies
(English, 12-14-2012)We must look at the changing sociological conditions that challenge many of the foundations of composition studies in order to develop the discipline. Although postfeminism is evident within academic and popular culture, ... -
The Fecundity Of The Figural: Ethical And Phototextual Di-vision In Postmodern American Fiction
This study contends that sites of the phototextual--that is, narrative works that employ as their chief structural basis any photographic disposition, such as, for example, tangible portraiture and/or a literary styling ... -
The Found Object(s) Of Rhetoric
(English, 2014-03-12)The following dissertation expands the notion of posthumanism beyond the work in transhumanism, new media studies, animal studies, and material feminism by incorporating speculative realist philosophies into and with the ... -
Frantic Fathers And Misplaced Mothers: Hegemonic Patriarchal Reinforcement Of The Traditional Family In American Film
(English, 2008-04-22)Movies play an integral part in the formation of cultural identity and therefore should be subject to critical examination. This study examines the roles of mothers and fathers in films by looking at several basic techniques ... -
From Eve To Eve: Women's Dreaming In The Middle Ages And Renaissance
(English, 2011-03-03)This project examines reports of the dreams of women in fictionalized as well as historical, biographical, and hagiographical accounts from the English Middle Ages and Renaissance. Because an unstable body/spirit dualism ... -
I, Gamer: Addressing Toxic Ludology and Narratology in the Gamer Discourse Community Through Reinterpreting Video Games as Hypertexts
(2019-11-22)My research examines two points crucial to the continuing discipline of video game rhetoric. First, it discusses the formation of toxic ludology and narratology in the gamer discourse community over the course of decades. ... -
Imagining Judith: An Examination Of Judith's Representation In The Middle English Metrical Paraphrase Of The Old Testament
(English, 2012-04-20)The poet-paraphraser of The Middle English Metrical Paraphrase of the Old Testament (MEMPOT) imagines Judith and other women biblical characters as courtly ladies, whose performance and dress reflect the values and customs ... -
Indi'n Humor, Tricksters, And Stereotype In Selected Works Of Gerald Vizenor, Thomas King, And Sherman Alexie
(English, 2012-07-25)Humor in American Indian literature is a popular and important area of study. Yet, to date few full-length studies have compared the role of humor in Gerald Vizenor, Thomas King, and Sherman Alexie. This study offers a ...