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Kairos, Nomos, New Media: Paradox As A Reservoir For Invention
(English, 2007-08-23)
In the wake of the so-called "social turn" in writing studies, the scholarship of invention has enjoyed renewed interest. This dissertation is primarily concerned with invigorating the research of invention by turning ...
Selected Correspondence From The Horton Foote Collection, 1912-1991
(English, 2008-09-17)
This dissertation includes a discussion of archival research and editorial procedures employed in the study, introductory essays on the private correspondence of the family of Horton Foote, and transcriptions of one hundred ...
Misreading Justice: The Rhetoric Of Revenge In Feminist Texts About Domestic Violence
(English, 2008-08-08)
Feminist legal theories of battering homicides pose a challenge to feminist critics of American literature. Legal theorists argue that many women who are tried for killing their abusive partners should be acquitted on the ...
Teilhard De Chardin's View Of Diminishment And The Late Stories Of Flannery O'connor
(English, 2007-08-23)
ABSTRACT
Scholars have used different approaches to study and interpret the work of Flannery O'Connor; those approaches have ranged from Feminism to New Criticism to religious (Christian and non-Christian) to ...
Playing In The Prose: Writing Instruction And Underprepared Student-athletes In Division I-a Universities
(English, 2009-09-16)
"Playing in the Prose: Writing Instruction and Underprepared Student-Athletes in Division I-A Universities," is a study that contributes to the continuedinterest in the pedagogical tools educators can use with underprepared ...
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 ...
Native Spaces Of Continuation, Preservation, And Belonging: Louise Erdrich's Concepts Of Home
(English, 2008-08-08)
In light of continual Native migration, relocation, and hybridization, it is my intention to examine the evolution and diversification of home in a spectrum of Louise Erdrich's writing. My examination of the texts focuses ...
Speaking Through The Silence: Voice In The Poetry Of Selected Native American Women Poets
(English, 2009-09-16)
The issue of voice in Native American poetry is vital to understanding the culture and traditions of past and present-day Native American people. The voice of Native American women poets/writers has emerged as a strong ...
Recollecting Memory, Reviewing History: Trauma In Asian North American Literature
(English, 2008-08-08)
My dissertation focuses on representations of traumas in select eight Asian North American novels. I attempt to draw attention to this underrepresented issue of the Asian minority's traumatic experiences. Trauma in my ...
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 ...