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No Longer Estranged: Women, Science, Science Fiction
(English, 2014-03-10)
Feminist science fiction (SF) and feminist science studies share common concerns--the gendered perception of science and women's place in the sciences among them--but the two fields are rarely considered together. This ...
Make it plain, preacha': African American rhetorical license, African American Vernacular English (AAVE), and a modern rendering of epideictic rhetoric
(2014-09-17)
In this project, I contend that African American rhetoric, namely African American sermonic rhetoric, constitutes a distinct, culturally specialized variety of rhetoric generated out of the distinctive circumstances of the ...
Korean American Matters And Identity In Korean American Novels
(English, 2014-03-10)
My dissertation focuses on the intersection between the maturation of young Korean American protagonists in fiction and the writers' own growing-up of ethnic identity as Korean descendants. I analyze nine Korean American ...
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, ...
The Possibilities Of Children's Literature: A Rhetoric-oriented Approach To Juvenile Texts
(English, 2014-03-12)
This rhetoric-oriented dissertation examines the academic discussion of children's literature, especially the influence of Jacqueline Rose and her landmark book The Case of Peter Pan, or the Impossibility of Children's ...
One High Heel On Each Side Of The Border: A Closer Look At Gender And Sexuality In Chicana And Anglo Young Adult Literature
(English, 2014-03-12)
There is currently very little analysis of Chicana young adult literature available, and by extension there is almost nothing at hand that compares Anglo and Chicana young adult literature. These fields need to be examined ...
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 ...
Positioning First-year Composition: Hybrid Learning For Student Engagement And Sustainability
(English, 2014-12)
This study uses quantitative and qualitative methodology to describe, and analyze the use of social media to create a blended learning environment in the first-year composition classroom. Findings indicate hybrid courses ...
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 ...
Negotiating The Sacred In Secular Writing Spaces: The Rhetoric Of Religion In American University Composition Textbooks
(English, 2014-07-14)
This project demonstrates that religion comes into through the classroom door not only through the embodiment of students and instructors, but via the academy itself through the university composition textbook. Publishers ...