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My Child And My Life: Sacrificial Obligation And Chaucer
(English, 2011-07-14)
Medieval literature demonstrates that Christians of that era took their Bible seriously, particularly the Old Testament account of Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac. For them, the story was both fascinating and perplexing. Not ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mapping Men: Toward A Theory Of Material Masculinity
(English, 2013-07-22)
This project interrogates the possibilities of material gender theory as an interdisciplinary bridge between critical theory—like gender studies and eco–criticism—and soft–scientific men's studies. The primary theoretical ...
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 ...
Rhetoric, Composition And Preaching: What Homiletic Pedagogy Can Learn About Imitation From Composition Pedagogies
(English, 2012-07-25)
Across the centuries there have been thousands of books and articles written about preaching and writing. Homiletics and Composition Studies have this in common. A great difference comes when one looks for information about ...
Language, Order And The Problem Of The Other: Inventing A Postmodern Service-learning Pedagogy
(English, 2013-03-20)
My dissertation argues for a different approach to implementing service-learning into composition pedagogy. I argue that because critical pedagogy has long been the primary vehicle for incorporating service-learning ...
Practical Magic: Magical Realism and the Possibilities of Representation in Twenty-First Century Fiction and Film
(2016-09-15)
Reflecting the paradoxical nature of its title, magical realism is a complicated term to define and to apply to works of art. Some writers and critics argue that classifying texts as magical realism essentializes and ...
Rethinking Resistance: Race, Gender, and Place in the Fictive and Real Geographies of the American West
(2016-05-10)
This project traces the history of the American West and its inhabitants through its literary, cinematic and cultural landscape, exploring the importance of public and private narratives of resistance, in their many ...
Strange and Unstable Bodies: Shifting Materialities in Early American Natural History Correspondence Networks
(2016-04-20)
This dissertation fills a gap in the study of early American natural history literature by investigating the representation of animal bodies within early American natural history writing and attending to the role animal ...