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Japan In The Mirror Of Language: The Failure Of Language To Represent Objects In Travel Narratives On Japan
(English, 2011-03-03)The travel narrative is, ostensibly, little more than representation of foreign places and things, foreign objects. The language of the travel narrative seems, on the surface, to succeed in representing the foreign. None ... -
JUSTICE FOR THE FALLEN WOMAN
(2021-04-27)By analyzing the experiences of four different incidents of shaming women—Dallas police officers photographing partially nude prostitutes during booking, Anita Hill, Monica Lewinksky, and Christine Blasey-Ford—in contemporary ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
"A Labor Of Love": A Social And Literary History Of The Blue Cloud Quarterly
(English, 2014-12)This thesis will explore the literary and historical context of a small magazine publication entitled the Blue Cloud Quarterly. The first publication of its kind to focus entirely on Native American poetry, the BCQ played ... -
Ladies And Loners: A Comparative Gender Study Of The Romance And Popular Western
(English, 2007-08-23)Despite the efforts of readers, writers and cultural critics, the fact remains that romance and the Western genres are considered low art. The real impetus behind this paper is not whether or not or even why they are ... -
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 ... -
LEAF, BARK, THORN, ROOT: ARBOREAL ECOCRITICISM AND SHAKESPEAREAN DRAMA
(2019-04-30)Leaf, Bark, Thorn, Root traces the appearance of trees and their constituent parts in five Shakespearean plays: Macbeth, The Tempest, 3 Henry VI, Richard III, and As You Like It. The dissertation shows how these plays ... -
Lilith Rising: American Gothic Fiction And The Evolution Of The Female Hero In Sarah Wood's Julia And The Illuminated Baron, E.D.E.N. Southworth's The Hidden Hand, And Joss Whedon's Buffy The Vampire Slayer
(English, 2008-09-17)The construction and gendered identity of the female hero has long been a pressing concern of feminist criticism. A female hero capable of sustaining a role as a central protagonist in terms of complexity of character and ... -
Liquid Assets: The Functions Of Forgetting In Shakespeare's Second Henriad
(English, 2013-03-20)This dissertation examines Shakespeare's second historical tetralogy in which the playwright employs forgetfulness despite its pathologized position in early modern culture and its seeming incompatibility with history. In ... -
The Literature of the United States: an anthology and a history
(Scott, Foresman and CompanyDepartment of EnglishUniversity of Texas at Arlington, 1946)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** -
"the Little White Dish Of My Faith": Anne Sexton, The Body, And Spirituality
(English, 2014-07-14)This thesis examines how Anne Sexton pits the body and soul against one another in her poems. Her work suggests that these two facets of being are more than just benignly and fundamentally different: they are enemies. Her ... -
The Magical Sublime: A New-old Lens On Magical Realism
(English, 2007-08-23)While magical realist critics often refer to magical realism's generic heritage of primitive cultures and indigenous mythology, Franz Roh's magischer realismus, and Surrealism, I will point to the sublime as a less recognized ... -
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 ... -
Making Selves as We Make Scholars: The Many Uses of Life Writing in College English
(2022-05-16)This dissertation addresses the perennial question, for both new and more seasoned English professors, “What should we teach in English?” In composition, “What types of writing should we teach?” And in literature, “what ... -
Malasree Home. The Peterborough Version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Anglo-Saxon Studies, 27. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2015.
(The Medieval Studies Institute, Indiana UniversityDepartment of English, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2016) -
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 ...