Browsing Department of English by Author "Richardson, Timothy"
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Breaking Trauma's Empire: Trauma And Resolution In Boardwalk Empire And Breaking Bad
Barlow, Lindsey (English, 2014-03-12)The purpose of this research is to analyze the performance of trauma and its resolutions in television, generally, and in Boardwalk Empire and Breaking Bad, specifically. The first chapter of this project analyzes Jacques ... -
The Found Object(s) Of Rhetoric
Gale, Nathan (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 ... -
I, Gamer: Addressing Toxic Ludology and Narratology in the Gamer Discourse Community Through Reinterpreting Video Games as Hypertexts
Latham, Andrew S.; 0000-0002-5335-3905 (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. ... -
Identifying Loss, Animating Melancholy: Asian-American Narratives in Avatar: The Last Airbender, Spirited Away, and Bao
Mabaquiao, Jered Connery (2022-08-01)Animated film provides a complex illustration of the creativity behind constructing narratives. This thesis aims to explore the way that racial and cultural identity are displayed within animated film. The purpose of this ... -
Make it plain, preacha': African American rhetorical license, African American Vernacular English (AAVE), and a modern rendering of epideictic rhetoric
Similly, Leslie E. (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 ... -
Negotiating The Sacred In Secular Writing Spaces: The Rhetoric Of Religion In American University Composition Textbooks
Salcedo, Myra Lee (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 ... -
Post-Factum Studies in Trans-corporeal Rhetoric: Triangularities of Genre, Ethics, and Aesthetics in Kenneth Burke and Michel Foucault
Woodson, Hubert; 0000-0001-8458-5824 (2022-08-17)This dissertation gives an account of and expands upon Stacy Alaimo’s term, “trans-corporeality,” in order to reconsider the rhetorical situation, through conceptualizations of how rhetorical bodies become embodied and ... -
Space Opera: The Aesthetics of Personhood in the Works and Worlds of Philip K. Dick
Mamola, Gabriel Francis (2020-07-31)In this dissertation, I examine the major novels of science fiction writer Philip K. Dick in light of his non-fictional and speculatively mystical writings. After establishing an approach to science fiction in general and ... -
THE CASE OF NEMO NOBODY: A LACANIAN STUDY OF THE TRAUMATIC AND NEUROTIC RELATIONSHIPS OF THE MAN WHO DOESN'T EXIST
Sanders, Brittany N. (2021-05-07)Jaco Van Dormael’s 2009 film Mr. Nobody introduces us to Nemo Nobody, “the man who doesn’t exist.” Nemo is born with the impossible gift of omniscience and exercises this ability to know several of his possible lives before ... -
The Joker: A Character Study of a Modern Madman
Ewald, Jay; 0000-0001-9927-9440 (2017-07-05)When the Joker first appeared in the pages of Batman on April 25, 1940, he was intended to be little more than a throwaway villain for the hero to face. Since his debut, the Joker has appeared in countless comics, TV shows, ... -
THE WORLD IN THE SCREEN: HOW THE MOBILE DEVICE SYMBOLIZES TECHNOGENESIS
Morrow, Joel Mathew (2016-11-30)The smart phone, or mobile device, holds a preeminent role in a technologically advanced society. These devices allow for connection, productivity, and distraction, and in doing so create new anxieties and underscore old ...