God As Columbo, 2017 Harding University
God As Columbo, Nicholas S. Boone
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Toward Justice: Reflections On A Lesson Before Dying, 2017 University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Toward Justice: Reflections On A Lesson Before Dying, Robin A. Bedenbaugh, Ralph Hutchison, Connor Hess, André Canty, Kaya Grace Porter, Erin Adams, Ginna Mashburn, Jennifer M. Jabson, David B. Byrd
Newfound Press eBooks
In 2016, the citizens of Knoxville, Tennessee, joined in a community reading program called the Big Read. Knoxvillians read Ernest Gaines's book A Lesson Before Dying, and community groups hosted a series of lectures, book discussions, film screenings, and dramatic performances that immersed the community in a five-week conversation on racism.
This book of essays is the University of Tennessee Libraries' contribution to Knoxville's Big Read. The Libraries put out a community-wide call for written responses to A Lesson Before Dying and was richly rewarded with the thoughtful and heartfelt commentaries gathered here.
Risky Business: Case Study Pedagogy And Business Communication, 2017 University of South Carolina
Risky Business: Case Study Pedagogy And Business Communication, Jonathan A. Maricle
Theses and Dissertations
When Harvard College built their business school curriculum around case studies and discussion-based classrooms in the early 1900s, it created a radical shift in business school pedagogy throughout the nation due to its ability to prepare students for careers in industry. As case study pedagogy spread to other fields throughout the 20th century, such as medical education and the sciences, these fields extended Harvard's approach in order to create highly effective, field-specific pedagogies. However, business communication is yet to develop their own field-specific approach to case study pedagogy that meets the unique needs of our educators and students. I argue …
The Rhetoric Of Hospitality: Conditions Of Death In America, 2017 Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
The Rhetoric Of Hospitality: Conditions Of Death In America, Margaret Anne Callahan
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The Right of Hospitality: Conditions of Death in America calls Western biomedicine’s approach to death into question. Death unifies all human experiences and is always possible, despite the human tendency to deny its existence and, instead, orient the self towards a futurity that is always out of reach. This project investigates the structures influencing how death in America occurs, and traces the roots of Western culture’s rejection of death to the execution by hemlock of Socrates’ immortalized in the Phaedo. Western biomedicine’s institutionalization of medicine requires that both patients and doctors enter into imbalanced hospitable relationships, and these pressures, along …
Review Of Higgins, Anglo-Saxon Community In J.R.R. Tolkien’S The Lord Of The Rings, 2017 University of South Dakota
Review Of Higgins, Anglo-Saxon Community In J.R.R. Tolkien’S The Lord Of The Rings, Carol A. Leibiger
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
From The Attic To The Screen: An Adaptation Of Jane Eyre And Wide Sargasso Sea, 2017 University of Mississippi. Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College
From The Attic To The Screen: An Adaptation Of Jane Eyre And Wide Sargasso Sea, Farrah F. Sunn
Honors Theses
Jane and Antoinette is an adapted screenplay from the novels Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. Rhys's novel, written nearly one hundred years after the publication of Jane Eyre in 1847, functions as a prequel to the original text. I develop the two stories into one, cohesive narrative for the screen. The adaptation process includes close analyses of the texts, both independently and in relation to one another. I viewed all film or television adaptations of the two novels and read critical analyses of these adaptations. I also studied adaptation theory and applied those …
Macbeth In Film: Directorial Choices And Their Impact On The Audience, 2017 University of Mississippi. Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College
Macbeth In Film: Directorial Choices And Their Impact On The Audience, Kellie Suzanne Mcclelland
Honors Theses
In this thesis, I closely examine William Shakespeare's 17th century tragedy, Macbeth, in comparison to five film adaptations for a 21st century audience: Roman Polanski (1971), Philip Casson (1979), Geoffrey Wright (2006), Rupert Goold (2010), and Justin Kurzel (2015). I chose to survey the women in Macbeth specifically because of historical blame placed on either Lady Macbeth or the witches for Macbeth's actions. General critical perceptions are that these women robbed Macbeth of his agency or free will and urged him, coerced him, to commit unspeakable crimes to advance his career. What I found in these productions are a variety …
Violence And Edification In 19th Century Fiction: An Analysis Of The Novels Of Charles Dickens And Leo Tolstoy, 2017 Bucknell University
Violence And Edification In 19th Century Fiction: An Analysis Of The Novels Of Charles Dickens And Leo Tolstoy, Caroline Fassett
Honors Theses
This Thesis argues that violence is essential to the structures and plots of Charles Dickens’s Barnaby Rudge and A Tale of Two Cities and of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace and Anna Karenina, and is particularly essential to the edification, or the moral and intellectual improvement, of principal characters in these four novels. Additionally, this Thesis contends that this edification is both anticipated and reinforced by the novelists’ incorporation of counterparts whose demeanor and/or narrative overtly mirror that of the principal characters.
To support this argument, I bring the theory of Thomas Carlyle into conversation with the novels of Dickens …
“Injuring Her Beauty By Study”: Women And Classical Learning In Frances Burney’S Novels, 2017 Bridgewater State University
“Injuring Her Beauty By Study”: Women And Classical Learning In Frances Burney’S Novels, Stephanie Diehl
Undergraduate Review
No abstract provided.
Tension Between Reform And Orthodox Judaism In “Eli, The Fanatic”, 2017 Bridgewater State University
Tension Between Reform And Orthodox Judaism In “Eli, The Fanatic”, Katie Grant
Undergraduate Review
No abstract provided.
Reading, The Academy, And The ‘Soft’ Avant-Garde: Tan Lin’S Heath And Heath Course Pak, 2017 University of Louisville
Reading, The Academy, And The ‘Soft’ Avant-Garde: Tan Lin’S Heath And Heath Course Pak, Alan Golding
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Spiritual Transformative Process In Roethke’S “Cuttings (Later)” And “Root Cellar”, 2017 Pepperdine University
The Spiritual Transformative Process In Roethke’S “Cuttings (Later)” And “Root Cellar”, Pauline Park
Global Tides
This paper discusses the groundbreaking greenhouse poems of Theodore Roethke as a manifestation of the poet's internal psyche and personal childhood memories. It analyzes "Cuttings (later)" and "Root Cellar" as poems within a sequence, all exploring the speaker's desire for spiritual transformation and transcendence through the necessary process of decay, death, and rebirth. The paper reveals the poems as emulating the Roethke's own cycles of spiritual awakening and darkness amidst the cycles of manic depression he experienced throughout his life.
Fugitive Verses & Faded Histories: Recovering The Poetry & Influence Of The British American Loyalists, 2017 University of South Carolina
Fugitive Verses & Faded Histories: Recovering The Poetry & Influence Of The British American Loyalists, Michael C. Weisenburg
Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation traces the literary history of the British American Loyalists as they spread through the Atlantic and across the North American continent during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in order to reassess our understanding of the origins of cultural nationalism and the early literary history of the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean. As a result, it implicitly argues for a reconsideration of American literature as developing in a simultaneously hemispheric and transatlantic response to British Empire. I argue that the Loyalists, through their lived experience of the war, exile, and reincorporation back into the body politic, …
A Study Of The Tradition Of Extreme Literature, 2017 Claremont McKenna College
A Study Of The Tradition Of Extreme Literature, Matthew Chi Hei Chan
CMC Senior Theses
This thesis endeavours to investigate some of the many ways literary works can engage with the tradition of extremism. In so doing, the author hopes to demonstrate the importance of the tradition as a vessel for understanding the world around and within us. In an effort to show the breadth and endurance of this tradition, this thesis critically analyses selected works by Robert Browning, Harold Pinter, and Frank Bidart in context with various other literary works.
Tl;Dr - Communicating In The Age Of Social Media, 2017 Eastern Michigan University
Tl;Dr - Communicating In The Age Of Social Media, Julia L. Czekaj
Senior Honors Theses and Projects
This thesis uses a literature review and post analyzation to explore Facebook and Twitter as methods of communicating. This thesis examines social media history, genre, and rhetorical aspects.
Too Retro For Religion: Self-Identity And The Presence Of God In The Works Of L. J. Smith And Bram Stoker, 2017 Eastern Michigan University
Too Retro For Religion: Self-Identity And The Presence Of God In The Works Of L. J. Smith And Bram Stoker, Jasmyn C. Barringer
Senior Honors Theses and Projects
Since vampirism threatens the psychological stability of human beings, religion is utilized to combat vampires in Bram Stoker's Dracula. Jutta Schulze alludes to a dominant discourse that establishes moral binaries through religion. However, when the presence of God is limited or non-existent, individuals within L. J. Smith's Secret Vampire cannot rely on moral binaries to understand vampires. Instead, they must redefine their self-identity without Christian beliefs that would otherwise deem vampires unacceptable. "Too Retro for Religion" examines the exclusive nature presented by religious binaries in Victorian literature in comparison with the transformative human-vampire relationship in modern fiction.
The Nature Of Identity: Ecofeminism, Women's Poetry, And Reclaiming Power Through The Recognition Of Parallel Oppressions, 2017 Eastern Michigan University
The Nature Of Identity: Ecofeminism, Women's Poetry, And Reclaiming Power Through The Recognition Of Parallel Oppressions, Jessica Dailey
Senior Honors Theses and Projects
The presence of Ecofeminism in women's poetry can empower women today who engage in feminist activism. The systematic oppression experienced by women is paralleled by the destruction inflicted upon nature (including animals). By recognizing these as similar, women can reclaim their connection to nature (while rejecting the idea that this is essentialist); through this connection women as readers find an escape from patriarchy, the male gaze, and sexual violence in Ecofeminist poetry.
Superficialy [Sic] And Maturity Within J. D. Salinger's The Catcher In The Rye And Mark Twain's The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, 2017 Eastern Michigan University
Superficialy [Sic] And Maturity Within J. D. Salinger's The Catcher In The Rye And Mark Twain's The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, Louise Caroline Barbosa
Senior Honors Theses and Projects
The purpose of this research is to analyze the concept of maturity between postcolonialism and modem literature through a close reading of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. Both Huck and Finn reside in a world where growing older means accepting the often fake societies and communities that regulate societal norms. Both characters face mature themes, such as death/mortality/ isolation, the hypocrisy of"civilized" society, and depression. In evaluating these texts, it is reasonable to believe that Holden and Huck will forever be displaced in society because of their repression …
Return To Sender, 2017 The University of Akron
Return To Sender, Katherine Noelle Nypaver
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
Return to Sender is a fictional short story that illustrates the potential consequences of neglecting to take others seriously. River Ellison, a high school senior at St. Jude’s Academy struggling with depression and habitual self-harm, receives a note from his peer regarding his thoughts on suicide. His ordinary school day transforms into twenty-four hours of repercussions that force River to see his peer for what she is—an equal. Prefacing the short story, my critical essay explains why I find C.D. Payne, John Green, Jesse Andrews, and J.D. Salinger so inspiring to the young adult literature world. I also analyze how …
"The Mouth Of The Void," "Hum", 2017 The University of Akron
"The Mouth Of The Void," "Hum", Hannah L. Comeriato
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
This project presents two distinct pieces of short fiction, linked through intentional stylized language, grammatical patterns, and a sectionalized narrative structure. Each individual piece of short fiction functions independently – as separate and distinct from the other, with no explicit connection in content (i.e. recurring characters, parallel timelines etc.). However, each narrative also displays a kind of complex interaction with the other, each crafted to produce, when read alongside one another, a shared indistinct aesthetic and emotional experience. This aesthetic and emotional experience is crafted, specifically, by the use of stylized verbs, the em-dash, and alternating dialogue-based and image-based sections. …