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Eng 5742-600: Studies In Genre For Writers And Teachers, Tim Engles

Fall 2022

No abstract provided.

Fascist Aesthetics From 1940 To Contemporary Times, Anna M. Gellerman

Publications and Research

Movies and literature all over the world share some common aesthetics: militarization, romanticization of death, beauty of perfection, and even purity. What most don't think about is how these tropes rose to popularity due to Nazi Germany's propaganda films. This work describes these fascist aesthetics, and uses famous publications from the 1940s until now to paint just how common these themes are.

Searching For Identity: Connecting Students To Young Adult Literature In The Classroom Through Language, Samantha Correia

Honors Program Theses and Projects

Young adult literature largely influences the cultures and the lives of young people; often these popular young adult novels become well-known as they are made into movies and are in high demand. These novels are not just for young adults; these texts can be read at any age and have accessible themes that many people can relate to. However, in this research, young adult literature will be discussed in terms of how these novels affect children, mostly from ages ten to eighteen, as many of the characters in these texts are a similar age to them. Young adult literature (YA …

Eng 2205-001: Intro To Literary Studies, Suzie Park

Spring 2017

No abstract provided.

Daffodils: A Completely Unrelated Collection Of Short Stories, Sawyer E.P. Henshaw

Scripps Senior Theses

“Daffodils” is a collection of three fictional short stories without obvious thematic connection, yet all containing tenacious female characters. “The Winner” is told from the unflinching voice of a young wife in her struggle for control within the newfound environment of a Massachusetts boarding school. “The Seers” is a dystopian story, taking place in a world with months of “Sun” and months of dark at a time, intimately describing the effects of this phenomenon upon the civilization. Lastly, “Plastic Flowers” examines the loss of love and comfort within a relationship, depicting the insecurities of young adult life in New York …

Eng 3405-001: Children’S Literature, John Moore

Fall 2015

No abstract provided.

Eng 3405-001: Children's Literature, John Moore

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.

Eng 3705-001: American Multicultural Literatures, Jeannie Ludlow

Fall 2014

No abstract provided.

Wst 2309g-003: Women, Men, And Culture, Jeannie Ludlow

Fall 2014

No abstract provided.

Eng 4905-001: Studies In Youth Literature, John Moore

Spring 2014

No abstract provided.

Eng 3405-002: Children's Literature, John Moore

Spring 2014

No abstract provided.

Raw, Michael W. Hancock

Faculty Publications & Research

Raw magazine (published from 1980 to 1991) was the premier English-language showcase for avantgarde and international comics in the 1980s and a harbinger of the graphic novel boom of the early 21st century. It was coedited by future New Yorker art editor Francoise Mouly and her husband, veteran underground cartoonist Art Spiegelman, whose seminal graphic novel Maus was first serialized in Raw. Raw promoted the idea of comics as a serious adult literary and artistic form by publishing formally innovative contemporary comics, translating the work of established international cartoonists, and reprinting works by early 20th-century artists. Its wide-ranging subject matter …

Eng 3406-001: Literature For Pre-Adolescents, John Moore

Fall 2013

No abstract provided.

Eng 3405-002: Children's Literature, John Moore

Spring 2013

No abstract provided.

Eng 3405-001: Children's Literature, John Moore

Fall 2012

No abstract provided.

November Days, Caitlin Sacco

Honors Theses and Capstones

"November Days" is a nonfiction story about a teenage girl diagnosed with leukemia at the age of 15 in 1983. It goes back and forth between her sickness and death and the impact that it still has on her family and friends thirty years later. It is a story about love and loss and the family that has never recovered.

Eng 4300-4390-003-097: With Or Without Words: Graphic Novels, Memoirs, And Wordless Books, Lania Knight

Spring 2012

No abstract provided.

Linguistics And The Study Of Comics , Frank Bramlett

Faculty Books and Monographs

Editor: Frank Bramlett, UNO faculty member.

Chapter 8: Linguistic Codes and Character Identity in Afro Samurai, authored by Frank Bramlett.

Do Irish superheroes actually sound Irish? Why are Gary Larson's Far Side cartoons funny? How do political cartoonists in India, Turkey, and the US get their point across? What is the impact of English on comics written in other languages? These questions and many more are answered in this volume, which brings together the two fields of comics research and linguistics to produce groundbreaking scholarship. With an international cast of contributors, the book offers novel insights into the role …

Eng 3406-001: Literature For Pre-Adolescents, John David Moore

Fall 2011

No abstract provided.

Navigating The Fourth Dimension: Nonlinear Narratives In Film, Literature, And Television, Jason R. Boulanger

Senior Honors Projects

Time is often considered the fourth dimension due to the fact that nothing can exist outside the confines of time. Since time is so intrinsic to the very nature of being in the world, creators of film, literature, and television, which are reflective of life, must at least implicitly confront concepts of time and temporality within their work. The intangibility of time presents many difficulties but also a great number of opportunities in accurately portraying its true function within the world.

Many literary works, films, and television programs directly confront concepts of time. Each medium with its own benefits and …

The Raven Loup : A Modern-Day Romance Novella, Andrew John Hamilton

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

In her appropriately-titled study, Romance, Barbara Fuchs introduces the romantic in literature as the "textual strategy[:] a concatenation of both narratological elements and literary topoi, including idealization, the marvelous, narrative delay, wandering, and obscured identity, that [...] both pose a quest and complicate it". The purpose of this thesis is to creatively employ the "textual strategy" of romance, applying it to a story set in the near-present with modern-day symbols, events, and characters. With this in mind, the traditional romantic hero is a warrior, a general, or a knight with physical or mental prowess that goes beyond the scope of …

What Is Real College Writing? Let The Disagreement Never End, Peter Elbow

Peter Elbow

No abstract provided.

Eng 2007-002: Introduction To Creative Writing: Fiction, John Kilgore

Fall 2009

No abstract provided.

Eng 3504-001: Graphic Novels, Children's Literature And Adaptation: Animation And Beyond, Robin Murray

Fall 2009

No abstract provided.

Eng 2007-001: Introduction To Creative Writing: Fiction, John Kilgore

Summer 2009

No abstract provided.

Eng 2007-001: Introduction To Creative Writing: Fiction, John Kilgore

Fall 2007

No abstract provided.

Eng 4903-001: Young Adult Literature, Fern Kory

Spring 2007

No abstract provided.

Eng 1001-026: Composition And Language, Amanda Bright

Fall 2005

No abstract provided.

Eng 2007-002: Creative Writing: Fiction, John Kilgore

Fall 2005

No abstract provided.

Eng 2007-001: Creative Writing: Fiction, John Kilgore

Spring 2005

No abstract provided.