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2009

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The "Ruins Of The Future": Counter-Narratives To Terrorism In The 9/11 Literature Of Don Delillo, Jonathan Safran Foer, And Ian Mcewan, Matthew Francis Carlini Aug 2009

The "Ruins Of The Future": Counter-Narratives To Terrorism In The 9/11 Literature Of Don Delillo, Jonathan Safran Foer, And Ian Mcewan, Matthew Francis Carlini

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In the days after 9/11, Don DeLillo asserted that the narrative of the future ended in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks, and "it is left to us to create the counter-narrative" (34). In this thesis project, I illustrate how Jonathan Safran Foer and Ian McEwan take up DeLillo‘s call to construct a counter-narrative to empty futurism and the backwards-oriented narrative of terrorism. Through my comparative analysis of Cosmopolis and Falling Man in Chapter One, I illustrate how DeLillo argues for the renewed importance of the place of memory in the world following the attacks of 9/11. Cosmopolis’ world …


Pedagogy For Millennials: Using New Literacies And New Media To Teach Old Texts, Keli Woodard Weed Aug 2009

Pedagogy For Millennials: Using New Literacies And New Media To Teach Old Texts, Keli Woodard Weed

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When teaching the rhetorical situation, English teachers often emphasize the importance of ―knowing one‘s audience.‖ As we move into a new century, it is important that these teachers consider their own advice. This project aims a critical lens at millennials – those tech-savvy, multi-tasking students who were born after 1994 – and aims to equip teachers with the skills, tools, and confidence needed to step out of the routine of skill-and-drill pedagogy in the language arts classroom and into the interactive, multi-modal world of 21st-century education. The project begins with an analysis of demographic information on millennial students that is …


"I Can't Be Punished Anymore": Exploring Incapacity And Carceral Formations In Samuel Beckett's Endgame, Happy Days, Play, Not I, And Catastrophe, Victoria Helen Swanson Aug 2009

"I Can't Be Punished Anymore": Exploring Incapacity And Carceral Formations In Samuel Beckett's Endgame, Happy Days, Play, Not I, And Catastrophe, Victoria Helen Swanson

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While there has been a great deal of scholarship and a variety of approaches to analysis of the works of Samuel Beckett, there has been surprisingly little excavation of the carceral, restrictive, and debilitating formations vital to the structure of his plays. For example, the carcerality prevalent throughout While there has been a great deal of scholarship and a variety of approaches to analysis of the works of Samuel Beckett, there has been surprisingly little excavation of the carceral, restrictive, and debilitating formations vital to the structure of his plays. For example, the carcerality prevalent throughout Endgame informs the dramatic …


A Disordered Domesticity: Constructions Of Masculinity In The Dramatic Works Of John Gay, Jeremy Brandon Wear Aug 2009

A Disordered Domesticity: Constructions Of Masculinity In The Dramatic Works Of John Gay, Jeremy Brandon Wear

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This thesis examines how John Gay portrays constructions of masculinity in domestic spaces—the households, estates, and royal courts—of three plays: Three Hours After Marriage,Polly, and Achilles. Gay illuminates how constructions of masculinity are ultimately linked to an emergent sex/gender system based upon shifting ideas of masculine authority and patriarchal right in the eighteenth century. Ultimately, Gay‟s drama reveals the concept of a “natural” sex to be little more than a cultural construction. He criticizes the often artificial nature of masculinity, and posits that a masculine gender identity becomes linked to power over the supposedly “natural,” feminine …


The First Adventure Of Raspberry And Lime: A Futuristic Screenplay, Sarah E. Mims Jan 2009

The First Adventure Of Raspberry And Lime: A Futuristic Screenplay, Sarah E. Mims

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Exploring Social Class And The Rural/Urban Dichotomy: A Critical Approach To Rural Community College Student Empowerment Through Composition, Amanda Groves Jan 2009

Exploring Social Class And The Rural/Urban Dichotomy: A Critical Approach To Rural Community College Student Empowerment Through Composition, Amanda Groves

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No abstract provided.


Where We Can't Follow: A Collection Of Short Stories, Megan Holt Jan 2009

Where We Can't Follow: A Collection Of Short Stories, Megan Holt

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"Freedom In Working": Representations Of Working Women In Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton, Ruth, And North And South, Amy King Jan 2009

"Freedom In Working": Representations Of Working Women In Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton, Ruth, And North And South, Amy King

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Exploring At-Risk Student Writers In Academic Success Programs And The Role Instructors Play In Their Evaluation, Katrina Monique Dunbar Jan 2009

Exploring At-Risk Student Writers In Academic Success Programs And The Role Instructors Play In Their Evaluation, Katrina Monique Dunbar

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The Letters Of Elizabeth I: Rhetoric For Ruling, Anna M. Patton Jan 2009

The Letters Of Elizabeth I: Rhetoric For Ruling, Anna M. Patton

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Translating Anglo-Saxon Poetry: Foreignized Translations Of The Seafarer And The Wanderer, Andrew Timothy Eichel Jan 2009

Translating Anglo-Saxon Poetry: Foreignized Translations Of The Seafarer And The Wanderer, Andrew Timothy Eichel

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No abstract provided.