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“Reckoning” With America’S Past: Robert Penn Warren’S Later Poetry, Joan Romano Shifflett
“Reckoning” With America’S Past: Robert Penn Warren’S Later Poetry, Joan Romano Shifflett
Robert Penn Warren Studies
Robert Penn Warren’s later poetry, specifically Rumor Verified and Altitudes and Extensions, deserves closer critical attention to the function served by the American past. Whether it is facing the bloody reality of westward expansion or acknowledging the alienation and dehumanization that results from the Industrial Revolution, Warren’s poems suggest a method of self-reflection that yields a fuller sense of American identity and, consequently, an awareness and knowledge of how to live in this modern world. A close study of the poetic techniques in “Going West” serves as a model for how Warren uses historical backdrops to employ his underlying philosophy …
On The Missing Role Of The Editor In The Compilation And Publication Of Bilingual Dictionaries, Gang Zhao
On The Missing Role Of The Editor In The Compilation And Publication Of Bilingual Dictionaries, Gang Zhao
Gang Zhao
No abstract provided.
Home Abroad, Sheila Madary
Home Abroad, Sheila Madary
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Comprised of four essays, this collection of creative nonfiction focuses on facets of daily life and culture in Germany. The author recounts her experiences as she and her family assimilate into a foreign culture and adapt to using its language. The first essay tells of the family’s unexpected but rewarding sojourn in Germany after losing everything to Hurricane Katrina. The subsequent essays display a broader range of experiences and cultural observations upon the family’s return to Germany four years later. These include a narrative of the family’s move to a small town in central Germany, an interview with a local …
The Restinga, Valerie Harbolovic
The Restinga, Valerie Harbolovic
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The Restinga explores dysfunctional sexual relationships in the familiar context of a love triangle, but it is set in the exotic African landscape of pre-war colonial Angola in 1960, where the author spent her childhood. The Restinga evolved from a short story presented at a graduate fiction workshop led by Joseph and Amanda Boyden at the University of New Orleans’ Madrid campus in the summer of 2007.
Research for this project included:
- Many interviews with the author’s parents
- Compilation and review of family home movies made at the time
- Interview with Richard J. Houk, author of the article: “The Hotel …
Frank And Gala, Heather M. Mcgrail
Frank And Gala, Heather M. Mcgrail
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Through the gossip and rumors in a small town in Minnesota, the townspeople discuss and react to the Levison family's claimed perfection.
Wisteria And Other Stories, Michael Clayton
Wisteria And Other Stories, Michael Clayton
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
We are forever shaped by the worlds we live in. The following stories are musings on the importance of time and place and on the conflicts that arise for characters who are born into and who live with or rail against those forces. The stories are set in and around Laurel County, Georgia over a period of decades. They look at the people who are made there and the lessons they learn or fail to learn as they work to make their way there.
Barthian Bliss In The Films Of Darren Aronofsky., Mark M. Hogstrom
Barthian Bliss In The Films Of Darren Aronofsky., Mark M. Hogstrom
Undergraduate Honors Theses
In this essay I argue that the films of director Darren Aronofsky correspond to the Text of Bliss defined in Roland Barthes' The Pleasure of the Text. Using several aspects of audience reception to dissect Aronofsky’s films justifies identifying his oeuvre as texts of bliss: works that disquiet viewers by unsettling their assumptions of the world around them and their own relationships with it. This Barthes-based appropriation of literary theory to audience reception theory in Film Studies serves as an example of how personally-developed classification systems can be used to circumvent relying on popular opinion and corporate aims for guidance …
Western Culture And The Spread Of Serial Murder, Angela Pilson
Western Culture And The Spread Of Serial Murder, Angela Pilson
Honors Theses
Serial murders may have occurred in non-Western cultures, like Japan, South Africa, and Pakistan, before the introduction of Western ideals. These murders would have gone unnoticed and unreported if the populace did not know or understand the significant differences between serial murder and other types of violence and death. The people and authorities in non-Western cultures would not know of these differences unless they were made known to them or if they started to investigate the murders more closely. People from Western cultures who move to non-Western areas or communicate with non-Western natives may introduce these differences and familiarize the …
Touching Bodies/Bodies Touching: The Ethics Of Touch In Victorian Literature (1860-1900), Ann M.C. Gagne
Touching Bodies/Bodies Touching: The Ethics Of Touch In Victorian Literature (1860-1900), Ann M.C. Gagne
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Tactility becomes a marked preoccupation in mid-Victorian literature. The description of how characters touch one another and negotiate their surroundings through tactility reinforces the ethics of intersubjectivity in Victorian England. I argue that touch becomes representative of embodied experience in Victorian literature. As well, touch goes beyond the explicit moral taxonomies found in etiquette books to provide implicit guiding principles for the negotiation of both the public and the private. The Contagious Diseases Acts (CDAs) serve as a point of departure for an analysis of tactility in Victorian literature for the CDAs emphasized and reinforced the importance of legislating touch. …
Inside And Outside 1101: First-Year Student Perceptions Of Academic Writing, Laura E. Jones
Inside And Outside 1101: First-Year Student Perceptions Of Academic Writing, Laura E. Jones
English Theses
First-year undergraduate students have vastly different perceptions of academic writing, the writing process, and the value of writing within their specific academic disciplines. These perceptions differ not only from their instructors but also from their peers. Yet, while reams of literature discuss, debate, and decipher student perspectives of writing from a scholarly point of view, the first-year student voice is conspicuously absent from this discussion. This study followed 92 first-year students through their first college composition course, English 1101, in order to capture the student perspective of how writing fits in their academic careers. The results indicate that while most …
How Do Comics Artists Create Sound Effects In Spanish And English?, Frank Bramlett
How Do Comics Artists Create Sound Effects In Spanish And English?, Frank Bramlett
English Faculty Publications
In 2009, I happened upon a one-shot Spider-Man & Human Torch story. Side-by-side on the rack at my local comic book store were an English-language version and a Spanish-language version, both of which were called ¡Bahía de los Muertos! (literally Bay of the Dead). The Spanish version was also marked “Edición Boricua en Español,” meaning that it was the Puerto Rican edition. I’ve included two images, below. The one on the left is from the Spanish version and the one on the right is from the English. In panel 1, Johnny is getting hit by a monster. In panel …
Queering The Family Space: Confronting The Child Figure And The Evolving Dynamics Of Intergenerational Relations In Don Delillo's White Noise, Joshua Little
English Theses
Criticism surrounding the children of the Gladney family in Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise remains a contested issue. I argue the children and their social environment reflect Lee Edelman’s analysis of the Child figure and its bolstering of reproductive futurism. The Child figure upholds a heteronormative social order that precludes equal rights and social viability for non-normative family structures and those opposed to an inherently conservative ideology. I find the continually evolving family structure elicits new dynamics among its members, offering greater social independence for all, which institutes a stronger familial bond and ensures a greater chance for its vitality. …
Lines Of Communication: Uncovering War’S Reality Through Fictional Styles, Kelly Hoarty
Lines Of Communication: Uncovering War’S Reality Through Fictional Styles, Kelly Hoarty
English Student Scholarship
In looking at war literature, Word War I was a pivotal event in how many authors view the war and communicate its effects on society to their audiences. Erich Maria Remarque and Ernest Hemingway are two novelists in the twentieth century, who wrote to portray the physical and psychological damage soldiers suffered in battle and upon returning home. All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque and The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway utilize different writing styles, but both effectively work within fiction to bridge the gap of understanding between the soldiers’ experiences and the civilians on the home front, …
The Invisible Other: White Trash In William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! And The Hamlet, Bryant Edwards Trihey
The Invisible Other: White Trash In William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! And The Hamlet, Bryant Edwards Trihey
Theses & Honors Papers
The idea of a “white soul” and the protection of its purity was prolific during William Faulkner’s adolescence in the late 1800s and early 1900s, which is why he feared the establishment of a hybrid mix of races, especially one that tarnished whiteness. This thesis exams whiteness in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and The Hamlet. The findings on this thesis indicate that only white trash can fix the problem that is white trash, which means that white trash is not even safe from itself. Faulkner finished Absalom, Absalom! with further avowal of his fear of the tainting of the white …
Biological Inheritance And The Social Order In Late-Victorian Fiction And Science, Sherrin Berezowsky
Biological Inheritance And The Social Order In Late-Victorian Fiction And Science, Sherrin Berezowsky
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
This dissertation investigates the heightened interest in heredity as a biological inheritance that arises after the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species and how this interest intersects with concerns about class mobility and the shifting social order. Within this framework, this project considers how heredity became a means of organizing and regulating bodies in keeping with what Michel Foucault terms bio-power. It unearths the cultural work within literary and scientific writings as they respond to narratives of self-help and self-improvement by imagining heredity as a means of stabilizing the social order, and by extension the nation, at …
Revisiting "Hapworth": The Catharsis Of Buddy Glass, Brian Mctague
Revisiting "Hapworth": The Catharsis Of Buddy Glass, Brian Mctague
Theses and Dissertations
J.D. Salinger's "Hapworth 16, 1924," his last published work, is notorious for the initial critical silence it received, as well as the subsequent general consensus that it was a text to revile if not avoid. This thesis proposes that while "Hapworth" is a difficult and perplexing piece, there is a good deal about it that deserves if not outright praise, then a close critical re-examination. Assuming the "author" of the story is not the seven-year-old version of "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" suicide Seymour Glass, as the story purports, but his grieving younger brother Buddy, who has spent the years …
Red-Marked Writing: High-Stakes Consequences On High School Writing Education, Dana Sarchet
Red-Marked Writing: High-Stakes Consequences On High School Writing Education, Dana Sarchet
Senior Honors Theses
The crucial role of writing in students’ educational growth and development is indisputable. Not only does the process of writing engage students in each level of Bloom’s taxonomy, but it also aids students in the development of their cognitive thinking skills. However, past and even recent statistics reveal a common trend: the vast majority of high school students lack even a basic understanding of writing. Though undoubtedly there are many issues contributing in this lapse of students’ writing abilities, high-stakes testing is a key factor in the decline of writing education in high school classrooms. In order for students to …
Los Retos Del Derecho De Familia En El S. Xxi, Ramiro E. De Valdivia Cano
Los Retos Del Derecho De Familia En El S. Xxi, Ramiro E. De Valdivia Cano
Ramiro De Valdivia Cano
Oblivion of family and matrimony rights in Peru is the source of paramount social and political problems.
Total Men!: Literature, Nationalism, And Mascuilinity In Early Canada, Aaron J. Schneider
Total Men!: Literature, Nationalism, And Mascuilinity In Early Canada, Aaron J. Schneider
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
This thesis identifies the figure of the totally competent man (a model of early Canadian masculinity distinguished by an unprecedented breadth of competence) as a recurrent feature of early Canadian literary texts, and examines the development and representation of this figure with particular attention to its deployment as a model of national manhood by early Canadian literary nationalists. It argues that the production of a broadly competent model of manhood as an ideal model of national manhood by early Canadian literary nationalists was an anxious work carried out in the face of real and sensible threats to the new nation …
Making It Up As We Go: Students Writing And Teachers Reflecting On Post-K New Orleans, Doreen M. Piano, Sarah Debacher, Celeste Del Russo, Elizabeth Lewis, Reggie Poche
Making It Up As We Go: Students Writing And Teachers Reflecting On Post-K New Orleans, Doreen M. Piano, Sarah Debacher, Celeste Del Russo, Elizabeth Lewis, Reggie Poche
Doreen M Piano
No abstract provided.
The Real Things: Photographing Scenes Of The 1960s, Nicholas Bromell
The Real Things: Photographing Scenes Of The 1960s, Nicholas Bromell
English Department Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Review Of Community Literacy And The Rhetoric Of Civic Engagement By Linda Flower, Tim Taylor
Review Of Community Literacy And The Rhetoric Of Civic Engagement By Linda Flower, Tim Taylor
Tim Taylor
No abstract provided.
“The Other Side Of The Coin Of Lexical Borrowing From Arabic Into English”, Mohammad Ahmad Thawabteh Mat
“The Other Side Of The Coin Of Lexical Borrowing From Arabic Into English”, Mohammad Ahmad Thawabteh Mat
Mohammad Ahmad Thawabteh MAT
No abstract provided.
“Linguistic, Cultural And Technical Problems In English-Arabic Subtitling”, Mohammad Ahmad Thawabteh Mat
“Linguistic, Cultural And Technical Problems In English-Arabic Subtitling”, Mohammad Ahmad Thawabteh Mat
Mohammad Ahmad Thawabteh MAT
Abstract The present paper is designed to shed light on the intricacies of English- Arabic subtitling. The data comprises a video clip of an interview with Mr. Galloway conducted by the Sky News TV station. The sample of the study consists of twenty MA translation students enrolled in the second semester of the academic year 2008/2009 at Al-Quds University. The paper reveals that subtitling students are faced with several linguistic, cultural and technical problems which may jeopardise communication, thought to be crucial for target audience. The study concludes with some pedagogical implications that will hopefully help subtitling students deal with …
“The Translation Of Prosody And All That Aggro: A Case Study Of Arabic-English Subtitling”, Mohammad Ahmad Thawabteh Mat
“The Translation Of Prosody And All That Aggro: A Case Study Of Arabic-English Subtitling”, Mohammad Ahmad Thawabteh Mat
Mohammad Ahmad Thawabteh MAT
No abstract provided.
Bajan Girl, David L. Cooper
Bodies Of Reform: The Rhetoric Of Character In Gilded Age America [Review], Claudia Stokes
Bodies Of Reform: The Rhetoric Of Character In Gilded Age America [Review], Claudia Stokes
English Faculty Research
What is the nature of human character? Is it innate or the product of socialization? Is it fixed or fungible, whether for good or for ill? The multiple theories regarding the origins of character that percolated throughout the 1800s have become a mainstay of nineteenth-century U.S. studies over the last twenty years, receiving particular attention in analyses of late-century responses to the anxiety sparked by immigration, labor agitation, and unstable financial markets as well as by the Race Question and the Woman Question. Societal reform during this time was actively fueled by debates about the nature and origin of character, …
“A Moral Wilderness”: Nathaniel Hawthorne’S The Scarlet Letter, Lehtie Chalise Thomson
“A Moral Wilderness”: Nathaniel Hawthorne’S The Scarlet Letter, Lehtie Chalise Thomson
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter portrays his understanding of Puritan doctrines and culture. He addresses sin and redemption through his primary characters Hester Prynne and the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale, whose adultery has resulted in the birth of Pearl and Hester’s scarlet A. He demonstrates Hester’s refusal to publically accept her sin as such. He also outlines the physical demise and spiritual indecision of the minister as Dimmesdale struggles to live two opposing lives. I call attention to how Hawthorne takes his knowledge of the New England Puritans and alters the historical context to emphasize his Romantic views of sin …
Review Of Community Literacy And The Rhetoric Of Civic Engagement By Linda Flower, Tim Taylor
Review Of Community Literacy And The Rhetoric Of Civic Engagement By Linda Flower, Tim Taylor
Faculty Research & Creative Activity
No abstract provided.
Review Of Community Literacy And The Rhetoric Of Civic Engagement By Linda Flower, Tim Taylor
Review Of Community Literacy And The Rhetoric Of Civic Engagement By Linda Flower, Tim Taylor
Faculty Research & Creative Activity
No abstract provided.