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Dialogue And "Dialect": Character Speech In American Fiction, Carly Overfelt Nov 2017

Dialogue And "Dialect": Character Speech In American Fiction, Carly Overfelt

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation investigates the linguistic construction of race and place in turn-of-the-century American novels and short stories. Literary analyses of character speech continue to reinforce the old dichotomy of Standard versus nonstandard/dialectal English. I challenge the ideology of Standard English in my readings of works by Mark Twain, Charles Chesnutt, Sarah Orne Jewett, and little-known Cherokee author, Ora V. Eddleman Reed, among others. I argue that these texts create their own standards that interact with (and sometimes resist) the language ideology of their time. By analyzing all variation, rather than only what has been traditionally viewed as “dialect,” I reveal …


Asking The Tough Questions: Teaching Literature And Nonfiction Through Critical Literacy To Recapture Our Voices, Agency, And Mission, Elsie L. Olan, Wendy Farkas, Kia Jane Richmond Nov 2017

Asking The Tough Questions: Teaching Literature And Nonfiction Through Critical Literacy To Recapture Our Voices, Agency, And Mission, Elsie L. Olan, Wendy Farkas, Kia Jane Richmond

Conference Presentations

Exploding the Myth of Mental Illness


Disrupting Notions Of Stigma While Empowering Voices: Examining Language Identity, Mental Illness, And Disability Through Young Adult Literature, Elsie L. Olan, Wendy Farkas, Kia Jane Richmond Nov 2017

Disrupting Notions Of Stigma While Empowering Voices: Examining Language Identity, Mental Illness, And Disability Through Young Adult Literature, Elsie L. Olan, Wendy Farkas, Kia Jane Richmond

Conference Presentations

Presenter Two will share new research on young adult literature which features characters with mental illness. She will describe strategies for using texts such as Your Voice is All I Hear (2015), Thirteen Reasons Why (2007), and The Impossible Knife of Memory (2014) to analyze and critique representations of mental illness in young adult literature. Drawing on research by Koss & Teale (2009) and Richmond (2014), this presenter will help session attendees interrogate “the power of language choices” and “become empowered to confront the stigma associated with mental illness and confront bullying” (p. 24).


Foreword To D.W. Robertson, Jr., Uncollected Essays, Paul Olson Nov 2017

Foreword To D.W. Robertson, Jr., Uncollected Essays, Paul Olson

Department of English: Faculty Publications

During the late summer of 1992, I received a call from Darryl Gless, a professor of Renaissance literature at the University of North Carolina and my former student, asking me if it would be all right if he and other people looking after the literary remains of D. W. Robertson would send me a package of published and unpublished articles that Robertson had left behind upon his death in July of that year. Gless had been a friend of Dr. and Mrs. Robertson in Chapel Hill, visiting with them frequently while trying a bit to look after their well-being in …


An Antidote To War? An Examination Of The Success Of The Once And Future King By T.H. White, Emily L. Ward Oct 2017

An Antidote To War? An Examination Of The Success Of The Once And Future King By T.H. White, Emily L. Ward

HON499 projects

This paper seeks to evaluate the level of success of The Once and Future King by T.H. White. It examines the financial success of the book and its popularity among readers, both immediately upon publication and in later years. It also considers the book within its historical context, during and after World War II, and hypothesizes that the war negatively impacted the success of the book since it has a pacifist agenda. Finally, the paper examines White’s own goals and intentions while writing the book, and whether the book achieved those purposes. In order to study these matters, the text …


Eng 1000 003: Fundamentals Of College Comp, Timothy Taylor Aug 2017

Eng 1000 003: Fundamentals Of College Comp, Timothy Taylor

Fall 2017

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Eng 2901 001: Structure Of English, James Smith Aug 2017

Eng 2901 001: Structure Of English, James Smith

Fall 2017

No abstract provided.


Eng 5025 001: Creative Writing Professional Development, Daiva Markells Aug 2017

Eng 5025 001: Creative Writing Professional Development, Daiva Markells

Fall 2017

No abstract provided.


Eng 1001g 244: College Composition I Dual Credit, Laura Wagner Aug 2017

Eng 1001g 244: College Composition I Dual Credit, Laura Wagner

Fall 2017

No abstract provided.


Eiu 4192g 099: Film And Contemporary Society Honors, Robert Martinez Aug 2017

Eiu 4192g 099: Film And Contemporary Society Honors, Robert Martinez

Fall 2017

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Eng 1001g 003: College Composition L, Carol Dudley Aug 2017

Eng 1001g 003: College Composition L, Carol Dudley

Fall 2017

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Eng 1001g 015: College Composition I, Tim Engles Aug 2017

Eng 1001g 015: College Composition I, Tim Engles

Fall 2017

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Eng 3300 001: Seminar In English Studies, Randall Beebe Aug 2017

Eng 3300 001: Seminar In English Studies, Randall Beebe

Fall 2017

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Eng 4742 001: Studies In Genre, Christopher Wixson Aug 2017

Eng 4742 001: Studies In Genre, Christopher Wixson

Fall 2017

No abstract provided.


Eng 4761 001: Advanced Nonfiction Writing, Daiva Markelis Aug 2017

Eng 4761 001: Advanced Nonfiction Writing, Daiva Markelis

Fall 2017

No abstract provided.


Eiu 4106g 001: War Stories, Melissa Caldwell Aug 2017

Eiu 4106g 001: War Stories, Melissa Caldwell

Fall 2017

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Eng 1000 002: Fundamentals Of College Comp, Denise Preston Aug 2017

Eng 1000 002: Fundamentals Of College Comp, Denise Preston

Fall 2017

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Eng 1000 004: Fundamentals Of College Comp, Robin Murray Aug 2017

Eng 1000 004: Fundamentals Of College Comp, Robin Murray

Fall 2017

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Eng 1001g 008: College Composition I, Marjorie Worthington Aug 2017

Eng 1001g 008: College Composition I, Marjorie Worthington

Fall 2017

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Eng 1002g 001: College Composition Ii, Dana Ringuette Aug 2017

Eng 1002g 001: College Composition Ii, Dana Ringuette

Fall 2017

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Eng 1105 001: English Forum, Randall Beebe Aug 2017

Eng 1105 001: English Forum, Randall Beebe

Fall 2017

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Eng 2205 001: Intro To Literary Studies, Julie Campbell Aug 2017

Eng 2205 001: Intro To Literary Studies, Julie Campbell

Fall 2017

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Eng 2901 002: Structure Of English, Angela Vietto Aug 2017

Eng 2901 002: Structure Of English, Angela Vietto

Fall 2017

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Eng 2950 002: Transatlantic Literary History I, Olga Abella Aug 2017

Eng 2950 002: Transatlantic Literary History I, Olga Abella

Fall 2017

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Eng 3009g 001: Myth And Culture, Dagni Bredesen Aug 2017

Eng 3009g 001: Myth And Culture, Dagni Bredesen

Fall 2017

No abstract provided.


Eng 3504 001: Film And Literature, Robin Murray Aug 2017

Eng 3504 001: Film And Literature, Robin Murray

Fall 2017

No abstract provided.


Eng 4775 001: Literature Culture Theory, Dana Ringuette Aug 2017

Eng 4775 001: Literature Culture Theory, Dana Ringuette

Fall 2017

No abstract provided.


Wst 2903 001: Women And Gendered Violence, Dagni Bredesen Aug 2017

Wst 2903 001: Women And Gendered Violence, Dagni Bredesen

Fall 2017

No abstract provided.


Eng 2000 001: Intro To Creative Writing, Daiva Marke!Is Aug 2017

Eng 2000 001: Intro To Creative Writing, Daiva Marke!Is

Fall 2017

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Eng 1001g 243: College Composition I Dual Credit, Christine Pacyk Aug 2017

Eng 1001g 243: College Composition I Dual Credit, Christine Pacyk

Fall 2017

No abstract provided.