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The Teaching Of English As A Foreign Language In Egyptian Kindergartens: A Survey Of Teacher Characteristics And Instructional Practices, Heather Kathleen Browne
The Teaching Of English As A Foreign Language In Egyptian Kindergartens: A Survey Of Teacher Characteristics And Instructional Practices, Heather Kathleen Browne
Archived Theses and Dissertations
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The Creation Of A Heroine: Sibling Relationships In The Novels Of Jane Austen, Sandra S. Hannibal
The Creation Of A Heroine: Sibling Relationships In The Novels Of Jane Austen, Sandra S. Hannibal
Student Work
These excerpts from conduct and courtesy books of late 18th and early 19th century England illustrate the strict codes of behavior, speech, and thought which consequently stifled authentic expression of emotion during the era of Jane Austen. Consequently, a social pantomime flourished among English Gentry whose mere adherence to subscribed conduct codes inhibited one's ability to discern the true character and principles of Gentry men and women. Whether used for guidance or “artifice,” breeding and education created among the English Gentry a society in which public conduct was often misleading as “moral” motivation was easily disguised between mask of learned, …
Delivering Us From Evil: An Introduction To Russell Kirk's Supernatural Fiction, Ray Andrew Newman
Delivering Us From Evil: An Introduction To Russell Kirk's Supernatural Fiction, Ray Andrew Newman
Student Work
Russel Kirk, one of the founding fathers of the post-war conservative movement in the United States, is widely known for his works of history, politics, and literary and social criticism. He also wrote ghostly tales and novels, and this party of his work has been neglected. With his supernatural tales, Kirk sought reawaken a sense of mystery, to remind his fellow wayfarers in this world of timeless truths, and to have some eerie fun. This thesis provides an introduction to Kirk's supernatural fiction.
Pre-Referral Portfolio Assessment For Limited English Proficient Students, Elizabeth Grayce Stevens
Pre-Referral Portfolio Assessment For Limited English Proficient Students, Elizabeth Grayce Stevens
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
What can be done to ensure that the needs are met of children who are limited in proficiency of the English language? Such is the familiar query of educators and professionals alike. In fact, one elementary school principal stated that this question often presents itself as the first item of business when administrators meet together (Marian Waterman, personal communication, October, 1997). How do we know where to place a child? How do we evaluate progress? When progress is limited, how do we know if the child requires special education services? The answers lie in appropriate assessment.
The "Power...To Alter And Amend": Textual Production And Editorial Actions In Samuel Richardson's "Clarissa"., Steven Robert Price
The "Power...To Alter And Amend": Textual Production And Editorial Actions In Samuel Richardson's "Clarissa"., Steven Robert Price
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This dissertation is a study of texts, focusing on how texts are constructed (through both words as well as physical attributes) and how they are edited after their initial composition. The scope of this dissertation is limited to Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) and his rare 1750 third edition of Clarissa and to the characters in Clarissa and their familiar letters. I argue that the altering of a text is a negotiation of power between the editor and the author, and that editors advance their personal agendas by undermining the intentions of the author. In Chapter 1, I explain the relevancy of …
"To Play With Fixities And Definites": Byron's Fanciful Real World Games In "Don Juan"., Nancy Clark Victory
"To Play With Fixities And Definites": Byron's Fanciful Real World Games In "Don Juan"., Nancy Clark Victory
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
In his "epic" retelling of the Don Juan tale, Byron playfully transforms his conventional sources into a poem which explores, among other subjects, Byron's poetics. Of the many love relationships in Don Juan, Juan and Haidee's represents not only ideal love, but also a startlingly Romantic expression of poetic activity. The lovers' transformation of the elements of their heretofore hostile world into a natural playworld is accomplished by a fourth variety of Romantic imagination, a Byronic Fancy which surpasses the mechanical nature of Coleridge's "Fancy." Operating in a manner strikingly similar to Coleridge's "secondary Imagination," Byron's poetic faculty also "dissolves, …
Barbara Pym's Narrative Intersections, Jennifer J. Beard
Barbara Pym's Narrative Intersections, Jennifer J. Beard
Doctoral Dissertations
The project of this dissertation is to place Barbara Pym's realism in the context of modernism, anti-modernism, and postmodernism in the twentieth-century English novel. My argument is not that Pym is a late modernist or that she is, per se, a long-lost Postmodernist. She is a realist who has learned the lessons of the former and whose traditional, linear narratives are punctuated by moments of awareness to the fragmented nature of identity and by blips of authorial acknowledgement and even laughter over the simultaneous separation and blending of the text world in which characters live with the "real" worlds of …
African American Student Code-Switching In Freshman English Composition, Melanie A. Lewis
African American Student Code-Switching In Freshman English Composition, Melanie A. Lewis
Master's Theses
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Coincidence And Class In The Victorian Novel., Beverly Maddox Moon
Coincidence And Class In The Victorian Novel., Beverly Maddox Moon
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
In the Victorian novels of this study, Coincidence and Class in the Victorian Novel, coincidence is an unacknowledged paradigm for class mobility. Its role for the most part unremarked, coincidence moves money and property into the hands of the protagonist, allowing the transition between classes to take place. In Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Villette, and Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White, coincidence is a paradox in that it accomplishes two very different ends, resolution and conflict, simultaneously. As a narrative device, coincidence camouflages narrative gaps, arranging resolution within the text by allowing improved class position; as a narrative strategy, …
Daniel Defoe's "An Essay On The History And Reality Of Apparitions": A Critical Edition., Kathleen Louise Kincade
Daniel Defoe's "An Essay On The History And Reality Of Apparitions": A Critical Edition., Kathleen Louise Kincade
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This dissertation is a scholarly edition of Daniel Defoe's An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions, which was published in 1727 and has never been re-edited since his death in 1731. It poses several interesting problems for both the literary critic and bibliographer. This edition is challenging for the bibliographer because, initially, this work was published anonymously. The second edition appeared with the addition of "by Andrew Moreton, Esq." as author. A section of my introduction attributes this work to Defoe by using contemporary theory and methods. Defoe scholars have had a problem attributing works to Defoe. Instead …
The Portrait Of A Psyche: Women's Underworld Journeys In Four Modern American Novels., Kristen Sifert
The Portrait Of A Psyche: Women's Underworld Journeys In Four Modern American Novels., Kristen Sifert
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Drawing from James Hillman's psychological reading of myth, this study traces the emergence of the ancient myth of Psyche in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, Caroline Gordon's The Women on the Porch, William Faulkner's Light in August, and Toni Morrison's Beloved. From the perspective of modern divisions, the novelists look forward to the wholeness of Psyche's reunion with Eros and the assumption of the mortal woman, yet their immediate focus is the transformative journey through the underworld. James elaborates the mythical impact of money; like the coins Psyche pays Charon, who detaches her from a sense of her …