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Development Of An Art-Literature Curriculum For First Grade And Fourth Grade, Allison C. Elder Mrs.
Development Of An Art-Literature Curriculum For First Grade And Fourth Grade, Allison C. Elder Mrs.
Art and Design Theses
This study investigated using literature as an alternative means to teach the art curriculum. Three widely used integrated curriculum models (Reading Improvement Through Art, Learning Through the Arts, and Champions of Change) were studied and analyzed in search of the best features for art-literature integration. A new curriculum is developed for two different grades using the Fulton County Elementary Art Education Curriculum standards as the foundation. This study used picture books as the catalyst to create an art-literature curriculum.
Incorporating Music, Literature, And Culture In Communities Of Second Language Learners, Michael Rhinehart
Incorporating Music, Literature, And Culture In Communities Of Second Language Learners, Michael Rhinehart
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
This portfolio is a collection of papers that relate to the field of second language teaching. The papers include the author’s teaching philosophy, three artifacts, and an annotated bibliography. The subjects covered include: the use of literature to teach a second language, the importance of having a community of learners in the classroom, and the incorporation of culture into the second language classroom. The author also includes an annotated bibliography of articles and books that shaped his teaching philosophy.
Speak Up! Promoting Interactions During Shared Reading Activities, Jennifer Singleton
Speak Up! Promoting Interactions During Shared Reading Activities, Jennifer Singleton
Psychology and Child Development
Interactions during shared reading activities between parent and child have been shown to benefit a child’s expressive vocabulary, receptive vocabulary, and literacy development. Research has identified a number of variables that influence the quality, frequency, and type of interactions that occur during shared reading. Using this research, I have written and illustrated a children’s book that accounts for these variables. The result is a 56 page, hard-covered book that reads from both directions. One direction prompts children to provide their own answer to why animals are the way they are, while the other direction offers the leading theories from scientists …
"Sometimes Saying Nothing...Says The Most", Lawrence O'Brien
"Sometimes Saying Nothing...Says The Most", Lawrence O'Brien
Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview
After nearly one hundred years of publication and copious literary criticism, Emily Dickinson remains one of the most enigmatic figures in American literature and her poetry among the most inscrutable. In deceptively simple ballad stanza, Dickinson can be by turns, mysterious or playful or deadly serious or misleading or insightful or obscure, but, above all, puzzling. Her poems consistently and continually resist easy paraphrase or simple interpretation, very often towards the end of challenging accepted "truth" by revealing inherent contradictions. She has some clear affinities to both the methodologies of apophatic discourse and to différance, which Derrida himself has said …
Weeds, Tamar Mekvedijian
Weeds, Tamar Mekvedijian
Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview
This is a short story collection about a family. The stories are linked but aren't necessarily connected, with family members appearing in more than one story. It is about the bonds of family, and the struggle we have against the health of our bodies.
Faulkner, Freud, And The Holy Family: The Portrayal Of The Joseph Figure In Light In August, Richard Boland
Faulkner, Freud, And The Holy Family: The Portrayal Of The Joseph Figure In Light In August, Richard Boland
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
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Title Killer Was Here, Elizabeth Trimbach
Title Killer Was Here, Elizabeth Trimbach
Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview
This is a collection of free-verse poetry. Some pieces are more narrative, some more experimental. One piece could be called a language poem. All in all, this is a post-language, hybrid collection.
Language And Legend In The Fantasy Fiction Of J.R.R. Tolkien, Melissa K. Cornwell
Language And Legend In The Fantasy Fiction Of J.R.R. Tolkien, Melissa K. Cornwell
Honors Theses
J.R.R. Tolkien’s series, The Lord of the Rings, had a great impact on the literary world. Tolkien himself made quite an impact on English society as a philologist and teacher, and he wrote his novels because of his passion for language and mythology. The Lord of the Rings series included the books The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King, and he wrote The Silmarillion after completing the series as a sort of prequel to the events in the other books. Tolkien’s life was profoundly affected by language and literature, …
The Role Of Attachment And Language In Analogical Reasoning, Tamra Elizabeth Beckman
The Role Of Attachment And Language In Analogical Reasoning, Tamra Elizabeth Beckman
Dissertations
The present study examined the relationships between attachment and analogical reasoning within two domains: social reasoning and physical reasoning. Verbal reasoning was assessed as a possible mediator of these relationships. This study was conducted with 67 typically-developed children between the ages of nine to 11 years of age who were recruited from The University of Southern Mississippi's student population and from schools in Hattiesburg, MS and Ocean Springs, MS. Attachment security was assessed using the Kerns Security Scale (Kerns, Klepac, & Cole, 1996), and verbal reasoning was assessed with the Weschler Intelligence Scale for Children-3rd edition (Weschler, 1991). Analogical reasoning …
Dickensian Physiology Of Memory: Recall, Redintegration, And The Historical Novel, Timothy M. Curran
Dickensian Physiology Of Memory: Recall, Redintegration, And The Historical Novel, Timothy M. Curran
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
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Shakespeare And Cervantes Are Dead: The Construction Of Fiction And Reality In Hamlet And Don Quixote, Joanna Parypinski
Shakespeare And Cervantes Are Dead: The Construction Of Fiction And Reality In Hamlet And Don Quixote, Joanna Parypinski
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection
The reason that Hamlet and Don Quixote can be studied so thoroughly on the poststructuralist notion of a false or constructed reality is because they were both works far ahead of their time, often reflecting extremely postmodernist ideas. Don Quixote is generally considered the first modern novel, and Hamlet is also identified with the beginning of the modern age (Oort 319). Yet beyond this, these authors play games with the reader and with the structure of the fiction itself, which would fit sensibly in a 20th or 21st century novel rather than an early 17th century work. These new methods …
She Dared To Challenge Tradition: Seraph On The Suwanee, Zora Neale Hurston's "White Novel," And Its Literary Foundation, Paul Laurence Dunbar's The Uncalled, Jervette Rashaun Ward-Ellis
She Dared To Challenge Tradition: Seraph On The Suwanee, Zora Neale Hurston's "White Novel," And Its Literary Foundation, Paul Laurence Dunbar's The Uncalled, Jervette Rashaun Ward-Ellis
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation explains the significance of Zora Neale Hurston’sSeraph on the Suwaneeby using Paul Laurence Dunbar’sThe Uncalledas a literary framework. Hurston’s novel tells the story of Arvay Henson, a pretty, poor, white woman who advances to the white middle class. Intriguingly, Arvay and her family speak in a dialect that is very similar to the “black” dialect featured in many of Hurston’s other works. Sadly, Hurston’s decision to place “black” dialect or what scholars would call African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in the mouths of white characters has allowed for the dismissal of one of her finest works.The two novels …
Con-Scripting The Masses: False Documents And Historical Revisionism In The Americas, Frans Weiser
Con-Scripting The Masses: False Documents And Historical Revisionism In The Americas, Frans Weiser
Open Access Dissertations
Dominick LaCapra argues that historians continue to interpret legal documents in a hierarchical fashion that marginalizes intellectual history, as fiction is perceived to be less viable. This dissertation analyzes contemporary literary texts in the Americas that exploit such a narrow reading of documents in order to interrogate the way official history is constructed by introducing false forms of documents into their narratives. These literary texts, or what I label "con-script," are not only historical fiction, but also historicized fiction that problematize their own historical construction. Many critics propose that the new historical novel revises historical interpretation, but there exists a …
The Seduction Of Feminist Theory, Erin Amann Holliday-Karre
The Seduction Of Feminist Theory, Erin Amann Holliday-Karre
Dissertations
My dissertation, "The Seduction of Feminist Theory," comes out of my research on South African fiction and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and focuses broadly on feminist theory and the question of female power. Traditionally feminist theory has sought to empower women by insisting on their equality to men and by allowing their voices to be heard. But in trying to understand why women did not speak about their personal victimization at the TRC hearings, and why so many women characters in South African fiction are unable or unwilling to speak, I have come to see that women do not …
Lgbtq : Incorporating It Into The Classroom, Gentry Willcoxson, Abigail Williams
Lgbtq : Incorporating It Into The Classroom, Gentry Willcoxson, Abigail Williams
Capstone Projects and Master's Theses
The LGBTQ community has historically been neglected in a classroom setting because of its controversial nature. Because of this, many students feel uncomfortable fully expressing themselves and are often fearful of bullying and other harassment by students at school. In order to bring this problem to the forefront of schools, Gentry and Abby created a full resource book for Middle School classrooms highlighting the LGBTQ community in order to raise awareness and acceptance of middle school students. A small portion of the book was also implemented into an 8th grade classroom to not only receive feedback on the full resource …
"The Alien Within": Residual Catholicism And The Emerging National Identity Of Post-Reformation England, Melissa K. Siik (Femino)
"The Alien Within": Residual Catholicism And The Emerging National Identity Of Post-Reformation England, Melissa K. Siik (Femino)
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation contributes to the current critical discourse in Early Modern English Studies on the conceptions and literary representations of national and racial identity in 16th- and 17th-century England. Central to this discourse is an examination of how the English defined themselves in relation to those they deemed as "others": the foreign and marginalized members of society. My study is unique because I look at individual figures of "otherness"---the Irishman, the Turk, and the Jew---in light of their common characteristic: their shared significance as coded figures of Catholicism. Ultimately, my dissertation unifies disparate conversations about race, religion, and politics in …
Raping The Raced Body: Trauma In Asian North American Women's Literature, Amy Lillian Manning
Raping The Raced Body: Trauma In Asian North American Women's Literature, Amy Lillian Manning
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation examines the representation of racial and sexual traumas in short fiction and novels by Asian American women writing post-WWII to the present. The central focus of this project is on Asian American literary representations of the lingering effects of physical, racial, and sexual traumas to Asian American women, specifically the nuances of narrating traumatic experiences. Each chapter explores various literary representations of post-traumatic psychological states of unrest, instability, and incoherence. Most importantly, this study examines the frequently simultaneous narrations of sexual trauma and racial awareness, of how personal narratives of trauma against the physical body become entangled with …
Competing Visions: Women Writers And Male Illustrators In The Golden Age Of Illustration, Jason Richard Williams
Competing Visions: Women Writers And Male Illustrators In The Golden Age Of Illustration, Jason Richard Williams
Doctoral Dissertations
In "Competing Visions," I examine the works of women writers and male illustrators during what has been termed the "Golden Age of Illustration" (1880--1920). Due to advances in printing technology and the proliferation of mass-market magazines just before the turn-of-the-last century, novels and short stories were often published with images by illustrators like Howard Pyle and N. C. Wyeth, who subsequently gained enormous popularity and developed wide followings. At the same time, women writers enjoyed an unprecedented period of widespread exposure and political influence. Looking closely at the intersection of images and texts from early twentieth century periodical publications reveals …
Footprints Fill And Fade, James Conrad Beck
Footprints Fill And Fade, James Conrad Beck
Master's Theses
A collection of poems with preface. Poems are inspired by Buddhist thought and the poetry of Ko Un, William Carlos Williams, Robert Creeley, and Rayomond Carver among others.
Women And Bodily Separation In Literature From The Victorian Era Until Today, Delisa Leonard
Women And Bodily Separation In Literature From The Victorian Era Until Today, Delisa Leonard
Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations
The dualities that are often associated with female characters have taken many forms throughout the centuries. In the Victorian era, female characters were often presented as dual natured; oftentimes this division was represented through the use of a madwoman and a heroine. In the early 20th century, however, this motif was picked up by female poets, who used duality in order to express the disconnect women often feel from their family, their friends, and, especially, their bodies. In today‟s literature, these feelings of duality and separation are expressed through a literal separation, not between good and evil, but of body …
Faust: Ein Bildungsdrama, Florian Breitkopf
Faust: Ein Bildungsdrama, Florian Breitkopf
All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)
No abstract provided.
Wind, Wave, And Generative Metaphor In Greek, Hans Bork
Wind, Wave, And Generative Metaphor In Greek, Hans Bork
All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)
A diachronic analysis of the so-called 'Ship of State' metaphor, with the premise that the more sophisticated trope of Archaic lyric poetry is an elaboration of a larger cognitive metaphor that appears in the earliest Greek texts.
Der Geblendete Staat. Platons "Politeia" In Elias Canettis "Blendung", Krischan Fiedler
Der Geblendete Staat. Platons "Politeia" In Elias Canettis "Blendung", Krischan Fiedler
All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)
No abstract provided.
Joachim Du Bellay's Occasional Poetry: The Poetics Of Female Patronage, Elizabeth Landers
Joachim Du Bellay's Occasional Poetry: The Poetics Of Female Patronage, Elizabeth Landers
All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)
This study seeks to demonstrate that female patrons at the Valois court--particularly Marguerite de France, and, to a lesser extent Diane de Poitiers--had a defining influence on both the career and the aesthetic choices of the sixteenth-century French poet Joachim Du Bellay. Although it has often been acknowledged that Du Bellay and Marguerite enjoyed a special relationship, the current study reveals the extent to which Marguerite served as an organizing principal for Du Bellay's entire writing life. As an admired patron, she provided moral support and networking opportunities that encouraged and rewarded Du Bellay's poetic production; her erudition and literary …
Cultural Transmission In The Age Of Modernism: Mentorship In The Novel, 1890--1960, Dalia Oppenheimer
Cultural Transmission In The Age Of Modernism: Mentorship In The Novel, 1890--1960, Dalia Oppenheimer
All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)
Cultural Transmission in the Age of Modernism: Mentorship in the Novel, 1890-1960 considers how education reform impacted modernist questions about the transmissibility of culture. Beginning with the institutionalization of universal education in the late nineteenth century and ending with the nationalization of education in the immediately postwar period, this dissertation considers specifically the relationship between educational policy and the possibility of institutional cultural transmission. Focusing on the novelists Thomas Hardy, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, and Muriel Spark, I suggest that modernist-era writers were concerned as to whether or not Oxbridge could: or should) preserve and transmit the version of liberal-humane …
Spenser's "Inward Ey": Poetics, Lexicography, And The Motivations For Edmund Spenser's Linguistic Idealism, Lawrence Revard
Spenser's "Inward Ey": Poetics, Lexicography, And The Motivations For Edmund Spenser's Linguistic Idealism, Lawrence Revard
All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)
Edmund Spenser's concepts of language have been seen as "anti-linguistic" to the extent that his idealism extols the power of thought while depicting speech as a corrupting monster--most notably the Blatant Beast of The Legend of Courtesy, Book 6 of The Faerie Queene. My thesis re-examines Spenser's antipathies for language, telling the story of his definition of the poet both in terms of his understandings of language and his part in the struggle to legitimize English vernacular. I first focus on Spenser's imagery of naming, tongues, writing, and identity in his later work, particularly the Platonic ideas in The Fowre …
Dietmar Daths "Die Abschaffung Der Arten": Zwischen Politischer Science Fiction, Popkultur Und Poetik, Bernhard Landkammer
Dietmar Daths "Die Abschaffung Der Arten": Zwischen Politischer Science Fiction, Popkultur Und Poetik, Bernhard Landkammer
All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)
No abstract provided.
Erst War Es Immer, Und Dann War Es Nicht. Speed And The Poetics Of Movement In Rainer Maria Rilke's Neue Gedichte, Erika Kontulainen
Erst War Es Immer, Und Dann War Es Nicht. Speed And The Poetics Of Movement In Rainer Maria Rilke's Neue Gedichte, Erika Kontulainen
All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)
No abstract provided.
Dramaturgical Crossroads And Aesthetic Transformations: Modern And Contemporary Adaptations Of Classical Japanese Nō Drama, Robert Neblett
Dramaturgical Crossroads And Aesthetic Transformations: Modern And Contemporary Adaptations Of Classical Japanese Nō Drama, Robert Neblett
All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)
This study explores the various dramaturgical strategies at work within the twentieth and twenty-first-century theatrical adaptation of the Japanese Nō drama. At its core are questions regarding the methodology utilized in the updating of an innately supernatural and spiritual aesthetic into the increasingly secularized world of the present, and how those supernatural elements are often transformed into metaphorical constructs. Ultimately, I examine how the transformative aesthetic that has given the Nō its literary power over the past 700 years is the very aspect that permits it to facilitate, resist, and assimilate the strategies of dramatic adaptation. My primary categories for …
Women In Higher Education Administration: A Synthesis Of The Literature, 1970 To 1999, Patricia Burgh House
Women In Higher Education Administration: A Synthesis Of The Literature, 1970 To 1999, Patricia Burgh House
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
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