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Robert Burns’ Poetic Style Through His Poetry, Songs, And Correspondence, Abigail Druckenmiller Apr 2023

Robert Burns’ Poetic Style Through His Poetry, Songs, And Correspondence, Abigail Druckenmiller

Senior Theses

This thesis explores connections and contradictions within the songs, correspondence, and poems of Scotland’s bard, Robert Burns. A selection of works from each of these categories is presented to compare the ways Burns writes verse, lyrics, and letters. Through this thesis, I analyzed his work looking at subject matter, use of the Scots dialect, structure, and poetic devices in order to offer holistic commentary on Burns’ style in a way that includes his letters more heavily than most other Burns scholarship. Overall, I thought Burns remained a consistent man of conviction and societal criticism throughout my findings, as well as …


Familial Dialects, Amanda King May 2014

Familial Dialects, Amanda King

MFA in Photography and Integrated Media Theses

Using the framework of scientific investigation, ‘Familial Dialects’ explores the languages – systems of signs and codification of those signs - of individual members of my family, and the metaphors that arise from their interaction with pieces of the natural world. Each of the pieces combine an inherent form and an organizing action as a means of representing an individual’s form of expression. These familial dialects are created and translated using the methodologies of a naturalist - collection, dissection, observation, and classification. The pieces draw meaning from the connotative associations built from familial connections as well as from broader cultural …


Blue Notes From Three Songs: Malleable Artifacts As Related To Evolving Cultural Identity, Lou Lucas Jan 2010

Blue Notes From Three Songs: Malleable Artifacts As Related To Evolving Cultural Identity, Lou Lucas

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

A consideration of three State Songs, ΓÇ£My Old Kentucky HomeΓÇ¥ by Stephen Foster, ΓÇ£Carry Me Back to Old VirginnyΓÇ¥ by James A. Bland, and ΓÇ£The Missouri WaltzΓÇ¥ with lyrics by James Royce Shannon. The combination of black dialect and negative stereotypes, with elevation to special status impacting identity, necessitated their alteration. Such change reflects societal response to the Civil Rights Movement, while a pragmatic view suggests these malleable artifacts have functioned, and continue to function, as ΓÇ£blue notes,ΓÇ¥ unsettling elements acting to stimulate discourse, becoming participants in the formation of identity and American cultural change.


Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 46, No. 3, Don Yoder, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Paul R. Wieand, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Herbert H. Beck, Edna Eby Heller, Vincent R. Tortora, Frances Lichten Apr 1997

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 46, No. 3, Don Yoder, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Paul R. Wieand, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Herbert H. Beck, Edna Eby Heller, Vincent R. Tortora, Frances Lichten

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Two Worlds in the Dutch Country
• Belsnickel Lore
• Carpet-Rag Parties
• Quilting Traditions in the Dutch Country
• Lititz
• Lititz Specialties
• Amish Funerals
• Pennsylvania Redware
• Scratch-Carved Easter Eggs
• Fractur From the Hostetter Collection


Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 35, No. 4, Ann S. Burrows, Mark R. Eaby Jr., John L. Shultz, Faye Miller, Lester Miller, Allen Folsom, Marilyn K. Wilson-Bast, Mary Eva Redcay, Gail M. Hartmann, Harold C. Moyer, Charles Messner, Walter Gottshall, Richard Shaner, R. H. Piercy, James H. Dawley, Robert Yard, Kathryn Delaung, Lois Biamon-Sunflower, Clifford Wright-Sunflower Jul 1986

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 35, No. 4, Ann S. Burrows, Mark R. Eaby Jr., John L. Shultz, Faye Miller, Lester Miller, Allen Folsom, Marilyn K. Wilson-Bast, Mary Eva Redcay, Gail M. Hartmann, Harold C. Moyer, Charles Messner, Walter Gottshall, Richard Shaner, R. H. Piercy, James H. Dawley, Robert Yard, Kathryn Delaung, Lois Biamon-Sunflower, Clifford Wright-Sunflower

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• America's Pieced Patchwork Quilts
• A Tribute to the Late Dr. Earl F. Robacker
• Sundial Lore
• Square Dancing, Jigging & Hoedowning at the Folk Festival
• Bronze Working at the Festival
• Calico Prints
• The Country Kitchen
• Our Farmers Market
• Festival Focus
• Festival Programs
• The Pennsylvania Dutch Dialect and the One Room School
• Early American Lighting
• Primitive Pennsylvania Dutch Carving
• Heartland Taverns of the Hinterland
• Tinnery
• The Ancient Craft of Flute Making
• Mind Your Own Beeswax


Cockney Dialect And Slang, Jamie Fowler Jan 1984

Cockney Dialect And Slang, Jamie Fowler

Honors Theses

This paper is the capstone of a personal project which I began three years ago only as a matter of personal interest. While the information the project divulges is not difficult to understand, it should be noted that the details of this subject are virtually inaccessible to Americans or any other person who is not a part of the subculture of the Cockney people. Very little substantial information has been documented on the subject of Cockney dialect and slang. Therefore, most of my knowledge was gained through research and personal interviews with key sources in the London area.


Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 31, No. 3, John D. Kendig, Henry J. Kauffman, Nancy K. Gaugler, W. L. Eckerd, William T. Parsons, John B. Frantz, Robert G. Adams, Jane Adams Clarke Apr 1982

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 31, No. 3, John D. Kendig, Henry J. Kauffman, Nancy K. Gaugler, W. L. Eckerd, William T. Parsons, John B. Frantz, Robert G. Adams, Jane Adams Clarke

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Jamison City
• Domestic Architecture in Lancaster County
• Conversation with Marguerite de Angeli
• Who Put the Turnip on the Grave?
• Pennsylfawnisch Deitsch un Pfalzer: Dialect Comparisons Old and New
• John Philip Boehm: Pioneer Pennsylvania Pastor
• The Search for our German Ancestors
• Aldes un Neies


Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 23, No. 4, Scott Hambly, Waln K. Brown, Denis Mercier, Angela Varesano, Elizabeth Mathias, Don Yoder, Mac E. Barrick, Berton E. Beck, Claude K. Deischer Jul 1974

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 23, No. 4, Scott Hambly, Waln K. Brown, Denis Mercier, Angela Varesano, Elizabeth Mathias, Don Yoder, Mac E. Barrick, Berton E. Beck, Claude K. Deischer

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Cultural Learning Through Game Structure: A Study of Pennsylvania German Children's Games
• "Nipsy": The Ethnography of a Traditional Game of Pennsylvania's Anthracite Region
• The Game as Creator of the Group in an Italian-American Community
• Pennsylvania Town Views of a Century Ago
• "The Barber's Ghost": A Legend Becomes a Folktale
• Grain Harvesting in the Nineteenth Century
• My Experience With the Dialect
• Harvest on the Pennsylvania Farm: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 34


Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 21, Folk Festival Supplement, Leroy Gensler, Don Yoder, Edna Eby Heller, Richard C. Gougler, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Richard Shaner, Wayne F. Cardinalli Jul 1972

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 21, Folk Festival Supplement, Leroy Gensler, Don Yoder, Edna Eby Heller, Richard C. Gougler, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Richard Shaner, Wayne F. Cardinalli

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• A Look at the Festival
• The Tradition of the Dutch-English Comedian
• We Waste Not
• Amish Barn-Raising
• Festival Highlights
• Folk Festival Program
• Quilting Traditions of the Dutch Country
• Recollections of Witchcraft in the Oley Hills
• The Festival Potters
• Herbs and Herb Lore: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 25


Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 20, No. 2, Carroll Hopf, Gregory Gizelis, Mac E. Barrick, Susan Dwyer Shick, Amos Long Jr., William S. Troxell, Ruth K. Hagy Jan 1971

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 20, No. 2, Carroll Hopf, Gregory Gizelis, Mac E. Barrick, Susan Dwyer Shick, Amos Long Jr., William S. Troxell, Ruth K. Hagy

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Decorated Folk Furniture
• Foodways Acculturation in the Greek Community of Philadelphia
• David Stoner: Notes on a Neglected Craftsman
• Baptist Autobiography as a Folklife Source
• Bank (Multi-Level) Structures in Rural Pennsylvania
• Der Census Enumerator
• Leisure Time Activities in West Chester, Pennsylvania, 1800-1850
• Local Characters and Originals: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 18