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Missionaries And Other Stories, Bradford Eugene Tice
Missionaries And Other Stories, Bradford Eugene Tice
Doctoral Dissertations
Bradford E. Tice's debut collection, Missionaries and Other Stories, is a series of stories that attempts to capture the restless spirit of modern America. The characters here are driven by a cause--on a mission to find meaning in a world that no longer makes sense to them. In the title story, two Mormon missionaries set their sights on two vastly different goals, one secular and one celestial, as they go door to door in search of answers to the questions of who they are and what they are made of. Other stories in the collection feature characters who seek understanding …
Transforming Whiteness: Seeing (And) Shifting Representations Of Whiteness In Twentieth-Century American Literature And Film, Meredith Mccarroll
Transforming Whiteness: Seeing (And) Shifting Representations Of Whiteness In Twentieth-Century American Literature And Film, Meredith Mccarroll
Doctoral Dissertations
Transforming Whiteness: Seeing (and) Shifting Representations of Whiteness in Twentieth-Century American Literature and Film both explores the ways that whiteness has remained unseen in American socio-political realms and in American cultural texts and points to ways of seeing beyond the white/non-white dichotomy in order to revision race. The word "transforming" functions as an adjective, signaling the ways that whiteness has changed shape, and also as an active verb, looking at ways that we may shift whiteness out of its position of dominance. As critical race and whiteness scholars have demonstrated, as long as whiteness maintains its invisibility, it maintains its …
Student Engagement In English 101 At The University Of Tennessee, Knoxville, Laura Mcintosh Orr
Student Engagement In English 101 At The University Of Tennessee, Knoxville, Laura Mcintosh Orr
Masters Theses
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between student engagement and teaching techniques in English 101 courses at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville. Specifically, the main goals of this study were to determine which techniques are most related to engagement, and whether students and instructors consider the same techniques to be beneficial. Student and instructor surveys were collected from approximately 215 students and nine teachers. Student responses to multiple choice questions have revealed that student engagement is most closely associated with variables related to course organization, feedback and assessment, active learning techniques, and institutional involvement. Additionally, …
Visual Rhetoric And Usability In User Documentation, Thorin Richard Alexander
Visual Rhetoric And Usability In User Documentation, Thorin Richard Alexander
Masters Theses
While debates continue in regards to the importance of usability in user documentation, many of those arguments have been focused on the importance of the type of language used--many pushing (rightly so) for a plainer, less technical style. However, while it is certainly important to focus on the words being used, it is equally, if not more, important to pay attention to the way those words are presented. Designing user documentation with a strong sense of visual rhetoric (specifically in terms of color and typography), the technical communicator is able to take control of how their work affects the user …
Modernity, Historical Trauma, And The Crisis Of Ethics Reading Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts After Levinas, Tyler Joseph Efird
Modernity, Historical Trauma, And The Crisis Of Ethics Reading Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts After Levinas, Tyler Joseph Efird
Masters Theses
Nathanael West's tragically brief creative career was intensely concerned with the anomie of modern society, especially in the landscape of twentieth-century America. For West, this landscape is one populated by the disintegration of traditional community and the interrogation of values once posited as unassailable. As such, conventional West criticism has read the author as an intractable nihilist. Within the last decade, however, West criticism has taken an entirely new approach. Critics like Jonathan Greenberg and Justus Nieland have attempted to erect an ethical West by placing him within the discourse of modernist antisentimentalism. It is within this critical reevaluation of …
Dog Days, Margrethe Hansen Krogh
Dog Days, Margrethe Hansen Krogh
Masters Theses
This collection includes a series of poems and one short story. The work is a creative exploration of personal landscapes, both inner and outer. In particular, the poetry was inspired by working with dream material and blending it with memory, or imagined memory. Recreating the mother monster and closed worlds of communication are dominant themes in this collection; themes that address issues of emotional and physical abandonment, substance abuse and grief. The short story, "Driving Lessons", focuses on three siblings negotiating the difficulty of growing up with an alcoholic mother. This piece of fiction, like the poems, addresses a world …
Parts Of A Man, Timothy J, Sisk
Parts Of A Man, Timothy J, Sisk
Masters Theses
This collection of poems explores intersections of identities and societies in the construction of a man's understanding of himself. Issues tackled include gender and sexuality, class and regional identities, and place in a family. Poetry is used to express these intersections because of the genre's ability to address complex emotional and metaphorical issues concerning the topics addressed, as well as poetry's power to construct history through song, image, and narrative. Indeed, narrative is key in the making of the individual poems as well as the collection itself, as the piece is organized so that each poem builds with those surrounding …
Of Rain, A River, Ryan D. Woldruff
Of Rain, A River, Ryan D. Woldruff
Masters Theses
This section of Of Rain, A River was written, workshopped, revised, revised, reworkshopped, revised, revised, etc. while the author was a Master's candidate at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. This novel section introduces the fictional landscape of Dine, Missouri and Nemanya County, in Northwest Missouri. This section follows the characters of Wes, Jory and Bill Schmidt, Carson and Danny Sellers, and Xenia. "Of Place" is a short essay about the various places in, and of, fiction.
Carefully Guarded Borders, Yekaterina Mikhailovna Zemmel
Carefully Guarded Borders, Yekaterina Mikhailovna Zemmel
Masters Theses
"Carefully Guarded Borders" is a collection of poetry that focuses on the experiences of individuals often seen as other--deviant women, gender transgressors, and immigrants. The poems, along with the critical introduction, present a challenge to linear trajectories of poetic descent by offering openness of interpretation, as well as openness of form. The collection is arranged associatively, and its thematic threads recur rhizomatically. Although at its inception "Carefully Guarded Borders" was a biographical account of the migration from Tajikistan to the United States, at the time of the manuscript's completion, this theme was subverted by cross-currents; the finished work questions borders …