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Exploring The Relationship Between People And The Environment In The English Classroom, Annette Worm

Presidential Scholars Theses (1990 – 2006)

The power of literature may help bring the status of the environment into the minds of readers while providing the basis for people to find ways to heal themselves and their world. The English classroom can integrate critical thinking skills with nature literature to help the teenagers learn decision-making techniques and construct their own values and attitudes toward the environment

Pearl Buck Reconsidered: The House Of Earth Trilogy, Qishu Li

Theses & Honors Papers

No abstract provided.

How Gothic Influences And Eidetic Imagery In Eight Color Plates And Key Poems By William Blake Figuratively Unite Body And Soul By Dramatizing The Visionary Imagination, Honor Penelope Vallor

Dissertations and Theses

A study of Gothic influences and eidetic imagery evident in eight Blake color plates to demonstrate that, when interpreted together with key Blake poems, unity of body and soul can be accomplished by means of the visionary imagination.

Walking Percy's Tightrope : From Alienation To Affirmation, Karen Y. Carter

Master's Theses

Walker Percy's Binx Bolling, of The Moviegoer, and Will Barrett, of The Last Gentleman and The Second Coming, are two Southern existential seekers who move from alienation and despair to create lives of meaningful commitment with the promise of fulfillment. Because of their similarities, we can trace a development in Percy's fiction which parallels the questor's development. These three books move from a preoccupation with death-in-life to a discovery of self and on to individual and cultural rebirth. Thus, The Moviegoer (1960) is about alienation and despair; The Last Gentleman (1966) is about the possibility of human relationships, …

Tristram Shandy And The Discursive Self, Susan Denman Breeden

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Content Validity Analysis Of The University Of Texas-Pan American English 1320 Grammar And Usage Exam, Cynthia Eilene Elder

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

This study examines the degree of content validity of the grammar and usage exam administered to The University of Texas-Pan American's developmental writing classes (English 1320). Final exam essays from the freshman composition course (English 1301) were divided into groups according to their scores and examined for the occurrence of adjective agreement, apostrophe, pronoun usage, punctuation of clause, sentence structure, subject-verb agreement, and tense usage errors, which are tested on the exam. An Analysis of Variance was then calculated for each error type; none of the error types proved statistically significant at the.05 level. The students within each group did …

The Relationship Role Between Sexuality, Power, And The Role Of The Southern “Lady” In Film: Gone With The Wind, A Streetcar Named Desire, And Sex, Lies And Videotape, Gabrielle Matese

Honors Theses

No abstract provided.

Momentary Loss : Stories, Craig Damrauer

Senior Scholar Papers

No abstract provided.

Imperial Shoe Palace: A Collection Of Poems, Alexandria Peary

Senior Scholar Papers

Poems

Bleeding: A Collection Of Poetry And Short Fiction, Cecily Von Ziegesar

Senior Scholar Papers

Poetry

Short Stories

The Siege, Chris Muffoletto

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

A short story written by Chris Muffoletto.

The City As Feminine Principle, Hala Halim

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Comparative Study On Regional Literature With Specific Reference To William Faulkner's The Sound And The Fury And Yehia El-Taher ʻAbdullah's The Collar And The Bracelet, Hala Zakariya Khalifa

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Understanding Voices In Conrad's Fiction, Kariman Kira

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

An Illumination Of The Damned: Psychoanalytic Exploration Of Character Through American Naturalism In Harold Frederic's The Damnation Of Theron Ware, Steve Randall Spain Jr.

Theses & Honors Papers

No abstract provided.

Women Pioneer Diaries, 1820-1920: A Selected Annotated Bibliography, Sonia Alvarez Wilson

Theses & Honors Papers

The works of twenty women whom participated in the westward expansion at some time between 1820 and 1920 are represented. The women have participated by immigration, emigration, homesteading, or simply living a trans-Mississippi community during the aforementioned time period. The work as a whole provides a variety of examples of the lifestyle and challenges of the period, which may highlight the uniqueness of each woman, while at the same time showing some common experience. Diaries have been selected to represent as many states as possible, in as many time periods as possible within the one hundred year time span, in …

The Heroic Journey Of Troilus And Cressida, Kelly A. Weatherman

Theses & Honors Papers

No abstract provided.

Lee Smith's Protagonists: Moving Beyond Stereotypes Of Southern And Appalachian Women, Roxie Amos Johnson

Theses & Honors Papers

No abstract provided.

Reader, Take A Letter: The Reappearance Of The Epistolary Form In Alice Walker's The Color Purple And Lee Smith's Fair And Tender Ladies, Carla S. Huskey

Theses & Honors Papers

No abstract provided.

The Manifestation Of Thomas Hardy's Agnosticism In Jude The Obscure And Other Works, Joy Fitzgerald

Theses & Honors Papers

No abstract provided.

Once Upon A Time: Storytelling And Reader-Response Theory In Donald Harington's Lightning Bug, Beth Camillo

Theses & Honors Papers

No abstract provided.

A Study Of The Women Of Daniel Defoe And Samuel Richardson: A Teiresian Vision, Nancy F. Krippel

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

"Nobody Said Anything" Issues Of Communication In The Short Stories Of Raymond Carver, Darren Bosch

Honors Papers

In this paper I plan to divide my consideration of the different levels of communication in Carver's work into several categories, realizing that these categories overlap and are in no way mutually exclusive. First, I will consider Carver's characters, what might be called communication within the story, or communication as theme. Second, I will specifically look at the narrator, who is both character (and therefore a part of the issues of communication within the story) and communication link between the text and the reader. Finally I will address how narrative point of view and other aspects of Carver's style, such …

Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl Of The Streets And Kate Chopin's The Awakening: A Study In Literary Naturalism, J. Katherin Huffman

Theses & Honors Papers

During the 1890’s, two American novels, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (A Story of New York) written by Stephen Crane and The Awakening written by Kate Choplin, deal with the lives and death of two surprisingly similar young women living in different social standing and regions. Even though the novels are written by opposite sexes with opposite setting and have quite culturally different protagonists, they share the Naturalistic themes of biological determinism, which is expressed through the use of animal imagery and animal symbolism. Crane does not allow Maggie to have positive aspirations, making her appear less human and …

The Mythmaking Self (Or The Myth Making Self): Fiction And Experience In Galway Kinnell's The Book Of Nightmares, Michael Patrick Robertson

Honors Papers

The Book of Nightmares is a myth of questioning and renewal, with the self as its subject and the world as its text. The problem, however, is that these two are fundamentally at odds. Kinnell's ideals are fixed on the assertion of the self, as artistic authority and mythic wholeness, but the reality of the present produces a range of conflicts and ambiguities which problematize this striving. The poet fixes himself at the center of a process of mythopoesis, using the notion of myth to give form and meaning to experience. Thus it becomes a demiurgic endeavor -- he is …

The Labyrinth Of The Wind And The Artifice Of Eternity: A Study Of The Lyric Poetry Of William Butler Yeats, Danita Sain Stokes

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This study of the lyric poetry of William Butler Yeats concentrates on his ideas about nature and art, with a focus on the imagery of the wind. Though each of Yeats's poems may be read and enjoyed individually, a study of the body of Yeats's lyric poems gives the reader a better understanding of a symbol such as the wind. As a whole, the poems form a narrative of the development of Yeats's mind; by looking closely at the single symbol of the wind, we gain insight into the development of Yeats's ideas about art and nature. In Yeats's early …

Generational Tension In Middle English Lais, Amelia Carroll Napier

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

Corporate Chivalry In Malory's "Morte D'Arthur": Chivalric Guidebooks And A Fifteenth-Century Chivalric Ideal, Timothy Carlton Truxell

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

The Contempt Of Folly: Hamlet's View Of Polonius, Louise Ann Long

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

Restrained With The Civil Sword: Spenser's "Maye" Eclogue And Donne's "Third Satyre" In The Context Of The English Reformation, John David Allen

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.