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Laurent Binet's Hhhh: Historiographic Metafiction In Contemporary French Literature About World War Ii, Cailee S. Davis
Laurent Binet's Hhhh: Historiographic Metafiction In Contemporary French Literature About World War Ii, Cailee S. Davis
Theses and Dissertations
In the last two decades, a considerable number of contemporary French authors have employed metafiction—a narrative mode in which texts themselves purposefully call attention to the fact that they are fiction—when writing novels which attempt to grapple with traumatic events, namely World War II and the Holocaust. In attempting to understand this popular, but controversial literary phenomenon—called historiographic metafiction—, this thesis contextually analyzes Laurent Binet's Himmler's Him heisst Heydrich (2010), a contemporary French novel about the assassination of real-life Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich. This thesis also compares Binet's text to two other contemporary French historiographic metafictional novels about World War …
Pick Me! Pick Me!: Using Aristotelian Rhetorical Persuasion And Advertising Appeals For Self-Promotion, Alexander M. Jones
Pick Me! Pick Me!: Using Aristotelian Rhetorical Persuasion And Advertising Appeals For Self-Promotion, Alexander M. Jones
Theses and Dissertations
This project combines contemporary and classical rhetorical persuasion and applies them to self-promotion. Aristotle’s triad of modes of persuasion, ethos, pathos, and logos, represents classical persuasion. Appeals from advertising, such as humor, fear, music, and argumentum ad populum, represent the contemporary, but also are modern extensions of Aristotle’s triad. These concepts are then applied in such a way that the reader can see how they could use them to their benefit in influencing others. Each concept is defined and shown how it can be used in a spoken communicative way rather than a visual representation. Advertising appeals are typically put …
Threshold, Leah V
Threshold, Leah V
Theses and Dissertations
This senior thesis details an exploration by Leah V into spaces and places in time—be they emotional or physical—in which an important boundary has been crossed, thereby removing the possibility of returning to that space or place. The critical introduction for this collection of poems by Leah V focuses on the esteemed voices of Robert Penn Warren and Seamus Heaney, two men whose poetry has been, and continues to be, highly influential in Leah’s own poetic quest.
Southern Fiction: Southern Small-Town Culture And Its Landmarks, Candice W.N. Lawrence
Southern Fiction: Southern Small-Town Culture And Its Landmarks, Candice W.N. Lawrence
Theses and Dissertations
Candice Lawrence uses the culture found in southern small towns to zoom in on how individuals function in their environment.
Constructing The Christian: Agency And Emulation In Old English Poetry, Jennifer Ross
Constructing The Christian: Agency And Emulation In Old English Poetry, Jennifer Ross
Theses and Dissertations
Old English religious verse - born out of a productive fusion between pre-existing Germanic ideals and Christian value-systems brought to England at the end of the sixth century - grapples energetically with the question of how people ought to live morally upright lives pleasing to God. In Beowulf, Judith, Juliana, and The Dream of the Rood, a model for the believer/God relationship is constructed from a common pattern of the Germanic thane/lord relationship, but, like garments cut from the same cloth by different tailors, each poem crafts its subject differently. Still, each is constructed around a …
"Play Your Fan": Exploring Hand Props And Gender On The Restoration Stage Through The Country Wife, The Man Of Mode, The Rover, And The Way Of The World, Jarred Wiehe
Theses and Dissertations
The full irony and wit of Restoration comedies relies not only on what characters communicate to each other, but also on what they communicate to the audience, both verbally and physically.
Pomp And Circumstances: A Film, Danielle Melissovas Thompson
Pomp And Circumstances: A Film, Danielle Melissovas Thompson
Theses and Dissertations
In their own way, each of these films enhance audiences' understanding of the film industry and the creative and technical skills required in filmmaking.
"Ain't You Heard"?: The Jazz Poetry Of Langston Hughes, Kristin Taylor
"Ain't You Heard"?: The Jazz Poetry Of Langston Hughes, Kristin Taylor
Theses and Dissertations
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"Motionless As An Idol": The Roles Of Art, Modernism, And Religion In William Faulkner's Construction Of Gender, Chelsea Bullock
"Motionless As An Idol": The Roles Of Art, Modernism, And Religion In William Faulkner's Construction Of Gender, Chelsea Bullock
Theses and Dissertations
I argue that Faulkner's purpose extends beyond forging sympathy for the women; his purpose seeks to prevent future losses like those he depicts and offers corrective guidance for his Southern community.
Victorians And The Underground, Melissa Mcdaniel
Victorians And The Underground, Melissa Mcdaniel
Theses and Dissertations
Specifically, the way in which women are portrayed, both poetically and socially, reflects the desire by men to imprison or enclose the sexual power of women. For the Victorians, tunnels represent not only the thriving age of industrialization, but they also symbolically suggest the social confinement of nineteenth-century women.
Imitation, Not Limitation: Fan Fiction In The Classroom, Molly Wright
Imitation, Not Limitation: Fan Fiction In The Classroom, Molly Wright
Theses and Dissertations
A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of Requirements of the CSU Honors Program for Honors in the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Language and Literature, College of Arts and Letters, Columbus State University
Formulating Fantasies: Marriage In Victorian England And George Eliot's Middlemarch, Liza Welch Barnes
Formulating Fantasies: Marriage In Victorian England And George Eliot's Middlemarch, Liza Welch Barnes
Theses and Dissertations
One of the oldest states of existence known to humanity, marriage is a traditional state of being, uniting one man and one woman to love, honor, cherish, and protect each other for the rest of their lives. In Victorian England, however, many men and women questioned traditional expectations concerning marriage. Society's norms in Britain dictated that marriage was the ultimate goal in the nineteenth century, and, according to Barbara Weiss, "there has perhaps never been an age (or a literature) as relentlessly pro marriage as the Victorian period" (67). However, many issues concerning marriage disturbed some freer-thinking Victorians, including novelist …
Cleaning Up The Junkyard: An Exploration In Developing An Online Course, Wendi Milam
Cleaning Up The Junkyard: An Exploration In Developing An Online Course, Wendi Milam
Theses and Dissertations
As America enters the 2V l century, our systems of education must adapt to the changes in culture and technology. Our visions of the modern classroom are no longer limited to a room on a campus with a professor and a blackboard Many classes are going fully online, some are meeting only once a semester if at all. This type of learning and teaching opens the door for many complex questions: What is the most effective style of web site to use? How should the instructor form the requirements of the class? What should the instructor use for academic evaluation …