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Anti-Normative Women And Queer Space In Early Modern Drama, Chelsea Brooks
Anti-Normative Women And Queer Space In Early Modern Drama, Chelsea Brooks
Theses
The most interesting oddity about the Early Modern English stage is the overwhelming presence of the female form despite the obvious lack of female performers. Male actors performed female characters and sometimes those female characters were subversive and tested the boundaries of their constructed heteronormative society. A common comedic trope followed the crossdressed crossgendered heroine, or the boy actor dressed as women dressed as a man. This trope appears in the plays discussed in this thesis: Thomas Heywood’s Fair Maid of the West, Part 1 and John Lyly’s Gallathea. By adapting Michel de Certeau’s concept of space, wherein space …
What’S In A Name? Rhetorical And Political Naming In Toni Morrison’S Song Of Solomon, Kristen V. Edwards
What’S In A Name? Rhetorical And Political Naming In Toni Morrison’S Song Of Solomon, Kristen V. Edwards
Theses
This thesis aims to examine the usage and history of the various racial labels attributed to Black Americans and how the cyclical usage of Negro, Black, Colored, and African American are a haunting that Black people will most likely face again. As these terms do not fulfill a nationalistic identity, the quest for a satisfactory term still exists. To illustrate this journey, examining the novel Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison will expose how her text subtly charges the reader to embark on a journey of self-discovery. Not only is the reader charged to “know thy self”, but they are …
Re-Embodying Our Discipline, Chelsea Dryer
Re-Embodying Our Discipline, Chelsea Dryer
Theses
This Master's Thesis uses personal narrative and scholarly works to examine the benefits of embodiment in literary studies. Special attention is given to how lived experience can provide legitimate sources of academic evidence when examining texts and that texts can be used to integrate, examine, and reframe lived experiences.
Literary Pedagogies At Umsl: Combining Case Study With Personal Narrative, Elizabeth Miller
Literary Pedagogies At Umsl: Combining Case Study With Personal Narrative, Elizabeth Miller
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Through traditional scholarship and an analysis of survey data collected from undergraduate literature students at the university, I investigate the ways in which pedagogies of composition and disability studies can be incorporated into the teaching of literature. Historically, literary scholarship has not focused on issues of pedagogy to the degree that other divisions within English Studies have done, and it is therefore necessary to determine what gaps exist, if any, and how they might be bridged. For example, composition pedagogies often emphasize active, student-based teaching paradigms that are rooted in students’ personal experiences and the kind of writing that interests …
Late Medieval Women: Ascetic Performance And Subversive Mysticism, Deirdre A. Riley
Late Medieval Women: Ascetic Performance And Subversive Mysticism, Deirdre A. Riley
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No abstract provided.
Discovering Determinacy In Shandy: A Readerly And Writerly Goose Chase, Michael R. Pauloski
Discovering Determinacy In Shandy: A Readerly And Writerly Goose Chase, Michael R. Pauloski
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No abstract provided.
Using Tasks Effectively To Teach Chinese As A Foreign Language To College Students In The U.S.A., Shengjie Lu
Using Tasks Effectively To Teach Chinese As A Foreign Language To College Students In The U.S.A., Shengjie Lu
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No abstract provided.
" Lu-Li-Lunacy And Sorrow:" The Grotesque In John Irving's The World According To Garp, Nicole J. Homer
" Lu-Li-Lunacy And Sorrow:" The Grotesque In John Irving's The World According To Garp, Nicole J. Homer
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Flannery O'Connor, Mary H. Ogilvie
Flannery O'Connor, Mary H. Ogilvie
Theses
The entire body or Flannery O'Connor's published fiction can be found in two volumes, One, a Signet paperback called Three by Flannery O'Connor, contains her two novels and first short story collection, The other is the posthumous volume of short stories, Everything that Rises Must Converge. Miss O'Connor's work has already been subjected to much critical analysis and will undoubtedly be subjected to a great deal more before there is substantial agreement on just what it is that she is saying. The purpose of this study is to consider her attitude toward her art; to examine her philosophy …
Joel Chandler Harris: Aesop Of The South, Thomas Adams
Joel Chandler Harris: Aesop Of The South, Thomas Adams
Theses
This paper covers Joel Chandler Harris's early life and its influence on his writing, then examines the literature he created, including the Uncle Remus stories, and interpretations of his work.
Spenser: Reflections And Parallels In The Romantic Poets, Sara Rivers Aderholdt
Spenser: Reflections And Parallels In The Romantic Poets, Sara Rivers Aderholdt
Theses
This paper calls attention to reasonable effects, noticeable echoes, and remarkable parallels of Edmund Spenser's philosophy and his treatment of myth and symbol as found in the Romantic poets.
The Treatment Of The Arthurian Material In Tennyson's Idylls, Margaret Bishop
The Treatment Of The Arthurian Material In Tennyson's Idylls, Margaret Bishop
Theses
This thesis examines instances of Arthurian themes in the works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, specifically the Idylls of the King. It includes a historical sketch of the Arthurian epic, along with concentrations on specific aspects of Arthurian lore, such as the coming of Arthur, Lancelot and Elaine, the quest for the Holy Grail, and Arthur's death.
Roger Ascham's Unrecognized Contributions To Education In The Schoolmaster, Harold L. Askew
Roger Ascham's Unrecognized Contributions To Education In The Schoolmaster, Harold L. Askew
Theses
In the late sixteenth century, Roger Ascham, English scholar and author, wrote The Schoolmaster, in which he outlined some principles of education and of learning. The purpose of this paper is to note some of these principles and to illustrate their use in education.