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Jane Austen And A Biographical Study Of The Historical Narrative Process, Serena Young May 2024

Jane Austen And A Biographical Study Of The Historical Narrative Process, Serena Young

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

Jane Austen, beloved national literary icon of Great Britain, is world-renowned for her fiction. Biographers have attempted to authentically piece together her life and often, try to connect her narrative to when and how her fiction was written, as well as point out circumstances within her personal life and speculate their influence on her work. Literary analysts and critics that have examined the historical narrative process, Hayden White and Kevin Gilvary, have found that the way in which a historical account is presented plays a significant role in how history is understood and perpetuated. When examining Jane Austen’s life, many …


Interdisciplinary Lesson Plans To Study Art And Romantic Poetry (1775-1837), Luz Elena Ramirez Dec 2019

Interdisciplinary Lesson Plans To Study Art And Romantic Poetry (1775-1837), Luz Elena Ramirez

Q2S Enhancing Pedagogy

Enhanced Pedagogy funding has supported the design of three interdisciplinary lesson plans for California State University, San Bernardino students to study the relationship between art and Romantic poetry (1775-1837). Following the scholarship of Stuart Henry, William Condee exposes the problem in academe of “disciplinary hegemony.” Henry argues that “disciplines have come to control content, pedagogy and the organization of higher learning. Disciplines. . . become systems of power that control resources and access to dissemination” (Henry qtd. in Condee 4). Disciplinary hegemony fractures lines of continuity between subjects. My project seeks to facilitate a robust engagement with art and ancient …


Nashe’S Poem For Ferdinando Stanley, Lord Strange, Jennifer Andersen Jan 2014

Nashe’S Poem For Ferdinando Stanley, Lord Strange, Jennifer Andersen

English Faculty Publications

This article makes a case for the dedication of "The Choise of Valentines" to Ferdinando Stanley, Lord Strange, and explores some of its ramifications for the interpretation of the poem. Beyond the significance of this identification for the poem, establishing the dedication to Lord Strange and Nashe’s participation in elite literary coteries would also be more broadly significant for Nashe studies.


To Speak Or Not To Speak: The Implications Of Silence In Shakespeare's Hamlet, Margaret Rose Jones Jan 2011

To Speak Or Not To Speak: The Implications Of Silence In Shakespeare's Hamlet, Margaret Rose Jones

Theses Digitization Project

This thesis explores the function and importance of silence throughout William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Along with analysis of Shakespeare's text, this thesis also reviews and analyzes three film versions of the play: Laurence Olivier's 1948 production, Kenneth Branagh's 1996 production, and Michael Almereyda's 2000 production. All of these showcase various depictions of silence while working with the same Shakespearian text and plotline. Throughout the text and film analyses this thesis explores three areas in which silence plays an important role: refusal to join a conversation, emotional distress rendering someone silent, and societal limitations placed on the individual. This thesis attempts …


Satire's Club: Reality, Reason, And Knowledge In Joseph Andrews, Heather Anne Law Davis Jan 2009

Satire's Club: Reality, Reason, And Knowledge In Joseph Andrews, Heather Anne Law Davis

Theses Digitization Project

Satire has been credited with possessing the power to deconstruct the distinctions we make between opposing concepts and thus lead us to reevaluate established views. Structuralist Ferdinand de Saussure claimed that language relies on sets of opposites, or binary pairs, to create meaning. Building on this idea, deconstructionist Jacques Derrida explored the hierarchies he believed were inherent in all binary pairs, arguing that on concept in each pair occupies a superior position in our consciousness.


Eugenic Discourse In The Work Of D.H. Lawrence, Christopher Lawrence Cotton Jan 2008

Eugenic Discourse In The Work Of D.H. Lawrence, Christopher Lawrence Cotton

Theses Digitization Project

Eugenic discourse is apparent in the work of many writers in the early 20th century, but is especially explicit in D.H. Lawrence's novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover, as well as his private letters. A close reading of these works illustrates Lawrence's attempts to grapple with his advocacy of eugenic.


A Vision Of Human Solitude: Rhetoric Of Isolation And Ephemerality In Two Novels By Virginia Woolf, Marsha Lee Schuh Jan 2007

A Vision Of Human Solitude: Rhetoric Of Isolation And Ephemerality In Two Novels By Virginia Woolf, Marsha Lee Schuh

Theses Digitization Project

This thesis investigates the interrelationship between the two dominant themes, isolation and human ephemerality found in two of Virginia Woolf's books, To the lighthouse and The Waves.


Allusion As Form: The Waste Land And Moulin Rouge!, Stacy Magedanz Jan 2006

Allusion As Form: The Waste Land And Moulin Rouge!, Stacy Magedanz

Library Faculty Publications & Presentations

Allusion is usually considered a literary technique, but relatively little attention has been paid to the notion of allusion as a literary form. In this essay, I attempt to describe the allusive form based on two prominent examples, T. S. Eliot’s Waste Land and Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! Though radically different, the two works embody distinguishing characteristics of the allusive form. These are intertextuality, or a dependence upon outside sources for sense and significance; heightened and self-conscious artificiality; a confrontational attitude toward the audience; elitism, based on the exclusivity of allusions; appropriation of multiple cultures; and pervasive anachronism. Though prone …


From Darwin To Dracula: A Study Of Literary Evolution, Erin Alice Lamborn Jan 2005

From Darwin To Dracula: A Study Of Literary Evolution, Erin Alice Lamborn

Theses Digitization Project

Argues that, without the publication of Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species," Bram Stoker's novel "Dracula" and Oscar Wilde's novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray" would not have been written with their distinct style and themes, as evolution clashes with degeneration and female power (and the sexuality derived from that power) clashes with the new science. Stoker and Wilde combine the science of the late 19th century with the characters of their imaginations. Natural and sexual selection plays a part in these characters' core development. The mixture of sexuality, science and power in these two novels all combine to formulate what …


Public Justice And Private Mercy In Measure For Measure, Stacy Magedanz Apr 2004

Public Justice And Private Mercy In Measure For Measure, Stacy Magedanz

Library Faculty Publications & Presentations

As the only one of Shakespeare’s plays to carry a biblical title, Measure for Measure draws on an explicitly Christian body of thought about law, mercy, justice, and the right exercise of authority. The pervasive influence of the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5–7) over Measure for Measure’s action has led many critics to interpret the play as a straightforward Christian allegory where Mercy pleads before God in a grand Last Judgment.1 Another group, perhaps in reaction, has found in the play a subversion of the expected outcomes of justice, or even a radical subversion of all authority.2 During the …


Shakespeare's Bolingbroke: Rhetoric And Stylistics From Richard Ii To Henry Iv, Part 2, Deanna Faye Jenson Jan 2004

Shakespeare's Bolingbroke: Rhetoric And Stylistics From Richard Ii To Henry Iv, Part 2, Deanna Faye Jenson

Theses Digitization Project

In order to contribute to the body of work on Bolingbroke and on Shakespeare's development of character, this thesis examines various rhetorical and stylistic methods used by Shakespeare in his creation of the character of Henry Bolingbroke.


Representations Of Scotland In Edwin Morgan's Poetry, Theresa Fernandez Mendoza-Kovich Jan 2002

Representations Of Scotland In Edwin Morgan's Poetry, Theresa Fernandez Mendoza-Kovich

Theses Digitization Project

This thesis is an examination of the poetry of Edwin Morgan. It is a cultural analysis of Morgan's poetry as representation of the Scottish people. Morgan's poetry represents the Scottish people as determined and persistent in dealing with life's adversities while maintaining hope in a better future.


The Rise Of Mass Culture Theory And Its Effect On Golden Age Detective Fiction, Sarah Jean Trainin Jan 2002

The Rise Of Mass Culture Theory And Its Effect On Golden Age Detective Fiction, Sarah Jean Trainin

Theses Digitization Project

This thesis will explore the segregation of detective fiction from the general fiction market between 1920 and 1940.


Jane Eyre's Gricean Conversational Portrait, Heather Christine Castillo Jan 2000

Jane Eyre's Gricean Conversational Portrait, Heather Christine Castillo

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


Does Anyone Know Lord Byron?, Dianne Marie Waylett Jan 1998

Does Anyone Know Lord Byron?, Dianne Marie Waylett

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


D.H. Lawrence's "Struggle For Verbal Consciousness": From Women In Love To Psychoanalysis And The Unconscious And Fantasia Of The Unconscious, Yvonne Martha Weatherby Jan 1995

D.H. Lawrence's "Struggle For Verbal Consciousness": From Women In Love To Psychoanalysis And The Unconscious And Fantasia Of The Unconscious, Yvonne Martha Weatherby

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


Ethos In "Gulliver's Travels", Lois Bea Stephenson Jan 1994

Ethos In "Gulliver's Travels", Lois Bea Stephenson

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


A Rhetorical Analysis Of Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness, Shyh-Chyi Wey Jan 1994

A Rhetorical Analysis Of Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness, Shyh-Chyi Wey

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


Buffoons And Bullies: James Joyce's Priests In "Stephen Hero" And "A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man", A Study Of Revision, Cynthia Ann Cotter Jan 1991

Buffoons And Bullies: James Joyce's Priests In "Stephen Hero" And "A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man", A Study Of Revision, Cynthia Ann Cotter

Theses Digitization Project

Irony and satire in two of James Joyce's works.


Robert Louis Stevenson And Scotland: A Most Complicated Relationship, Patricia Berard Dunsmore Jan 1991

Robert Louis Stevenson And Scotland: A Most Complicated Relationship, Patricia Berard Dunsmore

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


A Rhetorical Analysis Of Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman, Gail E. Rogers Sulkin Jan 1990

A Rhetorical Analysis Of Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman, Gail E. Rogers Sulkin

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


John Fowles' Narrative Stylistics In The Collector, Daniel Martin, And A Maggot, Laura Lee Hope Jan 1990

John Fowles' Narrative Stylistics In The Collector, Daniel Martin, And A Maggot, Laura Lee Hope

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


Francis Bacon And Composition, Scott David Minard Jan 1987

Francis Bacon And Composition, Scott David Minard

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


Wordsworth And Discovery: A Romantic Approach To Composing, Susan C. Critchfield Jan 1985

Wordsworth And Discovery: A Romantic Approach To Composing, Susan C. Critchfield

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


Orwell: Did He Produce What He Professed?, Russell Dove Eyre Jan 1982

Orwell: Did He Produce What He Professed?, Russell Dove Eyre

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


The Rhetoric Of The Proverb In The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell And The Tao Te Ching, Julie Tilton-Ling Jan 1982

The Rhetoric Of The Proverb In The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell And The Tao Te Ching, Julie Tilton-Ling

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.