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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Domesticity And The Modernist Aesthetic: F.T. Marinetti, Djuna Barnes, And Gertrude Stein, Allison Elise Carey
Domesticity And The Modernist Aesthetic: F.T. Marinetti, Djuna Barnes, And Gertrude Stein, Allison Elise Carey
Doctoral Dissertations
Literary modernism has been presented, in scholarship and critical histories, as a masculinized movement: a literature largely by men and concerned with issues of literary form rather than with everyday life. This critical tunnel vision has inevitably prevented a full accounting of many key aspects of modernist literature. One issue of modernism that has been persistently overlooked by scholars is the central role of domesticity in many modernist texts and the importance to modernists of reclaiming the domestic as a subject of high art. As this study demonstrates, modernist texts often focused on everyday life, and these modernist treatments of …
Socio-Cultural Interactions And Esl Graduate Student Enculturation: A Cross Sectional Analysis, Ethan W. Krase
Socio-Cultural Interactions And Esl Graduate Student Enculturation: A Cross Sectional Analysis, Ethan W. Krase
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation reports findings from a five-month qualitative study of a group of five ESL students pursuing graduate degrees in disciplines in the humanities. Focusing on disciplinary enculturation processes, the study sets out to answer two primary research questions: 1) What roles do literacy activities play in disciplinary enculturation? 2) What sorts of subject positions do ESL learners occupy as they enculturate into academic discourse communities? Answers to these questions are important because they can lend definition to the obstacles that confront ESL learners as they attempt to move towards professional participation in target discourse communities.
Anchored in the language-related …
An Assessment Of Responses In The British Press To Muslim Immigrants 1978-1989, Nashwa Mohamed Van Houts
An Assessment Of Responses In The British Press To Muslim Immigrants 1978-1989, Nashwa Mohamed Van Houts
Masters Theses
No abstract provided.
Networker 2003 Fall Issue, Commission For Women
Footnoes (2003), Department Of History
The Other Side Of Love: Sam Shepard’S Gothic Family Plays, Eric Andrew Lee
The Other Side Of Love: Sam Shepard’S Gothic Family Plays, Eric Andrew Lee
Doctoral Dissertations
From one of his earliest plays—Rock Garden (1964)—to one of his most recent works—The Late Henry Moss (2000)—Sam Shepard has been fascinated by the American family. Shepard, this dissertation argues, presents a markedly “gothic” portrait of the American family by borrowing dramatic techniques from the “gothic” literary tradition in order to critique traditional American myths about the family—including the belief that a type of social harmony, even utopia, will result if each family member adheres strictly to his or her prescribed role within the family unit. Shepard’s critique of the American family is in many ways …
Persuasive Rhetoric In Origen’S Contra Celsum., Daniel Charles Headrick
Persuasive Rhetoric In Origen’S Contra Celsum., Daniel Charles Headrick
Masters Theses
The purpose of this thesis was to explore the philosophical and rhetorical elements of Origen of Alexandria’s Contra Celsum. Herein, one can find to their delight three major themes of ancient argumentation: the argument from antiquity, the moral effect argument, and the argument from prophecy. The bulk of this thesis is the author’s own exegesis of key passages in the Contra Celsum. The major thesis advanced here is that the strategies of rhetoric used by Christian and non-Christian in late antiquity were quite similar, in fact, exactly the same in many cases. The interpretation of key textual passages in the …
Pioneers, Patriots, And Politicians: The Tennessee Militia System, 1772-1857, Trevor Augustine Smith
Pioneers, Patriots, And Politicians: The Tennessee Militia System, 1772-1857, Trevor Augustine Smith
Doctoral Dissertations
Like all U.S. states, prior to the Civil War Tennessee maintained an active militia system. This dissertation examines the establishment, function, and decline of this organization. For more than eighty years the Tennessee militia participated in a number of military conflicts. It also played an important role in the state's social and political development.
The militia was among the first institutions established by the early Tennessee settlers. It began as an informal collection of every able-bodied male. By 1800 the militia had grown considerably, and the volunteers, who served by choice, assumed the burden of meeting the state's military needs. …
Dangerous Habits: Examining The Philosophical Baggage Of Biological Research, Massimo Pigliucci
Dangerous Habits: Examining The Philosophical Baggage Of Biological Research, Massimo Pigliucci
Doctoral Dissertations
Science is about conceptualizing the natural world in a way that can be understood by human beings while at the same time reflecting as much as possible what we can empirically infer about how the world actually is. Among the crucial tools that allow scientists to formulate hypotheses and to contribute to a progressive understanding of nature are the use of imagery and metaphors on the one hand, and the ability to assume certain starting points on which to build new avenues of inquiry on the other hand. The premise of this work is that, in the words of philosopher …
The Appropriate Clinical Response To Patient Suffering, Joseph R. Stackhouse
The Appropriate Clinical Response To Patient Suffering, Joseph R. Stackhouse
Doctoral Dissertations
The starting point of my dissertation is a traditional goal of medicine, the relief of suffering. The central question that I dealt with is the appropriate clinical response to a patient’s suffering. An underlying assumption in the answer that I provide is that a physician’s clinical response must be guided primarily by the principles of beneficence and respect for patient autonomy. I argue that both principles require the physician to respond in a proportionate manner with medically appropriate care, which has the backing of relevant scientific and clinical data, and must be provided in a manner deemed acceptable by the …
The Harm Of Neglecting Embodiment: How Biomedical Ethics’ Neglect Of Bodies And Context Hurts Women And Minorities, Nancy L. Dumler
The Harm Of Neglecting Embodiment: How Biomedical Ethics’ Neglect Of Bodies And Context Hurts Women And Minorities, Nancy L. Dumler
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation argues that mainstream bioethics has failed to adequately acknowledge bodies and embodiment in practice and theory. While philosophers have generally not held “substance dualism” as such for some time, this practice of overlooking the body is probably grounded in what I label evaluative dualism, which is still ingrained in our culture. This dualism maintains a dichotomy and ranking of mind over body in addition to dichotomizing and rating other constructed pairs such as culture and nature and male and female. Such a ranking leads to, or supports discrimination against those who are most commonly associated with the body …
Colonizing Cyberspace: The Formation Of Virtual Communities, Matthew Jones
Colonizing Cyberspace: The Formation Of Virtual Communities, Matthew Jones
Masters Theses
The topic of this thesis is the electronic bulletin board systems that existed in Memphis, TN from the early 1980s until around 1999. Although initially a fringe hobby limited to computer enthusiasts, the declining cost of computers, and their subsequent proliferation, allowed those without technical proficiency to dial in. Over time, those who connected to the BBSes developed into a close-knit, emotionally involved community. The dynamics of the communities that arose on BBSes differed based on numerous factors, particularly age. This thesis attempts to examine those interactions, as well as challenge the notion that community is wedded to geography, an …
Plagiarism And Voice In The Age Of Information, Brian Thomas
Plagiarism And Voice In The Age Of Information, Brian Thomas
Masters Theses
The purpose of this work is to explore the issue of plagiarism in various contexts relevant to the teaching of English composition. Since definitions of plagiarism vary by culture and by history, an account of its expression at various points in Western history has been offered. Preliminary findings linked the use of technology for the expression of ideas to cultural and legal definitions of plagiarism. In addition, our own time further complicates any desire to arrive at definitive notions of intellectual property because of information technology facilitating cross-cultural exchange of ideas. In this “Information Age,” as it has been called, …
De La Progression De Rousseau Dans Les Confessions, Reed Martin Monson
De La Progression De Rousseau Dans Les Confessions, Reed Martin Monson
Masters Theses
The purpose of this study is to examine the question of progress in Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s autobiograpphy, The Confessions. Rousseau (1712-1778) is considered the father of the autobiographical genre in French and one of the most influential writers of the European 18th Century Age of Enlightenment. Along with Voltaire, he is the most studied author of this period. One of Rousseau’s goals in writing his Confesssions was to justify the manner in which he lived his life. One of Rousseau’s main paradoxes was that while considering himself a virtous man all his life, he also admitted that he at times changed …
Down In Old Mexico: Five Stories, Lewis Moyse
Down In Old Mexico: Five Stories, Lewis Moyse
Masters Theses
This is a collection of short stories unified by the themes of love or revenge, sometimes the one, sometimes the one and the other. It is preceded by a personal essay that outlines in broad strokes some of the poets, philosophers and novelists who have influenced how I write and what I write about.
Networker 2003 Spring Issue, Commission For Women
Many-Splendored: African Art From Regional Collections (Exhibition Catalogue), Sam Yates
Many-Splendored: African Art From Regional Collections (Exhibition Catalogue), Sam Yates
Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture
Catalogue published for the exhibition Many-Splendored: African Art from Regional Collections at the Ewing Gallery of Art + Architecture February 9 - March 4, 2003.
Many-Splendored featured work from regional collectors: John T. and Peggy Acorn, Dianne Blane, Brent Cantrell, Bert and Editha Carpenter, Tony Day, Harold and Beverly Duckett, Edye Ellis, Bill and Marty Goolsby, Dr. Rosalind J. Hackett, James Miller, Drs. Dwight and Dolly Mullen, and Clark and Judy Stewart.
Utk Library Record 2002-03, University Of Tennessee Libraries
Utk Library Record 2002-03, University Of Tennessee Libraries
UTK Libraries Annual Report
No abstract provided.
Comparing The African American And The Oromo Movements In The Global Context, Asafa Jalata
Comparing The African American And The Oromo Movements In The Global Context, Asafa Jalata
Sociology Publications and Other Works
The African American and Oromo movements have been anti-colonial struggles, and they have aimed to dismantle racial/ethnonational hierarchies legitimated by the ideology of racism in the hegemonic state of the United States and the peripheral and imperial state of Ethiopia.
Front Matter
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Editors' Message
Surrounded by the dead he had caused through his wanton murder of an albatross, the tortured mariner of Samuel Taylor Coleridge fame watches the water snakes beyond the shadow of his ghost ship and “blessed them unaware./The selfsame moment I could pray; And from my neck so free/The Albatross fell off, and sank/Like lead into the sea” (ll. 287-291). Without deliberately looking, he suddenly recognizes the beauty of all creatures and blesses them “unaware.” The sailor experiences a serendipitous moment, and through that accidental wisdom frees himself from his self-created purgatory.
Serendipity: Teaching for Accidental Wisdom serves as …
Spiritual Identities, Teacher Identities, And The Teaching Of Writing, Kilian Mccurrie
Spiritual Identities, Teacher Identities, And The Teaching Of Writing, Kilian Mccurrie
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Through a case study, this article examines the ways teacher identity and spiritual identity intersect in the teaching of writing. By showing that a teacher's pedagogy is prodoundly informed by a basic spiritual disposition, the author offers a view of teaching that is often neglected in studies of teacher identity.
The Experimental Art, Robert Root
The Experimental Art, Robert Root
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Nonfiction is an experimental art, as contemporary examples make clear, and writing teachers need to show students both how meaning arises from writers' experiments with material and also how form from writers' experiments at representing meaning.
Engaged Buddhism & Women In Black: Our Grief Is Not A Cry For War, Candace Walworth
Engaged Buddhism & Women In Black: Our Grief Is Not A Cry For War, Candace Walworth
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
This paper explores principles, practices, and manifestations of engaged Busshism in the United States. It includes a personal narrative based on the author's participation in Women in Black (a silent, symbolic protest against war) and classroom stories based on the author's experience teaching at a Buddhist-inspired university.
Encounters: Relationship In The Study And Teaching Of Literature, Christina Vischer Bruns
Encounters: Relationship In The Study And Teaching Of Literature, Christina Vischer Bruns
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
While trends in the teaching of literature of the last few decades may seem at odds with one another, the thread that can weave them together is a recognition of relationship among readers, text, author, and other readers.
Jaepl, Vol. 9, Winter 2003-2004, Katie S. Fleckenstein, Linda T. Calendrillo
Jaepl, Vol. 9, Winter 2003-2004, Katie S. Fleckenstein, Linda T. Calendrillo
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Essays
Kilian McCurrie. Spiritual Identities, Teacher Identities, and the Teaching of Writing.
Through a case study, this article examines the ways teacher identity and spiritual identity intersect in the teaching of writing. By showing that a teacher's pedagogy is prodoundly informed by a basic spiritual disposition, the author offers a view of teaching that is often neglected in studies of teacher identity.
Robert Root. The Experimental Art.
Nonfiction is an experimental art, as contemporary examples make clear, and writing teachers need to show students both how meaning arises from writers' experiments with material and also how form from …
Compos(T)Ing Loss: Transformation In The Telling, Laura Milner
Compos(T)Ing Loss: Transformation In The Telling, Laura Milner
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Using composting as a metaphor, this author examines the transformative potential in writing about and bearing witness to stories of loss, particularly the death of a parent.
An Unspoken Trust – Violated?, Kia Jane Richmond
An Unspoken Trust – Violated?, Kia Jane Richmond
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Reflecting on our decisions in the classroom, both when we are honest with our students & when we are not, can offer teachers opportunities for growth and change.
Connecting, Helen Walker, Jim Super, Pamela Hartman, Nancy Myers, Andrea Siegel, Traci L. Merritt, Susan A. Schiller, Wilma Romatz
Connecting, Helen Walker, Jim Super, Pamela Hartman, Nancy Myers, Andrea Siegel, Traci L. Merritt, Susan A. Schiller, Wilma Romatz
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Helen Walker. Connecting.
Jim Super—Fearless
Pamela Hartman—English? I'd Rather Read A Book
Nancy Myers—B
Andrea Siegel—Walking the Talk, Breathing the Breath
Traci L. Merritt—The Day Jenny Died
Susan A. Schiller—Touched by the Spirit in AEPL Topics
Wilma Romatz—On the Delicate Art of Teaching
Multiple Forms Of Prewriting In Elementary Writing Lessons, Carolyn L. Piazza, Christine Jecko
Multiple Forms Of Prewriting In Elementary Writing Lessons, Carolyn L. Piazza, Christine Jecko
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Multisensory prewriting invitations (creative visualizations, art, music, dreams, and mediations) affect writing fluency and idea generation in the first draft writing of elementary students.
Community, Spirituality, And The Writing Classroom, W. Keith Duffy
Community, Spirituality, And The Writing Classroom, W. Keith Duffy
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
From a spiritual perspective, this article critiques the concept of community as defined by scholars of rhetoric and composition; the author suggests that our experience of community in the writing classroom cab be enhanced if we strike a balance between doing and being.