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Sound Of Terror: Hearing Ghosts In Victorian Fiction, Melissa Kendall Mcleod
Sound Of Terror: Hearing Ghosts In Victorian Fiction, Melissa Kendall Mcleod
English Dissertations
"Sounds of Terror" explores the interrelations between discourses of sound and the ghostly in Victorian novels and short stories. Narrative techniques used by Charles, Dickens, George Eliot, Henry James, and Charlotte Mew are historically and culturally situated through their use of or reactions against acoustic technology. Since ghost stories and nvoels with gothic elements rely for the terrifying effects on tropes of liminality, my study consists of an analysis of an important yet largely unacknowledged species of these tropes: auditory metaphors. Many critics have examined the visual metaphors that appear in nineteenth-century fiction, but, until recently, aural representations have remain …
Images Of Loss In Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie, Arthur Miller's Death Of A Salesman, Marsha Norman's Night, Mother, And Paula Vogel's How I Learned To Drive, Dipa Janardanan
English Dissertations
This dissertation offers an analysis of the image of loss in modern American drama at three levels: the loss of physical space, loss of psychological space, and loss of moral space. The playwrights and plays examined are Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie (1945), Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (1949), Marsha Norman's 'night, Mother (1983), and Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive (1998). This study is the first scholarly work to discuss the theme of loss with these specific playwrights and works. This dissertation argues that loss is a central trope in twentieth-century American drama. The purpose of this …
Winning, Losing, And Changing The Rules: The Rhetoric Of Poetry Contests And Competition, Marc Pietrzykowski
Winning, Losing, And Changing The Rules: The Rhetoric Of Poetry Contests And Competition, Marc Pietrzykowski
English Dissertations
This dissertation attempts to trace the shifting relationship between the fields of Rhetoric and Poetry in Western culture by focusing on poetry contests and competitions during several different historical eras. In order to examine how the distinction between the two fields is contingent on a variety of local factors, this study makes use of research in contemporary cognitive neuroscience, particularly work in categorization and cognitive linguistics, to emphasize the provisional nature of conceptual thought; that is, on the type of mental activity that gives rise to conceptualizations such as “Rhetoric” and “Poetry.” The final portions of the research attempt to …
To Hold As T'Were The Mirror Up To Hate: Terrence Mcnally's Response To The Christian Right In Corpus Christi, Richard Kimberly Sisson
To Hold As T'Were The Mirror Up To Hate: Terrence Mcnally's Response To The Christian Right In Corpus Christi, Richard Kimberly Sisson
English Dissertations
In 1998, the Manhattan Theatre Club’s staging of Terrence McNally’s play Corpus Christi ignited protest and virulent condemnation from various religious and politically conservative groups which eventually led to the cancellation of the play’s production. This led to a barrage of criticism from the national theatre, gay, and civil rights communities and free speech advocates, including the ACLU and PEN, which issued a press releases about the cancellation that decried censorship and acquiescence by the theatre to neo-conservative religiously political groups. As swiftly as the cancellation, the Manhattan Theatre Club reversed its decision and the show resumed its rehearsal schedule. …
The Literary And Intellectual Impact Of Mississippi’S Industrial Institute And College, 1884-1920, Sheldon Scott Kohn
The Literary And Intellectual Impact Of Mississippi’S Industrial Institute And College, 1884-1920, Sheldon Scott Kohn
English Dissertations
After a long struggle, the State of Mississippi founded and funded the Industrial Institute and College in 1884. The school, located in Columbus, Mississippi, was the first state-supported institution of higher education for women in the United States, and it quickly became a model for similar schools in many other states. The Industrial Institute and College was distinguished from other women’s colleges in the nineteenth century by the fact that its graduates were expected to be fully prepared to support themselves. This curriculum required students to complete coursework in both liberal arts and vocational training. There was much conflict and …
Low Brows And High Profiles: Rhetoric And Gender In The Restoration And Early Eighteenth Century Theater, Elizabeth Anne Tasker
Low Brows And High Profiles: Rhetoric And Gender In The Restoration And Early Eighteenth Century Theater, Elizabeth Anne Tasker
English Dissertations
The Restoration and early eighteenth-century theaters of London formed an important mixed-gender rhetorical venue, which was acutely focused on the age-old “querrelle des femmes” (or woman question). The immediate popularity of the newly opened Restoration theaters, the new practice of casting actresses rather than actors in female roles, and the libertine social climate of London from 1660 to the early 1700s created a unique rhetorical situation in which women openly participated as speakers and audience members. Through a methodology combining feminist historiography, performance theory, Bitzer’s rhetorical situation, and Habermas’ notion of the public sphere, this dissertation reclaims the Restoration theatre …
The "Infernal World": Imagination In Charlotte Brontë'S Four Novels, Cara Maryjo Cassell
The "Infernal World": Imagination In Charlotte Brontë'S Four Novels, Cara Maryjo Cassell
English Dissertations
If you knew my thoughts; the dreams that absorb me; and the fiery imagination that at times eats me up and makes me feel Society as it is, wretchedly insipid you would pity and I dare say despise me. (C. Brontë, 10 May 1836) Before Charlotte Brontë wrote her first novel for publication, she admitted her mixed feelings about imagination. Brontë’s letter shows that she feared both pity and condemnation. She struggled to attend to the imaginative world that brought her pleasure and to fulfill her duties in the real world so as to avoid its contempt. Brontë’s early correspondence …
On The Limits Of Culture: Why Biology Is Important In The Study Of Victorian Sexuality, Robert Jonathan Burns
On The Limits Of Culture: Why Biology Is Important In The Study Of Victorian Sexuality, Robert Jonathan Burns
English Dissertations
Much recent scholarship in Victorian studies has viewed sexuality as historically contingent and constructed primarily within the realm of discourse or social organization. In contrast, the following study details species-typical and universal aspects of human sexuality that must be adequately theorized if an accurate model of the ideological forces impacting Victorian sexuality is to be fashioned. After a short survey of previous scholarly projects that examine literature through the lens of biology—much of it marred by an obvious antipathy toward all attempts to discover the involvement of ideology in human behavior—this study presents a lengthy primer to the modern study …
Captive Women, Cunning Texts: Confederate Daughters And The "Trick-Tongue" Of Captivity, Rebecca L. Harrison
Captive Women, Cunning Texts: Confederate Daughters And The "Trick-Tongue" Of Captivity, Rebecca L. Harrison
English Dissertations
Combining the critical lenses of early American scholarship and that of the modern South, “Captive Women, Cunning Texts” investigates the uses and transformations of tropes of captivity drawn from the American Indian captivity narrative by women writers of the Southern Renaissance (circa 1910-45). Specifically, this study examines how captivity narratives, the first American literary form dominated by white women’s experiences as writers and readers, provided the female authors of the Southern Renaissance with a genre ideal for critiquing the roles of women in the South, and the official constructions of southern history. This work interrogates the multifaceted ways in which …
Communication Strategies As A Basis For Crisis Management Including Use Of The Internet As A Delivery Platform, Gordon Alan Harrison
Communication Strategies As A Basis For Crisis Management Including Use Of The Internet As A Delivery Platform, Gordon Alan Harrison
English Dissertations
ABSTRACT Eighty per cent of small companies without a comprehensive crisis plan vanish within two years of suffering a major disaster—a remarkable and ominous statistic. Crises are occurring more often in all organizations, and when they occur, they are leaving a wake of financial, operational, and reputational damage. Why this trend, now? There are five important reasons: 1) a more volatile workplace involving financial, legal, or management issues within the organization; 2) an extreme production mentality often obscuring the conditions under which crises might otherwise be recognized, addressed, or mitigated; 3) enhanced technological platforms for information delivery, such as the …