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Visualizing Hate: Maus As Holocaust Literature, Geoffrey Daniel Curran
Visualizing Hate: Maus As Holocaust Literature, Geoffrey Daniel Curran
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of this thesis was to investigate how Art Spiegelman's graphic novel Maus affected traditional classifications of Holocaust writings, specifically literary memoir. Genre studies use Holocaust writings especially those classified as "literary memoirs", to define a narrow group to exclusion of texts like Maus. If Maus was not 'allowed' to be defined as memoir then was it solely cast as fiction? To view it as fictional would have denied that Maus was a graphic novel which interlaces both received testimonial 'truth' and receptive 'truth'.
Sources Of Fear In American Society: Representations In Short Horror Fiction, 1950s-Present, Mona Moin Syed
Sources Of Fear In American Society: Representations In Short Horror Fiction, 1950s-Present, Mona Moin Syed
Theses Digitization Project
This study examines the ways in which short American horror fiction has always revolved around fundamental fears of mortality, and how these fears have shifted across the span of three specific timeframes. Using a historical lens, this study also explores what the specific nature of mortality fears, as reflected in particular instances of short horror fiction, historically reveal about contemporaneous cultural attitudes toward end of life issues, loss, doubt, and grief. This study also traces how the perceptions of mortality have dynamically changed in American society from 1950s to present times in accordance with powerful historical events, varying cultural contexts, …
Ballads As "Poetic" Rhetoric In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Norma Jeanne Peterson
Ballads As "Poetic" Rhetoric In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Norma Jeanne Peterson
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis explores the rhetorical effect ballads have had as a medium of argument for those who were "free of literary influences and fairly homogeneous in character." The ballad, speaks to us poetically and by tradition reveals human interests emerging from distress and frustration. Three men (John Lomax, Alan Lomax and Harry Smith) were instrumental in collecting and recording early ballads before they were lost; this effect has lingered from an early period in time to the 1960s, and beyond when the value of ballads was rediscovered.
Whitman, Elegy, And The Nineteenth Century Culture Of Death And Mourning, Susan Renee Nylander
Whitman, Elegy, And The Nineteenth Century Culture Of Death And Mourning, Susan Renee Nylander
Theses Digitization Project
In this thesis, the author offers a close reading and analysis of several of Walt Whitman's elegies and poems about death and mourning through the nineteenth century practices of mourning and death.
The Rhetoric Of Dean Koontz's Intensity, Krista Michelle Wagner
The Rhetoric Of Dean Koontz's Intensity, Krista Michelle Wagner
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis examines the revision of eighteenth century gothic fiction by Dean Koontz's twentieth century horror novel, Intensity. In particular, the novel invites Aristotelian rhetorical analysis through the competing appeals staged by its antagonist, Vess, and its protagonist, Chyna.
Pipe Dream: Eugene O'Neill's Rhetoric Of Tragedy, Ryan Francis Murphy
Pipe Dream: Eugene O'Neill's Rhetoric Of Tragedy, Ryan Francis Murphy
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis applies a rhetorical lens to the work of Eugene O'Neill, specifically, those plays written between the years 1939 and 1942-the height of his dramatic genius. This thesis works to reimagine Eugene O'Neill, often looked upon as "lacking rhetorical exuberance," as a distinctive and successful rhetor, in addition to installing the "pipe dream" as his foremost rhetorical device.
The Rhetoric Of Nonfiction: An Examination Of Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm, Lashawn Jon Janice Cole
The Rhetoric Of Nonfiction: An Examination Of Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm, Lashawn Jon Janice Cole
Theses Digitization Project
The thesis begins with a brief description and analysis of various genres Junger blends in his text. What follows is a look at the challenges of interpretation in historical writing and theoretical framing of the genre distinctions regarding new journalism and nonfiction narrative.
Exploring Sara Paretsky's Detective Fiction From The Perspective Of Ecofeminism, Maureen Frances Mccarthy
Exploring Sara Paretsky's Detective Fiction From The Perspective Of Ecofeminism, Maureen Frances Mccarthy
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis analyzes Paretsky's works and how the dominant members of society use their power to exploit the weaker members, and how that exploitation impacts society. It shows how the author connects the abuse that stems from the power of patriarchy to the abuse of nature.
Charles Brockden Brown's Place Within The Gothic And The Influence Of Early America's Social Issues On Brown's Writing, Shirley Ann Regis
Charles Brockden Brown's Place Within The Gothic And The Influence Of Early America's Social Issues On Brown's Writing, Shirley Ann Regis
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of this thesis is to show that Charles Brockden Brown was influenced by the American Revolution and the incidents that come after it. It is suggested that Brown created a gothic fiction that was intended to be a critique on the American Revolution by using murder narrratives present during the time to create his characters. Gothic fiction consists of many elements such as setting arechetypal characters, terror, emotion, psychological turmoil and language use.
The Beaded Web: Metaphor And Association In John Edgar Wideman's Sent For You Yesterday, Joel Wesley Kilpatrick
The Beaded Web: Metaphor And Association In John Edgar Wideman's Sent For You Yesterday, Joel Wesley Kilpatrick
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis looks at how Wideman takes advantage of the associative function of metaphor, creating a vast network, or web, or interconnected images. In deviating from linguistic norms, and growing steadily from page to page, this web causes the novel to appear symbolic. It also appears to have a symbolic meaning of its own, possibly representing the intricate social and spiritual connections that comprise the novel's fictional community of Homewood.
"What Now?": Willa Cather's Successful Male Professionals At Middle Age, Deena Michelle Baker
"What Now?": Willa Cather's Successful Male Professionals At Middle Age, Deena Michelle Baker
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis examines three male characters from Willa Cather's writing that epitomize the American Dream of professional and material success but they find no contentment once they achieve it. This disillusionment is particularly so with Cather's driven male professionals, Bartley Alexander (an architectural scholar), and Clement Sebastian (a critically acclaimed, international opera singer). Cather situates these characters at middle age and at the peak of their professional careers, which makes the examination of them an interesting study as to the effects of the encroaching modern age on successful men. This thesis begins with a brief overview of Cather's work, including …
Facing Tough Realities And Inspiring Change: The Comic Satire Of Sherman Alexie, Jill Alison Henry
Facing Tough Realities And Inspiring Change: The Comic Satire Of Sherman Alexie, Jill Alison Henry
Theses Digitization Project
Examines the comic modes Sherman Alexie uses, the purposes behind his critical, yet humorous, commentary, the multiple audiences toward which his satire is aimed, and the desired outcomes of his satire. Explores the theme of alcoholism in Alexie's writings that plays a role in the degradation of Native American lives in modern times and why alcoholism has become a problem for the Native American community. Also, examines why Native Americans have become so dependent on White handouts and how this passivity and acceptance has created problems in Indian society. Finally, offers insights into Alexie's use of humor as a means …
The Old Man And The Sea: Hemingway, Heteroglossia, And The Hero's Voice, Carole Sue Spitler
The Old Man And The Sea: Hemingway, Heteroglossia, And The Hero's Voice, Carole Sue Spitler
Theses Digitization Project
In this subjective hero concept lies an intriguing aspect of Bakhtin's paradigm: A hero is not necessarily a living entity; a hero can be ideas, objects and locations. When viewed through the lens of traditional western rhetorical theory, Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea appears as a monologue wherein Santiago seemingly speaks for the author about the subject of doom and man's relationship to the world.
The Rise Of Mass Culture Theory And Its Effect On Golden Age Detective Fiction, Sarah Jean Trainin
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.
Forces Within And Without: Lily Bart's Movement Towards Epiphany In The House Of Mirth, Seta Ghazarian
Forces Within And Without: Lily Bart's Movement Towards Epiphany In The House Of Mirth, Seta Ghazarian
Theses Digitization Project
The House of Mirth's main character, Lily Bart, is charaterized a fated character, incapable of exerting free will. With the help of Lawrence Selden and Gerty Farish, she realizes that, for the most part, she has lived and acted according to what others expect of her.
The California Dream Denied: Narrative Strategy And The California Labor Dilemma, Joseph Notarangelo
The California Dream Denied: Narrative Strategy And The California Labor Dilemma, Joseph Notarangelo
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis explores the relationship between differing interpretation of the California Dream and the narrative strategies through while [sic] they are expressed in three California labor novels during three different decades of California literature.
Allegory As Rhetoric: Faulkner's Trilogy, Sally Louise Schroeder
Allegory As Rhetoric: Faulkner's Trilogy, Sally Louise Schroeder
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.
From Thought To Style: Emerson's Interplay Of Ideas And Language, Sandra Joyce Lansing
From Thought To Style: Emerson's Interplay Of Ideas And Language, Sandra Joyce Lansing
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.
A Rhetorical Aspect Of Edgar Allan Poe's Short Fiction: A Reader Response Approach, James Philip Lehan
A Rhetorical Aspect Of Edgar Allan Poe's Short Fiction: A Reader Response Approach, James Philip Lehan
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.
Rhetorical Tropes From The Black English Oral Tradition In The Works Of Toni Morrison, Yvonne Kay Atkinson
Rhetorical Tropes From The Black English Oral Tradition In The Works Of Toni Morrison, Yvonne Kay Atkinson
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.
The Trials Of Creativity: A Rhetorical Analysis Of A View From The Bridge And The Crucible By Arthur Miller, Edward Hal Garnett
The Trials Of Creativity: A Rhetorical Analysis Of A View From The Bridge And The Crucible By Arthur Miller, Edward Hal Garnett
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.
The Role Of Language In Constructing Consciousness In Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Tamra Elizabeth Dibenedetto
The Role Of Language In Constructing Consciousness In Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Tamra Elizabeth Dibenedetto
Theses Digitization Project
Relationship between thought and language -- Whorf's hypothesis of linguistic determinism -- Linguistic relativism -- Sociopolitics, oppression, and language.
"Words Moving Secretly Toward Some Goal Of Their Own": The Rhetorical Use Of The "As If" In The Fiction Of Flannery O’Connor, Kellie Renee Rayburn
"Words Moving Secretly Toward Some Goal Of Their Own": The Rhetorical Use Of The "As If" In The Fiction Of Flannery O’Connor, Kellie Renee Rayburn
Theses Digitization Project
In an effort to reach readers who do not share her strict Roman Catholic beliefs, Flannery O'Connor employs a number of persuasive devices. Prominent among those devices is her rhetorical use of the "as if" construction. As a theoretical joining of the "reality" of this world with the "unknown" of the supernatural, the "as if" introduces "mystery," a vital part of the reader's experience with any of O'Connor's fictional works. By closely examining O'Connor's various uses of the construction in her short stories, the "as if's" differing effects on the reader become apparent. These effects are further demonstrated by a …
The Woman Is Perfected: A Reader-Response Approach To Sylvia Plath's Ariel, Kathleen Herrick Schroeder
The Woman Is Perfected: A Reader-Response Approach To Sylvia Plath's Ariel, Kathleen Herrick Schroeder
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.
A Dramatism Of Comedy: The Voice Of Eudora Welty, Dianne Briley
A Dramatism Of Comedy: The Voice Of Eudora Welty, Dianne Briley
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.