Front Matter,
2015
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Front Matter
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Front Matter
Twenty Years: Reflections And Questions,
2015
State University of New York at Brockport
Twenty Years: Reflections And Questions, Alice Brand
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Recalling her lifelong research into the connection between emotions and writing, the first editor of JAEPL critiques scholarly contexts that limit the exploration of knowledge about writing.
The Dance Of Spirit In Aepl,
2015
Central Michigan University
The Dance Of Spirit In Aepl, Susan Schiller
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Co-editor of The Spiritual Side of Writing examines AEPL’s role in the global pedagogical movement it has participated in for over 20 years.
Fashioning Mobility: Navigating Space In Victorian Fiction,
2015
University of Kentucky
Fashioning Mobility: Navigating Space In Victorian Fiction, Mary C. Jones
Theses and Dissertations--English
My dissertation examines how heroines in nineteenth-century British Literature manipulate conventional objects of feminine culture in ways which depart from uses associated with Victorian marriage plots. Rather than use fashionable objects to gain male attention or secure positions as wives or mothers, female characters deploy self-fashioning tactics to travel under the guise of unthreatening femininity, while skirting past thresholds of domestic space. Whereas recent Victorian literary and cultural criticism identifies female pleasure in the form of consumption and homosocial/erotic desire, my readings of Victorian fiction, from doll stories to the novels of Charlotte Brontë, Wilkie Collins, and Marie Corelli, consider …
"Academia, Here I Come!" : Plain Language And Academese In The Postsecondary Academy,
2015
Montclair State University
"Academia, Here I Come!" : Plain Language And Academese In The Postsecondary Academy, Heather Lockhart
Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects
Since the birth of the plain language movement forty years ago, proponents of plain language have seen a considerable uptick in plain language advocacy, use, legislation, and regulation within government, legal, and business organizations. Those who have adopted this style believe that its most important benefits include increased clarity, ease of both reading and writing, and accessibility. In spite of these benefits, one field that has not yet embraced plain language is academia—a field that, as many have argued, could benefit from adopting a plainer writing style in order to make academic texts more accessible. The uncertainty about plain language’s …
Secular Transformations And Spiritual Manifestations : Three Poems By Auden,
2015
Montclair State University
Secular Transformations And Spiritual Manifestations : Three Poems By Auden, Zachary Rosenblum
Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects
This thesis addresses the spiritual subtext in W. H. Auden’s poetry and the way this subtext is manifest as an imagining of the secular in spiritual terms. Through biographical and critical texts, Auden’s poetry can be understood as a method of exploring his own spiritual framework. “The Unknown Citizen,” “For the Time Being,” and “The Shield of Achilles,” written between 1939 and 1952, Auden’s spiritual concerns can be observed.
Each of the poems grows on the foundation of the previous one. “The Unknown Citizen” (1939) is the least spiritual, ironizing Auden’s own perspective; Auden uses this ironizing process again for …
Contributors,
2015
Brigham Young University
Contributors, Criterion: A Journal For Literary Criticism
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
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The Queen's Three Bodies : Representations Of Female Sovereignty In Early Modern Women's Writing, 1588-1688,
2015
University at Albany, State University of New York
The Queen's Three Bodies : Representations Of Female Sovereignty In Early Modern Women's Writing, 1588-1688, Erin V. Casey-Williams
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Sovereignty, a mechanism of power around which a state is organized, has emerged as a way to understand the twenty-first-century biopolitical moment. Thinkers including Michel Foucault, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, and Roberto Esposito find sovereignty essential to understanding modern regimes of bodily domination and control. These thinkers look back to early modern England as an originary moment when older theories of sovereign power became attached to emerging modern political systems. Despite the sophistication of these arguments, however, no recent biopolitical theory accounts for the situation of women in historical or current system of power, nor do they discuss the role …
Striving For Salvation : Margaret Anna Cusack, Sainthood, Religious Foundations And Revolution In Ireland, 1829-1899,
2015
University at Albany, State University of New York
Striving For Salvation : Margaret Anna Cusack, Sainthood, Religious Foundations And Revolution In Ireland, 1829-1899, Sean Heather K. Mcgraw
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Margaret Anna Cusack, later Sister Mary Frances Clare, and also known as Mother Clare, (6 May 1829 - 5 June 1899) was an Anglo-Irish Protestant who became a Catholic Nun and the foundress of a still existent Catholic religious order, the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace. She was also a vociferous champion for the poor, for Irish political rights, for Irish nationalism, and was the first Irish nationalist woman historian and a prolific writer who wrote more than one hundred works. She was a radical, a revolutionary, a champion and hero, a source of conflict and …
(Re)Producing (Neo)Medievalism,
2015
University at Albany, State University of New York
(Re)Producing (Neo)Medievalism, Kellyann Fitzpatrick
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Addressing a need that Tom Shippey calls out in his seminal essay “Medievalisms and Why They Matter,” (Re)producing (Neo)medievalism endeavors to trace connections, expose errors, and make its voice heard in regard to the ways in which the medieval is employed in academic and everyday life. Focusing on recent evolutions in articulations of the medieval, this project produces a working understanding of the term “neomedievalism” that takes into account what would be considered “popular” forms as well as scholarly treatments, and posits it as a method of reading that acknowledges its own practices as forms of neomedievalism. After surveying existing …
Making Thought Matter : Postmodern Models For Material Thinking,
2015
University at Albany, State University of New York
Making Thought Matter : Postmodern Models For Material Thinking, James Kenneth Belflower
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Making Thought Matter: Postmodern Models for Material Thinking, crosses disciplines to trace the aesthetic contexts of Postmodern American artists whose work employs the senses to make legible creative and critical modes of synthesis. I contend that in practicing a material thinking—the artistic mobilization of the intimate and affective qualities of conceptual and physical surfaces—these artists reinsert perceptual knowledge and bodily agency into Postmodernism’s “emptied” surfaces. Consequently, their work opposes late theorists of Postmodernity who characterized contemporary artistic forms as immaterial, abstract, and emotionally deficient. To assess contemporary syntheses I develop Philip Johnson’s late International Style Glass House into an analogy …
The False Idea Of Human Nature’S Duality In Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde,
2015
Illinois Wesleyan University
The False Idea Of Human Nature’S Duality In Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, Megan Sperger '18
Outstanding Gateway Papers
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The mention of these two people will evoke a specific thought in most people’s minds: good and evil; light and dark; normal and deformed. However, the truth isn’t nearly so simple. Humans are free, and therefore a mixture of good and evil; accordingly, both Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are neither solely good nor evil. Due to the stifling sexual and social repression in Victorian society, Jekyll became convinced that he could somehow purge himself of the evil inside him by splitting his soul; this, however, had far graver consequences than he suspected. Due to …
The Rise Of Boko Haram: An Analysis Of Failed Governance,
2015
Illinois Wesleyan University
The Rise Of Boko Haram: An Analysis Of Failed Governance, Andrew Pichette '18
Outstanding Gateway Papers
The Boko Haram threat in Nigeria has been the subject of constant review as of the last few years. Underlying causes as well as the organizational ideology have consistently been the subject of investigation. While popularly considered to be an Islamic extremist group, academic thought has proposed that Islam is used as a means of legitimization rather than motivation, and that socio-economic and political realities are far more relevant to explaining the activities of Boko Haram. The purpose of this essay is to examine the origins of Boko Haram, how the government has reacted, and propose solutions to the deeply …
Nothing By Halves,
2015
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Renaissance Woman: An Interview With Allison Joseph,
2015
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Renaissance Woman: An Interview With Allison Joseph, Parneshia Jones
Birmingham Poetry Review
pp. 10-14
The Raggedy Recedes: The Poetry Of Allison Joseph,
2015
University of Alabama at Birmingham
The Raggedy Recedes: The Poetry Of Allison Joseph, Melanie Jordan
Birmingham Poetry Review
pp. 15-20
“Is There A Basement In This Poem?” On Making Story Of Verse,
2015
University of Alabama at Birmingham
“Is There A Basement In This Poem?” On Making Story Of Verse, Susannah Mintz
Birmingham Poetry Review
pp. 23-32
Pinecroft Dairy,
2015
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Tenebrae,
2015
University of Alabama at Birmingham
The Rolling Stones Visit The Cave Of Hercules, 1967, Morocco,
2015
University of Alabama at Birmingham
The Rolling Stones Visit The Cave Of Hercules, 1967, Morocco, Jeff Thomson
Birmingham Poetry Review
pp. 152-154
