No Witch Is A Bad Witch: A Commentary On The Erasure Of Matilda Joslyn Gage,
2010
University of Miami School of Law
No Witch Is A Bad Witch: A Commentary On The Erasure Of Matilda Joslyn Gage, Zanita E. Fenton
Articles
No abstract provided.
Beyond "Infinite Jest": Post-Postmodern Solidarity In 9/11 Narratives,
2010
University of Texas at El Paso
Beyond "Infinite Jest": Post-Postmodern Solidarity In 9/11 Narratives, Najwa Heather Al-Tabaa
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
My thesis interrogates the postmodern view of popular culture as being banal and questions Theodore Adorno's view of postmodern consumer culture as ultimately anti- human(istic). My re-reading of postmodern popular culture finds that there is potential for meaningful human interaction through popular culture. My re-reading asserts that popular culture is capable of being a vehicle for solidarity. In my analysis I locate a postmodern paradigm shift in which human solidarity becomes a necessary consideration and focus of postmodern narratives and art forms. I term this shift "post-postmodernism" which is marked by a focus on solidarity.1 While the shift to the …
Calvinism And Military Justice In American Literature,
2010
University of Texas at El Paso
Calvinism And Military Justice In American Literature, Nadia Hamilton Morales
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
This paper explores judicial process in the military as revealed in Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor, Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny and Aaron Sorkin's A Few Good Men. The purpose of my project was to conduct an in depth study of Essentialism in military justice that is indicative of a culturally specific form of information management, as revealed in these texts. Essentialism is a form of information management that relies upon classification qualified through intuitive knowledge and superficial signification. This signification is used to certify the existence of self-contained states that function as a metaphorical metonymy for multiple unknowns. Moreover, …
Is Gothic Dead?:Tthe Evolution Of The Vampire Novel,
2010
California State University, San Bernardino
Is Gothic Dead?:Tthe Evolution Of The Vampire Novel, Janis Haigwood Hudson
Theses Digitization Project
Critic Fred Botting claims that the gothic genre is dead due to reader's assimilation of horror in their everyday lives. He cites violence on the news and graphic documentaries as ways in which people can be desensitized to gothic books and movies. This, according to Botting, results in a lack of expected reader/viewer reaction and is the basis of his assertion. This thesis examines three vampire novels: Dracula (1897), I Am Legend (1954), and Carrion Comfort (1984). These three novels were written over a span of one hundred years and published almost fifty years apart. When examined from a male …
Southern Encounters In The City: Reconfiguring The South From The Liminal Space,
2010
Santa Clara Univeristy
Southern Encounters In The City: Reconfiguring The South From The Liminal Space, Eveljn Ferraro
Modern Languages & Literature
In Il pensiero meridiano, sociologist Franco Cassano claims that the cultural autonomy of the South hinges upon a radical redefinition of the relationship between South and North. Dominant representations of the South as a “not-yet North”1 (Cassano viii), always imperfectly mimicking a more advanced North, found themselves on the idea of a linear transition from backwardness to development where the differences are often reduced to a matter of time. If Gramsci, in The Southern Question, deconstructed the Italian North/South binarism by suggesting potential alliances among non-dominant groups (namely, Northern workers and Southern peasants), Cassano proposes a spatial rethinking of the …
Trauma And The Representation Of The Unsayable In Late Twentieth-Century Fiction,
2010
CUNY Graduate Center
Trauma And The Representation Of The Unsayable In Late Twentieth-Century Fiction, Katina Rogers
Publications and Research
This dissertation explores the ways in which several fiction writers from France, the U.S., and Latin America experiment with the form of their works in writing about traumatic experience, as they navigate the tension between a propulsion toward expression and toward silence. Some of these traumas are vast, as in Edmond Jabès’ Le livre des questions (1963-1973), which addresses not only the Holocaust, but also questions of exile and identity. Others are on a smaller scale, such as Jacques Roubaud’s Quelque chose noir (1986), Julio Cortázar's Los autonautas de la cosmopista (1983), and Macedonio Fernández’s Museo de la Novela de …
The Bachelor Narrator Motif In The Sketches Of Nathaniel Hawthorne,
2010
Montclair State University
The Bachelor Narrator Motif In The Sketches Of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Carol L. Anderson
Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects
This thesis examines the bachelor narrator motif in seven of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s sketches, published between 1831 and 1843. Hawthorne’s narrators are artists, alienated from society in general, and from women in particular. Moreover, they are modeled upon the figure of the European flaneur, the idle ‘man about town’ who believes he can read the character of the stranger in the crowd. In these first person narrations, Hawthorne explores the problems of subjectivity (involving self-concept, including the split between the conscious and the unconscious, and the gap between the mind and the material world) and the problem of knowledge (involving the …
Gods As Parental Figures In Euripides’ Alcestis, Hippolytus, Iphigenia In Aulis And Tauris,
2010
Montclair State University
Gods As Parental Figures In Euripides’ Alcestis, Hippolytus, Iphigenia In Aulis And Tauris, Valbone Dushaj
Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects
The relationship between father and child seems to be a tumultuous one in the Greek tragedies, particularly in Euripidean tragedy. Father and child frequently do not have a loving and unrestrained relationship, but rather a distant, stoic bond void of communication. In Alcestis (438 B.C.), Hippolytus (428 B.C.), Iphigenia in Aulis (406 B.C.), and Tauris (414-410 B.C.), the children, Admetus, Hippolytus, and Iphigenia, deal with disregard, mistreatment, and abandonment by their fathers, Pheres, Theseus, and Agamemnon. Doomed to die, these children often hold their fathers accountable, indirectly or directly, as murderers in their passing. Even as the unwritten law of …
Gendered Spaces In James Joyce’S Dubliners,
2010
Montclair State University
Gendered Spaces In James Joyce’S Dubliners, Cynthia J. Hacker
Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects
This thesis paper, entitled Gendered Spaces in James Joyce’s Dubliners, will explore Joyce’s use of the special environment, both public and private. Joyce designed the built spaces in his stories to reflect the way space was gendered in his time. Each space, whether it was the home, the street, the pub, or a church, was indicative of a pattern of power relationships between men and women. Within these gendered spaces, power relationships were constructed, individual consciousness formed, and national identity debated.
In Joyce’s stories, women occupy the space of the home in a way that suggests it is their expected …
"Red Mother": The Missing Mother Plot As Double Mystery In Louise Erdrich's Fiction,
2010
Saint Mary's College of California
"Red Mother": The Missing Mother Plot As Double Mystery In Louise Erdrich's Fiction, Sheila Hassell Hughes
School of Liberal Arts Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
A Novel - The Dues Of St Fitticks: And Essay - Paying Your Dues In The Lucky Country: Anglo-Celtic Australian Attitudes To Migrants,
2010
Edith Cowan University
A Novel - The Dues Of St Fitticks: And Essay - Paying Your Dues In The Lucky Country: Anglo-Celtic Australian Attitudes To Migrants, Michael Armstrong
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
Through the medium of the novel and an accompanying essay, this project explores the relationship, particularly since the end of World War II, between the dominant (Anglo-Celtic) and non-dominant Australian cultural groups. I argue that upholding the dominance of Anglo-Celtic culture, particularly as a centre or “core” of Australian identity, is discriminatory and detrimental to the development of Australian society in general and the goal of multiculturalism in particular. Moreover, I question the thesis that Australia can have a “core” culture without marginalising the groups that do not reside within it. Instead of projecting Anglo-Celtic culture as the archetypal Australian …
The Constitution Of Toussaint,
2010
Bucknell University
The Constitution Of Toussaint, Michael J. Drexler, Ed White
Faculty Journal Articles
No abstract provided.
Review In Studies In Medieval And Renaissance Teaching Of "Ents, Elves And Eriador: The Environmental Vision Of J.R.R. Tolkien",
2010
Bucknell University
Review In Studies In Medieval And Renaissance Teaching Of "Ents, Elves And Eriador: The Environmental Vision Of J.R.R. Tolkien", Paul Siewers
Other Faculty Research and Publications
A review of a book-length ecocritical study of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy writing.
Non Enim Possum Plorare Nec Lamenta Fundere’: Sonatorrek In A Tenth-Century Context,
2009
The University of Western Ontario
Non Enim Possum Plorare Nec Lamenta Fundere’: Sonatorrek In A Tenth-Century Context, Russell Poole
Russell Poole
No abstract provided.
Bringing Filmmaking Into The English Language Arts Classroom,
2009
Boise State University
Bringing Filmmaking Into The English Language Arts Classroom, Bruce Robbins
Bruce Robbins
Like many English teachers, I recognize the need to adapt to the world of new media, not only to stay connected to the lives of students, but also because, as the NCTE statement goes on to point out, "with multiple opportunities for student expression in the English language arts classroom, these nonprint media offer new realms for teachers of composition" and, I would add, for language and literature. When I summoned the strength to peer over the barrier of learning new technologies (as I am quite comfortable with the old ones), I caught a glimmer of new possibilities for teaching …
“Revisiting ‘Letting Go Our Grand Obsessions’: 21st Century Visions, Challenges, And Possibilities,” Roundtable Participant,
2009
Boise State University
“Revisiting ‘Letting Go Our Grand Obsessions’: 21st Century Visions, Challenges, And Possibilities,” Roundtable Participant, Tom Hillard
Tom J. Hillard
No abstract provided.
Proceeding With Caution: A Case Study Of Engineering Professionals Reading White Papers,
2009
Boise State University
Proceeding With Caution: A Case Study Of Engineering Professionals Reading White Papers, Russell Willerton
Russell Willerton
No abstract provided.
The Aesthetic Classroom And The Beautiful Game,
2009
University of Nebraska at Lincoln
The Aesthetic Classroom And The Beautiful Game, Bradley Baurain
Bradley Baurain
No abstract provided.
Course Design And Teacher Development In Vietnam: A Diary Project,
2009
University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Course Design And Teacher Development In Vietnam: A Diary Project, Bradley Baurain
Bradley Baurain
No abstract provided.
A Faith-Based Case For The Dream Act,
2009
University of Nebraska at Lincoln
A Faith-Based Case For The Dream Act, Bradley Baurain
Bradley Baurain
No abstract provided.
