Literatura Sobre La Frontera Norte Mexicana: Comparación Y Análisis Del Discurso Pragmático,
2014
University of Texas at El Paso
Literatura Sobre La Frontera Norte Mexicana: Comparación Y Análisis Del Discurso Pragmático, Emily Celeste Vázquez Enríquez
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
En este trabajo se comparan cuatro novelas que incluyen a la frontera del norte de México entre sus páginas. El punto de diferencia del cual la comparación parte es el origen de los autores. Lo anterior se debe a que en la tradición del trabajo crítico que ha intentado entender y definir la literatura de la zona, uno de los principales puntos de debate refiere al cuestionamiento de si importa la pertenencia de los escritores al lugar narrado. Mientras hay críticos y académicos que afirman que las obras de la literatura norfronteriza mexicana son únicamente aquéllas escritas por autores de …
La Vida Es Truco,
2014
University of Texas at El Paso
La Vida Es Truco, Luis Eduardo Álvarez MaríN
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
La colección de historias La vida es truco, se centra en la historia de Eliseo, un niño de ocho años que espera a que su padre, un mago callejero y ladrón, regrese a casa. Durante la espera, el niño va contando a un narratario enigmático cada una de las aventuras que ha vivido con su padre, y a su vez va reconstruyendo la imagen que tiene sobre él: una figura mítica, un superhéroe que nunca se equivoca en nada. El volumén plantea temas como el engaño, la supervivencia, la paternidad y la infancia, en una familia disfuncional que intenta salir …
Secondhand City: Stolen Stories From La Limonada,
2014
University of Texas at El Paso
Secondhand City: Stolen Stories From La Limonada, Byron José Sun
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
Roboton, Jupa and Calicas have just been drafted by the city of La Limonada to petrol, to rob, to intimidate, to extort, to kill and when necessary to protect those citizens that need it; as their crime spree progresses their tactics and abilities improve shaping them into criminal machines. The three new criminals will be tasked with the reality of destroying people's lives in order to insure La Limonada maintains its dominion over every citizen by controlling every aspect of their past, present and future. Many of those citizens are clueless on how they are controlled; it isn't until their …
A Corpus-Based Study Of The Use Of Prepositional Verbs In Second Language Emergent Academic Writing,
2014
University of Texas at El Paso
A Corpus-Based Study Of The Use Of Prepositional Verbs In Second Language Emergent Academic Writing, Elizabeth Wilcoxon
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
In this paper, the author reports on a corpus-based study of prepositional verbs in L2 emergent academic writing using data collected from English as a Second Language [ESL] and English for Academic Purposes [EAP] classrooms in a Hispanic-serving university in the US. Prepositional verbs are relatively common in academic prose (lacking the informal overtones of phrasal verbs) and draw on the full set of prepositions (Biber et al., 1999). They are also difficult to acquire given the challenges posed by prepositional usage for most ESL/EAP learners. The literature in this area highlights the importance of prepositional verbs in L2 learning …
Brave New Forms: Adaptation, Remediation, And Intertextuality In The Multimodal World Of Hugo Cabret,
2014
Eastern Michigan University
Brave New Forms: Adaptation, Remediation, And Intertextuality In The Multimodal World Of Hugo Cabret, Chelsea Marie Bromley
Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations
Digital technologies have changed the way readers approach, experience, and respond to texts. In our hyper-mediated culture, images and texts converge and disseminate across multiple media platforms, changing once-passive readers and spectators into active agents in the intellectual and creative process of interpretation. This thesis examines the multimodal world of Hugo Cabret—the hybrid graphic novel, the film adaptation, and the novel’s official website—in an effort to better understand how intertextuality, convergence culture, and remediation play with media forms, represent an ideological shift toward participatory culture, and rework older, traditional media in the creation of new media and new media users. …
Front Matter,
2014
University of South Carolina Aiken, Aiken, South Carolina
Front Matter, Tom Mack Ph.D.
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
The Blithedale Romance: Sympathy, Industry, And The Poet,
2014
Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, West Virginia
The Blithedale Romance: Sympathy, Industry, And The Poet, Matthew Chelf
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
Understanding Death In Brown And Poe: Backgrounds And Continuities,
2014
Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey
Understanding Death In Brown And Poe: Backgrounds And Continuities, Anthony Cunder
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
Back Matter,
2014
University of South Carolina Aiken, Aiken, South Carolina
Back Matter, Tom Mack, Ph.D.
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
The Oswald Review Undergraduate Research And Criticism In The Discipline Of English: Volume 16 Fall 2014,
2014
University of South Carolina
The Oswald Review Undergraduate Research And Criticism In The Discipline Of English: Volume 16 Fall 2014
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
Dryden And Baroque Chamber Music,
2014
Lincoln College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Dryden And Baroque Chamber Music, Dan Sperrin
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
The Sublime Experience: Individual Versus Collective Morality In William Faulkner’S Absalom, Absalom!,
2014
Regis University, Denver, Colorado
The Sublime Experience: Individual Versus Collective Morality In William Faulkner’S Absalom, Absalom!, Erika Guynn
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
Contents,
2014
University of South Carolina Aiken, Aiken, South Carolina
Contents, Tom Mack Ph.D.
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
Hysteria And The Performance Of Masculinity: A Feminist Reading Of James Joyce’S “A Painful Case”,
2014
Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama
Hysteria And The Performance Of Masculinity: A Feminist Reading Of James Joyce’S “A Painful Case”, Adam Quinn
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
Asking And Understanding Questions: An Inquiry-Based Framework For Writing Teacher Development,
2014
Utah State University
Asking And Understanding Questions: An Inquiry-Based Framework For Writing Teacher Development, Jessica Rivera-Mueller
English Faculty Publications
Teachers develop when they critically examine the questions they ask about their work because questions make pedagogical beliefs visible and available for critical reflection and revision. In a standards-based educational climate—a time when writing becomes a set of measurable skills rather than a complex social practice—teachers may feel that a critical examination of their questions is (at best) a luxury or (at worst) a distraction to work they need to accomplish. Therefore, writing teacher educators may find it increasingly challenging to help teachers engage in reflexive inquiry. This essay describes a Deweyian-informed framework that shows how addressing inquiries and critically …
Shots In The Dark: The Presence Of Absence In Imaginative Literature (Iw),
2014
Utah State University
Shots In The Dark: The Presence Of Absence In Imaginative Literature (Iw), Gene Washington
English Faculty Publications
Western metaphysics and IW can be described as a search for "first" presences, not absences. With the exception of philosophers like Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Aristotle, writers like Lord Rochester (John Wilmot), Jonathan Swift and Philip Larkin, no one, to my knowledge, has taken absence as a "first" and consequently as also a "last." This essay is a modest attempt to open the door, if only a crack, for investigations into the metaphysics and meaning of absence as a means of creating, and understanding an interesting IW—from the perspective of the presence of absence as "first" and as "last."
Grafting Onto `The Jew': The Importance Of Being Jew-Ish To Early Modern English Christian Identity,
2014
Wayne State University
Grafting Onto `The Jew': The Importance Of Being Jew-Ish To Early Modern English Christian Identity, Joan Blackwell Wedes
Wayne State University Dissertations
The dissertation examines how Jewish figures in early modern plays, prose, and poetry moved beyond the uncomplicated medieval image of murderous villain and towards a more reasoned consideration of the Jew's position in Christianity as well as in English life. While there has been significant scholarship on early modern representations of Jews, particularly in drama, these studies have not examined how Paul's Letter to the Romans, in forming much of Reformation doctrine, was also crucial in forming attitudes towards and representations of literary and living Jews. My project uniquely combines history, biblical studies, and literary analysis to reveal how early …
Undermining The Angelic Restrictions Of First-Wave Feminism: What The New Woman Did, Didn't, And Wouldn't Do,
2014
Wayne State University
Undermining The Angelic Restrictions Of First-Wave Feminism: What The New Woman Did, Didn't, And Wouldn't Do, Jane Kristen Asher
Wayne State University Dissertations
This dissertation provides an intertextual reading of Grant Allen's The Woman Who Did (1895), Victoria Cross's The Woman Who Didn't (1895), and Lucas Cleeve's The Woman Who Wouldn't (1895) in order to historically and culturally contextualize these popular New Woman novels in social-purity feminism, the marriage debate, and reticent sexual politics of the late-nineteenth century. By examining the ways that The Woman Who heroines discursively and thematically engage with first-wave feminism and by focusing on this dialectical exchange of feminist ideas and practices as they were manifested in feminist publications and campaigns at the turn of the century, I argue …
Italian-American Literature And Working-Class Culture,
2014
CUNY Queens College
Italian-American Literature And Working-Class Culture, Fred L. Gardaphé
Publications and Research
No abstract provided.
Science-Fictional North Korea: A Defective History,
2014
CUNY Queens College
Science-Fictional North Korea: A Defective History, Seo-Young J. Chu
Publications and Research
- Kafkaesque, Orwellian, eerie, surreal, bizarre, grotesque, alien, wacky, fascinating, dystopian, illusive, theatrical, antic, haunting, apocalyptic: these are just a few of the vaguely science-fictional adjectives that are now associated with North Korea. At the same time, North Korea has become an oddly convenient trope for a certain aesthetic – an uncanny opacity; an ominous mystique – that many writers and artists have exploited to generate striking science-fictional effects in texts with little or no connection to North Korean reality. (The 2002 Bond film Die another Day, for example, draws from North Korea’s science-fictional aura to animate North Korean super-villains who …
