Rain-Out,
2013
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Insomnia In Fall,
2013
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Crabapples,
2013
University of Alabama at Birmingham
On A Bed Of Gardenias: Jane & Paul Bowles,
2013
University of Alabama at Birmingham
On A Bed Of Gardenias: Jane & Paul Bowles, Brandel France De Bravo
Birmingham Poetry Review
pp. 192-195
One High Heel On Each Side Of The Border: A Closer Look At Gender And Sexuality In Chicana And Anglo Young Adult Literature,
2013
University of Texas at Arlington
One High Heel On Each Side Of The Border: A Closer Look At Gender And Sexuality In Chicana And Anglo Young Adult Literature, Christi Cook
English Dissertations - Archive
There is currently very little analysis of Chicana young adult literature available, and by extension there is almost nothing at hand that compares Anglo and Chicana young adult literature. These fields need to be examined seriously alongside one another in order to give appropriate academic attention to two areas that have been marginalized in academia (Chicana literature and young adult literature). This project uncovers significant similarities between Chicana and Anglo YA literature: I refer to these comparable points as crossover, apex, or collision moments that make experiences of relatability possible within the literature wherein the instability of adolescence can be …
Black Rhetoric: The Art Of Thinking Being,
2013
University of Texas at Arlington
Black Rhetoric: The Art Of Thinking Being, April Leigh Kinkead
English Dissertations - Archive
This dissertation examines the Black Hermeneutic Situation in order to uncover Black Rhetoric's possibilities for thinking Being. Martin Heidegger's phenomenological hermeneutics and his theories on thinking and Being provide the theoretical framework through which this dissertation unconceals Black Rhetoric's historical and philosophical origins in Ancient Egypt (i.e., Kemet). In order to examinine the Black Hermeneutic Situation and its saying through Black Rhetoric, this examination establishes the benefits of Heidegger's phenomenological hermeneutics to an analysis of Black Rhetoric's lineage from Kemet to the United States via the Egyptian Diaspora and the Atlantic Slave Trade. Investigating the historical and philosophical origins of …
Mapping Men: Toward A Theory Of Material Masculinity,
2013
University of Texas at Arlington
Mapping Men: Toward A Theory Of Material Masculinity, David R. Wallace
English Dissertations - Archive
This project interrogates the possibilities of material gender theory as an interdisciplinary bridge between critical theory—like gender studies and eco–criticism—and soft–scientific men's studies. The primary theoretical argument of Mapping Men is for a re–theorizing of men's studies' social-constructionist models of masculinity in light of more contemporary critical queer and feminist theories of materiality. I assert that 19th, 20th, and 21st century American literature about rurality and masculinity highlights the unmapped, material middle–spaces (what post-structural feminist Rosi Braidotti calls the "in betweens") between socially–constructed theories of gender and the subjective, embodied experience of being male in rural places. Using an interdisciplinary …
Embodied Climate Change: Materiality, Language, Mediation, And The Legitimation Of The Unintelligible,
2013
University of Texas at Arlington
Embodied Climate Change: Materiality, Language, Mediation, And The Legitimation Of The Unintelligible, Justin Lerberg
English Dissertations - Archive
“Embodied Climate Change: Materiality, Language, Mediation and the Legitimation of the Unintelligible” examines the intersections of language, technology, and the human and nonhuman worlds through the example of climate change. I posit that human technology, specifically language and digital media, have codified the human and nonhuman worlds into a “mixed-reality” of virtual, actual, and potential lived experiences. These technologies have, for better or for worse, de-materialized local human embodiment and re-materialized it in the global sphere of a technological/natural-reality. The re-materialization shapes not only how humans locate themselves within the world but also how they approach and understand phenomenon like …
The Found Object(S) Of Rhetoric,
2013
University of Texas at Arlington
The Found Object(S) Of Rhetoric, Nathan Gale
English Dissertations - Archive
The following dissertation expands the notion of posthumanism beyond the work in transhumanism, new media studies, animal studies, and material feminism by incorporating speculative realist philosophies into and with the Aristotelian concept of "faculty" or dunamis. Since Aristotle defines rhetoric as a dunamis (or potential to persuade and/or be persuaded), but also uses the term in his Physics and Metaphysics to describe the contingent potentiality found in material objects, I argue for a posthuman rhetoric that recognizes extra-symbolic forms of persuasion. Drawing from the philosophical work of Levi Bryant, Graham Harman, and Ian Bogost coupled with the rhetorical work of …
The Possibilities Of Children's Literature: A Rhetoric-Oriented Approach To Juvenile Texts,
2013
University of Texas at Arlington
The Possibilities Of Children's Literature: A Rhetoric-Oriented Approach To Juvenile Texts, Basil Chadwick Chisholm
English Dissertations - Archive
This rhetoric-oriented dissertation examines the academic discussion of children's literature, especially the influence of Jacqueline Rose and her landmark book The Case of Peter Pan, or the Impossibility of Children's Fiction (1984). The implications of Rose's claim is that an entire school of interpretation within children's literature scholarship arose that began to (1) question (tacitly or overtly) whether it was possible for adult writers to really compose texts for children and (2) even suggest that the literature is something similar to a subversion and even exploitation of a child reader. This dissertation seeks to reopen the issue that Rose first …
Delights And Dangers: The Pursuit Of The Oceanic In Thelma & Louise And Lost,
2013
University of Texas at Arlington
Delights And Dangers: The Pursuit Of The Oceanic In Thelma & Louise And Lost, Christine Kyle
English Theses - Archive
The oceanic is a sensation of unity, eternal connectedness, and oneness with the universe. The sensation can manifest itself in a variety of ways, and it is a pervasive one which has affected many people throughout the ages; however, while the desire for this sensation and evidence of its existence are vast, it often goes unnoticed.In this paper, I explore the oceanic sensation in two contemporary visual texts: the film Thelma & Louise and the television show Lost. An understanding of the oceanic contributes valuable insights into the meaning, historical significance, and popular appeal of these two works, and, in …
The Feminine Alternative: Men And Women In Modernist European Literature,
2013
University of Texas at Arlington
The Feminine Alternative: Men And Women In Modernist European Literature, Kara Nicole Purschwitz
English Theses - Archive
My work examines four seminal pieces of modernist European literature: Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Gide's The Immoralist, and Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. I show two aspects of gender representation within the characters of these novels. First, these novels follow the trend in much of canonical modernism of representing modernist traits through their male characters and pre-modern, 19th-century traits to their female characters. Second, despite this gendered representation of modernism, and at times because of it, the hegemonic gender norms for both sexes are defied.
Breaking Trauma's Empire: Trauma And Resolution In Boardwalk Empire And Breaking Bad,
2013
University of Texas at Arlington
Breaking Trauma's Empire: Trauma And Resolution In Boardwalk Empire And Breaking Bad, Lindsey Barlow
English Theses - Archive
The purpose of this research is to analyze the performance of trauma and its resolutions in television, generally, and in Boardwalk Empire and Breaking Bad, specifically. The first chapter of this project analyzes Jacques Lacan's theory of trauma and introduces his terminology. In addition, the first chapter connects trauma's atemporality with Kenneth Burke's dramatistic pentad and explores Julia Kristeva's discussion of division and the abject. Subsequently, it analyzes the repetitiveness of trauma, its quilting point, and the emotion of abjection as the nature of trauma. The first chapter ends in a discussion of television's involvement with trauma, what television can …
Surviving The City: Resistance And Plant Life In Woolf’S Jacob’S Room And Barnes’ Nightwood,
2013
CUNY Guttman Community College
Surviving The City: Resistance And Plant Life In Woolf’S Jacob’S Room And Barnes’ Nightwood, Ria Banerjee
Publications and Research
In Jacob’s Room (1922) and Nightwood (1936), Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes use plant life to express a profound ambivalence about the masculine-inflected ordering functions of art and morality. They show that these processes codify lived experience and distance it from the feminine and sexual. To counter this turn towards the urban inauthentic, both novels depict non-urban spaces to upend conventional notions of usefulness. They fixate on evanescent flowers, wild forests, and untillable fields as sites of resistance whose fragility and remoteness are strengths. In Jacob’s Room, I argue that the eponymous protagonist is destroyed by his conventional education …
Negotiating Uncommon Spaces: Fostering Common Ground In A Summer Bridge Writing Classroom,
2013
CUNY Guttman Community College
Negotiating Uncommon Spaces: Fostering Common Ground In A Summer Bridge Writing Classroom, Nicola Blake
Publications and Research
This article describes a summer bridge writing course that engages students who are actively transitioning from high school to college. The summer bridge course curriculum supports students’ meaning-making efforts through a variety of text-based writing activities which helps students begin the process of critical inquiry: extending arguments, poking holes in theories, and putting these theories in conversation with multiple voices from the real world. The writing activities in the program create a common ground for students where they can encounter texts and discover their own voices. Fostering open-endedness in students is a gradual process, and students acquire critical inquiry skills …
"Something Old And Dark Has Got Its Way": Shakespeare's Influence In The Gothic Literary Tradition,
2013
Claremont Graduate University
"Something Old And Dark Has Got Its Way": Shakespeare's Influence In The Gothic Literary Tradition, Natalie A. Hewitt
CGU Theses & Dissertations
This dissertation examines Shakespeare’s role as the most significant precursor to the Gothic author in Britain, suggesting that Shakespeare used the same literary conventions that Gothic writers embraced as they struggled to create a new subgenre of the novel. By borrowing from Shakespeare’s canon, these novelists aimed to persuade readers and critics that rather than undermining the novel’s emergent, still unassured status as an acceptable literary genre, the nontraditional aspects of their works paid homage to Shakespeare’s imaginative vision. Gothic novelists thereby legitimized their attempts at literary expression. Despite these efforts, Gothic writers did not instantly achieve the type of …
"Always Something Of It Remains": Sexual Trauma In Ernest Hemingway’S For Whom The Bell Tolls,
2013
Butler University
"Always Something Of It Remains": Sexual Trauma In Ernest Hemingway’S For Whom The Bell Tolls, Natalie Carter
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Following his completion of Tender is the Night in 1934, F. Scott Fitzgerald sent a copy of the manuscript to his friend, Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway replied with a long, thoughtful letter detailing the reasons he both “liked it and didn’t like it” (SL 407). He instructed Fitzgerald: “Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt use it—don’t cheat with it” (408). The often-troubled friendship between these two masters of modernism has been the subject of …
Courtroom And Classroom Across The Curriculum: The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde,
2013
Butler University
Courtroom And Classroom Across The Curriculum: The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Jason N. Goldsmith
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde draws on Robert Louis Stevensons intimate knowledge of Victorian legal culture knowledge Stevenson acquired while studying law at the University of Edinburgh. (Although he was called to the Scottish bar in 1875, he abandoned the legal profession and never practiced it.) Its trace can be found in the work's title, main characters, and narrative structure: the title suggests a legal action; Mr. Utterson is the legal representative of Henry Jekyll, who is himself both a doctor of law (LLD) and a doctor of Civil laws (DCL); and the final two chapters …
Notes On Contributors,
2013
University of Northern Iowa
Notes On Contributors,
2013
University of Northern Iowa
