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Genesis, Nick McRae 2013 University of Alabama at Birmingham

Genesis, Nick Mcrae

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 125


Hautboys, Andrew Sofer 2013 University of Alabama at Birmingham

Hautboys, Andrew Sofer

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 162


Creating Room For A Singularity Of Our Own: Reading Sue Lange's "We, Robots", Marleen S. Barr 2013 CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College

Creating Room For A Singularity Of Our Own: Reading Sue Lange's "We, Robots", Marleen S. Barr

Publications and Research

The accessibility of Lange’s text might mitigate against recognizing its importance. Lange’s simple sentence structure and direct communicative mode convey a presently overlooked logical moral assertion: the impending Singularity is not a male-dominated patriarchal domain. The Singularity, in other words, should not be construed in a manner which excludes women and feminism. This assertion is patently obvious. But, nonetheless, it is often ignored. Before I read Lange’s novella as a description of the Singularity which feminists can embrace, I include the following background information: 1) a discussion about why the discourse relating to the Singularity needs to be expanded and …


Here We Come To Save Tomorrow: A Conversation With Dr. Marleen S. Barr, Marleen S. Barr 2013 CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College

Here We Come To Save Tomorrow: A Conversation With Dr. Marleen S. Barr, Marleen S. Barr

Publications and Research

This is an interview with Marleen S. Barr conducted by The Octavia E. Butler Society.


Pedagogy And Identity In "The Night Lessons" Of Finnegans Wake, Zachary Paul Smola 2013 University of Mississippi

Pedagogy And Identity In "The Night Lessons" Of Finnegans Wake, Zachary Paul Smola

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis explores chapter II.ii of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake (1939)—commonly called "The Night Lessons"—and its peculiar use of the conventions of the textbook as a form. In the midst of the Wake's abstraction, Joyce uses the textbook to undertake a rigorous exploration of epistemology and education. By looking at the specific expectations of and ambitions for textbooks in 19th century Irish national schools, this thesis aims to provide a more specific historical context for what textbooks might mean as they appear in Finnegans Wake. As instruments of cultural conditioning, Irish textbooks were fraught with tension arising from their investment …


Generative Space: Embodiment And Identity At The Margins On The Early Modern Stage, Sallie Anglin 2013 University of Mississippi

Generative Space: Embodiment And Identity At The Margins On The Early Modern Stage, Sallie Anglin

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In "Generative Space: Embodiment and Identity at the Margins on the Early Modern Stage," I argue that the early modern stage provides a space in which emerging, marginal and unsanctioned identities can be shaped through the physical interactions between characters and their environments. Spaces that are marginalized on the stage, set apart from the main action of the play, or considered culturally or environmentally offensive, harbor figures that are not socially accepted or alloto exist legitimately outside of those spaces. This is in some ways liberating to the characters, but at the same time their identities are contingent upon the …


Hysteria, Sexuality, And Their Influence On Male Authority In "Carmilla" And "Good Lady Ducayne", Rachel Walls 2013 Eastern Illinois University

Hysteria, Sexuality, And Their Influence On Male Authority In "Carmilla" And "Good Lady Ducayne", Rachel Walls

Undergraduate Honors Theses

No abstract provided.


Trapped In The "Shadow-Space": Woman's Struggle To Become Round In George Eliot's Middlemarch, Katelyn Pfaff 2013 Eastern Illinois University

Trapped In The "Shadow-Space": Woman's Struggle To Become Round In George Eliot's Middlemarch, Katelyn Pfaff

Undergraduate Honors Theses

No abstract provided.


Feminist Science Fiction Of The 1970s, Mia Tapella 2013 Eastern Illinois University

Feminist Science Fiction Of The 1970s, Mia Tapella

Undergraduate Honors Theses

No abstract provided.


Free Will In "Beauty And The Beast": The Overlooked Lesson And First Step Into Adulthood, Kelly Jo Nicholson 2013 Eastern Illinois University

Free Will In "Beauty And The Beast": The Overlooked Lesson And First Step Into Adulthood, Kelly Jo Nicholson

Undergraduate Honors Theses

No abstract provided.


Regency Ball Postcard, CELIA 2013 Wright State University

Regency Ball Postcard, Celia

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

This postcard advertises the Regency Ball held on the evening of October 12th, 2013 as part of the Pride and Prejudice Bicentennial Conference at Wright State University.


Animals, Maria Alicia Gomez 2013 University of Texas at El Paso

Animals, Maria Alicia Gomez

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Animals tells the stories of various characters and their lives within the neighborhood of Shadow and Anima Streets. The novel is structured in fragments that cycle through multiple characters from the local bar owner, to the homeless men roaming the alleys, a horse that befriends and old blind widow, a lion that roams the streets and a woman who slowly turns to stone. The novel treats themes of friendship, isolation, and community.


Wittgenstein, Language, And Mathematics In Paul Auster's City Of Glass, Nichole Eck 2013 Brigham Young University

Wittgenstein, Language, And Mathematics In Paul Auster's City Of Glass, Nichole Eck

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism

No abstract provided.


Anticipating The Neoliberal Nation: Philip Larkin And The Displacement Of Englishness, Graham MacPhee 2013 West Chester University of Pennsylvania

Anticipating The Neoliberal Nation: Philip Larkin And The Displacement Of Englishness, Graham Macphee

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Evolutionary Metaphors For Understanding Wac/Wid, Laura Brady 2013 West Virginia University

Evolutionary Metaphors For Understanding Wac/Wid, Laura Brady

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Peer Editing In Composition For Multilingual Writers At The College Level, Benjamin J. Bertrand 2013 Eastern Washington University

Peer Editing In Composition For Multilingual Writers At The College Level, Benjamin J. Bertrand

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

"The goal of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of a guided peer editing activity for multilingual college freshman. This was an example of action research that began winter quarter 2013. The study used an activity where peer writers and responders identified and corrected errors in essays. Writers then choose which suggestions were errors to change and which did not need change. The study took place at Eastern Washington University in an English 112 class. English 112 is English for Academic Purposes (EAP) which is an English composition class. It took a total of four class periods in …


Teaching English In The Philippines: A Diary Study Of A Novice Esl Teacher, Jeffrey Lee Svoboda 2013 Eastern Washington University

Teaching English In The Philippines: A Diary Study Of A Novice Esl Teacher, Jeffrey Lee Svoboda

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

"In this diary study, the writer explores the similarities and differences between teaching English at the college level in the Philippines and the United States while completing internships in the summers of 2011 and 2012. His students were in their first or second year of university classes and were working towards a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education, a Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education, or an AB in English. As part of the critical ethnography, the diarist considers cultural influences that affect the language learning. He includes three lessons he designed and taught as well as his impressions of …


"Ego Te Baptizo": The Typology Of Baptism In Moby-Dick, Kathryn Mogk 2013 Pepperdine University

"Ego Te Baptizo": The Typology Of Baptism In Moby-Dick, Kathryn Mogk

Global Tides

This paper examines baptismal imagery and themes in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick through the ancient exegetical practice of typology. This method of reading sees events, characters, and rituals as "types" or foreshadows of Christ's life, linking apparently disparate stories as an interdependent group. Melville simultaneously draws upon the typological associations of baptism and subverts them. Baptism appears in the novel as the washing away of sins, initiation into a new identity and community, second birth, initiation into mysteries, consecration for a holy purpose, and death and resurrection. However, Melville's baptisms are reversed, incomplete, or uncertain. The characters are not baptized into …


Serialization, Ethnographic Drag, And The Ineffable Authenticity Of Nikki S. Lee, Todd Richardson 2013 University of Nebraska at Omaha

Serialization, Ethnographic Drag, And The Ineffable Authenticity Of Nikki S. Lee, Todd Richardson

English Faculty Publications

This essay reads the photographer Nikki S Lee’s Projects, a series of pictures in which the artist poses as a member of various subcultures and folk groups from an ethnographic perspective. Focusing on how folklore scholars might employ Lee’s representational strategies, the essay suggests that two aspects of Projects are especially instructive for folkloristic ethnography. First, Lee’s use of drag as camp highlights the performative aspects of identity, showing how individuals express themselves both through and against shared expressive standards. Second, the serialized presentation of the photographs provides a model for the ethnographic representation of multiple folk identities performed …


David Foster Wallace And Lovelessness, David P. Rando 2013 Trinity University

David Foster Wallace And Lovelessness, David P. Rando

English Faculty Research

The article focuses on the American writer David Foster Wallace and his way of expressing emotions in his works. Topics discussed include Wallace using irony in his fictions to express genuine emotions, critics of his work reproducing Wallace's own thoughts to criticize him, and his books "Oblivion," and "Infinite Jest," and the unfinished novel "The Pale King." It also refers to the book "Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf in comparison to deaths in Wallace's works.


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