The Printed Record Of An Oral Tradition: Anna Gordon Brown's Ballads,
2012
MIT
The Printed Record Of An Oral Tradition: Anna Gordon Brown's Ballads, Ruth Perry
Studies in Scottish Literature
No abstract provided.
Robert Burns, The Crochallan Fencibles, And The Original Printer Of The Merry Muses Of Caledonia,
2012
Trent University
Robert Burns, The Crochallan Fencibles, And The Original Printer Of The Merry Muses Of Caledonia, Stephen Brown
Studies in Scottish Literature
No abstract provided.
Transnational Balladeering: "Scots, Wha Hae Wi' Wallace Bled" In 1820s Afro-New York,
2012
University of South Carolina
Transnational Balladeering: "Scots, Wha Hae Wi' Wallace Bled" In 1820s Afro-New York, Marvin Mcallister
Studies in Scottish Literature
No abstract provided.
Writer, Reader, And Rhetoric In John Gibson Lockhart's Memoirs Of The Life Of Sir Walter Scott, Bart.,
2012
DePaul University
Writer, Reader, And Rhetoric In John Gibson Lockhart's Memoirs Of The Life Of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., Gerald P. Mulderig
Studies in Scottish Literature
No abstract provided.
"The Poets Welcome": An Unrecorded Manuscript By Robert Burns,
2012
University of South Carolina
"The Poets Welcome": An Unrecorded Manuscript By Robert Burns, G. Ross Roy, Patrick G. Scott
Studies in Scottish Literature
Introduces, reproduces, and gives provenance for a previously-unrecorded autograph manuscript of Robert Burns's poem about the birth of his first-born child, and his mixed emotions of pride and some shame at her illegitimacy.
Notes On Contributors To Vol. 38,
2012
University of South Carolina
Cumberland [Abstract],
2012
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Cumberland [Abstract], Megan Gannon
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Set in a fictional town on the coast of Georgia in July of 1972, Cumberland is the story of two fifteen-year-old twin sisters, Ansel and Isabel (“Izzy”) Mackenzie, who have lived with their frugal, eccentric grandmother since the age of eight when their parents were killed in a car accident and Isabel was paralyzed. Over the years, the burden of caring for her sister has fallen increasingly on Ansel. However, as Ansel cultivates a romantic relationship with a local boy, as well as an artistic apprenticeship with a visiting photographer, her growing desires for selfhood and independence compromise her ability …
Integration Of Learning Spaces And Modes In The Elt Class: A Case Inquiry Paper,
2012
Aga Khan University, Institute for Educational Development, Karachi
Integration Of Learning Spaces And Modes In The Elt Class: A Case Inquiry Paper, Mariam Farooq
Institute for Educational Development, Karachi
No abstract provided.
Rupturing The Plane: Signifyin(G) At The Junctures In Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo,
2012
Fort Hays State University
Rupturing The Plane: Signifyin(G) At The Junctures In Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo, Michelle Webb
Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice
Most readings of Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo come from a perspective that Reed establishes a series of binaries to be dissected. Many of these critics use Jacques Derrida’s theory of deconstruction because they assert that Reed is simply reversing the roles of the marginalized African and the centralized white man. These implications cover most of the major points in Reed’s work: the West vs. the East, Christianity vs. Hoodoo, white vs. black, etc. However, this type of reading is inadequate because it is too limiting. Reed goes beyond the binaries and beyond the Western assumption of one or the other. …
Covenant Nation: The Politics Of Grace In Early American Literature,
2012
Claremont Graduate University
Covenant Nation: The Politics Of Grace In Early American Literature, Justin M. Scott-Coe
CGU Theses & Dissertations
The argument of this dissertation is that a critical reading of the concept of "covenant" in early American writings is instrumental to understanding the paradoxes in the American political concepts of freedom and equality. Following Slavoj Zizek's theoretical approach to theology, I trace the covenant concept in early American literature from the theological expressions and disputes in Puritan Massachusetts through Jonathan Edwards's Freedom of Will and the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, showing how the covenant theology of colonial New England dispersed into more "secular" forms of what may be called an American political theology. The first chapter provides an …
Leeched Stories, Layered Selves: Appropriating Narratives And Finding Voice In El Salvador,
2012
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Leeched Stories, Layered Selves: Appropriating Narratives And Finding Voice In El Salvador, Kaitlyn E. Palacios
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Issues of shifting identity, border crossing, and layered systems of power have long been discussed and examined by scholars of Chicano/a and queer theory. This collection of creative nonfiction essays gives a personal, anecdotal perspective on those themes. The essays narrate the story of the U.S.-born author and her Salvadorian husband who is applying for his permanent residency in the United States. As the author travels to and from El Salvador, she contemplates her own positions of power and the problems of appropriating narratives of those outside of her community. In addition, as she learns her husband’s stories and the …
"To Bend Without Breaking": American Women's Authorship And The New Woman, 1900–1935,
2012
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
"To Bend Without Breaking": American Women's Authorship And The New Woman, 1900–1935, Amber Harris Leichner
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This dissertation focuses on constructions of female authorship in selected prose narratives of four American women writers in the early twentieth century: Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Zitkala-Ša, and Gertrude Schalk. Specifically, it examines portraits of women in pieces that appeared in national magazines from 1900-1935 that bracket these writers’ careers and that reflect anxieties about their professional authorial identities complicated by gender and, in the case of Native American Zitkala-Ša (Yankton Sioux) and African American Gertrude Schalk, race as well. In a period characterized by fierce debates over the role of women in a dawning modern age, these writers participated …
Artificial Intelligence And The Technological Sublime: How Virtual Characters Influence The Landscape Of Modern Sublimity,
2012
University of Kentucky
Artificial Intelligence And The Technological Sublime: How Virtual Characters Influence The Landscape Of Modern Sublimity, Kyle Craft-Jenkins
Theses and Dissertations--English
The principle objective of this thesis is to expand the term “technological sublime” to include technologies of artificial intelligence. In defining new realms of the technological sublime, we must not only consider the ecological integration of technology within natural surroundings, but also appreciate modern technological objects that instigate sublime experiences. This work examines science fictional portrayals of interactions with sentient artificial intelligence in I, Robot, 2001: A Space Odyssey and other major works of science fiction. In each of these works, characters who encounter technologies possessing artificial intelligence share sublime experiences. This thesis considers various levels of embodiment associated with …
Writing Across Institutions: Studying The Curricular And Extracurricular Journeys Of Latina/O Students Transitioning From High School To College,
2012
University of Texas at El Paso
Writing Across Institutions: Studying The Curricular And Extracurricular Journeys Of Latina/O Students Transitioning From High School To College, Todd Ruecker
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
This dissertation is based on a year and a half multi-institutional study of seven Mexican American students transitioning from high school to a community college or a university. It explores the differences between high school, community college, and university literacy environments, focusing on the following: the impact of standardized testing at the high school level, the role of rhetoric and composition disciplinary expertise in shaping first-year composition (FYC) curricula, writing in the disciplines, and the digital divide between institutions. Seven case studies examine students' literacy experiences across institutions as well as both challenges and sources of support in and beyond …
Mother Of Three Drowns Children And Other Stories,
2012
University of Texas at El Paso
Mother Of Three Drowns Children And Other Stories, Laura L. Stubbins
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
A collection of short stories depicting fictional characters facing what is absent from their lives.
Bibliography Of Central European Women's Holocaust Life Writing In English,
2012
Stony Brook University
Bibliography Of Central European Women's Holocaust Life Writing In English, Louise O. Vasvári
CLCWeb Library
No abstract provided.
Adios, Cuba,
2012
University of Texas at El Paso
Adios, Cuba, Zita Arocha
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
Memoir about a family's immigration from Cuba to the United States in the late 1950's, and how exile from native country is like the Buddhist state of bardo, an in-between condition and transition between life and death.
The Poet In Transformation: Dantean Aesthetics In T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land,
2012
Eastern Michigan University
The Poet In Transformation: Dantean Aesthetics In T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Jamie Berlin
Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations
Dante was a seminal influence in T. S. Eliot’s poetry. Many scholars have acknowledged Eliot’s professed debt to Dante and have examined Eliot’s explicit imitations of Dante; however, few have pinpointed Dantean influences in non-explicit references to Dante, and few have credited the influence of a Dantean progress narrative across Eliot’s poem The Waste Land. This thesis broadly analyzes the principles of Dante’s aesthetic in the poem while analyzing the Sibyl, the Hanged Man, and the Prajapati parable for their relevance to Eliot’s aesthetic theory. When Dantean aesthetics and close readings of The Waste Land are compared with Eliot’s …
Rex Quondam, Rexque Futurus: Arthurian Legends As Indicators Of British National Identity Throughout History,
2012
The College of Wooster
Rex Quondam, Rexque Futurus: Arthurian Legends As Indicators Of British National Identity Throughout History, Audrey Ellen Wimbiscus
Senior Independent Study Theses
By looking at the texts of Arthurian legends such as Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, T.H. White's The Once & Future King, and Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon, one can gain a historical perspective of the time in which each work was written. Through this historical perspective and by looking at each author's personal life, a picture of Great Britain's national identity at the time of writing can be seen. As such, the Arthurian Cycle can be used to exemplify British national identity throughout history.
Contents,
2012
University of South Carolina Aiken
Contents, Tom Mack, Ph.D.
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
