The Winchester Mansion,
2010
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Disgruntled,
2010
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Villanelle For Theodore Roethke,
2010
University of Alabama at Birmingham
(Re)Using Women: The Image Debate In Early Modern Allegory,
2010
University of Texas at Arlington
(Re)Using Women: The Image Debate In Early Modern Allegory, Sandi J. Hubnik
English Dissertations - Archive
This project is concerned with how, during the reign of Elizabeth I, early modern writers use the representations of certain allegorical women characters to discuss the issues central to the image debate and the need for proper interpretation. The relationship between women and images makes such a movement possible. The well-established misogynistic discourse on women lends itself well to the reconstruction of the discourse concerning images; both express a certain amount of anxiety over the outward sign - the body - and its unreliability as a conduit for moral or spiritual purity. Early modern Protestant and Catholic writers often use …
Chicken And Dumplings: The Motif Of Food In Appalachian Literature,
2010
University of Texas at Arlington
Chicken And Dumplings: The Motif Of Food In Appalachian Literature, Cynthia L. Sibley Thayer
English Dissertations - Archive
Food is an important element of literature. It can help to establish setting, conflicts, a hero and heroine, relationships with nature and other humans, comfort to readers as well as characters in fictional texts, class structure, and survival of a culture. For the reader, Appalachian literature invokes a sense of home, memories, and family. Appalachian food is also a catalyst for infamous stereotyping of the culture in the United States. The names of Hawthorne and Thoreau represent New England; Twain and Faulkner represent the South; and authors like Robert Morgan, Silas House, and Charles Frazier represent Appalachia putting it on …
Rogerian Democratic Pedagogy And Its Implications In Composition Studies For Students, Service Learning, And The Public Writing Movement,
2010
University of Texas at Arlington
Rogerian Democratic Pedagogy And Its Implications In Composition Studies For Students, Service Learning, And The Public Writing Movement, Stacy Fussell Thorne
English Dissertations - Archive
In this project, I articulate a democratic pedagogical model, which is based onand modified from the pedagogical theories of the American psychologist, Carl Ransom Rogers (1902-1987). Rogerian Democratic Pedagogy (RDP) is based on Rogers' claim that learning that is student directed, and involves the learner emotionally as well as cognitively, is more effective than the traditional, teacher-directed model of education. RDP focuses on empowering composition students to have a sense of ownership of their process of learning and their class, to be responsible and active learners, and to participate as citizens in a democracy by completing public writing projects that …
From Eve To Eve: Women's Dreaming In The Middle Ages And Renaissance,
2010
University of Texas at Arlington
From Eve To Eve: Women's Dreaming In The Middle Ages And Renaissance, Rebecca Dark
English Dissertations - Archive
This project examines reports of the dreams of women in fictionalized as well as historical, biographical, and hagiographical accounts from the English Middle Ages and Renaissance. Because an unstable body/spirit dualism forms the basis for both dream theory and anti-feminism during these periods, in texts where women's dreams are reported the instabilities of the two discourses are magnified, resulting in discursive discontinuities that reveal the presence of multiple cultural languages. My argument, based in part on the Bakhtinian concept of heteroglossia, is that these texts are characterized by the generally accepted misogynistic ideas of the period but also demonstrate the …
Building Cultural Bridges Across Generational Chasms: Comparing Chicano And Jewish American Literature,
2010
University of Texas at Arlington
Building Cultural Bridges Across Generational Chasms: Comparing Chicano And Jewish American Literature, Thomas Rhea
English Theses - Archive
This study compares Arturo Islas's novel, The Rain God: A Desert Tale with Cynthia Ozick's novella, "Envy; or Yiddish in America." Specifically, I argue that during the 1970s, these authors fictionalized the discourse concerning trans-generational cultural inheritance anxiety. Islas and Ozick shared an anxiety about the future of their individual ethnic culture in America because the children born in America were moving away from the ethnic culture they inherited from their parents. Ozick and Islas's fictions question whether accepting a new American identity, as many ofthe youth in their stories do, may severely impact the continuation of their ethnic culture. …
An Ecocritical Exploration Of The Unique Nature Of Early Modern Oceans In The Blazing World And The Tempest,
2010
University of Texas at Arlington
An Ecocritical Exploration Of The Unique Nature Of Early Modern Oceans In The Blazing World And The Tempest, Marykathryn Earnest
English Theses - Archive
Early modern perceptions of oceanic space diverged from standard perceptions of nature on land (or land-nature) because oceans presented a different type of wilderness. Because oceans defied early modern definitions of nature, they refused to support the developing mechanistic approach in the way that land-nature did. My argument begins with a chapter exploring science and nature in the early modern period. My second chapter expands this demonstration with an exploration of The Tempest. Shakespeare's self-reflexivity and exploration of boundaries in representing islands and oceans exemplifies their liminal position within nature. In my final chapter, I examine Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing …
Children Of Israel: Jacob Figures And Themes In The Novels Of Chaim Potok,
2010
University of Texas at Arlington
Children Of Israel: Jacob Figures And Themes In The Novels Of Chaim Potok, Alan Morris Cochrum
English Theses - Archive
The twentieth-century novelist Chaim Potok made central to his fiction what he called “culture war,” juxtaposing his Jewish-American characters' inner spiritual lives with key elements of Western secularism. In five of his novels -The Promise (1969), My Name Is Asher Lev (1972), The Book of Lights (1981), Davita's Harp (1985), and The Gift of Asher Lev (1990) - the protagonist comes under the influence of a character who can be styled “the Jacob figure.” This thesis argues that these characters not only echo various aspects of the biblical narratives about the Hebrew patriarch, thereby turning him into a meta-character in …
Japan In The Mirror Of Language: The Failure Of Language To Represent Objects In Travel Narratives On Japan,
2010
University of Texas at Arlington
Japan In The Mirror Of Language: The Failure Of Language To Represent Objects In Travel Narratives On Japan, Andrew Tyner
English Theses - Archive
The travel narrative is, ostensibly, little more than representation of foreign places and things, foreign objects. The language of the travel narrative seems, on the surface, to succeed in representing the foreign. None the less, theory abounds which holds that language is fundamentally unable to represent objects, at least in a pure sense. Taking Japanese travel narratives as a particular example, this thesis attempts to demonstrate that the language of these narratives fails to successfully and fully represent objects as they exist, or have existed, in the world. I work between what I take as two extreme theories of language, …
Biography As A Searchlight: Finding The Frank Stanford Story Cycle In Ellen Gilchrist's Fiction,
2010
University of Texas at Arlington
Biography As A Searchlight: Finding The Frank Stanford Story Cycle In Ellen Gilchrist's Fiction, Alyson Ward
English Theses - Archive
Ellen Gilchrist's short stories and novels form several story cycles that connect her characters and tie her work together into interdependent story groups. Her work is also strikingly autobiographical, featuring protagonists who resemble her in obvious ways. Though critics have identified many of Gilchrist's story cycles, one important cycle has been all but ignored: a young poet appears in a number of her stories, and for several of Gilchrist's protagonists, he serves as a catalyst for needed change. The poet is a fictional representation of the poet Frank Stanford, who died in 1978 but played the same life-changing role for …
Ecocriticism,
2010
Bucknell University
Ecocriticism, Paul Siewers
Faculty Contributions to Books
An overview for a dictionary of critical theory on ecocriticism or environmental literary criticism.
Kittens In The Oven: Race Relations, Traumatic Memory, And The Search For Identity In Julia Alvarez’S How The García Girls Lost Their Accents,
2010
Butler University
Kittens In The Oven: Race Relations, Traumatic Memory, And The Search For Identity In Julia Alvarez’S How The García Girls Lost Their Accents, Natalie Carter
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
The search for an ever-elusive home is a thread that runs throughout much literature by authors who have immigrated to the United States. Dominican authors are particularly susceptible to this search for a home because “for many Dominicans, home is synonymous with political and/or economic repression and is all too often a point of departure on a journey of survival” (Bonilla 200). This “journey of survival” is a direct reference to the dictatorship of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, who controlled the Dominican Republic from 1930-1961. The pain and trauma that Trujillo inflicted upon virtually everyone associated with the Dominican Republic …
How Teachers Need To Deal With The Seen, The Unseen, The Improbable, And The Nearly Imponderable,
2010
Butler University
How Teachers Need To Deal With The Seen, The Unseen, The Improbable, And The Nearly Imponderable, Marshall W. Gregory
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
The article offers information concerning the teacher's approach in dealing with the students' issues in Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. Visible, invisible, improbable, and the nearly imponderable issues are the variables of the student's educational growth. These variables include student's classroom participation, emotional struggles, and the teacher's influence with the decision of the students.
Jean Rhys’S Voyage In The Dark As A Trans-Atlantic Tragic Mulatta Narrative,
2010
Butler University
Jean Rhys’S Voyage In The Dark As A Trans-Atlantic Tragic Mulatta Narrative, Ania Spyra
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Abstract not available
Self-Indulgence Is The American Word For Flair,
2010
Butler University
Self-Indulgence Is The American Word For Flair, Ania Spyra
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Not available.
The Androgyne Patriarchy In Japan: Contemporary Issues In Japanese Gender,
2010
University of Texas at Arlington
The Androgyne Patriarchy In Japan: Contemporary Issues In Japanese Gender, Rachel Ann Snyder
English Theses - Archive
This project seeks to identify recent trends in Japanese masculinity, particularly the inclusion of androgyny as a mode included in masculinity. The salary man is perhaps the best-known model of masculinity in Japan identifiable to the West; but recently, Japan has seen some interesting developments in acceptable forms of performable masculinity. In the first chapter of this thesis especially I deal with a historical analysis of three different historical models of Japanese inclusive masculinity. The second chapter looks at the contemporary counterpart to the mobo, the hikikomori, or shut in through an analysis of the writings of Haruki Murakami. The …
The Currency Of Love: The Merging Of Monetary And Amorous Concerns In The Merchant Of Venice And Timon Of Athens,
2010
University of Texas at Arlington
The Currency Of Love: The Merging Of Monetary And Amorous Concerns In The Merchant Of Venice And Timon Of Athens, Pamela Kay Rollins
English Theses - Archive
I argue that Timon of Athens and The Merchant of Venice illustrate that money and love can exist within the same exchange system, within which each relationship retains a value based upon an expectation of reciprocity. The terms of reciprocity found in the relationships of these plays is often intertwined through the means of gift exchange and bonds. The exchange of gifts, when involved in the evaluation of a relationship, questions the very nature of an altruistic gift and illustrates further the means by which affection influences monetary exchanges. Furthermore, the quantitative and qualitative exchanges in Merchant and Timon depict …
Choir Of The South,
2010
Whittier College
Choir Of The South, Anthony Bursi
Whittier Scholars Program
This project is a short fiction piece set in the South where the author’s intentions were to create realistic and multifaceted characters, taking inspiration from Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood and William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury. This story also includes inspiration from an article read in 2009 which dealt with the moral obligations of a Brazilian doctor and the scrutiny and criticism he received for his actions towards a patient, which he claimed were in her best interest. This story is a narrative about consequences of character’s decisions.
