Princes, Princesses, And Socialites: Feminism And Class Transgression In Hollywood Romantic Comedies,
2023
Northern Illinois University
Princes, Princesses, And Socialites: Feminism And Class Transgression In Hollywood Romantic Comedies, Justina Marie Clayburn
Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations
This dissertation explored how characters in romantic comedies negotiate and transgress class boundaries as the films conform to and challenge genre and social expectations, focusing primarily through a feminist lens. Specifically, it addresses the different ways the films negotiate ideas about American identity and economic systems, simultaneously trying to acknowledge problematic elements while upholding social and nationalistic ideals. Feminism has a complicated relationship with Hollywood romantic comedies. While the genre often focuses on issues of interest to women and forefronts female characters and their professional and personal experiences, the denouement generally reinforces heteronormative monogamous relationships above others and the traditional …
"Killers Who Preach": Horror And The "Victorian" Culture Text In The Modern American Musical,
2023
Northern Illinois University
"Killers Who Preach": Horror And The "Victorian" Culture Text In The Modern American Musical, Amy Erickson
Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations
This dissertation examines American Broadway musicals adapted from Victorian horror and mystery novels, investigating the ways in which the musical adaptations represent and critique modern American social problems and traditional American values and ideology. Specifically, it analyzes Stephen Sondheim’s 1979 musical Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, a Musical Thriller, adapted from the anonymously published Victorian penny serial The String of Pearls; Rupert Holmes’s 1985 musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood, adapted from Charles Dickens’s unfinished 1870 novel of the same name; Frank Wildhorn’s 1997 musical Jekyll & Hyde, adapted from Robert Louis Stephenson’s 1886 novella The Strange …
Othello As A Political Commentary On "The Myth Of Venice",
2023
Northern Illinois University
Othello As A Political Commentary On "The Myth Of Venice", Alejandro Tamayo
Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations
The premise of this essay is that the ascension of James VI of Scotland to the throne of England in 1603 motivated Shakespeare to give Othello -- performed for the king in 1604-- a setting, topicality, and an embedded political commentary that suited the political ideas and personal interests of the new monarch. After an overview of the possible sources of the play, this essay also reviews some of James's political writings, where he expresses his absolutist philosophy. Although some commentators believe there is a pro-republican subtext in Othello, this essay argues the opposite. It posits that by adding the …
Bibliography,
2023
Western Kentucky University
Bibliography, Jane Fife
Faculty/Staff Personal Papers
Bibliography of publications by Jane Fife.
Wayfinding,
2023
University of Montana, Missoula
Wayfinding, Kalani N. Padilla
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
No abstract provided.
Make A Foreigner Of Yourself: An Analysis Of The Dueling Critical Utopias Of The Dispossessed And Trouble On Triton,
2023
Cal Poly Humboldt
Make A Foreigner Of Yourself: An Analysis Of The Dueling Critical Utopias Of The Dispossessed And Trouble On Triton, Anthony Michael Lowe
Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects
The purpose of this project is to analyze the critical utopias of two sci-fi novels: The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (1974) by Ursula K. Le Guin and Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia (1976) by Samuel R. Delany. Both novels were published within two years of each other, with Delany rewriting his novel to intentionally put it into direct dialogue with Le Guin’s. This project will attempt to establish the landscape of utopian fiction, draw out this dialogue between these two grandmasters of the science fiction genre, and answer this question: “As a result of Delany positioning his novel in …
A Black Prometheus Among The Gods: Illuminating African American Literary Tradition In Sam Greenlee's The Spook Who Sat By The Door,
2023
Humboldt State University
A Black Prometheus Among The Gods: Illuminating African American Literary Tradition In Sam Greenlee's The Spook Who Sat By The Door, Kenneth L. Rainey Iii
Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects
In his hard-hitting novel The Spook Who Sat by the Door Sam Greenlee aims to help his target African American audience to succeed and thrive as their true selves with the novel functioning as a guide to resisting the ever-present physical and spiritual threat faced daily. On the one hand the novel functions as a manual for civil uprising, but underneath that surface, Greenlee argues that true African American resistance comes through nurturing self-determination, self-love, and self-esteem. This project also argues that Spook ought to be located closer to the center of the African American literary canon and provides comparisons …
Rural Black Masculinity And The Blues In Not Without Laughter,
2023
Embry Riddle Aeronautical University
Rural Black Masculinity And The Blues In Not Without Laughter, Andy Oler
Publications
In the 1930 novel Not without Laughter, Langston Hughes represents a wide range of Black experience in the Midwest – the “picturesque” alongside the horrific, the old-fashioned, as well as the modern.Hughes uses the novel’s setting, the small town of Stanton, Kansas, to determine some of the limits placed on protagonist Sandy Rodgers and his family, and their attempts to work through them.
Black Elk Faces East: Beb Vuyk, Cultural Translation, And John G. Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks,
2023
University of Louisville
Black Elk Faces East: Beb Vuyk, Cultural Translation, And John G. Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks, Frank Kelderman
Faculty and Staff Scholarship
This essay examines the work of the Dutch-Indonesian author Beb Vuyk in producing one of the first foreign-language translations of John G. Neihardt’s Black Elk Speaks: the 1964 Dutch edition Zwarte Eland spreekt. Published in the Netherlands, Vuyk’s translation connects the 1932 as-told-to autobiography of the Oglala Lakota heyoka Black Elk to the career of one of the most important Dutch-Indonesian authors after World War II, who had a prominent voice in debates on Indonesian decolonization. Linking the literary history of two different colonial contexts, Vuyk’s edition also connects Black Elk Speaks to a Cold War-era history of …
Queer(Ly) Lingering In Nineteenth-Century British Literature,
2023
Loyola University Chicago
Queer(Ly) Lingering In Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Emily Datskou
Dissertations
This dissertation is a critical critique of Queer Theory as an academic field. It argues that queer theory’s establishment as an academic discipline and as a periodizing and historicizing force through the bibliographies that make up its canon has upheld and supported the very normative models of temporality and progression that the field claims to resist. As a result, I argue, queer theory has focused most heavily on modernism and the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and has positioned the nineteenth century as the precursor to the queer strategies and representations that we see more fully fleshed out in the twentieth …
Takamiya Ms 23, Its Exemplar, And The Editio Princeps Of Piers Plowman,
2023
University of Iowa
Takamiya Ms 23, Its Exemplar, And The Editio Princeps Of Piers Plowman, Ian Cornelius, J. Eric Ensley
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
New Haven, Beinecke Library, MS Takamiya 23 is a mid sixteenth-century copy of the B Version of Piers Plowman, distinguished by pervasive linguistic modernization. The manuscript derives from a source very similar to that used by Robert Crowley for the editio princeps, a textual affiliation that remains unexplained. In their critical edition, George Kane and E. Talbot Donaldson collated Takamiya 23 in full but did not print its unique variant readings and the manuscript has not figured in recent textual scholarship on Piers Plowman. This neglect has led to some conclusions that should be revisited, particularly regarding …
รูปแบบภาษาแสดงอัตลักษณ์: กรณีภาษากะเทยที่ปรากฏในสื่อหนังสือการ์ตูนญี่ปุ่น,
2023
คณะอักษรศาสตร์
รูปแบบภาษาแสดงอัตลักษณ์: กรณีภาษากะเทยที่ปรากฏในสื่อหนังสือการ์ตูนญี่ปุ่น, ทศวรรษ ตันชัยสวัสดิ์
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
สารนิพนธ์ฉบับนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาภาษากะเทย (おネエことば) ที่ปรากฏในสื่อหนังสือการ์ตูนญี่ปุ่นหรือ “มังงะ” และรวบรวมทำเป็นฐานข้อมูล ผู้วิจัยศึกษาภาษากะเทยจากมังงะที่มีตัวละครกะเทยปรากฏและพูดด้วยภาษากะเทยจำนวน 48 ตัวละคร รวมจำนวนประโยคตัวอย่างทั้งหมด 886 ตัวอย่าง มาทำการวิเคราะห์การแสดงอัตลักษณ์โดยวิเคราะห์ใน 4 ประเด็นดังนี้ 1) การใช้สรรพนามของตัวละคร 2) ส่วนลงท้ายประโยค 3) คำไพเราะ (美化語) 4) คำศัพท์ที่แสดงความเป็นภาษากะเทย และเสริมประเด็นการวิเคราะห์อื่นที่ตัวผู้วิจัยสนใจอีก 2 ประเด็นได้แก่ 1) การใช้สัญลักษณ์ เครื่องหมายวรรคตอน และอีโมจิ 2) รูปเขียนฮิรางานะ คาตากานะ และคันจิ นอกจากนี้ก็ยังสอดแทรกการเปรียบเทียบความแตกต่างของการแสดงอัตลักษณ์โดยแยกประเภทมังงะตามกลุ่มผู้อ่านของเรื่องผลการวิจัยพบว่า โดยภาพรวมภาษากะเทยในภาษาญี่ปุ่นเป็นภาษาที่ใช้ภาษาผู้หญิงเป็นพื้นฐานแล้วเพิ่มเติมลักษณะพิเศษบางอย่างลงไปทำให้เกิดความแตกต่างจากภาษาผู้หญิงทั่วไป การแสดงอัตลักษณ์มีความโน้มเอียงไปทางภาษาผู้หญิงเป็นส่วนใหญ่ จึงนำเสนอความเป็นผู้หญิงผ่านสรรพนาม ส่วนลงท้ายประโยค คำไพเราะ คำศัพท์ การใช้สัญลักษณ์ เครื่องหมายวรรคตอนและอีโมจิ อย่างไรก็ตามก็มีการแฝงความแข็งกร้าวโน้มเอียงไปทางผู้ชายในรูปแบบภาษาเหล่านี้ด้วย ทั้งนี้ ในกรณีรูปเขียนค้นพบว่ามีความโน้มเอียงไปทางผู้ชายผ่านการใช้คาตากานะและคันจิ ทำให้ภาษากะเทยมีลักษณะการแสดงอัตลักษณ์ที่อยู่กึ่งกลางระหว่างสองเพศ สำหรับการศึกษาความแตกต่างแยกตามกลุ่มผู้อ่านของเรื่องพบว่าภาษากะเทยในมังงะเด็กผู้ชายและมังงะเด็กผู้หญิงไม่ค่อยมีความแตกต่างกัน ซึ่งแสดงให้เห็นถึงการแสดงอัตลักษณ์ของภาษากะเทยที่มีแบบแผนที่ชัดเจน ไม่เปลี่ยนแปลงไปตามเพศของผู้อ่าน
The Effect Of Peer Assessment And Non-Scripted Role-Play Activities On Efl High School Students’ Oral Performance And Motivation,
2023
Graduate School
The Effect Of Peer Assessment And Non-Scripted Role-Play Activities On Efl High School Students’ Oral Performance And Motivation, Cheng-Chun Tsai
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
The present study focused on investigating the effectiveness of integrating peer assessment (PA) and non-scripted role-play (NSRP) activities on the oral performance and motivation of Thai EFL high school students. Recognizing the importance of developing effective English language communication skills, the research was situated within the context of a public secondary school in Bangkok, targeting Grade 12 students. The study employed a mixed methods approach, utilizing both quantitative and qualitative data collection methods, and centered its course development and NSRP activities on “Research Methods and Presentation Skills”. The nine-week implementation involved pre- and post-speaking tests, training sessions, a speaking rubric, …
An Investigation Into The Substitutions Of English Articles By L1 Chinese Learners,
2023
Graduate School
An Investigation Into The Substitutions Of English Articles By L1 Chinese Learners, Yuhan Huang
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
The English article system is a challenge for English second language learners, especially for learners whose language background is an articleless language. The objectives of the present study were to investigate L1 Chinese learners' problems of English article substitutions and find out possible causes of L1 Chinese learners' English article substitutions. It was hypothesized that L1 Chinese learners had problems of English article substitutions and that, based on Error Analysis, both non-existence of articles and complexity of the English article system caused English article substitutions by L1 Chinese learners. The participants in the study consisted of 60 speakers of Mandarin …
The Investigation Of Using Dynamic Assessment To Enhance English Academic Vocabulary Knowledge Of Thai Low Proficiency Undergraduate Students,
2023
Graduate School
The Investigation Of Using Dynamic Assessment To Enhance English Academic Vocabulary Knowledge Of Thai Low Proficiency Undergraduate Students, Duangkamon Klungthong
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
Students in university settings require English academic vocabulary to succeed in academic English (Phoocharoensil, 2015). Vocabulary learning strategies (VLS) are tools to help learners acquire and improve vocabulary knowledge (Nation, 2001), and an examination of the dynamic nature of employing VLS should be conducted (Gu, 2020). Dynamic assessment (DA) is an alternative assessment that consistently and systematically combines assessment and instruction to help learners reach their zone of proximal development (ZPD) by using mediation from more competent others (Lantolf & Poehner, 2004). Thus, this study used DA to equip learners with VLS to learn academic vocabulary. The study aimed to …
The Effects Of Speaking Portfolios On Speaking Ability And Interactional Competence Of Thai Efl Undergraduate Students,
2023
Graduate School
The Effects Of Speaking Portfolios On Speaking Ability And Interactional Competence Of Thai Efl Undergraduate Students, Pirada Anuwech
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
Interactional competence has been in the lime light of L2 instruction and assessment over the recent decades as well as the use of portfolio assessment in language classrooms to provide students with opportunities to monitor their own progress as well as enhancing their language skills. This present study was thus conducted to examine the effects of using speaking portfolios on speaking ability and interactional competence of Thai EFL undergraduate students in order to serve three major objectives as follows: 1) to examine the effects of using speaking portfolios on students’ speaking ability ; 2) to examine the effects of using …
An Interlanguage Study Of Metalinguistic Knowledge On English Tenses As Related To Time And Aspect In Thai University Students,
2023
Graduate School
An Interlanguage Study Of Metalinguistic Knowledge On English Tenses As Related To Time And Aspect In Thai University Students, Anshakan Eiamtong-In
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
This study aimed to analyze the usage of the English Present and Past Tenses among the Thai EFL learners and the native English speakers, focusing primarily on the Present Simple, the Present Progressive, the Present Perfect, the Present Perfect Progressive, the Past Simple, the Past Progressive, the Past Perfect, and the Past Perfect Progressive. Language users perceive situations differently, leading to variations in tense usage (Smith, 1991). The answers on the selection of tenses from the participants that deviated from the theoretical expectations might not always indicate errors. Therefore, the study also explored the participants’ metalinguistic knowledge or the reasons …
The Effects Of Computerized Dynamic Reading Assessment On English Reading Comprehension Of Thai Efl Undergraduate Students,
2023
Graduate School
The Effects Of Computerized Dynamic Reading Assessment On English Reading Comprehension Of Thai Efl Undergraduate Students, Chansak Siengyen
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
A computerized-dynamic assessment (C-DA) test differs from a traditional standardized test in that it diagnoses learners’ fully developed and emerging abilities, provides graduated prompts for challenging items, measures the level of mediation required, and reports a learner profile detailing independent and mediated performance across language constructs (Ebadi & Saeedian, 2015; Pishghadam & Barabadi, 2012; Poehner et al., 2015; Teo, 2012). The objectives of this study were (1) to investigate the effects of the computerized dynamic reading assessment (CDRA) program on English reading comprehension of Thai EFL undergraduate students, (2) to examine the effects of the CDRA program on Thai EFL …
A Comparative Study Of Beliefs, Attitudes, And Motivation Toward English Language Learning Among Thai And Chinese Undergraduates In Different Study Programs,
2023
Graduate School
A Comparative Study Of Beliefs, Attitudes, And Motivation Toward English Language Learning Among Thai And Chinese Undergraduates In Different Study Programs, Lu Geng Sun
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
This study investigated the beliefs, attitudes, and motivations towards English language learning among Thai and Chinese undergraduate students at Dhurakij Pundit University (DPU). Employing a mixed-method approach, this research utilized both quantitative and qualitative methods to discern and compare these students' experiences. The quantitative phase involved 332 students, selected through stratified random sampling, who completed comprehensive questionnaires based on a five-point Likert scale. The qualitative phase included 31 purposefully selected participants from the initial pool for semi-structured interviews. Findings revealed that Chinese undergraduates exhibited a significantly stronger belief orientation, more positive attitudes, and greater motivational drive towards English language learning …
The Acquisition Of English Irregular Past Tense Morphology By L1 Chinese Learners,
2023
Graduate School
The Acquisition Of English Irregular Past Tense Morphology By L1 Chinese Learners, Tingting Yang
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
This study investigated the acquisition of English irregular past tense morphology by L1 Chinese learners. The participants consisted of 60 L1 Mandarin-speaking learners of English divided into two groups according to their English proficiency levels, i.e., the intermediate and the advanced levels. The methodology included a Fill-in-the-Blank Test, a Grammaticality Judgment Task, and an interview. Based on the Error Analysis Theory (Richards,1974 ; Ellis,1994), three research hypotheses were formulated. First, it was hypothesized that language proficiency has an impact on the acquisition of English irregular past tense by L1 Chinese learners and the findings conformed to the hypothesis. The results …
