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No Easy Way Out: A Memoir Of Interruption, Cameron S. Steele

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

No Easy Way Out: A Memoir of Interruption is a collection of personal essays examining themes of race, the body, violence and desire as it seeks to examine and interrupt inherited, normative understandings of work, art, beauty, love, and belonging. An illness narrative that follows my experiences as a girl born into a family of white Southern wealth, as a young crime reporter in the Deep South, and as a mother, scholar, and writer in the Midwest, No Easy Way Out raises questions about the entanglement of privilege, illness, and access to care. The book considers the stories I covered …

Re-Reading The “Culture Clash”: Alternative Ways Of Reading In Indian Horse, Hailey Whetten

Master's Theses (2009 -)

This study focuses in, particularly, on the study of the “culture clash reading” approach to Indigenous literature and examines the conditioned nature of this approach, its limitations, and its potential for harm to Indigenous agendas. Student engagement with Richard Wagamese’s Indian Horse was observed in two undergraduate courses to study conditioned student literary analysis patterns and engage proposed alternative reading strategies inspired by NAIS methodology. Student interactions with and responses to Indian Horse are closely examined in alignment with Indigenous agendas. The study ultimately finds the “culture clash reading” approach to be problematic in its positional superiority of Western knowledge …

The Paratext And The Plantation: Technologies Of Containment In Maria Gowen Brooks’S Zophiel, Magdalena Zapędowska

English Language and Literature: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Narrative And Cosmopolitan Mobility: Teju Cole’S Open City And Joseph O’Neill’S Netherland, Jeffrey Gonzalez

Department of English Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This article argues that Teju Cole’s Open City (2011) and Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland (2008) utilize first-person narrators who are part of the critique that each novel offers of the globalized landscape. O’Neill and Cole thematize geographic movement and use narrative fluidity to reveal compelling international and historical connections, and each novel explicitly and implicitly exposes profound gaps in privilege and security. Simultaneously, the lapses in their highly mobile, cosmopolitan narrators’ memories (personal and historical) call attention to the limits of any perspective on globality. The essay discusses the value of the tensions produced by Cole’s and O’Neill’s narrative strategies relative …

Reimagining Prince Hall: Race, Freemasonry, And Material Culture In Boston, 1775-1870, Sueanna Smith

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation revisits the subject of early black freemasonry and draws upon a new wealth of archival material to recontextualize it through the lens of social history and print and material culture. This study explores the way that freemasonry operated in the daily lives of black masons and presents a new social history of the formation of Boston’s first black masonic lodge. Turning specifically to print and material culture, it traces the way that the earliest black masons engaged in the broader print and material culture of the society, thus promoting interracial engagement. This study also traces how the Prince …

Using And Citing Supportive Material In An Essay, Thea Callender

Open Educational Resources

Students sometimes have trouble using primary material to support the point they are making in an essay. Citation is sometimes forgotten. I find that modeling this experience for them and having them share their attempts with me and each other, leads to competence and confidence. I used VoiceThread to present this lesson, but it can easily be adapted to a discussion board.

Review Of Strange Footing: Poetic Form And Dance In The Late Middle Ages, Elizaveta Strakhov

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Review Of Exploring Othello 2020, Vanessa I. Corredera

Faculty Publications

Presented by Red Bull Theater. 7, 14, 21, and 28 October 2020. Broadcast via Zoom and YouTube. Hosted and moderated by Ayanna Thompson. With Keith Hamilton Cobb, Franchelle Stewart Dorn, Jennifer Ikeda, Anchuli Felicia King, Peter Macon, Alfredo Narciso, DeAris Rhymes, Madeline Sayet, Jessika D. Williams, and Dawn Monique Williams.

Not So Dystopian: A Historical Reading Of Eugenics In Science Fiction, Riley Sanders

The Forum: Journal of History

Broadly, this paper is an effort in complicating traditional readings of eugenic themes in science fiction. Two landmark novels, Wells’ The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896) and Huxley’s Brave New World (1932), are highlighted as representative of the early and late stages of eugenics. By focusing on the troubling historical context surrounding these authors, I denounce the simple reading of these works as merely “dystopian”. Scholars like Francis Fukuyama advance these simplistic readings by instinctively assuming that Wells and Huxley were against eugenics. This paper continues the tradition that David Bradshaw popularized in his book The Hidden Huxley, which argues …

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The Forum: Journal of History

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Redefining The Object Of Semiotic Studies, Yiqiang Jin

Lingnan Theses (MPhil & PhD)

Semiotics has long suffered a severe identity crisis, displaying confusions on four relationships. The crisis stems partly from our failure to distinguish three pairs of relata and partly from our poor understanding of the nature of an academic discipline. Semiotics is, first of all, a discipline. Like other academic fields, it should have a sound object of study and aim at an adequate theory. An excursion into psychology and the philosophy of science can reveal to us the necessary constituents of a proper object of study and of a good theory. Looking back, the history of semiotics has brought up …

The Effect Of Just A Minute On Enhancing The Use Of Grammar In Oral Contexts Among Palestinian Tenth Graders And Their Attitudes Towards It, سمر سلمان أبو شعبان أستاذ مشارك

Journal of Al-Azhar University – Gaza (Humanities)

Abstract

The purpose of the present study is to reveal the effect of just a minute (JAM) on enhancing the use of grammar in oral contexts among Palestinian tenth graders and to explore their attitudes towards this teaching strategy. To achieve the purpose of the study, the researcher selected (38) tenth graders to present the experimental group. During the first semester (2019/ 2020), after each grammar lesson, the teacher asked the students to choose a topic and plan and produce a comprehended speech about it for about a minute of time. The students were motivated to conduct this fluency activity …

Eloquence In Talke And Vertue In Deedes: Education And Discontent In Early Modern England, Mary Alison Webb

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The title for the project, Eloquence in Talke and Vertue in Deedes, comes from educational theorist William Kempe’s claim that the early modern humanist educational system was guaranteed to produce eloquence and virtue. It is, however, my argument that the educational failed in its promises. This project seeks to dissect the educational practices of the early modern period and reanimate the pieces to show how these practices were regularly critiqued on the early modern stage. More than showing the influence of the educational system in the production of drama, I point out that these practices are re-represented as rebuttals of …

Blended Learning Technologies: Course Design, Collaboration And Assessment In Improving Students’ Essay Writing Skills, Solijon Azizov

Philology Matters

As the current measures in higher education are being related straight to both online and offline platforms, blended learning can be a prototype model in increasing quality and content factors of this stage of education, thereby providing teachers and students with connected and continuous education in practice. In many studies related to the issues mentioned above, blended learning, its practical functions are central to the discussion. Besides that, doing scientific investigations on the correlation between competencies and technologies in TFL plays a constructive role in creating a competitive educational environment for everyone. The study aimed to test blended learning technologies …

Conceptual Gender Analysis Of Gender Marked Phraseological Units And Proverbs In The Uzbek Language, Guli Ergasheva

Philology Matters

Interdisciplinary approach is one of the important features of gender analysis as it can be studied in any field of science. The study of a language as an object of intercultural communication and the problems of the interdependence of a language, culture, and consciousness are of great importance in linguistics. The study deals with the general concept of phraseological units, which is reflected in the expression of the linguocultural means that arise in social events and serve for the specific national communicative process of society, both of which illuminate the national-cultural values of society the people. Indeed, a comparative analysis …

The Importance Of Intercultural Pragmatics In Teaching A Foreign Language, Zebuniso Isanova

Philology Matters

This article focuses on the role of intercultural pragmatics in modern foreign languages teaching and, on the notion, issues of intercultural pragmatics. It also analyses the importance of intercultural communication in the teaching of foreign languages, pragmatic aspects of intercultural communication, the interdependence of linguistic and cultural phenomena. While pragmatics is a branch of linguistics, intercultural pragmatism is developing as a new supplement to pragmatics. The process of intercultural communication includes linguistic and socio-cultural elements. The importance of intercultural communication in the study of a foreign language is that it eliminates cultural misunderstandings, mistrust and helps to adapt to other …

Didactic-Pedagogical Basis Of Teaching Foreign Languages, Jakhongir Turobov

Philology Matters

Nowadays, at the non-philological institutions the study of English occupies the important place and is an important component in training specialists for different branches of our country. The purpose of this article is to analyze didactic-pedagogical basis of teaching foreign languages. Currently the introduction of the innovative methods to the sphere of teaching English has become important and has a great practical significance. The article gives synopsis and analysis of modern tools in the field of teaching English for Special Purposes.
Certainly, teachers for Specific Purposes share a terrific deal for all intents and cause with instructors. For each it …

History Of The Development Of The Ghazal Genre, Dilfuza Tukhlieva

Philology Matters

Lyrical works hare not lost their importance since the earliest times to the present day as they are tuned in a certain tone, short in size compared to other literary geners, can be stored quickly and easily in people's memory, have a wide range of aesthetic effects, are suitable for different age and literary training of readers and possess a variety of genres.
A significant part of Uzbek classical literature is lyrical works. The ghazal genre is one of the most important of these lyrical works. The lyrics of the classical period are diverse in terms of a genre and …

Female Characters In The Novel “Death Of A Hero” By Richard Aldington, Shakhnoza Chorieva

Philology Matters

The literary process in the first half of the twentieth century acquires new styles, new techniques, it combines modernism and realism. For literary works, fantastic absurdity becomes characteristic, as a new experimental form. If in the nineteenth century, literary works described clear objective subjects, for example, love, evil, family and social relations, then in the updated literature of the twentieth century, abstract psychological methods are used primarily to describe a particular thing. The First World War became the cardinal theme of the art in the first half of the twentieth century, determined the personal destinies and formed the artistic personality …

Scientific Interpretation Of Fantasy Works And Their Types, Dilshod Nasriddinov

Philology Matters

In the process of global development in all areas of science, various new knowledge has appeared. Including fantasy in world literature fantasy which began to be considered as one of the significant directions of the literature. In this article, the researcher proves the fact that fantasy has its own fundamental basis in the formation of this area, and the scientific theory of myths, fairy tales and knights, components of the fantasy content. The author justifies his scientific and theoretical approach to the scientific views of foreign scientists with respect to Fantasy. This attracted the attention of all literary critics and …