Weather,
2018
Marquette University
Reclaiming Stolen Voices : An Indigenous, Region-Based Reading Of Leslie Marmon SilkoS Ceremony, Patricia GraceS Potiki And Kiana DavenportS Shark Dialogues,
2018
Faculty of Arts
Reclaiming Stolen Voices : An Indigenous, Region-Based Reading Of Leslie Marmon SilkoS Ceremony, Patricia GraceS Potiki And Kiana DavenportS Shark Dialogues, Krittaporn Reungwattanakul
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
This thesis aims to examine how contemporary indigenous writers reclaim their self-definition through the born-within, region-based perspectives in three novels: Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony (1977), Patricia Grace' Potiki (1986), and Kiana Davenport's Shark Dialogues (1998). It propounds that the three novels employ indigenous myths, knowledge, and epistemologies to present their modern indigenous culture, history and identity as distinct from mainstream Western stereotypical perceptions. These writers also suggest the necessity for hybridization of traditional culture in order for indigenous cultures to survive when it comes into contact with the global community. The three selected literary texts present integral roles of nature …
An Investigation Of Beliefs And Classroom Asssessment Practices Of English Teachers In Primary Schools In Thailand,
2018
Graduate School
An Investigation Of Beliefs And Classroom Asssessment Practices Of English Teachers In Primary Schools In Thailand, Arthitaya Narathakoon
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
The purpose of the present study is to investigate 1) the teachers' beliefs about classroom assessment in English classes, 2) their actual classroom practices, and 3) the extent to which their beliefs are congruent with their actual assessment practices. The participants were grade-6 English teachers in a school district from the northeastern part of Thailand. The study was conducted using a mix-methods approach. There were two phases. Phase 1 involved the administration of a questionnaire to 97 teachers. It aimed to gather data on the classroom assessment beliefs and practices of teachers in Thai primary schools. Phase 2 was comprised …
The Relationship Between Attitudes Toward The Test Of English For International Communication (Toeic) And Scores Of Thai Test Takers,
2018
Graduate School
The Relationship Between Attitudes Toward The Test Of English For International Communication (Toeic) And Scores Of Thai Test Takers, Danai Wongsa
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
Attitudes have played a pivotal role affecting not only English language learning but also language test performance. There have been some studies exhibiting that students' attitudes in English language learning were significantly related to their English test proficiency and their scores. The objectives of this study were to examine Thai test takers' attitudes toward the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC) and explored the relationship between Thai test takers' attitudes toward the TOEIC and their scores. This study used quantitative and qualitative methods to collect and analyze the data under the research framework adapted from the ABC model of …
Integration Of A Blended Learning And Extensive Reading Instructional Model For Enhancement Of English Reading Comprehension And Learner Autonomy Of Efl Undergraduate Students,
2018
Graduate School
Integration Of A Blended Learning And Extensive Reading Instructional Model For Enhancement Of English Reading Comprehension And Learner Autonomy Of Efl Undergraduate Students, Naruethai Chanthap
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
To be able to read well as well as to manage one's own reading is important because it leads to the development of learner autonomy, which is necessary for learners in the 21st century. The present study investigated the effects of integration of a blended learning and extensive reading instructional model on EFL students' English reading comprehension and learner autonomy. This study employed a one-group, pre-test post-test design to collect both quantitative data and qualitative data. The sample consisted of 40 English major students who enrolled in the Reading for Text Interpretation Course in the first semester of the academic …
การถ่ายทอดองค์ประกอบทางวัฒนธรรมในบทแปลเรื่องสั้น “อสรพิษ” ฉบับภาษาสเปน,
2018
คณะอักษรศาสตร์
การถ่ายทอดองค์ประกอบทางวัฒนธรรมในบทแปลเรื่องสั้น “อสรพิษ” ฉบับภาษาสเปน, ทินประภา กรดนิยมชัย
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
วิทยานิพนธ์เล่มนี้มุ่งวิเคราะห์ศึกษาการแปลองค์ประกอบทางวัฒนธรรมไทยในเรื่องสั้น "อสรพิษ" ของแดนอรัญ แสงทองสู่ฉบับแปลภาษาสเปน ผลงานนี้นับเป็นความท้าทายอย่างยิ่งของผู้แปลที่ต้องถ่ายทอดเนื้อเรื่องที่สะท้อนวิถีชีวิตท้องถิ่นชนบทไทยสู่ภาษาของประเทศที่มีวัฒนธรรมแตกต่างจากไทยเป็นอย่างมาก อีกทั้ง ฉบับแปลนี้ไม่ได้แปลตรงจากต้นฉบับภาษาไทย แต่แปลผ่านต้นฉบับภาษาที่สองคือ ภาษาฝรั่งเศส การศึกษานี้ ผู้วิจัยเลือกองค์ประกอบทางวัฒนธรรมจากต้นฉบับไทย "อสรพิษ" (2545) ฉบับแปลภาษาฝรั่งเศส Venin (2544) และฉบับแปลภาษาสเปน Veneno (2545) รวม 83 ตัวอย่าง โดยแบ่งเป็นสี่หมวดหมู่ คือ ชื่อเฉพาะ มรดกทางวัฒนธรรม วัฒนธรรมทางสังคม และวัฒนธรรมทางภาษา และนำตัวอย่างเหล่านี้มาศึกษาเปรียบเทียบการถ่ายทอดความหมายและกลวิธีการแปล ผลการวิจัยพบว่ามีสองประเด็นที่สำคัญ ประการแรกคือ การถ่ายทอดองค์ประกอบทางวัฒนธรรมไทยสู่ภาษาฝรั่งเศสมาจากการผสมผสานกลวิธีการแปลหลากหลายเนื่องจากวัฒนธรรมไทยและฝรั่งเศสมีความแตกต่างกันอย่างมาก ในทางกลับกัน การแปลจากต้นฉบับภาษาฝรั่งเศสเป็นภาษาสเปนส่วนใหญ่เป็นการใช้กลวิธีการแปลตรงตัว เนื่องจากฝรั่งเศสและสเปนมีลักษณะโครงสร้างภาษาและวัฒนธรรมใกล้เคียงกัน ประการที่สองคือ มีหลายกรณีที่ฉบับแปลภาษาฝรั่งเศสมีอิทธิพลต่อการถ่ายทอดองค์ประกอบทางวัฒนธรรมสู่ฉบับแปลภาษาสเปน อย่างไรก็ตาม มีบางกรณีที่ไม่พบอิทธิพลดังกล่าวในฉบับแปลภาษาสเปน เนื่องจากผู้แปลใช้วิธีการอื่นมาเสริม ได้แก่ การเลือกสรรคำแปล และการตีความเพิ่มเติมจากบริบท
"To Conceive With Child Is The Earnest Desire If Not Of All, Yet Of Most Women": The Advancement Of Prenatal Care And Childbirth In Early Modern England: 1500-1770,
2018
Virginia Commonwealth University
"To Conceive With Child Is The Earnest Desire If Not Of All, Yet Of Most Women": The Advancement Of Prenatal Care And Childbirth In Early Modern England: 1500-1770, Victoria E.C. Glover
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis analyzes medical manuals published in England between 1500 and 1770 to trace developing medical understandings and prescriptive approaches to conception, pregnancy, and childbirth. While there have been plenty of books written regarding social and religious changes in the reproductive process during the early modern era, there is a dearth of scholarly work focusing on the medical changes which took place in obstetrics over this period. Early modern England was a time of great change in the field of obstetrics as physicians incorporated newly-discovered knowledge about the male and female body, new fields and tools, and new or revived …
I Am An Author: Performing Authorship In Literary Culture,
2018
Virginia Commonwealth University
I Am An Author: Performing Authorship In Literary Culture, Justin R. Greene
Theses and Dissertations
Authorship is not merely an act of putting pen to paper or fingers to keyboard; it is a social identity performance that includes the use of multiple media. Authors must be hyper- visible to cut through the dearth of information, entertainment options, and personae vying for attention in our supersaturated media environment. As they enter the literary world, writers consciously create characters and narratives around themselves, and through the consistent and believable enactment of these features, authors are born. In this dissertation, I analyze the performance of authorship in U.S. literary culture through an interdisciplinary framework. My work pulls from …
The Player’S Journey: Ludology And Narratology In Modern Gaming,
2018
Virginia Commonwealth University
The Player’S Journey: Ludology And Narratology In Modern Gaming, Angelica Fuchs
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis examines the evolution of gaming criticism (specifically ludology and narratology) and games as a medium of expression through the use of case studies. These case studies look at some of the core aspects of four major titles (The Last of Us, Horizon Zero Dawn, various BioWare games and Journey) and survey how these games work to effectively employ a narrative while maintaining an immersive, intuitive system for the player to interact with. Through these titles, the thesis suggests that in order to gain a full scope of a game’s intentions, studies should analyze more than …
Medical Celebrity In Eighteenth-Century Britain,
2018
West Virginia University
Medical Celebrity In Eighteenth-Century Britain, Katherine Richards
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
Medical Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Britain argues that the cultural mechanisms responsible for creating and sustaining celebrity culture helped create and sustain commercialized medicine in eighteenth-century Britain. I identify the process by which celebrity and medical culture impact one another as a sociocultural phenomenon that I term medical celebrity. The following chapters present four case studies of how medical celebrity impacted the development of the medical profession, the medical market, cultural representations and perceptions of health and illness, and the patient experience. I engage with the work done by scholars in contemporary and early celebrity studies to shed light on the …
Tracing Writer/Reader Identity In, And In Response To, Queer Latinx Autohistoria-Teorìa,
2018
Humboldt State University
Tracing Writer/Reader Identity In, And In Response To, Queer Latinx Autohistoria-Teorìa, Corrina Wells
Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects
This project examines how diverse representation changes the discourse around queer latinx identities. This project extends theories of representation that show how a text changes the imaginary of the reader through a two-part methodology. First, through explicating Spit & Passion and A Cup of Water Under My Bed, this project examines how these texts construct a readers’ imaginary. Then, through a corresponding qualitative assessment on readers’ responses to the texts, this project identifies the extent to which the texts change the beliefs and understandings of a small group of students. Articulating an ecology of identity using the texts under examination, …
Playing And Learning Through Text And Images: Examining Features Of Adolescent Literacy And The Potential Of Graphic Novels As A Supportive Tool,
2018
Cal Poly Humboldt
Playing And Learning Through Text And Images: Examining Features Of Adolescent Literacy And The Potential Of Graphic Novels As A Supportive Tool, Emily Ann Bushta
Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects
Graphic novels have been making their way into the classroom steadily during the past two decades. Whether their use is for a pedagogical purpose or pleasure, graphic novels are grabbing the attention of adults and youth alike. As general interest arises surrounding graphic novels, increased scholarship discussing their purpose, structure, and use has appeared across a variety of disciplines. Educators, especially those with younger students, are drawn to the genre. Their interest has produced a growing body of literature; however, these publications often lack quantitative data and typically offer qualitative conclusions about the benefits of graphic novels in classroom contexts. …
Modernity’S Gems: World War I And Science In Arthur Conan Doyle’S The Poison Belt,
2018
Brigham Young University - Provo
Modernity’S Gems: World War I And Science In Arthur Conan Doyle’S The Poison Belt, Erica L. Pratt
ScholarsArchive Data
Research analysis on the use of scientific and war tropes in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Poison Belt.
Twisting Reality For A Cause: American Mythology, Early Surrealism, And Audience Empowerment In The Works Of George Lippard,
2018
University of South Carolina
Twisting Reality For A Cause: American Mythology, Early Surrealism, And Audience Empowerment In The Works Of George Lippard, Joseph Samuel Hall
Theses and Dissertations
This article examines Philadelphia writer George Lippard's often-overlooked usage of literary conventions more typical outside of the genre he is most famous for, socialreform city fiction. In particular, the article focuses on Lippard’s vision of an American mythology, proto-surrealistic imagery, and demands for audience response and interaction. Various works are analyzed, most prominently: stories from Washington and His Generals, The Rose of the Wissahikon, Adonai: The Pilgrim of Eternity, and The Killers. The article concludes that Lippard values the artfulness of historical romance over presenting historical fact, recognizing the ability of the romance to instigate a greater collective response in …
Print On Demand: Stereotyping And Electrotyping In The United States Printing Trades And Publishing Industry, 1812-1860,
2018
University of South Carolina
Print On Demand: Stereotyping And Electrotyping In The United States Printing Trades And Publishing Industry, 1812-1860, Jeffrey Michael Makala
Theses and Dissertations
Print on Demand explores the role and significance of stereotyping and electrotyping in the United States printing trades and publishing industry during the early nineteenth century. Stereotyping—the creation of solid printing plates cast from moveable type—fundamentally changed the ways in which books (and later, periodicals) were printed. The commissioning of plates altered shop practices, distribution methods, and the author/publisher relationship. Because of this new embodiment of capital and texts in the form of printing plates, a secondhand market for stereotyped works prolonged and complicated the production and distribution of material texts. The primary focus of this study is the ways …
“Be Of Knightly Countenance”: Masculine Violence And Managing Affect In Late Medieval Alliterative Poetry And Batman: Under The Red Hood,
2018
University of South Carolina
“Be Of Knightly Countenance”: Masculine Violence And Managing Affect In Late Medieval Alliterative Poetry And Batman: Under The Red Hood, Lisa D. Camp
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis is concerned with the legacy of cultural representations of masculine violence as it manifests in late medieval alliterative poetry and contemporary superhero comics, and the ways in which those manifestations are inflected by a particular set of images, motifs, and cultural underpinnings which transcend sociohistorical boundaries and that illuminate the ways culture sanctions certain forms of masculine violence. To understand how, as Patricia Ingham suggests in Sovereign Fantasies: Arthurian Romance and the Making of Britain, imagination infuses history towards particular “regime[s] of truth,” I argue that late fourteenth century Arthurian alliterative poetry and contemporary superhero comics instruct a …
The Leap In Place: Rethinking Key Concepts In The History Of Composition And The Return Of Lore.,
2018
University of South Carolina - Columbia
The Leap In Place: Rethinking Key Concepts In The History Of Composition And The Return Of Lore., David Stubblefield
Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation attempts to affirm a key set of practical terms in order to guide Composition Pedagogy. These terms include error, language, voice, teacher neutrality, and rationality. In recent years, many of these terms have been discredited theoretically; however, they remain dominant in textbooks and in our actual teaching practice. The result has been a significant divide between theory and practice, resulting in a cognitive dissonance between our classroom activities and our scholarly activity. However, by presenting each of these terms as dynamic and performative, this dissertation invites the field to find productive practical possibilities inside of them. Moreover, the …
Rhetoric And Plants,
2018
University of South Carolina
Rhetoric And Plants, Alana Hatley
Theses and Dissertations
Rhetoric and Plants asks what happens when we add plants to the various discussions currently developing within rhetorical theory. By taking up current botanical research and some of the rhetorical debates surrounding that research, I posit that plants are creatures and that the botanic engagement with the world has much to teach us about persuasion, communication, and encountering alterity. Specifically, I argue that the sessility of plants makes visible a tendency in our language to privilege the language of going elsewhere, which I term ambulocentrism. Further, the fact that plants engage in behaviors that we have previously thought only conscious …
“Poetry Doesn’T Restore Ecosystems”: Garbage And Poetry In The Anthropocene,
2018
University of South Carolina - Columbia
“Poetry Doesn’T Restore Ecosystems”: Garbage And Poetry In The Anthropocene, Joseph Russell Hendryx
Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation examines the representation of material garbage in American poetry, from the development of industrial waste management in the late nineteenth century to the present day ecological crises. In the early to mid-twentieth century, garbage serves as a new Romantic nature, allowing poems’ speakers to reflect on themselves and their society through this trashed landscape. The presence of the material garbage itself, however, was never a central concern and continued to be hidden behind its various metaphorical utilizations. A.R. Ammons’s poem Garbage opened up the poetic conversation by searching for a more nuanced and worldly treatment of garbage. The …
Showing One’S Manhood: The Social Performance Of Masculinity,
2018
University of South Carolina - Columbia
Showing One’S Manhood: The Social Performance Of Masculinity, Fayaz Kabani
Theses and Dissertations
Contrary to much criticism of the past thirty years that regards Shakespeare’s Prince Hal as the epitome of unfettered Machiavellian subjectivity, Hal should be regarded as a teenaged male navigating the contradictory discourses of early modern masculinity in order to perform an integrated, consistent masculinity for his audience. His acceptance of hegemonic masculinity is complicated by his father Henry IV’s usurpation of the throne. The resulting ambivalence in Hal results in his participation in the countermasculine world of Eastcheap. However, once Hal “chooses” his role as Prince of Wales, he finds it difficult to sacrifice his personal self, or body …
