"We Met In A Bar By Happenstance": Master Narratives In Couples Stories,
2017
Eastern Michigan University
"We Met In A Bar By Happenstance": Master Narratives In Couples Stories, Brent A. Miller
Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations
The focus of this study is on uncovering the underlying cultural assumptions, or Master Narratives, across four couples narratives that I elicited. I use Deborah Tannen's work and definitions to frame my analysis (2008). She identifies three narrative types: small-n narrative, the accounts of specific events or interactions that speakers said had occurred with one another; big-N Narrative, the themes speakers develop in telling about one another and in support of which they told the small-n narratives; and Master Narrative, the culture-wide ideologies shaping the big-N Narratives. Specifically, I identify two Master Narratives that underscore couples narratives in a broad …
‘Steady Stream … Mad Stuff … Half The Vowels Wrong …’: Water, Waste And Words In Beckett’S Plays,
2017
East Tennessee State University
‘Steady Stream … Mad Stuff … Half The Vowels Wrong …’: Water, Waste And Words In Beckett’S Plays, Katherine Weiss
ETSU Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Archive Fever, Archive Failure: Exploring The ‘It’ In Beckett’S Theatre,
2017
East Tennessee State University
Archive Fever, Archive Failure: Exploring The ‘It’ In Beckett’S Theatre, Katherine Weiss
ETSU Faculty Works
Using Jacques Derrida's 1995 study, Archive Fever, Weiss examines how Samuel Beckett's Come and Go and Footfalls stage the failed acts of archiving. In both plays, memories are either unknown or not named. Either way, without being named they cannot be collected, catalogued or made public. Despite this, the women haunting his plays seem struck by archive fever. Ultimately, Beckett stages the tension between the desire to remain silent with the desire to archive.
Performance Review Of The Busy Body, By Susanna Centlivre,
2017
East Tennessee State University
Performance Review Of The Busy Body, By Susanna Centlivre, Judith Bailey Slagle
ETSU Faculty Works
Review of Susanna Centlivre’s The Busy Body: A Comedy, directed by John Sipes, adapted by Misty Anderson and John Sipes, Clarence Brown Theatre at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, February 22-March 12, 2017.
Against The Pursuit Of 'Life's Delirium': Modern Queer Readings Of Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" And Fanny Fern's "Ruth Hall",
2017
Scripps College
Against The Pursuit Of 'Life's Delirium': Modern Queer Readings Of Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" And Fanny Fern's "Ruth Hall", Nina Posner
Scripps Senior Theses
This essay explores modern queer readings of The Awakening and Ruth Hall, with an emphasis on feeling, time, femininity, and maternity.
Performativity And Domestic Fiction In Antebellum America: The Power Dynamics Of Class And Gender Performance,
2017
Scripps College
Performativity And Domestic Fiction In Antebellum America: The Power Dynamics Of Class And Gender Performance, Blair Hedigan
Scripps Senior Theses
This thesis analyzes the role of performativity within the domestic novel during antebellum America; specifically, the ways in which E.D.E.N. Southworth’s The Hidden Hand and Louisa May Alcott’s Behind a Mask subverted cultural and societal norms by exploring the performative nature of class and gender. Through their respective protagonists, the two authors sought to question the power dynamics of an overwhelmingly patriarchal society. By granting their protagonists agency through performance, Southworth and Alcott explored the ways in which women might alter existing power structures to reject the restrictions gender essentialism placed upon antebellum women, and to advocate for women’s rights, …
Letting In The Night: The Moon, The Madwoman, And The Irrational Feminine In Jane Eyre And Wide Sargasso Sea,
2017
Scripps College
Letting In The Night: The Moon, The Madwoman, And The Irrational Feminine In Jane Eyre And Wide Sargasso Sea, Sophia Rosenthal
Scripps Senior Theses
This analysis examines Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea through the lens of lunar imagery and the irrational feminine, arguing that both texts are aspects of an extended, collective narrative in which both heroines rescue and reclaim their feminine essence from the construction of a masculine idealism.
Re-Calling The Past: Poetry As Preservation Of Black Female Histories,
2017
Scripps College
Re-Calling The Past: Poetry As Preservation Of Black Female Histories, Rachel Miller-Haughton
Scripps Senior Theses
This paper discusses the poetry of Audre Lorde and Natasha Trethewey, and the ways in which they bring to attention the often-silenced histories of African American females. Through close readings of Lorde’s poems “Call” and “Coal,” and Trethewey’s “Three Photographs,” these histories are brought to the present with the framework of the words “call” and “re-call.” The paper explores the ways in which Lorde creates a new mythology for understanding her identity as “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet” in her innovative, intersectional feminist poetry. This is used as the framework for understanding modern poets like Trethewey, whose identity as a …
Exploring The Political Impact Of Literature And Literary Studies In American Government,
2017
Eastern Michigan University
Exploring The Political Impact Of Literature And Literary Studies In American Government, Taylor Dereadt
Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations
This thesis explores the role of literature and practices of literary study in American government. Specifically, it looks at how the President’s Council on Bioethics (PCBE) and the Supreme Court have deliberately embraced the humanities to fulfill their respective responsibilities. I begin by examining the interpretive practices these groups employ, then turn to lists of recommended reading published by the PCBE and Justice Anthony Kennedy. I investigate how their endorsements of texts such as Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, My Antonia, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and To Kill a Mockingbird promote certain constructions of traditional American values that …
The Organization Of Turn-Taking In Fieldwork Settings: A Case Study,
2017
Eastern Michigan University
The Organization Of Turn-Taking In Fieldwork Settings: A Case Study, Amy Brunett
Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations
This linguistic study explores the role of turn-taking within 3 fieldwork sessions between a linguist and a native Mocho’ speaker, aiming to address who overlaps more frequently and whether overlapping speech is a cooperative or competitive resource throughout the exchanges. I questioned whether the fieldwork recordings would have turn-taking similar to a conversation or whether the turn-taking would function like an interview, however, the turn-taking in these recordings function in a unique manner. Based on my analysis, the fieldwork exchanges have their own organization of turn-taking that incorporates aspects that are similar to both naturally-occurring conversation and classic interviews, encouraging …
Return To Sender,
2017
The University of Akron
Return To Sender, Katherine Noelle Nypaver
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
Return to Sender is a fictional short story that illustrates the potential consequences of neglecting to take others seriously. River Ellison, a high school senior at St. Jude’s Academy struggling with depression and habitual self-harm, receives a note from his peer regarding his thoughts on suicide. His ordinary school day transforms into twenty-four hours of repercussions that force River to see his peer for what she is—an equal. Prefacing the short story, my critical essay explains why I find C.D. Payne, John Green, Jesse Andrews, and J.D. Salinger so inspiring to the young adult literature world. I also analyze how …
"The Mouth Of The Void," "Hum",
2017
The University of Akron
"The Mouth Of The Void," "Hum", Hannah L. Comeriato
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
This project presents two distinct pieces of short fiction, linked through intentional stylized language, grammatical patterns, and a sectionalized narrative structure. Each individual piece of short fiction functions independently – as separate and distinct from the other, with no explicit connection in content (i.e. recurring characters, parallel timelines etc.). However, each narrative also displays a kind of complex interaction with the other, each crafted to produce, when read alongside one another, a shared indistinct aesthetic and emotional experience. This aesthetic and emotional experience is crafted, specifically, by the use of stylized verbs, the em-dash, and alternating dialogue-based and image-based sections. …
On John Wilmot (Lord Rochester) "Upon Nothing": A London School Stylistics Account,
2017
Utah State University
On John Wilmot (Lord Rochester) "Upon Nothing": A London School Stylistics Account, Gene Washington
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Queen Alice And The Monstrous Child: Alice Through The Looking Glass,
2017
CUNY Queens College
Queen Alice And The Monstrous Child: Alice Through The Looking Glass, Veronica Schanoes
Publications and Research
No abstract provided.
Fairy Tales Transformed? Twenty-First-Century Adaptations And The Politics Of Wonder By Cristina Bacchilega (Review),
2017
CUNY Queens College
Fairy Tales Transformed? Twenty-First-Century Adaptations And The Politics Of Wonder By Cristina Bacchilega (Review), Veronica Schanoes
Publications and Research
Reviews the book: Fairy Tales Transformed? Twenty-First-Century Adaptations and the Politics of Wonder by Cristina Bacchilega. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2013.
The Boring Side Of The Family,
2017
Marquette University
The Boring Side Of The Family, Angela Sorby
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Conversations Of The Waning Moon,
2017
Xavier University of Louisiana
Conversations Of The Waning Moon, Anam F. Ismail
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Roberto Esposito’S The Machine Of Political Theology And The Place Of Thought,
2017
Loyola Marymount University
Roberto Esposito’S The Machine Of Political Theology And The Place Of Thought, Steven J. Mailloux
English Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
“The Heighe Worthynesse Of Love”: Visions Of Perception, Convention, And Contradiction In Chaucer’S Troilus And Criseyde,
2017
Virginia Commonwealth University
“The Heighe Worthynesse Of Love”: Visions Of Perception, Convention, And Contradiction In Chaucer’S Troilus And Criseyde, John J. Hertz
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis examines three images associated with the manuscripts and early printed editions of Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde which I have dubbed “Prostrate Troilus,” “Pandarus as Messenger,” and “Criseyde in the Garden.” These images are artifacts of contemporary textual interpretation that “read” Chaucer’s text and the tale of Troilus. They each illustrate the way in which Troilus, Pandarus, and Criseyde “read” images, gestures, symbols, and speeches within the narrative, and they show how these characters are constrained and influenced by their individual primary modes of perception. Troilus reads but does not analyze. Pandarus actively reads his own meanings into messages. …
The Effect Of Speech Elicitation Method On Second Language Phonemic Accuracy,
2017
University of Central Florida
The Effect Of Speech Elicitation Method On Second Language Phonemic Accuracy, Nicole Carrasquel
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The present study, a One-Group Posttest-Only Repeated-Measures Design, examined the effect of speech elicitation method on second language (L2) phonemic accuracy of high functional load initial phonemes found in frequently occurring nouns in American English. This effect was further analyzed by including the variable of first language (L1) to determine if L1 moderated any effects found. The data consisted of audio recordings of 61 adult English learners (ELs) enrolled in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses at a large, public, post-secondary institution in the United States. Phonemic accuracy was judged by two independent raters as either approximating a standard American …
