Orbic Bards: Religious Liberalism And The Problems Of Representation In The Postbellum Works Of Walt Whitman And Herman Melville,
2016
University of Texas at El Paso
Orbic Bards: Religious Liberalism And The Problems Of Representation In The Postbellum Works Of Walt Whitman And Herman Melville, Anthony Gus Cohen
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
In an attempt to reconcile the critical camps that attempt either to christianize or otherwise, "scripturize" nineteenth century literary texts with the converse, which attempts to paint them cynically as "infidel countertexts" this project seeks to find a middle ground. The works of Herman Melvile and Walt Whitman steeped in the increasingly liberal religious atmosphere of New York City following the Civil War, both strive to offer up an impressively accurate historical and poetical record, free from the problems of hearsay that nagged the deists and transcendentalists, and instead attempted to offer something that instead was nearer to reason, and …
Parody And The Pen: Pippi Longstocking, Harriet M. Welsch, And Flavia De Luce As Disrupters Of Space, Language, And The Male Gaze,
2016
Eastern Michigan University
Parody And The Pen: Pippi Longstocking, Harriet M. Welsch, And Flavia De Luce As Disrupters Of Space, Language, And The Male Gaze, Kelsey Mclendon
Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations
In opposition to a literary tradition of damsel-in-distress female characters, Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Longstocking, Louise Fitzhugh’s Harriet the Spy, and Alan Bradley’s The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie provide examples of empowered, intelligent, and capable young girls living in a mid-20th century environment and successfully subverting patriarchal norms. Drawing on Laura Mulvey’s theory on women as spectacle, Hélène Cixous’s concept of l’ecriture feminine, and New Historicist influences, I explore the common threads within these post-World War II era texts. Pippi’s strength and humor, Harriet’s spying and writing, and Flavia’s scientific expertise and detectival work illustrate their …
Tricking For Change: Establishing The Literary Trickster In The Western Tradition,
2016
Eastern Michigan University
Tricking For Change: Establishing The Literary Trickster In The Western Tradition, Christopher Michael Stuart
Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations
This thesis proposes a new category for literary analysis called the literary trickster figure. Over the last few centuries, the trickster figure has been reduced from a cultural hero to a dubious character. If we trace the trickster’s western roots back to Hermes, Mercury, and Loki and take global trickster scholarship into consideration, criteria can be established and the role of the literary trickster can be assessed. The literary trickster’s role is to undermine the established order (social and political hierarchies), create disorder and bring awareness to systemic issues in order to bring about change. Once the literary trickster category …
Gender Stereotypes In Children's Literature,
2016
University of Northern Iowa
Gender Stereotypes In Children's Literature, Christine C. Nebbia
Graduate Research Papers
This research paper focused on the creation of nine professional development sessions using critical literacy practices in order to analyze and examine gender stereotypes in children's literature addressed in the classroom. This professional development grew out of an in-depth examination of the research over the past 40 years addressing gender stereotypes and gender representation in children's literature, as well as, the literature on critical literacy practices and issues of social justice. The professional development sessions were designed around three major goals: to enable teachers to independently analyze children's literature for gender stereotypes; to help teachers understand the four components of …
Front Matter,
2016
USC Aiken
Front Matter, Douglas Higbee
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
Gender And Power In Waiting For Godot,
2016
Reed College
Gender And Power In Waiting For Godot, Ryan Wright
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
Blind With Superstition, Cursed With Illusions: Masculinity And War In Bierce’S “Chickamauga”,
2016
Middle Georgia State University
Blind With Superstition, Cursed With Illusions: Masculinity And War In Bierce’S “Chickamauga”, Salina Patterson
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
The Game Debate: Video Games As Innovative Storytelling,
2016
University of Missouri, St. Louis
The Game Debate: Video Games As Innovative Storytelling, Melissa Somerdin
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
Back Matter,
2016
USC Aiken
Back Matter, Douglas Higbee
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
Contents,
2016
USC Aiken
Contents, Douglas Higbee
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
James Joyce’S Gnomon Of Pain In “Grace” And “The Dead”,
2016
Mount St. Mary's University
James Joyce’S Gnomon Of Pain In “Grace” And “The Dead”, Bari K. Boyd
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
The Oswald Review Of Undergraduate Research And Criticism In The Discipline Of English: Volume 18 Fall 2016,
2016
University of South Carolina
The Oswald Review Of Undergraduate Research And Criticism In The Discipline Of English: Volume 18 Fall 2016
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
As If We Were Alive - Trauma Recovery In Toni Morrison's Beloved And The Bluest Eye,
2016
The University of Akron
As If We Were Alive - Trauma Recovery In Toni Morrison's Beloved And The Bluest Eye, Eric D. Mcdonnell Jr
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Beloved each explore issues of traumatized individuals and the effects of this trauma on their lives and the lives of those around them. An oft-overlooked piece of Morrison's work, however, is her focus on recovery from trauma and the unique presentations of these possibilities through narrative. In these selected texts, the need for a community to act, engage, and remember the trauma of individuals and collectives shine through as the key ways to move twaords the hope of recovery from traumatic events.
Disrupting The Past To Disrupt The Future: An Antenarrative Of Technical Communication,
2016
Utah State University
Disrupting The Past To Disrupt The Future: An Antenarrative Of Technical Communication, Natasha N. Jones, Kristen R. Moore, Rebecca Walton
English Faculty Publications
This article presents an antenarrative of the field of technical and professional communication. Part methodology and part practice, an antenarrative allows the work of the field to be reseen, forges new paths forward, and emboldens the field’s objectives to unabashedly embrace social justice andinclusivity as part of its core narrative. The authors present a heuristic that can usefully extend the pursuit of inclusivity in technical and professional communication.
Archives, Numbers, Meaning: The Eighteenth-Century Playbill At Scale,
2016
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Archives, Numbers, Meaning: The Eighteenth-Century Playbill At Scale, Mark Vareschi, Mattie Burket
English Faculty Publications
In response to the growing prominence of quantification in the humanities, scholars of media and digital culture have highlighted the friction between the cultural and disciplinary roles of data and the epistemologies of humanistic inquiry. Johanna Drucker aptly characterizes the humanities as fields that emphasize “the situated, partial, and constitutive character of knowledge production,” while data are often taken to be representations of “observer-independent reality.” Lisa Gitelman and Virginia Jackson likewise critique the dominant assumption of data’s transparency: data, they insist, “are always already ‘cooked’ and never entirely ‘raw.’” The choices involved in data collection and preparation are not objective; …
Strangers Among Us: Invasive Plants In British Literature, 1669-1800.,
2016
University of Mississippi
Strangers Among Us: Invasive Plants In British Literature, 1669-1800., Thomas Lance Bullington
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Exotic flora in the long eighteenth century (1666-1800) embodied a point of contact between the natural and imaginary worlds, bearing witness to the ways that ideology relocates living things according to human desire. Most accounts view these exotics through the lens of ecological imperialism and “invasive” species. Both of these terms are twenty-first century metaphors that materialize the role of imperialism in circulating exotics, applying the narrative of invading British empire to the behavior of foreign plants. However, such accounts do not fully acknowledge the cultural work that images of foreign plants do. I opt instead for an ecocritical reappraisal …
The Communicability Of Nature,
2016
University of Montana - Missoula
The Communicability Of Nature, Meg E. Smith
Undergraduate Theses, Professional Papers, and Capstone Artifacts
How do we experience nature? In what way can we find ourselves at one with nature, immersed in the experience of nature, and still allow nature a level of healthy “otherness,” of individual separation? Writers, scientists, and lost people have long gone to the wilderness, to nature, in search of answers to life’s mysteries. In effect it has become a destination, a place apart from humans, where it exists only as a haven and place of meditation. Nature has lost its own individuality, its sense of presence as an entity in and of itself. When we seek nature in order …
Introduction To Colloquium: John Shirley’S Cambridge, Trinity College, Ms R.3.20 And The Culture Of The Anthology In Late Medieval England,
2016
Colby College
Introduction To Colloquium: John Shirley’S Cambridge, Trinity College, Ms R.3.20 And The Culture Of The Anthology In Late Medieval England, Megan Cook, Elizaveta Strakhov
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Review: William Fitzgerald’S Spiritual Modalities: Prayer As Rhetoric And Performance,
2016
Loyola Marymount University
Review: William Fitzgerald’S Spiritual Modalities: Prayer As Rhetoric And Performance, Steven J. Mailloux
English Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Education Through Violence In Modern American Literature,
2016
University of South Carolina
Education Through Violence In Modern American Literature, Adam Griffey
Theses and Dissertations
“Education through Violence in Modern American Literature” examines how violence is employed as a pedagogical tool in overseeing the transition of young people into adulthood in twentieth and twenty-first century American literature. Examining texts by Robert Cormier, John Knowles, Suzanne Collins, Orson Scott Card, Flannery O’Connor, James Baldwin, and Cormac McCarthy, this study demonstrates that a pedagogy of violence may be used as a coercive method to further the goals of the powerful, but it is equally interested in the ways that young people are able to rebel against structural systems of power that demand conformity and adherence to social, …
