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Life, Ruben M. Robins

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Ignorar Da Fuerzas, Abigail Herrera Cabrera

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Quarantine Thoughts, Kate Ramirez

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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I Want To Be, Eibar Romero

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Cerote, Klara Hernandez

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Dark Targets, Kacie “Kase” Figueroa

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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A Letter For Atlanta, Armando Pena

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Introduction, Nancy Pérez, Marisol Ruiz

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Género Y Sexualidad En Seis Novelas Del Siglo Xxi, Sandra Chang Raak

Dissertations

From its inception Latin American literature has used gender and sexuality as rhetorical devices to approach the topic of cultural identity. For instance, Hernán Cortés in his Cartas de Relación embodies a type of masculinity that overdetermined the lives of the Amerindian people. Centuries later, the modernismo movement headed by Rubén Darío reacted to a Latin American societal shift towards the prevalence of a materialistic culture brought about by the advent of industrial civilization. During the 1960s Latin American literature experienced a rapid blooming that has come to be known as El Boom. Both landmarks, modernism and El Boom …

Tolstoy And The Serving Mentality & Moral Imperative, Reed Hofer

Theses/Capstones/Creative Projects

The primary characters (ones with a point of view) in Leo Tolstoy’s short stories exhibit a degree of success in their general efforts through their own serving mentality and the moral imperative they demonstrate over the course of the narrative. The methodology behind the analytical task of determining the impact of the serving mentality on their success focused on general analysis of seven Tolstoy short stories with some cross-comparison given. The results indicate to what extent a protagonist continued or changed their serving mentality throughout, and how that shift may have influenced their success. The aggregate points of success allotted …

Haunted And Hunted: The Gothic And The Ghostly In The Light And Asylum, Adam Dunnells

Master's Theses

Young adult Gothic horror fiction acts as a coming-of-age story wherein the protagonists must confront the metaphorical and literal ghosts while simultaneously attempting to establish a sense of identity. Applying Gothic theory and ghost theory to the ghostly stories in young adult Gothic horror demonstrates how certain young adult Gothic stories represent the struggle of adolescents as they mature into adulthood and search for their identities. I use Madeline Roux’s Asylum (2013) and D.J. MacHale’s The Light (2010) as case studies to analyze how ghostly antagonists directly oppose adolescent protagonists on their coming-of-age journeys. Analyzing these young adult Gothic horror …

Tacto Y Psicogénesis De Personaje En Tres Novelas De Mercè Rodoreda, Elena Vega-Sampayo

Literatures and Cultural Studies Faculty Publications

Este artículo analiza un rasgo común en la psicogénesis de personaje, fundamentado en el acto de tocar, en tres novelas de la autora catalana Mercè Rodoreda (1908-1983): Aloma, La plaza del Diamante y Espejo roto. Se propone un abordaje nocional a partir de los conceptos psicoanalíticos del Yo-piel de Didier Anzieu, y de la cosa de Jacques Lacan, desde los cuales se describirá cómo el tacto, el deseo y la disolución entre la psique y la realidad conforman un patrón desde la novelística temprana de la autora y trazable en las protagonistas de estas tres obras.

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Telepathic Visions: On Alvin Yapan’S An Kubo Sa Kawayanan (2015), Christian Jil R. Benitez

Filipino Faculty Publications

This article considers the practice of encouraged gazing in Alvin Yapan's An Kubo sa Kawayanan (“The Hut in the Bamboo Grove”) (2015) as a possible exercise on revering things. As such, it is wagered to be instructive towards a reunderstanding of vision as a form of material encounter with things beyond their mere objectification. Sense of sight is argued to be a human telepathic ability, that is, a distance (tele) feeling (pathein) with and for thigns, despite and because of their indeterminate materialities. Through looking closely at the rhetorical engagements of Yapan's Kubo with its various …

Master's Portfolio, Sydney Ludewig

Master of Arts in English Plan II Graduate Projects

This is the final portfolio for my Master's of Arts in the field of English. It includes an analytical narrative along with four projects that best illustrate my knowledge and skills in regards to teaching literature. These four pieces are titled "Problematic Women and Gender Roles in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night," "Teaching Linguistic Justice," "The Importance of Teaching Identity," and "Image Grammar and Narrative Essay Unit."

Visión Del/De Lo Marroquí En Isaac Chocrón, Hassan Amrani Meizi

Dirassat

The subject of this article is to study the vision of Morocco in the novel Rempase en caso de incendio by Isaac Serfaty .and to know character’s of Hispano-American which extends beyond the modernist literary tradition.

The Lost Road As Faërian Drama, John D. Rateliff

Journal of Tolkien Research

This essay looks at world-building in reverse: the process of transforming a desirable fantasy world into a familiar mundane one. Focusing on the tools he had on hand to effect this transformation, particularly on Tolkien’s use of what he calls Faërian Drama, helps explain some of Tolkien’s more cryptic remarks in his late metaphysical writings—e.g. that what was once Valinor is now the Americas.

“I Am No Man”: Éowyn And Game Of Thrones’ Lyanna Mormont, Kristine Larsen

Journal of Tolkien Research

I argue that the success of the HBO television series Game of Thrones’ portrayal of the character of Lyanna Mormont (as well as fan reception of Arya Stark’s unexpected vanquishing of the dreaded Night King) was due in large part to the writers’ ability to simultaneously capitalize on fan-favorite actions of Éowyn in Tolkien’s source material while avoiding less popular aspects of Peter Jackson and company’s depictions of both Éowyn and the original character Tauriel in their film adaptations.

Tolkien, Manuscripts, And Dialect, Edward Risden

Journal of Tolkien Research

Study of languages, names, and dialects may have been the greatest motivating factor in Tolkien's scholarship and his fiction: he found in every name (and even in every word) a story to unearth. Clear connections appear between the scholarly vector that connects his investigations into the Gawain-poet (his location and language), the Ancrene Riwle, and locating the linguistic variants in The Reeve's Tale, for instance, with the creation of the various speech patterns in The Lord of the Rings. Beyond the obvious examples of the Elvish languages Tolkien created, the Westron-Hobbiton dialect that Sam uses, variants among …

La Educación Bilingüe: Una Breve Historia De La Educación Bilingüe En Los Estados Unidos Y Otros Países Y Sus Beneficios, Zachary Taylor Masters

World Languages and Cultures

Looking at the history of bilingual education in the United States and discussing the benefits of bilingual programs.