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The Narrative Lens: Understanding Eudora Welty's Fiction Through Her Photography., Brandon Clarke Ballentine May 2006

The Narrative Lens: Understanding Eudora Welty's Fiction Through Her Photography., Brandon Clarke Ballentine

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Eudora Welty's brief photographic career offers valuable insight into the development of her literary voice. She discovers many of the distinguishing characters of her fiction during the 1930s while traveling through Mississippi writing articles for the Works Progress Administration and taking pictures of the people and places she encountered. Analyzing the connections between her first collection of photographs, One Time, One Place: Mississippi during the Depression: A Snapshot Album, and her first collection of short stories, A Curtain of Green, and Other Stories, reveals the writer's sympathetic attitude towards her characters, the prominence of place in her fiction, and her …

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Tempering Steel: Reapproaching The Mythos Of Superman, Corey Alderdice May 2006

Tempering Steel: Reapproaching The Mythos Of Superman, Corey Alderdice

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This study seeks to answer a question posed in Superman #156 and frequently throughout the history of the DC Comics Universe: Must there be a Superman? In answering this question, this study seeks to seam together over sixty years of Superman to better understand the mythology associated with these narratives as well as their impact on American culture. In an analysis of Mark Waid's Superman: Birthright (2003), the basic forms of the origin narrative are addressed as well as how Waid reconstructs the mythos for the twenty-first century. The second chapter addresses deconstructive narratives and the issue of shifting the …

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Masculinity And The Postmodern In American Psycho And Fight Club, Sean Mccray May 2006

Masculinity And The Postmodern In American Psycho And Fight Club, Sean Mccray

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Initially, this paper traces masculinity in America from the nineteenth century and up through the mid twentieth century in order to define traditional masculinity and identify some of its characteristics. Traditional masculinity, typically demonstrated though aggressive and violent behavior, is currently undergoing cultural and social revisions due to various contemporary ideas. In analyzing American Psycho and Fight Club, two controversial novels written in the past twenty years, the paper makes clear that the protagonists acutely feel the tension that exists between historical perceptions of masculinity and current ideas of what men should be. They react to that tension by exhibiting …

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A Study Of Progression : The History Of Basic Writing At Montclair State University, Kelly Robin Adams May 2006

A Study Of Progression : The History Of Basic Writing At Montclair State University, Kelly Robin Adams

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

No abstract provided.

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Implicit Response : Instructor Values And Social Class In The Literacy Narrative Assignment., Kara Poe Alexander May 2006

Implicit Response : Instructor Values And Social Class In The Literacy Narrative Assignment., Kara Poe Alexander

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

My dissertation examines instructor responses to a popular personal writing assignment, the literacy narrative. Previous studies have shown this assignment to be popular with instructors because of the reflection it is thought to generate; however, nobody has yet looked at what instructors really mean by reflection. This study investigates what features of student texts instructors recognize as reflection. I collected literacy narratives and demographic questionnaires from students and surveys, assignments, think-alouds, and follow-up interviews from instructors. Personal writing, and the literacy narrative assignment in particular, can best be taught by highlighting the rhetorical capabilities of this genre. The results of …

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2006 Literary Review (No. 19), Sigma Tau Delta May 2006

2006 Literary Review (No. 19), Sigma Tau Delta

The Greenleaf Review

No abstract provided.

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Genres, Media, And Usability In The Evaluation Of Writing Quality In Digital Environments, Lisa Ferrara May 2006

Genres, Media, And Usability In The Evaluation Of Writing Quality In Digital Environments, Lisa Ferrara

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

The Society for Technical Communication (STC) has recognized that there may be a problem with depending too much on usability studies for identifying some weaknesses in digital media. In their effort to find a substitute, they have funded more than $250,000 in research in the past two years.

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Digital Romanticism In The Age Of Neo-Luddism: The Romantic Circles Experiment, Steven Jones May 2006

Digital Romanticism In The Age Of Neo-Luddism: The Romantic Circles Experiment, Steven Jones

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The Romantic Circles Website, along with a number of other major projects in digital Romanticism, came online around 1995, a historical moment that also saw the emergence of neo-Luddism, in part as a reaction to the techno-hype of the Internet boom. At the time. neo-Luddites often claimed as a precedent the original historical Luddism of 1811-16, but they usually also Romanticized that collective labor subculture to fit their own late-twentieth-century ideas of “technology.” This essay looks back at the interlinked assumptions in the air around 1995–neo-Luddite and Romantic–as the context out of which Romantic Circles defined its own engaged experiment …

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Handling And Preventing Journalistic Fraud: Janet Cooke, Stephen Glass, Jayson Blair, Kenneth Munson May 2006

Handling And Preventing Journalistic Fraud: Janet Cooke, Stephen Glass, Jayson Blair, Kenneth Munson

Undergraduate Theses and Capstone Projects

Fraud is a growing concern in the news business, especially in recent years where numerous journalism scandals rock its foundation. This paper examines the most prominent cases: Stephen Glass, the reporter for The New Republic newsmagazine who completely or partially fabricated 27 stories in the late ‘90s; Jayson Blair, the New York Times reporter who was found to have plagiarized or made up his supposedly on-thescene reporting in 2003; and Janet Cooke, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1981 for her Washington Post story about a child heroin addict who, in actuality, did not exist. This paper will examine flaws …

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The Institution Of The American Poet Laureate: Mark Strand And The Laureateship's Indication Of Poetic Voice, Alexandra Seifert Apr 2006

The Institution Of The American Poet Laureate: Mark Strand And The Laureateship's Indication Of Poetic Voice, Alexandra Seifert

English Honors Theses

No abstract provided.

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The Life Of Simon Wiesenthal As Told By The New York Times, Mary Cate Kelleher Apr 2006

The Life Of Simon Wiesenthal As Told By The New York Times, Mary Cate Kelleher

Pell Scholars and Senior Theses

On September 21, 2005, The New York Times ran a front page article declaring the death of acclaimed Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal. The story, written by award-winning New York Times journalist Ralph Blumenthal, functioned both as an obituary and as a tribute to the late Holocaust survivor’s life. Weisenthal's life is divided into three periods as chronicled in The New York Times. In the first period we saw Wiesenthal the Nazi-hunter. In the second period we saw Wiesenthal the celebrity, complete with a controversial media war and a series of films. In the third period Wiesenthal revisited the Waldheim controversy while …

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"In My End Is My Beginning": The Fin-Negans Motif In George Macdonald's At The Back Of The North Wind, Catherine Persyn Apr 2006

"In My End Is My Beginning": The Fin-Negans Motif In George Macdonald's At The Back Of The North Wind, Catherine Persyn

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

On MacDonald’s conception of death as an integral part of the life cycle.

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Forbidden Forest, Enchanted Castle: Arthurian Spaces In The Harry Potter Novels, Alessandra Petrina Apr 2006

Forbidden Forest, Enchanted Castle: Arthurian Spaces In The Harry Potter Novels, Alessandra Petrina

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Examines the influence of the landscape and structure of Arthurian legends on the world of Rowling’s Harry Potter novels.

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Eng 4903-001: Young Adult Literature, Fern Kory Apr 2006

Eng 4903-001: Young Adult Literature, Fern Kory

Spring 2006

No abstract provided.

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Eng 4903-002: Young Adult Literature, Donna Binns Apr 2006

Eng 4903-002: Young Adult Literature, Donna Binns

Spring 2006

No abstract provided.

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"Archaic Ambivalence": The Case Of South Africa, John C. Hawley Mar 2006

"Archaic Ambivalence": The Case Of South Africa, John C. Hawley

English

Copyright © 2006 Lexington Books. Reproduced by permission of Rowman & Littlefield. All rights reserved. Please contact the publisher for permission to copy, distribute or reprint.

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Digital Storytelling: The Application Of Vichian Theory, Karen Pierotti Mar 2006

Digital Storytelling: The Application Of Vichian Theory, Karen Pierotti

Theses and Dissertations

Storytelling is often looked at as something archaic or something that simpler cultures engage in. However, in our sophisticated and highly technological world storytelling swirls about us though we may not always recognize it. This thesis looks at the phenomenon of digital storytelling that functions to create community on the Internet. In order to ground this phenomenon in theory, I examine the works of Giambattista Vico, the 18th-century Neapolitan philosopher/rhetorician, who lived on the cusp of the Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment. Furthermore, as a teacher of rhetoric to youth, Vico admonished young people to study the arts of …

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The Rhetoric Of Persecution: Mormon Crisis Rhetoric From 1838-1871, Zachary L. Largey Mar 2006

The Rhetoric Of Persecution: Mormon Crisis Rhetoric From 1838-1871, Zachary L. Largey

Theses and Dissertations

This study is an attempt to (1) minimize the lack of rhetorical scholarship in Mormon studies, and (2) add to the historical study of rhetoric in nineteenth-century America. Since the Mormon Church's establishment in 1830, sermons have been a vital part of the Church's development into a worldwide institution. From the simple testimonial to the more complex doctrinal explication, early Mormon leaders used the art of preaching to spread their message of God and His glories. But rarely have historians or critics focused on the rhetoric—the persuasive techniques—of these sermons. This, perhaps, stems from early Mormonism's general aversion to the …

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The Finest Entertainment: Conscious Observation On Film In Adaptations Of Henry James' The Portrait Of A Lady, The Wings Of The Dove, And Washington Square, Rachael Decker Bailey Mar 2006

The Finest Entertainment: Conscious Observation On Film In Adaptations Of Henry James' The Portrait Of A Lady, The Wings Of The Dove, And Washington Square, Rachael Decker Bailey

Theses and Dissertations

The works of Henry James are renowned for their dense sub-text and the manner in which he leaves his reader to elucidate much of his meaning. In the field of adaptation theory, therefore, James presents somewhat of a problem for the film adaptor: how does one convey on screen James' delicate implications, which are formative to the text without actually existing on the printed page? This project not only works to answer that question, but it also addresses a more serious question: what does adaptation have to offer to the student of literature? In the case of Henry James, the …

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The Other Side Of The Podium: Student Information Needs From Inside The Classroom, Marilyn R. Pukkila Mar 2006

The Other Side Of The Podium: Student Information Needs From Inside The Classroom, Marilyn R. Pukkila

Faculty Scholarship

A few things the author learned about students and research when she audited classes on her campus as part of her sabbatical.

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Crossing The Timeline: Michael Crichton's Bestseller As Social Criticism And History, Linda Bingham Mar 2006

Crossing The Timeline: Michael Crichton's Bestseller As Social Criticism And History, Linda Bingham

UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

Michael Crichton's best-selling suspense novel Timeline combines futuristic science with medieval history, resulting in a remarkably successful and thrilling page-turner. By authoritatively blending academic arcana with fabricated scientific innovation, Crichton also convinces the average reader that the science in the novel is based on current scientific knowledge and that the medieval portions of the novel are based on solid historical research, which, for the most part, they are. Given the fantastic premise of the supposedly present-day science of quantum transportation between universes, one would expect the history-based sections of the book to have the stronger underpinnings. But, surprisingly, the plot …

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Eng 3901-001: Language And Linguistics, Buck Jan 2006

Eng 3901-001: Language And Linguistics, Buck

Spring 2006

No abstract provided.

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Eng 4801-001: Integrating The English Language Arts, Jerie Weasmer Jan 2006

Eng 4801-001: Integrating The English Language Arts, Jerie Weasmer

Spring 2006

No abstract provided.

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Eng 3005-002: Technical Communications, Angela Vietto Jan 2006

Eng 3005-002: Technical Communications, Angela Vietto

Spring 2006

No abstract provided.

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Eng 1092-097: Composition & Literature, Honors, Christopher Hanlon Jan 2006

Eng 1092-097: Composition & Literature, Honors, Christopher Hanlon

Spring 2006

No abstract provided.

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Eng 2091-099: Literature, The Self, And The World: Fiction, Zahlan Jan 2006

Eng 2091-099: Literature, The Self, And The World: Fiction, Zahlan

Spring 2006

No abstract provided.

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Gender, The Political Subject, And Dramatic Authorship: Margaret Example, Mihoko Suzuki Jan 2006

Gender, The Political Subject, And Dramatic Authorship: Margaret Example, Mihoko Suzuki

English Articles and Papers

An abstract for this item is not available.

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‘That Really Too Anxious Protestation’: Crisis And Autobiography In Milton’S Prose, Brooke Conti Jan 2006

‘That Really Too Anxious Protestation’: Crisis And Autobiography In Milton’S Prose, Brooke Conti

English Student Publications

No abstract provided.

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Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl Novels: Contemporary Subversive Tales, Amy Ruth Wilson Clark Jan 2006

Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl Novels: Contemporary Subversive Tales, Amy Ruth Wilson Clark

Theses Digitization Project

Drawing especially on Donna Haraway's notion of the cyborg, this thesis argues that Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl novels, through their depiction of the cyborg and their use of metafiction, intertextuality, and irony, subvert binaries and hierarchies that cause social injustice. Chapter one argues that Colfer's characters disrupt the oppressive binary opposition between innocence and experience that characterizes children's literature. Chapter two argues that Colfer's fairy hierarchy satirizes the human hierarchy. Chapter three argues that Colfer's cyborg, by disrupting the boundary between machine and organism, breaches the wall around the pervasive garden hierarchy of childhood innocence. Chapter four argues against the …

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Robert Scholes. Paradoxy Of Modernism, Alan Blackstock Jan 2006

Robert Scholes. Paradoxy Of Modernism, Alan Blackstock

English Faculty Publications

Readers familiar with Scholes' The Rise and Fall o/English should find his latest book equally engaging. Cyril Connolly's characterization of the work of Dornford Yates, quoted with admiration by Scholes in Chapter Six of this book, might apply equally well to Scholes' own work, as it exhibits "a wit that is ageless united to a courtesy that is extinct." What Scholes finds so admirable in the phrase is "not merely its elegant syntax, but the way that the syntax balances against each other and thus emphasizes the words 'ageless' and 'extinct'-suggesting that the admirable quality of Yates' work derives from …

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