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La Fille Publique: Depictions Of Sex Work In Fin-De-Siècle Literature, Nicole Araujo

All Student Scholarship

This thesis conducts a feminist analysis of depictions of sex work in fin-de-siècle, or turn of the19th-century, French literature. It draws connections between literature from this time period and the social and political forces that sought to eradicate female sexual autonomy. In the introduction, the political and social setting of fin-de-siècle France is explored, when sex work was widely prevalent and for many women offered a route to sexual and financial autonomy that was otherwise unattainable, much to the anxiety and irritation of the patriarchal forces in place.The first chapter analyzes Emile Zola’s Nana as a classic representation of the …

Memetic Rhetorical Theory: An Analytic Model For The Spread Of Information Online, Carleigh J. Davis

English and Technical Communication Faculty Research & Creative Works

Modern discourse is often characterized by such extreme polarization that participants operate from entirely different sets of facts. These alternative facts represent a new line of inquiry for rhetoricians, who must determine how false facts gain credibility. This article outlines Memetic Rhetorical Theory (MRT), a model for understanding how information evolves to become credible in a given environment.

Diversifying Woolf’S Room: Private Spaces And Creativity In The Works Of Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, Gayl Jones, And Alice Walker, Ebtesam M. Alawfi

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

There is a divergence between Woolf’s vision of private physical spaces necessary for creating art and that of some feminists of color such as Alice Walker, Ortiz Cofer, and Gloria Anzaldua. Both Woolf and these contemporary scholars agree on the importance of physical spaces for female artists. However, they disagree on the nature of these spaces. Woolf’s private physical space is a room with a lock on the door whereas these writers’ room is the kitchen table, the bus, or the welfare line. Walker and like-minded writers challenge the narrowness of Woolf’s room because her locked room is a luxury …

The Spooky Vein: The Reparative Gothic-Modern In The Works Of Richard A.W. Hughes, Corwin R. Baden

English Theses & Dissertations

This dissertation explores the dual nature of Richard A.W. Hughes as a marginalized Gothicist and modernist. This duality facilitated the development of the author’s reparative vision for a 20th-century world traumatized by planetary war. The present study utilizes close readings—both surface and symptomatic—combined with archival research to assert that Hughes fashions this reparative imperative consistently across his corpus: in his short stories, poems, novels, stage plays, and screenplays. In his short stories, this vision includes an embrace of the Stranger, a shadowy Gothic figure whose possessions, power, difference, and familiarity lead the human subject from contestation, through representation, and toward …

A Seventeenth-Century Air History In Conversation With Antony And Cleopatra, Laura S. Deluca

Binghamton University Undergraduate Journal

This article works to unpack the recurrences of air-related language utilized in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. Throughout this play, the notions of breath, wind, air, and vapor are consistently referenced, demonstrating the way in which atmospheric intangibility was a key point of exploration for contemporary scientists and philosophers. Through this analysis, it is clear that Shakespeare employs breath in three ways: the breath of (public) life, a lack of breath, and, most importantly, breath as a symbol of power and autonomy, which at times overlaps with the breath of life in ways that demonstrate contemporary conceptualizations of living beings. The …

The Exploration Of Various Literary Genres Through Short Story Writing, Abigail Cowan

Honors Theses

This project contains four short stories and one collection of poetry. The first, “Touch-Me-Nots,” explores self-harm and healing using the touch-me-not plant as an analogy for avoiding self-harm and leaves readers with the hopeful sentiment of a person willing to heal by “leaving it alone.” Next, “The Bear and the Ant,” inspired by Aesop’s Fables, anthropomorphizes a bear and an ant and leaves readers with a ‘moral’ in true Aesop Fable fashion. Inspired by the ants who ransacked my six-month-old Halloween candy stash, I detail a Bear which attempts to “save” its honey for a day that never comes. The …

Coming-Of-Age And Parallel Worlds In Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, Reham Rabie

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Stigma And The Social Function Of Fate In The Story Of Túrin Turambar, Clare Moore

Journal of Tolkien Research

This paper applies Erving Goffman's theories of stigma to J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Children of Húrin in order to explore the social function of Túrin's fate throughout the narrative. Interpreting fate as a stigma reveals the role society plays in the tragedy of Túrin's story through the lens of a social model of disability.

Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic And Interwar Literature By Elizabeth Outka (Review), James Fitz Gerald

English and Media Studies Faculty Publications

Elizabeth Outka begins Viral Modernism with an important and, given our own pandemic present, strikingly relevant question: “why does the deadly 1918–1919 influenza pandemic seem to make so few appearances in British, Irish, and American literature of the period?” (1). Until Outka, critics have largely left questions concerning the flu pandemic not just unanswered but unasked. Despite killing more than 50 million people worldwide—the US suffered more deaths in the pandemic than in World War I, World War II, and the imperial conflicts of Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq combined—the Great Flu Pandemic has been consistently overshadowed by the Great War …

Coffee, Yvonne Bamba

The Tuxedo Archives

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Summer Of Love, Ronald Grossi

The Tuxedo Archives

In 1967, with the news full of body counts from Vietnam and Sgt. Pepper playing on the radio, I got a call from my friend Larry saying “We gotta go see what’s happening in San Francisco.” It was the Summer of Love.

Connection Failure: War, Spiritualism And Communications Media In Violet Hunt's "Love's Last Leave.", Melissa Dinsman, Heather M. Robinson

Publications and Research

An overlooked figure of modernist circles, Violent Hunt was a suffragette, novelist, and author of ghost stories. In her second collection of haunted narratives, More Tales of The Uneasy (1925), Hunt explores the ghostliness of the Great War, both for those on the front and at home. In this essay, we focus on the third story in this volume, “Love’s Last Leave,” and argue that Hunt includes both ghost story tropes and communications media to articulate the real deadliness of the Great War. Communications technology and spiritualism share a similar historical evolution, and in “Love’s Last Leave” both types …

Chameleon Boy: An Autobiographical Literary Critique Of Biracial Subjects In A Racialized Society, David Robinson

All NMU Master's Theses

In American society, race is a determining factor when realizing a salient identity. Social engagements, relationships, and the perception has of one’s self are all effected and choreographed by race. Deeply ingrained within our social structure race aims to categorize humanity into easily identifiable, yet reductive, categories. However, an issue arises when the addition of the mixed-race subject throws the sorting machine into a frenzy. Unable to categorize the racially ambiguous, American society chooses to conflate their physicality to another ethnic group or race or write them off as Other. The late Gloria Anzaldua’s investigation into the limitless possibilities present …

A Checklist And Index To Lembas Extra 1985 To 2019, Douglas A. Anderson

Journal of Tolkien Research

A Checklist and Index to Lembas Extra 1985 to 2019

The Conscience Of Solomon Kane: Robert E. Howard’S Rhetorics Of Motive, World, And Race, Gabriel Mamola

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

In this article I use key definitions from the writings of C. S. Lewis and Hannah Arendt to analyze the portrayal of "conscience as motive" in Robert E. Howard's Solomon Kane stories. I propose a reading of "Kane Saga" as unified by a single underlying fantasy narrative structured around the development of Kane’s conscience across several adventures set in Europe and Africa. In doing so, I attempt to construe these stories of Howard’s earliest “Sword and Sorcery” hero as a fruitful place for critical engagement with Howard’s rhetorics of race, motive, conscience, and action. In doing so, I push back …

The Flight Of The Wild Gander By Joseph Campbell, Phillip Fitzsimmons

Faculty Articles & Research

The Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimension - Selected Essays, 1944-1968 is a 2018 addition to The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell series. This volume of essays begins with a history of the Grimm brothers and fairy tales, moves on to the author’s ideas on the role of society to the development of mythologies, and ends with the secularization of the sacred. This book would go nicely with his The Mythic Dimension: Selected Essays 1959–1987, a 2017 reissue of the volume, also for The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell series. Both books develop similar themes …

Index To The Journal Of Tolkien Research Volume 1 Through Volume 13 Issue 1, Douglas A. Anderson

Journal of Tolkien Research

Index to The Journal of Tolkien Research Volume 1 through Volume 13 issue 1

Trans∗Vulnerability And Digital Research Ethics: A Qubit Ethical Analysis Of Transparency Activism, Avery C. Edenfield, Ryan Cheek, Sam Clem

English and Technical Communication Faculty Research & Creative Works

Trans communities across the United States are under assault. Researchers seeking to work with trans people and other multiply marginalized and underrepresented communities must attend to ethical research practices within the communities in which they participate. Digital research ethics is particularly murky with issues of embodiment, vulnerability, and unclear IRB guidance. Comparing two transparency activist organizations-Wikileaks and DDoSecrets-we introduce "qubit ethics," a trans material, trans-corporeal ethics of care as praxis within vulnerable online communities. We then demonstrate how this unique approach to research design allows for the complex entanglements that is trans life, particularly digital life. Finally, we present clear …

Graphic Nonsense And Historical Trauma In Fred Chao’S Johnny Hiro, Jin Lee

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

This article introduces the concept of “graphic nonsense” to explain nonsense in Fred Chao’s graphic narrative, Johnny Hiro, which features figures of monster (Godzilla and King Kong) as well as real U.S. political figures (Michael Bloomberg and John P. O’Brien). Focusing on transpacific trauma, this article articulates a counter-history using Fredric Jameson’s terms to expose the process of silencing the other and “retextualizing” history. Although puzzling at first, if not silly at best, the nonsensical elements in the graphic narrative can prompt the reader to find out historical allusions in Godzilla and King Kong to make sense out of …

The Orientation Of Professionally Teaching Of Foreign Languages In Pedagogical Higher Education Institutions, Gulchexra Xudoyberdiyeva

Mental Enlightenment Scientific-Methodological Journal

This article is about the effectiveness of using descriptive methods in English classes and professional-oriented teaching foreign language at a non-language university. It analyses the peculiarities of descriptive method, comparative-historical method and the role of linguodidactics in teaching foreign language at a non-linguistic university. The introduction of the concept of competence in the educational process eliminates the gap between the theoretical knowledge that has hitherto been used in teaching practice and its practical application, that is, when the student has theoretical knowledge, it is difficult to use it in problematic situations. So, Great attention is paid to the teaching of …

The Current State Of The Problem Of The Formation Of Stability In The Teaching Profession, Manzura Norkuzieva

Mental Enlightenment Scientific-Methodological Journal

This article provides information that the proposed technology for developing the professional suitability of a future teacher is "implementing the curriculumin the process of teaching subjects, mainly in the specialty and pedagogical psychology category, training future teachers of sustainable activity in the profession, as well as about the existing state of the problem of working on such concepts as" resilience"," professional resilience", "professional resilience", "old age" and "professional endurance". Working on the concept for future teachers, conducting practical classes, recommendations for hanging a speech hero, independent use of mimic and pantomime movements, working with children, adapting them to school life …

Lacuna As An Intercultural Communication Device And Its Translation Problems, Dilorom Khaydarova

Mental Enlightenment Scientific-Methodological Journal

Intercultural communication has become very significant due to the increasing contacts between members of different cultures and their impacts on everyday life, business issues. From this point of view, this article deals with textual and contextual analysis of lacuna and its usage for the field of intercultural communication as well as analyzes lacunarity as a phenomenon of lexical system, and provides comparative analysis of inter lingual lacunas. Several lexicosemantic fields containing inter lingual lexical lacunas were implemented into analysis. Relying on the findings the conclusion has been done on the prevalence of lacunary vocabulary in each of the mentioned fields, …

Competence Of Computer Modeling In The Context Of Modern Education, Sarvar Djumaboev, Sodik Usmonov, Ulugbek Ergashev

Mental Enlightenment Scientific-Methodological Journal

The study of computer modeling at various stages of the educational process - from school to university is considered, competencies acquired by students in the study of computer mathematical modeling are formulated and the need for further development of competencies acquired at school is substantiated. A new approach to teaching students of mathematical directions is proposed preparation of mathematics and computer science by means of computer modeling. This technique is built on the principles of the competence approach, interdisciplinary connections of the educational disciplines of mathematics and computer science, contributes to the formation of research competence.

Teaching And Preparation Of Competetive Guides For Tourism In Uzbekistan, A. Kh. Juraev

Mental Enlightenment Scientific-Methodological Journal

This paper examines how the tour guide interpreter’s professional preparation impact to tourism service in Uzbekistan. Situated on the Silk Road, Uzbekistan has ever been one of the very attractive tourist destination. Recent political and economic changes in the country open wide doors for tourists. Increasing of the tourist quantity demands skillful experienced guides. Thus teaching guides needs new approaches, especially in foreign language teaching methods.

The article tries to shed light on what is professional competence of guides and identifies the term competence. Formation of professional competence of guides in tourism colleges and universities are our basic task and …

Methods Of Formation Of Cognitive Activity Of Future English Language Teachers, S. B. Mirzaakbarov, Mashhura Akhmedova

Mental Enlightenment Scientific-Methodological Journal

In this article, the methods and principles of formation of the cognitive activity of future English Language teachers and the basics of teaching on their basis, as well as the necessity of the cognitive activity in the preparation of future English Language teachers are highlighted.

Linguacultural Pecularities Of Incantations Of The Uzbek Language, Gulrukh Norbekova

Mental Enlightenment Scientific-Methodological Journal

The words of the incantations are considered as the object of both linguistic and cultural research, as either of them complete each other while doing the following investigation. Regarding to this point, phonetic, morphological, lexical features of the words of incantations have been described and analyzed in this article. The use of the comparative historical method, the methods of structural- morphological, contextual and historical-etymological analyses contribute to the achievement of the objective of the research. It has been revealed that at the phonetic and grammatical levels, the features inherent in the ancient Turkic literary tradition are preserved. Thematic groups of …

The Formation Of Civic Conciousness Of The Youth As A Political-Technological Problem, Umid Norbekov

Mental Enlightenment Scientific-Methodological Journal

The formation of civic consciousness of young people is not a cyclical process. The fact that the civic consciousness of young people is a political process has become clear in today’s local and national, regional and global socio-political processes.Young people's civic consciousness is achieved through the use of deep and well-thought-out political methods and technologies, the preservation of national identity, identity, ancestral spirituality in young people in today's era of global information and communication technologies, the establishment of civic immunity. This article is based on the fact that the formation of civic consciousness of young people is a political process.

Lexical Interference As The Interaction Of Language Systems In A Bilingual Environment, Muborak Turayeva

Mental Enlightenment Scientific-Methodological Journal

The work considers the development of the theory of language contacts, in particular, provisions concerning interference as a cause of linguistic variation. The results obtained deepen the existing ideas about the peculiarities of the implementation of linguistic units of English origin and the conditions for their use in the Uzbek language, as well as create prerequisites for further study of the problems of the relationship of languages. In this work, we adhere to the position taken by U. Weinreich, understanding by interference any change in the language system under the influence of another language and, therefore, including lexical borrowings here. …

Forming National Pride And Speech Activity In Preschool Children Through National Games, G. Temurova

Mental Enlightenment Scientific-Methodological Journal

It is much easier to go for a walk at home if the yard of the children's institution has the necessary equipment for games and activities. Of course, each group should have a set of toys to play outdoors. The educator plays different games with the children depending on the season and the weather. In reading, children prefer moving games to avoid freezing, and in the spring and summer they organize various construction games using sand and water in nature. It is possible to organize role-playing games with children or games in which children's physical activity obeys pre-established rules, ie …

Difficulties In Grammar Acquisition In Esl Classes, Rano Norbekova

Mental Enlightenment Scientific-Methodological Journal

This article is devoted to the study of the most pressing problems of teaching foreign languages, particularly grammar at the present stage, as well as the main problems associated with this. In this paper, we will review only a few of the problems of teaching grammar of English, which are central to the problems related to various aspects of modern teaching. In modern conditions, knowledge of foreign languages is becoming increasingly important, since we cannot, in the context of globalization, exist in isolation from the rest of the world. The article reveals the features and problems of teaching grammar, such …