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Reading The Wound: Wollstonecraft’S The Wrongs Of Woman, Or Maria And Trauma Theory, Diane Hoeveler Jan 1999

Reading The Wound: Wollstonecraft’S The Wrongs Of Woman, Or Maria And Trauma Theory, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

Discusses the theory of trauma presented in Mary Wollstonecraft's novel 'Wrongs of Woman, Or Maria.' How the novel was both personally therapeutic for the author and historically significant for what it reveals about women's lives under patriarchy; The repeated dissection of Wollstonecraft's wounds which stem from sexual betrayal; The character of Maria as a representation of the psychological and sexual abuses that wound all women.

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A Look At Adoption Through Young Adult Fiction, Suzanne K. Duneman Jan 1999

A Look At Adoption Through Young Adult Fiction, Suzanne K. Duneman

Graduate Research Papers

This content analysis study examines adoptees and their families in nineteen young adult novels. An analysis was made of the adoptees sense of identity, the decision to search for their birth families, and their familial relationships. Sixty-three percent of the adoptees speculated about their birth families. Fifty-three percent of the characters did search for their birth families. Of that group, ninety percent had doubts during the search. In the conclusion of the novels sixty-three percent continued to have a relationship with both their adoptive and birth families, and thirty-seven percent maintained a relationship with only their adoptive family.

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In Search Of A New Totality: Herman Hesse's Demian, Jeffrey Shannon Jan 1999

In Search Of A New Totality: Herman Hesse's Demian, Jeffrey Shannon

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

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Looking Through A Lens: A Viewer's Story About Love And The Movies, Jennifer Waldo Jan 1999

Looking Through A Lens: A Viewer's Story About Love And The Movies, Jennifer Waldo

Honors Papers

I never realized how much movies influenced my life until I saw James Cameron's Titanic (1997) for the second time. It was early March 1998, I was studying in Prague and coping with a deteriorating relationship. Unannounced and against my wishes, my boyfriend of four years had traveled across Europe to convince me of "our" love. Once in Prague, he would not leave and neither one of us knew quite what to do given the situation. One night, I suggested we go see Titanic. I had already seen it with my friends in Prague and wanted to see it again …

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Thoughts On J. Macdougall Hay's Gillespie, Lain Crichton Smith Jan 1999

Thoughts On J. Macdougall Hay's Gillespie, Lain Crichton Smith

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Scott's Redgauntlet And The Late Medieval Romance Of Friendship, Eger And Grime, Deanna Delmar Evans Jan 1999

Scott's Redgauntlet And The Late Medieval Romance Of Friendship, Eger And Grime, Deanna Delmar Evans

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

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"False Friends, Squeamish Readers, And Foolish Critics": The Subtext Of Authorship In Hogg's Justified Sinner, Regina B. Oost Jan 1999

"False Friends, Squeamish Readers, And Foolish Critics": The Subtext Of Authorship In Hogg's Justified Sinner, Regina B. Oost

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

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Deviations From Genre In Robert Henryson's "Robene And Makyne", Alessandra Petrina Jan 1999

Deviations From Genre In Robert Henryson's "Robene And Makyne", Alessandra Petrina

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

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Freedom And Responsibility In The Bride Of Lammermoor, Gerry H. Brookes Jan 1999

Freedom And Responsibility In The Bride Of Lammermoor, Gerry H. Brookes

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

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The Moment Of Modernism: Schopenhauer's "Unstable Phantom" In Conrad's Heart Of Darkness And Stevenson's The Master Of Ballantrae, Nels C. Pearson Jan 1999

The Moment Of Modernism: Schopenhauer's "Unstable Phantom" In Conrad's Heart Of Darkness And Stevenson's The Master Of Ballantrae, Nels C. Pearson

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Loneliness Underneath Laughter : Aspects Of Alienation In The Early Plays Of Tom Stoppard, Steven Hounsome Jan 1999

Loneliness Underneath Laughter : Aspects Of Alienation In The Early Plays Of Tom Stoppard, Steven Hounsome

Theses : Honours

This thesis investigates the various states of alienation that exist in the early plays of the British dramatist Tom Stoppard. By first defining alienation (and discussing the areas of contention which surround the concept), it proceeds to argue that whilst Stoppard has been greatly revered as a comic writer his works are equally consequential for their sensitivity and insight. They depict a prolificacy of characters who fail to assimilate with their society, can no longer relate to those around them and, as is often the case, reach for, but never manage to grasp a sense of their own identity. The …

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Jane Eyre's Quest For Truth And Identity, Christina J. Jnge Jan 1999

Jane Eyre's Quest For Truth And Identity, Christina J. Jnge

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

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The Oswald Review Undergraduate Research And Criticism In The Discipline Of English: Volume 1 Fall 1999 Jan 1999

The Oswald Review Undergraduate Research And Criticism In The Discipline Of English: Volume 1 Fall 1999

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.

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Coyote And The Strawberries: Cultural Drama And Intercultural Collaboration, Barre Toelken, Gorge Wasson Jan 1999

Coyote And The Strawberries: Cultural Drama And Intercultural Collaboration, Barre Toelken, Gorge Wasson

English Faculty Publications

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Yusef Komunyakaa: Questioning Traditional Metaphors Of Light And Darkness, Katarzyna Jakubiak Jan 1999

Yusef Komunyakaa: Questioning Traditional Metaphors Of Light And Darkness, Katarzyna Jakubiak

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The theory of language promoted by cognitive linguistics points to metaphor as the crucial element of language and thought: a mode of thinking which determines our perception of reality. Stressing the importance of metaphor in our everyday life, George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, and Mark Turner state that the nature of poetic metaphors is the same as the nature of conventional metaphors which appear in "standard" language. Creating poetic metaphors, poets simply explore "conventional" metaphors, using four major strategies: expanding, elaborating, composing, and questioning. Focusing on questioning as the main strategy through which American "multicultural" literatures can undermine basic Western concepts …

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Imagining Machines: Time & Image In The Shorter Poems Of William Carlos Williams, Stuart Campbell Jan 1999

Imagining Machines: Time & Image In The Shorter Poems Of William Carlos Williams, Stuart Campbell

Theses : Honours

A discussion of time and image in the shorter poems of William Carlos Williams. The particular focus is Williams' short poems published between the Great War and World War II. The relationship between the form of the poems, and Williams' theories on poetry, as expressed in Spring and All, and The Wedge is examined. In turn, Williams' theories are viewed in the context of Imagism, Objectivist poetics, and the modernist machine aesthetic. Williams' application of these theories is seen to create a poetic form that generates images in the reader's imagination in synchrony with the moment.

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The Madness Of Writing: Lady Caroline Lamb's Byronic Identity, Paul Douglass Jan 1999

The Madness Of Writing: Lady Caroline Lamb's Byronic Identity, Paul Douglass

Faculty Publications, English and Comparative Literature

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Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses: A Faith-Affirming Tragedy, Bradley Hunter Swope Jan 1999

Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses: A Faith-Affirming Tragedy, Bradley Hunter Swope

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations (1964–2006)

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The Sacrifice Of Les Murray, Jill Reading Jan 1999

The Sacrifice Of Les Murray, Jill Reading

Theses : Honours

Les Murray's vivid and evocative poetry has made him a major Australian literary figure. Critics routinely note the sophisticated, often highly wrought nature of Murray's poetic language and acclaim his technical virtuosity, including gifts for pun, paradox, aphorism, idiom and metaphor. The themes of both Murray's poetry and his non-fiction prose often revolve around the divisions he sees in Australia between cultures, between society and people, and within individuals themselves. Despite his efforts to bring healing to these schisms, however, the poet is criticised for his frequent dogmatism and didacticism, which mark his work as divisive. Although Murray professes to …

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Social Class Depiction In Selected Award-Winning Children's Narrative Fiction, Edward L. Starkenburg Jan 1999

Social Class Depiction In Selected Award-Winning Children's Narrative Fiction, Edward L. Starkenburg

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

This qualitative content analysis was designed to meet the following three objectives: to build an awareness of the depiction of social class in children's literature, to bolster the literature base on this depiction, and to better inform those who work with children's literature of its content in order to facilitate knowledgeable decisions regarding the selection and discussion of this literature. Eisner's (1991) connoisseurship and criticism heuristic guided the research throughout the data gathering as well as the inductive and deductive analyses of that data. The results of the study facilitate understanding and discerning social class in future experiences with children's …

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Reading The Maelström: Narrators, Texts, And Language In Edgar Allan Poe's "A Descent Into The Maelström", Salwa Khoddam, Randall E. Auxier Jan 1999

Reading The Maelström: Narrators, Texts, And Language In Edgar Allan Poe's "A Descent Into The Maelström", Salwa Khoddam, Randall E. Auxier

Short Story

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The Hammer And The Anvil: The Concept Of Irony With Continual Reference To Kierkegaard, Michael T. Carper Dec 1998

The Hammer And The Anvil: The Concept Of Irony With Continual Reference To Kierkegaard, Michael T. Carper

English Theses, Dissertations, and Student Creative Activity

In this thesis, the author explores a novel way of formulating the otherwise old and tired trope of irony. Chapter one begins by examining some common literary critical views of irony. Wayne C. Booth conceives of irony mostly as a very finite operation--the author states something in such a way that the clever reader realizes the author in fact means the opposite of what he says. The reader, then, performs what Booth calls a "reconstruction," and once the reconstruction is finished, so is the irony's "effect." Paul Bove wants to replace irony with what he calls a "destructive poetics." Irony, …

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Cognitive And Affective Learning In The Basic Course: Effects Of Delivery Format, Immediacy, And Communication Apprehension, Susan J. Messman, Jennifer Jones-Corley, David Mezzacappa, Deborah J. Crusan Nov 1998

Cognitive And Affective Learning In The Basic Course: Effects Of Delivery Format, Immediacy, And Communication Apprehension, Susan J. Messman, Jennifer Jones-Corley, David Mezzacappa, Deborah J. Crusan

English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications

A quasi-experimental design was used to investigate changes in learning outcomes for students enrolled in large-lecture/break-out sections versus in self-contained sections of the basic communication course.More precisely, the study explores the relationship between communication apprehension, immediacy and learning outcomes for the two class formats.Results indicate that students' cognitive learning outcomes are slightly higher in the large-lecture/break-out sections versus self-contained sections. In addition, affective learning decreases for all students from the first day of class and slightly more for students in the large-lecture/break-out sections. However, when the teacher is perceived as highly immediate, there is no difference in formats. (Contains 5 …

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Bibliography, Cultural Studies, And Rare Book Librarianship: Tennyson's "Crossing The Bar" And The Cultural Significance Of Unauthoritative Texts, Patrick G. Scott Nov 1998

Bibliography, Cultural Studies, And Rare Book Librarianship: Tennyson's "Crossing The Bar" And The Cultural Significance Of Unauthoritative Texts, Patrick G. Scott

Faculty Publications

For a conference discussion of textual bibliographers and rare book librarians on the topic "Who needs textual studies?," this paper examines three different appearances of Alfred Tennyson's poem "Crossing the Bar": (1) a manuscript facsimile, (ii) its reuse as a hymn and in a giftbook; and (iii) the paperback Armed Services Edition distributed to US troops overseas during World War II, and argues that with the shift from literary studies to cultural studies such later "unauthoritative texts" have a new importance for scholars and students, and deserve increased attention from bibliographers, collectors, and rare book librarians. Originally presented at the …

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Matriarchal Mythopoesis: Naylor's Mama Day, David Cowart Oct 1998

Matriarchal Mythopoesis: Naylor's Mama Day, David Cowart

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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Postgothic Fiction: Joyce Carol Oates Turns The Screw On Henry James, Diane Hoeveler Oct 1998

Postgothic Fiction: Joyce Carol Oates Turns The Screw On Henry James, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

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The Internet: Emergent Technologies In Two West African Countries, Jim Rogers Sep 1998

The Internet: Emergent Technologies In Two West African Countries, Jim Rogers

English Faculty Publications

Being connected for most Africans means something completely different from most of us in more (technologically) "developed" countries. Compared to those who have virtually unlimited and relatively cheap access to e-mail and the World Wide Web (WWW), most Africans have limited access to e-mail only. Outside of South Africa, which hosts 70 full Internet Service Providers (ISPs); Egypt, which hosts 25; and Morocco, which hosts 15, most African countries have well under 10 ISPs, the average being loser to 1 or 2 (Jensen, 1998). This example demonstrates the diversity of the African continent; one cannot simply typify the African example. …

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Eng 3405-003: Children's Literature, John Moore Aug 1998

Eng 3405-003: Children's Literature, John Moore

Fall 1998

No abstract provided.

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Eng 2850-003: Post-Colonial Literatures In English, Michael Loudon Aug 1998

Eng 2850-003: Post-Colonial Literatures In English, Michael Loudon

Fall 1998

No abstract provided.

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Eng 3001-005: Advanced Composition, Jerie Weasmer Aug 1998

Eng 3001-005: Advanced Composition, Jerie Weasmer

Fall 1998

No abstract provided.

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