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Toward A Theory Of Gendered Reading, Larry Edward Schoenholtz

Masters Theses

Sociolinguistic studies have long acknowledged that men and women sometimes read, write, speak, and view differently. This is often recognized as a cultural phenomenon, but there are increasing reasons to suppose that biology may play a larger role in these differences than was suspected two or three decades ago. Over the last fifteen to twenty years, in particular, evidence has continued to mount in that direction from studies in neurophysiology, endocrinology, and infant behavior. In addition, sociobiological perspectives first proposed in the 1970s seem to have met with large success in being confirmed by cross-cultural studies done in the 1980s. …

Angry Half-Rebels, Areeg Abdel-Hamid Ibrahim

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Mythcon 26 - Fairies In The Garden, Monsters At The Mall: Fantasy In The World Around Us, The Mythopoeic Society

Mythcon Programs

A few novels on our conference theme, especially those taking place in Northern California, but also extending across a wide variety of settings, recommended by the Mythcon committee.

The Postmodern Improvisor, Paul Caraher

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This thesis represents a revitalization of the thesis form because it has organically blossomed from an integrated consciousness. Instead of the pre-existing thesis form for a Master of Arts Degree in English bending, limiting, and shaping the content, I have shaped the form according to my own synthetic ambition, resulting in a fusion of elements from both a researched and a creative thesis. This strategy is justified since the very subject of the thesis stresses the improviser's ongoing urge to create as the spontaneous moment/impulse requires while simultaneously creating an organic frame or unique inner logic. Above all, this project …

The Double In The Bell Jar, Kimberly Kae Allen

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis focuses on Sylvia Plath and the idea of doubleness in The Bell Jar. Plath's past experiences are closely linked to the novel. Her psychological breakdown and recovery provided Plath with basic plot structure. It also influenced Plath's preoccupation with the concept of the double. In forming these double characters, Plath studied several psychoanalysts, including Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank.

A Collection Of Gay Plays, Floyd Edward Reed

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis, 8 Collection of Gay Plays, contains three one act plays which reflect different aspects,of gay life. In the first play, "Awakening," a recent college graduate is forced to deal with his own sexuality by watching those around him embrace their respective homosexuality or bisexuality. The second play is a romantic comedy. P.K., the central character in "Something's Cooking in the Kitchen with P.K.," must choose between two men who say they love him. In the process, he learns that he doesn't need to have someone to be whole, and he learns what it means to be loved. Finally, …

Fantasy Art And Warrior Women: An Aesthetic Critique Of Feminine Images, Joe Simmons

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

Discusses the significance of portrayals of warrior women in modern fantasy art, particularly in comic books and their associated items. Notes the good and bad points of such portrayals and expresses the hope that the spiritual dimension present in characters such as Lewis’s Jill and Tolkien’s Éowyn will come to play a greater role in artistic portrayals of warrior women.

C.S. Lewis' Linguistic Myth, Joe R. Christopher

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

Formalist/New Critical analysis of C.S. Lewis’s poem “The Birth of Language.” Concentrates on the imagery of Mercury, particularly in relation to language. Includes brief Platonic and Christian readings of the poem.

T.H. White's Defence Of Guenever: Portrait Of A "Real" Person, Amanda Serrano

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

Analyzes T.H. White’s characterization of Guenever, with detailed discussions of differences and similarities to Malory and Tennyson.

Martha Gellhorn: The Hemingway Years, Tracy Freeman

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Martha Gellhorn, third wife of Ernest Hemingway, experiences criticism early in her writing career--critics claiming her journalism is superior to her fiction. Gellhorn meets Hemingway in December 1936 after the publication of her critically acclaimed novel, The Trouble I've Seen. The years between 1936 and 1945, the period Gellhorn is involved with Hemingway, represent an exploration for Gellhorn--a voyage of self-discovery and growing independence as a writer--years during which Gellhorn establishes a literary identity. During the early years of her war-time writing, Gellhorn establishes a unique narrative format which will come to be called the New Journalism. While her journalism …

Jane Eyre And The Postcolonial Bildungsroman., Patricia R. Payette

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre is often considered a classic Bildungsroman and an early example of feminist fiction because its plot concerns the progress of a lonely and outspoken orphaned girl whose self-determination and independence eventually lead her to wealth and a successful marriage. However, as the novels by three twentieth-century Caribbean authors illustrate, the paradigm of female development presented in Jane Eyre is not applicable to females from the West Indies who are faced with racial and cultural barriers that are part of growing up in a colonized society. Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy (1990), and …

Kings And Counselors: The Politics Of Francis Bacon's Rhetorical Theory, Christopher Holcomb

Faculty Publications

English author Francis Bacon's letters to the courtiers of King James VI before the monarch succeeded Elizabeth I reveals his concept of rhetoric as a tool for political advancement. Bacon wrote several letters to gain the king's confidence, in which he expressed his intent to portray the king in the most positive light to his subjects once he enters England and assumes the throne. The letters are remarkable in the way they suggest that Bacon can create a persona for the king through the power of rhetoric, since Bacon includes the draft of a speech which he hoped would be …

Golliwogg, Alan Freer

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

When reading a poem, one often wonders what prompts the poet to use a certain word order, to break the line at a specific point, or to even use that particular topic as the subject of the poem. Although there are those literary critics who assert that a poem should be read entirely out of the context, there is much to be gained by looking at the poem with the additional background information about the author, particularly what the primary influences of the author are. Such is the intent with this essay in providing a behind-the-scenes look at what shaped …

Literary Liars I Have Known: The Need For Scepticism About The Printed Page, Thomas M. Curley

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Female Characterization In The Novels Of Robert Penn Warren: Variations On A Cinderella Theme, Martha Brent

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The psychological construction of Robert Penn Warren's characters is an established tenet among Warren critics as is the influence of Sigmund Freud's work upon Warren's fiction. Specifically the oedipal nature of Warren's male characters has been widely discussed especially in regard to plots culminating in patricide. Based upon this criticism of Robert Penn Warren's novels to date, Warren's female characters are revealed to be developed likewise upon an oedipal paradigm. The female paradigm which corresponds to Freud's Oedipus complex in women is the Cinderella tale. These stories, some at least a thousand years old, were critically divided into three main …

Being An I-Witness—My Life As A Lesbian Teacher, Barbara Dibernard

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Afterword: It has been four years since I first wrote this essay. I came out as a lesbian to a sophomore-level class for the first time the semester after I wrote it, in circumstances much like those detailed here, while we were discussing Zami. The very next semester, I came out to all my classes in a letter at the beginning of the semester. Initially, being out from the start was a real liberation for me; in addition, I felt that having my lesbianism as a given affected the classes positively in ways I couldn't begin to know about …

Floyd Collins And The Sand Cave Tragedy: A Possible Source For Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, Lucas Carpenter

The Kentucky Review

No abstract provided.

Ceremonies Of Separation In Australian Literature, T. G. Bishop

The Kentucky Review

No abstract provided.

Ben Okri’S Spirit Child: Abiku Migration And Postmodernity, John C. Hawley

English

The widespread notion of the abiku in Nigerian culture says volumes about the heartrending deaths of countless newborns throughout the region's history. It also testifies to a belief in the permeability of the membrane separating the spirit world from "our" world. As the abiku puts it, in his family he is surrounded by people "who are seeded in rich lands, who still believe in mysteries" (F am 6), people who hold that "one world contains glimpses of others" (F am 1 0), and people who acknowledge a personal relationship with these spirits in the course of daily life. In western …

Asses And Wits: The Homoerotics Of Mastery In Satiric Comedy, Mario Digangi

Publications and Research

This essay explores master-servant homoeroticism in three seventeenth-century satiric comedies: Ben Jonson's Epicoene and Volpone and George Chapman's The Gentleman Usher. Whereas "sodomy" always signifies social disorder, "homoerotic" useful for describing same-sex relations that are socially normative or orderly. Thus homoerotic master-servant relations become "sodomitical" only when they are perceived to threaten social order. In Epicoene, the character associated with the disorder of "sodomy" is neither Dauphine or Epicoene, but the "unnatural" Morose, even though he has not literally had sex with the boy he marries. The erotic master-servant relationship in Volpone is sodomitical because it transgresses against …

1995 Literary Review (No. 9), Sigma Tau Delta

The Greenleaf Review

No abstract provided.

"Unmarkt, Unknown": The Return Of The Expressed In Paradise Regained, Douglas M. Lanier

English

No abstract provided.

Reading One Poet In Light Of Another: Herbert And Frost, James Boyd White

Articles

In this paper I wish both to draw certain connections between Herbert and Frost and at the same time to say something in a general way about the process by which such connections can be made. It is with the latter question that I begin. Once the relation between two writers would have been thought of mainly in terms of "influence." And one might indeed argue that Herbert did have significant influence on Frost's poetic practice — if not directly, for Frost was not a great reader of Herbert, then indirectly, through Emerson, who was in many ways Frost's master …

Braid Yorkshire: The Language Of Myth?, Mary M. Stolzenbach

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

Examines the use of Yorkshire dialect in The Secret Garden, as well as the imagery of gardens, mothers, food, and nature.

Rhetorical Tropes From The Black English Oral Tradition In The Works Of Toni Morrison, Yvonne Kay Atkinson

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

D.H. Lawrence's "Struggle For Verbal Consciousness": From Women In Love To Psychoanalysis And The Unconscious And Fantasia Of The Unconscious, Yvonne Martha Weatherby

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Mason & Dixon On The Line: A Reception Study, Douglas Keesey

English

No abstract provided.

“A Little Space, A Little Time, Some Way To Hold Off Eventfulness”: African American Quiltmaking As Metaphor In Toni Morrison's Beloved, Jane Hindman

Publications and Research

In her article" New Directions for Black Feminist Criticism," Deborah McDowell notes the" lack of precision and detail" that has marked Black feminist scholarship and theories. She posits what she sees as one essential for a more precise and complete definition: like feminist criticism in general, Black feminist theory can be seen as" a'corrective, unmasking the omissions and distortions of the past—the errors of a literary critical tradition that arise from and reflect a culture created, perpetuated, and dominated by men'"(186).

Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program

WKU Administration Documents

The WKU Student Honors Research Bulletin is dedicated to scholarly involvement and student research. These papers are representative of work done by students from throughout the university.

• Allen, Melody. Women in Control of Courtship in As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice and All's Well That Ends Well
• Amlani, Islamshah. Electron Stimulated Desorption of Alkali Halides
• Brillhart, Kelly. Women Without Men: Hemingway's Female Characters
• Burton, Lori. Financial Statements with Environmental Concerns: An Exploratory Study of the Impact on the Auditor's Role and Responsibilities
• Combs, Vicki. Dancing the Descent: Energy and Entrophy in William Carlos Williams
• Davis, Julie. Prelude to …

The Body Politic In Margaret Atwood's "True Trash", Dianne Vipond

Short Story

No abstract provided.