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A "Re-Vision" Of Selected American Women's Realist Novels, 1880-1917: Political And Psychological Issues Of Gender And Canonicity, Luann Swartzlander-Kraus

Dissertations

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The Treatment Of Voice In Some Of The Works Of Some Women Writers Of The Harlem Renaissance, Patrick Steven Bernard

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

This study examines the relation between the quest for identity-formation that characterized the Harlem Renaissance and the treatment of Voice by the women writers of the period to define their feminine identity. The concept of voice as used in this study refers to the method of self-expression and self-articulation to define the feminine subject by the women writers of the period. The importance of the Harlem Renaissance as a period of black self-determination is the main principle that is used here to particularize the feminine quest. The study looks at the Harlem Renaissance mainly from the perspective of the women …

Paired Reading : An Investigation Into Using Parents As Tutors In One Mainstream High School, Miguel R. Fernandez

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Contemporary research on reading has investigated the use of parents and peer tutors in assisting schools to improve reading accuracy and comprehension. Some of the techniques that have been used are Hearing Reading, Paired Reading, Shared Reading, Relaxed Reading, Pause, Prompt and Praise and Direct Instruction. Of these techniques, Direct Instruction and Paired Reading have been shown to be the most effective programs using parents within the primary school setting. However, many studies in Paired Reading research have lacked experimental data using parents as tutors in high schools. The aim of this paper was to assess the impact of Paired …

Mary Mccarthy, Mary Gordon, And The Irish-American Literary Tradition, Stacey Lee Donohue

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

There is a distinct literary canon in the United States, composed of Irish-Catholic-American writers, which requires different modes of criticism or evaluation than other U.S. literatures, particularly the dominant, largely Protestant or Protestant-influenced, American literary canon. In addition, as a recently recognized literary tradition, many women writers have either been ignored or unnoticed because their works do not immediately fit into the evolving criteria of evaluation for the Irish-American literary tradition. My purpose in this study is not to survey the Irish-American literary canon, but to examine two women writers who have not always been admitted to an innately misogynistic …

Romancing Visual Women: From Canon To Console, Roberta Sabbath

English Faculty Research

This dissertation juxtaposes the romantic modal treatment of powerful, admired women which canonical male authors and feminist authors and critics construct with those constructed by contemporary women for the visual mass media of video, broadcast television, and computer. The discourse of the former produces the figure of a fragmented woman who is rare, supernatural, marginalized, and impossible. The discourse of the latter produces the figure of a psychologized woman who is typical, natural, mainstream, and possible. To examine the discourse of impossibility, I use three canonical works: Augustine's Confessions; Chretien de Troyes' Perceval; and Dante's Divine Comedy. I also survey …

Revising Lives: Bernard Shaw And His Biographer, Sarah Wadsworth

English Faculty Research and Publications

Shaw's galley revisions of Archibald Henderson's 1932 biography, Bernard Shaw: Playboy and Prophet, reveal a unique collaboration between biographer and subject. The result is a subversion of biographical conventions, in which the assumed voice of the biographer lends credence and authority to the disguised voice of the subject.

We Wretched Of The Earth: The Search For A Language Of Justice, John C. Hawley

English

"In the beginning was the Word," writes John-God's revealing utterance that "was made flesh and lived among us." This incarnational character of the Word, this "living among us," has demanded of Christians in each age a reinterpretation of its original and ongoing meaning. If the protean nature of God's self-expression has seen a continuing "translation" in each age, though, it is becoming increasingly evident among church members that a similar task is also required in each ethnic milieu. The "us" among whom the Word lives is made up of many communities of discourse, and a logocentric theology like Christianity must …

The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 1, The Sinclair Lewis Society

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter

Abstracts from Papers Presented at the 1994 American Literature Association Conference:

“Paul De Kruif and the Composition of Arrowsmith,” by James M. Hutchisson, The Citadel

“The Mine of Lost Souls: Generational History in Sinclair Lewis’s Free Air and Douglas Coupland’s Shampoo Planet,” by Edward Watts, Michigan State University

“Sinclair Lewis and William Faulkner: Quest for Integrity,” by Dmitry Urnov, Adelphi University, and Julia Palievsky, Nassau Community College (SUNY)

“Edith Wharton and Grace Lewis,” by James M. Hutchisson, The Citadel

“It Can’t Happen Here, Again," Review of It Can’t Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis, Introduction by Perry Meisel …

"That Reason Wonder May Diminish": As You Like It, Androgyny, And The Theater Wars, Grace C. Tiffany

English Faculty Publications

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Training Graduate Student Writing Teachers: Composition History, Theory, And Application, Gwendolyn L. Gray

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the Caudill College of Humanities at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Gwendolyn L. Gray on May 18, 1994.

Order And Orderlessness In Gravity's Rainbow: A Dialectic, Richard A. House '94

Honors Projects

Gravity's Rainbow is a notoriously unreliable text. The perspectives of the strange narrator and various characters give an account of the novel's events that is clearly problematic in terms of the degree of "reality" that can be ascribed to various episodes: fantasies, hallucinations, and paranoid delusions are often indistinguishable from the events which may cause them or to which they may refer. To an unusual degree, then, the fundamental plot-question-"What happens?"-becomes a point of depa.rt"u!e for a sort of textual metaphysics. Often, arguments about the significance of passages may be upstaged by arguments about the plot itself: what "really" happens …

The Representation Of Tabooed Love In Lillian Smith's Fiction, Jane Elizabeth Payne

Master's Theses

My study explores Lillian Smith's autobiographical relationship to her fiction, particularly two novels, Strange Fruit, and One Hour. The focus of this work is Smith's challenge to the category of sexual orientation and her related use of fiction as a source of social commentary and self-reflection. Smith's uses veiled and encoded language and other kinds of tabooed love to study her own lesbian love. She also assumes a male persona to understand and express her erotic attraction to women. I approach Smith's life and literature in chronological order with an emphasis upon characterization, symbolism, narrative technique, and metaphors of nature. …

The Clergy In The Novels And Short Stories Of Thomas Hardy, Jennifer Lynn Facchine

Theses & Honors Papers

No abstract provided.

The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 2, The Sinclair Lewis Society

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter

Abstracts from Papers Presented at the Symposium on American Realism and Naturalism:

“‘A Scarlet Tanager on an Ice-Floe’: Women, Men, and History on Main Street,” by Caren J. Town, Georgia Southern University

“American Voices in Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here,” by Robert L. McLaughlin, Illinois State University

“Boundary Ambiguity and Abortion: Women’s Choices in Sinclair Lewis’s Ann Vickers and Kingsblood Royal,” by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University

“Teaching Sinclair Lewis: From Resentment to Recognition: Babbitt in the Classroom,” by Clare Virginia Eby, University of Connecticut-Hartford

“The Life of Babbitt,” Review of Babbitt: An American Life …

Tarot Card Symbolism In The Star Wars Films, Coralee Grebe

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

A Jungian interpretation of the first three Star Wars films through the lens of Tarot imagery.

Cuchulainn And Women: A Jungian Perspective, Marian Davis O.S.B.

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

A Jungian interpretation of the Irish mythological cycle featuring the hero Cuchulainn, with particular attention to the prominent role of women.

The Illusion Of Control: Narrative Authority In Robin Mckinley's Beauty And The Blue Sword, Michael Cadden

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

Examines the narrative structure of Beauty and The Blue Sword in terms of Ganette’s distinction between mimetic authority and diegetic authority. Notes that both protagonists have little control over events and once their function is served, the patriarchal character of their world persists.

The Mythical Method Of Descent Into Hell, Evans Lansing Smith

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

Considers Williams’s Descent Into Hell as an excellent “example of the use of the mythical method [as defined by T.S. Eliot] as a metaphor of poesis, by which the fundamental forms of the imagination are catalyzed.” Geometrical symbolism and the underworld journey link it to many modernist works.

George Eliot- Bbc2 Night School, Ruth Harris

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

It is said that Napoleon interviewed his prisoners at three o'clock in the morning when their powers of resistance were at their lowest ebb. My video recorder saved me from testing his theory between the unearthly hours of 2.00 and 4.00 a.m. on Thursday 10th March when BBC2's Night School presented its resource material on the life, work and times of George Eliot. If I had had to stay awake, however, then I think that Professor Rosemary Ashton and her able colleagues would have overcome my powers of resistance with Napoleonic skill. The material was attractively varied, and concentration was …

Anne Sexton And Anima Transformations: Transformations As A Critique Of The Psychology Of Love In Grimm’S Fairy Tales, John Hruschka

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

Uses “Jung’s theories of anima as a critical framework [...] to demonstrate that Sexton’s poems [...] critique the psychology of romantic love that informs the Grimm Brothers’ tales and the impact of that ideology on women.”

The Witch Woman: A Recurring Motif In Recent Fantasy Writing For Young Readers, John Warren Stewig

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

Thematic analysis of the figure of the witch woman (incorporating both good and evil versions) in recent examples of epic fantasy for children and young adults.

Reflections 1994, Markell Lynch, Scott Lesley, Brad Southend

Reflections

The 1994 issue of Reflections was edited by Markell Lynch and Scott Lesley with Brad Southend serving as faculty adviser. Award winners of the student writing contest include: Ensley F. Guffey, Gary T. Mitchem, and Heather Love. Award winners of the student art contest include: Scott Goforth, Yoshi Shinaro, and Sabrina Barnes.

Northrop Frye's Bible, Steven Marx

English

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"The Wife's Went Bazook" Comedic Feminism In The Poetry Of Ruth Stone, Kevin Clark

English

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A Rhetorical Analysis Of Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness, Shyh-Chyi Wey

Theses Digitization Project

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Review Of David Arnason's Fifty Stories And A Piece Of Advice, John Streamas

Short Story

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Interview With Bharati Mukherjee, Scott Cawelti

Short Story

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Vilifying The Enemy: The Christian Right And The Novels Of Frank Peretti, Jay R. Howard

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Peretti's novels provide a clear statement of the worldview of conservative Christians who hold the Bible to be literally true and without error. Not only is the reader presented with doctrinal positions, but the implications of those positions for life in modern society are spelled out as well. In this essay, I analyze Peretti's views of the modern world, its heroes and villains, and argue they are representative of the views of the New Christian Right (Liebman and Wuthnow) in the late 1980s and the 1990s.

Mass Culture And Class Distinctions In The Novels Of Nathanael West, Stephen P. Johnson

Dissertations

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Collaboration, Critical Pedagogy, And Struggles Over Difference, Amy M. Goodburn, Beth Ina

Department of English: Faculty Publications

If teachers desire their students to view their own texts as part of an ongoing conversation about difference, then they need to reflect upon and question their own assumptions about collaboration. Teachers need to recognize that, for some students, the value of collaboration is viewed primarily in terms of social interaction and not in the production of text. When evaluating students' collaborative texts, teachers are often not aware of the many negotiations and interactions that may have contributed to the text's formation but are not necessarily inscribed in it. Journals and collaborative evaluations of texts are one means of recovering …