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The Selection, Retelling And Illustration Of A Fairy Tale, Linda Rathe

Graduate Research Papers

Fairy tales continue to be a very popular form of children's literature. The contributions that fairy tales make to children's developmental needs have been investigated by various experts, who have analyzed the stories in terms of the theories of Freud, Jung, Piaget, Kohlberg, and various social scientists. In view of the consensus that it is best if children have access to both a large number and a large variety of folk and fairy tales, a fair tale from a translation of the Grimms' collection was selected, retold, and illustrated. This was done in a manner responsive to the following developmental …

Verbal Geographies: Synge's Playboy Of The Western World, Elizabeth Grubgeld

Studies in English, New Series

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Growing Up Too Fast, Cynthia Rapp Hartman

Graduate Research Papers

A content analysis technique was used to examine 16 children's books to determine whether the growth and development of the 24 main characters fit the growth and development of real-life children of the same chronological age.

Books published since 1982 with main characters who were eight, nine, ten, and eleven years of age were selected from Booklist and Best Books for Children. ·Descriptions and actions of the main characters were examined in the categories of general behavior, self-concept, social relations, and school orientation. Four hypotheses relating to these four categories were rejected and the researcher concluded that as depleted in …

Reflections 1988, Amanda Thomas, Jimmy Byrd, Joyce Compton Brown

Reflections

The 1988 issue of Reflections is edited by Amanda Thomas with Jimmy Byrd and Joyce Compton Brown serving as layout editor and faculty adviser, respectively. Cover design is by Melissa Brown. Award winners of the student writing contest include: Melissa Brown, Bobby Beal, and Jimmy Byrd. This year the Art Department sponsored an art contest for all students whose submissions were chosen for publication. Award winners of the student art contest include: Melissa Brown, Henry Doo, and Craig Lewis. This issue includes a special tribute to Ruth Kiser, written by Sheila McClure, for her support of Reflections throughout the years.

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.

• Bachert, Sara. Rational Portrayal of the Irrationational in The Pit and the Pendulum
• Bell, Suzanne. Early Secret Involvement of the United States Military in Cambodia
• Brock, Beth. The Informal Caregiving System: The Frail Elderlys' Avenue of Choice
• Daniel, Janice. Child Sexual Abuse
• Johnson, Linda. International Telecommunications Trade with Japan
• Jones, LaMont. Ernie Pyle: Journalist Without Peer
• Kesserling, Marcia. Attitudes Toward the Need for Computer Literacy
• Lewis, Gloria. John Donne's Attitude Toward Love
• Majdi, …

The Making Of Ursula Brangwen's Identity: The Pattern Of The Ritual Scenes In The Rainbow, Paul Rosenzweig

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

‘A Soul That Took In All Humanity’—Hayne On Shakespeare, Rayburn S. Moore

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Amanda’S Mirror, Judy Stark

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this research project was to explore the problem-solving and positive self-concept techniques used in drama and dance programs. After studying the specific techniques of role play, pantomimes, and body control, the book Amanda's Mirror was written. The specific problem was can a children's book be written using problem-solving and positive self-concept techniques used in drama and dance programs.

The Eugene O'Neill Newsletter Vol. 12, Nos. 1, 1988, Eugene O'Neill Society

Eugene O’Neill Newsletter

The Eugene O’Neill Newsletter is the official newsletter of the Eugene O’Neill Society, an organization of scholars, theater professionals, and enthusiasts, which began meeting in 1978. This publication, created by Suffolk University Professor Fred Wilkins in 1977, started off as part newsletter and part academic journal. In 1989, the publication name was changed to the Eugene O'Neill Review to denote its focus on scholarship. In recent years, the O'Neill Society re-started publication of the newsletter. This site includes newsletter issues from 1977-1989. Newer issues are available on the Eugene O'Neill Society website: https://www.eugeneoneillsociety.org/newsletters.html

Maggie's Sisters: Feminist Readings Of The Mill On The Floss, Oliver Lovesey

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

The view that Eliot presented her female characters with only very limited possibilities for self-realization in either marriage or martyrdom, and that Eliot herself '1ived" but did not "write" the "revolution" is one that has dominated the feminist assessment of George Eliot. This tradition regards Eliot as an author who served unintentionally to bolster a reactionary, phallocentric ethos. Further, Eliot is suspect as she has been, particularly since F. R. Leavis gave her prominence in The Great Tradition a part of the accepted literary canon. Nevertheless, as Elaine Showalter, for example, has pointed out in "The Greening of Sister George," …

Prescribed Passivity: The Language Of Sexism, Julia Penelope

Department of English: Faculty Publications

The recent controversy concerning the use and reference of so-called "generics" in the English language reveals the extent, if not the nature, of the political investment at stake in preserving the myth of generalized reference. Before I offer my data and observations regarding this myth, I wou1d like to emphasize that the arguments supporting generics, especially man, men and mankind, are not substantive, but political, and those who would like to maintain the use of masculine nouns as general references are relying on popular misconceptions, not linguistic data. Of course, if linguistic history provides clues to the outcome of this …

Doubletake : The Obsessions Of Sylvia Plath, Brian Connors

Honors Theses

For twenty five years, analyses of the link between Sylvia Plath's life and writings have too often focused on selected rebellious incidents and a handful of poems written in the last six months of her llfe. These shallow and often sensational literary autopsies reach seemingly pre-determined conclusions about Plath and usually blame Plath's mother, her husband, and male-dominated 1940s and 1950s America for the vitriolic tone of her writings and for her suicide at age thirty. Unfortunately, oversimplification is the rule in Plath studies. Examinations of Plath are particularly hazardous because such an enormous amount of her work was autobiographical …

Samuel Johnson's Sermons: Consolations For The Vacuity Of Life, Thomas George Kass

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Augustine And America: Five Contemporary Autobiographical Works, Dennis Gillespie

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Queasy Proximity: Seamus Heaney's Mythical Method, Nathalie Anderson

English Literature Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

"They Will Not Leave Me, The Lives Of Other People" The Poetry Of Douglas Dunn, David Williams

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

Lord Gifford And His Lectures: The First Year (1888-1889), Eugene Thomas Long

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

Double Jeopardy And The Chameleon Art In James Hogg's Justified Sinner, Douglas Jones

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

''The Vortex Of The Tumult": Order And Disorder In Humphry Clinker, R. S. Krishnan

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

Construction Of Meaning In Macdiarmid's "Drunk Man", Christopher Whyte

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

Zora Neale Hurston’S Search For Identity In Moses, Man Of The Mountain, Joan E. Sebastian

Masters Theses

Zora Neale Hurston, Afro-American writer of the 1920s and 1930s, has gained critical recognition for her novels and studies about the Afro-American masses. Hurston, also an anthropologist and folklorist, worked directly with southern Afro-Americans through her research in both of these fields. Her folklore collecting journeys enabled her to see and to capture the cultural traditions and oral heritage of Afro-Americans. It was her search into the cultural traditions, moreover, that led her to find her own identity. Hurston, therefore, depicted her protagonists as searching for an identity in most of her novels, with this quest especially apparent in Moses, …

Tutoring German Esl Students, Sabina Mussgnug

Masters Theses

Tutors of American university writing centers can be invaluable advisors for German ESL students who come to study in the United States. The tutors can directly assist German students in coping with their particular academic and cultural difficulties.

German students must adapt to the American academic conventions to become successful students at their U.S. universities. The tutors can point out to them the features of the American academic standard and show them effective methods for learning and studying in the American environment.

The American academic standard includes the students' almost perfect reading comprehension. Students must be prepared for heavy reading …

The Portrayal Of The European Immigrant In The Historical Fiction For Children And Young Adults, Gayle T. Wood

Graduate Research Papers

This research study used a content analysis technique to assess the portrayal of the European who emigrated to the United States from Europe between the years of 1832 and 1932. Portrayals were found in 15 works of historical fiction written for children or young adults and published after 1950 in the United States.

Descriptive occurrences in each book were examined for the realistic portrayal of the immigrant experience in six general areas: (1) the Americanization process, (2) the educational experience of the immigrant, (3) employment opportunities, (4) family relations, (5) conditions encountered during the emigration process, and (6) reasons for …

Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: Ezra Pound's Condensation Of The Henry James Novel, Delores Lamb Belew

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

No abstract provided.

The Portrayal Of Employed Mothers In Children's Fiction, Karen Carstensen Appleton

Graduate Research Papers

In American society today, mothers are joining the employment forces for economic purposes, and because they feel a need to fulfill their personal potentials or gain self-actualization. The portrayals of employed mothers in children's fiction should reflect the trends of society, as well as provide appropriate role models for children. The purpose of this study was to determine how employed mothers are portrayed in children's fiction. The researcher analyzed eighteen books of children's fiction by means of a checklist in order to determine if the majority of employed mothers are 1) working for economic purposes rather than for purposes of …

Towards A Definition Of Science Fantasy, Carl D. Malmgren

English Faculty Publications

Science Fiction and fantasy have a locus of intersection, science fantasy. an unstable narrative form which combines features from each genre. A science-fantasy world is one in which the characters or settings or events presuppose at least one clear violation of natural law or scientific necessity, but which explicitly provides an organized or scientific explanation for that violation and which grounds its discourse in a scientific episteme. Science fantasy, like Science Fiction, assumes an orderly universe with regular laws, but, like fantasy, contains at least one explicit reversal of current natural law. An examination of two science-fantasy texts, Fritz Leiber's …

Self Myths And The Autobiography Of Renunciation In 20th Century North America, John D. Hazlett

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Search For An Author: Shakespeare And The Framers, James Boyle

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Viewpoint And Vision In George Eliot: The Novelist And Her Major Fiction, Patricia Ward Svec

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

From Campus To Campus: The Relationship Of The University World To The Literary Pastoral Worlds Of Edmund Spenser, Phineas Fletcher, And John Milton, Gary Michael Bouchard

Dissertations

No abstract provided.