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Translating Chris Ware's Lint Into Russian, Matthew Davis
Translating Chris Ware's Lint Into Russian, Matthew Davis
Honors Papers
Comics translation is rarely practiced with any appreciation of the comics medium – rather, comics usually are translated as prose, ignoring the words relationship to pictures. I chose Chris Ware's work, known for pushing the boundaries of comics language, because translating it mandates formal engagement with the comics medium. My project also involved dealing with the problems of translating into a non-native tongue, cultural translation, and placing Ware's comics in the Russian existentialist tradition.
The Performance And Perception Of Social Identities In Country-Rap Music, Rachel Grandstrand
The Performance And Perception Of Social Identities In Country-Rap Music, Rachel Grandstrand
Honors Papers
Within the United States, few genres incite as vehement of a reaction as Country and Hip-Hop music, and both of these genres have faced a history of marginalization by the mainstream media corporations and by the broader population of the US. The reason for this marginalization often stems from the racial and class associations of the communities that produce this music, and the relationship between these genres and the broader population is well documented. What remains under-discussed is the relationship between these two communities. This study explores this relationship through an analysis of Country-Rap music, a sub-genre of Country music …
Building The Post-Industrial Community: New Urbanist Development In Pittsburgh, Pa, Steven Alexander Niedbala
Building The Post-Industrial Community: New Urbanist Development In Pittsburgh, Pa, Steven Alexander Niedbala
Honors Papers
The first part will explain the concept of community in the context of postindustrial theory. I will analyze the narrative of postindustrialism to argue that this concept of community constitutes not a reaction to a unique set of historical circumstances but rather a strategical shift in capitalist development. In the second part, I will describe how the perceived failure of architectural modemism inspired the theorization of the city as a phenomenological entity. I will describe how this conception of the city inspired efforts to systematize urban diversity through the development of a visual linguistics. The urban planning movement known as …
A Poetics Of Complicity: Translating Luis García Montero, Alice Mcadams
A Poetics Of Complicity: Translating Luis García Montero, Alice Mcadams
Honors Papers
The work of Luis García Montero, one of Spain's most lauded poets of the past three decades, is marked most strongly by a desire to dissolve hierarchies between generations, between artists and ordinary citizens, and, above all, between the self and the other. He frequently realizes this goal through his metaphoric technique, employing personification almost ubiquitously to equalize the emotional power of animals, landscape, and inanimate pieces of technology. Though his poetry is romantic, he takes a significant departure from traditional forms of the genre by assigning little more importance to the lover than he does to the many facets …
Illegitimate Celebrity In The British Long Eighteenth Century, Melissa Wehler
Illegitimate Celebrity In The British Long Eighteenth Century, Melissa Wehler
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
In the discussions about contemporary celebrities, the femme fatale, the bad boy, the child star, and the wannabe have become accepted and even celebrated figures. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, however, actors and actresses who challenged acceptable strategies for celebrity behavior were often punished by exile, debt, disgrace, and humiliation. Some performers even faced a veritable textual and historical oblivion. Illegitimate Celebrity considers the careers of Dorothy Jordan, William Henry West Betty, Edmund Kean, and Margaret Agnes Bunn, and offers a historical genealogy of "illegitimate" performers who dared to break with social convention and struggled to define …
The Death Of The Common Law: Judicial Abdication And Contributory Negligence In Maryland, Donald G. Gifford
The Death Of The Common Law: Judicial Abdication And Contributory Negligence In Maryland, Donald G. Gifford
Maryland Law Review Online
The issue of how to handle a victim’s own contributory negligence that combines with the negligence of a tortfeasor in causing harm is one of the most important, if not the most important, issue in all of tort law. Forty-six states now apply some version of comparative fault that holds the defendant liable for its negligence even when the plaintiff is also careless, but reduces the award in proportion to the plaintiff’s degree of fault when compared with that of the defendant. In contrast, the Maryland Court of Appeals in Coleman v. Soccer Association of Columbia recently refused again to …
“It’S Good To Be Shifty”: The Local Democracies Of Old Southwestern Humor, D. Berton Emerson
“It’S Good To Be Shifty”: The Local Democracies Of Old Southwestern Humor, D. Berton Emerson
English Faculty Scholarship
This essay reassesses representative texts of the popular antebellum tradition known as Old Southwestern Humor—among them Augustus Baldwin Longstreet’s Georgia Scenes (1835), Johnson Jones Hooper’s Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1845), and George Washington Harris’s Sut Lovingood: Yarns Spun by a Durn’d Fool (1867)— arguing for a new point of departure from the level of locality and with special attention to democratic decision making. Most nation-oriented readings portray the humor of the Old Southwest either as a regional subset supplementing nationalization via print culture or as reactionary polemics rejecting the impingements of nation, market capitalism, urbanization, or modernity. This essay, …
Queering The Catalog: Queer Theory And The Politics Of Correction, Emily Drabinski
Queering The Catalog: Queer Theory And The Politics Of Correction, Emily Drabinski
Brooklyn Library Faculty Publications
Critiques of hegemonic library classification structures and controlled vocabularies have a rich history in information studies. This project has pointed out the trouble with classification and cataloging decisions that are framed as objective and neutral but are always ideological and worked to correct bias in library structures. Viewing knowledge organization systems from a queer perspective, however, challenges the idea that classification and subject language can ever be finally corrected. Engaging queer theory and library classification and cataloging together requires new ways of thinking about how to be ethically and politically engaged on behalf of marginal knowledge formations and identities who …
The Uncanny And The Postcolonial In J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth, Molly Brown Fuller
The Uncanny And The Postcolonial In J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth, Molly Brown Fuller
HIM 1990-2015
Concluding on this note, the thesis argues that reading The Lord of the Rings in this way renders postcolonial concepts accessible to a whole generation of readers already familiar with the series, and points to the possibility of examining other contemporary texts, or even further analysis of Tolkien's to reveal more postcolonial sensitivities engendered in the texts.; This thesis examines J.R.R. Tolkien's texts The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King from a postcolonial literary perspective. By examining how these texts, written at the decline of the British Empire, engage with the …
The Service Learning Experience: How Storytelling Evolves In People With Alzheimer's And Dementia And Why This Is Important To The Creative Writing Student And The Community, Alice Spicer
HIM 1990-2015
All meaningful communication is a form of storytelling, according to Walter Fisher, who introduced the narrative paradigm to communication theory, and storytelling is universal across cultures and time as the manner in which people comprehend life. Storytelling is also a creative form of art. This interdisciplinary, multimedia work will explore the creative use of non-traditional storytelling to gather information about how creativity evolves in people with Alzheimer's and dementia and why this is important to both academia and the community. Currently, there is a lot of research available about the debilitating affects of memory loss, but there is very little …
Teaching English In Iraq:An Analysis Of An Efl Textbook, Sarab Al-Akraa
Teaching English In Iraq:An Analysis Of An Efl Textbook, Sarab Al-Akraa
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This study evaluates the fifth- grade beginning English textbook, Iraq Opportunities 3, which was introduced in elementary schools by the Iraqi Ministry of Education in 2012. This mixed methods research aims to analyze the content of a new textbook that is considered to be the foundation of the English language program in Iraq. This is a valuable research project since its findings reveal the strengths and weaknesses of Iraq Opportunities 3 based on three critical components: grammar, vocabulary, and culture. A survey questionnaire was used in this study to elicit the perspectives of English language teachers who are using this …
Metaphor In Law As Poetic And Propositional Language, Linda L. Berger
Metaphor In Law As Poetic And Propositional Language, Linda L. Berger
Scholarly Works
No abstract provided.
Understanding The Home Literacy Environment Of A Low-Income Urban Community, Jennifer Ann Dupont Frechette
Understanding The Home Literacy Environment Of A Low-Income Urban Community, Jennifer Ann Dupont Frechette
Open Access Master's Theses
The Home Literacy Environment (HLE) is conceptualized as a multifarious interactive experience that occurs across multiple contexts and is a key component in emergent literacy acquisition (Schmitt, Simpson, & Friend, 2011; Wood, 2002). Past researchers have used conservative measures of the HLE that measure only one indicator (e.g. Storybook Title Identification), while others have included broad conceptualizations including demographic variables, parent-child text interactions, playing word games, and visiting the local library (Schmit et al., 2011; Levy, Gong, Hessels, Evans, & Jared, 2006; Lyytinen, Laasko, Poikkeus, 1998; Senechal, LeFevre, Thomas & Daly, 1992). The present study utilized a broad measure of …
Racial Microaggression Experiences And Coping Mechanisms Of Graduate Students In School Psychology Programs, Yarimar Ortiz-Frontera
Racial Microaggression Experiences And Coping Mechanisms Of Graduate Students In School Psychology Programs, Yarimar Ortiz-Frontera
Open Access Master's Theses
Racial Microaggressions and the coping of graduate students of Color in School Psychology programs were examined. A national sample (N = 145) was collected from programs approved by APA and NASP. Two measures were administered to assess racial microaggressions occurrences and coping strategies. Results of the study suggest that there is a difference of racial microaggression experiences by Race. It showed that Black participants experience more racial microaggressions than Asian, Hispanic or Latino/a, Multiracial and White graduate students. Participants preferred positive rather than negative coping strategies when experiencing racial microaggressions. Practical implications to support graduate students of color and future …
2013-2014 Course Catalog, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of The Registrar
2013-2014 Course Catalog, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of The Registrar
University of Montana Course Catalogs, 1895-2024
An annual catalog of courses and course descriptions offered at the University of Montana.
A Synthetic Spring, John Metcalf
A Synthetic Spring, John Metcalf
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
i. A Synthetic Spring will be to serve the public as an encounter rather than an art object. ii. The actual event will be free and open to the public, and will only last two hours. iii. The aim is to create something precious and rare. This exclusiveness is a reaction to the twenty-first century’s fascination with identity through the online appearance, the viral video, the text message, the twitter posting, the sound byte, the Internet meme, binge online shopping, etc. iv. In the greater scope, the event will technically begin with the use of promotion several months before the …
I Can Be Silent And Be Saying A Lot: Teachers' Racial Literacy In A Southern Elementary School, Kimberly J. Howard
I Can Be Silent And Be Saying A Lot: Teachers' Racial Literacy In A Southern Elementary School, Kimberly J. Howard
Theses and Dissertations
In order to better understand how teachers make sense of race in schools today, this ethnographic study explores the following research question: How do teachers in this school make sense of race, and how does the spatiality of the school inform this process? The study was conducted over a 14-month period in a southern elementary school and is presented as a poetic, narrative, and thematic analysis of the connections between the geographic location of this particular school and the teachers' practices, pedagogies, and conversations about race both inside their classrooms and in other school spaces. This study demonstrates how teachers' …
Afterword, David G. Schultenover
Afterword, David G. Schultenover
Theology Faculty Research and Publications
Today many books appear regarding Vatican II. Yet, only very few of them manage to locate this crucial event in the life of the twentieth century Roman Catholic Church against the broad horizon of both its prehistory and its aftermath. This book does just that. In seven chapters, this volume offers a survey of the evolution of Post-Enlightenment Catholicism, in the period spanning from ca. 1830 to the present, tying together the renewals proposed by the first and the Second Vatican Councils. Each phase in this evolution is discussed from a double angle: on the hand from the viewpoint of …
Contingency And The Giftedness Of Creation: Enacting Grace In A Fractured World, Philip J. Rossi
Contingency And The Giftedness Of Creation: Enacting Grace In A Fractured World, Philip J. Rossi
Theology Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Adoil Outside The Cosmos: God Before And After Creation In The Enochic Tradition, Andrei Orlov
Adoil Outside The Cosmos: God Before And After Creation In The Enochic Tradition, Andrei Orlov
Theology Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Entertaining Male Clients In An Indonesian Karaoke Café : A Study Of Accommodation Strategies / Anisa Larassati, Anisa Larassati
Entertaining Male Clients In An Indonesian Karaoke Café : A Study Of Accommodation Strategies / Anisa Larassati, Anisa Larassati
Student Works (2010-2019)
Accommodation strategies are important in service based workplace where the choice of appropriate language plays a significant role for both the service output and customers’ preference or satisfaction. Linguistic research on accommodation strategies in workplace discourse mostly focussed on the importance of accommodative communication styles as an integral part of giving good service to the customers. However, the nature of some services might sometimes compel employees to perform non-accommodative communication styles to the customers. In a gendered workplace where service employees often have to deal with their customers’ misbehaviour such as asking for sexual service or coercing them to drink …
Modality And Identity Construction In The Narratives Of Libyan Efl Learners / Hanan Bulgasim Salem Buhassan, Hanan Bulgasim Salem Buhassan
Modality And Identity Construction In The Narratives Of Libyan Efl Learners / Hanan Bulgasim Salem Buhassan, Hanan Bulgasim Salem Buhassan
Student Works (2010-2019)
Identity construction occurs either in the personal or social levels. Such construction of identity manifests in various ways most particularly through the narratives. Therefore this study seeks to examine the identity construction of Libyan ELF learners through their personal narratives. More specifically, this study focuses on identity construction through the use of mood and modality. Thirty personal narratives from thirty Libyan EFL learners are examined and analyzed. The study uses the qualitative research paradigm in collecting and analyzing the data. Positioning theory is used as the theoretical framework (Bamberg 1997, 2003, 2004, 2010 and 2011). The researcher also adopted the …
Aplikasi Nahu Dalam Komunikasi Bahasa Arab / Awaluddin, - Awaluddin
Aplikasi Nahu Dalam Komunikasi Bahasa Arab / Awaluddin, - Awaluddin
Student Works (2010-2019)
Kajian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis kategori aplikasi nahu dalam komunikasi bahasa Arab, mengkaji jenis-jenis kesilapan aplikasi nahu dan menganalisis masalah-masalah aplikasi nahu dalam komunikasi bahasa Arab dalam kalangan pelajar-pelajar PMAA. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan bahawa pelajar-pelajar PMAA telah mengaplikasikan kaedah-kaedah nahu dalam komunikasi bahasa Arab dari aspek pengaplikasian kata kerja suruhan dan kata kerja larangan, pengaplikasian partikel jarr, pengaplikasian sistem bilangan bahasa Arab, pengaplikasian kata mudhakkar dan mu’annath, pengaplikasian kata kerja kala kini dan kata kerja kala lampau, pengaplikasian kata tunggal, kata keduaan dan kata jamak dalam komunikasi seharian. Manakala dari aspek kesilapan nahu dalam komunikasi bahasa Arab adalah tiada keselarian …
A Study Of Gender Differences In Compliments And Responses Of Chinese International Students / Zhao Jian Xiang, Jian Xiang Zhao
A Study Of Gender Differences In Compliments And Responses Of Chinese International Students / Zhao Jian Xiang, Jian Xiang Zhao
Student Works (2010-2019)
As a positive speech act, compliments and compliment responses play an important role as a polite speech act in activities of daily verbal communication. Incorporating the questionnaires survey and theories in pragmatics and sociolinguistic views of gender differences in language, this study investigated the gender differences in compliments and compliment responses. Twelve situations were set in the questionnaire to investigate the gender differences in compliments and compliment responses used by Chinese international male and female students in University of Malaya (UM). Among them, six situations are about compliments, and six situations are about compliment responses. The study was carried out …
Penguasaan Kata Kerja Perintah Bahasa Arab Dalam Kalangan Pelajar Pra Universiti / Syakirah Rifa’In @ Mohd Rifain, Syakirah Rifa’In @ Mohd Rifain
Penguasaan Kata Kerja Perintah Bahasa Arab Dalam Kalangan Pelajar Pra Universiti / Syakirah Rifa’In @ Mohd Rifain, Syakirah Rifa’In @ Mohd Rifain
Student Works (2010-2019)
Kajian ini merupakan kajian mengenai tahap penguasaan kata kerja perintah bahasa Arab dalam kalangan para pelajar pra Akademi Pengajian Islam Universiti Malaya Nilam Puri Kelantan. Matlamat utama kajian ini adalah untuk mengetahui pengetahuan pelajar mengenai kata kerja perintah dan mengkaji penguasaan pelajar mengenai pembentukan kata kerja perintah dan pola kata kerja perintah serta untuk mengenalpasti masalah-masalah yang dihadapi oleh para pelajar mengenai kata kerja perintah. Sampel kajian yang dipilih adalah seramai 50 orang pelajar daripada pra Akademi Islam Universiti Malaya Nilam Puri. Kajian ini menggunakan borang soal selidik, ujian bertulis, dan temubual untuk mendapatkan data dan maklum balas daripada responden. …
Morphological Derivations And Inflections In An Algerian Arabic Dialect / Djaffar Farida, Djaffar Farida
Morphological Derivations And Inflections In An Algerian Arabic Dialect / Djaffar Farida, Djaffar Farida
Student Works (2010-2019)
So far, not much research has been carried out on the morphological description of the Algerian Arabic dialect, applying the principles of modern structural linguistics. Algeria, a North African country, has many dialects spoken in the various regions of its vast geographical area, including non-Arabic dialects. This paper deals with one of these dialects, namely the Arabic Algiers Urban Dialect (AAUD). As the name indicates, it is the dialect of the capital city. This study focuses on the inflectional and derivational grammatical (morphological) formations found in the Algiers Arabic Urban dialect (AAUD), based on the systematic analysis, applying the Replacive …
The Use Of Malaysian English In Robert Raymer’S Short Stories / Melyza Pakianatham, Melyza Pakianatham
The Use Of Malaysian English In Robert Raymer’S Short Stories / Melyza Pakianatham, Melyza Pakianatham
Student Works (2010-2019)
This study is an attempt to categorize and describe the use of Malaysian English by a native English speaker who has lived in Malaysia for over 20 years. This person is an expatriate who has been actively involved in contributing to Malaysian literature, particularly in the area of creative writing. Two books written by Robert Raymer were used for the purpose of this study. A total of 16 short stories were analyzed using theoretical frameworks by Baskaran (2005). There was a total of 41 words and phrases that were used as data for the analysis according to the theoretical frameworks. …
Penguasaan Kata Kerja Al-Mabniyy Li Al-Majhu:L Dalam Kalangan Pelajar Sekolah Menengah / Mohd Kamal Bin Ibrahim, Mohd Kamal Ibrahim
Penguasaan Kata Kerja Al-Mabniyy Li Al-Majhu:L Dalam Kalangan Pelajar Sekolah Menengah / Mohd Kamal Bin Ibrahim, Mohd Kamal Ibrahim
Student Works (2010-2019)
Kajian ini membincangkan tentang pemahaman pelajar di peringkat sekolah menengah berkenaan dengan penggunaan kata kerja al-Mabniyy Li al-Majhu:l. Ia bertujuan untuk mengenalpasti tahap penguasaan pelajar mengenai tajuk ini yang merangkumi pemahaman mengenai kaedah asas pembentukkan kata kerja ini serta kemahiran menggunakannya dalam membina sturktur ayat yang sahih dengan mangambilkira aplikasi tatabahasa arab yang berkaitan dengannya. Di samping itu, kajian turut menjurus kepada bentuk kekeliruan serta permasalahan yang sering dihadapi oleh pelajar dalam menguasai tajuk ini. Batasan perbincangan adalah berdasarkan kepada sukatan mata pelajaran yang dikeluarkan oleh pihak Kementerian Pelajaran Malaysia, lantaran ia merupakan salah satu tajuk tatabahasa di dalam silibus …
A Study Of The Process Of Translating Political Texts From English To Arabic / Omar Ganim Mohamed, Omar Ganim Mohamed
A Study Of The Process Of Translating Political Texts From English To Arabic / Omar Ganim Mohamed, Omar Ganim Mohamed
Student Works (2010-2019)
In the international arena, it is a known fact that inaccurately translated political texts can lead to misunderstandings between political leaders and this can strain the relationship between countries or even lead to catastrophic ends. In the world of translation, the translation of political texts from English to Arabic is still not efficient and needs to be improved. Based on this initial finding, the researcher was motivated to investigate the translation of political texts from English to Arabic. The objectives of this study were to (i) investigate the process of translating political texts from English to Arabic which include the …
Iranian Postgraduate Students’ Beliefs About English Language Learning / Zoiemiow Vakili, Zoiemiow Vakili
Iranian Postgraduate Students’ Beliefs About English Language Learning / Zoiemiow Vakili, Zoiemiow Vakili
Student Works (2010-2019)
Beliefs are “general assumptions that students hold about themselves as learners, about factors influencing language learning, and about the nature of language learning and teaching” (Victori & Lockhart 1995, P.224).Language learners’ beliefs lead their actions, particularly in the process of learning. Learners’ beliefs can help teachers to have a better understanding of the learners’ learning process and their success in classrooms. According to Horwitz (1988), “ knowledge of students’ beliefs about language learning may provide teachers of languages with a better understanding of their students’ expectations of, commitment to, success in and satisfactions with language classes” ( Horwitz, 1988 : …