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From Words To Form: Disability In Contemporary Italian And Italian American Literature, Arianna Salomon
From Words To Form: Disability In Contemporary Italian And Italian American Literature, Arianna Salomon
Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2020 - Present
This dissertation traces nearly fifty years of representations of disability, understood as a cultural category, from the late 1970s to the early 2020s, in two interconnected traditions: Italian and Italian American literature. In particular, it explores how disability reshapes the act and aesthetics of writing in contemporary Italian and Italian American novels and memoirs. Given the field’s relative newness, the substantial groundwork still required, and the many connections between literature and disability, this dissertation uses nine case studies with a balanced pairing of Italian and Italian American works in each chapter: Carmelo Samonà’s Fratelli (1978) and Tina De Rosa’s Paper …
True Biz: A Fusion Of Written English And Printed Asl, Elysha O'Brien
True Biz: A Fusion Of Written English And Printed Asl, Elysha O'Brien
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
This paper analyzes the book True Biz by Sara Novic with particular attention given to the socio-cultural and historical aspects of the story as well as the postmodern construction of the novel. The narrative of a young girl transferring to a Deaf school and learning American Sign Language features numerous translanguaging characteristics. This essay pays close attention to story elements and how those elements highlight significant aspects of Deaf culture and Deaf history as well as how the postmodern construction of the novel enables a book to feature two differing language systems, namely written English and printed American Sign Language.
Brief Reviews Of Books And Products: Theses On The Metaphors Of Digital-Textual History, David Advent
Brief Reviews Of Books And Products: Theses On The Metaphors Of Digital-Textual History, David Advent
Library Faculty & Staff Publications
Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History is an exploration of seven key metaphors that Martin Paul Eve, Professor of Literature, Technology, and Publishing at Birkbeck College, University of London, argues have structured our cultural and linguistic understandings of the world around us. Eve organizes the book around eight chapters (“theses”), with each metaphor comprising a separate chapter. The theses are connected thematically in pairs, save for the closing chapter. Eve decodes each metaphor into its basic elements and interweaves the complex digital and textual histories behind each metaphor. Overwhelmingly, Eve wants readers to recognize how striking the parallels are …
Why Read In The Age Of Post-Literacy?, Corrine H. Martello
Why Read In The Age Of Post-Literacy?, Corrine H. Martello
Educational Studies Honors Papers
This research paper aims to answer the question, “Why read?” by exploring the significance and purpose of reading, during what many have begun to call the post-literacy era, in order to convey the message that we as human beings have a fundamental need for reading and a failure to fulfill this need may result in an inability to reach one’s full potential as both an individual and as a society at large.
(De)Composing Transhumanisms: Fungal And Trans Ecologies In Jeff Vandermeer's Annihilation, Miles Nives Qapevewni Enriquez-Morales
(De)Composing Transhumanisms: Fungal And Trans Ecologies In Jeff Vandermeer's Annihilation, Miles Nives Qapevewni Enriquez-Morales
English (MA) Theses
This thesis project analyzes the novel Annihilation (2014) by Jeff VanderMeer and situates the biologist’s transformation and transition in the book in a trans ecological framework. By expanding on foundational texts such as Jackson Jesse Nash’s “‘I Am Not Returning Home’: A Transgender Reading of Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation”, this paper argues that representations of fungus in Annihilation present a possibility for trans futurity rooted in transformation, ecological entanglement, and a rejection of binary thought. Additional articles from Transgender Studies Quarterly and A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies orient this fungal transformation in the larger framework of rejecting normative …
Optional Freedom: The Idea Of Voluntary Slavery In Antebellum Law And Literature, Vinh T. Pham
Optional Freedom: The Idea Of Voluntary Slavery In Antebellum Law And Literature, Vinh T. Pham
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis elaborates “voluntary slavery” as a problem for thought for both proslavery legalists and literary writers in the antebellum period. It takes as its point of departure the passage of Southern laws throughout the 1850s that provided free Black persons the option to petition for self-enslavement to a master/mistress of their choice, and the safeguards within them that led a significant number of such petitions to be rejected. Given the political tensions of the 1850s, why would legal practitioners actively impede the option of self-enslavement? Implicit in these rejections is the possibility that self-enslavement was in some way a …
Bergsonian Blend: Subjective Temporality Within Modernist Aesthetics Of Mental Illness, Lydia Victoria Gervais
Bergsonian Blend: Subjective Temporality Within Modernist Aesthetics Of Mental Illness, Lydia Victoria Gervais
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Henri Bergson was a modernist French philosopher who wrote extensively on the topic of the lived experience of time, which he called durée, or duration. His contemporary, Sigmund Freud, was developing psychoanalytic theory in a growing field of psychological study, which serves as a prominent ancestor to modern psychiatry and current psychoanalytical literary studies. Fiction writers of the 1900s absorbed the zeitgeist of melded chronology and consciousness, interweaving themes of time and trauma in their works. Utilizing Henri Bergson’s durée as a philosophical framework, I examine the moralization of time-consciousness in connection with mental illness and investigate representations of …
Saltfish And Seedcake: Examining Fantasy Through Food Studies, Isabella Martins-Simonsen
Saltfish And Seedcake: Examining Fantasy Through Food Studies, Isabella Martins-Simonsen
Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2020 - Present
Although mundane and often overlooked in reality, in fantasy, food, like all other things, is entirely symbolic. Therefore, considering food closely when analyzing a fantasy text offers unique insights into the world being developed, the characters within that world, and the author’s own understanding of both the real and “secondary” world. In this paper, I consider the foods of Earthsea, Narnia, and Middle Earth to offer various perspectives on the worldbuilding and examine the implications of different foods in these well-known settings. For example, the tea served in Narnia creates a fantasy world that is more normal than the strange …
Dynamics Of Identity And Trajectories Of Memory: Interdisciplinary Perspectives On Intangible Cultural Heritage And Artistic Creation In The Maghreb, Nadia Kaaouas
Faits de Langue et Société (FLS)
This volume offers a multidisciplinary exploration of social and cultural dynamics in the Maghreb, capturing the tensions between permanence and change. Through a cross-disciplinary approach combining linguistics, anthropology, and aesthetics, the authors analyze the relationship between tradition and modernity through the lens of temporal perception, the evolution of women's status in discourse and literature, and the production mechanisms of visual arts. This reflection highlights the transmission processes of intangible heritage and the emergence of new, sovereign voices within a social space in full transition.
Ignoring Goethe's Faust: A Critical-Theoretical Perspective On American Ideology, Harry F. Dahms
Ignoring Goethe's Faust: A Critical-Theoretical Perspective On American Ideology, Harry F. Dahms
Fast Capitalism
The neglect of Goethe, his work in general, and Faust in particular, in English-speaking countries, is notorious. While Shakespeare's plays have been prominent and widely performed in German-speaking countries, the same is not true for Goethe in the English-speaking world. Focusing non-exclusively on Faust, and cutting a link to Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus, I will endeavor to delineate problematic aspects of American ideology, and what it would take, within U.S. sociology, to be cognizant of the latter. Georg Lukacs wrote about Goethe and Faust, and so did Theodor W. Adorno and Leo Loewenthal, highlighting its importance to critical theory. The …
Human Sciences And The Truth Of Literature: Issues Of Theory And Method, Mohammed Fanane
Human Sciences And The Truth Of Literature: Issues Of Theory And Method, Mohammed Fanane
SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism
The article examines the question of the nature of literature within the broader field of the humanities, showing how literary discourse—since Plato—has remained an epistemically ambiguous domain because of its imaginative power and its capacity to unsettle rational notions of truth. From this standpoint, the text traces the epistemological shifts that have shaped the history of literary theory, from Aristotle’s concept of mimesis to contemporary approaches that expose the instability of fixed meaning and the openness of the text to multiplicity and semantic fragmentation. The article also addresses the issue of interpretation, recalling the emblematic confrontation between old and new …
Scientific Foundations And Their Manifestations In Literary Criticism, Hamid Lahmidani
Scientific Foundations And Their Manifestations In Literary Criticism, Hamid Lahmidani
SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism
The present study seeks to demonstrate the strong relationship between the various sciences and the practice of literary criticism, and to contribute to the shaping and development of critical programs. This occurs in parallel with the treatment of literary texts, the assimilation of their structural nature, and the subsequent uncovering of their allegorical and symbolic connotations. It has therefore been necessary to attend to the ways in which scientific disciplines contribute to the development of the mechanisms of literary criticism. Among these fertile sciences are mathematics, logic, and empirical forms of knowledge, followed by the human sciences such as history, …
Language, Literature, And Culture Newsletter, Twelfth Edition (January 2026), Language, Literature, And Culture Department, Clark University
Language, Literature, And Culture Newsletter, Twelfth Edition (January 2026), Language, Literature, And Culture Department, Clark University
Language, Literature, and Culture
The twelfth issue of the Language, Literature, and Culture department newsletter, which went out in January 2026. The Language, Literature, and Culture department newsletter aims to "share stories, news, ideas, achievements, and important information about and within our academic department that can be helpful to the campus community at large".
"Sing It Again": Linguistic Medievalisms In Geoffrey Hill And Seamus Heaney, Christian Cotten-Dixon
"Sing It Again": Linguistic Medievalisms In Geoffrey Hill And Seamus Heaney, Christian Cotten-Dixon
Honors College Theses
This study examines the use of early medieval structure and language in the poetry of Seamus Heaney and Geoffrey Hill, focusing on their near-contemporary collections, North and Mercian Hymns. Both collections use etymological and poetic structures to fashion an imagined medieval past in order to discuss personal and cultural narratives of history. Leveraging these structures in poetry and digging them out of past strata like a material artifact, Heaney and Hill collapse linear systems of time and language and access past word forms even as they evolve. This archaeological approach to poetry gives them the means to place the …
Medical Minds, Literary Voices: The Intersection Of Healing And Storytelling In Russian Literature, Emily Doris Gervais
Medical Minds, Literary Voices: The Intersection Of Healing And Storytelling In Russian Literature, Emily Doris Gervais
The Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research
This project examines the intersection of medicine and literature through the works of Russian physicians who became influential authors. Focusing on Anton Chekhov’s Sakhalin Island, Vikenty Veresaev’s Memoirs of a Physician, and Mikhail Bulgakov’s A Young Doctor’s Notebook, this research highlights how their medical experiences shaped both their personal narratives and broader societal criticism. By analyzing the variation of both implicit, individual-centered stories and systemic, sociopolitical commentaries, the project reveals how these authors brought a unique clinical perspective to Russian literature. Their attention to detail, moral and ethical concerns, and use of medical language enriched their writings, imbuing their prose …
Utilizing And Creating Indigenous Children’S Literature To Reclaim The Endangered Hoche Language, Jue Wang
Utilizing And Creating Indigenous Children’S Literature To Reclaim The Endangered Hoche Language, Jue Wang
Occasional Paper Series
Stemming from a large ethnographic study exploring young Indigenous children’s literacy and language practices in and out of school in a Hoche elementary school in rural Northeast China, this paper focuses on the navigation of Indigenous literature, language, and literacy learning of young Hoche children. Particularly, this reflective paper challenges the efficacy of Hoche language education in the oppressive context of the public schooling system, inviting Indigenous and non-Indigenous educators in China and across the world to rethink the urgency of reclaiming this endangered language and the power of Indigenous literature in understanding Hoche Indigenous ways of knowing, belonging, and …
Rats With Wings: The Villainization Of The Pigeon And Its Portrayal In Modern Art And Literature, Emily Dutton
Rats With Wings: The Villainization Of The Pigeon And Its Portrayal In Modern Art And Literature, Emily Dutton
Honors Theses
For millennia, humans have had an increasingly intimate relationship with pigeons. These birds have been called a wide range of names and served a myriad of purposes alongside their human handlers; however, since the populations of feral rock pigeons have increased in American cities, the general public has ascribed a negative connotation to the pigeons that they were once closely associated with. The increasing populations of pigeons along with their decreasing perceived usefulness to humanity has led to a sharp decline in their image. This thesis aims to examine how the pigeon became so loathed after it was coveted for …
The Life Of The Arabic Language, Its Merit, And Means Of Its Development In The Thought Of Muhammad Al-Khadr Hussein, Mohammed Aburahme
The Life Of The Arabic Language, Its Merit, And Means Of Its Development In The Thought Of Muhammad Al-Khadr Hussein, Mohammed Aburahme
Jordan Journal of Applied Science-Humanities Series
The present article aims to explore Mohammad Al-Khadr Hussein’s thoughts regarding the virtue of the Arabic language and methods for its development. Hussein is considered a model pioneer linguist of Arabic during a significant stage in modern times. By employing the linguistic views stated in his essays, he played a reformative role in politics, sociology, Arab culture, and within the Arabic Language Complex. It is concluded that Hussein firmly believed in the language's contribution to the Arab nation’s life, Pan-Arab unity and security, and its influence on human civilization. Arabic enjoys a unique ability to cope with modernity, due to …
Language, Literature, And Culture Newsletter, Ninth Edition (September 2025), Language, Literature, And Culture Department, Clark University
Language, Literature, And Culture Newsletter, Ninth Edition (September 2025), Language, Literature, And Culture Department, Clark University
Language, Literature, and Culture
The ninth issue of the Language, Literature, and Culture department newsletter, which went out in September 2025. The Language, Literature, and Culture department newsletter aims to "share stories, news, ideas, achievements, and important information about and within our academic department that can be helpful to the campus community at large".
Myth Of Happiness From The Consumerism Perspective In Simone De Beauvoir’S Les Belles Images, Joesana Tjahjani, Sekar Dewantari
Myth Of Happiness From The Consumerism Perspective In Simone De Beauvoir’S Les Belles Images, Joesana Tjahjani, Sekar Dewantari
Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya
France's post-World War II, thirty years of glory, resulted in the growth of purchasing power among the French, which triggered growth in consumerism, notably among the bourgeois— France's upper-middle-class society. People believed in a myth that objects are not solely useful for fulfilling needs but also served as a sign of social status, dignity, andcomfort. They equally believed that if the objects are consumed and the associated social standards fulfilled, they maybecome a way to obtain greater happiness. This article aims to examine the myth that happiness can be attained byconsumption and social standard fulfillment in a French consumer society …
Creating Accessible Literature For Deaf Young Adults, Kailee Bates
Creating Accessible Literature For Deaf Young Adults, Kailee Bates
Undergraduate University Honors Capstones
Access to literature in a person’s most accessible language is a human right. One that has been deprived from many members of the Deaf community, despite the growth of translated literature in other languages. Translators have yet to tackle the business of creating accessible American Sign Language (ASL) translations for older audiences, specifically for young adults. After the critical period of language development, less resources are tendered for older Deaf students. This project aimed to spread awareness of this need to several different people groups and emphasize the complexity of translating an English text into ASL. It did this by …
‘Amazigh Literary Space’: Intersection And Hybridity Across Languages And Media, Daniela Merolla
‘Amazigh Literary Space’: Intersection And Hybridity Across Languages And Media, Daniela Merolla
Journal of Amazigh Studies
My contribution will focus on multilingualism and multimedia in the ‘Amazigh literary and cinematographic space’ (Merolla De l’art, “Amazigh/Berber Literature”). Examining this notion coined in the 1990’s (Merolla “Gender and Community”) allows us to reflect on ongoing debates regarding North African literatures in postcolonial contexts. It also helps to see that Amazigh/Berber literature solely defined as Amazigh-language production tends to isolate works and performances that engage with multiple languages and literary traditions, cultural intersections, and hybridization in North Africa and its diasporas. The discussion is contextualized within the historical development of what is sometimes referred to as the “North …
Language, Literature, And Culture Newsletter, Eighth Edition (May 2025), Language, Literature, And Culture Department, Clark University
Language, Literature, And Culture Newsletter, Eighth Edition (May 2025), Language, Literature, And Culture Department, Clark University
Language, Literature, and Culture
The eighth issue of the Language, Literature, and Culture department newsletter, which went out in May 2025. The Language, Literature, and Culture department newsletter aims to "share stories, news, ideas, achievements, and important information about and within our academic department that can be helpful to the campus community at large".
Wide Screen With Critical Essay "Translating A Poetry Of Cinema"., James L. Richie Iv
Wide Screen With Critical Essay "Translating A Poetry Of Cinema"., James L. Richie Iv
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation combines the creative task of translating Víctor Cabrera’s poetry collection WIDE SCREEN (2009) from Spanish into English with a critical study that analyzes the volume to highlight the uniqueness of his writing, the importance of translating such a work for an Anglophone audience, and the challenges that occur in translating this complex collection. Moreover, Cabrera’s writing engages with a variety of cultural works in ways that challenge preconceived notions of language, culture, and medium. The poetry in WIDE SCREEN draws inspiration from the films of American filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, while frequently putting these films into dialogue with works …
Ajip Rosidi’S "Kegelisahan" (Restlessness) In Between Sundanese And Indonesian Literature, Teddi Muhtadin, Mikihiro Moriyama
Ajip Rosidi’S "Kegelisahan" (Restlessness) In Between Sundanese And Indonesian Literature, Teddi Muhtadin, Mikihiro Moriyama
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia
This article explores the literary journey of Ajip Rosidi, one of Indonesia’s most prolific writers, highlighting his unique position between Sundanese and Indonesian literature. Ajip authored over 300 works spanning diverse genres, making significant contributions to literature and the preservation of cultural heritage. The article examines his ambivalence or restlessness (kegelisahan) regarding the tension between regional and national identities in literature, as exemplified in his reflections and creative output. Ajip’s early life in a linguistically mixed region of West Java laid the foundation for his literary pursuits in both Sundanese and Indonesian. His works often oscillated between traditional …
Challenging The Status Quo: Disability In Australian Children’S Picture Books, Karen Glasby, Tracey Chamlin, Martin Kerby, Margaret Baguley, Alison Bedford, Eseta Tualaulelei, Emerson Zerafa-Payne
Challenging The Status Quo: Disability In Australian Children’S Picture Books, Karen Glasby, Tracey Chamlin, Martin Kerby, Margaret Baguley, Alison Bedford, Eseta Tualaulelei, Emerson Zerafa-Payne
Kritika Kultura
This article will analyze a range of Australian picture books that both explore the topic of disability and serve as educational tools for exploring diversity issues. The books were identified in a survey administered by the State Library of New South Wales (NSW) public library service, which identified 62 books that deal with diversity. Thirteen of the 62 books were assessed as having characters with a disability—including autism, mental illness, dementia, spina bifida, neurodiversity, physical disability, deafness, and implied but unidentified disabilities. This article will analyze the approach adopted in each of the picture books using Rudine Sims Bishop’s three …
Language, Literature, And Culture Newsletter, Seventh Edition (April 2025), Language, Literature, And Culture Department, Clark University
Language, Literature, And Culture Newsletter, Seventh Edition (April 2025), Language, Literature, And Culture Department, Clark University
Language, Literature, and Culture
The seventh issue of the Language, Literature, and Culture department newsletter, which went out in April 2025. The Language, Literature, and Culture department newsletter aims to "share stories, news, ideas, achievements, and important information about and within our academic department that can be helpful to the campus community at large".
Melville And The Market: Literature And The Language Of Capitalism In Nineteenth-Century America, Emma Williams
Melville And The Market: Literature And The Language Of Capitalism In Nineteenth-Century America, Emma Williams
History & Classics Undergraduate Theses
No abstract provided.
Exophonic Literature: Why And How Authors Write In A Second Language, Jonathan M. Bost
Exophonic Literature: Why And How Authors Write In A Second Language, Jonathan M. Bost
Senior Honors Theses
Milan Kundera, Julio Cortázar, Joseph Conrad, Rigoberta Menchú, and James Joyce are just some of the multitudinous authors who wrote in languages that are not their mother tongue. This phenomenon is called “exophony,” and it is more common than many would expect. There are various reasons why authors write exophonic literature: James Joyce wrote to a friend that he was at the end of English (1957), and Menchú’s editor Elizabeth Burgos-Debray claims Menchú wrote in Spanish to use the language of her oppressors against them. This thesis will investigate case studies of various exophonic authors, relate advice such authors have …
The Metaphysics Of Frank Herbert's Dune And God Emperor Of Dune: On Time And Language, Garrett J. Busshart
The Metaphysics Of Frank Herbert's Dune And God Emperor Of Dune: On Time And Language, Garrett J. Busshart
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation studies the metaphysics of time and rhetoric in the science fiction novels Dune (1963) and God Emperor of Dune (1981) by Frank Herbert. The first chapter critiques the protagonist’s sense of temporality, an ideology in which the future consists of multiple possible choices while each decision of one forecloses a still larger set. Jean-Pierre Dupuy calls this a “supermarket” model of temporality, as if the future were a contingent-free menu of possibilities a subject is free to pick between. My assertion is that this sense of temporality—the Western norm—matches the protagonist’s, Paul Atreides’s, rhetoric. In disclosing Paul’s sense …