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"A Stranger In America": Queer Diasporic Writers And The American Politics Of Exclusion, Caitlin Stanfield
"A Stranger In America": Queer Diasporic Writers And The American Politics Of Exclusion, Caitlin Stanfield
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
While the academic concept of queer diasporic studies is relatively new, the epistemic future of this interdisciplinary, intersectional, and inclusive field is already imperiled. Throughout recent years, bills seeking to expunge critical race and queer theory from not only the public education sector, but from the legally-defined “general public” as well, have been proposed by legislators throughout the United States. To combat this assault upon marginalized educators, scholars, and authors, one must first understand what is at stake; the rich site of contemporary, queer diasporic poetry provides one such example. By situating these poems within their complex cultural, political, and …
The Day The Day Fell Asleep, Christopher Thomas
The Day The Day Fell Asleep, Christopher Thomas
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The poems of The Day the Day Fell Asleep were written across 2020-22 in Oxford, England, and Orono, Maine, in consultation with and under the advisement of the poet Jennifer Moxley. The primary themes of the collection are the language of dreams, and the language of reality, and the possibilities of meeting places between the two. This thesis is prefaced by an introduction, Statements Toward a Poetics, that draws on ideas from poets including May Sarton, Yves Bonnefoy, and Wallace Stevens, to begin outlining a poetic state of awareness that informs the concerns of many of the poems in the …
Orion's Eyes, Adam Ray Wagner
Orion's Eyes, Adam Ray Wagner
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The following manuscript is a thesis in poetry and poetics. The goal of the thesis was to generate poems which investigate perception and to develop a nascent sense of my own poetics. The manuscript is invested in the exploration of poetry’s sonic qualities as a primary constitutive force behind a poem’s meaning. Inspired by Zukofsky’s declaration that the highest order of poetry is music, the poems are rooted in the expressive capacity of the voice. The critical introduction draws attention to how that vocal expressivity functions in the poems as a meaning-making element. The poems included in Orion’s Eyes were …
On The Notion Of A Medium, Keaton Studebaker
On The Notion Of A Medium, Keaton Studebaker
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
In this thesis, I attempt to think through the notion of a medium. Part One seeks to draw a distinction between a medium and a device. Part Two draws upon Jacques Lacan’s theorization of objet petit a in an effort to develop a conception of a medium that is both necessary and nondeterminative. Part Three turns to Steve McCaffery’s Carnival to further develop this notion of a medium with an emphasis on the subject.
Embodying Resilience In The Writing Center: A Study Of Tutor Training Handbooks And Videos Towards An Understanding Of The "Ideal" Tutoring Session, Katelyn Emily Parsons
Embodying Resilience In The Writing Center: A Study Of Tutor Training Handbooks And Videos Towards An Understanding Of The "Ideal" Tutoring Session, Katelyn Emily Parsons
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This thesis examines two distinct datasets (handbooks and videos) to explore whether writing tutors embody their training. This research project was grounded in Bruffee’s (1984; 1995) work with collaboration and its link to conversation (both verbal and nonverbal communicative acts) to analyze the peer-to-peer relationships that are observable in writing center tutorials. Research on collaboration and conversation provided a useful framework for qualitatively coding six (6) tutor training handbooks and sixteen (16) tutor training videos. In taking up Thompson’s (2009) and Olinger’s (2014; 2020) calls for further research on writers’ embodied understandings of language, the video component of this research …
Construing Prestige: A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Study Of Eight Historically Gendered Occupations, Benjamin Flint Markey
Construing Prestige: A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Study Of Eight Historically Gendered Occupations, Benjamin Flint Markey
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
While research in Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies has focused on collocation and its role in representing gender, little study has been given to how these representations change across registers. Collocations are responsive to register variation and studying their change across registers reveals how gender norms are perpetuated uniquely by different registers. This study investigates whether collocates comprised of historically-gendered occupations represent gendered dimensions of labor and addresses how those representations change across different registers of the Corpus of Contemporary American English (CoCA). This thesis begins with a brief discussion of corpus linguistics before detailing the role of corpus analysis in the …
Choking Hazards, Tessa Hathaway
Choking Hazards, Tessa Hathaway
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The following manuscript is a creative writing thesis in poetry. The goal of the thesis was to expand my abilities as a poet and find a cohesion in my work. I wanted to utilize some skills gain in a fiction workshop and apply them to poetry, as well as gain influences in various fields of expertise through the other courses I’ve been taking in the English department. Essays for a poetics class, novels for an American literature class, and short stories for a fiction workshop gave me a base from which to work from and draw inspiration. Not only was …
Discourses On Fantasy: A Narrative Allegory, Reuben Dendinger
Discourses On Fantasy: A Narrative Allegory, Reuben Dendinger
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This project, though officially designated by the English Department as a creative thesis, is really a hybrid work that combines creative writing with literary criticism. The work is structured as a "dream vision," a literary genre popular in the Middle Ages in which a narrator receives some form of instruction or wisdom through an allegorical dream. Examples include The Pearl, The Romance of the Rose, and Chaucer's House of Fame. In this thesis, the allegorical space of the dream vision provides a platform for a series of essays structured as dialogues. These dialogues explore the aesthetics and …
Maine Literature 101: A Course For High School Seniors, Courtney Hawkes
Maine Literature 101: A Course For High School Seniors, Courtney Hawkes
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
In various schools across the state of Maine are teachers devoting their classroom time to exploring the rich history of Maine. At the high school level, many schools now offer at least an elective course in “Maine Studies” and Maine state standards require that local history is covered to a certain extent in high school history. Missing from these courses, however, is a study of Maine’s literature. Literature puts a realistic face to the events of history in a way that helps students see through the eyes of the people from that time period. Literature reveals internal emotions and conflicts …
Approaches To The Land, Joseph Linscott
Approaches To The Land, Joseph Linscott
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Approaches to the Land is a collection of interrelated stories centered on a small Maine mill town. These stories have several recurrent narrators who are in many phases of moving – some come while others leave, etc. These stories have an immense interest in the identification of loss and hope, and this in turn plays heavily on the identities of the characters embodying the stories. As a whole, these stories capture the only way this author knew how to document his hometown.
The Ecology Of Peer Tutoring: Perspectives Of Student Staff In One High School Writing Center, Cynthia Dean
The Ecology Of Peer Tutoring: Perspectives Of Student Staff In One High School Writing Center, Cynthia Dean
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
In high school writing centers that employ students as tutors, staff members can face challenges as they transition into a tutorial role. The purpose of this study was to document the challenges high school writing tutors may encounter as they transition from and between their roles as students and peer tutors. Two conceptual frames, performance theory and social ecology, guided this study. The former framed analysis of peer tutors’ performance in the writing center while social ecology disclosed how the acquisition of identity in one context affects a peer tutor’s activity in others. This qualitative study used a case study …
Clara-An Elsewhere, Travis G. Baker
Clara-An Elsewhere, Travis G. Baker
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Clara an elsewhere seeks to convey to a reader the immediate and sensory rich experience of walking down Main Street in Clara, ME one fine summer morning and encountering the lives of two characters, Aaron and Katy even as their lives encounter each other. The work follows a concept in astrophysics, the elsewhere-a time and space outside of the now, past the known future and as yet unseen by the known past- and applies it to a literary context. The effect upon a reader being that he or she is not reading a story that has occurred or will occur …
Betweenness Unveiled: Poetry As A Connective Force, Wilson Clement
Betweenness Unveiled: Poetry As A Connective Force, Wilson Clement
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
In recent history, literary criticism attempted to maintain absolute standards by which the quality of literature was to be judged. The literary community's partial submission to attacks on this position has made it possible for its members to recognize that these rigid standards can never be universally accepted. We argue that they must therefore accept, as legitimate modes of critique, both Seamus Heaney's claim that it is the duty of poetry to redress wrongs of whatever type and his unspoken claim that this redress is done by poetry's working for opposing realities. The work for these often contradictory realities, says …
Like Decorations In A Nigger Cemetery : The Poetic And Political Adjustments Of Wallace Stevens, John R. Millett
Like Decorations In A Nigger Cemetery : The Poetic And Political Adjustments Of Wallace Stevens, John R. Millett
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This project seeks to illuminate one of the most troubling, baffling and most scrupulously unexamined poems in Wallace Stevens's entire body of work: "Like Decorations in a Nigger Cemetery." The lack of scholarship on this poem results fro mthe incredible snarl of stylistic and ethical problems that the poem presents to critics. On the one hand, the poem represents the heighth of poetic modernity. On the other, the depths of racial insensitivity, if not racism. This mixture of poetic complexity and ethical callousness has combined to make the explication of the poem a daunting task and, hence, a task seldom …
"Warriors Of The Working-Day" Class In Shakespeare's Second Historical Trilogy, Richard Brooke Morrill
"Warriors Of The Working-Day" Class In Shakespeare's Second Historical Trilogy, Richard Brooke Morrill
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
In Shakespeare's historical plays, we find the traditional and politically "top-heavy" historic events of monarchs, aristocrats and patriarchs, of national and international politics and of wars, civil and foreign. This is the type of practice that E.P. Thompson was challenging when he coined the polemic phrase "history from below." It is necessary, Thompson says, to rethink historiography as a means of creating national identity because of its inherent lack of sociopolitical objectivity, particularly with respect to class. "It is one of the peculiarities of the English," he writes, "that the history of the 'common people' has always been something other …
The Language Of Man And The Language Of God In George Herbert's Religious Poetry, Polya Tocheva
The Language Of Man And The Language Of God In George Herbert's Religious Poetry, Polya Tocheva
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
According to Burckhardt, the Reformation was an escape from discipline. The Reformation changed both the cultural and the religious reality of early modern Europe. Reformation theology and the new Renaissance understanding of self and of individuality required a radically new language in which to address God and at the same time demand a response. Medieval rhetoric of praise could no longer sustain the versatility of the Renaissance reader and could not provide the medium of searching for that response. The poetry of the metaphysical poets, Herbert in particular, bridges Christian discourse, rhetorical strategies, moral expression, radical dissention. Herbert was an …
New England Genealogies: The Life And Writings Of Mary Ellen Chase, William Orin Chesley
New England Genealogies: The Life And Writings Of Mary Ellen Chase, William Orin Chesley
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Mary Ellen Chase, one of the most popular American authors of the twentieth century, was born in Blue Hill, Maine in 1887. Her career as a writer spanned the period between 1909, when she left Maine to teach in the mid-West, and her death in 1973. Much of her literature was influenced by her early life in Blue Hill and by the various members of family. This thesis looks at the historical, biographical, and genealogical factors that gave impetus to a prolific literary output and won her a place among the leading Humanist writers in American literature during the middle …
Refractions, Linwood R. Lancaster
Refractions, Linwood R. Lancaster
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This project allowed me to pursue one of nly greatest joys, expressing my feelings, emotions, and thoughts through the written word. As we march towards a world dominated by technology, there are those that think the day of the storyteller has passed. Television, movies, and electronic games have become the vehicle for amusement in the world today, supposedly leaving no room left for the lowly storyteller. However, these entities are stories told but in a different medium. The ideas that drive these devices still have to come from someone, an author. Even video games now are intertwined with the storyteller, …
The Phenomenological Self In The Works Of Jerzy Kosinski, Tracy Allen Houston
The Phenomenological Self In The Works Of Jerzy Kosinski, Tracy Allen Houston
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
A scholar who wishes to examine the works of Jerzy Kosinski faces a problem not found in the study of many other authors: Kosinski's personal history, critical to many approaches to the study of literature, is filled with fictions, contradictions, and unverifiable events. For years Kosinski's first novel, The Painted Bird, was taken to be autobiographical. However, as interest in Kosinski's work grew, inconsistencies and obvious falsehoods contradicted this accepted autobiographical reading. The Painted Bird describes the wanderings of a young boy in Eastern Europe during WWII, yet Kosinski was not separated fiom his parents as had been previously believed. …
Liminality In Popular Fiction, Adam Crowley
Liminality In Popular Fiction, Adam Crowley
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Most popular narratives are composed of segments. A narrative segment is a sequence in which those narrative elements fundamental to the immediate progression of the narrative are resolved. These resolutions can be true resolutions, or they can be resolutions in part. If they are resolutions in part, the narrative elements in question must be sufficiently transformed so that their role becomes radically different, less fundamental. When narrative segments terminate, we become aware of that which is hidden by the logical progression of the segment itself: the author's authority to introduce new narrative elements without warning or apparent need. In short, …
Stories Of Canada: National Identity In Late-Nineteenth-Century English-Canadian Fiction, Elizabeth Hedler
Stories Of Canada: National Identity In Late-Nineteenth-Century English-Canadian Fiction, Elizabeth Hedler
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The search for a national identity has been a central concern of English-Canadian culture since the creation of the Dominion of Canada in 1867. In the late nineteenth century, English-Canadian concerns about Canadian identity and the need for distinctively Canadian stories resulted in the creation of a body of fiction that attempted to define Canadian nationhood and identity by depicting Canadian scenes, people, and situations. In the late nineteenth century, writers of fiction focused on defining the impact of Canada's unique land and heritage upon Canadian identity. Based on an extensive reading of these novels, this dissertation explores the way …
Why Mystery And Detective Fiction Was A Natural Outgrowth Of The Victorian Period, Sharon J. Kobritz
Why Mystery And Detective Fiction Was A Natural Outgrowth Of The Victorian Period, Sharon J. Kobritz
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This Master Project presents evidence showing why mystery and detective fiction flourished during the Victorian period and argues that this enduring genre was a natural outgrowth of this time. The project presents material on the culture of the Victorian period and shows how the roles of men and women are defined. This project will argue that mystery and detective fiction flourished because of the changes in popular culture; that the sweeping changes in education, medicine, literature, religion and business solidified the popularity of this genre. Along with this genre of fiction came a new way of publishing and reading. One …
Zimbabwean Land And Zimbabwean People: Creative Explorations., Joshua Caine Anchors
Zimbabwean Land And Zimbabwean People: Creative Explorations., Joshua Caine Anchors
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The four writings compiled for this project involve explorations into the complex relationship between Zimbabweans and their land. The current struggles in Zimbabwe over land seizure and resettlement make this a particularly timely and noteworthy theme. The first piece, "Tshaya, Indoda," is a screenplay looking at the dynamic relationship between a white safari operator and black subsistence farmers who live in nearby communal farming lands. The disputes and issues discussed in this piece are very realistic and awareness is raised as to the historical nature and racial dimensions of the current land disputes in Zimbabwe. "Dubious," the second piece, is …
The Wise Women Of Chelm, Beth Amy Lurie
The Wise Women Of Chelm, Beth Amy Lurie
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My Creative Writing Thesis is a collection of short stories. This original collection, THE WISE WOMEN OF CHELM, reflects an older, oral and written tradition of folk tales known as THE WISE MEN OF CHELM. I grew up with these older tales and have been inspired by their humor all my life. Many authors have added to the Chelm tradition, spanning centuries and including contemporary times. My tales occur in the late l W s , and my twist on them is the focus on women. I like to describe them as mock-feminist since they involve women who, in their …
Ghetto Regionalism: Place, Identity, And Assimilation In The Fiction Of Abraham Cahan, Sui Sin Far, And Zitkala-Sa, Tabitha Adams Morgan
Ghetto Regionalism: Place, Identity, And Assimilation In The Fiction Of Abraham Cahan, Sui Sin Far, And Zitkala-Sa, Tabitha Adams Morgan
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My thesis is an exploration of turn-of-the-century immigrant and minority fiction. I deal specifically with the marginalization of minorities who live in ghettos, how and why such a demarcated place and space informs their social identity, and the function and ramifications of the assimilation process on those individuals, as shown in the fiction of Abraham Cahan, Sui Sin Far, and Zitkala-Sa.
Old Maps, Samuel H. Manhart
Old Maps, Samuel H. Manhart
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English at The University of Maine, I submit a collection of poems 1 have entitled Old Maps. Many of the poems in this thesis employ natural imagery, and while it is my intent to discover and analyze the natural world, I also hope to uncover and disclose a more thorough understanding of myself through verse. The self-refledions I see in nature both surprise me and find their expression in my poetry. It is my hope, as I believe it is the hope of every poet, that …
(A Pause For The Alphabet) A Fantastic Excess In Twenty Six Parts, Terence Mcnulty
(A Pause For The Alphabet) A Fantastic Excess In Twenty Six Parts, Terence Mcnulty
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
(A Pause for the Alphabet) is a multi-genre text (a genre tower) with a polyphonic intent. It was written between January and May 2001 as an attempt to reconsider narrative and language on basic, although not necessarily fundamental or foundational, levels.
The Fall Of The Wilderness King, Part Ii John Sassamon, Christopher H. White
The Fall Of The Wilderness King, Part Ii John Sassamon, Christopher H. White
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The Wilderness King, Part 11, John Sassamon is a verse play set in seventeenth century New England during the period leading to the outbreak of King Philip's War (1675-81). In per capita terms that war remains the most devastating conflict in U.S. history with a ten percent casualty rate among the English adult male population alone. Moreover, the New England colonies lost the almost de facto autonomy they had enjoyed before the war; because of it they would not recover independence until a century later. Another effect of the war was the collapse of the cooperative, pluralistic society between the …
Without Flutes Or Flowers., Jason A. Vafiades
Without Flutes Or Flowers., Jason A. Vafiades
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In this collection of poetry, the scope and mode of every poem is translation. All three sections, 'Wildernesses", "Silences", and 'Translations" each bear id their creation, the sense of translating one world into another. Yet, it is only in the Last section, appropriately named 'Translationsn, where the general resemblance to any method of the usual sense of translating appears. For the first two sections, all the poems found their creation in the attempt to put into poetry a vision and emotion that had yet to be contained by language: a way of interpreting the language of the natural and physiological …
Dungeons And Dreams: The Children And Nightmares Of Emily And Anne Bronte's Gondal Poetry, Michelle Patricia Beissel
Dungeons And Dreams: The Children And Nightmares Of Emily And Anne Bronte's Gondal Poetry, Michelle Patricia Beissel
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It has long been acknowledged that Anne Bronte played a part in the saga of the imaginary world of Gondal, but more attention has been given to her sister Emily's role in creating the world. Each sister's Gondal poetry, however, is important: the poetry signals much about how each sister dealt with the world around her, demonstrates how adulty rather than childish Gondal became, and indicates how realistic each sister's "escapist" world actually was. Indeed, in grappling with their changing nineteenth centruy world, Anne clung to the hopeful remains of Romanticism while Emily blended and denied both Romanticism and Victorianism. …