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Beat Consumption: The Challenge To Consumerism In Beat Literature, Amien Essif
Beat Consumption: The Challenge To Consumerism In Beat Literature, Amien Essif
Pursuit - The Journal of Undergraduate Research at The University of Tennessee
Critics of the Beat generation, from their contemporaries to the present day, often contend that the Beats’ opposition to consumer culture was superficial. Writers like Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs failed, according to these critics, to present a coherent and principled response to consumerism. This paper, however, argues that while in many ways the Beats continued to participate in consumer culture, they developed a distinct form of consumption—Beat consumption—which attempted to regain sovereignty for the Beat consumer. Through an analysis of Kerouac’s The Dharma Bums and On the Road as well as several of Ginsberg’s seminal works, …
'By Winding Paths And Varied Slopes': John Ruskin's Non-Fiction Prose And The Transformation Of The Nineteenth Century Elegy, Bethann R. Bowman
'By Winding Paths And Varied Slopes': John Ruskin's Non-Fiction Prose And The Transformation Of The Nineteenth Century Elegy, Bethann R. Bowman
Doctoral Dissertations
In this work I explore how the non-fiction prose of John Ruskin contributes to the transformation of the poetic genre of elegy in mid-late Victorian England. I argue that in this period, the elegy undergoes a shift so dramatic that its generic elements are no longer confined to poetry. I place and question the changes occurring in the Victorian elegy in part by my study of Peter Sacks' seminal text The English Elegy (1985). In contextualizing my argument, I also consider more recent genre studies of the elegy by Stuart Curran, Erik Gray, Elizabeth Helsinger, Jahan Ramanzani, and Karen Weisman. …
Deronda And The Tigress: Judaism, Buddhism, And Universal Compassion In George Eliot’S Daniel Deronda, Joshua Frank Moats
Deronda And The Tigress: Judaism, Buddhism, And Universal Compassion In George Eliot’S Daniel Deronda, Joshua Frank Moats
Masters Theses
Many scholars have discussed Judaism and the ethics of George Eliot in Daniel Deronda, but few have explored the impact of Buddhism upon the novel. This thesis is the first study to demonstrate the influence of Buddhism upon George Eliot's fiction. By tracing Eliot's interest in the emerging field of comparative religion, I argue that Buddhism offered Eliot a unique religion that was compatible with her secular humanism. Although Buddhism appears explicitly in Deronda in only a few instances, I contend that Eliot uses the tradition of Jewish mysticism known as Kabbalism as the predominant theology in Deronda because …
Collateral: Poems, Joshua Jon Robbins
Collateral: Poems, Joshua Jon Robbins
Doctoral Dissertations
In the lyric tradition of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ Terrible Sonnets and James Wright’s odes to the Midwest, the poems in Collateral interrogate the complexities of faith and doubt in middle-class America and present a witness compelled to translate suburbia’s landscapes and evangelical banalities into a testimony of hard truths. These poems explore the emotional exhaustion that accompanies language’s broken connection to ideal meaning and how both are unable to fully correspond to our lives. The manuscript is also an exploration of my own corresponding lyric struggle to reconcile what is and what should be, the personal and the political …
Benevolent Intentions: Hospitality, Ethics And The Eighteenth-Century Novel, Teresa R Saxton
Benevolent Intentions: Hospitality, Ethics And The Eighteenth-Century Novel, Teresa R Saxton
Doctoral Dissertations
“Benevolent Intentions: Hospitality, Ethics and the Eighteenth-Century Novel” describes how representations of hospitality in British novels of the last half of the eighteenth century engage new ethical questions raised by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century philosophers. The novels explore a philosophical turn towards intention from the vulnerable position of the guest. As opposed to traditional conceptions of hospitality that combined ideals of hospitality with culturally specific actions, the new hospitality portrayed in the eighteenth century novel exhibits suspicions about hospitable actions and seeks instead to establish benevolent intentions in both host and guest. I argue that the host position is particularly mistrusted: …
Knowing The Holy: Sanctification And Identity In Sixteenth- And Seventeenth-Century Literature, Elizabeth Anne Acker
Knowing The Holy: Sanctification And Identity In Sixteenth- And Seventeenth-Century Literature, Elizabeth Anne Acker
Doctoral Dissertations
Literary critics have long recognized the importance of religious dogmas to the formation and awareness of personal identity during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Stanley Fish’s seminal work, Self-Consuming Artifacts, argues that the goal of seventeenth-century writers, influenced by the theology of Augustine, was not so much a construction of the self, but a deconstruction of the self as a sacred act. Borrowing from more recent work by Brian Cummings and Gary Kuchar, this dissertation explores the Protestant conception of holiness, or good works, within a salvation paradigm that centered on faith rather than works. In Edmund Spenser’s Faerie …
Paradox Of The Abject: Postcolonial Subjectivity In Jamaica Kincaid’S The Autobiography Of My Mother And Cristina García’S Dreaming In Cuban, Allison Nicole Harris
Paradox Of The Abject: Postcolonial Subjectivity In Jamaica Kincaid’S The Autobiography Of My Mother And Cristina García’S Dreaming In Cuban, Allison Nicole Harris
Masters Theses
In Powers of Horror, Julia Kristeva defines abjection as the seductive and destructive remainder of the process of entering the symbolic space of the father and leaving the pre-symbolic space of the mother, resulting in a desire to return to the jouissance of the pre-symbolic space. In this project, I read Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother as an attempt to link Xuela’s psychic abjection with the postcolonial identity. Xuela exists on the boundaries of the colonial dichotomy, embracing the space of the abject because she is haunted by her dead mother. She cannot return to her mother, …
Gothic Modernism: Revising And Representing The Narratives Of History And Romance, Taryn Louise Norman
Gothic Modernism: Revising And Representing The Narratives Of History And Romance, Taryn Louise Norman
Doctoral Dissertations
Gothic Modernism: Revising and Representing the Narratives of History and Romance analyzes the surprising frequency of the tones, tropes, language, and conventions of the classic Gothic that oppose the realist impulses of Modernism. In a letter F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about The Great Gatsby, he explains that he “selected the stuff to fit a given mood or ‘hauntedness’” (Letters 551). This “stuff” constitutes the “subtler means” that Virginia Woolf wrote about when she observed that the conventions of the classic Gothic no longer evoked fear: “The skull-headed lady, the vampire gentleman, the whole troop of monks and monsters …
Faith In Place: Theologies Of Implacement In Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain, Lee Smith's Saving Grace, And Wendell Berry's Jayber Crow, Laura Ruth Hicks
Faith In Place: Theologies Of Implacement In Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain, Lee Smith's Saving Grace, And Wendell Berry's Jayber Crow, Laura Ruth Hicks
Masters Theses
Appalachian author and critic Jim Wayne Miller has cited the literature of Appalachia as being, above all, earthly. While often referencing ties to a "spiritual" world, this world is strictly separate from the earthly. This causes Appalachian literature, in Miller's estimation, to be "rooted" in the world. However, by looking at three novelists in and around the Appalachian region--Charles Frazier, Lee Smith, and Wendell Berry--we can see where Miller's assertions fall short in relation to contemporary fiction. While the works of these novelists might fit Miller's description of "rootedness," it is their rootedness which causes these novels and the characters …
No Place Like Home: Fiction Of Scandinavian Women And The American Prairie, Rebecca Frances Crockett
No Place Like Home: Fiction Of Scandinavian Women And The American Prairie, Rebecca Frances Crockett
Masters Theses
This thesis examines various fictional depictions of Scandinavian pioneer women and their struggle to adapt to the American prairie. It looks specifically at three novels: Johan Bojer’s The Emigrants, O.E. Rolvaag’s Giants in the Earth, and Willa Cather’s O Pioneers!. All three novels depict Scandinavian immigrant groups who settle in the Great Plains area during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The thesis looks in detail at the numerous ways in which each author’s female characters adapt or fail to adapt to the landscape, exploring the possible reasons for these successes and failures. It argues that …
A Comparison Of H. D. And Marianne Moore’S Poetry In The 1910s And 1920s, Yoko Ueno
A Comparison Of H. D. And Marianne Moore’S Poetry In The 1910s And 1920s, Yoko Ueno
Masters Theses
Although both H. D. and Marianne Moore created distinctive voices, we cannot ignore their close relationship with poetic modernism. These two poets had common characteristics which were fit for the ideas of modernism, such as exact descriptions, clear images, concision, objectivity, and repression of personal emotions. H. D.’s poems were regarded as an ideal model of Imagism, and Moore generally tried to follow the style although her poems contained her own unique features. Their choice of the modernistic hard style caused them to face complicated situations because of their gender. Both poets had affinities with Romantic aesthetics such as excessive …
Evoking Unity: Toward A Communal Phenomenology In Virginia Woolf And William Faulkner, Phillip Douglas Bandy
Evoking Unity: Toward A Communal Phenomenology In Virginia Woolf And William Faulkner, Phillip Douglas Bandy
Masters Theses
Contemporary readings of William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf typically situate these canonical authors within their historical contexts as exponents of the material conditions of modernity or as the literary precursors of postmodernism, as writers of indeterminacy and linguistic play. In this thesis, I argue for a mode of reading Woolf and Faulkner grounded not in history or language, but in consciousness as the irreducible basis of human experience. That is, by invoking the philosophical tradition of phenomenology, I claim that both authors attempted to engage more fully with not simply a historical moment called “modernity,” but a human reality characterized …
“Can The Circle Be Unbroken” : An Ensemble Of Memory And Performance In Selected Novels Of Lee Smith, Jessica Frances Hoover
“Can The Circle Be Unbroken” : An Ensemble Of Memory And Performance In Selected Novels Of Lee Smith, Jessica Frances Hoover
Masters Theses
This project combines performance studies and memory studies to the analysis of three of Lee Smith’s southern Appalachian novels in order to open the texts to broader understandings of Smith’s use of oral performance forms, such as ballads, music, and storytelling, in her characters’ transmissions of tradition. The approach draws on performance work by Joseph Roach and collective memory theory by Maurice Halbwachs to create a lens through which to add to existing Smith scholarship centering on feminist readings and women’s authorship. This blended approach allows room to analyze the oral performance forms so central to Smith’s work and their …
Rape And The Feminine Response In Early Modern England And Several Shakespearean Works, David Alexander Bernard
Rape And The Feminine Response In Early Modern England And Several Shakespearean Works, David Alexander Bernard
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
No abstract provided.
A Historical Analysis Of The Portrayal Of Teens In Popular Literature: The Chronicles Of Narnia And Harry Potter, Susan F. Gregory
A Historical Analysis Of The Portrayal Of Teens In Popular Literature: The Chronicles Of Narnia And Harry Potter, Susan F. Gregory
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
No abstract provided.
The Rainbow Connection: Theorizing The Efficacy Of Private Texts, Liz Rohan
The Rainbow Connection: Theorizing The Efficacy Of Private Texts, Liz Rohan
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Texts written privately often find new contexts, new uses, if writers become mindful of Bakhtin’s notion of “great time.”
Writing Yogis: Breathing Our Way To Mindfulness And Balance In Embodied Writing Pedagogy, Christy I. Wenger
Writing Yogis: Breathing Our Way To Mindfulness And Balance In Embodied Writing Pedagogy, Christy I. Wenger
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Breathing exercises constitute a method for helping students to attain a state of mindfulness in their writing—and their lives.
Reflections On Accidental Testimonies And Spectacular Witnesses, Lavinia Hirsu
Reflections On Accidental Testimonies And Spectacular Witnesses, Lavinia Hirsu
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
When unplanned-for testimonies occur in class, how do instructors turn a disruptive moment into a teachable one?
Gatekept: Inviting Creative Community Literacy, Shelly Sanders, B. Cole Bennett
Gatekept: Inviting Creative Community Literacy, Shelly Sanders, B. Cole Bennett
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Creative writing becomes a vehicle for community outreach in a Writing Center setting, bringing together town and gown.
Even Administrators Have Souls, Paul Puccio
Even Administrators Have Souls, Paul Puccio
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Faculty have a critical role to play if they want administrators to be more than unilateral decision-makers.
The Communally Focused Writing Center, Tom Truesdell
The Communally Focused Writing Center, Tom Truesdell
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Can writing center administrators prepare student tutors to help transform faculty-student relations? Should they?
Outside The Box And Onto A Dusty Trail, Richard Leo Enos
Outside The Box And Onto A Dusty Trail, Richard Leo Enos
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Archeological exploration has redefined research since this scholar became the Indiana Jones of rhetorical studies.
Book Reviews, Judy Halden-Sullivan, Lauren Dipaula, William Archibald, Noam Scheindlin, Martin Cockroft
Book Reviews, Judy Halden-Sullivan, Lauren Dipaula, William Archibald, Noam Scheindlin, Martin Cockroft
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Book Reviews
Judy Halden-Sullivan - Paradigm Shifts
Lauren DiPaula - Price, Margaret. Mad At School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011.
William Archibald - Thomas, Douglas and John Seely Brown. A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change. Charleston, SC: CreateSpace, 2011.
Noam Scheindlin - Vandermeulen, Carl. Negotiating the Personal in Creative Writing. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2011.
Martin Cockroft - Wilhelm, Jeffrey D. and Bruce Novak. Teaching Literacy for Love and Wisdom: Being the Book and Being the Change. NY: Teachers College Press, 2011.
Renovating My Academic Administration, Elizabeth Vander Lei
Renovating My Academic Administration, Elizabeth Vander Lei
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
A department chair dons a hard hat and begins to see her position through the lens of spiritual rebirth and figured worlds—as a portrait of Calvin looks on.
Connecting, Helen Walker, Carl Vandermeulen, Louise Morgan, Jill Moyer Sunday, Tony Mayo
Connecting, Helen Walker, Carl Vandermeulen, Louise Morgan, Jill Moyer Sunday, Tony Mayo
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Connecting
Helen Walker - Trust, and Gaps
Carl Vandermeulen - Proverbs for Poetry Class
Louise Morgan - TJ, Whom I Like Very Much
Jill Moyer Sunday - History Lesson 101
Tony Mayo - Shawn
Back Matter
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
No abstract provided.
Queers, Cupid’S Arrow, And Contradictions In The Classroom: An Activity Theory Analysis, Heather Trahan
Queers, Cupid’S Arrow, And Contradictions In The Classroom: An Activity Theory Analysis, Heather Trahan
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
“Third generation” activity theory can help instructors support and also deal with gay romance in the classroom.
Jaepl, Vol. 18, Winter 2012-2013, Joonna Smitherman Trapp, Brad Peters
Jaepl, Vol. 18, Winter 2012-2013, Joonna Smitherman Trapp, Brad Peters
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Essays
Douglas Hesse - Writing and Time, Time and the Essay
Liz Rohan - The Rainbow Connection: Theorizing the Efficacy of Private Texts
Christy I. Wenger - Writing Yogis: Breathing Our Way to Mindfulness and Balance in Embodied Writing Pedagogy
Lavinia Hirsu - Reflections on Accidental Testimonies and Spectacular Witnesses
Heather Trahan - Queers, Cupid's Arrow, and Contradictions in the Classroom: An Activity Theory Analysis
Shelly Sanders & B. Cole Bennett - Gatekept: Inviting Creative Community Literacy
Out of the Box
Richard Leo Enos - Outside the Box and onto a Dusty Trail
SPECIAL SECTION: Administration, Ethics, and Spirituality
Paul …
Telling The Truth As Wpa, Beth Daniell
Telling The Truth As Wpa, Beth Daniell
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
After reflecting upon students, a writing program administrator looks hard at two other challenging situations and questions the truthfulness of her approaches to each.