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Discoursing Basic Writing., Bruce Horner

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

No abstract provided.

At The New Yorker, Therese Anderson

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

The following essays and letters grew from a notebook I kept while interning at The New Yorker last summer. Each night, in my room at the boardinghouse on 36th Street, I recorded the decorations of the day, like the conversation I had with a prominent writer in the lunchroom, or the sight of a startled shorebird on the front of the office building.

Schaller And Matthiessen Journey Through The Himalayas: Two Contemporary Nature Writers Synthesize Science And Spirituality, Audrie Jane Turner

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

Long before Charles Darwin's time, members of Western civilization viewed the sciences and spirituality as antithetical approaches to life. In the last 150 years, the argument for superiority of one over the other has continued, and Darwin's theories merely intensified the debate. However, American nature writing has evolved in a way that often synthesizes science and spirituality. This thesis will discuss this synthesis, and how two contemporary nature writers have dealt with the combination of science and spirituality in the natural and literary world. The merging of these two seemingly opposed subjects may be one of the most instructive and …

Articulation, Kendra Evans

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

As my major is Art with an emphasis in Graphic Design, and my minor is English, with Departmental Honors and a focus on poetry, my Honors Senior thesis, ARTiculation, exists as a link between these two arts. This collection of essays explores the similarities and relationships between painting and poetry, and the influences each has on the other. The format in which I have chosen to present my writing in is editorial layout of periodical publication, a medium of communication where the visual and written arts overlap in technique and style.

Going Back, To Begin, Ilena Starsun Coulbrooke

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

This thesis project explores. in poetry, the effects of atomic testing and unrestrained pesticide use on the people who lived in or near Utah in the fifties and sixties.

Nuclear testing began in Nevada in 1951, the year I was born in south-east Idaho, where my family lived under radiation tainted clouds for a decade along with the Utah downwinders. My father died of lung cancer caused from breathing pesticide-laden air in 1962, the year Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring. These two dates stand out in my mind as important markers in my quest to discover why I think and …

(De)Construction Of Patriarchal Gendering In The Arabian Nights, Nadia R Wassef

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Characteristics Associated With Resilience In Battered Women, Mei-I Chang

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Higgins (1994) offered resilience as an alternative conceptual approach to the traditional focus on psychopathology for battered women. In this study, resilience was defined as a woman's state of psychological growth despite an abusive relationship. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between staff ratings of resilience, individual psychological resources, and situational abuse factors. A sample of 105 battered women, served by San Diego domestic violence agencies, was administered a battery of five questionnaires assessing constructive thinking, social support appraisal, optimism, psychological distress, and abuse experiences. Agency staff members recruited participants and provided clinical ratings of resilience. …

Twentieth-Century Allegories Of The Human Condition, Hala Mohamed Kamel Amin

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

South African Writing In English, John C. Hawley

English

As commentators such as Lewis Nkosi and Malvern van Wyk Smith have noted, even though writers from South Africa occasionally engage in an exploration of traditional African values (as has preoccupied the writers of many other countries), their truly characteristic impetus is to focus readers' attention on the conflict between white masters and black servitors. As Bernth Lindfors and Reingard Nethersole have shown, South African writers have had a national obsession to describe in committed detail the practical implications of apartheid, and consequently have produced a literature that is unabashedly didactic. Those who choose to write "metapolitical" fiction are generally …

James Joyce And His Other Language: The "Abnihilization Of The Etym", Lisa J. Fluet '96

Fenwick Scholar Program

This thesis proposes to say something new about Joyce's female characters that would in a sense redeem Joyce from the sharp criticism his texts encounter from feminist theorists. To achieve this, I have worked to dismantle the notion of literal, primary-word meanings to expose the etymon's origin from nothing. By tracing points in various works of Joyce where the word, the basis for most patriarchal literary representation, is not revered, but instead is dismantled, proven inadequate, and ultimately "abnihilizated," I attempt to demonstrate that female characters kept outside active participation with the word warrant serious consideration, as harbingers of a …

Figure, Ground, And Gender In Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter: A Romance, Jennifer Mccay

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

No abstract provided.

Ripple In Still Water, James Cosgrove

English Language and Literature ETDs

Ripple in Still Water is the story of the McGonigle family of Kansas City, MO, and the search for their son Frank who disappeared from their home in 1982. For nine years they searched with the help of police departments, sheriff's departments, private investigators, and the prayers of many friends.

In 1991 a Kansas City, KS, police detective happened upon Frank's case file tucked in the back of a drawer and asked permission to reopen it. Within days the detective discovered, with the aid of the national crime computer, that the body of a man fitting Frank's description had been …

Coming To Consciousness And The Battle Against Patriarchal Systems In The Early Novels Of Isabel Allende, Nicole Graham

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

William Campbell Preston, Student, Statesman, President, Professor, Patrick G. Scott

Faculty Publications

The life and achievements of William Campbell Preston (1794-1860), US Senator and President of South Carolina College.

Vol. 16, No. 2 (1996), Dean Faulkner Wells, Norman Mailer

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

Et Cetera, Marshall University

Et Cetera

Founded in 1953, Et Cetera is an annual literary magazine that publishes the creative writing and artwork of Marshall University students and affiliates. Et Cetera is free to the Marshall University community.

Et Cetera welcomes submissions in literary and film criticism, poetry, short stories, drama, all types of creative non-fiction, photography, and art.

The Cross-Cultural Use Of Sexually Explicit Language To Express Anger And Aggression, Deanna May

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Freud postulated that the instincts of sex and aggression are fused. One possible example of the expression of this fusion is the use of sexually explicit language to convey anger and aggression. If this usage is universal, then it may be construed as evidence for Freud's theory. The present study attempted to determine the pervasiveness of the use of sexually explicit language to express anger and aggression (SEL). Thirty-one epresentatives of languages other than American English completed questionnaires detailing the use of SEL in their native cultures. Results indicated that 28 of the respondents reported use of SEL in their …

A Buddhist's Shakespeare: Affirming Self-Deconstructions (Book Review), Sidney Gottlieb

Communication, Media & The Arts Faculty Publications

Book review by Sidney Gottlieb.

Howe, James. A Buddhist's Shakespeare: Affirming Self-Deconstructions. London and Toronto: Fairleigh Dickinson Press, 1994.

ISBN 9780838635223

"I Do Know Your Tongue": The Shakespeare Editions Of William Rolfe And H. H. Furness As American Cultural Signifiers, Stephen Petersen

The Kentucky Review

No abstract provided.

"An Audience Is An Audience": Gertrude Stein Addresses The Five Hundred, Robert M. Post

The Kentucky Review

No abstract provided.

The Ideological Connections Between St. Augustine And Robert Penn Warren: An Exploration Of Journey, Memory, And Time In Augustine’S Writings And Warren’S Poetry, Kate Crassons

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

"The Rhythm Of Three Strands": Cultural Braiding In Dorris's A Yellow Raft In Blue Water, David Cowart

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 4, No. 2, The Sinclair Lewis Society

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter

“Reflections on Sauk Centre: Visiting Lewis’s Hometown,” by Jacqueline Koenig

“Revisiting Main Street: Review of Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, ed. with a biographical explanation and explanatory notes by Martin Bucco” by James M. Hutchinsson, The Citadel

“Teaching Sinclair Lewis: Getting Kingsblood Royal,” by Robert L. McLaughlin, Illinois State University

“Dodsworth, the Musical, Reviewed,” by Peter Filichia

“How One Little Town Changed the Whole American Landscape: 75 Years after Main Street, Novel Still Holds up a Mirror,” Roger K. Miller

“Minnesota Historical Society Acquires Lewis Letters”

Ruby Bayou, Spring 1996, Ruby Bayou Staff

Ruby Bayou

2.....Pledge of Environmental and Social Responsibility
3.....a love ballad [in the key of ee]..........keith Adam Nottonson
4....."Relatively Tacky, But Undefined" ..... Denise McRedmond
7.....Feminism Without Apology .....Leslie Jansen
10.....Weathervane .....Rita Ferrandino
11.....The Neu Journalism And The Internet Party ..... Doctress Neutopia
14.....windows of suburbia .....Julie Rivchin
17.....Split Decision ..... Eric Charlesworth
20.....The Incredibly True Adventure of One Womyn in WAC ..... Leslie Jansen
22.....A Beginning ..... Nancy Ellwood
24.....CHANGE AND MOTION .....Shana Lydon
28.....The Perpetuation of the American Dream Myth ..... Julie Rivchin
34.....Twiddle ..... Mark LaGasse
35.....The Palace On the Hill ..... Brian Murray
37.....EXCLUSION REMOVED from S.A. Insurance …

Spenser And The Historical Revolution: Briton Moniments And The Problem Of Roman Britain, John E. Curran Jr.

English Faculty Research and Publications

Curran argues that, since Roman Britain is a key to understanding the historiographical debates of Edmund Spenser's time, the Roman Britain section of Briton Moniments in "The Faerie Queene" needs to be examined. It is here that Spenser acknowledged the direction historiography was taking, and saw how this new trend altered the relation between history and glory.

"As If The Language Suddenly, With Ease" (Text And Video), Kathleen O'Gorman

Honorees for Teaching Excellence

No abstract provided.

Expressions Of Oppression Or Power? Reconsidering The Texts Of Hannah Webster Foster And Tabitha Gilman Tenney, Debra Anne Akgun

English Theses & Dissertations

Hannah Webster Foster and Tabitha Gilman Tenney were early American novelists writing in the latter part of the eighteenth century. Each author wrote a sentimental novel and a traditional conduct book. The Coquette and The Boarding School by Foster and Female Quixotism and The New Pleasing Instructor by Tenney, have scarcely been understood in relation to each other. This project attempts to view these texts as in the eighteenth-century society might have.

The introductory chapter identifies the problem with the typical feminist critical reading. It also explores many of the popular genres of literature during the eighteenth-century. Included are explorations …

An "Earthly Paradise": William Morris's Later Prose Romances, Carolyn Adele Gardner

English Theses & Dissertations

William Norris, prominent Pre-Raphaelite poet and early Socialist thinker, devoted the final six years of his life not to poetry or Socialism, but to the creation of a new literary genre, the prose romance. Following the initial publication of the later prose romances between 1890-1896, few critics have attempted to analyze Norris's last works; moreover, those who have done so, have generally either dismissed the romances as escapist fantasies or twisted the narratives of these romances in an attempt to demonstrate the presence of Marxist allegories thought to accord with Norris's Socialism. Yet Norris's later prose romances, uniting his philosophies …

What Josiah Said: Uncle Josiah's Role In Ceremony, Thomas Lynch

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Leslie Marmon Silko's novel Ceremony is probably the most thoroughly analyzed recent work of Native American literature. Much of that analysis involves the various elements that contribute to the "ceremony" that heals the main character, Tayo, including such aspects as memory, animals, ritual, traditional stories, mythological characters, and both symbolic and literal landscapes. Critics have focused especially on the role of female figures and mythological characters such as Night Swan and Ts'eh. Such an emphasis is warranted since the roles of female and mythological characters in Laguna culture are probably the two important aspects in the story least familiar-and hence …

Moon Marks, Sue Nevill

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.