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Carlo Michelstaedter: Persuasion And Rhetoric, Massimiliano Moschetta
Carlo Michelstaedter: Persuasion And Rhetoric, Massimiliano Moschetta
Philosophy Theses
Carlo Michelstaedter's Persuasion and Rhetoric (1910) is one of best examples of what Massimo Cacciari calls the early twentieth century "metaphysics of youth." Persuasion and Rhetoric is the result of Michelstaedter's academic investigation on the concepts of "persuasion" and "rhetoric" in Plato and Aristotle. Michelstaedter saw in Plato's corpus the gradual abandonment of Parmenidean "being" and Socrates' dialogical philosophy. He reinterpreted the notions of "persuasion" and "rhetoric" terms of a radical dichotomy, using them to represent two opposed ontological modalities, two epistemological attitudes, and two existential alternatives. If "rhetoric" comprehends language, institutional knowledge, and all manifestations of empirical life, then …
Between Being And Nothingness: The Metaphysical Foundations Underlying Augustine's Solution To The Problem Of Evil, Brian Keith Kooy
Between Being And Nothingness: The Metaphysical Foundations Underlying Augustine's Solution To The Problem Of Evil, Brian Keith Kooy
Philosophy Theses
Several commentators make the claim that Augustine is not a systematic thinker. The purpose of this thesis is to refute that claim in one specific area of Augustine's thought, the metaphysical foundations underlying his solutions to the problem of evil. Through an exegetical examination of various works in which Augustine writes on evil, I show that his solutions for both natural and moral evil rely on a coherent metaphysical system, conceived of and expounded upon within a Platonically influenced Christian context.
Souvenirs Du Temps : Le Jeu Du Pseudo-Récit Dans Souvenirs Du Triangle D'Or, Lauren Eileen Upadhyay
Souvenirs Du Temps : Le Jeu Du Pseudo-Récit Dans Souvenirs Du Triangle D'Or, Lauren Eileen Upadhyay
World Languages and Cultures Theses
Les œuvres littéraires d'Alain Robbe-Grillet se caractérisent particulièrement par un rehaussement des problèmes touchant de l'identité et du rôle du narrateur, ainsi que de la relation du narrateur au narré. Au milieu du vingtième siècle, Gérard Genette a défini et détaillé l'analyse narratologique, pour aborder de tels problèmes présentés par le récit. Cette étude emploie les théories de Genette aussi bien que celles des narratologues contemporains pour examiner la narration dans le roman Souvenirs du triangle d'or. Cet ouvrage de Robbe-Grillet offre un exemple de récit riche en manipulation des limitations traditionnelles des personnages et du temps, et s'inspire de …
Apriority In Naturalized Epistemology: Investigation Into A Modern Defense, Jesse Giles Christiansen
Apriority In Naturalized Epistemology: Investigation Into A Modern Defense, Jesse Giles Christiansen
Philosophy Theses
Versions of naturalized epistemology that overlook or reject apriority ignore innate belief-forming processes that provide much of the grounding for epistemic warrant. A rigorous analysis reveals that non-experiential ways of viewing apriority, such as innateness, establish the domain for a plausible naturalistic theory of a priori warrant. A moderate version of naturalistic epistemology that embraces the non-experiential feature of apriority and motivates future cognitive scientific research is the preferred account.
Sound Of Terror: Hearing Ghosts In Victorian Fiction, Melissa Kendall Mcleod
Sound Of Terror: Hearing Ghosts In Victorian Fiction, Melissa Kendall Mcleod
English Dissertations
"Sounds of Terror" explores the interrelations between discourses of sound and the ghostly in Victorian novels and short stories. Narrative techniques used by Charles, Dickens, George Eliot, Henry James, and Charlotte Mew are historically and culturally situated through their use of or reactions against acoustic technology. Since ghost stories and nvoels with gothic elements rely for the terrifying effects on tropes of liminality, my study consists of an analysis of an important yet largely unacknowledged species of these tropes: auditory metaphors. Many critics have examined the visual metaphors that appear in nineteenth-century fiction, but, until recently, aural representations have remain …
Coloring: An Investigation Of Racial Identity Politics Within The Black Indian Community, Charlene Jeanette Graham
Coloring: An Investigation Of Racial Identity Politics Within The Black Indian Community, Charlene Jeanette Graham
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
Historical interconnections between Native Americans and many people of African descent in America created a group of Black Indians whose lineage continues today. Though largely unrecognized, they remain an important racially mixed group. Through analysis using qualitative feminist methodologies, this thesis examines the history and analyzes the narratives of African-Native American females regarding their racial identity and political claims of tribal citizenship. Their socialization, which includes kin keeping, extended families and the sharing of family stories, allows them to claim native ancestry because of the information usually passed down to them from mothers, grandmothers, aunts and other family members. Their …
Medias Res, Temporal Double-Consciousness And Resistance In Octavia Butler's Kindred, Roslyn Nicole Smith
Medias Res, Temporal Double-Consciousness And Resistance In Octavia Butler's Kindred, Roslyn Nicole Smith
English Theses
Dana, the Black female protagonist in Octavia Butler’s novel Kindred (1979), finds herself literally and figuratively in medias res as she sporadically travels between her present day life in 1976 and her ancestral plantation of 1815 – two time periods that represent two converse concepts of her identity as a Black woman. As a result, her time travel experiences cause her to revise her racial and gendered identity from a historically fragmented Black woman, who defines herself solely on her contemporary experiences, to a Black woman who defines herself based on her present life and her personal and ancestral history …
Labors Of Authenticity: The Function Of Spirituality And The Construction Of Selfhood In The American Business, James Dennis Lorusso
Labors Of Authenticity: The Function Of Spirituality And The Construction Of Selfhood In The American Business, James Dennis Lorusso
Religious Studies Theses
In light of claims that liberalism has led to a breakdown in society, this paper refutes these claims by examining how workplace spirituality at Starbucks Coffee impacts the identities of several employees. While others have examined workplace spirituality as a management technique, this study illustrates how it could be understood as a distinctly modern way of being religious. By linking the ethnography to recent religious trends, this study illustrates how employees are cultivating a spirituality of an inner self. Specifically, these employees accomplish three things. First, they claim to discover their true authentic self. Also, despite the alienation of modern …
A Euro-American 'Ulama? Mu'tazilism, (Post)Modernity, And Minority Islam, Anthony Robert Byrd
A Euro-American 'Ulama? Mu'tazilism, (Post)Modernity, And Minority Islam, Anthony Robert Byrd
Religious Studies Theses
Muslim heresiographers present the medieval rationalist school of theology known as the Mu‛tazila as heretics, while modern Western and modernist Muslim scholarship almost invariably present the Mu‛tazila as the original free-thinkers of Islam. The result is a polarized view of the Mu‛tazili tradition; Islamists view the Mu‛tazila as a heresy best forgotten while modernists, Muslim and Western, as historical proof of Islam’s essentially rational character. The present study is an attempt to problematize both perspectives by reexamining the concepts of reason (or rationalism) and tradition (or traditionalism) in light of Mu‛tazilite theology and ethics. This analysis shows that the modern …
Spanish Orientalism: Washington Irving And The Romance Of The Moors, Michael S. Stevens
Spanish Orientalism: Washington Irving And The Romance Of The Moors, Michael S. Stevens
History Dissertations
Edward Said's description of Orientalism as a constitutive element of the modern West is one of the enduring concepts of cultural history. The Orientalism thesis begins with the observation that in the 19th century Westerners began describing the "Orient," particularly the Middle East and India, as a place that was once gloriously civilized but had declined under the influence of incompetent Islamic governments. This construction was then employed to justify Western Imperialism and the expansion of Christianity into Asia. This dissertation examines a case of Orientalism with a twist. Between 1775 and 1830 a group of Anglophone writers and artists …
Public And Private Voices: The Typhoid Fever Experience At Camp Thomas, 1898., Gerald Joseph Pierce
Public And Private Voices: The Typhoid Fever Experience At Camp Thomas, 1898., Gerald Joseph Pierce
History Dissertations
This dissertation examines the experience of those involved in the typhoid fever outbreak at Camp Thomas, Chickamauga National Military Park, Georgia between April and August 1898. Among American volunteer soliders in the Spanish-American War, those stationed at this camp suffered the highest number of typhoid cases and deaths from typhoid. Treatments of the war have referred to the outbreak and some studies have examined it as part of wider subjects, but none from the standpoint of those involved, commanders, doctors, civilians, officers and enlisted men. The mobilized soldiers represented numerous states and reflected the disease experience of civilian society. The …
Images Of Loss In Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie, Arthur Miller's Death Of A Salesman, Marsha Norman's Night, Mother, And Paula Vogel's How I Learned To Drive, Dipa Janardanan
English Dissertations
This dissertation offers an analysis of the image of loss in modern American drama at three levels: the loss of physical space, loss of psychological space, and loss of moral space. The playwrights and plays examined are Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie (1945), Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (1949), Marsha Norman's 'night, Mother (1983), and Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive (1998). This study is the first scholarly work to discuss the theme of loss with these specific playwrights and works. This dissertation argues that loss is a central trope in twentieth-century American drama. The purpose of this …
Nietzsche On Naturalism, Egoism And Altruism, Derrick Phillip Nantz
Nietzsche On Naturalism, Egoism And Altruism, Derrick Phillip Nantz
Philosophy Theses
In this thesis I provide an overview of Nietzsche's ethics with an emphasis on showing how his naturalistic approach to ethics leads him to advance an egoistic moral code. I argue that this, though radical in the light of conventional morality, is not irrational, unprincipled, or proscriptive of other-regarding moral considerations. On the contrary, it demands the highest degree of foresight and integrity. While Nietzsche's writings are meant for a select group of people, namely "higher men," whose flourishing may be undercut by their unwitting acceptance of a self-destructive morality. I explain that Nietzsche places the highest degree of value …
Review Of G. W. F. Hegel, Philosophy Of Mind, W. Wallace And A. V. Miller (Trans.), Michael Inwood (Introduction And Commentary), Oxford University Press, 2007, Sebastian Rand
Philosophy Faculty Publications
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Presentation - Getting Their Hands Dirty: Collaborating To Engage Undergraduates In Learning, Mandy J. Swygart-Hobaugh M.L.S., Ph.D.
Presentation - Getting Their Hands Dirty: Collaborating To Engage Undergraduates In Learning, Mandy J. Swygart-Hobaugh M.L.S., Ph.D.
University Library Faculty Publications
Presentation on collaboration with Dr. Hannah Britton, Associate Professor of Political Science and Women’s Studies, on the redesign of her Women and Politics course toward achieving an articulated pedagogical aim of shifting from “providing instruction” to “producing learning” via engaging students’ in original research/analysis.
Program For The Graduate English Association Of Gsu Eighth Annual New Voices Conference, Maps/Boundaries, Graduate English Association
Program For The Graduate English Association Of Gsu Eighth Annual New Voices Conference, Maps/Boundaries, Graduate English Association
Graduate English Association New Voices Conference 2007
No abstract provided.
Language As Mediation In Tolkien's Mythology, Katherine Hyon
Language As Mediation In Tolkien's Mythology, Katherine Hyon
Graduate English Association New Voices Conference 2007
In his detailed accounts concerning Middle-earth and its inhabitants throughout various Ages of existence, Tolkien made his desire to write a mythology for England a reality. Although his work has delighted readers of all ages for decades, to dismiss Tolkien as a mere writer of children‟s fantasy or escapist science fiction would be to do him a great disservice. Tolkien was, above all, a philologist; his great love and obsession with language is obvious in The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and especially The Silmarillion. Tolkien was also a product of his time; he was a lover and a …
Sins Of The Mother(Land): Presence, Absence, And Self In Caribbean Literature, Katie Thomas
Sins Of The Mother(Land): Presence, Absence, And Self In Caribbean Literature, Katie Thomas
Graduate English Association New Voices Conference 2007
Through an exploration of Caribbean literature, namely Jamaica Kincaid‟s Annie John and Edwidge Danticat‟s The Farming of Bones, with references to Rosario Ferré‟s The House on the Lagoon and Bartolomé De Las Casas‟ A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, I will establish the effects of Western colonization on the Caribbean female during both Western occupation and Western absence. Turning my focus from the Caribbean mother towards her daughter—the progeny of the colonized world—I will then investigate the tenuous binds and boundaries of the mother/daughter relationship, made especially tenuous under the Western gaze. Expanding my view to the …
In 'Rememory': Beloved And Transgenerational Ghosting In Black Female Bodies, Sonya Mccoy-Wilson
In 'Rememory': Beloved And Transgenerational Ghosting In Black Female Bodies, Sonya Mccoy-Wilson
Graduate English Association New Voices Conference 2007
While thinking about transgenerational ghosting, even before I had a term to represent my thoughts, my point of reference was my phobia of prisons. Yes, the very idea of prisons frightens me beyond belief; therefore, I don‟t break the law. I have an aversion to federal court buildings, police departments, prison movies, prison scenes within other movies, people confined to chain-gangs, people in handcuffs, I distrust the police, and the list continues. When I realized that others don‟t categorically share my fear, I started to wonder about the source of it. I wondered, “Do prisons frighten me because my ancestors …
Bodily Territories: Lust, Landscape And The Struggle For Female Space In Woolf's The Voyage Out And Atwood's Surfacing, Tealia Deberry
Bodily Territories: Lust, Landscape And The Struggle For Female Space In Woolf's The Voyage Out And Atwood's Surfacing, Tealia Deberry
Graduate English Association New Voices Conference 2007
In her lengthy critical essay A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf inquires into the absence of the female genius in the literary canon. As she mourns this lack of feminine representation on her own bookshelves—“looking about the shelves for books that were not there”—Woolf questions the opposition between what she refers to as the lyrically “suggestive” female sentence, and the dominant, subject driven, “I” of the male sentence (AROO, 45, 98). Woolf carves out a creative space for feminine narrative and focuses primarily on the landscape that is dominated by the “I”. This “I” representing both the masculine epic …
Fostering Assimilation?: Intimate Boundaries Between Natives And Anglos In Foster Families In The Uintah Basin, Lori Coleman
Fostering Assimilation?: Intimate Boundaries Between Natives And Anglos In Foster Families In The Uintah Basin, Lori Coleman
Graduate English Association New Voices Conference 2007
Since the coming of Europeans to America there has been some type of boundary between Native American and white Euro-American settlers. (At the risk of oversimplifying but in order to conserve time, I will be referring to indigenous people of North America as Native Americans and to white Euro-American settlers as Anglos.) Boundaries between these two communities have been physical, racial, and economic. Individuals have experienced varying degrees of permeability between these borders during different stages of American history. At some stages, Anglos have drawn geographic borders to physically separate the two communities, such as when they created reservations. At …
Remapping And Renaming Ireland: A Postcolonial Look At The Problem Of Language And Identity In Brian Friel's Translations., Maria Laura Barberan Reinares
Remapping And Renaming Ireland: A Postcolonial Look At The Problem Of Language And Identity In Brian Friel's Translations., Maria Laura Barberan Reinares
Graduate English Association New Voices Conference 2007
Brian Friel‘s acclaimed Translations, suggestively written in English, captures the moment in the history of Ireland when the British, in a clear sign of imperial dominance, initiated the remapping and renaming of the Irish territory, generating a linguistic uncertainty that eventually led to the capitulation of the Gaelic language and placed the colonizing tongue – English -- on central stage. The fact that this contemporary Irish playwright in 1980 wrote Translations in English and not in Gaelic speaks for itself. But Friel‘s choice of English as the vehicle for his play is far from trivial, and to assume that this …
Horses Of Agency, Element, And Godliness In Tolkien And The Germanic Sagas, Dana Miller
Horses Of Agency, Element, And Godliness In Tolkien And The Germanic Sagas, Dana Miller
Graduate English Association New Voices Conference 2007
Russian princesses were once buried with them. Royalty ride only white ones. They are often regarded as the only panacea for handicapped children. Richard III would have given his entire kingdom for just one of them. Their ownership can radically define one‟s position in the social hierarchy of Saudi Arabia. The road to great human civilization and imagination has always been carved by the hoof prints of a horse. No matter what section of the globe is studied, Japan with its samurai tradition, the Mediterranean with conquerors like Alexander, the Bedouin, the American West, the Crusades, and certainly the sagas …
Surveying Africa: Conrad's Ambiguous Guide To Colonialism, Francesca Sofia Tarant
Surveying Africa: Conrad's Ambiguous Guide To Colonialism, Francesca Sofia Tarant
Graduate English Association New Voices Conference 2007
Throughout Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad juxtaposes seemingly contradictory terms: light and dark, Europe and Africa, centrality and exteriority, morality and the immorality. In contrasting these various finite images, the author appears to mirror the “direct simplicity” in his word choice which he claims also punctuates the tales of seamen. However, by describing colonial endeavors using words laden with double and sometimes conflicting meanings, infusing the novel with repetition, and presenting characters alongside their doppelgangers, Conrad prompts readers to reconsider concrete standards of good and evil in regards to imperialism. Consequently, the text, refusing to elucidate Marlow‟s journey to the …
Canonicity And National Identity: Let's Put Scotland On The Map, Molly Wright
Canonicity And National Identity: Let's Put Scotland On The Map, Molly Wright
Graduate English Association New Voices Conference 2007
Where is Scotland on the map of literary studies? This is a timely question for scholars to address. Recently, for example, some Scottish literature scholars have written a petition to the Modern Language Association to expand its current Scottish Literature Discussion Group into a Division on Scottish Literature at the MLA. The petition states that recent Scottish literary scholarship has “(a) recognised the wealth and distinctiveness of the Scottish literary tradition, and (b) sought to redress the anglo-centric bias of earlier treatments of Scottish writing…” (Corbett et al 1). The Discussion Group raises questions of literary scholarship that indirectly affect …
On The Question Of Authorship Of The Niebelungenlied, Annette Anderson
On The Question Of Authorship Of The Niebelungenlied, Annette Anderson
Graduate English Association New Voices Conference 2007
Sometime around the year 1200 a yet to be identified poet wrote what is often referred to as, “…the most impressive single work of medieval German literature and [it] stands in the small company of great national epics, with the Iliad, the Aeneid, the Roland, and the Cid.” The author of the aforementioned quote, Frank Ryder, goes on to say, “…in the pure art of story, in the creation of epic figures, in vigor and directness of characterization, in monumental scope and power—[this] work can bear comparison with any of the great epics. Like them, it is a true work …
Mapping America, Re-Mapping The World: The Cosmopolitanism Of Agha Shahid Ali's A Nostalgist's Map Of America, Xiwen Mai
Graduate English Association New Voices Conference 2007
Published in 1991, Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali‘s collection A Nostalgist‘s Map of America is a book about the poet‘s travel in America. From ―"the dead center of Pennsylvania" to Indian reservations in New Mexico, the collection weaves multiple landscapes, texts, and emotions into a map of America, on which the poet‘s traveling routes lead to thinking about language, identity, colonial and neocolonial politics. While critics like Lawrence Needham, Jeannie Chiu, and Rajini Srikanth, in reading the collection, have all focused on his themes of nostalgia, melancholy, and loss as an exile, this paper argues that Ali‘s ―"map of America" …
On And Off The Page: Mapping Space In Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudice, Emmeline Gros
On And Off The Page: Mapping Space In Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudice, Emmeline Gros
Graduate English Association New Voices Conference 2007
Edward. T. Hall argues that, “we treat Space (somewhat) as we treat Sex. It is “there” but we don‟t talk about it” (in Felipe 210). Understandably so, talking about space or sex might indeed appear as the first attempt to shatter these borders or boundaries that protect ourselves from the others‟ intrusion onto our individual need for privacy. Borders, it is true, are useful, even necessary. They tell us where one thing ends and another begins. They draw the line between what belongs to whom and what does not. They tell us who claims what and how far these claims …
Levelling Up: Designing And Testing A Contextual, Web-Based Dreamweaver 8 Tutorial For Students With Technological Aptitude Differences, Alicia Nicole Hatter
Levelling Up: Designing And Testing A Contextual, Web-Based Dreamweaver 8 Tutorial For Students With Technological Aptitude Differences, Alicia Nicole Hatter
English Theses
This thesis examines the user-centered design methods and methodology inherent to designing and testing a web-based Dreamweaver 8 tutorial for undergraduate and graduate students who enroll in certain English rhetoric and composition courses at Georgia State University. The tutorial’s three interfaces were rhetorically designed to support three corresponding types of user—novices, intermediates, and experts— whose familiarity with Dreamweaver and student web space determined their starting point of interaction with the artifact. Three usability tests examined each interface based on four usability attributes. Findings revealed the novice and expert interfaces to be usable, while the intermediate interface was more problematic. The …
Irony, Finitude And The Good Life, Nicole Marie Cecconi
Irony, Finitude And The Good Life, Nicole Marie Cecconi
Philosophy Theses
“Irony, Finitude and The Good Life,” examines the notion that Socrates, as he is portrayed in the Platonic dialogues, ought to be viewed and interpreted as a teacher. If this assertion is correct, then it is both appropriate and useful to look to the dialogues for instruction on how to live a philosophical life. This thesis will argue that to look at Socrates as a teacher, a figure who imparts knowledge to those around him on how to live a philosophical life, misses the very conception of the good life that Plato sought to personify when he created the character …