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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
The Influence Of Acculturation On The Nonverbal Communication Of African People : A Study Of The Ibibio People In Rural And Suburban Areas Of Akwaibom State, Nigeria, John J. Okon
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
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Everything And Nothing : The Poetry Of Hanni Ossott, April Schmidt
Everything And Nothing : The Poetry Of Hanni Ossott, April Schmidt
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Although Hanni Ossott (1946-2002) is considered a unique voice in Venezuelan poetry, no comprehensive studies of her work have yet been undertaken. This dissertation offers a critical reading of the poetry from her early and mid career, a period that encompasses both her best known and least known work. Ossott is mainly remembered for two books from the middle of her trajectory, Hasta que llegue el día y huyan las sombras and El reino donde la noche se abre. However, the four books leading up to these works have been largely ignored, with critics regarding them as an early, experimental …
A Genealogy Of Gaze And Voice In Godwin, Wollstonecraft, And Mary Shelley, Joon Yoon
A Genealogy Of Gaze And Voice In Godwin, Wollstonecraft, And Mary Shelley, Joon Yoon
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This dissertation, "A Genealogy of Voice and Gaze in Godwin, Wollstonecraft, and Mary Shelley," presents the unseen and unheard dimension of criminals, madwomen and monsters. During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, modern man was born while imprisoning his neighbor. For the birth of modern man to take place, therefore, the criminals and the madwomen must be forgotten: the modern institutions of the prison and madhouse are instruments in this forgetting; the voices of these figures must be silenced by the modern discourses of criminology and psychiatry. In a similar way, beside modern man, the monster who is unseeable …
Borders That Matter : Trans Identity Management, Reese C. Kelly
Borders That Matter : Trans Identity Management, Reese C. Kelly
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This dissertation presents the responses, strategies, and meaning-making processes that forty trans (transgender) people engaged in when confronted with or when preparing for the possibility of encountering two different types of identity checkpoints, or what I regard as "borders": situations where sexed bodies and presentations of self would be matched against identity documents or records, and the use or attempted use of sex-segregated facilities. The project addresses the questions: In what ways do trans people prepare for and respond to identity inspections in border crossing scenarios? What strategies do they employ in order to successfully border cross? What effect does …
"Last Scientists Of The Whole" : The Poetics And Politics Of Deep Image, Peter Conrad Monaco
"Last Scientists Of The Whole" : The Poetics And Politics Of Deep Image, Peter Conrad Monaco
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Abstract: "Last Scientists of the Whole": The Poetics and Politics of Deep Image
The Disbanding Of The Self In Poe's Gothic Stories Through Foucault's Concepts Of Madness And Confinement, Carolyn Leigh Elacqua
The Disbanding Of The Self In Poe's Gothic Stories Through Foucault's Concepts Of Madness And Confinement, Carolyn Leigh Elacqua
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This thesis focuses on the relationship of Michel Foucault's concepts of madness and confinement through three Gothic stories by Edgar Allan Poe: "The Imp of the Perverse", "Hop Frog", and "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether". It seeks to recognize the way Poe lures the reader into the unconscious mind of the madman, and how that madness is decisively endured. Also, it investigates how these Gothic texts negotiate the physical and incorporeal boundaries of confinement created by, and established for, the mad.
American Modern Aphonic "Virtuality" Beyond Western Metaphysics : Eliot, Stevens, Hughes, And Bishop, Cheol-U Jang
American Modern Aphonic "Virtuality" Beyond Western Metaphysics : Eliot, Stevens, Hughes, And Bishop, Cheol-U Jang
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This project examines how a general idea of time is revealed in American modernists' works and why its relationship to the term, "the virtual," prompts a critical revaluation of the literary period of "Modernism." This idea of relating time to virtuality illustrates how American modernists seek an alternative power of the poetic imagination. I explore this through the works of four exemplary American modernists: T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, and Elizabeth Bishop, each of whom makes an attempt to reflect the reality of the rapidly changing modern world by showing us in their works the fleeting nature of …
Terr(Or) Incognito : Unveiling Poe's Titanic Universe, Kraig Harry Odabashian
Terr(Or) Incognito : Unveiling Poe's Titanic Universe, Kraig Harry Odabashian
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This thesis investigates the role of dialectics in Edgar Allan Poe's fiction and prose. With particular attention to "Eureka" (1848), as well as "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1838) and Ligeia (1838/45), I argue that much of Poe's thought relies on theological sources including the writings of Jonathan Edwards and the Gospel of John.
Genealogies Of Excess : Archetypes, Intertextuality, And The Lesbian Body In The Poetry And Prose Of Maria-Mercè MarçAl, Melissa Jean Mccarron
Genealogies Of Excess : Archetypes, Intertextuality, And The Lesbian Body In The Poetry And Prose Of Maria-Mercè MarçAl, Melissa Jean Mccarron
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
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The Fabric Of Society : Cloth And The Performance Of Identity In Jonson's "Bartholomew Fair", Kristen Mericle Walsh
The Fabric Of Society : Cloth And The Performance Of Identity In Jonson's "Bartholomew Fair", Kristen Mericle Walsh
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
The present Master's thesis seeks to develop a better understanding of Ben Jonson's complex ideas concerning society's theatricality through a close study of what has been called his greatest city comedy, Bartholomew Fair. Looking at Jonson's treatment of cloth, clothing, and disguise throughout the play, I will explore his concerns with the basic problem of surface versus depth and outward show versus inner essence. Taking a special interest in how Jonson's anti-materiality complicated his position as a playwright, I will engage another dichotomy haunting Jonson: sensorial spectacle versus the idealistic/metaphysical art of poetry. Using a cultural-materialist approach to read discrete …
The Tri-River Region : The Geographic Key To Lasting Change In Ireland, Eugene Ryan Fitzpatrick
The Tri-River Region : The Geographic Key To Lasting Change In Ireland, Eugene Ryan Fitzpatrick
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This research aims to identify the geographic area between the Nore, Barrow, and Suir rivers as the primary gateway for significant permanent changes to the Irish cultural landscape between the fourth and sixteenth centuries. This has been done by examining the successive waves of invasion which have swept over the island, and noting the high frequency with which many pivotal events have occurred in the region. Christianity, the Vikings, continental Church reforms, the Norman invasion, and many subsequent repercussions by English administrators, entered into Ireland through this area first. Upon examination, it becomes clear that Ireland possess a geographic corridor …
Pretty In Pink : Jacqueline Kennedy And The Politics Of Fashion, Barbara Pascarell Brown
Pretty In Pink : Jacqueline Kennedy And The Politics Of Fashion, Barbara Pascarell Brown
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
When John Fitzgerald Kennedy began his long-shot quest for the presidency, he and his advisors feared his wife was a political liability and would alienate American voters with her aristocratic bearing and tastes. Not only did the Sorbonne-educated Jacqueline Kennedy cultivate a sophisticated style and dress in the slim sheaths and tight slacks favored by Parisian couturiers, she spoke in a cultured, whispery voice and was fluent in several languages. She exuded glamor. To an America used to its First Ladies looking and dressing like Bess Truman and Mamie Eisenhower, Mrs. Kennedy was an anomaly. In this analysis, I trace …
The Analytic Reconciliation Of Classic Mayan Elite Pottery : Squaring Pottery Function With Form, Adornment, And Residual Contents, Jennifer Ann Loughmiller-Newman
The Analytic Reconciliation Of Classic Mayan Elite Pottery : Squaring Pottery Function With Form, Adornment, And Residual Contents, Jennifer Ann Loughmiller-Newman
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This dissertation presents a multidisciplinary means of determining the actual content (foodstuff, non-foodstuff, or lack of contents) of Classic Mayan (A.D. 250-900) vessels. Based on previous studies that have identified the residues of foodstuffs named in hieroglyphic texts (e.g. cacao), this study is designed to further investigate foodstuff residues in the elite vessels indicated by text or image to contain those residues, and the methods employed for residue characterization. Prior to studies utilizing residue analysis, the content of Classic Maya vessels largely had long been inferred largely by ethnographic analogy, associating specific vessel forms with specific uses based on ethnographic …
Ethics In Action : A Study Of Ethical Decision Making In Counterinsurgencies, Marcus Schulzke
Ethics In Action : A Study Of Ethical Decision Making In Counterinsurgencies, Marcus Schulzke
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
The goal of this dissertation is to analyze the kinds of ethical challenges soldiers encounter during counterinsurgency operations, what decision making processes or values they use to resolve these challenges, and how military institutions and culture influence soldiers' ethical reasoning. The first part of the dissertation is an assessment of various theories of applied ethics and how these can be used by soldiers during counterinsurgency operations. The second part discusses the institutions and cultures of the American Army, British Army, and Israeli Ground Forces. In the third part, I take up the problem of how soldiers from each of these …
"Only A Girl Like This Can Know What's Happened To You" : Traumatic Subjects In Contemporary American Narratives, Allison Virginia Craig
"Only A Girl Like This Can Know What's Happened To You" : Traumatic Subjects In Contemporary American Narratives, Allison Virginia Craig
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This project is primarily concerned with the difficulty of representing traumatic experience and the problem of seeing violence and exploitation as natural and inevitable functions of social life. It argues that texts attempting to expose exploitive hierarchies and structural injustices often risk having their stories subsumed and commodified by the profuseness and proliferation of countervailing messages about individual choice and personal freedom. This struggle is highlighted through historicizing five contemporary American narratives--Margaret Atwood's Bodily Harm, the films Boys Don't Cry and Monster, Toni Morrison's Beloved, and Linda Hogan's Solar Storms--with and against critical concerns and popular texts. Furthermore, by employing …
Divided On Unity : The Competing Strategies Of The Republican And Nationalist Movements During The Northern Irish Troubles, Matthew James Roche
Divided On Unity : The Competing Strategies Of The Republican And Nationalist Movements During The Northern Irish Troubles, Matthew James Roche
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Divided on Unity:
Acts Of Defiance : Local Policy Innovation And Diffusion In Same-Sex Marriage, Karyn Teressa Andrade
Acts Of Defiance : Local Policy Innovation And Diffusion In Same-Sex Marriage, Karyn Teressa Andrade
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Like many other controversial social issues, same-sex marriage has followed the ebb and flow of the political stream for almost 30 years in the United States. What pulled this policy issue out of the policy stream and placed it front and center in the public's mind were the actions of a handful of local officials who, in the winter of 2004, acted against the status quo and instituted public policies in favor of same-sex marriage. This research provides a case study analysis of the six localities whose officials acted in defiance of law and social custom, and began issuing marriage …
Sylvia Plath At Yaddo : A Poet Finds Her Voice, Sarah Elizabeth Morse
Sylvia Plath At Yaddo : A Poet Finds Her Voice, Sarah Elizabeth Morse
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Since Sylvia Plath's death in 1963 critics have not stopped trying to piece together her life and work. Most of their focus lies on her last collection, Ariel, widely considered her best work. This thesis looks at a lesser-known time, before Plath had even published her first book of poetry named "The Colossus." In 1959 Plath spends eleven weeks at a writer's residence in Saratoga Springs, New York called Yaddo. While there she produces some of her most mature work to date, dealing with difficult topics for the first time such as suicide and issues with her deceased father and …
"God, Hieroglyphics" : Extrapolating The Third Dimension In "Go Down, Moses" And "The Crying Of Lot 49", Jacob Alexander Waddy
"God, Hieroglyphics" : Extrapolating The Third Dimension In "Go Down, Moses" And "The Crying Of Lot 49", Jacob Alexander Waddy
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
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La Mujer Detective En La Literatura Latinoamericana--Tres Ejemplos, Ornella Lepri Mazzuca
La Mujer Detective En La Literatura Latinoamericana--Tres Ejemplos, Ornella Lepri Mazzuca
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This study analyzes the representation of women detectives in three Hispano-American novels. In the last three decades women detectives started to introduce themselves inside predominantly male literary models. Nevertheless, while there is an abundance of figures, both feminine and tough, in the Anglo-American and Spanish literature, women detectives appear later in time in the Hispano-American detective novels. An examination of the Latin-American context will evaluate the causes of this initial sporadic appearance of the women detectives. In relation to the works presented in this dissertation, the social function of the women detectives is explored and it is determined whether they …
"Rumors Which Became His Reputation" : Christopher Marlowe's Afterlife In Fiction And Biography, Kaitlin Albertson
"Rumors Which Became His Reputation" : Christopher Marlowe's Afterlife In Fiction And Biography, Kaitlin Albertson
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Reconstructing the lives of historical literary figures when we possess only a few disconnected pieces of evidence proves to be a challenge for biographers and historical fiction writers alike. I examine the life of Christopher Marlowe as it is presented in a number of biographies and historical fictions and identify different approaches to the Marlowe narrative and the various arguments in favor of and against these (re-)constructions. Marlowe's life with its various gaps and mysterious aspects offers a case study of the reconstruction of literary lives. Fiction writers necessarily blur the line between fact and fiction, but biographers engage in …
L'Homme Ouvert : An Exploration Of Jean SéNac And His Poetic Works, Yolande Gallouët Schutter
L'Homme Ouvert : An Exploration Of Jean SéNac And His Poetic Works, Yolande Gallouët Schutter
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
"L'homme Ouvert" is a thesis that focuses on the translation of a full body of work by the poet Jean Sénac. Jean Sénac was a French-Algerian poet of the mid-20th century. He was a French-speaking Pied-noir homosexual whose life and poetry revolved around the facets of his complex identity and the search for a way to unify those different parts together into a greater, comprehensive whole. This thesis also discusses the poet's origins and how they affect his work, in addition to situating him and his work within his time as modernist, queer, post-colonial minor literature.
Sons Of Liberty : Organization And Influence, 1765-1766, John Jay Miller
Sons Of Liberty : Organization And Influence, 1765-1766, John Jay Miller
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
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A Postcolonial Comparative Study Of Secondary Education And Its Ideological Implications For West Indian Communities In Puerto Limon, Costa Rica ; Bluefields, Nicaragua ; And Old Providence Island, Colombia, Raquel Sanmiguel
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
The present study sets out to identify the ideological implications that the current national systems of secondary education have for West Indians who ended up living in the “"buffer zone"” between Latin American and Anglophone Caribbean histories: Raizales in Old Providence Island, Colombia; Afrolimonenses in Limón, Costa Rica, and Creoles in Bluefields, Nicaragua. The axis of examination is the school curriculum both as practice and as a set of pre-determined content and goals that teachers have to follow. It is a critical analysis of the ideologies that inform education, supported by an inquiry into the historical and cultural factors that …
Divisions And Mixing In "Go Down, Moses" By William Faulkner, Emiko Dodo
Divisions And Mixing In "Go Down, Moses" By William Faulkner, Emiko Dodo
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This thesis examines the divisions and boundaries made by the mechanisms of separation that authorize a false perception of land, animals, blacks and women as commodities in William Faulkner's "Go Down, Moses." Asserting that "Go Down, Moses" describes mixing as well as divisions, this study demonstrates that the dichotomous boundaries imposed upon nature and humans repeatedly fail to function. Wilderness and plantation land can never be separated as they exist in mixture. And the racial boundary between whites and blacks is destabilized and blurred by characters like Lucas Beauchamp and Tomey's Turl, who engage in resistance against the society whose …
Rawls And A Normative Account Of The Permissibility Of Humanitarian Intervention, Tiffany Brianne Redies
Rawls And A Normative Account Of The Permissibility Of Humanitarian Intervention, Tiffany Brianne Redies
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
In this paper, I seek to develop a normative account of the moral permissibility of humanitarian intervention based upon Rawls's work The Law of Peoples. In the first section of this paper, I argue that four specific criteria governing the permissibility of humanitarian intervention result from a close examination of The Law of Peoples. First, there must exist an on-going human rights violation in either an outlaw state or a burdened society. Secondly, this human rights violation must be grave in nature. Third, the intervening state must hold a sincere and reasonable belief that a grave violation is occurring and …
Midnight In A Perfect World, Jaron Serven
Midnight In A Perfect World, Jaron Serven
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
What follows is a collection of short stories dealing with the experience of growing up in America during the Digital Age, written in a creative fictional method. The stories directly deal with the themes of coming to terms with the past, friendship, facing tough choices, maintaining love in an unloving world-overall, expressing the look and feel of what it is like to be young, to see through the eyes of a generation inheriting a world of questionable morals. The collection pulls from numerous resources in the genre of the contemporary American bildungsroman, but also from much literary criticism dealing with …
Phonetics And Phonology Of Chicahuaxtla Triqui Tones, Kosuke Matsukawa
Phonetics And Phonology Of Chicahuaxtla Triqui Tones, Kosuke Matsukawa
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Chicahuaxtla Triqui (Otomanguean, Mexico) is one of the rare tone languages with five contrastive level tones and its underlying tone system is even more complicated than its surface five-level tone system. The complexity of its underlying tone system has developed through the historical tone shifts from Proto-Triqui. The surface tone system of Chicahuaxtla Triqui is also unusually complicated and its complexity led to the insufficient analysis of the previous studies (e.g. Longacre 1952, 1957, 1959; Good 1978). To understand the tone system and tonal phonology of Chicahuaxtla Triqui, we must know their diachronic development from Proto-Triqui because historical tone shifts, …
"Where Are The Regulars?" : An Analysis Of Regular Army Recruiting And Enlistees, 1851-1865, Mark Johnson
"Where Are The Regulars?" : An Analysis Of Regular Army Recruiting And Enlistees, 1851-1865, Mark Johnson
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
The Regular Army of the United States played only a minor role in the American Civil War, a result of its being severally undermanned throughout that conflict. The Regular Army's lack of personnel was a product of an inefficient recruiting program that lacked the ability to compete for manpower with state volunteer regiments. The volunteers' higher pay, less rigorous duty, and generally high level of popular support at the state and local level caused most potential recruits to conclude that volunteer service was an easier path to take for fulfillment of military obligations. Well before the end of the war, …
What If Oedipus Was A Queen? : What Freud And Lacan Can Tell Us Today About Femininity Through Fairy Tales And Their Reinterpretations, Taylor Victoria Churchill
What If Oedipus Was A Queen? : What Freud And Lacan Can Tell Us Today About Femininity Through Fairy Tales And Their Reinterpretations, Taylor Victoria Churchill
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This thesis argues against the interpretations of Sigmund Freud's Oedipus complex and Jacques Lacan's graph of sexuation as either misogynistic or anti-woman. The Oedipus complex has often been considered and taught as an explanation for binary sexual difference and heterosexual identity. This thesis will dispute such considerations through re-reading Freud himself among other literary scholars. Thus, the critiques that treat the complex as hetero-normative and homogeneous will be disproved. Additionally, psychoanalysts and academic critics alike accuse Lacan of a phallocentric framework. Because of this phallocentrism, Lacan is doubly accused of misogyny and patriarchy. Through reading his work on feminine sexuality, …