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[Review Of] Literary Exile In The Twentieth-Century: An Analysis And Biographical Dictionary, Robert A. Aken
[Review Of] Literary Exile In The Twentieth-Century: An Analysis And Biographical Dictionary, Robert A. Aken
Library Faculty and Staff Publications
No abstract provided.
The Interlanguage Of Advanced Speakers: Implications & Suggestions, Madeline Garr
The Interlanguage Of Advanced Speakers: Implications & Suggestions, Madeline Garr
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
This thesis details a study of the interlanguage of advanced speakers of English as a Second Language. The purpose of the study was to see what errors these students made when speaking the language in a communicative environment. In approaching the issue of interlanguage, the writer surveys the research in language acquisition as well as in interlanguage, error analysis and language learning theories. Based on this research and the results of this study, the writer explores the implications of both the research and the study and offers suggestions to teachers of advanced conversation classes.
Zora Neale Hurston: The Voice Of The Goddess, Mella Davis
Zora Neale Hurston: The Voice Of The Goddess, Mella Davis
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Zara Neale Purston has re-emerged as an author of promise due to the re-appraisal of her works led by Alice Walker and Robert Hemenway. In both literary and folklore academic circles, Hurston's work has been reclaimed by African-American female scholars and writers, but still a significant study has yet to be done about her ethnographic contributions to folklore and her farsightedness in fieldwork methodology. This thesis seeks to validate her work as a folklorist, thereby dismissing the charges of popularization and amateurishness by re-examining her work. Mules and Men and Jonah's Gourd Vine are Hurston's two most influential folklore texts …
Stain Upon The Silence: Samuel Beckett’S Deconstructive Inventions, Leigh Howard
Stain Upon The Silence: Samuel Beckett’S Deconstructive Inventions, Leigh Howard
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
In recent years, deconstruction theory has emerged as a key method for exploring public address, organizational culture, and literary discourse. Deconstruction theory encourages tearing apart hierarchy and established order to gain insights about the artifact being studied. Furthermore, the theory questions surface or superficial messages and encourages the reader to explore signals hidden below the surface. Deconstruction discounts context and places faith in experience.
Using the early plays of Samuel Beckett, this research explores deconstruction as a method to create messages. This new perspective transports deconstruction from a set of theoretical concepts into basic assumptions that enhance communication. This study …
On The Power Of Language And The Language Of Power, Ian Malcolm
On The Power Of Language And The Language Of Power, Ian Malcolm
Research outputs pre 2011
No abstract provided.
Studies In African Literature: An Annual Annotated Bibliography, 1989, Robert Cancel, Ian Barnard, Richard Lepine, Suzanne Houyoux, Gerald M. Moser, Noêl Ortega, David Westley, Winifred Woodhull
Studies In African Literature: An Annual Annotated Bibliography, 1989, Robert Cancel, Ian Barnard, Richard Lepine, Suzanne Houyoux, Gerald M. Moser, Noêl Ortega, David Westley, Winifred Woodhull
English Faculty Articles and Research
A bibliography of new and key releases of African literature in 1989.