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"That Damned Morality": Willa Cather's Reaction Against Victorian Female Roles In O Pioneers! And Tje Song Of The Lark, Sarah Elizabeth Moore Horne
"That Damned Morality": Willa Cather's Reaction Against Victorian Female Roles In O Pioneers! And Tje Song Of The Lark, Sarah Elizabeth Moore Horne
Theses & Honors Papers
Reacting against Victorian ideal that influenced her childhood, Cather creates numerous gender reversal throughout her fiction. This thesis notes the gender ironies contained within her works to conclude that Cather was herself a liberal, demanding that society’s status quo be eliminated. While America’s political climate did affect Cather’s work, her political ideologies remain difficult to interpret when contrasted with her fiction. Throughout much of her fiction, Cather attempts to raise the social status of certain facets of society and dispels many myths concerning gender.
Resolving The "Hateful Siege/Of Contrarie": The Regeneration Of Ideal Desire In Milton's Paradise Lost, Jody Lawton
Resolving The "Hateful Siege/Of Contrarie": The Regeneration Of Ideal Desire In Milton's Paradise Lost, Jody Lawton
Honors Capstone Projects and Theses
No abstract provided.
Cather's New World Cultural Exploitation Vs. Cultural Cohesion In Sapphira And The Slave Girl, The Professor's House And Shadows On The Rock, Alexandra Meighan
Cather's New World Cultural Exploitation Vs. Cultural Cohesion In Sapphira And The Slave Girl, The Professor's House And Shadows On The Rock, Alexandra Meighan
Theses & Honors Papers
Three of Cather’s works, Sapphira and the Slave Girl, The professor’s House, and Shadows on the Rock distinguish two civilizations in North America. This thesis examines the mental and physical abuses of African American slavery imposed on its victims in Sapphira and the Slave Girl. In The Professor’s House, the abuse and neglect with which America has treated Native Americans is revealed. Shadows on the Rock demonstrates the cultural superiority and cohesiveness of the French settlement described. In the works, Cather creates powerful contrasts between the American and Canadian societies within the New World. Her comparisons suggest that …
"Fellow-Craftsmen" : A Study Of The Personal And Professional Relationship Between Mary Johnston And Ellen Glasgow, Catherine G. Costantino
"Fellow-Craftsmen" : A Study Of The Personal And Professional Relationship Between Mary Johnston And Ellen Glasgow, Catherine G. Costantino
Master's Theses
Biographers and critics tend to vary widely on the attention given to the personal, intellectual, and literary significance of the friendship between Ellen Glasgow and Mary Johnston. In this thesis, the author argues that the two women, obviously drawn together because of personal and professional similarities, shared intellectual interests, a passion for writing, and certainly nurtured each other's creativity. By providing extensive evidence from Mary Johnston's unpublished diaries, notebooks, and journals, as well evidence from the abundance of published and unpublished correspondence between the two women, this thesis refutes past critical assessments and establishes that the relationship between Glasgow and …
"Painted Fire": Fire Imagery In Life On The Mississippi And A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court, Deborah T. Ketchum
"Painted Fire": Fire Imagery In Life On The Mississippi And A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court, Deborah T. Ketchum
Theses & Honors Papers
Fire imagery appears throughout Twain’s literature, becoming stronger as he matures. Twain’s novel reveals the trauma and guilt felt. Life on the Mississippi shows how the author turned a traumatic memory into various literary devices. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court uses a traumatic memory to develop complex imagery and symbolism. Both books demonstrate the complex writing skills of Mark Twain as he develops dire into a dual creation that represents both positive and negative events, sometimes simultaneously. Fire becomes and interesting element that provides laughter even as causes tears, that cleanses and creates even as it destroys, and …
Revolutionary Trickster Communities: Re-Presenting Folk Heroes In Contemporary African American Novels, Susan C. Stinson
Revolutionary Trickster Communities: Re-Presenting Folk Heroes In Contemporary African American Novels, Susan C. Stinson
Theses & Honors Papers
In this thesis, the three novelists, as tricksters, manipulate one’s reading process by overlapping the visible with the invisible world. This thesis explores the tricksters communities and will focus on the novelists as trickster. Sherley Anne Williams, Ernest Gaines, and Gloria Naylor parody the rebel or loner trickster tradition in literature and conceptualize a world in which African Americans, white Americans, and Native Americans work communally to deconstruct the stereotypes associated with race, age, and gender. The authors use parody as a humorous narrative technique. The humor enables the modern reader to look into the past at the wrongs imposed …
Guidelines For Alternative Spring Break, Christopher A. Meyer
Guidelines For Alternative Spring Break, Christopher A. Meyer
Honors Theses
According to the 1997 Statistical Abstract of the United States, some 93 million Americans - 48.8% of the nation's adults - volunteered an average of 4.2 hours a week in 1995, donating time and talents to benefit various worthy causes. These "causes" ranged from churches to museums to schools, from private arrangements to national (even international) organizations. And the work, from building houses to holding hands to cleaning homes to answering tax questions, covered every possible talent and ability that volunteers had to offer.
The Teaching Of English As A Foreign Language In Egyptian Kindergartens: A Survey Of Teacher Characteristics And Instructional Practices, Heather Kathleen Browne
The Teaching Of English As A Foreign Language In Egyptian Kindergartens: A Survey Of Teacher Characteristics And Instructional Practices, Heather Kathleen Browne
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Gender Conflicts And The Metaphor Of Race In The Novels Of George Eliot, Violet Lee Brown
Gender Conflicts And The Metaphor Of Race In The Novels Of George Eliot, Violet Lee Brown
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Giving Her A Voice: The Representation Of The Black Woman In Four Short Stories, Jennifer Sheeler
Giving Her A Voice: The Representation Of The Black Woman In Four Short Stories, Jennifer Sheeler
Theses & Honors Papers
Black women have had to work very hard to pull themselves up the social ladder. Literature reflects society, and the black female experience in the South is a part of American society which has not been overlooked by its literature. This thesis examines short stories by the similarities and tempered differences to develop a closer understanding of the true black female experience. The examination found that the gender and race of each author of the four short stories does not correspond to the amount of power each one gives to his or her black female character the way the reader …
Cut To The Quick: Lorena Bobbitt And America Gender Ideology, Jessica Staheli
Cut To The Quick: Lorena Bobbitt And America Gender Ideology, Jessica Staheli
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
On the morning of June 23rd, 1993, Lorena Bobbitt severed her husband's penis with a kitchen carving knife, literally enacting the old myth of women as castrators. America reacted to Lorena's and her husband John's situation first with horror and then with humor. Soon after the attack was made public, jokes and commentaries proliferated on television and in magazines, journals, and newspapers. Because Americans were so shocked by Lorena's action, they scrambled to represent and explain it in a manner that made the act morally comprehensible. Looking at interviews, jokes, commentaries, and John's subsequent career in pornography reveals the specific …
Ailing Hearts, Go Home: Ethnographic Storytelling And The Levels Of Experience, Bryan D. Tilt
Ailing Hearts, Go Home: Ethnographic Storytelling And The Levels Of Experience, Bryan D. Tilt
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
I visited Primary Children's Medical Center on a fresh snow morning near the beginning of last winter. The hospital was not where it had been in my childhood, a quiet neighborhood in "the avenues" section of Salt Lake City; several years ago the hospital moved to a new location farther east on the Wasatch Mountain foothills, near the University of Utah Medical Center. The old brick building now sits sedate and empty at the top of a shaded hill. My memory of the old hospital is as a bright and oppressive place, full of the stuff of life and death. …
The Novel And The Transformation Of History: Midnight’S Children, Allegory, And The Dialogical, Adam W. Ducote
The Novel And The Transformation Of History: Midnight’S Children, Allegory, And The Dialogical, Adam W. Ducote
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Perspectives On History: New Orleans's Women In William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! And Anne Rice's The Feast Of All Saints, Stacey Morgan Ford
Perspectives On History: New Orleans's Women In William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! And Anne Rice's The Feast Of All Saints, Stacey Morgan Ford
Theses & Honors Papers
The thesis examines the perspectives on history in New Orleans ' women in William Faulkner 's Absalom, Absalom and Anne Rice's The Feast of All Saints. This thesis looks at historical sources, the most detailed and unbiased of which have been written within the last twenty-five years. The information is then applied to the works of Faulkner and Rice. The thesis concludes that both of the writes provide portrayals which serve their own purposes. Faulkner’s image of the world is vivid, but, it is still only an image, a picture. Faulkner’s purposes serve only as the symbol of slavery at …
The Art Of The Novel: How Kundera Helps Us Read The Unbearable Lightness Of Being, Matt Plavnick
The Art Of The Novel: How Kundera Helps Us Read The Unbearable Lightness Of Being, Matt Plavnick
Honors Theses
In all of Kundera's writing there is the search, the yearning, to understand more of the world around us~specifically around Kundera. His fiction deals both with the lives of people caught up in this world, some happily, some miserably, each undeniably held by human constraints, and also with how these people are affected by their natural constraints. His critical writing offers further examination and theory about these constraints: what they are, specifically, how they work, and how they affect people. With this comes a detailed assessment of our epoch, which he calls "The Modern Era," and the phenomena that characterize …
Behold The Last Prophetess! Feminist Apocalypse In Mary Shelley’S The Last Man, Amy Louise Montz
Behold The Last Prophetess! Feminist Apocalypse In Mary Shelley’S The Last Man, Amy Louise Montz
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
The Pain Of An Amputated Limb: Subjective Morality And Existentialism In Anne Rice's Interview With The Vampire, Aaron J. Klamer
The Pain Of An Amputated Limb: Subjective Morality And Existentialism In Anne Rice's Interview With The Vampire, Aaron J. Klamer
Honors Theses
Over the last century, perhaps no genre of literature has so enthralled, interested, and provoked the public's intellect as those pieces which fall under the somewhat ambiguous appellation, "existentialist" literature. Novels by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Albert Camus spawned generations of followers, including Ernest Hemingway, Richard Wright, and Franz Kafka. Today, Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, and especially the first book Interview With the Vampire, exemplify the characteristics of an existential novel. No doubt much of the reason for the popularity of the existential novel has to do with empathy, we see ourselves reflected in the characters. In order …
Defiance Or Despair?, Rania Maged Al Malky
Defiance Or Despair?, Rania Maged Al Malky
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Reading The Temporal Nature Of Lee Smith's Fair And Tender Ladies Through Oral History, Don L. Butler
Reading The Temporal Nature Of Lee Smith's Fair And Tender Ladies Through Oral History, Don L. Butler
Theses & Honors Papers
This thesis looks at the work of Lee Smith and how he uses the theme of time to further the plots of some of his stories. These stories show the temporality of passing time and the resulting change in his characters and their stories.
Penitents Or Prostitutes ?: The Narratives Of Fallen Women In Defoe,Richardson, And Fielding, Beth Martin Birky
Penitents Or Prostitutes ?: The Narratives Of Fallen Women In Defoe,Richardson, And Fielding, Beth Martin Birky
Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Comic Elements And Their Effect On Meaning In George Meredith, Ford Madox Ford, And D. H. Lawrence, Helen Vincenza Garvey
Comic Elements And Their Effect On Meaning In George Meredith, Ford Madox Ford, And D. H. Lawrence, Helen Vincenza Garvey
Dissertations
No abstract provided.
A Tale Of Two Vicars: Thomas Stothard's And Thomas Rowlandson's Illustrations Of "The Vicar Of Wakefield", Katherine W. Rawson
A Tale Of Two Vicars: Thomas Stothard's And Thomas Rowlandson's Illustrations Of "The Vicar Of Wakefield", Katherine W. Rawson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Narrative Voicings In The Novels Of Roddy Doyle, Larry Poe
Narrative Voicings In The Novels Of Roddy Doyle, Larry Poe
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
Scholars have generally ignored Irish novelist and playwright Roddy Doyle. Little attention has been paid to his narrative techniques or to his development as a novelist. In the American academy, thus far, only one dissertation concerning Doyle’s novels has appeared, written in 1996, by Caramine White, at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. White notes that her dissertation is the first on Doyle and “its basic purpose will be to introduce the novels to the reading public and to convince the reading public that Doyle, although a very popular artist, is also a gifted writer who should be taken …
"A Tolerable Straight Line" : Non-Linear Narrative In Tristram Shandy, Daniel L. Hocutt
"A Tolerable Straight Line" : Non-Linear Narrative In Tristram Shandy, Daniel L. Hocutt
Master's Theses
The non-linear narrative of Laurence Sterne's Tri st ram Shandy demands attentive readers. Written under the influence of John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding, the novel satirizes Lockean "associationism" and illustrates language's inability to express ideas accurately. In the novel, words seldom convey characters' intended meanings, yet Tristram uses language effectively to narrate "self" to his readers. Rather than having his mind's workings conform to the linear nature of traditional discourse, Tristram communicates associatively to intelligent, involved readers without imposing linearity. In this study I examine scholars' work to determine Tristram 's position on Locke's ideas and use Seymour Chatman …
Dear Father, Rochelle A. Fankhauser
Dear Father, Rochelle A. Fankhauser
Theses and Dissertations
Dear Father is a memoir of one year of the life of Shelly Fankhauser. Experiencing the death of her grandfather and husband, she is forced to reexamine her basic belief system as a New Zealand Maori LDS woman. Through her losses and the process of her grief, she discovers the identity that she was struggling to find did not come from her culture or her religion as she had once thought, but from within herself.
Dear Father is an autobiographical account of finding inner strength and discovering hope.
Mormon Culture Meets Popular Fiction: Susa Young Gates And The Cultural Work Of Home Literature, Lisa Olsen Tait
Mormon Culture Meets Popular Fiction: Susa Young Gates And The Cultural Work Of Home Literature, Lisa Olsen Tait
Theses and Dissertations
The few studies of Mormon home literature that have been published to date dismiss it as inferior artistry, an embarrassing if necessary step in the progression towards true Mormon literature. These studies are inadequate, however, because they divorce the texts from their context, holding them up to standards that did not exist for their original audience. Jane Tompkins' theory of texts as cultural work provides a more satisfactory way of looking at these narratives.
Home literature is thoroughly enmeshed in the cultural discourse of its day. Beneath the surface, these didactic stories about young Mormons finding love with their foreordained …
Creating A Textual Performance Piece, Karen Pitcher
Creating A Textual Performance Piece, Karen Pitcher
Presidential Scholars Theses (1990 – 2006)
When posed with the challenge of creating a senior thesis project, I was boggled as to what to do. As an English major, I knew my options were very open, and I was determined to make this project one that I would enjoy throughout my senior year. In order to do so, I had to broaden my scope to include not only an element of my major, but also components of my communications minor and my first major, theatre. In order to do this, I turned to oral interpretation, an activity that involves dramatic interpretation of texts written by others. …
A Cave Of Their Own: A Comparative Examination Of Recurring Social And Psychological Themes In Gothic Fiction And Gothic Youth Subculture Through The Song Lyrics And Fiction Of Nick Cave, Bradley M. Hunter
Theses : Honours
The aim of this thesis is to examine the Gothic phenomenon as it pertains to late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century fiction, and extrapolate its social and psychological concerns as they relate to the Gothic revival in the late nineteenth-century Decadent movement and late twentieth-century gothic subculture. This examination focuses on recurrent social and psychological themes in eighteenth/nineteenth-century Gothic fiction, the late nineteenth-century Decadent movement and twentieth-century gothic music and subculture, which, in turn, are compared to the themes and motifs of the song lyrics and fiction of Nick Cave. Within this context, the recurring theme of the psychological exploration of …
It’S More Exciting Than Your Life, Jennifer L. Foster
It’S More Exciting Than Your Life, Jennifer L. Foster
Dissertations and Theses
Crux Expanse is a virtual reality game produced by Phantazmode Corporation, the largest entertainment corporation in the international gaming world. In Matrixgate, Orange County, California, the center of the world's entertainment industry, the year is 2026. Ella Menopey, the protagonist, is a fifteen year-old game designer and tester for a small entertainment corporation, Arcadia. Though Ella is only fifteen years of age, she's a tough girl. If not physically capable to take care of herself, Ella's technologically capable through Nicolai, her Netherworld Netweave computer system and through the pistol she carries with her at all times. Her father left when …
An Investigation Of Dominant Ideologies Operating Within The Text Historia By Australian Playwright Noëlle Janaczewska, Nicole G. Kelly
An Investigation Of Dominant Ideologies Operating Within The Text Historia By Australian Playwright Noëlle Janaczewska, Nicole G. Kelly
Theses : Honours
The 'reality' of contemporary Australia is based upon hegemonic perceptions of society, which categorise and classify subjects and groups. These perceptions are based upon dominant ideologies that make sense of and order the world in a particular way. Where 'minority' groups are concerned, their experience, their way of life and their way of 'being' is seen to deviate from the hegemonic perception; they don't fit into the dominant ideology and are therefore constituted as 'different', which through Western polarisation sees them marginalised as the 'Other' seen as somehow more deviant than those who fit the dominant ideology. Noelle Janaczewska's play …