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Full-Text Articles in English Language and Literature
Eng 2009g-051: Race, Age, And Gender, Christopher Hanlon
Eng 2009g-051: Race, Age, And Gender, Christopher Hanlon
Summer 2005
No abstract provided.
Eng 3001-001: Advanced Composition, Ray Watkins
Eng 3001-735: Advanced Composition, Angela Vietto
Eng 2705-051: Introduction To African American Literature: Coming Of Age Narratives, Tim Engles
Eng 2705-051: Introduction To African American Literature: Coming Of Age Narratives, Tim Engles
Summer 2005
No abstract provided.
Eng 3009g-001, William J. Searle
Eng 3808-001: Modern British Literature, Michael Leddy
Eng 3808-001: Modern British Literature, Michael Leddy
Summer 2005
No abstract provided.
Eng 5008-031: Colonial American Literature, P A. Boswell
Eng 5008-031: Colonial American Literature, P A. Boswell
Summer 2005
No abstract provided.
Eng 5011-031: Studies In Composition And Rhetoric: Should There Be A Text In This Class?, Robin L. Murray
Eng 5011-031: Studies In Composition And Rhetoric: Should There Be A Text In This Class?, Robin L. Murray
Summer 2005
No abstract provided.
Eng 2011g-001: Literature, The Self, And The World: Fiction, Angela Vietto
Eng 2011g-001: Literature, The Self, And The World: Fiction, Angela Vietto
Summer 2005
No abstract provided.
Eng Schedule, English Department
Eng 2003-051: Creative Writing: Poetry, Guzlowski
Eng 1002g-001: Composition And Literature, Donna Binns
Eng 1002g-001: Composition And Literature, Donna Binns
Summer 2005
No abstract provided.
Eng 5061-031: Memory And Medieval British Literature, Francine Mcgregor
Eng 5061-031: Memory And Medieval British Literature, Francine Mcgregor
Summer 2005
No abstract provided.
Fortune Personified And The Fall (And Rise) Of Women In Chaucer's Monk's Tale And The Autobiographical Writings Of Christine De Pizan, Leona C. Fisher
Fortune Personified And The Fall (And Rise) Of Women In Chaucer's Monk's Tale And The Autobiographical Writings Of Christine De Pizan, Leona C. Fisher
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis will posit that a query of the medieval trope, Fortune, can be read as a query into femininity. Fortune is depicted with many quintessentially medieval feminine traits, and women in texts that discuss Fortune often have Fortune's traits. While texts that link Fortune and femininity usually do so to censure women, some writers turned the trope to their advantage for just the opposite purpose. Both Chaucer in the "Monk's Tale" and Christine de Pizan personify Fortune to subtly point out the flaws in antifeminist medieval view of women. This thesis explores the ways in which these writers cleverly …
The Wit And Wisdom In The Novels Of Diana Wynne Jones, Elizabeth A. Crowe
The Wit And Wisdom In The Novels Of Diana Wynne Jones, Elizabeth A. Crowe
Theses and Dissertations
British speculative fiction writer, Diana Wynne Jones, has published over forty books for middle school to adult readers, and her work continues to receive many awards for its creativity and high quality. Jones is a prolific and talented writer who has contributed to and influenced speculative fiction. She uses magical contexts to comment on social situations in what she sees as an essentially non-magical world. Whether she is being humorous, drawing upon myths and legends, or using fantasy or science fiction, Jones reflects the contemporary unpredictable adolescent mind. Jones's unusual childhood has influenced her writing, and a brief biography of …
Two Kinds Of Utility: England’S ‘Supremacy’ And The Quest For Completion In David Dabydeen’S The Intended, Kevin Frank
Two Kinds Of Utility: England’S ‘Supremacy’ And The Quest For Completion In David Dabydeen’S The Intended, Kevin Frank
Publications and Research
This essay concerns the Caribbean writer’s crucial confrontation with colonial literary models. In it, Kevin Frank argues that the central protagonist of David Dabydeen’s The Intended, the unnamed narrator, resembles the author in that he is torn between cultures (English, East Indian, and West Indian), and torn between two kinds of utility: one base, mechanical, and calculating, and the other, romantic. The latter predicament, Frank demonstrates, is a natural consequence of the convergence of romantic and utilitarian ideology underpinning British colonialism. Moreover, Dabydeen’s ambivalence about his allegiances and literary heritage is similar to that of one of his literary …
The Parody Of Romance, Tara Donalson
The Parody Of Romance, Tara Donalson
English Theses - Archive
In Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature, Janice A. Radway studies the romance formula, identifying a set of generic criteria which offer its readers escapist purposes. Christian writers have established their own formula on the romance. In my thesis, I look at the parallel formulas found in secular and inspirational romance fiction, searching how inspirational romance evangelizes and gives spiritual instruction to its readers. Secular romance creates stories which explore the idea of everlasting love. They create a relationship between a flawed hero and innocent heroine who fall in love at first sight; out of this imperfect relationship …
"Whither?" Some Thoughts On The Genre Of Literature In An Electronic Age, James C. Schaap
"Whither?" Some Thoughts On The Genre Of Literature In An Electronic Age, James C. Schaap
Pro Rege
This article was originally presented as a lecture for the MacLaurin Institute, a Christian study center at the University of Minnesota, on January 19, 2005.
Willa Cather: The Letters And Novels Of A Romantic Modernist, Lisa Bouma Garvelink
Willa Cather: The Letters And Novels Of A Romantic Modernist, Lisa Bouma Garvelink
Dissertations
Willa Cather believed the primary goal of art was to simplify, but she never believed the world to be a simple place. Her letters reveal abundant conflicted feelings about her own place in the world, while also revealing a concomitant determination to succeed at any cost. From O Pioneers! (1913) to Sapphira andthe Slave Girl (1940), her novels vary vastly, evidencing a complex dialectic between romantic absolutes and modernist uncertainties. Even in the novelsmost critics would see as notably romantic--specifically her earlier works--the modernist temperament and techniques create recognizable tension. Just as significantly, in her later, darker novels the romantic …
Copyrighting American History: International Copyright And The Periodization Of The Nineteenth Century, Claudia Stokes
Copyrighting American History: International Copyright And The Periodization Of The Nineteenth Century, Claudia Stokes
English Faculty Research
With the publication in 1930 of the third and final volume of his Main Currents in American Thought, Vernon Parrington gave singular shape and force to an already established paradigm of the American nineteenth century as two discrete eras, hinged politically and culturally by the Civil War. After 1865, goes the familiar narrative, the Boston Brahmins and their ‘‘love of standards’’ were unseated by itinerant, gritty, self-made writers based in New York. For Parrington, this literary restaging of the American Revolution, in which Old World aristocratic power fell at the hands of an American populism, was best exemplified by …
Narrative And Nation Construction, Yasmine Ramadan
Narrative And Nation Construction, Yasmine Ramadan
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Re-Envisioning George Washington Gómez: A Historical And Biographical Verification Of A South Texas Novel, Diana Noreen Rivera
Re-Envisioning George Washington Gómez: A Historical And Biographical Verification Of A South Texas Novel, Diana Noreen Rivera
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
The late Dr. Américo Paredes, in addition to his exemplary scholastic contributions to Mexican American scholarship, has achieved critical acclaim for his fiction. While scholars proclaim Paredes' fictional texts, which were written and set amidst a racially intensified social structure during the first half of the twentieth century, as remarkable portrayals of South Texas life, this paper calls for a “re-envisioning” of his literary works. Rather than a mere portrayal of South Texas society, using Paredes' most influential novel, George Washington Gómez , I explore the work's autobiographical content and assert that, because of its factual basis, scholars re-access his …
The Spiral Of The Self: Coleridge's Conversation Poems, Naglaa Mohamed El Baz
The Spiral Of The Self: Coleridge's Conversation Poems, Naglaa Mohamed El Baz
Archived Theses and Dissertations
Coleridge's Conversation Poems lacked due attention from literary critics and scholars for ages. They are original compositions which have their sources in early poetic traditions of the 18th century. They manifest Coleridge's ability to experiment with traditional forms and introduce a new genre, which is more simple in style, while rich in philosophical and psychological depth. The unity between form and content, as seen in these poems, was a phenomenal occurrence in their time, while their spiral structure enables the poet to express his poetic thought with all its complexities. The poems expose the double facets of the poet's self …
Social Disruption In The Gothic Novels Of Horace Walpole, Elizabeth Inchbald, And Jane Austen., Lia Criselda Lim Pun-Chuen
Social Disruption In The Gothic Novels Of Horace Walpole, Elizabeth Inchbald, And Jane Austen., Lia Criselda Lim Pun-Chuen
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The Gothic novel plays on the exaggeration of prescribed sex roles and uses various narrative techniques to produce a social commentary on gender politics and to illustrate the consequences of a destroyed social structure. Through the examination of the construct of the Gothic narrative and its fragmentary style, the novels of Horace Walpole, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Jane Austen reveal similar treatments of the sexuality of their characters. The implementation of key Gothic elements—such as the castle, tyrannical father, and distressed damsel—serve to propel the novels’ questioning of the patriarchal system, the theme of women as commodities, and the economic value …
The Appalachian Other: Struggles Of Familial And Cultural Assimilation In Fred Chappell's Kirkman Tetralogy., Abbey Mabe
The Appalachian Other: Struggles Of Familial And Cultural Assimilation In Fred Chappell's Kirkman Tetralogy., Abbey Mabe
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
In his Kirkman tetralogy, Fred Chappell refutes ill-conceived Appalachian stereotypes via his refreshingly intelligent and sophisticated cast of mountaineer players. However, Chappell’s characters do not exist without flaws. Jess Kirkman, the tetralogy’s narrator, is a particularly tortured figure. Perpetually struggling to assimilate into his native mountain culture, Jess represents the Appalachian Other, an individual who is born into Southern Highland society, but who is, ironically, treated like an outsider by his peers. Throughout Chappell’s first novel, Jess’s inability to connect with his own family members becomes evident. In books two and three, readers see that, although several of Jess’s male …
Two From The Underworld: Short Fiction., Stephen Glass
Two From The Underworld: Short Fiction., Stephen Glass
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The following thesis contains two works of short fiction. The first, “Afterlife,” is narrated by Jeff Carlton, whose unenthusiastic passage into fatherhood is complicated by his girlfriend Charlene’s obsession with mummification. The second, “Jolly,” is the story of Calvin Edwards, a young bus station attendant haunted by his father’s ghost and visited by a cadaverous stranger, Jolly, who also sees the dead. The stories are preceded by an introduction in which the author discusses his views on implied motivation in character development.
Rhetoric And Craft: Essays On Conservation, Nature, And The Outdoors, Craig La Rue Springer
Rhetoric And Craft: Essays On Conservation, Nature, And The Outdoors, Craig La Rue Springer
English Language and Literature ETDs
Hunting and fishing in Ohio in the 1970s and 1980s with family members and friends during his early teenage years immersed the future writer in the workings of nature and set the stage for his career in conservation, first as a biologist, then as a writer for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, finally as a freelance writer of outdoors stories and essays. The eleven stories and essays collected in this thesis were first published in the New York Times, Outdoor Life, Field & Stream, ESPNOutdoors.com, Hamilton Journal-News, Santa Fe New Mexican, and the Albuquerque Journal. These pieces are introduced …
Buried Alive: Hard Science Fiction Since The Golden Age, Bonny Mcdonald
Buried Alive: Hard Science Fiction Since The Golden Age, Bonny Mcdonald
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
A substantial body of science fiction authors, critics and fans appreciate the literary attention the New Wave of the '60s and '70s brought to the genre of science fiction, but regret the seemingly lasting move away from the hard science classics of the '50s and before. They argue that "the hard stuff' is at the very heart of sf and that its future—still on the path set by the New Wave—is ostensibly a dead end. Many important critics along with hundreds of sf fan websites display this fatalistic concern, asking over and over "Is hard science fiction dead?" The answer …
The Econometric Value Of Silence And Noise As Seen By A Non-Practicing Marxist, Stephen Whelpley
The Econometric Value Of Silence And Noise As Seen By A Non-Practicing Marxist, Stephen Whelpley
Senior Scholar Papers
A Collection of Poetry and Fiction
Baptism, Mark Melloan
Baptism, Mark Melloan
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
One of my favorite movie characters said he'd worn lots of shoes, meaning he'd been a great many places and done a great many things. Well, I've never been to war or run across America or founded a shrimp company or shook the President's hand or returned kickoffs for the University of Alabama. But I did grow up in a church, come of age, and stay there, which is perhaps as interesting. I am now a husband, worship leader, singer-songwriter, and college writing instructor, struggling to capture fragments of who I was before I was any of these things, and …