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Transnational Community In Demetria Martínez’S Mother Tongue, Ariana Vigil Jan 2009

Transnational Community In Demetria Martínez’S Mother Tongue, Ariana Vigil

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Relying on feminist theory concerning difference, identity, gender, and solidarity, “Transnational Community in Demetria Martínez’s Mother Tongue” reads Martínez’s 1994 novel through a transnational feminist lens. I point out that Mother Tongue complicates identification with the other and resists the impulse by characters to elide national, racial, and sexual difference. However, the articulation of community identities and the portrayal of characters as members of both oppressed communities and communities in resistance offers a new and provocative way to understand how individuals interact with identity and attend to important differences while nonetheless working for global change. The resulting analysis contributes …

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Eng 5010-001: Studies In 20th Century American Literature & Culture Female Sexual "Awakenings" Across Time And Media, Melissa Ames Jan 2009

Eng 5010-001: Studies In 20th Century American Literature & Culture Female Sexual "Awakenings" Across Time And Media, Melissa Ames

Fall 2009

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Emily Brontë’S ‘No Coward Soul’ And The Need For A Religious Literary Criticism, Micael M. Clarke Jan 2009

Emily Brontë’S ‘No Coward Soul’ And The Need For A Religious Literary Criticism, Micael M. Clarke

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

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Gathering Leadership Momentum Across Great Distances: Creating An Online Community Of Practice, Erin Dini-Davis, Danielle Theiss-White Jan 2009

Gathering Leadership Momentum Across Great Distances: Creating An Online Community Of Practice, Erin Dini-Davis, Danielle Theiss-White

Library Faculty & Staff Publications

At the 2007 Mountain Plains Library Association Leadership (MPLA) Institute, held in New Mexico, USA, eight academic librarians formed an online multi-state, multigenerational community of practice. MPLA is a twelve-state library association within the United States. Using Google Groups™, the members formed an online environment called the MPLA Community of Practice for continuing development of the leadership skills presented at the Institute. These early-career librarians represent diverse educational backgrounds and work in libraries serving varied populations with differing disciplinary emphases. The group meets monthly with each member preparing and facilitating online discussions, complete with personal assessments, topical readings, and questions. …

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Assur Is King Of Persia: Illustrations Of The Book Of Esther In Some Nineteenth-Century Sources, Steven W. Holloway Jan 2009

Assur Is King Of Persia: Illustrations Of The Book Of Esther In Some Nineteenth-Century Sources, Steven W. Holloway

Libraries

The marriage of archaeological referencing and picture Bibles in the nineteenth century resulted in an astonishing variety of guises worn by the court of Ahasuerus in Esther. Following the exhibition of Neo-Assyrian sculpture in the British Museum and the wide circulation of such images in various John Murray publications, British illustrators like Henry Anelay defaulted to Assyrian models for kings and rulers in the Old Testament, including the principal actors in Esther, even though authentic Achaemenid Persian art had been available for illustrative pastiche for decades. This curious adoptive choice echoed British national pride in its splendid British Museum collection …

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Writing Program Administration At The Two- Year College: Ghosts In The Machine, Tim Taylor Jan 2009

Writing Program Administration At The Two- Year College: Ghosts In The Machine, Tim Taylor

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

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Papa’S Baby, Mama’S . . . Papa?: Toward A Faux Gestational History, Jeannie Ludlow Jan 2009

Papa’S Baby, Mama’S . . . Papa?: Toward A Faux Gestational History, Jeannie Ludlow

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

Mr. Lee Mingwei is pregnant, the “world’s first pregnant man.” The research website of RYT Hospital at Dwayne Medical Center, an institution specializing in nanotechnological medicine, introduces visitors to Lee (primagravidus2 [G1P0000, EP1, IVF-ET1, Post term])3 and verifies his pregnancy through live feeds of his EKG, sonogram, and vital signs (weight, blood pressure, fundal height4 ). Interested viewers can watch a documentary of Lee shopping in Times Square, talking about his experience as the first pregnant man, or follow links to a U.S. News and World Report magazine cover hailing Lee as “MAN(?) of the Year” or to Lee’s congratulations …

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African American Whiteness In Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills, Tim Engles Jan 2009

African American Whiteness In Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills, Tim Engles

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

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One Of Us: Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes And A Personal Record, Torgeir Ehler Jan 2009

One Of Us: Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes And A Personal Record, Torgeir Ehler

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This present work explores the relationship of Joseph Conrad's status as a Polish exile to his creative and biographical work. Its main focus is on the tandem publications of the novel Under Western Eyes and his autobiographical volume A Personal Record, both published within a year of each other and written contemporaneously. The first chapter is a short biographical survey of Conrad's life and addresses some later biographical works by his wife, among others. An overview of critical works that deal with Under Western Eyes is presented in the second chapter. An investigation into narrative structure and its use in …

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The Collapse: An Annotated Screenplay, Brandon Colvin Jan 2009

The Collapse: An Annotated Screenplay, Brandon Colvin

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

The Collapse: An Annotated Screenplay consists of an in-depth theoretical essay and an original feature-length screenplay, with a series of annotations to the screenplay explicating how the principles established in the essay are implemented in a creative work. The essay, entitled “The Absurd Screen: Bresson, Tarkovsky, and ‘Waterless Deserts,’” investigates how Albert Camus’ philosophy of the absurd applies to the cinematic styles of two directors – Robert Bresson and Andrei Tarkovsky – using examples from the filmmakers’ own theoretical writings and specific scenes and sequences from their films. The Collapse provides a practical example of the essay’s conclusions and categorizations, …

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The Never-Ending Quest: Possession As A Postmodern Literary Romance, Allison L. Carlisle Jan 2009

The Never-Ending Quest: Possession As A Postmodern Literary Romance, Allison L. Carlisle

Honors Papers

This thesis explores how the novel Possession brings together the sensibilities of postmodernism and the romance in its approach to the world and to narrative. In bringing into focus this conflict between archetype and postmodernism, Possession provides a kind of guide to both the status of the romance in the postmodern era and how we might look at postmodernism with more clarity. The story of the romance can be seen as evolutionary, in the sense that it has adapted to its surroundings with each new literary era while maintaining recognizable features. It has traditionally had something to say about love, …

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Matthew Dimmock (Ed). William Percy's Mahomet And His Heaven: A Critical Edition, Jonathan Burton Jan 2009

Matthew Dimmock (Ed). William Percy's Mahomet And His Heaven: A Critical Edition, Jonathan Burton

English

No abstract provided.

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2009 Complete Digest, Department Of English Jan 2009

2009 Complete Digest, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.

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Jesus Never Fails, Robert Collins Jan 2009

Jesus Never Fails, Robert Collins

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 5

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Altruism, Joanne Lowery Jan 2009

Altruism, Joanne Lowery

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 38

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Angel Of Yaw / The Pictures, Matthew Ladd Jan 2009

Angel Of Yaw / The Pictures, Matthew Ladd

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 50-56

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Who Owns This Text?: Plagiarism, Authorship, And Disciplinary Cultures, Carol Petersen Haviland, Joan A. Mullin Jan 2009

Who Owns This Text?: Plagiarism, Authorship, And Disciplinary Cultures, Carol Petersen Haviland, Joan A. Mullin

All USU Press Publications

Carol Haviland, Joan Mullin, and their collaborators report on a three-year interdisciplinary interview project on the subject of plagiarism, authorship, and "property," and how these are conceived across different fields. The study investigated seven different academic fields to discover disciplinary conceptions of what types of scholarly production count as "owned." Less a research report than a conversation, the book offers a wide range of ideas, and the chapters here will provoke discussion on scholarly practice relating to intellectual property, plagiarism, and authorship---and to how these matters are conveyed to students. Although these authors find a good deal of consensus in …

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Voices: On Stage And In Print, 2009, Utah State University Department Of English Jan 2009

Voices: On Stage And In Print, 2009, Utah State University Department Of English

Voices of USU

This collection of student writing represents the voices of over 2,000 students who enroll each academic year in Utah State University’s second-year composition course, Intermediate Writing: Research Writing in a Persuasive Mode. Voices of USU celebrates excellence in writing by providing undergraduate students of diverse backgrounds and disciplines the opportunity to have their work published.

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Introduction, D. J. Hopkins, Shelley Orr, Kim Solga Jan 2009

Introduction, D. J. Hopkins, Shelley Orr, Kim Solga

Department of English Publications

No abstract provided.

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Dress Suits To Hire And The Landscape Of Queer Urbanity, Kim Solga Jan 2009

Dress Suits To Hire And The Landscape Of Queer Urbanity, Kim Solga

Department of English Publications

No abstract provided.

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When Was Dracula First Translated Into Romanian?, Duncan Light Jan 2009

When Was Dracula First Translated Into Romanian?, Duncan Light

Journal of Dracula Studies

Dracula is one of the world’s best-known books. The novel has never been out of print since its publication and has been translated into about 30 languages (Melton). Yet, paradoxically, one of the countries where it is least known is Romania. The usual explanation given for this situation is Romania’s recent history, particularly the period of Communist Party rule (1947-1989). Dracula, with its emphasis on vampires and the supernatural, was apparently regarded as an unsuitable or inappropriate novel in a state founded on the materialist and “scientific” principles of Marxism. Hence, no translation of Stoker’s novel was permitted during the …

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Mother Dearest, Mother Deadliest: Object Relations Theory And The Trope Of Failed Motherhood In Dracula, Brigitte Boudreau Jan 2009

Mother Dearest, Mother Deadliest: Object Relations Theory And The Trope Of Failed Motherhood In Dracula, Brigitte Boudreau

Journal of Dracula Studies

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Vixens And Virgins In The Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Irish Novel: Representations Of The Feminine In Bram Stoker’S Dracula, Susan Parlour Jan 2009

Vixens And Virgins In The Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Irish Novel: Representations Of The Feminine In Bram Stoker’S Dracula, Susan Parlour

Journal of Dracula Studies

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Final Fantasy X And Video Game Narrative: Re-Imagining The Quest Story, Mark Ivan Host Jan 2009

Final Fantasy X And Video Game Narrative: Re-Imagining The Quest Story, Mark Ivan Host

ETD Archive

Traditional models used in examining narrative were built from the use of printed texts, the content of which is nothing more and nothing less than what appears on the page. Studying the narrative of video role-playing games such as Final Fantasy X with these models is problematic because of the interactive nature of the story. The element of choice in Final Fantasy X results in a narrative experience that differs with each playing. The game contains many recognizable elements of the myth as outlined by Joseph Campbell, but the model this model is inadequate for examining a narrative of this …

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Reading Masculinity In Virginia Woolf's The Waves, David Michael Mraz Jan 2009

Reading Masculinity In Virginia Woolf's The Waves, David Michael Mraz

ETD Archive

The Waves subtly subverts traditional notions of gender, and creates a space for divergent expressions of masculinity, specifically, the masculinity referred to in this paper relates to norms established in England during the Edwardian and Post World War I periods. In The Waves, the three male voices, Bernard, Neville and Louis, are introduced at school to a pro-imperialist vision of masculinity which is further reinforced through their relationship with the silent Percival. However, unlike Percival, the three male voice characters are either barred from the homosocial (Nevill and Louis) or are ambivalent to its production (Bernard). By employing masculinity theory …

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Chanus Return: The Reclamation Of Bengali Identity, Mamta Roy Jan 2009

Chanus Return: The Reclamation Of Bengali Identity, Mamta Roy

ETD Archive

Immigrant identity and acculturation has been a topic of significant debate in the twentieth century. Coming to the host nation, and getting integrated into the mainstream culture is a process which holds different meanings for different immigrants. On the one hand they leave the security of the homeland for an insecure future, on the other hand, the non-acceptance and discrimination of the host nation makes their integration a difficult process. Above all, they too want to live in the comfort zone of their homeland identity thus making integration impossibility. Going home syndrome and a deep rooted love for the motherland …

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Seeing Through The Glass: Psychoanalysis And J.D. Salinger, Noelle Marie Madore Jan 2009

Seeing Through The Glass: Psychoanalysis And J.D. Salinger, Noelle Marie Madore

ETD Archive

This thesis examines J.D. Salinger's Glass family dynamics through the application of psychoanalysis. Salinger told stories of the Glass family through various short story installments, such as Franny & Zooey, Nine Stories, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An introduction and other installments not found in collections. Through reviewing these works as well as various criticisms, it became evident that Seymour's influence was far more profound than originally anticipated. J.D. Salinger created Seymour with the idea of an individual who possesses spiritual omnipotence. Seymour took it upon himself to educate his siblings at young ages in order to …

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Genre And Gender In Charles Bukowski's Notes Of A Dirty Old Man, Kallisto J. Vimr Jan 2009

Genre And Gender In Charles Bukowski's Notes Of A Dirty Old Man, Kallisto J. Vimr

ETD Archive

Charles Bukowski's notes of a dirty old man is a genre-blurring, gender-blending "start" to the perpetual "work-in-progress" that constitutes his oeuvre. Bukowski's genre heterogeneity provides a literal shape-shifting that allows the Bukowski-character to experiment with his a fluid, indeterminate subjectivity, helping unravel the tight myth that binds him as a "dirty old man." Examining one of the vignettes in the book, the column recounting Bukowski meeting Neal Cassady, showcases Bukowski's engagement with autobiography and creative nonfiction in order to respond to constructions of verisimilitude this is inextricably linked to other organized constructions Bukowski must work in--or out from--namely the hierarchy …

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Young Ghosts, Michael Aeneas Crifasi Jan 2009

Young Ghosts, Michael Aeneas Crifasi

ETD Archive

Young Ghosts is a post-apocalyptic horror novel written in the style of literary fiction. The story is broken into three acts, the first of which constitutes the following thesis. A critical introduction, describing the influences, aesthetic, and future designs of the work, precede the creative portion. This narrative plays out in the third week of a world-altering epidemic and is set in the modern day. At the center of the epidemic is a disease, unknown in origin, which kills only children. The Piper is the name given to the mysterious epidemic, noting its similarity to the minstrel/child abductor of fairy …

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Rare Bird And Other Stories, Lisa J. Sharon Jan 2009

Rare Bird And Other Stories, Lisa J. Sharon

ETD Archive

This collection of short stories and one novella use voice and setting to explore individual characters dealing with internal conflict, or relationships between characters who are engaged in conflict with each other. Each story is intended to be a "portrait" with varying degrees of detail and nuance. For the most part, the "antagonists" in these stories are not another person so much as they are circumstances in which the main character finds herself and which creates a need to confront and perhaps change her situation. Characters either take decisive action, escape into delusion, or merely cope with things as they …

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