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The Power Of Society In The Red Badge Of Courage, Hmoud Alotaibi Jan 2009

The Power Of Society In The Red Badge Of Courage, Hmoud Alotaibi

ETD Archive

Stephen Crane's work the Red badge of courage has often been cited by literary critics as an example of the author's philosophy. The main debate around this philosophy often surrounds the question of Crane's naturalism. Critics not only argue over the individual beliefs that make up Crane's supposedly naturalistic philosophy, but many also argue simply over whether or not he is a naturalist. In this thesis, we step away from the back-and-forth argument that deals only with Crane's fitment into the general label of "naturalist." Rather, we look at aspects that connect Crane to traditional understandings of naturalism - such …

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On The Brink Of The Waters Of Life And Truth, We Are Miserably Dying: Ralph Waldo Emerson As A Predecessor To Deconstruction And Postmodernism, Michael A. Deery Jan 2009

On The Brink Of The Waters Of Life And Truth, We Are Miserably Dying: Ralph Waldo Emerson As A Predecessor To Deconstruction And Postmodernism, Michael A. Deery

ETD Archive

Between his pivotal essays "Nature" in 1836 and "The Poet" in 1844, Ralph Waldo Emerson's increasingly negative and distrustful view of language can best be described as a precursor to deconstruction and postmodernism. Contemporary critics are too quick to dismiss a deconstructionist Emerson. There is evidence within his major essays that Emerson's understanding of language not only leads him to public and private displays of pessimism, but also to feelings of internal solipsism, agnosticism, and epistemological anxiety. Emerson demanded that mankind should utilize nature and aesthetics to experience the sublime and an immediate and original relationship with God. Yet, Emerson's …

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Moral Lessons For Muggles: Aristotelian Virtue And Friendship In J.K. Rowling’S Harry Potter Series, Laurie Delaney Jan 2009

Moral Lessons For Muggles: Aristotelian Virtue And Friendship In J.K. Rowling’S Harry Potter Series, Laurie Delaney

Undergraduate Review

The appeal of the Harry Potter series for adults is often attributed to its ability to speak to fundamental questions of human existence. Here, Edmund Kern finds a Stoic moral teaching as Harry employs his reason to balance his desires against the demands of the world. The problem with this argument is that it misses the centrality of friendship to Rowling’s account of virtue which suggests that Rowling’s theory of virtue is properly understood in Aristotelian terms. Pursuing the question of the manner and extent to which the Harry Potter series provides an Aristotelian account of virtue, my analysis begins …

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Using Blogs To Engage Students In Meaningful Thinking And Discussion, Jon Ostenson Jan 2009

Using Blogs To Engage Students In Meaningful Thinking And Discussion, Jon Ostenson

The Utah English Journal

As an English teacher, I want my students to engage in meaningful thinking about the issues in the literature we explore. Discussion is a valuable way to encourage this engagement, especially as I push discussions beyond the teacher-led, traditional IRE (teacher initiation, student response, teacher evaluation) format (Cazden, 2001). As I try to encourage discussions where students ask more of the questions and listen and respond to—and even critique—each other’s ideas, I believe that we come closer to achieving more meaningful thinking. However, I still find classroom discussions to be one of the more challenging aspects of my job.

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Once Was Lost, Or Turtles All The Way Down, Evan Gribbins Jan 2009

Once Was Lost, Or Turtles All The Way Down, Evan Gribbins

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

These are seven stories set in the rural, Central Kentucky Town of Lebanon. These stories, besides the intermission, may or may not chronicle the life of one young man. They revolve around the young man’s life and friends during his time living in the area and his sense of loss upon his return.

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"The Stance Of A Last Survivor": C. S. Lewis And The Modern World (Chapter One Of The Rhetoric Of Certitude), Gary L. Tandy Jan 2009

"The Stance Of A Last Survivor": C. S. Lewis And The Modern World (Chapter One Of The Rhetoric Of Certitude), Gary L. Tandy

Faculty Publications - Department of English

Excerpt: "As professor and scholar of medieval and Renaissance literature, C. S. Lewis wrote and published well-respected and influential literary criticism. At the same time, following his conversion to Christianity around 1930, he felt a duty to apply his argumentative and philosophical skills to the writing of Christian apologetics-defenses of traditional Christian principles against the attacks of skeptics and religious liberals. More important, Lewis lived in an age largely hostile to his attitudes and thought, both in literature and Christianity. In a period that s.aw such startling literary productions as The Waste Land and Ulysses, Lewis chose to defend traditional …

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The Visual Experience Of Image Metaphor: Cognitive Insights Into Imagist Figures, Daniel W. Gleason Jan 2009

The Visual Experience Of Image Metaphor: Cognitive Insights Into Imagist Figures, Daniel W. Gleason

Faculty Publications & Research

In this essay I investigate how image metaphors – metaphors that link one concrete object to another, such as “her spread hand was a starfish” – promote visualization in the reader. Focusing on image metaphors in Imagist poetry, I assert that the two terms (e.g., the hand and the starfish) of many of these metaphors are similar in shape, and that this “structural correspondence” encourages the reader to visualize those metaphors. Readers may spontaneously form a “visual template,” a schematic middle ground that mediates between those similar shapes, in order to smoothly move between the two images within each metaphor. …

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Full Issue Jan 2009

Full Issue

The Utah English Journal

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Remasculating The Emasculated: Railroad As The Means Of Regaining Chinese Man's Masculinity In Frank Chin's "Railroad Standard Time" And "The Eat And Run Midnight People", Sabiha Sorgun Jan 2009

Remasculating The Emasculated: Railroad As The Means Of Regaining Chinese Man's Masculinity In Frank Chin's "Railroad Standard Time" And "The Eat And Run Midnight People", Sabiha Sorgun

Short Story

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The Fidelity Of The Fruit: A Psychology Of Adam’S Fall In Milton’S Paradise Lost, Bradford Vezina Jan 2009

The Fidelity Of The Fruit: A Psychology Of Adam’S Fall In Milton’S Paradise Lost, Bradford Vezina

Undergraduate Review

The passage above provides an apt image, with all its symbolic overtones, of Adam’s reaction to Eve’s mortal transgression—that is, her eating from the Forbidden Tree. The circular nature of the garland signifies perfection and permanence; the roses convey the delicacy, vitality, and bloom of life. The garland not only represents the perfection of a paradisal world, but the union between Adam and Eve. But Eve’s careless and wanton act shatters such a union. This leaves Adam with a choice: to eat the fruit thereby upholding his bond with and love for Eve (an act in defiance of God), or …

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Rear Window, Juliana Gray Jan 2009

Rear Window, Juliana Gray

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 34

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Bill Moore Removes Leeches From My Legs After I Ignore His Advice And Walk My Kayak Ashore Through Leaf Cover, Carrie Jerrell Jan 2009

Bill Moore Removes Leeches From My Legs After I Ignore His Advice And Walk My Kayak Ashore Through Leaf Cover, Carrie Jerrell

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 18

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Swashbuckler, Andrew Hudgins Jan 2009

Swashbuckler, Andrew Hudgins

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 31

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North By Northwest, Juliana Gray Jan 2009

North By Northwest, Juliana Gray

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 35

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Waiting For The Reservations Window To Open, Richard Pierce Jan 2009

Waiting For The Reservations Window To Open, Richard Pierce

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 40

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Bullets In The Jewelry Box, Amy Riddell Jan 2009

Bullets In The Jewelry Box, Amy Riddell

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 43-44

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Speaking Through The Silence: Voice In The Poetry Of Selected Native American Women Poets, D'Juana Ann Montgomery Jan 2009

Speaking Through The Silence: Voice In The Poetry Of Selected Native American Women Poets, D'Juana Ann Montgomery

English Dissertations - Archive

The issue of voice in Native American poetry is vital to understanding the culture and traditions of past and present-day Native American people. The voice of Native American women poets/writers has emerged as a strong force; one that has attempted to remain connected to its ancestral heritage while connecting with modern and post-modern culture. The Native American women poets selected for this study include Leslie Marmon Silko, Luci Tapahonso, Joy Harjo, Linda Hogan, and Wendy Rose. These Native American women poets not only raise concerns particular to their Native American culture, but their voices also address issues of importance and …

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Maternal Bodies, Ojibwe Histories And Materiality In The Novels And Memoirs Of Louise Erdrich, Jodi Bain Mccormack Jan 2009

Maternal Bodies, Ojibwe Histories And Materiality In The Novels And Memoirs Of Louise Erdrich, Jodi Bain Mccormack

English Theses - Archive

This thesis examines uterine metaphors and birthing scenes in the novels and memoirs of Louise Erdrich. Specifically, it examines convergences between these images and material feminisms, as well as Ojibwe spirituality and ontology. Within these images and metaphors, Erdrich critiques personal, family and gender boundaries and also the nature/culture divide and even ideas which separate birth and death. It begins with actual birthing scenes in her texts, then moves to metaphors and similes which birth or maternity is implied. This thesis uses feminist theories by Alaimo, Harraway, Hekman and Irigaray and also science study scholars like Bruno Latour and Andrew …

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A Multi-Functional Essay Prompt For State Mandated Assessments, Allen Anthony Glick Jan 2009

A Multi-Functional Essay Prompt For State Mandated Assessments, Allen Anthony Glick

English Theses - Archive

A State-mandated assessment of high school English composition skills can be a trying experience for sophomore basic writers. Because students must construct a text-supported argument around the State's choice of theme, it is of the utmost importance that the assessors present for thematic considerations a properly identified subject that is universally accessible to all sophomores. Through the analysis of an essay prompt used in a benchmark exam from the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills--a sentence in which I discern both ambiguity and inaccessibility--this thesis hopefully sheds light on considerations that should be made in the construction of an effective …

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At Play In Her Clearing: Centering The Personal Experience Of Disability Within Irigarayan Philsophy, Katherine Elaine Wallis Jan 2009

At Play In Her Clearing: Centering The Personal Experience Of Disability Within Irigarayan Philsophy, Katherine Elaine Wallis

English Theses - Archive

From a theoretical perspective, the disabled woman can be seen as `doubly othered' within patriarchal culture. Because the disabled woman faces this dual otherness, she is barred from both masculine language and able-bodied culture. By looking at the memoirs of three women who became disabled in adulthood: Nancy Mairs', Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled, Simi Linton's My Body Politic, and finally Janet Price and Margrit Shildrick's critical article "Bodies Together: Touch, Ethics and Disability," I will ask the question: How can the disabled woman gain a new sense of embodiment and move beyond the able/disabled binary? …

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Notes On The State Of Virginia And The Jeffersonian West., Thomas Hallock Jan 2009

Notes On The State Of Virginia And The Jeffersonian West., Thomas Hallock

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

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Celebrity And The Spectacle Of Nation, Jason N. Goldsmith Jan 2009

Celebrity And The Spectacle Of Nation, Jason N. Goldsmith

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

A decidedly promiscuous brand of renown, celebrity has a bad reputation. That reputation was characterised by Daniel Boorstin, who coined what has become a near-axiomatic definition of the celebrity as 'a person who is known for his well-knowness'.1The tautological bent of Boorstin's definition seems to suggest the meretricious nature of celebrities, famous not because they have done anything to merit acclaim, but because their images have been widely publicised and promoted. According to this logic, celebrities are superficial personalities, bold-faced names, air-brushed faces; they are slick images manufactured for the moment. Celebrities signify all that is shallow about …

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Junk-Yard Ride, Marshall W. Gregory Jan 2009

Junk-Yard Ride, Marshall W. Gregory

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

This paper describes the difficulties of being born into an emotionally and intellectually dysfunctional family headed by two child-parents who had neither the skill nor interest nor desire to be thoughtful parents, and who were saddled with all the intellectual and emotional baggage of fundamentalist protestantism that they passed on to their children, forcing the author of the essay to untangle many personal knots of confusion and pain on his path toward autonomy and peace.

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In Bucharest, As Evening Falls, Bogdan Suceavă, Valentina-Monica Barba, Ehren Schimmel Jan 2009

In Bucharest, As Evening Falls, Bogdan Suceavă, Valentina-Monica Barba, Ehren Schimmel

Short Story

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Review Of The Global Village, Ronny Noor Jan 2009

Review Of The Global Village, Ronny Noor

Short Story

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Death In Paradise Lost, Luke Tesdal Jan 2009

Death In Paradise Lost, Luke Tesdal

English Theses - Archive

This thesis is an examination of the role that death plays in Paradise Lost. I argue that Milton's conception of death is a unified presentation of a complex but singular theological idea. My analysis examines the ways in which Milton's construction of death interacts with the traditions and interpretations of his contemporaries and with the theological views he explains in De Doctrina Christiana. Essential to my analysis is the connection between the monstrous form that Death takes in his physical appearances and the comforting promise that redemption offers by the end of the epic. These two representations are often viewed …

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Playing In The Prose: Writing Instruction And Underprepared Student-Athletes In Division I-A Universities, Billie S. Hara Jan 2009

Playing In The Prose: Writing Instruction And Underprepared Student-Athletes In Division I-A Universities, Billie S. Hara

English Dissertations - Archive

Playing in the Prose: Writing Instruction and Underprepared Student-Athletes in Division I-A Universities, is a study that contributes to the continuedinterest in the pedagogical tools educators can use with underprepared writers.Student-athletes, especially those at a Division I-A institution are a specializedstudent group particularly when enrolled at a predominantly white institution andparticularly when they are academically underprepared to do the work required ofthem. Drawing from critical and feminist pedagogues Paulo Freire, Ira Shor, HenryGiroux, and Peter MacLaren, along with bell hooks, Susan Jarratt and LynnWorsham, I argue that a feminist version of critical pedagogy, relational pedagogy,envisions a composition classroom as a …

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What's So Funny? Letters As Comedic Devices In Shakespeare's Twelfth Night And Love's Labor's Lost, Pamela Tracy Jan 2009

What's So Funny? Letters As Comedic Devices In Shakespeare's Twelfth Night And Love's Labor's Lost, Pamela Tracy

English Theses - Archive

While letters and writing appear in many of Shakespeare's plays, his comedies Twelfth Night and Love's Labor's Lost use letter-writing uniquely, as a medium of linguistic-stylistic humor to attack Elizabethan anxieties and procure laughter from his audience. Maria's forged letter to Malvolio is commonly regarded as the humorous center of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, as the cleverly penned epistle leads its recipient to act in a ridiculous manner; in Love's Labor's Lost letters often lead to comic results, especially as the king and his men, who have taken a vow to avoid women, unwittingly reveal to each other that they have …

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“Not Half So Handsome As Jane”: Sisters, Brothers, And Beauty In The Novels Of Jane Austen, Stephanie M. Eddleman Jan 2009

“Not Half So Handsome As Jane”: Sisters, Brothers, And Beauty In The Novels Of Jane Austen, Stephanie M. Eddleman

Faculty Research and Publications

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Front Matter - Table Of Contents - Preface Jan 2009

Front Matter - Table Of Contents - Preface

Short Story

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