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Medical Celebrity In Eighteenth-Century Britain, Katherine Richards Jan 2018

Medical Celebrity In Eighteenth-Century Britain, Katherine Richards

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Medical Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Britain argues that the cultural mechanisms responsible for creating and sustaining celebrity culture helped create and sustain commercialized medicine in eighteenth-century Britain. I identify the process by which celebrity and medical culture impact one another as a sociocultural phenomenon that I term medical celebrity. The following chapters present four case studies of how medical celebrity impacted the development of the medical profession, the medical market, cultural representations and perceptions of health and illness, and the patient experience. I engage with the work done by scholars in contemporary and early celebrity studies to shed light on the …

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Showing One’S Manhood: The Social Performance Of Masculinity, Fayaz Kabani Jan 2018

Showing One’S Manhood: The Social Performance Of Masculinity, Fayaz Kabani

Theses and Dissertations

Contrary to much criticism of the past thirty years that regards Shakespeare’s Prince Hal as the epitome of unfettered Machiavellian subjectivity, Hal should be regarded as a teenaged male navigating the contradictory discourses of early modern masculinity in order to perform an integrated, consistent masculinity for his audience. His acceptance of hegemonic masculinity is complicated by his father Henry IV’s usurpation of the throne. The resulting ambivalence in Hal results in his participation in the countermasculine world of Eastcheap. However, once Hal “chooses” his role as Prince of Wales, he finds it difficult to sacrifice his personal self, or body …

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Twisting Reality For A Cause: American Mythology, Early Surrealism, And Audience Empowerment In The Works Of George Lippard, Joseph Samuel Hall Jan 2018

Twisting Reality For A Cause: American Mythology, Early Surrealism, And Audience Empowerment In The Works Of George Lippard, Joseph Samuel Hall

Theses and Dissertations

This article examines Philadelphia writer George Lippard's often-overlooked usage of literary conventions more typical outside of the genre he is most famous for, socialreform city fiction. In particular, the article focuses on Lippard’s vision of an American mythology, proto-surrealistic imagery, and demands for audience response and interaction. Various works are analyzed, most prominently: stories from Washington and His Generals, The Rose of the Wissahikon, Adonai: The Pilgrim of Eternity, and The Killers. The article concludes that Lippard values the artfulness of historical romance over presenting historical fact, recognizing the ability of the romance to instigate a greater collective response in …

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Writing With Risk: Dangerous Discourses And Event-Based Pedagogies, Ben Harley Jan 2018

Writing With Risk: Dangerous Discourses And Event-Based Pedagogies, Ben Harley

Theses and Dissertations

“Writing with Risk: Dangerous Discourses and Event-Based Pedagogies,” responds to the pedagogical work of scholars such as Susan Wells, Nancy Welch, and Linda Flower by arguing that the risks associated with public writing pedagogies stem from the transformative nature of the rhetorical event that implicates and rearticulates actors through co-production, subverting their assumed autonomy. I argue that each of the three primary vantages of publics scholarship is particularly vulnerable to a certain type of risk aligned to a specific element of the rhetorical situation: idealist scholarship to unintended consequences in which the meaning of the text transforms, activist scholarship to …

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Sir Walter Scott And Lady Anne Lindsay: New Light On Their Relationship, Sarah Flatt Jan 2018

Sir Walter Scott And Lady Anne Lindsay: New Light On Their Relationship, Sarah Flatt

Theses and Dissertations

While Sir Walter Scott is best known for his Waverly novels and Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, he also played an important role in helping lesser known writers publish their work. In particular, he was known for helping women writers. Scott’s relationship with Lady Anne Lindsay (later Barnard), however, is especially interesting. Lindsay is best known for her poem, “Auld Robin Gray.” There is far more to Sir Walter Scott’s relationship with Lady Anne Lindsay than first meets the eye. The two knew of each other through family and social connections, but they never met in person. They did, however, …

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Rhetoric And Plants, Alana Hatley Jan 2018

Rhetoric And Plants, Alana Hatley

Theses and Dissertations

Rhetoric and Plants asks what happens when we add plants to the various discussions currently developing within rhetorical theory. By taking up current botanical research and some of the rhetorical debates surrounding that research, I posit that plants are creatures and that the botanic engagement with the world has much to teach us about persuasion, communication, and encountering alterity. Specifically, I argue that the sessility of plants makes visible a tendency in our language to privilege the language of going elsewhere, which I term ambulocentrism. Further, the fact that plants engage in behaviors that we have previously thought only conscious …

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Why Can't They Let A Girl Marry One Man?: The Origins Of Lucy Westenra's Suitors, Leah Davydov Jan 2018

Why Can't They Let A Girl Marry One Man?: The Origins Of Lucy Westenra's Suitors, Leah Davydov

Journal of Dracula Studies

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Untangling Late-Victorian Anxieties: Hair Symbolism In Dracula, Nancy Rosenberg England Jan 2018

Untangling Late-Victorian Anxieties: Hair Symbolism In Dracula, Nancy Rosenberg England

Journal of Dracula Studies

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Medievalism In True Blood, Natalie Grinnell Jan 2018

Medievalism In True Blood, Natalie Grinnell

Journal of Dracula Studies

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Gender And The Apotropaic In Charles Keeping's Illustrations To Dracula, Alice Mills Jan 2018

Gender And The Apotropaic In Charles Keeping's Illustrations To Dracula, Alice Mills

Journal of Dracula Studies

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Anatomy Of The Victorian Vampire: Bodily Imaginings In Four Pre-Stoker Texts, Jane Kubiesa Jan 2018

Anatomy Of The Victorian Vampire: Bodily Imaginings In Four Pre-Stoker Texts, Jane Kubiesa

Journal of Dracula Studies

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Homonormativity And The Contemporary Vampire, Christine Prevas Jan 2018

Homonormativity And The Contemporary Vampire, Christine Prevas

Journal of Dracula Studies

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The Science Of Degeneration In Stoker’S Dracula And Wells’ The Island Of Dr. Moreau, Alessandra Albano Jan 2018

The Science Of Degeneration In Stoker’S Dracula And Wells’ The Island Of Dr. Moreau, Alessandra Albano

Journal of Dracula Studies

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A Topography Of Darkness: Isabel Allende’S “If You Touched My Heart,” The Gothic, And Disability, Laura Alexander Jan 2018

A Topography Of Darkness: Isabel Allende’S “If You Touched My Heart,” The Gothic, And Disability, Laura Alexander

Journal of Dracula Studies

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Beast(S) Of Burden: Animal Anxiety In Bram Stoker’S Dracula, Lindsey Kurz Jan 2018

Beast(S) Of Burden: Animal Anxiety In Bram Stoker’S Dracula, Lindsey Kurz

Journal of Dracula Studies

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"A Meruelous Thinge!": Elizabeth Of Spalbeek, Christina The Astonishing, And Performative Self-Abjection In Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ms Douce 114, Murrielle Michaud Jan 2018

"A Meruelous Thinge!": Elizabeth Of Spalbeek, Christina The Astonishing, And Performative Self-Abjection In Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ms Douce 114, Murrielle Michaud

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

Contributing to the spirited discussion regarding feminist and pro-feminine readings of Middle English hagiography, this dissertation challenges the tradition of grouping accounts of medieval holy women into a single genre that relies on stereotypes of meekness and obedience. I argue that fifteenth-century England saw a pro-feminine literary movement extolling the virtues of women who engaged in what I term “performative self-abjection,” a form of vicious self-renunciation and grotesque asceticism based on Julia Kristeva's model of the abject. The corollary of women's performative self-abjection is ex-gratia spiritual authority, public recognition, and independence, emphasized in the English corpus of fifteenth-century women’s hagiography. …

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Girls’ Voices Of The Eighteenth Century: The Development Of A Genre For Young Female Readers, 1740-1800, Sarah Rangaratnam Jan 2018

Girls’ Voices Of The Eighteenth Century: The Development Of A Genre For Young Female Readers, 1740-1800, Sarah Rangaratnam

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

Just as they do today, adolescent girls functioned as a cultural force in the eighteenth century, and it was commercially viable for authors and publishers to attract and sustain the attention of these teenaged readers. Girls’ Voices of the Eighteenth Century: The Development of a Genre for Young Female Readers, 1740-1800, examines how four female authors leveraged elements of fairy tales, romances and gothic fiction, and developed dialogue and humour in their texts, to reflect the interests and literary awareness of their target audience of adolescent girls. My study begins with an investigation of the legacy of early French fairy …

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Book Review - Cardinal Hill, Kelly Holt Jan 2018

Book Review - Cardinal Hill, Kelly Holt

Georgia Library Quarterly

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Why Katniss Everdeen Is Our Favorite Feminist – An Analysis Of The Heroine Of The Hunger Games Film Saga And Her Reception By Young Female Spectators, Paula Talero Álvarez Jan 2018

Why Katniss Everdeen Is Our Favorite Feminist – An Analysis Of The Heroine Of The Hunger Games Film Saga And Her Reception By Young Female Spectators, Paula Talero Álvarez

Theses and Dissertations

THROUGH THE FIGURE OF FICTIONAL CHARACTER KATNISS EVERDEEN, THIS DISSERTATION STUDIES HOW THE FILM INDUSTRY SIMULTANEOUSLY ENTRENCHES AND DISRUPTS GENDER, SEXUAL, AND RACIAL NORMATIVITIES. THE PROJECT USES TEXTUAL ANALYSIS AND PARTICIPANT RESEARCH TO ANALYZE HOW THE FILMS AND NOVELS OF THE HUNGER GAMES SAGA ENCAPSULATE BOTH DOMINANT AND ALTERNATIVE CONCEPTIONS RELATED TO FEMININITY, MASCULINITY, WOMANHOOD, AND MOTHERHOOD. IT ALSO EXPLORES IF AND HOW THE FEMALE HEROINE CAN BE READ AS FEMINIST AND PRODUCES A SENSE OF EMPOWERMENT. I CONCLUDE THAT ALTHOUGH THE INDUSTRY IS PRODUCING NEW MODELS OF WOMANHOOD THAT CHALLENGE TRADITIONAL GENDER ROLES, IT STILL PERPETUATES ROMANTIC IDEALS AND …

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การถ่ายทอดองค์ประกอบทางวัฒนธรรมในบทแปลเรื่องสั้น “อสรพิษ” ฉบับภาษาสเปน, ทินประภา กรดนิยมชัย Jan 2018

การถ่ายทอดองค์ประกอบทางวัฒนธรรมในบทแปลเรื่องสั้น “อสรพิษ” ฉบับภาษาสเปน, ทินประภา กรดนิยมชัย

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

วิทยานิพนธ์เล่มนี้มุ่งวิเคราะห์ศึกษาการแปลองค์ประกอบทางวัฒนธรรมไทยในเรื่องสั้น "อสรพิษ" ของแดนอรัญ แสงทองสู่ฉบับแปลภาษาสเปน ผลงานนี้นับเป็นความท้าทายอย่างยิ่งของผู้แปลที่ต้องถ่ายทอดเนื้อเรื่องที่สะท้อนวิถีชีวิตท้องถิ่นชนบทไทยสู่ภาษาของประเทศที่มีวัฒนธรรมแตกต่างจากไทยเป็นอย่างมาก อีกทั้ง ฉบับแปลนี้ไม่ได้แปลตรงจากต้นฉบับภาษาไทย แต่แปลผ่านต้นฉบับภาษาที่สองคือ ภาษาฝรั่งเศส การศึกษานี้ ผู้วิจัยเลือกองค์ประกอบทางวัฒนธรรมจากต้นฉบับไทย "อสรพิษ" (2545) ฉบับแปลภาษาฝรั่งเศส Venin (2544) และฉบับแปลภาษาสเปน Veneno (2545) รวม 83 ตัวอย่าง โดยแบ่งเป็นสี่หมวดหมู่ คือ ชื่อเฉพาะ มรดกทางวัฒนธรรม วัฒนธรรมทางสังคม และวัฒนธรรมทางภาษา และนำตัวอย่างเหล่านี้มาศึกษาเปรียบเทียบการถ่ายทอดความหมายและกลวิธีการแปล ผลการวิจัยพบว่ามีสองประเด็นที่สำคัญ ประการแรกคือ การถ่ายทอดองค์ประกอบทางวัฒนธรรมไทยสู่ภาษาฝรั่งเศสมาจากการผสมผสานกลวิธีการแปลหลากหลายเนื่องจากวัฒนธรรมไทยและฝรั่งเศสมีความแตกต่างกันอย่างมาก ในทางกลับกัน การแปลจากต้นฉบับภาษาฝรั่งเศสเป็นภาษาสเปนส่วนใหญ่เป็นการใช้กลวิธีการแปลตรงตัว เนื่องจากฝรั่งเศสและสเปนมีลักษณะโครงสร้างภาษาและวัฒนธรรมใกล้เคียงกัน ประการที่สองคือ มีหลายกรณีที่ฉบับแปลภาษาฝรั่งเศสมีอิทธิพลต่อการถ่ายทอดองค์ประกอบทางวัฒนธรรมสู่ฉบับแปลภาษาสเปน อย่างไรก็ตาม มีบางกรณีที่ไม่พบอิทธิพลดังกล่าวในฉบับแปลภาษาสเปน เนื่องจากผู้แปลใช้วิธีการอื่นมาเสริม ได้แก่ การเลือกสรรคำแปล และการตีความเพิ่มเติมจากบริบท

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Peak Oil After Hydrofracking, Gerry Canavan Jan 2018

Peak Oil After Hydrofracking, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Political Animals: Form And The Animal Fable In Langland’S Rodent Parliament And Chaucer’S Nun’S Priest’S Tale, Elizaveta Strakhov Jan 2018

Political Animals: Form And The Animal Fable In Langland’S Rodent Parliament And Chaucer’S Nun’S Priest’S Tale, Elizaveta Strakhov

English Faculty Research and Publications

Chaucer and Langland have generally been read independently of one another, in large part due to the profound formal differences of rhyme, metre, and lexical features within their poetry. However, a broader definition of form, that sees texts receiving their shape from an animating concept at their core, affords richer purchase on the potential convergences between the two poets. I take as my paradigmatic example of this phenomenon Chaucer’s and Langland’s mutual choice to couch their rare topical references in retellings of well-known animal fables (Langland’s Rodent Parliament and Chaucer’s Nun’s Priest’s Tale). Animal fables, I argue, are governed by …

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Utopia, Gerry Canavan Jan 2018

Utopia, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Stichomythia, Tyler Farrell Jan 2018

Stichomythia, Tyler Farrell

English Faculty Research and Publications

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The Relationship Between Attitudes Toward The Test Of English For International Communication (Toeic) And Scores Of Thai Test Takers, Danai Wongsa Jan 2018

The Relationship Between Attitudes Toward The Test Of English For International Communication (Toeic) And Scores Of Thai Test Takers, Danai Wongsa

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Attitudes have played a pivotal role affecting not only English language learning but also language test performance. There have been some studies exhibiting that students' attitudes in English language learning were significantly related to their English test proficiency and their scores. The objectives of this study were to examine Thai test takers' attitudes toward the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC) and explored the relationship between Thai test takers' attitudes toward the TOEIC and their scores. This study used quantitative and qualitative methods to collect and analyze the data under the research framework adapted from the ABC model of …

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Improving Efl Undergraduate Students’ English Speaking Skill Through Dynamic Assessment, Prathana Siwathaworn Jan 2018

Improving Efl Undergraduate Students’ English Speaking Skill Through Dynamic Assessment, Prathana Siwathaworn

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This study focuses on the application of dynamic assessment (DA) for pedagogical purposes. It is aimed at investigating how the students' English speaking skill could be improved through DA, which is grounded in Vygotsky's zone of proximal development (ZPD). The objectives of this study were (1) to investigate to what extent DA assists EFL undergraduate students to improve their English speaking skill, (2) to explore the students' perceived self-efficacy in their English speaking skill through DA, and (3) to examine the students' attitudes toward DA. The participants of the study were 10 university students who studied in an EFL classroom …

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Performance-Based Assessment On Dispensing Drugs In English Of Thai Pharmacy Students., Sasithorn Limgomolvilas Jan 2018

Performance-Based Assessment On Dispensing Drugs In English Of Thai Pharmacy Students., Sasithorn Limgomolvilas

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

The objectives of this study were: 1) to create and validate the tasks for measuring English oral proficiency in dispensing drugs of Thai pharmacy students, 2) to create and validate the rubric for measuring English oral proficiency in dispensing drugs of Thai pharmacy students, and 3) to establish the extent of this dispensing task's test-usefulness. The participants of this study are 2 informant specialists, 6 language instructors, 144 fifth-year pharmaceutical students of a university in Bangkok and 21 pharmacist experts. The research instruments are semi-structure interview with pharmacy students, a questionnaire for pharmacy students and pharmacy experts, and questions for …

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The Development Of Vocabulary Learning Model Based On The Cognitive Theory Of Multimedia Learning, Nopthira Jawa-Ut Jan 2018

The Development Of Vocabulary Learning Model Based On The Cognitive Theory Of Multimedia Learning, Nopthira Jawa-Ut

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

In learning a language, vocabulary is one of the most significant factors, lying as a solid basis for learners; however, the complex system of human's cognitive processing works under many constraints. Therefore this research incorporated the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning and vocabulary learning together so as to promote better and deeper understanding. Mix Methods were used for the research conduct. The purposes were to (1) develop Vocabulary Learning Model based on Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning (VCML), (2) investigate the effects of VCML on the learners' vocabulary achievement, (3) investigate the effects of VCML on the learners' vocabulary retention, …

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Reclaiming Stolen Voices : An Indigenous, Region-Based Reading Of Leslie Marmon Silko’S Ceremony, Patricia Grace’S Potiki And Kiana Davenport’S Shark Dialogues, Krittaporn Reungwattanakul Jan 2018

Reclaiming Stolen Voices : An Indigenous, Region-Based Reading Of Leslie Marmon Silko’S Ceremony, Patricia Grace’S Potiki And Kiana Davenport’S Shark Dialogues, Krittaporn Reungwattanakul

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This thesis aims to examine how contemporary indigenous writers reclaim their self-definition through the born-within, region-based perspectives in three novels: Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony (1977), Patricia Grace' Potiki (1986), and Kiana Davenport's Shark Dialogues (1998). It propounds that the three novels employ indigenous myths, knowledge, and epistemologies to present their modern indigenous culture, history and identity as distinct from mainstream Western stereotypical perceptions. These writers also suggest the necessity for hybridization of traditional culture in order for indigenous cultures to survive when it comes into contact with the global community. The three selected literary texts present integral roles of nature …

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An Investigation Of Beliefs And Classroom Asssessment Practices Of English Teachers In Primary Schools In Thailand, Arthitaya Narathakoon Jan 2018

An Investigation Of Beliefs And Classroom Asssessment Practices Of English Teachers In Primary Schools In Thailand, Arthitaya Narathakoon

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

The purpose of the present study is to investigate 1) the teachers' beliefs about classroom assessment in English classes, 2) their actual classroom practices, and 3) the extent to which their beliefs are congruent with their actual assessment practices. The participants were grade-6 English teachers in a school district from the northeastern part of Thailand. The study was conducted using a mix-methods approach. There were two phases. Phase 1 involved the administration of a questionnaire to 97 teachers. It aimed to gather data on the classroom assessment beliefs and practices of teachers in Thai primary schools. Phase 2 was comprised …

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