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Othello As A Political Commentary On "The Myth Of Venice", Alejandro Tamayo
Othello As A Political Commentary On "The Myth Of Venice", Alejandro Tamayo
Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations
The premise of this essay is that the ascension of James VI of Scotland to the throne of England in 1603 motivated Shakespeare to give Othello -- performed for the king in 1604-- a setting, topicality, and an embedded political commentary that suited the political ideas and personal interests of the new monarch. After an overview of the possible sources of the play, this essay also reviews some of James's political writings, where he expresses his absolutist philosophy. Although some commentators believe there is a pro-republican subtext in Othello, this essay argues the opposite. It posits that by adding the …
Bibliography, Jane Fife
Bibliography, Jane Fife
Faculty/Staff Personal Papers
Bibliography of publications by Jane Fife.
Wayfinding, Kalani N. Padilla
Wayfinding, Kalani N. Padilla
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
No abstract provided.
Haunted Forms: Intermediality, Trauma, And Literary Memory, Gabriella Graceffo
Haunted Forms: Intermediality, Trauma, And Literary Memory, Gabriella Graceffo
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
This thesis considers contemporary literature’s use of intermediality as a method to heighten the affective embodiment of PTSD symptoms represented in text. Using the meaning-making structures of photography and film, the analysis examines how the writing of Georges Bataille, Annie Ernaux, Michael Ondaatje, and Bhanu Kapil use formal implicit reference—the type of intermediality in which the characteristics and semiotics of one medium are translated to another without direct reproduction—to represent both traumatic experiences themselves and the symptom domains of PTSD. Caroline Levine’s work on affordance theory from Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network provides a theoretical foundation as to how the …
Make A Foreigner Of Yourself: An Analysis Of The Dueling Critical Utopias Of The Dispossessed And Trouble On Triton, Anthony Michael Lowe
Make A Foreigner Of Yourself: An Analysis Of The Dueling Critical Utopias Of The Dispossessed And Trouble On Triton, Anthony Michael Lowe
Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects
The purpose of this project is to analyze the critical utopias of two sci-fi novels: The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (1974) by Ursula K. Le Guin and Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia (1976) by Samuel R. Delany. Both novels were published within two years of each other, with Delany rewriting his novel to intentionally put it into direct dialogue with Le Guin’s. This project will attempt to establish the landscape of utopian fiction, draw out this dialogue between these two grandmasters of the science fiction genre, and answer this question: “As a result of Delany positioning his novel in …
A Black Prometheus Among The Gods: Illuminating African American Literary Tradition In Sam Greenlee's The Spook Who Sat By The Door, Kenneth L. Rainey Iii
A Black Prometheus Among The Gods: Illuminating African American Literary Tradition In Sam Greenlee's The Spook Who Sat By The Door, Kenneth L. Rainey Iii
Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects
In his hard-hitting novel The Spook Who Sat by the Door Sam Greenlee aims to help his target African American audience to succeed and thrive as their true selves with the novel functioning as a guide to resisting the ever-present physical and spiritual threat faced daily. On the one hand the novel functions as a manual for civil uprising, but underneath that surface, Greenlee argues that true African American resistance comes through nurturing self-determination, self-love, and self-esteem. This project also argues that Spook ought to be located closer to the center of the African American literary canon and provides comparisons …
Rather Than To Seem: Black And Indigenous Narratives In A Stormy, Swampy South, Jennifer Denise Peedin
Rather Than To Seem: Black And Indigenous Narratives In A Stormy, Swampy South, Jennifer Denise Peedin
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
I examine the narratives of the South that have been historically overlooked, ignored, or hidden in order to establish a dominant narrative of the region. The narratives examined here are by southern Black and Indigenous authors who restore lost knowledge and offer histories that help complete the South culturally and ecologically. The conceptual methodology develops from LeAnne Howe’s tribalography which explains that Indigenous people create stories and histories that transform the space around them and offer an understanding of the world around us. Another methodology used is Anthony Wilson’s ecocritical swamp studies; each chapter analyzes a narrative centered around a …
Queer(Ly) Lingering In Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Emily Datskou
Queer(Ly) Lingering In Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Emily Datskou
Dissertations
This dissertation is a critical critique of Queer Theory as an academic field. It argues that queer theory’s establishment as an academic discipline and as a periodizing and historicizing force through the bibliographies that make up its canon has upheld and supported the very normative models of temporality and progression that the field claims to resist. As a result, I argue, queer theory has focused most heavily on modernism and the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and has positioned the nineteenth century as the precursor to the queer strategies and representations that we see more fully fleshed out in the twentieth …
Takamiya Ms 23, Its Exemplar, And The Editio Princeps Of Piers Plowman, Ian Cornelius, J. Eric Ensley
Takamiya Ms 23, Its Exemplar, And The Editio Princeps Of Piers Plowman, Ian Cornelius, J. Eric Ensley
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
New Haven, Beinecke Library, MS Takamiya 23 is a mid sixteenth-century copy of the B Version of Piers Plowman, distinguished by pervasive linguistic modernization. The manuscript derives from a source very similar to that used by Robert Crowley for the editio princeps, a textual affiliation that remains unexplained. In their critical edition, George Kane and E. Talbot Donaldson collated Takamiya 23 in full but did not print its unique variant readings and the manuscript has not figured in recent textual scholarship on Piers Plowman. This neglect has led to some conclusions that should be revisited, particularly regarding …
รูปแบบภาษาแสดงอัตลักษณ์: กรณีภาษากะเทยที่ปรากฏในสื่อหนังสือการ์ตูนญี่ปุ่น, ทศวรรษ ตันชัยสวัสดิ์
รูปแบบภาษาแสดงอัตลักษณ์: กรณีภาษากะเทยที่ปรากฏในสื่อหนังสือการ์ตูนญี่ปุ่น, ทศวรรษ ตันชัยสวัสดิ์
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
สารนิพนธ์ฉบับนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาภาษากะเทย (おネエことば) ที่ปรากฏในสื่อหนังสือการ์ตูนญี่ปุ่นหรือ “มังงะ” และรวบรวมทำเป็นฐานข้อมูล ผู้วิจัยศึกษาภาษากะเทยจากมังงะที่มีตัวละครกะเทยปรากฏและพูดด้วยภาษากะเทยจำนวน 48 ตัวละคร รวมจำนวนประโยคตัวอย่างทั้งหมด 886 ตัวอย่าง มาทำการวิเคราะห์การแสดงอัตลักษณ์โดยวิเคราะห์ใน 4 ประเด็นดังนี้ 1) การใช้สรรพนามของตัวละคร 2) ส่วนลงท้ายประโยค 3) คำไพเราะ (美化語) 4) คำศัพท์ที่แสดงความเป็นภาษากะเทย และเสริมประเด็นการวิเคราะห์อื่นที่ตัวผู้วิจัยสนใจอีก 2 ประเด็นได้แก่ 1) การใช้สัญลักษณ์ เครื่องหมายวรรคตอน และอีโมจิ 2) รูปเขียนฮิรางานะ คาตากานะ และคันจิ นอกจากนี้ก็ยังสอดแทรกการเปรียบเทียบความแตกต่างของการแสดงอัตลักษณ์โดยแยกประเภทมังงะตามกลุ่มผู้อ่านของเรื่องผลการวิจัยพบว่า โดยภาพรวมภาษากะเทยในภาษาญี่ปุ่นเป็นภาษาที่ใช้ภาษาผู้หญิงเป็นพื้นฐานแล้วเพิ่มเติมลักษณะพิเศษบางอย่างลงไปทำให้เกิดความแตกต่างจากภาษาผู้หญิงทั่วไป การแสดงอัตลักษณ์มีความโน้มเอียงไปทางภาษาผู้หญิงเป็นส่วนใหญ่ จึงนำเสนอความเป็นผู้หญิงผ่านสรรพนาม ส่วนลงท้ายประโยค คำไพเราะ คำศัพท์ การใช้สัญลักษณ์ เครื่องหมายวรรคตอนและอีโมจิ อย่างไรก็ตามก็มีการแฝงความแข็งกร้าวโน้มเอียงไปทางผู้ชายในรูปแบบภาษาเหล่านี้ด้วย ทั้งนี้ ในกรณีรูปเขียนค้นพบว่ามีความโน้มเอียงไปทางผู้ชายผ่านการใช้คาตากานะและคันจิ ทำให้ภาษากะเทยมีลักษณะการแสดงอัตลักษณ์ที่อยู่กึ่งกลางระหว่างสองเพศ สำหรับการศึกษาความแตกต่างแยกตามกลุ่มผู้อ่านของเรื่องพบว่าภาษากะเทยในมังงะเด็กผู้ชายและมังงะเด็กผู้หญิงไม่ค่อยมีความแตกต่างกัน ซึ่งแสดงให้เห็นถึงการแสดงอัตลักษณ์ของภาษากะเทยที่มีแบบแผนที่ชัดเจน ไม่เปลี่ยนแปลงไปตามเพศของผู้อ่าน
The Effect Of Peer Assessment And Non-Scripted Role-Play Activities On Efl High School Students’ Oral Performance And Motivation, Cheng-Chun Tsai
The Effect Of Peer Assessment And Non-Scripted Role-Play Activities On Efl High School Students’ Oral Performance And Motivation, Cheng-Chun Tsai
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
The present study focused on investigating the effectiveness of integrating peer assessment (PA) and non-scripted role-play (NSRP) activities on the oral performance and motivation of Thai EFL high school students. Recognizing the importance of developing effective English language communication skills, the research was situated within the context of a public secondary school in Bangkok, targeting Grade 12 students. The study employed a mixed methods approach, utilizing both quantitative and qualitative data collection methods, and centered its course development and NSRP activities on “Research Methods and Presentation Skills”. The nine-week implementation involved pre- and post-speaking tests, training sessions, a speaking rubric, …
Review Of John Lydgate, "The Dance Of Death", And Its Model, The French "Danse Macabre", Elizaveta Strakhov
Review Of John Lydgate, "The Dance Of Death", And Its Model, The French "Danse Macabre", Elizaveta Strakhov
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Planets, Gerry Canavan
Planets, Gerry Canavan
English Faculty Research and Publications
This chapter considers the contested place of “the planet” in literary history, focusing on post-Copernican visions of the planets as spaces of possible human habitation. Fantasies about human colonization of outer space have an important place in the politics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, a time when it becomes simultaneously understood both as a major spending priority of the US military-industrial complex and as the quasi-theological “destiny” of the human race. The conclusion of the chapter takes up a different sort of planetarity: the global cosmopolitan vision of the contemporary ecological movement, which seeks to understand the Earth as …
An Investigation Into The Substitutions Of English Articles By L1 Chinese Learners, Yuhan Huang
An Investigation Into The Substitutions Of English Articles By L1 Chinese Learners, Yuhan Huang
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
The English article system is a challenge for English second language learners, especially for learners whose language background is an articleless language. The objectives of the present study were to investigate L1 Chinese learners' problems of English article substitutions and find out possible causes of L1 Chinese learners' English article substitutions. It was hypothesized that L1 Chinese learners had problems of English article substitutions and that, based on Error Analysis, both non-existence of articles and complexity of the English article system caused English article substitutions by L1 Chinese learners. The participants in the study consisted of 60 speakers of Mandarin …
The Investigation Of Using Dynamic Assessment To Enhance English Academic Vocabulary Knowledge Of Thai Low Proficiency Undergraduate Students, Duangkamon Klungthong
The Investigation Of Using Dynamic Assessment To Enhance English Academic Vocabulary Knowledge Of Thai Low Proficiency Undergraduate Students, Duangkamon Klungthong
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
Students in university settings require English academic vocabulary to succeed in academic English (Phoocharoensil, 2015). Vocabulary learning strategies (VLS) are tools to help learners acquire and improve vocabulary knowledge (Nation, 2001), and an examination of the dynamic nature of employing VLS should be conducted (Gu, 2020). Dynamic assessment (DA) is an alternative assessment that consistently and systematically combines assessment and instruction to help learners reach their zone of proximal development (ZPD) by using mediation from more competent others (Lantolf & Poehner, 2004). Thus, this study used DA to equip learners with VLS to learn academic vocabulary. The study aimed to …
The Effects Of Speaking Portfolios On Speaking Ability And Interactional Competence Of Thai Efl Undergraduate Students, Pirada Anuwech
The Effects Of Speaking Portfolios On Speaking Ability And Interactional Competence Of Thai Efl Undergraduate Students, Pirada Anuwech
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
Interactional competence has been in the lime light of L2 instruction and assessment over the recent decades as well as the use of portfolio assessment in language classrooms to provide students with opportunities to monitor their own progress as well as enhancing their language skills. This present study was thus conducted to examine the effects of using speaking portfolios on speaking ability and interactional competence of Thai EFL undergraduate students in order to serve three major objectives as follows: 1) to examine the effects of using speaking portfolios on students’ speaking ability ; 2) to examine the effects of using …
An Interlanguage Study Of Metalinguistic Knowledge On English Tenses As Related To Time And Aspect In Thai University Students, Anshakan Eiamtong-In
An Interlanguage Study Of Metalinguistic Knowledge On English Tenses As Related To Time And Aspect In Thai University Students, Anshakan Eiamtong-In
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
This study aimed to analyze the usage of the English Present and Past Tenses among the Thai EFL learners and the native English speakers, focusing primarily on the Present Simple, the Present Progressive, the Present Perfect, the Present Perfect Progressive, the Past Simple, the Past Progressive, the Past Perfect, and the Past Perfect Progressive. Language users perceive situations differently, leading to variations in tense usage (Smith, 1991). The answers on the selection of tenses from the participants that deviated from the theoretical expectations might not always indicate errors. Therefore, the study also explored the participants’ metalinguistic knowledge or the reasons …
The Effects Of Computerized Dynamic Reading Assessment On English Reading Comprehension Of Thai Efl Undergraduate Students, Chansak Siengyen
The Effects Of Computerized Dynamic Reading Assessment On English Reading Comprehension Of Thai Efl Undergraduate Students, Chansak Siengyen
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
A computerized-dynamic assessment (C-DA) test differs from a traditional standardized test in that it diagnoses learners’ fully developed and emerging abilities, provides graduated prompts for challenging items, measures the level of mediation required, and reports a learner profile detailing independent and mediated performance across language constructs (Ebadi & Saeedian, 2015; Pishghadam & Barabadi, 2012; Poehner et al., 2015; Teo, 2012). The objectives of this study were (1) to investigate the effects of the computerized dynamic reading assessment (CDRA) program on English reading comprehension of Thai EFL undergraduate students, (2) to examine the effects of the CDRA program on Thai EFL …
A Comparative Study Of Beliefs, Attitudes, And Motivation Toward English Language Learning Among Thai And Chinese Undergraduates In Different Study Programs, Lu Geng Sun
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
This study investigated the beliefs, attitudes, and motivations towards English language learning among Thai and Chinese undergraduate students at Dhurakij Pundit University (DPU). Employing a mixed-method approach, this research utilized both quantitative and qualitative methods to discern and compare these students' experiences. The quantitative phase involved 332 students, selected through stratified random sampling, who completed comprehensive questionnaires based on a five-point Likert scale. The qualitative phase included 31 purposefully selected participants from the initial pool for semi-structured interviews. Findings revealed that Chinese undergraduates exhibited a significantly stronger belief orientation, more positive attitudes, and greater motivational drive towards English language learning …
The Acquisition Of English Irregular Past Tense Morphology By L1 Chinese Learners, Tingting Yang
The Acquisition Of English Irregular Past Tense Morphology By L1 Chinese Learners, Tingting Yang
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
This study investigated the acquisition of English irregular past tense morphology by L1 Chinese learners. The participants consisted of 60 L1 Mandarin-speaking learners of English divided into two groups according to their English proficiency levels, i.e., the intermediate and the advanced levels. The methodology included a Fill-in-the-Blank Test, a Grammaticality Judgment Task, and an interview. Based on the Error Analysis Theory (Richards,1974 ; Ellis,1994), three research hypotheses were formulated. First, it was hypothesized that language proficiency has an impact on the acquisition of English irregular past tense by L1 Chinese learners and the findings conformed to the hypothesis. The results …
Washback Effects Of Vstep.3-5 On Lecturers' Teaching Practices And Students' Learning Strategies At Tertiary Level In Vietnam, Phuong Ai Ngoc Doan
Washback Effects Of Vstep.3-5 On Lecturers' Teaching Practices And Students' Learning Strategies At Tertiary Level In Vietnam, Phuong Ai Ngoc Doan
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
The study aimed to explore the washback effects of “Vietnamese Standardized Test of English Proficiency” (VSTEP.3-5) - a locally produced high-stakes test that fulfills the country’s specific requirements – on Vietnamese EFL lecturers’ teaching practices and undergraduate students’ learning strategies. The study utilized a mixed-method design, incorporating three primary research instruments: questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, and classroom observation. Quantitative data were obtained through questionnaires delivered to 25 lecturers of English and 600 sophomores, Academic year 2022, at Hue University of Foreign Languages and International Studies (HUFLIS), Hue City, Central Vietnam. Qualitative data were collected thanks to in-depth interviews with 8 selected …
Effects Of Augmented Reality Hotel Situated-Learning Board Game On English Oral Communication Skills And Motivation Of Thai Efl Learners, Wipada Sutthiroj
Effects Of Augmented Reality Hotel Situated-Learning Board Game On English Oral Communication Skills And Motivation Of Thai Efl Learners, Wipada Sutthiroj
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
The purpose of the study was (1) to study the effects of Augmented Reality Hotel Situated-learning Board Game on Thai EFL learners' oral communication skills, (2) to study the effects of Augmented Reality Hotel Situated-learning Board Game on Thai EFL learners' motivation, and (3) to explore the perceptions of Thai EFL learners towards Augmented Reality Hotel Situated-learning Board Game. The study's participant group comprises 25 diverse mixes of students from Rajamangala University of Technology Krungthep. The study employed a quasi-experimental design that used both qualitative and quantitative methods. The findings indicated that: (1) there was a significant improvement in the …
Exploring Communication Competence And The Attitudes Of Lower Secondary Efl Students Towards Communication Competence In An Online Project-Based Learning In Myanmar, Khaing Thar Tun
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
This study explored communication competence, small-group communication competence, and the attitudes of lower secondary EFL students towards communication competence in an online project-based learning approach in Myanmar. The study used a mixed-methods research design that integrated surveys, semi-structured interviews, and observations. The study discovered that lower secondary EFL students' online communication competence was slightly high, approaching sufficing competence, while their small-group communication competence in online PBL learning settings was moderately high, approaching maximizing competence. The study predicted slightly high online communication competence and moderately high small-group communication competence within the parameters of the population. In addition, approximately 30% of lower …
Process Interviews, Joe Anson
Process Interviews, Joe Anson
The Utah English Journal
In an attempt to have the students care more about how they could improve their writing, I decided to focus on the writing process as opposed to the final product. And because students start with varying shades of writing aptitude, I felt it important that all the writers in my classroom be given the chance to earn a high grade as we focused on improving writing, not writing perfectly.
Using Inquiry To Drive Revision, Mercedes Allen
Using Inquiry To Drive Revision, Mercedes Allen
The Utah English Journal
When an object needs motion, it needs something to cause movement, to drive it. A car needs gasoline. A kite needs wind. A runner needs nutrient rich food and plenty of water. Just like these things need a substance or force to keep them going, students need something to fuel them as they go through the writing process. While it would be much simpler for us to give students crackers or suckers to fix a student with writer's block, there is something else we can implement into our classrooms daily to give our students the power to continue to move …
Book Review: Ain't Burned All The Bright, Rachel Billings
Book Review: Ain't Burned All The Bright, Rachel Billings
The Utah English Journal
Ain't Burned All the Bright captures the anxieties, fears, and tensions of 2020 clearly and vividly even though it consists of only three long sentences. Jason Reynolds tells the story of a Black boy and his family during the Covid-19 quarantine and pandemic. Through the prose of Reynolds and illustrations of Jason Griffin, the reader learns what the pandemic was like from the point of view of a typical teenager.
An Incomplete Success, Elva Shule Escobedo
An Incomplete Success, Elva Shule Escobedo
The Utah English Journal
Once, I wrote a letter to my US senator, a request from my older brother who had left the country voluntarily just a few months before. In the letter, I explained my brother's complicated situation with his legal status and pleaded for his case. This letter became the catalyst for a writing assignment in my classroom. Students wanted to write their own letters and pleas to government officials, too, explaining their different family members' situations in hopes that their letters would make a difference. And so, they set out to write. They wrote like I had never seen them write. …
Playing With Poetry, Jessica Ashurst
Playing With Poetry, Jessica Ashurst
The Utah English Journal
In my experience, the average student claims that they hate poetry. But, what if we try to get them to experience poetry by trying it in various forms instead of just digging for meaning in obscure poetry? This poetry unit encourages them to play with words and author's craft choices. Each poem becomes part of the poetry portfolio they tum in at the end of the unit.
Disability (Book Chapter), Jason S. Farr
Disability (Book Chapter), Jason S. Farr
English Faculty Research and Publications
This chapter illuminates the historical and literary contexts of disability in Defoe’s time. The essay argues that, though disability is a modern category, Defoe’s writing demonstrates trans-historical continuity by representing it as the product of social relations with political consequences. For instance, in A Journal of the Plague Year (1722), contracting disease transforms characters in highly visible ways, challenging Cartesian views of mind/body duality. At the same time, impairment and epidemic disease facilitate an imaginative reworking of kinship. All of this foregrounds Defoe’s political views about how England should confront the plague. Meanwhile, in The Dumb Philosopher: Or, Great Britain’s …
Fascism In Sci-Fi: "Mobilizing Passions" In Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers, Alton C. Ayers
Fascism In Sci-Fi: "Mobilizing Passions" In Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers, Alton C. Ayers
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis responds to criticism of Robert A. Heinlein’s Starship Troopers (1959) as a “fascist” novel by further investigating the claim through a close reading of the novel that applies political theory scholarship on fascism. Chapters I and II introduce the novel along with its general reception and controversy. These chapters consider the accusations of “fascism” given to the novel while at the same time understanding that a clear, exact definition of “fascism” has long been grappled with by scholars since the rise of the regimes in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Chapters III and IV apply political theory to …