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Full-Text Articles in English Language and Literature
Post 9/11 American Dramas: A Postmodern Postcolonial Study Of Wajahat Ali’S The Domestic Crusaders And John Shanley’S Dirty Story, Shaimaa M. Saeed
Post 9/11 American Dramas: A Postmodern Postcolonial Study Of Wajahat Ali’S The Domestic Crusaders And John Shanley’S Dirty Story, Shaimaa M. Saeed
English Language and Literature
The focal point of this study is the date 9/11 which history immortalized as it witnessed the sudden attacks on one of the world’s super powers, the United States of America. The repercussions of this date boomed in the world’s four corners leaving behind feelings of insecurity and fears from the unknown. Whereas 9/11 had many influences on the international and domestic economic, political and social arenas, such influences were reflected in the literary arena as well. Many American playwrights were influenced by the attacks to the extent that such attacks have become the raw material formulating the dramatic substance …
Speculative Literature In Modern Society: Octavia Butler And The Tragedy Of The Commons, Katherine Elyse Miller
Speculative Literature In Modern Society: Octavia Butler And The Tragedy Of The Commons, Katherine Elyse Miller
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection
What leads to peaceful prosperity and what leads to destructive collapse in any society? While it may seem daunting or overwhelming to dissect the success or collapse of a multi-faceted society, there are lenses and tools through which we are able to do so, such as political theory and speculative dystopian fiction. By using lenses to analyze the society in which we live, we are able to recognize the seeds of both prosperity and destruction in our society that may otherwise be overlooked or ignored. The speculative dystopian fiction of Octavia Butler may be considered as building upon the political …
"Put My Thang Down, Flip It And Reverse It": Black Women's Interstitial Languages Of Body And Desire, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
"Put My Thang Down, Flip It And Reverse It": Black Women's Interstitial Languages Of Body And Desire, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Literatures in English Faculty Research and Scholarship
This essay explores the subversive presences of invented languages in African American women’s literatures in the twenty-first century. I focus my analysis on the invented languages that animate playwright Suzan-Lori Parks’s In The Blood and Fucking A (2001), Toni Morrison’s novel Love (2003), and rapper Missy Elliott’s 2001 single, “Work It,” each of which engages key questions of intersectional embodiment, belonging, and desire at the turn of the twenty-first century. Examining these texts alongside contemporary feminist linguistic scholarship and African diaspora cultural criticism on the politics of language, I argue that Parks, Morrison, and Elliott develop what I term “interstitial …
Erotic Labor And The Black Ecstatic “Beyond” (Review), Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Erotic Labor And The Black Ecstatic “Beyond” (Review), Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Literatures in English Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Romantic Ends: Death And Dying, 1776-1835, Andrew J. Welch
Romantic Ends: Death And Dying, 1776-1835, Andrew J. Welch
Dissertations
Romantic Ends reinterprets of the origins and legacies of romantic death, the cultural spectacle exemplified by the dramatic deaths of young poets like John Keats. Against the widespread belief that romanticism ushered in a uniquely theatrical vision of death, Romantic Ends traces a long history of death as rhetorical performance, from the early modern ars moriendi ("art of dying") to the neoclassical obsession with the good death. The poetic deaths of the romantic period established a new repertoire of tropes and figures out of these longstanding and disparate deathbed traditions, set within the emerging discursive arena of "poetry." Yet while …
Forum Prompt: What Can Poe Do For You?, Scott Peeples
Forum Prompt: What Can Poe Do For You?, Scott Peeples
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
Poe's Gothic Soul In "Metzengerstein": An Invitation To Look Inside, Elizabeth Peek
Poe's Gothic Soul In "Metzengerstein": An Invitation To Look Inside, Elizabeth Peek
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
The following paper examines Poe’s affair with German tradition, particularly Gothic and Romantic writing, through an analysis of his short story “Metzengerstein.” This short story is not only rich with the conventions of Gothic fiction, but also rings with an autobiographical tone. The added piece of Poe himself in this text implies his own Gothic origins. I imply that Poe was a natural Romantic, with the purpose of bringing his own terror to a larger audience. The German gloom in “Metzengerstein” was authentic, not an imitation. I come to the conclusion that Poe’s production of literary horror – in the …
The American Hero In A Hawaiian Myth: Convergence Of Cultures In London’S “Koolau The Leper”, Morgan Daniels
The American Hero In A Hawaiian Myth: Convergence Of Cultures In London’S “Koolau The Leper”, Morgan Daniels
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
Jack London’s “Koolau the Leper” (1912) tells the story of a leprous Hawaiian who refuses to be reallocated to Molokai by the American government. During Koolau’s last stand, he keeps the American army at bay despite their superior weaponry. The story ends with Koolau dying from leprosy a free man on Kauai, his island home. Critics have long debated what this story reveals about London’s viewpoint on American imperialism and colonialism. I would like to augment this understanding by suggesting that London’s critique of American imperialism is in itself an act of imperialism. I propose that Jack London’s “Koolau the …
Satirical Perspectives: A Cross-Cultural Comparison, Mariah Johnson
Satirical Perspectives: A Cross-Cultural Comparison, Mariah Johnson
Undergraduate Theses, Professional Papers, and Capstone Artifacts
This paper proposes a cross-cultural examination of the societal satire of the countries of America and Soviet Russia by way of comparison of two satiric novels. Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt satirizes the business values of capitalist America and the materialism perceived in an economic system based on the mass production and mass consumption of goods. Yurii Olesha’s Envy uses Babbitt in intertextual conversation to perform a similar critique of the Soviet Russian society and values of the same time period. Satiric theory provides a framework for understanding and relaying how each novel performs its parody of the respective society, while historical …
Rethinking Foreignness In The Works Of John Milton, Courtney Van Saders
Rethinking Foreignness In The Works Of John Milton, Courtney Van Saders
Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects
This thesis contends that in John Milton’s early poems written between 1627 and 1639, he starts the process of developing an understanding of boundaries and borders he would use later in his career. Chapter one examines Milton’s Elegia Quarta and The Masque at Ludlow Castle. Within Elegia Quarta, Milton explores the relationship of borders between mainland Europe and England. He uses the image of his childhood mentor Thomas Young as a physical representation of borders. While in The Masque at Ludlow Castle, I concentrate on the complexity of the barriers and boundaries between England and Wales and the development of …
E-Portfolios As An Alternative To Parcc In The "College And Career Ready" Age, Katherine Ondrof
E-Portfolios As An Alternative To Parcc In The "College And Career Ready" Age, Katherine Ondrof
Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects
In this thesis, I identify issues with the existing PARCC exam’s ability to develop and assess skills that are considered essential for college- and career- readiness, as per the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and existing research. I examine the benefits and challenges associated with electronic portfolios as an alternative, more authentic means of assessment that develop not only the skills identified as college- and careerreadiness by the CCSS and research, but also digital rhetoric skills, which I argue are essential for true real world preparedness. Guiding this research are the following pivotal questions: How does the existing PARCC exam …
Rooksnest, Jennifer Wilson
Rooksnest, Jennifer Wilson
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
I would like to write a modern-day American parallel of the first ten chapters of Howards End set in New York City and the Hudson Valley. What I find so inspiring about Howards End is that it is able to address both social and political issues distinct to pre-World War I England, as well as philosophical or even mystical issues affecting all people regardless of their class standing. It would seem that political and mystical would not easily combine, however Forster is able to show how seemingly timeless spiritual events affect everyone, and are filtered through the perspective of one’s …
Appearances, Samantha M.F. Loesch
Appearances, Samantha M.F. Loesch
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Appearances is a one-act memory play with a focus on temporality, language deficiencies, and allegorical depictions of the ambiguous relationships between men and women. Using dramatic techniques this autobiographically based play is a complex blend of doubled actors, stage directions, and surrealistic depictions of time reflecting the characteristics of absurdist plays. Using such devices creates a pastiche of female degradation, effacement, and feelings of worthlessness inspired by realistic depictions of male harassment. Elements such as the inadequacy of language, the role of autobiography, and the Cubist depiction of temporality performed with non-verbal motifs and recursive tendencies reveal a woman’s existential …
Novel Passions : Re-Reading English Fiction Through The History Of Emotion, 1689-1751, Joel P. Sodano
Novel Passions : Re-Reading English Fiction Through The History Of Emotion, 1689-1751, Joel P. Sodano
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
“The passions” were of paramount importance in the 18th century. Classical contexts established excessive emotions as potentially dangerous forces that could override the will and dictate human action, but they also perceived them as inessential to and even extirpable from human nature. With the advent of empiricism, the theoretical framework of emotion shifted from an external condition to an internal proposition. Thus, in the 18th century a conceptual symbiosis is formed between “the Gales of Passion” and “the Reins of Reason” (Spectator, no. 408, 1712). This seemingly archaic idea is actually being confirmed by contemporary neuroscience. For recently discovered neural …
Keats And Food : Language Of The Edible In John Keats's Letters And Poems, Kaitlin Resler
Keats And Food : Language Of The Edible In John Keats's Letters And Poems, Kaitlin Resler
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This thesis is an exploration of the language of food and drink in the letters and poetry of John Keats. In sifting through his letters, famous for his unselfconscious thoughts on the nature of poetry and poetic composition, it is possible to construct the details of his culinary life not only as it pertains to daily eating habits but also in how he uses the language of food to articulate the sensations achieved in the course of writing and reading poetry. Keats frequently adapted this language to describe these activities because for him, the way food is consumed and synthesized …
Consciousness Engendered Throughout Lena Dunham's "Girls" : Female Subjectivity Vs The Problem Of Post-Feminism, Heeyeon Kim
Consciousness Engendered Throughout Lena Dunham's "Girls" : Female Subjectivity Vs The Problem Of Post-Feminism, Heeyeon Kim
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
The inequality between genders is an idea still endorsed in everyday life throughout media, political discourse, and relationships. Gender discrimination spurs feminists to strive for equity and has become the motivation for the changing and progressive message in their writings and artworks. Lena Dunham’s HBO TV series Girls is such a work and is distinctly unique when compared to Hollywood’s presentation of the standard image of women, and thus, has been used as an initiation into the study of post-feminism and the contemporary media. Dunham’s attitudes and ideas shown in Girls has the same vigorous feminist movement resembling the rebelliousness …
Bridging The Stereotypical Gap From The Past To The Present : An Analysis Of African American Stereotypes Through The Boondocks, Tiffany Addo
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
The purpose of this thesis is to discuss and identify African American stereotypes that contain both negative and positive connotations. These stereotypes have origins that date back to the Pre-Slavery Era. Regardless of the lapse in time, the stereotypes have only adapted and found a place in the world we live in today. I use these stereotypes and analyze them through a show called The Boondocks. Within the show, Aaron McGruder (the writer and producer of the first three seasons) makes it a point to present his audience with a satirical representation of all these known stereotypes through the main …
Reed Beds, William Logan
Birmingham Poetry Review 44 (Complete Issue), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff
Birmingham Poetry Review 44 (Complete Issue), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff
Birmingham Poetry Review
No abstract provided.
Pied Beauty, Nausheen Eusuf
In A Warm Sea, Eric Elshtain
Time's Passage At Whiskey River, Ned Balbo
[The Place I Love Is Burning], Brian Laidlaw
Search & Rescue, Michael Chitwood
Promenade, Will Schutt, Francesco Scarabicchi
Bruce's Mood, Mark Neely
Lizzie Borden's Pears, Juliana Gray
Seal 9, Alexis Levitin, Salgado Maranhāo
The Romantics, Joshua Gottlieb-Miller
Intimations, Eleanor Wilner