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Multiple Visions of the Research Paper: How Compositionists and Librarians Understand, Represent, and Teach the Research Process
(2010-04-05)
This thesis project examines how composition and library science scholars understand, represent, and teach the research process. Librarians and instructors have been similarly affected by technology, so they must discover ...
Towards in/Vention in the 21st Century: A Philosophical Case Study
(2010-04-05)
This thesis offers a philosophical treatise on Invention in the 21st century, positing our current oppositional dialectic as problematic. Thus, I move to offer a way out of this dialectical negation in order to really ...
"Reeled in and Warmly Socketed": Mass Mediated Identity of the Contemporary Literary Figure
(2010-05-05)
In the literature of a globalized twenty and twenty-first century world, mass media
help to shape characters’ perceptions of selfhood and agency. As media forms are
incorporated into the daily lives of characters, important ...
Being Neither and Both: The Liminal Nationality of Four Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Irish Women Writers, A Study of Genre, Gender, and Nation
(2011-07-14)
This dissertation examines the work of four Anglo-Irish women writers who published in the long eighteenth century, an integral voice in the development of Anglo-Irish nationality. These voices present a counter-perspective ...
“Not a Prayer except Ourselves”: Christian Theological Feminism in the Poetry of Frances Harper, Emily Dickinson, Vassar Miller, and Sharon Olds
(2011-11-21)
Luce Irigaray proposes the possibility of an ethical society in which woman is no longer subjugated to man’s concept of her identity but has an identity of her own. As Irigaray and other theological feminists have pointed ...
The Utopian Aestheticism of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Gertrude Stein's Three Lives
(2012-04-30)
This study reads Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890, 1891) and Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives (written 1905, published 1909) through Paul Cézanne’s radical aesthetics of surface, and is grounded in H. G. Wells’ ...
Fighting Culture: Class and the Early English Boxing Novel in Late Victorian Society
(2013-12-19)
The early English boxing novel emerges at a critical point in the wider culture of
transition that typifies the later Victorian age in England. Evidencing the emergence of an
increasingly populist literature and popular ...
Literacy, Literature, and Pedagogy in Two Nineteenth-Century Alabama Normal Schools
(2014-07-24)
Six of Alabama’s eleven state universities began as normal schools during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Florence State Normal School and Tuskegee Normal and Industrial School created empowerment for individual ...
Invisible Tokens: Staging Cultural Anxieties about the Plague in the Plays of Shakespeare and Jonson
(2011-03-30)
My study examines the influence of plague on six plays: Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare, and Epicoene, Volpone, and The Alchemist by Ben Jonson. Between 1570 and ...
Flannery O'Connor and Mid-Century America
(2014-12-12)
Though the fiction of Flannery O'Connor has most often been studied from theological or psychological perspectives, her work is deeply entrenched in, and reflective of, the culture of the mid-twentieth-century United States. ...