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This thesis addresses the relationship between American literature and terrorism in works written during the last two decades of the Twentieth Century. Don DeLillo and Tom Robbins have each written novels that explore the relationship...
The central characters of How To Make Love To An Apple are a mother and daughter. The first part of the book takes place in the girl's memory of her childhood in Arizona at the house where she grew up with her mother and father. The girl...
My thesis consists of three essays: "Dennis, Would You Take a Quick Look at This, and Community Center." I also have included four short stories: "The British Are Coming, Like Frankenstein, Woman's World, and Auto-Man." The...
Critical examinations of the simulacrum have frozen, due in part to the overabundance and simplified applications of Jean Baudrillard's canonical theories. In a 2003 book review, David Banash voices this frustration, identifying ...
This project presents a theoretical and practical examination of the term "videogame-infused pedagogy, as defined through its use of videogames in the composition classroom, connections to the Framework for Success in Postsecondary...
Adrienne Rich explains that the contemporary concept of the home and the domestic sphere is a cultural construct rather than an essential, inherent biological identity. She asserts that the “nineteenth- and twentieth-century ideal of the...
The late nineteenth and early twentieth century in America is an interesting time when examined through the lens of property ownership and self ownership. Technically and legally, married women could own property and many had enjoyed...
Evolution of the American performance culture between 1850-1910 was deeply rooted within broad social and cultural changes. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, and Henry James engage the reflective quality of performance culture to...
The third quiet revolution to which my title refers is occurring now. In both literature and history, important changes are taking place, with more and more scholars seriously questioning the methods of each discipline, the validity...
This thesis considers The House of Fame as an allegory in which the dreamer's quest to write love poetry masks a pilgrimage towards Truth: through Neo-Platonic and Christian views of Fall, Redemption, and Judgment. The analysis treats...
King of Carothers' Altar, Arizona has two time strands which are woven together through alternating chapters. The novel spans the Great Depression to the present day, and takes the reader through the birth and death of a town called...
The West End, a novel set in Vancouver, Canada in the years directly preceding the handover of Hong Kong in 1997, is the story of two sisters, Claire and Hannah Stephen, whose love of art and the environment is challenged by the...
Cole Fortan, the narrator of my novel, is a character who hates himself. He's dropped out of college at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater to be the friendly, neighborhood marijuana dealer, the guy all the kids at Eskimo Joe's go to...
This dissertation is a collection of short stories that take place in Vietnam and the United States. The stories are small in scope: narrated in either the first-person or close-third person, they are centered on the family and romantic...
Blood We Did Not Spill, a historical political novel, begins in June 1997 when a young Indian Police Services officer stops at a small town to visit a retired police officer—delusional and very sick—on behalf of her boss. She sees him...
In England in the autumn of 1678, a supposed Popish Plot to murder King Charles II and install his Catholic brother, James, the Duke of York, was uncovered. The country was immediately thrown into turmoil as fear of the Roman Catholic...
This study is a two-part examination into the various ways that English and American cultures reclaim particular stories or images for the sake of social, political, or economic commentary. I explore the manner in which maturing...
This study places the experiences of administrators and teachers of English as a Second Language and composition at five community colleges in North Florida within the three larger contexts of the field of ESL composition, the community...
The Curse of Mary Miller is a fusion of the literary and the magical. The story follows three sisters, the Millers, who are linked by more than just their name. For hundreds of years all Miller women have inexplicably had their cycles...
The primary purpose of this descriptive study was to examine the different ways first-year writing (FYW) is conceived at colleges/universities throughout Florida. Hence, much like Richard Larson's 1986 study, the researcher analyzed FYW...
This project presents an analysis of the rhetorical practices of famed radio host Mary Margaret McBride as examined through a selection of her recorded radio broadcasts and written works. Following the tradition of feminist rhetorical...
This dissertation develops a model of material composing knowledge, which considers the role that surfaces, environments, and tools play in the composing processes of student writers as they shift their writing practices across multiple...
Black Nova is a collection of poems written before, during, and after the death of the poet's mother. Split into three sections, each section represents a construction of identity through the fictional and nonfictional, through...
Backwards & Inside Out, a novel, tells the story of Albee, Karl and Emily Herman, a divorced and dysfunctional Jewish, each trying to individually rebuild their identities following the breakup of their family. Albee Herman, thirteen...
Drinking Dirty Water: A Novella is an attempt to examine marriage and divorce in contemporary society through the lens of one woman's experiences with and without her husband. It is also intended, in some small way, to partake in the...
The stories collected here are primarily about belief, especially irrational belief. In each piece, a character struggles with rejecting cherished ideals.
Since the earliest records of culture, mankind has represented its ocularcentric focus through images of sight. Freud theorizes that these images of viewership represent dynamics of power: those who see, actively control, and those who...
The poems in this manuscript are an exploration of the post-divorce grieving process. They seek out a midpoint between grief and growth, the changing definition of family, and balance between self and Other. Each section of the...
Atlantic popular theatre culture in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries circulated stagings of outcast yet admired underclasses. Karl Marx's naming of these characters lent increased visibility to the lumpenproletariat, ...
To study Southern literature is to inevitably study the search for Southern identity. Challenged by issues of gender, race, and class, the Southern literary tradition is immersed in the search for a static, definitive concept of Southern...
The Fabian Strategy is a short, dystopian novel following Henry Byrne as he attempts to rebuild his life after a tragic war and the decine of American civilization.
This thesis examines male characters in five primary texts: The Women of Brewster Place, Linden Hills, Mama Day, Bailey's Café, and The Men of Brewster Place, engaging theorists like bell hooks, James King, and Lawrence Hogue in a...
In order to avoid repeating the patterns of past failed technology initiatives, eschew various types of paralyzing blame cultures, capitalize on the momentum offered by outside stakeholder interest, and maintain the agency to stay...
The stories in this collection depicts the lives of young men coming of their age as they struggle to find contentment within themselves. They are unlikely journeys of self discovery that help them find this contentment. The central...
This project seeks to interrogate the ways in which race, class, and gender expectations work in concert to seduce the black heroine into believing that marriage will somehow deliver her from the trappings of her current social standing....
These poems are written in a frantic high lyric tradition, though confessional narrative is also a main goal. Sections of a long poem, MOON AORTA MOON DITCH MOON are split up throughout the collection to organize the narrative of the...
Richard Wright's The Long Dream (1958), James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie (1964), Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987), and John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia Fire (1990) attempt to expose the mental and physical scars of trauma through...
This project explores the intersection of two relatively recent phenomena in the field of rhetoric and composition: (1) the proliferation of undergraduate major programs in writing and rhetoric, particularly over the past decade, and (2)...
The poems of Willing draw on my personal experience and family history to explore the metaphors, mythologies, and lived experiences of Mormonism. As a whole, the book is framed by Joseph Smith's declaration that one must "search into and...
Astronaut is a collection of poems centered in the Florida Panhandle. Part trauma narrative, part ecocritical treatise, Astronaut continues the project of its author's first book, Romeo Bones, in attempting to give speech to the silenced.
Few world cities can claim to have had as much of an impact on American literature as the Moroccan city of Tangier. The writers who resided in or passed through the city in the 1950s and the works of literature produced there have re...
The three stories contained in this thesis function as an exploration of hybrid identity. The main character, Nomi, is a "k'tina khozeret, a returning adolescent. In legal terms, in Israel, this is a person born in Israel who is removed...
“Who doesn’t think kissing is the greatest thing / in the world other than eating?” Revenge of the Asian Woman comes to life on a sexed-up soap opera / B-movie platter where passion and food and fantasy reign supreme: excess in the form...
This study concerns itself with studying the ways in which various texts both examine and display the effects of technology as manifested by automobiles, trains, and computers as well as the change such inventions have brought about...
Jamaica Kincaid's semi-autobiographical novels give voice to the women of the British West Indies. Through her principal female characters within Annie John, Lucy, and The Autobiography of my Mother, Kincaid explores the long-lasting...
THE BLUE HOUSE PARTY, like Hemingway's NICK ADAMS STORIES, follows the development of a character from childhood to adulthood. THE BLUE HOUSE PARTY's chronologically arranged contents, though loosely sutured together, form a mosaic whole...
During the nineteenth century, Lydia Maria Child was widely recognized for her contributions to American non-fiction, literature and journalism during a career that spanned six decades. She was an activist, abolitionist, and champion of...
The dissertation manuscript Beer League Outros is, among other things, an investigation of contemporary masculinity. Roused by uncertainty regarding gender roles in post-modernity, the poems elegize via arranging male attributes into a...
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