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This study addresses the following questions: how can we account for the emergence and change of a discipline and what is the role of the individual in this change? I answer these questions through a case study of the discipline of Basic...
This thesis addresses the benefits of orality in the composition classroom when audience is more apparent for writing students. Looking to the site of the black church as a literacy event and viewing the semon as a community text and...
This dissertation is a collection of ten short stories. All are works of fiction composed by the author during the years 2004-2006 when he was a student in the Creative Writing PhD program at Florida State University.
The 1920's blues scene is a time and scene often depicted in books, plays, film, and music. However much the time and place have been popular for artistic exploration, the story of the lesbian and lesbian existence in this time and place...
Dr. Carol Tratchy once theorized that eventually we would need to reevaluate our nomenclatures regarding our most recent artistic eras. For instance, the "Modern Era" came into use nearly one hundred years ago; it is hardly an accurate...
This dissertation examines epistolary manuscripts circulated among networks of women in eighteenth-century British America. The women saved and collected correspondence, copied important letters into commonplace books, and composed...
Scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. observes that "fact and fiction have always exerted a reciprocal effect on each other" ("Authenticity" 29). Authors of neo-slave narratives â postmodern renderings of the slave experience â illustrate...
In Spring and All, William Carlos Williams asserts that his readers' perception is alienated from the world by a "barrier." In particular, he argues that these readers are alienated from the present moment. This state of alienation is...
This thesis examines both historical and fictional representations of interracial relationships in the 18th century. My argument in this project is two-fold. First, I argue that some black women used sexual relationships with white men...
The poems in The Pale Cinema of Color and Broken Conversation emerge from the writer's perception of the glorious illogic of his own life. More than from a traditional canon of literature, these poems derive their form and style from, as...
Sir Tristrem is the earliest English versions of the Tristan and Isolde story, and it is the only rendition that presents its protagonist as an English hero. The romance's many markers of Englishness become even more legible in the...
Texts of a Nation: The Literary, Politcal, and Religious Imaginary of Pakistan
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This study focuses on the foundational texts of Pakistan. Most theories of anticolonial nationalism have a strictly culturalist emphasis, of which the works of Partha Chatterjee and Benedict Anderson are two good examples. I suggest that...
Drawing upon the author's experiences of growing up white and gay in apartheid South Africa, this collection of personal essays explores themes of kitsch, displacement, love, sexuality, and forgiveness. A central question posed by the...
This dissertation investigates place ethos, a crucial component of rhetorics on place: visual and verbal texts that construct specific geographical locations. Through examining rhetorical representations of place, we can better...
M. L. Rosenthal's 1959 labeling of Robert Lowell's Life Studies as "Confessional, initiated a debate about the literary value of autobiographical writing. At the center of this controversy was the taboo subject matter explored by the...
The underlying goal of this study was to answer the central question: How do teachers design for and implement their understanding of writing as a social practice in the classroom by way of assignments (text) and pedagogy (context)?...
Several of the stories in this collection were inspired by the Lindbergh kidnapping. What most interests me was the public hysteria over the kidnapping, and the astonishing number of people who attempted to insinuate themselves into the...
During the summer of 1964, Samuel Jennings, a young newspaper reporter travels from Atlanta to a small southern town in Florida to complete a series of features on the oldest living person in the U.S.--a 116-year old former slave named...
This is a collection of eleven short stories submitted as a thesis project to Florida State University in spring, 2012. The stories, though varied, largely take place in the Caribbean (be the islands real or imagined composites of many...
This dissertation presents a novel that focuses on an immigrant family that struggles to understand the tragic death of one of their own. Thirty years ago, ten-year-old Mina Zand, the youngest child of Iranian immigrant, died, presumably...
Voices along the Road is a collection of poems that explores the immigrant experience, detailing three worlds that forge a Caribbean-American voice. All three sections of the manuscript examine an identity that comes directly, almost...
This thesis is a collection of women's voices and the stories they have to tell. Though not all of them are told directly by the women themselves, their voices are at the center. Many of the stories in this collection take place in or...
These stories explore various tensions within the fictional community of Boatyard, Alabama. Though each story in the collection aims to present clear conflicts between characters, many of the stories also consider the natural dangers...
Ordinary days were best, Donald Hall writes in his book-length elegy to his wife, Jane Kenyon, who died of leukemia. What I want my poetry to do is convey the spirituality of the ordinary, the knowledge that all the things we love are...
Of the Out of Style takes its title from Jimi Hendrix's afrofuturist proto-prog rock masterpiece "1983…(A Merman I Should Turn to Be)." As a collection the poems, as Hendrix puts it in song, take a last look / at the killing noise / of...
Ranging from the elegiac to sarcastic, humorous to furious, distant, alienated, amused, and intimate, the poems in Hot Stare America aim to balance social critique with praise, protest poems with odes, the blues with jokes, nostalgia, ...
Concerned with the 1974 Conference on College Composition and Communication initiative Students Rights to Their Own Language (SRTOL), a resolution calling for writing teachers to respect the rich diversity of languages students bring...
Reading the Cosmos and Reading the Poem in Early Modern English Poetry, 1579-1674 explores the relationship between early modern cosmology and poetry in England, arguing that the way the heavens are treated in poetry relates to the way...
This thesis is composed of two parts and makes use of two literary genres: the traditional essay, and a literary form called fictocriticism developed by anthropologist Michael Taussig. Both are integrated in an exploration of the rural...
This text focuses on Edith Wharton and Mary Johnston, with special emphasis upon the latter writer. Both Johnston and Wharton were actively writing during the same period, although in different parts of the world. Wharton spent most of...
Since the 1980s, literary scholars in the U.K., Ireland, and the U.S. have recovered the contributions of the nineteenth-century American writer Catharine Maria Sedgwick and her older Anglo-Irish contemporary Maria Edgeworth, ...
My thesis, entitled Behind Closed Eyes, is a novella that intends to explore the struggle for identity that an American-born Korean must contend with—the issues of assimilating in America while yearning for roots. There is the innate...
Harold Bloom has insisted that during the English Renaissance, William Shakespeare invented the human. In tortured characters like Hamlet and King Lear, we find the definition of humanity. Now, if being human means that we all must wax...
This thesis interrogates the Gothic literary genre of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and proposes using place as a lens through which contemporary critics may read social and political resistance in a given piece of Gothic...
The poems in this manuscript attempt to navigate the realm between dream states and reality, or between this life and the next; at the same time, they are often obsessed with locating a balance between lyric and narrative, between image...
In Frank O'Hara's 'Personism: A Manifesto' he famously wrote, when discussing writing poetry, that 'you just go on your nerve.' I couldn't agree more. Nerve is the leading force of this collection of poems. They deal with an array of...
When news of the most recent Kuomingtang invasion arrived, Ping and the other platoon members were more interested in its carrier, a new comrade that would join their unit--a girl this time--named Yong. She had transferred to Iron Well...
Set during the Reagan era, Unlikely Heroes is a post-Vietnam, baby boomer novel dealing with oil and the environment, academia and violence, the military and the media. In it, Kelsey Mueller, a young female photographer from the oil...
These poems explore what it is to be desirable, whether sexually, culturally, or otherwise. In questioning desire, its manifestations and triggers, these poems attempt to complicate the readers' understanding of love and loss in...
A growing impulse in American black female fiction is the reclamation of black female sexuality due to slavery's proliferation of sexual stereotypes about black women. Because of slave law's silencing of rape culture, issues of consent, ...
In Hard Facts, Amiri Baraka's first volume of Marxist poetry, the poem "When We'll Worship Jesus" catalogues the poet's disillusionment and ambivalence about accepting religion as a possible weapon to combat racial and economic injustice...
The nobility of the Renaissance era enjoyed an elaborate form of hunting, called par force, which involved many horses, dogs, and huntsmen and offered many opportunities for social display. Par force hunting came with a set of ritualized...
Finding Elvis: Stories - a creative dissertation - is a collection of ten short stories divided into two parts: Bad Jews and Song of Songs. The five stories comprising the first section of the manuscript - Bad Jews - follow, in part, the...
Literary Violence in the Age of Depression explores violence in contemporary literature and popular culture by evaluating the decline of social bonds in American society and the heightening of Mertonian strain that developed in the wake...
Reasons Why We Fell Apart: Fictions is a short story collection that skirts the line between poetry and prose by incorporating several prose poems. Overall, the collection covers my journey as a writer while at Florida State. From my...
The notions of maternity and motherhood in late-eighteenth century England are fraught with ambiguity and contradictions. By this period, the cult of idealized motherhood and maternal virtue is beginning to emerge in England in order to...
Forever in Clovis is a collection of poems that, in large part, seeks to participate in the pastoral tradition and mode in an effort to explore the relationship between the human/manmade world and the nonhuman/natural world in...
This work is a collection of five short stories, each of which deal in some way with romantic love. This is not to say that these are all typical "love stories, wherein characters pursue each other in various ways for the purpose of...
The following master's thesis includes three stories. These stories are fiction and any resemblance to real people is not intended. The stories range from coming of age tales to cultural satire.
The poems in Dear Bright explore the possibly of love in a deeply anxious world. They are often epistolary, addressing the eponymous Bright through a series of imagined universes in which the speaker and Bright can create and recreate...
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