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My thesis project, titled Crumbling Masculinities: Adaptations, Filtration, and the Crisis of Masculinity, addresses the construction of masculinity through what I label "filtration." By building on the work of gender scholars like...
A collection of short stories detailing backpackers in foreign countries, Dominican Americans coming to terms with their identity both here and abroad, and the quintessential American return to home.
This collection of personal essays and short fiction investigates a post-9/11 America locked in forever war. Centered upon the American veteran and the veteran family experience, Anchor & Knife showcases wide-ranging narratives that...
This study is an attempt to provide a new alternative to understanding the way that motherhood and the mother-daughter relationship is drawn and conceptualized in Caribbean Women's Writing in relationship to propertied relationships that...
American Thunder is a collection of narrative lyric poems broken into four sections according to thematic, tonal, and formal patterns and tied together as one manuscript by its speakers' concerns with community, violence, embodiment, ...
This dissertation explores questions about how writing about life, loss, and experience leads to growth in students as both writers and thinkers. Through a qualitative teacher research study, Hodges Hamilton examines how a writing...
Selections from Inventions in the Key of C is a collection of essays about cancer and issues related to cancer. Books on the topic of cancer are plentiful. There are a number of narrative memoirs including The Red Devil, by Kathryn...
Sequent Introduction is a rejection of Richard Rorty's assertion that traditional philosophical problems are no longer of use. This text is strong poetry, introducing new vocabularies and metaphors to redescribe traditional philosophical...
Woman by the Water and Other Stories is a collection of four short stories that range in setting from a touristy beach town in the Florida Gulf to a party school in northern Appalachia, and from old-fashioned Midwestern suburbia to a...
The poems in Dear Exorcist are derived from my own experience. The poems portray the struggle of working class individuals as well as my desire for self-actualization after recovering from physical, spiritual, and verbal abuse. As...
This project engages Antonin Artaud's highly influential critical volume, The Theater and Its Double, through the dual critical lenses of Psychoanalysis and Deconstruction in order to generate responses to questions posed by Artaud’s...
My Time Among the Cannibals is a collection of prose poems that use absurdist techniques to address themes such as community, performance, spectacle, and commerce in late capitalism. Russell Edson, considered by many to be the godfather...
It seems as though I always hearken back to the same themes, in whatever I write. This mix of genres I have pieced together hinges off the idea of how there is what is, and how we perceive it to be. I feel that the non-fiction piece is...
This dissertation argues that the rhetoric of the transatlantic birth control movement has roots in the aesthetics of literary modernism. Not only did Anglo-American modernism and the birth control movement come of age at the same moment...
Through an application of Kenneth Burke's theory of dramatism, my study identifies in the first-person shooter (FPS) game genre what I call visual tropes: the repeated use of specific visual situations to provide cues and instruction to...
This thesis opens for speculation the idea, largely neglected in scholarly research to this date, that women were instrumental in creating and administering the basic and complex magical/medical procedures in Anglo-Saxon society, not...
In response to a need within the field of composition studies within the Anglosphere (the English-speaking world) for further investigation into the teaching of composition in non-Anglo contexts, this thesis seeks to provide a...
Beasts in the Dark is a collection of poems held together by an elemental voice in search of identity. Multiple selves are revealed on the journey for identity, and the poems ask hard questions, probe into suffering corners of human want...
In My Own Hands is a novel that follows the life of Abbie, a young woman with an overbearing, needy mother and absentee father. As a young child Abbie witnesses the abuse of her mother at the hands of her biological father. While seh...
This dissertation asks new questions about the figure of the demagogue as cultural production. How did the concept of the demagogue emerge and manifest itself in the public imagination during the American Revolution and what relationship...
The poems in this thesis manuscript deal specifically and theoretically with the concept of finality, and echo influences as varied as Robert Haas, Harvey Shapiro, and Paul Auster. The poems investigate the many forms, structures, ...
U.S./Southeast Asian exile narratives, or "refugee literature, tend to be classified as autobiographies, testimonials and personal narratives, and not with other literary genres such as the pastoral. Pastoral representations of the...
My dissertation research focuses on how students create knowledge in a classroom community, more specifically how taking an online course impacts students' learning and ultimately, students' knowledge making. Since the online course...
The poems in Else are lyric explorations of paradox. Specifically, they meditate on the idea that what gives comfort also has the potential to cause great harm. The central focus of the collection is a troubled relationship, but regional...
The Wheels of Heaven, a noir fable, chronicles the adventures of a man after he loses the one thing he cares about most, his wife. Combining the determinism of a Fritz Lang movie with the revenge themes found in samurai stories, it...
This study proposes a new interpretive apparatus to examine readers' experience of sensuality in their engagement with the language of fiction. Postmodern texts explore literature's ability to signify and materialize experiences, ...
Because Hialeah follows the life of Franca, a teenage Cuban-American girl growing up in Miami's Cuban exile community of Hialeah, Florida. Figuratively, Hialeah floats in the ocean, somewhere between the Caribbean its inhabitants came...
The following is a collection of poems written between 2003 and 2005. Many of the longer poems leap from place to place and image to image very quickly, much like the mind itself. Oftentimes a casual, conversational voice is utilized to...
There are four main topics that drive conversations in small towns: births, weddings, deaths, and rumors. In my hometown, in the dead-center of Florida, most rumors revolve around strange deaths and murders. This fascination with the...
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the origin of the naturalistic sensibility in modern Korean literature. To this end, this study focuses on the Korean writer Kim Tongin and his analogous relationship with his western...
The land of ancient Egypt, as with most ancient cultures, was described in terms of its fertility, flooding, and available fresh water. The fertile flood plains of the Nile and the Delta that begins at Giza and Cairo was called Kemet, ...
The Gigolo Speaks in Tonguesis a collection of poems that chart an evolution of a self, consisting of coming-of-age poems that explore adolescent identity in the midst of religious fervor, paying homage to fanaticism, whether it be...
Novel based on an Upstate New York Vineyard about a young couple's struggles with economic hardships, sexual identity, and the cyclical nature of love.
This dissertation presents an interdisciplinary approach to the understanding of interlace in Britain, while arguing that the Anglo-Saxons utilized the device as an instrument for uniting British cultures under Christianity. Interlace is...
This dissertation resists the tendency to focus on metropolitan patterns of consumption of major export goods like sugar and tea in order to account for the laboring bodies producing these colonial commodities, which scholars such as...
Set sometime in 2002, And the Hills Burned tells the story of Chidi, a boy whose father – former Minister of Petroleum in the Nigerian Military administration of the early 90s, and current environmental activist – runs afoul of the...
These nine stories are a reflection of the shifting culture and rapid economic growth of Northwest Arkansas, the birthplace of Walmart and Tyson Foods. While the stories may have a distinctly Southern flavor in their setting, they are...
In this thesis I argue that Dos Passos's politics, at least as they are manifested in his writing, do not follow any one party line, and that producing novels which suggested a strict adherence to any single political group would be...
This project investigates the factors that influence the decisions instructors in Florida State's English Department make about using or not using digital projects in their classes, and specifically how influential the English Department...
Contributing to the growing critical conversation on colonization and imperialism in the New World, this study examines how sixteenth and seventeenth century Spanish and English theater addressed, promoted, and at times challenged...
This novel represents the culmination of my work over the last three years at Florida State University, featuring many of the thematic elements I've explored in short fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. ALL THE GOOD NUMBERS is an extended...
The poems in the dissertation manuscript Another Mona Bone Jakon are the formal dispersal and performance of the masculine "I, a subject position these poems embody and pulp as a question necessary to a poetics of radical...
Liminality is a feature of all five stories in this collection; the main characters must engage with a crisis of initiation. The title story is a re-telling of "Little Red Riding Hood, in which Sweetie, eager for the journey, embraces...
The Kindness of Strangers, takes place in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and is composed of three books, each the narrative of one day, one January 10th -- date of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake -- in the lives of its characters. I examine the notions...
As a means for understanding a wide range of multimodal phenomena, multimodal analysis poses methodological challenges for the novice researcher intent on investigating multimodal communication, especially communication that involves...
This dissertation examines the portrayal of autonomous girlhood in five young-adult (YA) novels that appropriate Shakespearean plots for twenty-first-century girl audiences: Caryl Cude Mullin's Rough Magic (2009), Lisa Klein's Lady...
Four Vietnams: Conflicting Versions of the Indochina Conflict from Cold War to the Global War on Terror argues that there is no single historical consensus among Americans on the Vietnam War. There are, instead, four different "Vietnams"...
Bob Jones University Press (BJU Press) is a publishing house owned by the Greenville, South Carolina university of the same name. Fulfilling Bob Jones' mission beyond the college classroom, BJU Press prints a full K-12 educational...
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