Browsing by Department "English"
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This analysis follows Jane Austen’s exploration of womanhood and autonomy within her last completed novel, Persuasion. It investigates her commentary on the feminine experience under the rigid traditionalism of the Regency ...
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(1995)Throughout history, mankind has always depended on the "scapegoat". In surveying the mythology of the past, Sir James George Frazer identifies and traces numerous instances of the paradigm. Moreover, Western thought and ...
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(Emerson Society Papers, 1996)
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(2021-04-22)In this work I investigate the new aesthetic form that has been emerging in India, post-Nirbhaya case. This aesthetic is centered on representations of acid-attack survivors. Using disability studies as the framework for ...
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(Digital Humanities 2017, 2017)
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(Texas A&M University, 2018)Urquízar-Herrera’s well-researched book strikes deep into vital questions about the art history of Early Modern Spain. To
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(2023-05-18)There exist myriad intimacies from friendship to allyship but kinship—biological kinship—is still a dominating criterion by which all other intimacies are measured, even in statements that express an association stronger ...
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(2023-05-18)There exist myriad intimacies from friendship to allyship but kinship—biological kinship—is still a dominating criterion by which all other intimacies are measured, even in statements that express an association stronger ...
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(2016-07-27)This presentation given at the "Music Scholarship Online" meeting describes the procedures for peer reviewing digital projects employed by the Advanced research consortium
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(2016-07-27)This presentation presents the Resource Data Framework (RDF) requirements of the Advanced Research Consortium.
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(1987)Mark Twain has had considerable influence upon the authors that have followed him. Little criticism has been written concerning the specific influence of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn on novels of this century, although ...
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(The Emily Dickinson Journal, 2014)
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(2019-03-18)This study investigates how various age metaphors from a vampire to mandatory euthanasia function to invalidate linear progressions of both individuals and society in fin-desiècle British literature. It explains how and ...
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(2012-10-19)This dissertation examines how postmodernist narratives of memory in Graham Swift's Waterland, Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, and Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines retrieve the stories of those who have been lost or ...
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(2011-02-22)Analyzing novels by Sheri Reynolds, Lee Smith, Barbara Kingsolver, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, and Sue Monk Kidd, I argue that these authors challenge religious structures by dramatizing the struggle between love and ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)This dissertation explores the ongoing division between technical communication practitioners and academics by examining the conceptual metaphors that underlie their discourse in professional journals and textbooks. Beginning ...
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This is a creative work that looks at the practice of ritualistic human sacrifice throughout different ages and cultures and how this custom affects the people of that society. While it is commonly known that ancient ...
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The Witcher series, by Andrzej Sapkowski, has recently become an international phenomenon. On top of its international pop-cultural success, one of the most interesting aspects about the series is the political landscape ...
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My thesis is a novel which aims to tell the story on an angel who is banished from Heaven and goes on a journey to attempt to return. My novel seeks to portray a journey of spirituality and sexuality through the format of ...
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(1984)All of these linguists have missed the boat, however, by not Following up the suggestion that Mencken gave. The clearest evidence for the influence or one language or dialect on another lies in the grammatical systems of ...