Browsing by Department "English"
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A Critical Edition of Donne's "The Indifferent," "Love's Usury," "The Will," "The Funerall," "The Primerose," and "The Dampe" and a Digital Edition of "To his Mistress Going to Bed"
(2013-04-04)This dissertation presents an edition of six poems from John Donne’s Songs and Sonets—“The Indifferent,” “Love’s Usury,” “The Will,” “The Funerall,” “The Primerose,” and “The Dampe”—and a digital edition of one additional ... -
The Advanced Research Consortium & Peer Review
(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 -
The Advanced Research Consortium and RDF Guidelines
(2016-07-27)This presentation presents the Resource Data Framework (RDF) requirements of the Advanced Research Consortium. -
Allegories of Modernity, Geographies of Memory
(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 ... -
Ambivalent Devotion: Religious Imagination in Contemporary Southern Women's Fiction
(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 ... -
An analysis of conceptual metaphor in the professional and academic discourse of technical communication
(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 ... -
An Archive of Shame: Gender, Embodiment, and Citizenship in Contemporary American Culture
(2012-07-16)In this dissertation, "An Archive of Shame: Gender, Embodiment, and Citizenship in Contemporary American Culture," I use the affect of shame in its multiple forms and manifestations as a category of analysis in order to ... -
"As Un-American as Rabies": Addiction and Identity in American Postwar Junkie Literature
(2011-02-22)The years following World War II symbolized a new beginning for the United States. While at the height of global power, Americans founds that they were able to experience a leisurely existence where items, desired instead ... -
Astigmatism: poems exploring the misshapen I
(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)This thesis is a book of poems, containing two major sections. The first part is a critical introduction to the creative writing; the second part consists of poetry that I have composed, revised, and revisited during the ... -
At Journalism's Boundaries: A Reporter's Journey from Fact to the Emotion of Truth
(2012-10-19)This thesis is a work of literary journalism that explores the distinct boundaries in style that partition how a writer reports objective facts and reveals subjective experience. In brief, it is a genre-breaking prose ... -
Authorial Anxiety in a Mass Media World: Four Modernists Respond
(2013-10-15)This project explores the anxieties authors of the early twentieth century experienced in relation to mass media, particularly newspapers and the movies, focusing on the selected works of four modernist authors: Sherwood ... -
Authors, Audiences, and Elizabethan Prologics
(2011-02-22)In examining examples of prologues, inductions, and choruses from early modern drama, Authors, Audiences, and Elizabethan Prologics tries to frame a more comprehensive picture of dramatists’ relationships with the plays ... -
Ballad Tradition in the 21st Century: The Outlaw Ballad
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Beats Then and Now: The Reception of Beat Generation Literature
(2014-05-19)The Cold War 1950s America experienced a radical shift of gears after the WWII of the 1940s and the economic crisis of the 1930s; the sudden boom of prosperity began the long-sought call towards normalcy. However, not ... -
Bedtime for Democracy: The Power Elite as Sovereign Aristocracy in Neoliberal Amerika
(2016-07-08)Leftist political theory in Amerika has struggled to understand the two most important issues facing us today: sovereignty and neoliberalism. In their efforts to understand neoliberalism, most scholars rely on either ... -
A Beggar’s Ride: Tales From Within the Herd
(2012-02-14)This story suite is a work of autobiographical fiction, a coming of age tale which uses a young girl’s relationship to horses—along with various people and places connected to the horse world—as its narrative theme. The ... -
Benign: a screenplay
(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Benign is a story set in the microscopic world of cellular respiration and reproduction. The plot is concerned with the epiphanies and adventures of Pro, a microorganism who stumbles upon a shocking conspiracy being sustained ... -
Beowulf, sleep, and judgment day
(2009-05-15)When warriors fall asleep within Heorot’s decorated walls, they initiate a sequence of events that ultimately ends in slaughter and death. This pattern of sleep, attack, and death predictably appears in each of the monster ... -
Between Mars and Venus: balance and excess in the chivalry of the late-medieval English romance
(Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)This dissertation is a study of how late-medieval romances construe ideal chivalric masculinity, and how aristocratic male violence was integrated into a beneficial model for masculine behavior. The focus is on the "fair ... -
Blackening Character, Imagining Race, and Mapping Morality: Tarring and Feathering in Nineteenth Century American Literature
(2013-08-05)This study examines the ritual of tarring and feathering within specific American cultural contexts and literary works of the nineteenth-century to show how the discourse surrounding the actual and figurative practice ...