Browsing by Department "English"
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(1991)Fifty years after his death on December 21, 1940, F. Scott Fitzgerald is known perhaps as well for his drinking as for his writing. There are a number of reasons for this: the notorious first-hand accounts of his drinking ...
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(1997)This research investigates Martin Luther King, Jr.' s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the political and religious context of the letter. The methodological approach was interdisciplinary, including oral historical and ...
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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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(1987)Stanley Kubrick occupies an unusual position among modern filmmakers in that, even though he is known as a uniquely personal film artist, most of his films are essentially adaptations of literature. Yet Kubrick succeeds ...
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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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(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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(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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(2020-07-21)In this dissertation, “An Inclusive Approach to Teaching Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century,” I use the lens of critical pedagogy and critical race theory to examine the ways teachers teach Shakespeare in American ...
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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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(2013-08-22)This dissertation examines how the construction of Saint Mary Magdalene as a symbol participated in a network of political, social, and religious practices in fifteenth- century England. That symbol both changed and was ...