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  • Extending and Visualizing Authorship in Comics Studies

    Creator:
    Brown, Nicholas A.
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    This thesis complicates the traditional associations between authorship and alphabetic composition within the comics medium and examines how the contributions of line artists and writers differ and may alter an audience's perceptions of the medium. As a fundamentally multimodal and collaborative work, the popular superhero comic muddies authorial claims and...
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    book. Outside of comic books, one also finds representations of concurrent temporality in

  • Picture this, imagine that : the literary and pedagogic force of ekphrastic principles

    Creator:
    Pajak, Zachary E.
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    My thesis is comprised of two articles, titled "Interpreting Britomart's Encounters with Art: The Cyclic Nature of Ekphrasis in Spenser's Faerie Queene III," and "Picture This, Imagine That: Teaching Visual Literacy in the Disciplines." The purpose of my first article is to argue that Edmund Spenser uses ekphrasis in his...
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    Faerie Queene is comprised of six books that each feature one of these knights. Book III features

  • Geocentric Ecocriticism (work in progress)

    Creator:
    Wess, Robert
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    In my view, ecocriticism needs a foundation in something akin to metaphysics. This work in progress began as an effort to find such a foundation. In the course of working on it, I discovered philosophers today, mostly young, clearly a new generation, philosophizing under the umbrella term “speculative realism” what...
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    decision that has evolved into a book-length project assessing this new metaphysics. When that is done I

  • American identity at a crossroads : Cotton Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World

    Creator:
    Evans, Laura A.
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    Cotton Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World (1692) has traditionally been dismissed as a failed missive attempting to defend the controversial Salem Witch Trials. What is missing from this characterization is an analysis of the degree to which the text, written at a moment of crisis in Puritan culture, actually...
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    Massachusetts Bay Colony. Although Cotton Mather’s book did fail to unite his community in 1692, the flexible

  • Life in (an)other world : issues of otherness and magic in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series

    Creator:
    Fennell, Dalicia K.
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    My thesis is comprised of two articles, titled "Journeying Through (An)Other World: Examining the Role of Magic and Transformational Otherness in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and "Magic, Muggles, and Mudbloods: Examining Magical Otherness in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series." The introduction frames the thematic, theoretical, and critical connections...
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    series and argues that Rowling’s use of blood status in the books is her way of addressing issues of

  • Shifting the scholarly conversation : a rhetorical reading of Peter Elbow's work

    Creator:
    Slaton, Dorothy N.
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    Shifting the Scholarly Conversation: A Rhetorical Reading of Peter Elbow's Work explores Peter Elbow's contributions to the field of writing and rhetoric. Over the course of his long career, Elbow’s scholarly and pedagogical work has been much praised and much criticized. Elbow's work has influenced generations of teachers and writers,...
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    , and the general public. It draws connections between Elbow’s first book, Writing Without Teachers

  • Omen of Mere Event : Vignettes in a Post-Wilderness Landscape

    Creator:
    Schultz, Aaron A.
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    This thesis uses a series of non-fiction vignettes to explore objects, agencies, and networks, applying theories of rhetoric and composition directly to experience and vise versa. Focusing on agency--as understood through sociology's actor-networks, post- humanism’s Object Orientated Ontology, and Ecocriticism's ecological approach--I look at events, landscapes, and partnerships that have...
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    on myth. Rebecca Olson, through her class on the history of the material book and for the space to

  • Socratic Enunciations: Renegade Speech, Counterfeit Enlightenment

    Creator:
    Mago, Bhisma
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    In this two-article thesis, I argue that an opposition to Eurocentrism may be articulated without ethnic or identarian determinisms but through a critical engagement with the categories of ethics and truth in a global frame. I build upon the work of Frantz Fanon and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak to accomplish a...
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  • Rhetorical Arrangement and the Digital Archive : Finding Women’s Voices in the Linus Pauling Papers

    Creator:
    Boardman, Colleen
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    The common imagining of archives characterizes these spaces as monolithic, hallowed sites of preserved truths, carefully catalogued and stored, static and frozen in history and waiting to be uncovered. My thesis works to dispel this myth and identify rhetorical elements of the archive’s structure in order to assess how the...
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    first day of the internship, Rare Books and History of Science Librarian Anne Bahde sat down with me

  • 'Reclaiming Voice : Enacting Social Discourse Communities in Belizean First-Year College Composition'

    Creator:
    Habet, André Antonio
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    This thesis explores the evolving purposes for the teaching of first-year English composition in Belize. Starting from an analysis of the underlying cultural assumptions of U.S. composition pedagogies, this thesis argues that American composition pedagogies need to be rethought when applied in a Belizean context to fulfill the country's unique...
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    chapter. An analysis of these textbooks’ introduction and prefaces looks at how the books frame writing