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  • Re-sounding Harlem Renaissance narratives : the repetition and representation of identity through sound in Nella Larsen's Passing and Toni Morrison's Jazz

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    Aragon, Racheal
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    The cultural and historical construction of African American identity in the United States has been closely tied to the dialectical relationship formed between sound and silence. This thesis examines the modernist and postmodernist representation of sound and silence in the African American novels Passing (1929), by Nella Larsen, and Jazz...
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    symbolic4), like the ringing of a bell or drumming of a drum, or by word sounds/onomatapoeia (indexical5

  • Furthering Rhetorical Genre Studies Within the Context of Identity and Transfer in First Year Composition

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    Alfaqih, Jessica
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    Within composition studies, rhetorical genre studies (RGS) and labor-based grading (LBG) are engaged in similar projects that consider students not only as individuals but also as always part of a community; as such, both have worked to understand how students learn, how students value themselves and their work, and how...
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    , analysts Jaison Abel and Richard Dietz found that 72.7% of college graduates aren’t working in a field

  • Courting Elizabeth : the virgin queen and Elizabethan literature

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    Zinck, Jaime
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    Sixteenth century Elizabeth I of England has long been a figure of interest to Renaissance scholars, and their work largely focuses on how her gender impacted the power, politics, and culture of her day. Many have perceived her to be a heroine whose ingenuity and determination circumvented the limitations imposed...
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    marital chastity, to be silent and honorable. Ilona Bell describes a married woman’s chastity as a

  • The soul announces itself : Terrence Malick's Emersonian cinema

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    Fech, Bill
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    This thesis takes an auteurist approach to the films of director Terrence Malick by reading them through the spiritual philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson. I establish Malick's thematic concern with the human struggle to achieve better existences in a broken material world, a concern buoyed by his signature aesthetic that...
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    of such calls to higher consciousness, a struggle described by Emerson scholar Richard Geldard as

  • Creative Placemaking as a Composition Pedagogy

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    Yerace, Marisa
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    This thesis explores the ways in which creative placemaking, a neighborhood-based practice for building community, can offer community-building and civic action wisdom as a model for composition. This model brings attention to spatial metaphors for rhetoric and teaching that have persisted for millennia; it re-focuses us on community; it encourages...
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    rhetorical study (16); similarly, Richard Ohmann finds that literacy is integral for democratic citizenship

  • Toward Critical Consciousness : Rhetorical Grammar as Anti-Racist Praxis in the First Year Composition Classroom

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    Koneval, Addison B.
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    While grammar is a core aspect of written and oral communication, many find grammar instruction equally frustrating and boring, and as such, grammar receives very little formal attention in the university system (Hoffman). My thesis draws attention to this overlooked, and yet central component of composition, and asks a radical...
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  • (Com)Posing Rhetorical Ecology: Cultivating Phronesis via Permacultural Praxis

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    Ferris, Ian
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    Contrasting the productive ground gained in ecological rhetorical theory through embedded fieldwork, composition as a discipline has yet to enact such transformative engagements with ecology. In this thesis, I put forward a praxis for ecological rhetoric and composition through permaculture design, utilizing the design framework’s system of ethics and principles...
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    issues we now face. An undeniable bell tolling for ecocomposition has been sounded by Dobrin himself

  • Reasserting moral boundaries : representations of fame in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda

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    Foster, Emily S.
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    Celebrity culture is part of a long history of fame, but the modern celebrity individual came into focus in the nineteenth century. The first part of this thesis distinguishes modern celebrity – including its morality – from other types of fame, explores the intersection of celebrity and gender through the...
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    “intimate stranger” is from Richard Schickel’s Intimate Strangers: The Culture of Celebrity (1985). 6 The

  • Feedback as Critical Care: An Antiracist, Feminist Praxis for Composition

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    Rowland, Olivia A.
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    Feminist compositionists have long argued for addressing the feminization of composition, or its association with low value “women’s work,” by revaluing caring labor (Enos; Heinert and Phillips; Tuell). However, this argument assumes that writing teachers’ care work is beneficial for all students and teachers. Focusing on responding to student writing...
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  • Composing for Social Change : Clashes of Ideographs and Ideology in the Composition Classroom

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    Gasser, Chris
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    Clashes of ideology are all around us, from our computer and television screens to our composition classrooms, and they merit attention within the composition classroom. This thesis examines the justifications and pedagogies that scholars in rhetoric and composition use to infuse issues of ideology and social ethics into writing instruction...
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    conflicts are relatively low- stakes: McDonalds or Taco Bell? Nike or Addidas? Pepsi or Coke? Yet