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Filtering by: Creator Hoffman, Justine D. Academic Affiliation Writing, Literature and Film Degree Name Master of Arts (M.A.)

(Com)Posing Rhetorical Ecology: Cultivating Phronesis via Permacultural Praxis

Creator:

Ferris, Ian

Abstract:

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...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis
Willed Women : Female Bodies & Subversive Being in the Knight’s and Second Nun’s Tales

Creator:

McLemore, Emily C.

Abstract:

This project examines two understudied female characters from Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales who emerge as subversive figures by striving to maintain control over their bodies and being. Through my analyses of the Knight’s and Second Nun’s Tales, I reveal how virginity correlates with bodily autonomy for the narratives’ respective protagonists,...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis