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

Creator:: Slaton, Dorothy N.
Abstract:: 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,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Conversation: A Rhetorical Reading of Peter Elbow’s Work Abstract approved

Houses of fiction, houses of confinement : character introductions, autonomy, and domestic spaces in two works by Henry James

Creator:: Killips, Lisa M.
Abstract:: My thesis examines a total of fourteen characters from The Portrait of a Lady and The Turn of the Screw. Primarily, I have discovered an overwhelming pattern in these two works by Henry James; when characters make direct entrances--that is when they are not described or discussed in absentia by...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Works by Henry James Abstract approved: Peter J. Betjemann David M. Robinson My thesis examines a

Discovering Antigone: A Non-Normative Political Figure

Creator:: Patten, Jennifer A.
Abstract:: This thesis analyzes Sophocles’ classic Greek tragedy Antigone as it relates to biopolitics, biopower, democratic language and non-normative principles of politics. I argue that the figure of Antigone enables a better understanding of exclusive biopolitical philosophy. Antigone is a figure not recognized as human because her gender is tortured and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: January 3, 2021. Title: Discovering Antigone: A Non-Normative Political Figure. Abstract

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

Creator:: Evans, Laura A.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: THESIS OF Laura A. Evans for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on May 9, 2012

Bright lights, big city : electrified female desire in Edith Wharton and Theodore Dreiser

Creator:: Larsen, Haley A.
Abstract:: This thesis explores the electrified female subject in two novels, Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie (1900) and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth (1905). As cultural touchstones, two literary works that prominently feature electricity -- Henry James' story "In the Cage" and Henry Adams' biography The Education of Henry Adams --...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: committee. I’m especially thankful to Peter for lucid feedback, high energy, and for taking a real

An informed and ignorant readership : the contradictions of creative nonfiction

Creator:: Rush, Lani
Abstract:: Creative nonfiction is a genre replete with contradictions--the name itself shows that: nonfiction writing is true and factual, but creative writing is imaginative and inventive. Because of fundamental contradictions like this, there is no standardized or even most common definition of the genre. This creates confusion for both critics and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: nonfiction is a genre replete with contradictions—the name itself shows that: nonfiction writing is true

Rational Madmen : Monomania in Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” and Stedman’s “How Old Brown Took Harpers Ferry”

Creator:: Green, Paisley
Abstract:: In this project, I explore the use of monomania as a literary and rhetorical device that pathologizes deviance from certain norms—in this case, sexual and political norms— and allows for contradiction, dissonance, and reform. Using Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Birthmark” and Edmund Clarence Stedman’s poem “How Old Brown Took...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Peter J. Betjemann In this project, I explore the use of monomania as a literary and

Radical/domestic : representations of the professor in Willa Cather's The Professor's House and Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin

Creator:: Butcher, Ian
Abstract:: This thesis is an exploration of literary representation of professors, specificially in Willa Cather's The Professor's House and Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin. I explicate the political unconscious of these texts by teasing out the tensions and ironies stemming from the conflict between the radical political consequences of the titular characters' scholarship...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Professor's House and its protagonist, the professor of the title, Godfrey St. Peter. His work as a

Fighting tradition : Hemingway’s Nick Adams and shell shock

Creator:: McGrath, Cole P.
Abstract:: In his Nick Adams stories, Ernest Hemingway traces the life of a single man as he moves from boyhood to adolescence to adulthood to fatherhood. From the beginning of Nick Adams life, it is clear that he does not fit into the role of the traditional hero. In addition, Nick...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Title: Fighting Tradition: Hemingways Nick Adams and Shell Shock. Abstract approved: Peter

Vibrant colors, transient shadows : woman artists and the brushstrokes of impressionist sensibility in Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse

Creator:: Kondrack, Kayleen Rose
Abstract:: This thesis explores the artistic imperatives and internal struggles of women painters in two novels, Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899) and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (1927). I identify Chopin's Edna Pontellier and Woolf’s Lily Briscoe as painters who exhibit Impressionist strains, both in how they paint and how they...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Peter J. Betjemann This thesis explores the artistic imperatives and internal

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

Houses of fiction, houses of confinement : character introductions, autonomy, and domestic spaces in two works by Henry James

Discovering Antigone: A Non-Normative Political Figure

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

Bright lights, big city : electrified female desire in Edith Wharton and Theodore Dreiser

An informed and ignorant readership : the contradictions of creative nonfiction

Rational Madmen : Monomania in Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” and Stedman’s “How Old Brown Took Harpers Ferry”

Radical/domestic : representations of the professor in Willa Cather's The Professor's House and Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin

Fighting tradition : Hemingway’s Nick Adams and shell shock

Vibrant colors, transient shadows : woman artists and the brushstrokes of impressionist sensibility in Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse

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