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Native American English in Oklahoma: Attitudes and vitality
(2015-05)
This study offers an assessment of the subjective ethnolinguistic vitality (SEV) of Native American-accented English varieties--or just Native American English (NAE)--among tribal people in Oklahoma through an investigation ...
"Many and strange experiences of shadow and sunshine": Ideological violence, subjectivity, and the impossibility of redemption in Frederick Douglass' lifelong resistance to white supremacy, an American paradox rewritten by himself
(2021-12)
This dissertation sets out to recover Frederick Douglass as a militant by radically redefining the terms of his militancy. Beginning with the recognition that Douglass' militancy emerges from his violent experiences with ...
Embodied monsters: From fear to domestication in gothic monster literature
(2020-12)
This dissertation argues that over the course of the long nineteenth century, Gothic antagonists moved from supernatural but disembodied beings into more physically monstrous entities. The shift to monster follows traceable ...
Skewed subject: A topological study of subjectivity in Bollywood films
(2012-07)
Scope and Method of Study: This dissertation studies the rise and fall of Lacanian film theory from the 1960s to the present. After discussing the charges brought against Lacanian film theory from schools of thought as ...
Shotgun Situation: A collection of short stories and an introduction
(2010-05)
Scope and Method of Study: Creative Writing
Show and prove: The cinematic aesthetics of hip-hop
(2019-12)
One of the most important and far-reaching artistic movements of the 20th century, hip-hop transformed many areas of popular culture, from cartoons to fashion, visual arts to music composition. Its influence upon film and ...
Ludic Garden: The Work of Play in Composition and Rhetoric
(2019-05-01)
This dissertation explores the intersections between play and game studies and composition and rhetoric. Through an analysis of the provenance of the five canons of ancient rhetoric, invention, arrangement, style, memory, ...
Ethnolexicography of the skateboarding subculture
(2020-07)
This study takes an ethnolexicographic approach (Silverstein, 2006) to present a glossary of the skateboarding subculture derived from sociolinguistic interviews conducted with 11 skaters. This study also uses this ...