Browsing OU - Dissertations by Author "Zeigler, James"
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A Comparison of the Ivan Galamian and Rachel Barton Pine editions of the Sonata No. 3 in C Major for Solo Violin by Johann Sebastian Bach, BWV 1005
Fadero, Chandler (2023-05-12)Study of the Sonatas and Partitas by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685—1750) is an inevitable avenue of the violinist’s artistic journey. The most commonly studied version of the Sonatas and Partitas is the edition published ... -
The Denial of Neoliberalism: Genre in Contemporary American and World Anglophone Novels
Raasu, Saara (2017-05-12)In this dissertation, “The Denial of Neoliberalism: Genre in Contemporary American and World Anglophone Novels,” I examine narratives, which demonstrate conflicts within the laissez-faire ideology. Neoliberalism presents ... -
Making and Unmaking Masculinity: Paradigms of Success and Failure in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
La Shot, Derek (2016-05-13)This project focuses on the late-nineteenth and early twentieth century depictions of success and failure in prominent fiction and addresses how these concepts played a vital role in the construction of masculinity during ... -
MAPPING NATIVE MODERNS: EUROPE AND SPACE IN THE NATIVE AMERICAN NOVEL
Krause, Thomas W. (2021-05-14)This dissertation, “Mapping Native Moderns,” analyzes Native American literature for its settings in England, France, and Italy. Examples include an unpublished manuscript written in the late 1920s by D’Arcy McNickle ... -
Materialist Circuitry: Digital Writing Technology, Planned Obsolescence, and Ecological Impact
Madden, Shannon (2015)This dissertation claims that planned obsolescence of digital writing equipment is a problem for composition—one that we should take up and challenge. Obsolescence causes practical difficulties for digital writing teachers ... -
Misogyny and murder: crime fiction by women from 1947-1959
Brown, Brittney (2022)This project demonstrates that American women authors from 1947-1959 repurposed the crime genre to critique and engage with misogyny and sexism of the day. Hardboiled crime fiction, which was at its peak popularity in ... -
Only the Young: The Rhetoric of Youth-Led Social Movements In the 21st Century
Rachal, Kimberly (2024-05-10)In this dissertation, I examine several examples of contemporary youth-led protest in conjunction with some of the specific challenges of organizing in the present day. In each chapter, I pair one circumstance that makes ... -
"Red Devil Radicals": The Birth and Growth of Americanism in Chicago, 1870-1919
McGregor, Megan (2014-05)In the midst of the struggle to reunite and reconstruct the nation following the Civil War, citizens of the United States also began to renegotiate what it meant to truly be an American. As the nation attempted to recover ... -
Sentimental Boundaries in Mark Twain's Novels
Ikoma, Kumi (2018-12-14)In this dissertation, I discuss Mark Twain’s major novels in terms of sentimentality and boundary-making. Indeed, Twain is concerned with male sympathy toward other men in many of his major works: Tom Sawyer’s compassion ... -
Subjects of Struggle: The Intensification of White Supremacy and the Fugitive Dimensions of Black Freedom in Antebellum America
Edison, Christopher (2021)In antebellum America, free and enslaved blacks struggled for imagined forms of freedom at a time when white supremacy’s governing authority intensified dramatically; the nation’s culture of danger exposed black bodies, ... -
(Un)decidable Stereotypes: Anti-Racist Satire in Popular American Literature from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Mid-Twentieth Century
Seto, Takahiro (2022-05-13)This dissertation examines the satirical strategy that employs racial stereotypes to critique racism. I read the work of Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Charles W. Chesnutt, Dorothy Parker, and Langston Hughes and explore how this ... -
Unveiling Melodies in Shadows: An Analysis of Swedish Female Composer Amanda Maier’s Sonata for Violin and Piano in B Minor
Wang, Nan (2023-12-15)Amanda Maier (1853−1894), a pioneering Swedish violinist and composer of the late nineteenth century, holds a unique place in music history as the first-ever female music director in Sweden. Despite her significant ... -
What Shall We Be: Inherited Controversies and Conflicts in the Mennonite Church USA
Horn, Eddie Chet (2021-05-14)Dramatic social changes in the early twenty-first century United States led to dramatic shifts and schism in a variety of religious groups. The Mennonite Church USA, a denomination created from the merger of two older ... -
White Pathology: The African American Critique of Black Pathology Discourse at the Turn of the Century
Davis, Matthew (2018-05)This project examines the ways African American authors from the turn of the twentieth century challenged racist violence and white supremacy and sought to create nuanced political responses and strategies. I focus on how ...