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The Faerie Queene and the Greek romance.
(1981)
In the legend of Courtesie, however, Greek romance is not simply a source of fictional material for allegory, but an enlivening influence on Spenser's art of romance. Here Spenser attempts an elaborate re-creation of the ...
The police in different voices: Isaac Newton and his programme of purification.
(2005)
This work positions Isaac Newton's three areas of inquiry---Natural Philosophy, alchemy, and theology---as three inter-locked "literacies, " each with its own corrupt text and purifying method of reading. Newton's natural ...
A theory of conflict and cooperation within interlocutor relationships in the discourse of synchronous computer conferencing.
(1998)
This project investigates the dynamics of conflict and cooperation in the construction of interlocutor relationships in synchronous computer conferencing (SCC). Chapters One and Two of the dissertation present my qualitative ...
VFVSTETV (TO SERVE): AN INTRINSIC ANALYSIS OF MUSCOGEE PLAYWRIGHT ELAINE ANDERSON'S PLAYSCRIPTS
(2011)
Members of the Muscogee Nation have encountered and endured several challenging events (the Civil War, allotment, Oklahoma statehood, etc.) since the removal of their ancestors to Indian Territory. A number of writers ...
Sentimental Boundaries in Mark Twain's Novels
(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 ...
Pivotal Moment: Personal Histories of First-Year Composition
(2017-05-12)
This project links historical close readings of pivotal figures in the creation of first-year composition (FYC) labor practices to contemporary debates about how to best advocate for and reform contemporary labor conditions, ...
White Pathology: The African American Critique of Black Pathology Discourse at the Turn of the Century
(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 ...
Counter-Storytelling Using Xicana Epistemologies and Rhetorics: Countering White Benevolence and White Ignorance in College Literacy Intervention Spaces
(2021-05-14)
Most of us who ask ourselves “What do students need in order to succeed in college?” genuinely want to help students succeed. However, because helping others is known to be a good thing, we often don’t look critically at ...