Search
Now showing items 111-120 of 161
A Return to Relationship: How Prophetic Rhetorical Strategies Energize Pedagogy
(2009)
The foundational element of the educational enterprise is the basic relationship of two human beings working collaboratively to accomplish something together that neither could accomplish alone. Faculty want to teach and ...
The spatial discourse of realism and modernism in American fiction, photography, and poetry.
(1997)
The first three chapters establish the principles and methods underlying the spatial practice of realism. In Crane's Maggie, A Girl of the Streets, Howells's A Hazard of New Fortunes, and Riis's How the Other Half Lives, ...
The unity of Edmund Spenser's Fowre Hymnes.
(1981)
Spenser uses several techniques to achieve this unity in a poem which contains diverse subjects and themes. Its genre, the hymn, incorporates secular and sacred, classical and Christian elements, and thus becomes a very ...
The Denial of Neoliberalism: Genre in Contemporary American and World Anglophone Novels
(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 ...
Constructing an Ethos in the Borderlands
(2008)
Since the 1960s, classical rhetoric has been a significant site for theorizing composition pedagogy in the United States, informing scholarly work in the field and generating textbooks and teaching practices for first-year ...
The Old English elegies :
(1981)
The enormous bibliography surrounding the Old English elegies breaks down primarily into studies of structure, cultural context, and genre. This study is concerned first with attempting to define as precisely as possible ...
Imagining Irishness: Evolving Representations of National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Genre Fiction
(2012)
Though it has garnered some attention from recent scholars, the field of nineteenth- century Irish literary studies remains neglected. It seems to occupy a rather nebulous space, too "foreign" to be exactly Victorian and ...
Categories of the self-conscious narrator in Wolfram, Dante, and Chaucer /
(1984)
These four categories may be discovered in each of these romances. Their presence indicates conscious efforts by these narrative poets to manipulate complex audience/text/narrator interaction. The sophistication of the use ...
Making and Unmaking Masculinity: Paradigms of Success and Failure in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
(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 ...