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The art that will not die: The story-telling of Greg Sarris and Thomas King.
(2001)
This study addresses the importance of the continuance of storytelling through the written medium in the understanding of one's individuality in relationship to place the community. More importantly, it investigates the ...
Prefacing the poetess: Gender and textual presentation in seventeenth-century England.
(2000)
A.B.'s Covent Garden Drollery (1672) is important to the history of the anthologized preface. The prologues and epilogues in the drollery participate in the discourse of the professional woman in theatre, representing women ...
COMPOSING AGENCY: USING INQUIRY TO PROMOTE SOCIAL ACTION
(2017-08-01)
In Rhetoric/Composition studies, agency has been a highly contested concept, straightaway invoking the tension between two dominant perspectives. Agency is viewed as either an internal quality possessed by an individual ...
Holy terror: The vampire as numinous experience in British and American literature.
(2000)
This dissertation investigates the experience of the numinous in a specific category of Gothic literature, which employs a vampire as the primary focus of its action, regardless of whether that figure is literal or metaphoric. ...
Gothic Modernisms: Aesthetics, Politics, Culture
(2011)
I analyze the persistence of Gothic conventions in the works of four major British modernist writers: Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, and D. H Lawrence. These writers depict cultural, political, and aesthetic ...
POCAHONTAS’S PERPLEXING LEGACY: NOBLE NATIVE SUBJECTIVITY AND THE INDIAN PRINCESS
(2016-05-03)
In this dissertation, “Pocahontas’s Perplexing Legacy: Performing the Indian Princess,” I analyze how Native American women performed the Indian Princess identity—a Western archetype of idealized indigenous femininity that ...
Red State Re-Claimed: The Transrhetorical Recovery of Resistance in Oklahoma
(2016-05-13)
My project argues for critical attention to local rhetorics and characterizes Oklahoma as a unique site for understanding their impact on student writers and writing instruction. Despite rhetorical suppression from dominant ...
A performance history of John Dryden and Henry Purcell's "King Arthur".
(2004)
Primary source documents considered in this study are Dryden's text published in 1691 and reprinted in 1695, and several manuscript scores by Purcell dating from the 1690's and very early 1700's. Additionally, a notated ...