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Staging American constraint: from containment to confinement post 1945
(2020-05-08)
An analysis of American plays from the mid-late 20th century, this study explores dramas representing and resisting social constraint on stage. It organizes its discussion around two primary forms of constraint understood ...
The Native American postmodern-mimetic novel.
(2000)
This dissertation examines a new literary phenomenon---the Native American Postmodern---Mimetic novel. This genre is heralded by N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn, and it is exemplified by his subsequent novel, The ...
The sociolinguistics of Kenneth Burke.
(1982)
In recent years Kenneth Burke has come to speak of his own work as the science of "logology, " by which he means words used to chart the general principles of word-use. Perhaps the best introduction to Burke is what he ...
Teaching in the 21st century: Merging critical theory and practice for the writing and rhetoric class.
(2006)
This dissertation seeks to assist teachers of first-year composition as they move into the 21st century. Focusing on the two-year institution, but also asking for the assistance of University Writing Program Administrators ...
Is there anybody out there? Toward an audience-oriented writing pedagogy.
(2001)
In chapter one I explore the history of audience as a theoretical construct within rhetorical and composition studies. I argue that James Porter's work in particular has caused audience to be conceived of in a managerial ...
The Pursuit of Privacy in Medieval Landscapes
(2015-05-08)
The Pursuit of Privacy in Medieval Landscapes identifies the ways in which individual pursuits of privacy in the medieval world are shaped by the landscapes in which those pursuits occur. There is a correlation between the ...
J. M. Coetzee's 'Postmodern' Corpus: Bodies/Texts, History, and Politics in the Apartheid Novels, 1974-1990
(2011)
This dissertation examines the apartheid novels of the South African writer J. M. Coetzee. Using postmodernism as its main theoretical framework and working at its intersections with feminism, postcolonialism, and ...
A disarming laughter: The role of humor in tribal cultures. An examination of humor in contemporary Native American literature and art.
(2000)
Non-Indians have long considered Indian people to possess little or no sense of humor because they trustingly accept prevailing stereotypes. This dissertation dispels this assumption by showing that humor has served, and ...
Indigenous Futurisms: Genre and World-Building
(2021-05-14)
This dissertation examines literary, digital, virtual, and multimodal texts and spaces in regards to genre and world-building in Indigenous futurist works. I argue that by studying different genres like speculative fiction ...