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The life and work of Gretel Karplus/Adorno: Her contributions to Frankfurt School theory.
(2004)
This dissertation uses the insights of contemporary rhetorical theory and feminist biography to acknowledge the contributions of Gretel Karplus/Adorno to the productivity of her husband, Theodor W. Adorno, of her dear ...
Red Scare rhetoric and composition: Early Cold War effects on university writing instruction, 1934--1954.
(2004)
This dissertation investigates composition and communication philosophies and practices from the years 1934--1954. Generally speaking, writing instruction suffered during the Cold War because the political climate reduced ...
Antimodern strategies: Ambivalence, accommodation, and protest in Willa Cather's "The Troll Garden".
(2004)
In this project I argue that Willa Cather's earliest collection of stories, The Troll Garden (1905), demonstrates the antimodern ethos of the American fin de siecle period as characterized by both progressive rhetoric and ...
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 ...
Dangerous eloquence: Hate speech tactics in the discourse of Asa/Forrest Carter from 1954--1974.
(2004)
This study takes as its subject the political life and writings of Asa Earl Carter and the literary writings he produced under the name Forrest Carter during the period of 1954 through 1974. As part of this study, I offer ...
Transporting the subject: The fiction of nationality in an era of transnationalism.
(2004)
My work focuses on the representation of South Asian life in works by four contemporary Anglophone writers: V. S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, and Anita Desai. Of course, I also refer to works by other writers, ...
"In silence I struggle": Voices of South Vietnamese living in America.
(2004)
Almost thirty years after the fall of South Vietnam, Vietnamese exiles living in America continue to struggle with their past, especially former political prisoners of the reeducation camps and their families. This ...