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Materialist Circuitry: Digital Writing Technology, Planned Obsolescence, and Ecological Impact
(2015)
This dissertation claims that planned obsolescence of digital writing equipment is a problem for composition—one that we should take up and challenge. Obsolescence causes practical difficulties for digital writing teachers ...
The religious quest of Theodore Roethke.
(1980)
Struggling to discover the truth of his identity--of self--of life, and of God, Theodore Roethke turned to mysticism for, if not answers, at least approaches to answers. An important influence on his perception of mysticism, ...
Rhetorical transformations: The figurative language of the industrial revolution.
(2005)
This dissertation is an examination of the rhetoric and images used in the British industrial rhetoric of the mid-nineteenth century. This body of work encompasses the industrial novel as well as non-fiction works. This ...
Silence of the Limbs: Dismemberment, Female Bodies, and Literary Pieces
(2016-05)
Using a postcolonial, feminist approach grounded in psychoanalysis, this dissertation focuses on novels that feature dismembered bodies of women. Some particularly profound twentieth and twenty-first century novels written ...
Excluding the masses: Aptitude in classical and modern rhetorical theory.
(2003)
In my discussions of how aptitude operates in the composition theory of the United States, I explore current-traditional, expressivist, and social rhetorics. Although classical commonplaces persist, I argue that American ...
The Legibility of Empire in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
(2016)
In this dissertation, “The Legibility of Empire in Nineteenth-Century American Literature,” I examine how American authors used their literary works to comment on – and, at times, challenge – the way legibility is mobilized ...
Jane Austen, Henry James, and the family romance.
(1980)
Both authors' closest attachments were to parents, brothers and sisters, and their work focuses largely on family relationships. They also share a preference for one particular story, the Cinderella fairy tale. In Pride ...
INCORPORATING MULTIPLE HISTORIES: THE POSSIBILITY OF NARRATIVE RUPTURE OF THE ARCHIVE IN V. AND BELOVED
(2010)
Novels of the twentieth century are grappling with the questions of identity in relation to history, but a self-reflexive history, a history that is always suspicious of itself. Alienated from cultural, religious and ...
Alterity and hybridity in Anglophone postcolonial literature: Ngugi, Achebe, p'Bitek and Nwapa.
(2001)
Chapter 2 also finds similarities between Petals of Blood and Anthills of the Savannah. It explores the ramifications of Westernization, and the role of politics in the postcolonial nation/state. Characters' sociolects are ...
American Indian Composition Pedagogy: Related Histories, Dialogues, and Response Strategies
(2009)
The field of composition and rhetoric needs to invest greater time and resources into the higher educational needs of American Indian students in writing courses. Data from local and national education surveys reveals that ...