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Performative designs: Female identity in Louisa May Alcott's sensational and sentimental fiction.
(2000)
This is a study of Louisa May Alcott's conceptions of female identity in her sensational and sentimental fiction. Presenting a historical and cultural analysis of the sentimental notion of femininity, I analyze how Alcott's ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The police in different voices: Isaac Newton and his programme of purification.
(2005)
This work positions Isaac Newton's three areas of inquiry---Natural Philosophy, alchemy, and theology---as three inter-locked "literacies, " each with its own corrupt text and purifying method of reading. Newton's natural ...
$elling $hakespeare: Cultural literacy/cultural capital .
(2000)
The Shakespeare Industry is the meeting of the institutionalized Shakespeare with the forces of capitalism. The business of selling the works and name of the playwright is a centuries-old practice of which Shakespearean ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...