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The Risks of Rhetoricity: Accounting for Intellectual Disability in the Rhetorical Tradition
(2023-08-04)
I am troubled by the notion that what specialists in my field call “rhetoricity”—the quality of being able to assess an audience and effectively influence their thinking—is what separates humans (“rhetors”) from non-humans. ...
MAPPING NATIVE MODERNS: EUROPE AND SPACE IN THE NATIVE AMERICAN NOVEL
(2021-05-14)
This dissertation, “Mapping Native Moderns,” analyzes Native American literature for its settings in England, France, and Italy. Examples include an unpublished manuscript written in the late 1920s by D’Arcy McNickle ...
Post-Industrial Gatekeeping: A Rhetorical History of Disciplinary Composition
(2015-05)
This dissertation argues that composition’s ascendance to academic legitimacy in the mid-to-late twentieth century did not emerge as a challenge to FYC’s traditional gatekeeping function but rather represents the replacement ...
Timely materialisms: Modernism, subjectivity, and language.
(2001)
In Timely Materialisms: Modernism, Subjectivity, and Language I examine some major figures in literary modernism in relationship to the critique of scientific positivism, particularly as it plays out in the human sciences. ...
Natural magic :
(1980)
Though integration rather than alienation is the aim of Wharton's ironic method, alienation is a crucial unifying theme threaded throughout her best work, a motif so insistently explored that it, rather than manners or ...
Acts of empathic imagination: Contemporary Native American artists and writers as healers.
(2001)
This dissertation uses the model of Native American "Morning Prayers" to establish four geographic and cultural regions within the United States as the means to discuss the relationship between health and contemporary ...
The "supramundane": The Kantian sublime in Lovecraft, Clarke, and Gibson.
(1998)
Failure of understanding is the basis of Kant's theory of the sublime. As shown in the Critique of Judgement, this painful experience allows insight into the sublime. The failure delineates the limitations of our capacity ...
Political Theology and Social Hope
(2017-05-12)
This dissertation intervenes in political theology to offer a constructive and wide-ranging theological proposal for Christian cultural engagement and peacemaking in the context of the globalization, perpetual violence, ...
Who Shall Gainsay Our Decision? Choctaw Literary Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century
(2009)
This study examines the writing of a group of young Choctaw intellectuals, the first generation of that society of American Indians to embrace literacy as a fully viable tool of discourse. Working in the pre-removal period, ...
Into the fold: The folded narratives of Henry Miller, Djuna Barnes, William S. Burroughs and J. G. Ballard.
(2006)
Frequently, literary critics have overlooked the narrative possibilities of authors who have been profoundly affected by the surrealists. They use various metaphors to describe their narratives such as hallucinatory, ...