Browsing OU - Theses by Author "Zeigler, James"
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Autofiction's Interrogation of Neoliberal Subjectivity
Gulbranson, Gregory (2021-05-14)Recent scholarship has highlighted the affinity between autofiction—a development in the contemporary novel that incorporates a fictionalized version of the author in the work—and the neoliberal economy. Through readings ... -
THE BATTLE FOR BELIEVABILITY: SEXUAL TRAUMA, TESTIMONY, AND VICTIMHOOD IN ANNA BURNS’ MILKMAN AND RUTH OZEKI’S A TALE FOR THE TIME BEING
Pesina, Marisa (2024-05-10)The widespread under-reporting of rape and sexual assault is largely attributed to the victim-blaming attitudes and routine disbelief of women in our culture. Believability–or what makes someone believable–lies at the ... -
Cloud, Calf, and Cannon: An Ecological Reading of "War and Peace"
Hill, Ian (2022-05-14)This essay engages in an ecocritical–spatial reading of Leo Tolstoy’s "War and Peace" focused on the narrator’s conscientious and equitable treatment of nature, animals, and topography. Where traditional historical–temporal ... -
Decadent Ekphrasis in The Picture of Dorian Gray
West, Warner (2022-12-16)Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, as a novel about aesthetes and decadent artists, has several acts of ekphrasis, the process by which visual art is detailed using a verbal description. Unlike the traditional use ... -
Domesticity, Utopia, and Biopolitics: A Critical Study of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Moving the Mountain
Nepomnick, Allison (2018-05-11)With the rise of first-wave feminism in United States, often characterized by the movement to secure women the right to vote and enact a voice in the public sphere, the early twentieth century indicated a clear ideological ... -
Driving to Heaven and Other Stories
Crayon, Alexander (2022-05-14)Driving to Heaven and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction and creative nonfiction focused on the themes of family, religion, addiction, and exile. These works were written, compiled, and collated between Fall ... -
Flannery O’Connor's “Displaced Person”: Americans’ Ambivalence Towards Refugees Post-WWII
Runyan, Larissa (2019-05)This thesis examines how Flannery O’Connor’s novella, “The Displaced Person,” is a response to the problem of statelessness in the aftermath of World War II. During the postwar period, statelessness became a major issue. ... -
Improving User Experience in ENGL 3153
Rahhal, Anthony (2021-05-14)This report examines the usability of the ENGL 3153 curriculum at the University of Oklahoma. I provide an overview of the current curriculum; in addition, I define some key concepts from instructional design and user-centered ... -
Place as a storied event-in-process in Braiding sweetgrass and There there
Hendry, Scott (2021-05-14)The notion that place may be conceptualized as a storied event-in-process is the crucial premise of this literary exploration. The essay critically analyzes the storied memoir Braiding Sweetgrass by Potawatomi scholar ... -
Popular Faulkner: The Development of “The National Voice” Across The Bayard and Ringo Stories
January, William (2018-05-11)This thesis seeks to demonstrate the development of a 'popular' Faulkner that emerges through the composition history of his 1938 novel 'The Unvanquished.' Using Michael Warner's concept of "publics," Faulkner's Bayard-Ringo ... -
PROCEDURAL FEMINISM AND SLOW ARGUMENT: THE VALUE OF LISTENING IN FIRST-YEAR COMPOSITION
Woody, Cassandra (2017-05-12)This essay argues that program-wide curriculum planning can benefit from feminist practices that have come from the past decade’s feminist rhetorical theory, such as Krista Ratcliffe’s work on rhetorical listening and the ... -
The Rhetoric of Ecological Food: Environmental and Technological God Terms in Blue Apron, Soylent, and Slow Food
Lee, Haeyoung (2017-05-12)The rhetoric and language surrounding technologically and environmentally oriented food systems illustrate that what and how we eat shapes the way we think about food, ecology, and the world. Analyzing the rhetoric of ... -
RUNNING SCARED: FEAR, SPACE, AND AFFECT IN AMNESIA: THE DARK DESCENT
Lee, Charles (2019)Most contemporary 3-D video games provide a wealth of visual information to players to help them navigate the in-game virtual space. Maps, compasses, beacons, and other visual guides are often necessary components of ... -
“SCIENCE IS MAGIC THAT WORKS”: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE EARLY WORK OF KURT VONNEGUT, 1952-1963
Griffin, Emily (2018-05-11)Kurt Vonnegut’s writing helped to push the boundaries of our conventional understanding of twentieth-century American literature through his inclusion of science fiction themes in many of his works and his poignant discussions ... -
These Were the Nights: A Creative Collection by a Misunderstood Giant of a Broken Thing
Oliveras, Seth (2023-05-12)These Were the Nights: A Creative Collection by a Misunderstood Giant of a Broken Thing is a collection of creative non-fiction and short fiction meditating on Black, multiracial identity, family trauma, and the effects ... -
Using video games in the secondary English classroom for the teaching of writing and rhetorical skills
Woodard, Connor (2021)English Language Arts (ELA) teachers are searching for new and novel ways to engage students in classroom activities involving reading and learning reading/writing-related skills, such as rhetoric or the use of literary ...