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Learning Good From Skeletons: Ethical Literacies in Undertale
(2019-05-11)
Current studies of game narrative and design, particularly with regard to morality, have focused mainly on direct player engagement. However, this otherwise reasonable perspective omits the other ways in which people ...
"But Break My Heart For I Must Hold My Tongue:" Silence in Shakespeare's Hamlet
(2017-05-12)
This paper will explore the topic of conscience in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, using sixteenth-century casuistry and diplomacy as lenses through which to explain the strand of advice concerning silence by various characters in ...
PROCEDURAL FEMINISM AND SLOW ARGUMENT: THE VALUE OF LISTENING IN FIRST-YEAR COMPOSITION
(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 ...
Noise and Fragile Symphonies: Animality and the South African Sonic Genre in The Whale Caller, Disgrace, and Nineveh
(2019-05-11)
When establishing an interspecies ethics, it is often the gaze that is used to establish the agency of the animal Other in the absence of logocentric speech. However, when considering the physical realities of the nonhuman ...
The Materiality of Disability in Animal’s People
(2019-05)
Metaphors are useful tools for understanding large, complicated issues, but they are inherently limiting. Particularly in a disability context, the application of metaphor relegates the material differences of a disabled ...
Domesticity, Utopia, and Biopolitics: A Critical Study of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Moving the Mountain
(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 ...
The Rhetoric of Ecological Food: Environmental and Technological God Terms in Blue Apron, Soylent, and Slow Food
(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
(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 ...
“The Lord That Counseled Thee to Give Away thy Land”: The Wardship Controversy in the First Quarto Version of King Lear
(2019)
This thesis argues that the 1608 First Quarto (Q) version of William Shakespeare’s tragedy King Lear responds to then-ongoing popular agitation in England against the institution of wardship. Q implicitly affirms routinely-made ...
Popular Faulkner: The Development of “The National Voice” Across The Bayard and Ringo Stories
(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 ...