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A genre of survivance: narrative criticism of boarding school stories
(2020-05-08)
Using narrative rhetorical analysis, this thesis examines two popular American Indian autobiographies to analyze the rhetorical impact. By applying Frye's genre theory, I argue that American Indians surpass genre conventions ...
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 ...
"Half Savage and Hardy, and Free": The Failure of Feminine Identity in Wuthering Heights
(2022)
Over the last half-century, much of the scholarly discourse concerning Wuthering Heights has considered Catherine Earnshaw’s struggle for belonging in the social order, using a transgressive mode of gender criticism to ...
"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 ...
These Were the Nights: A Creative Collection by a Misunderstood Giant of a Broken Thing
(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 ...
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 ...
Cloud, Calf, and Cannon: An Ecological Reading of "War and Peace"
(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 ...
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 ...