Browsing UCO - Graduate Works and Theses by Degrees "M.A., English"
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Redemption's sweet song.
(2010)Making mistakes and redeeming oneself marks growth. Philena Shiloh, a na? African American woman, learns the hard way that growth generates both pain and reward. An unplanned pregnancy forces Philena's best friend, Rachel, ... -
Resting on weedy laurels : Lorine Niedecker's poetics of perseverance.
(2012)Lorine Niedecker began writing poems in the late 1920s from her home by the waters of Blackhawk Island, Wisconsin. This study examines her first associations with and empowerment through the Objectivists' new poetic ... -
Shadow boxer.
(2011)Shadow Boxer is a novel about identity crisis. Willie Guyles has struggled with his gender identity for his entire life. He's mostly tried to ignore it by pursuing traditionally masculine pursuits: boxing, military, law ... -
Sheiks and sherifs : western portrayals of the middle east between the World Wars.
(2018)Oftentimes, when there are analyses of E. M. Hull's The Sheik or discussions of Lowell Thomas's presentations over Lawrence of Arabia, the intertextual nature between these works--as well as the historical and cultural ... -
Something of himself : textual and historical revision in Rudyard Kipling's Kim.
(2008)This thesis asks whether 'Kim', as a fin de siècle novel, helped to bridge the Victorian and modern periods in British literature, and whether the novel, published at the midpoint of Kipling's career, stands as a marker ... -
Spandex cinema : three approaches to comic book film adaptation.
(2009)Adapting graphic novels requires new approaches in the theoretical models currently available to film theorists. Comic book films must be dissected beyond references to character, setting, plot, or story; analysis must ... -
Sulphur and lilacs.
(2011)Set in a late-1930's mining town in West Virginia and in the broader theater of World War II, Sulphur and Lilacs is about Calvin Fisher, a young Marine whose experiences teach him about honor, duty, family, and love. As a ... -
Summer of excess.
(2013)On graduation day in May 2013, Olivia "Liv" Grigsby and her three friends have a rowdy night that endangers Liv's pot operation. The friends help to keep one another in good spirits as they encounter unexpected opportunities ... -
Supernatural bodies : the intersection of Nigerian feminism and body autonomy.
(2019)Many Nigerian women are depicted in literature as possessing little to no personal agency. Due to socio political issues, these women are often relegated to the margins of discourse surrounding Nigerian literature. Because ... -
T.S. Eliot : a bibliography of T.S. Eliot criticism, 1987-2013
(2015)This bibliography of scholarship related to the writer T.S. Eliot is arranged chronologically by year and alphabetically within each year. This bibliography contains 1624 entries. Select entries have been annotated. Where ... -
Technical writing for nonprofits.
(2012)Nonprofit organizations are only as successful as their communication--how well they convey critical needs and persuade constituents to help answer them. Experience of development personnel at Central Oklahoma Habitat for ... -
The Brunnolf tradition.
(2012)The Brunnolf Tradition is a novel-length original work that may be categorized as a supernatural mystery for young adults. The plot follows Natalie Irving's quest to discover her maternal family, the Brunnolfs. In the ... -
"The invisible spirit alone" : the romance of reform in Grace Aguilar's theological writings.
(2011)The Anglo-Jewish author Grace Aguilar lived in the early nineteenth century when England was experiencing revolutions and reforms in philosophy, politics, and religion. The daughter of Sephardic immigrants, Aguilar authored ... -
The prayer closet warriors.
(2007)Seventh grader Maddie enters her hall closet to pray and finds herself standing in a field in heaven. There she discovers that she can save her school from the Anti-Nagah, the light eater. To do so Maddie must pass three ... -
The precocious mind : the intellectual development of Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
(2010)Charlotte Perkins Gilman embodied the innovative spirit of her age and country. She was not content to accept the roles that society had imposed upon her sex. As a true American revolutionary, Gilman defied expectations ... -
The rhetoric of disability : a Foucauldian discourse analysis.
(2018)The institution of disability, as it is perceived in the United States and most of Western civilization, signifies a site of oppression that has been historically neglected if not actively rejected by the hegemonic population ... -
The rhetoric of the economically disadvantaged : analyzing a marginalized discourse.
(2017)Those who engage in contemporary begging activities compose and enact public rhetoric daily across the United States, and the collection and analysis of rhetoric from this discourse community is particularly important in ... -
The run.
(2014)The Run is a novella-length creative work that follows Dust, a Marine Corps Reservist who performs military funeral services all across Nebraska. In his civilian life, Dust is an English teaching assistant at Nebraska ... -
The use of and-coordination in terms of its syntactic (a)symmetry in argumentative essays : a corpus-based study of three university learner groups in MICUSP and NUCLE.
(2013)Studies found EL learners overuse and as an additive connector at the sentence-initial position (Bolton, Hung, & Nelson, 2002), and they underuse and as a coordinator (Leung, 2005). Generally, the use of the and-coordinator ...