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English Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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A Loving Mother, A Devoted Wife
(University of Kansas, 2015-08-31)A Loving Mother, A Devoted Wife, is a hybrid genre book that braids together historical fiction and contemporary memoir The book begins with my discovery of a love triangle and murder scandal involving my great-great aunt ... -
Migration to the Maternal
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)Migration to the Maternal is a multi-genre collection of work that centers on a personal journey to the maternal impulse and honors the women responsible for the woman I have become. -
Postdiluvian
(University of Kansas, 2013-08-31)Postdiluvian is a mixed-genre collection of poetry and fiction. It experiments with hybrid literary forms. Postdiluvian explores the cyclical process of writing and storytelling. Its forms highlight the dissertation's ... -
Tilted: Life After Brain Surgery
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)This dissertation is a combination of a creative work and a scholarly component. The creative work is a memoir about my life during the recent years after my brain surgery. The essays feature myself in the third person as ... -
A Field Guide to Adaptation
(University of Kansas, 2013-08-31)Abstract: A Field Guide to Adaptation is a collection of satiric and elegiac poems, prose poems, and hybrid image/text poems, which explores various types of memory (personal, historical, cultural, and political), and human ... -
"The Hero as Man of Letters": Intellectual Politics and the Construction of the Romantic Epic
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)Although the thirty years from 1794 to 1824 saw the production of more epic poetry than any other period in British literary history, the epic's function within the culture of Romanticism remains largely misunderstood and ... -
Dystopian Literature, Emotion, and Utopian Longing
(University of Kansas, 2015-08-31)The genre of dystopian novels has long been theorized from a historical materialist lens. Utopian longing, which is the didactic focus of dystopian texts, functions as much from emotion as cogniti The genre of dystopian ... -
Talking about Transfer: Students' Language, Writing, and Reflection as Indications of Near Transfer in a First-Year Writing Course
(University of Kansas, 2015-08-31)This dissertation project reveals that students in my English 101 course in the fall of 2013 at a large, mid-western university were able to demonstrate near transfer with the use of high-road strategies. The analysis of ... -
The treatment of country life in the Elizabethan drama
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The realism of William Dean Howells
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The ethical significance in the dramas of Ibsen, Björnson, and Strindberg
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Kansas literature : a historical sketch to 1875
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History of the American nature essay
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Shakespeare’s portrayal of child life
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Some social aspects of American drama
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James Whitcomb Riley as a poet of childhood
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An edition of Green’s Groatsworth of Wit
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Constructing a "Culture of Life": Legislation, Rhetoric, and Public Discourse
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)The purpose of the study is to 1) demonstrate through content analysis that the rhetorical, linguistic, and contextual choices employed in legislation can shape public discourse about political issues, 2) establish that ... -
The place of the magazine in the English work of the modern American high school
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The treatment of social themes in recent American verse
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