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English Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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From Conflict to Concord: Copyeditors, Composition, and Technology
(University of Kansas, 2009-01-25)The traditional rhetorical model suggests that the composition process progresses from writer, to text, to audience, but copyeditors must be added to the equation as writers create texts for the purpose of publication. To ... -
A Made Place, An Eternal Place: Robert Duncan's Poetics of Space
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-27)This dissertation examines the poetry of Robert Duncan and the dominant role space plays in that poetry. By examining the foundations of Duncan's poetics, particularly his anarchist political views, how those views pertain ... -
What Really Happened
(University of Kansas, 2009-121-1)What Really Happened is a full length psychological drama that follows a Long Island family and the events surrounding and resulting from their interactions with a man who has come to their house seeking vengeance for the ... -
The Language Trap: U.S. Passing Fiction and its Paradox
(University of Kansas, 2009-12-04)Through exploration of William Faulkner's, James Weldon Johnson's and Nella Larsen's "passing novels," this dissertation points out that narrative representation of racial passing facilitates and compromises the authors' ... -
Elements for an Atlas
(University of Kansas, 2009-11-09)This dissertation is a collection of creative nonfiction essays to include emotional, lyrical moments that evoke my personal history. The essays focus on my developing identity in conjunction with external influences, ... -
Let the Exhorter Speak: Black Masculinity and the Slave Narrative Tradition
(University of Kansas, 2009-06-11)African American culture has often been seen as an ideological concept that emanates from the history of a people. It is an inclusive concept that represents, according to Houston A. Baker, "a whole way of life." In order ... -
The Distressed School Committee, Interiors of Modern Play, and Olivia's Passionate Sketches
(University of Kansas, 2009-04-28)This is a work of fiction that is concerned primarily with what individuals--especially those called "protagonists"--do to themselves. -
American Freedom Story: a journey from "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" to the "Secret Life of Bees"
(University of Kansas, 2009-04-24)This dissertation identifies an American freedom story in a set of novels from 1885 to 2002 beginning with the foundation text Adventures of Huckleberry Finn . Five American writers use similar elements and approaches to ... -
The Just-Enough Club
(University of Kansas, 2008-04-18)This is a novel about contemporary rodeo cowboys. -
Waiting for an Angel: Refashioning the African Writing Self
(University of Kansas, 2008-11-13)Using Helon Habila's Waiting for an Angel, the author argues that third generation Nigerian writers, compared to their post-independence literary forbears, articulate a more refined representation of the artist as a social ... -
That Fading Taste of the Inevitable
(University of Kansas, 2008-12-22)A collection of short science fiction and fantasy. -
Hurt People
(University of Kansas, 2009-04-27)This is Cote Smith's thesis. It includes three chapters from a novel in progress, as well as three short stories. -
This is a Contest to See Who is the Bravest: A Memoir
(University of Kansas, 2009-04-23)This is a fictionalized memoir. -
The Female Grotesque Amid the Carnival of Renaissance Drama
(University of Kansas, 2009-04-24)Abstract This dissertation discusses the female grotesque within carnivalesque societies as portrayed in some Renaissance drama. The ideal female interacts with the grotesque virago, whore, witch, and scold to deform the ... -
'There was no Us and Them': Environmental Justice and Discursive Struggle in Jeanette Winterson's <italics>The Stone Gods<italics>
(University of Kansas, 2009-04-29)This project examines Winterson's depiction of various environmental positions alongside the text's intertwining discourses of nationalism, imperialism, capitalism, androcentrism, and anthropocentrism. I explore the parallels ... -
"Blessed Are the Pure of Heart." Variations on Magical Realism in the Beat Generation: Pathways to Critique and Resistance
(University of Kansas, 2009-01-01)This dissertation explores literary depictions of characters experiencing self discovery as they are presented by three of the writers of the Beat Generation: Jack Kerouac, Elise Cowen, and Diane di Prima. Each of the ... -
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The Ideally Active: Frances Willard's Pedagogical Ministry
(University of Kansas, 2008-01-01)Abstract This dissertation presents the teaching practices of temperance reformer Frances E. Willard. While Willard's work in temperance reform has been well documented, the pedagogical aspect of her life has not. I argue ... -
Literary Influences and Adaptation in the Middle English Kyng Alisaunder
(University of Kansas, 2008-01-01)Abstract This dissertation traces the literary influences that affect the Kyng Alisaunder from their origination in the decades following Alexander the Great's 323 BCE death to their expression in the fourteenth-century ...
