2024-03-28T13:42:48Zhttps://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/oai/requestoai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/214422017-12-08T21:40:50Zcom_1808_979com_1808_1260col_1808_14116col_1808_1951
Harold Frederic as a pioneer realist
Herrick, Don Henry
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1928.
2016-09-07T13:17:18Z
2016-09-07T13:17:18Z
1928
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21442
eng
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American interest in Chinese literature
Wilson, Emma Webber
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1924.
2016-06-30T14:47:27Z
2016-06-30T14:47:27Z
1924
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21065
eng
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Attitudes toward death and immortality in modern American verse
Wallace, Ernest Leon
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1925.
2016-07-29T15:13:07Z
2016-07-29T15:13:07Z
1925
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21233
eng
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The Freedom to Choose: The Aesthetics of Choice in Short Stories by Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Amiri Baraka, and Toni Cade Bambara
Rambsy, Kenton
Graham, Maryemma
Harris, William J.
American literature
African American studies
African American
Choice
Fiction
Freedom
Short stories
Black Arts' writer Amiri Baraka observes in his essay "Northern Iowa: Short Story and Poetry," that "For black people, freedom is our aesthetic and our ideology." The focus on liberation has artistic and political resonance for African Americans. Freedom--as communal aesthetic and ideology--provides a useful starting point for better understanding major themes in black writing. A closer look at short stories, which have typically received less critical attention than novels in the study of African American literature, can yield valuable information about the diverse ways in which writers present varying degrees of what I am calling "freedom aesthetics" in their works. Overall, my project will examine the context of choice in selected African American short stories. To what ends do the works by Hurston, Wright, Bambara, and Baraka emphasize the "choices" African Americans make in the face of social barriers? Addressing this question will help to better explain how characters, within specific short stories, make specific decisions to gain higher degrees of social agency and what authorial judgments black writers use to create varied conceptions of freedom for diverse sets of black characters. The short stories selected in this study reflect struggles against constraints that are racially, socially, sexually, economically or politically motivated. These choices, I argue, help explain why those works have remained so well known and most frequently reprinted in anthologies that privilege freedom as a unifying theme.
2012-11-26T22:08:03Z
2012-11-26T22:08:03Z
2012-05-31
2012
Thesis
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:12100
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10454
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6827-3457
en
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The Child-Soldier Deject: Abjection, Subjectivity, and Systemic Marginalization in Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation and Ahmadou Kourouma’s Allah Is Not Obliged
Kelly, Meaghan A.
Fowler, Doreen
Janzen, Marike
Reiff, Mary Jo
Literature
Linguistics
International law
child-soldier
global literatures
human rights
hybridity
post-structuralism
west african
International Human Rights is a multi-layered ideological system at the intersection of law, cultural narrative, social norms, collective ethics, and personal morality. Its lofty ideals are in direct challenge to the everyday forces of destruction and chaos that threaten order, which Julia Kristeva, in The Powers of Horror, claims is the substance of the abject. People’s fascination and perturbation with the abject are embodied in our cultural obsessions: one being the popularity of literatures depicting violent atrocities happening in faraway places—specifically, child-soldier narratives. The argument presented in this thesis is premised by the observation that global literatures tend to pander to the comforts of a Western readership, keeping abject content bracketed out of the narrative with only suggestions of the real violence taking place in conflict-ridden states. The thesis argues that two texts, Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation and Kourouma’s Allah is Not Obliged, have challenged such trends by presenting the abject to readers through their narrators. In so doing, they begin to close the comfortable gap between reader and subject, as the reader’s only point of access to the literature is filtered through a narrator who embodies abjection himself. The introduction provides a framework for understanding human rights literatures through the lens of Kristeva’s theory of abjection, and the chapters that follow are in-depth character studies of the two texts’ narrators and their linguistic habits. The chapters illustrate how and to what ends the authors deviate from convention in order to foster productive identification between reader and subject.
2016-06-03T18:10:38Z
2016-06-03T18:10:38Z
2015-12-31
2015
Thesis
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:14392
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/20918
en
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Glossary of five plays from Ludus Coventriae
Skinner, Frances Marie
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1927.
2016-08-11T15:05:46Z
2016-08-11T15:05:46Z
1927
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21304
eng
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The thought content in the poetry of Wilfred Wilson Gibson
Hoar, Mary Ethel
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1921. ; Includes bibliographical references.
2015-08-19T21:03:09Z
2015-08-19T21:03:09Z
1921
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18352
eng
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The Writing of Nation: Faulkner and the Postbellum South
Long, Adam
Fowler, Doreen
Caminero-Santangelo, Marta
African literature
Cable
Chesnutt
Faulkner, William
Page
Southern
Twain, Mark
This dissertation argues that William Faulkner, drawing on a conversation begun by earlier Southern writers, writes his anxiety about the South's assimilation into the nation. Specifically, I argue that his early works show repulsion to the idea of the South's assimilation, while his later works show more comfort with assimilation, along with a greater willingness to participate in the national imperial project. I begin by establishing the conversation in writers who are active in the postbellum period, and then I explore the ways in which Faulkner draws on this conversation to present his own complicated and changing depiction of nation. Central to this discussion is recognition of an anxiety about the role of the South in the creation of national identity.
2012-11-26T21:17:34Z
2012-11-26T21:17:34Z
2012-05-31
2012
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:11985
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10433
en
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At the Corner of Policy and People: Engaging with the Transnational Activity System of Women’s Rights in Germany and Senegal
Murphy, Angela Dawn
Reiff, Mary Jo
Hodges Persley, Nicole
Anatol, Giselle
Farmer, Frank
Chikanda, Abel
Rhetoric
African studies
Women's studies
African Studies
feminism
policy
rhetoric
transnational
women
This project utilizes ethnographic research methods (interviews and participant observation) and generic activity system analysis to explore transnational women’s advocacy in two countries (Germany and Senegal). By interviewing the individuals who conduct this work on a daily basis, this study will illuminate how women mediate discursive policy and public action in order enact social change in localized contexts. These organizations are sites of transnational feminist praxis that demonstrate the public work of rhetoric. I argue that rhetorical scholars must expand their research initiatives into transnational discourse communities and the social practices involved in those communities. My project aims to explore the diverse strategies involved in transnational women’s advocacy work and the possibilities of negotiating multiple constraints on that work. This study seeks to understand the material capacity of transnational rhetorical practices to alter or transform the rhetorical and social contexts of the members of advocacy organizations.
2019-05-07T15:06:52Z
2019-05-07T15:06:52Z
2017-05-31
2017
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:15177
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/27781
en
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Solving the ‘Mystery’ of Blackness through African American Detective Fiction: Pauline Hopkins’ and Rudolph Fisher’s Intervention in a White Tradition
Dennis, Megan
Fowler, Doreen
Outka, Paul
Lester, Cheryl
English literature
American literature
African American detective fiction
detective fiction
Pauline Hopkins
race
Rudolph Fisher
signification
This project investigates two early works of African American detective fiction, Pauline Hopkins’ Hagar’s Daughter and Rudolph Fisher’s The Conjure-Man Dies, and the ways in which these writers intervene in a white-dominated tradition to expose constructions of race. As these writers work from and modify models of detective fiction, to use Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s term, they “signify” upon detective tropes to establish African American subjectivity and promote racial equality. Chapter 1 examines Fisher’s appropriation and disruption of the Holmesian tradition, particularly through his use of multiple detectives (5), a liminal character in N’gana Frimbo, masking, and doubling to question racial categorization and Western systems of knowledge. Chapter 2 discusses Hopkins’ text as a place of resistance for African American women, as well as its deviation from a mystery tradition that is strikingly similar to Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson. Hopkins employs doubling, “passing” characters, and a complex narrative to illuminate constructions of both race and gender. This project demonstrates Hopkins’ and Fisher’s texts ultimately challenge Western pre-conceptions of African Americans that historically relegate them to positions of inferiority, exposing systems of injustice, while simultaneously creating space for African American subjectivity.
2019-05-07T15:20:37Z
2019-05-07T15:20:37Z
2017-05-31
2017
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http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:15345
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/27788
en
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If I Were On Fire
Argumedo, Michael Joseph
Harris, William J
Valk, Michael J
Literature
Poetry
IF I WERE ON FIRE A collection of seventy-two original poems by Michael J. Argumedo as a thesis for the Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Kansas University, subsequently published under the pseudonym Mickey Cesar by Spartan Press (Kansas City, 2011).
2011-08-02T20:09:52Z
2011-08-02T20:09:52Z
2011-05-10
2011
Thesis
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:11567
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/7883
en
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A Study in the Criticism of Prose Fiction from Daniel Defoe to Jane Austen
Ise, Hulda L.
2011-11-22T21:52:27Z
2011-11-22T21:52:27Z
1912-06
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8493
en_US
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Transnational Feminism in 21st Century Black American Drama and Performance
Nygren, Kate
Smith Fischer, Iris
Canady, Darren
Fowler, Doreen
Anatol, Giselle
Barnette, Jane
American literature
Theater
African American studies
African diasporic performance
American theatre
black movements
transnational feminism
“Transnational Feminism in 21st Century Black American Drama and Performance” explores twenty-first century works from playwrights who I group together loosely under the current transnational moment of playwriting. I include works from Tarell Alvin McCraney, Danai Gurira, Nikkole Salter, Lynn Nottage, Robert O’Hara, and Katori Hall. My primary aims are to extend due scholarly attention to these playwrights, several of whom have not yet received appropriate focus, and in so doing, begin the work of periodizing these twenty-first century playwrights, whose work I argue is united by a heading I will redefine and expand in these pages: African diasporic performance. With a multidisciplinary approach unified through transnational feminisms, I find that these works reveal the global through its impact on the local and—when set outside the United States—reveal the global through careful storytelling that avoids monoliths and calls out global forces and audiences’ implicit and explicit role in oppressions. My study centers materialist readings through a transnational feminist lens and takes interest in extending the ongoing feminist effort to reclaim realism as a politically-impactful theatrical form. Ultimately, I argue that these playwrights’ work should be more widely produced and celebrated for its ability to make visible global networks that demonstrate sometimes surprising, but often obscured opportunities for strategic coalition.
2020-01-17T22:58:42Z
2020-01-17T22:58:42Z
2019-05-31
2019
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:16586
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/29894
en
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Relationship of the Latin Facetus literature to the medieval English courtesy poems
Brentano, Mary Theresa
Language
Literature
Linguistics
Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, English, 1933.
2020-08-25T14:02:06Z
2020-08-25T14:02:06Z
1933-05-31
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30654
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The Kentucky novel
Stone, Marion
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1916. ; Includes bibliographical references.
2015-07-31T21:40:30Z
2015-07-31T21:40:30Z
1916
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18279
eng
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Animus
Hall, Emily Edna
Lorenz, Thomas D.
6857308
Johnson, Michael
Fine arts
English literature
Short stories
Innovative fiction
Creative writing
This is a collection of short stories written by Emily Hall.
2008-09-08
2008-09-08
2008-06-18
2008
Thesis
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:2441
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/4120
EN
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Content, structure, and style in Thomas Carlyle’s Past and Present
Reid, Stephen D.
265 leaves ; 29 cm.
2019-04-30T14:31:27Z
2019-04-30T14:31:27Z
1972-12-31
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/27774
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A study of Clyde Fitch
Payne, Ruth Davenport
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1917. ; Includes bibliographical references.
2015-07-31T21:40:09Z
2015-07-31T21:40:09Z
1917
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18270
eng
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Stephen Phillips : the dramatist, his poems, his dramas
Wood, Elsie Lora
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1930.
2017-08-11T18:53:48Z
2017-08-11T18:53:48Z
1930
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24792
eng
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The life and thought of John Burroughs
Bernhard, Alice Virginia
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1928.
2016-06-30T14:47:28Z
2016-06-30T14:47:28Z
1928
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21068
eng
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Sophia and Harriet Lee
Hoopes, Helen Rhoda
A Thesis Submitted to the English Department and the Graduate Faculty of the University of Kansas in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts.
2014-07-29T19:29:33Z
2014-07-29T19:29:33Z
1914-06-01
Thesis
Hoopes, Helen Rhoda. "Sophia and Harriet Lee." University of Kansas. June 1914.
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/14855
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The friendship of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson
Brown, Leona Muriel
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1929.
2017-01-30T14:41:04Z
2017-01-30T14:41:04Z
1929
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22701
eng
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The Philippines in American literature
Lynam, George
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1927.
2016-09-30T14:39:09Z
2016-09-30T14:39:09Z
1927
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21575
eng
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Science in British poetry from 1910 to 1925 : A study in diction
Ensign, Rhea
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1930.
2017-04-13T15:16:04Z
2017-04-13T15:16:04Z
1930
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/23673
eng
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Glossary of the vocabulary of Francis Thompson's poetry
Pilkington, May A.
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1928.
2016-07-21T15:08:54Z
2016-07-21T15:08:54Z
1928
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21144
eng
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The Construction of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X in Composition Textbooks: Rereading Readers
Burrows, Cedric Dewayne
Farmer, Frank
Graham, Maryemma
Rhetoric
African American studies
African-American rhetoric
Composition readers
Malcolm x
King, Martin Luther
Rhetoric and composition
Textbooks
While scholars have written about the use of textbooks in writing courses, little attention is paid to how textbooks anthologize writers, especially women and people of color. This study examines the portrayal of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X in composition textbook anthologies known as Readers, and sheds light on the ways Readers incorporate writers from African-American backgrounds. Through qualitative methods, I analyze how King and Malcolm X are anthologized in five popular Readers: The Bedford Reader, Rereading America, Patterns for College Writing, The Conscious Reader, and A World of Ideas. By intertwining the historical-critical method and narratives from my own experiences teaching Malcolm X and King from a Reader, I analyze the embedded cultural meanings in the biographical headnotes, the selection, and the discussion questions in the Readers. The results show that Readers tend to: (1) narrate King's and Malcolm X's biographies according to popular narratives in society; (2) provide little or inaccurate historical context to ground the selections; (3) alter the original sources of King and Malcolm X's text; and (4) format King and Malcolm X's rhetoric according to the Western rhetorical tradition while ignoring the African-American dimensions in their rhetoric. I conclude by discussing how Readers are part of a larger issue within the educational system.
2012-11-19T22:13:43Z
2012-11-19T22:13:43Z
2011-12-31
2011
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:11856
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10381
en
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The effect of the Catholic revival on English fiction (1850-1900)
Baker, Pearl May
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1916. ; Includes bibliographical references.
2015-07-31T21:40:28Z
2015-07-31T21:40:28Z
1916
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18278
eng
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Exploring ‘Zelmaneship’: Developing Queer Inwardness from Sidney to Stage
Warner, Mikaela
Lamb, Jonathan P.
de Sousa, Geraldo U.
Schieberle, Misty
English literature
LGBTQ studies
Theater history
Amazons
Early Modern
Queer
Renaissance
Sidney
Zelmane the Amazon, a central character in Philip Sidney’s epic romance The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (1590), has often been studied for her transgressive gender and sexuality. Zelmane’s first words in the New Arcadia direct readers to look within, “Transform’d in show, but more transform’d in mind” (Sidney 131). I argue that this substantial transformation is what Katherine Eisaman Maus calls “inwardness,” a word drawn from Sidney’s “In Defense of Poesy” in Inwardness and Theatre in the English Renaissance (1995). In “In Defense of Posey,” he writes how characters can exhibit both an “inward self, and ... [an] outward government” (50). Zelmane, conceptualized only as a disguise, would be the outward show of Pyrocles; Sidney, however, writes the Amazon with an inward self and individuates her from the Prince. Sidney writes Zelmane with independent pronouns, differentiated thoughts, and the ability to resist transforming back into Pyrocles. Because Zelmane’s demonstrated inwardness both separates her from Pyrocles and represents a shift across genders, Zelmane’s inwardness is queer. Dramatic interpretations of Sidney’s Arcadia, however, do not exhibit this same inwardness. John Day’s Isle of Gulls (1606) and James Shirley’s A Pastoral Called the Arcadia (1640) reduce Zelmane’s inwardness and portray her only as a cross-dressed disguise. Sidney’s Zelmane, as a distinct central character to a widely popular early modern text, reveals a possibility for queer inwardness unexamined by recent scholarship.
2020-03-21T18:53:56Z
2020-03-21T18:53:56Z
2019-05-31
2019
Thesis
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:16480
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30105
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7485-4226
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American Indian verse : a study of characteristics
Barnes, Nellie
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1920. ; Includes index. Bibliography: leaves 51-54.
2015-07-31T21:41:19Z
2015-07-31T21:41:19Z
1920
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18294
eng
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The method of literary history by Gustave Lanson
Ranson, George James
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1929.
2017-04-13T15:15:59Z
2017-04-13T15:15:59Z
1929
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/23659
eng
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Willows in the Spring
Hill, DaMaris B.
Graham, Maryemma
Canady, Darren
Anatol, Giselle
American literature
African American studies
Women's studies
Feminism
Girls industrial school
Jazz
Kansas
Spring
Willows
2012-11-26T22:22:35Z
2012-11-26T22:22:35Z
2012-05-31
2012
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:12105
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10460
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The literary battle between George W. Cable and Grace King
Hall, Louise Haynes
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1927.
2016-08-23T17:10:52Z
2016-08-23T17:10:52Z
1927
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21371
eng
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From the Individual to the Collective: Community in August Wilson and Tony Kushner
Noggle, Richard
Graham, Maryemma
Fischer, Iris
American literature
Theater
Wilson, August
Kushner, Tony
Community
History
My study examines the playwrights August Wilson and Tony Kushner as "political" artists whose work, while positing very different definitions of "community," offers a similar critique of an American tendency toward a kind of misguided, dangerous individualism that precludes "interconnection." I begin with a look at how "community" is defined by each author through interviews and personal statements. My approach to the plays which follow is thematic as opposed to chronological. The organization, in fact, mirrors a pattern often found in the plays themselves: I begin with individuals who are cut off from their respective communities, turn to individuals who "reconnect" through encounters with communal history and memory, and conclude by examining various "successful" visions of community and examples of communities in crisis and decay. My work is informed especially by Pierre Nora's definitions of "history" and "memory" and his thoughts on "collective memory" as embodied in particular sites, lieux de memoires. Studies of ghosts and "cultural haunting" by Avery Gordon, Kathleen Brogan, and David Savran are used throughout to illuminate Wilson's and Kushner's use of the "supernatural" to illustrate the necessity of "communal memory." Both Wilson and Kushner view "community" as a source of collective strength, a tool for change, and I conclude by arguing for the necessity of a more interconnected community of politically-minded playwrights.
2008-08-05T03:36:38Z
2008-08-05T03:36:38Z
2007-12-17
2007
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:2295
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/4040
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Walking and the Reinvention of Space
Topinka, Robert
Farmer, Frank
Barnard, Philip
Language
Rhetoric and composition
Geography
Embodiment
Invention
Kairos
Performativity
Space
Walking
Through the figure of the walker, this thesis considers the relationship between rhetoric and space, where rhetoric is understood as embodied, performative action and space is considered both as a material artifact and an ideological production. While it is a basic tenet of rhetoric that it always occurs in a given location, only recently have scholars of rhetoric begun to privilege space both as a theoretical lens and as part of everyday rhetorical practice. By positioning the walker as an embodied rhetorical agent in two spaces typical of everyday life in capitalist societies--suburban Iowa Street in Lawrence, Kansas, and a nature park built upon an inoperative coal mine in Newcastle England--this thesis attends to space as it both constrains and enables agency in different spatial milieus.
2011-09-04T12:07:27Z
2011-09-04T12:07:27Z
2011-04-20
2011
Thesis
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:11382
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/7995
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Language in the U.S. and the Law: A Corpus Analysis of the Language of Language Policy
Carrillo, Peter William
Grund, Peter
Devitt, Amy
Reiff, Mary Jo
Linguistics
Corpus linguistics
Language ideology
Language policy
The aim of this thesis is to study the textual positioning and portrayal of English and other languages in U.S. language policy and to see what implications that positioning and portrayal has for understanding possible impacts and interpretations of U.S. language policies. In order to do this, I use corpus linguistic techniques to study the ways that the terms English and other languages collocate with other words in the way that the policies themselves are written. I further this analysis with a reading of the policies that looks for themes across multiple texts. This kind of textual positioning is analyzed in detail to show how the portrayals of English and other languages might differ and what that could mean for our understanding of the implications, intentions, or possible interpretations of the policies.
2018-10-24T21:56:48Z
2018-10-24T21:56:48Z
2017-12-31
2017
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http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:15696
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26997
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Whirlybirds and Ordinary Times: Reflections on Faith and the Changing of Seasons
Savage, Katie Suzanne
Atkins, G. Douglas
Moriarty, Laura
Fine arts
Creative
Essays
Faith
Nonfiction
The following is a work of creative nonfiction, a collection of personal essays organized around the liturgical Christian church seasons. The form is one that wanders, that claims no particularly special knowledge or authority--its grounding is in personal experience, and it seeks to make sense of things by asking questions and by telling stories. This appeals to me precisely because, as Flannery O'Connor has noted, if a writer of faith "hopes to reveal mysteries, he will have to do it by describing truthfully what he sees from where he is."
2011-08-02T01:55:23Z
2011-08-02T01:55:23Z
2011-04-25
2011
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http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:11516
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/7826
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The ballad poetry of Dante Gabriel Rosetti
Whitmore, Mary Ernestine
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1930.
2017-11-08T16:50:37Z
2017-11-08T16:50:37Z
1930
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/25281
eng
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History in Scott’s Novels
Hayward, Grace Althea
2011-10-27T20:10:45Z
2011-10-27T20:10:45Z
1907
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8302
en_US
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The interpretation of nature by the minor seventeenth century religious poets of England
Barney, Nellie Mabel
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1929.
2016-09-30T14:39:21Z
2016-09-30T14:39:21Z
1929
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21585
eng
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The Southwest as treated in a selected list of American novels
Olinger, Barbara Ruth
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1931.
2017-11-27T18:12:23Z
2017-11-27T18:12:23Z
1931
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/25480
eng
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Anglo-Saxon purism of William Barnes
Keaton, Anna Lucile
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1926.
2016-09-30T14:39:08Z
2016-09-30T14:39:08Z
1926
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21574
eng
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Queering Medieval Gender and Sexuality: Pre- and Postmodern Representations of Virginity
Balke, Jennifer Floray
Schieberle, Misty
Conrad, Kathryn
Medieval literature
Gender studies
Kempe, Margery
Medievalism
Middle ages
Queer
St. Juliana
Virginity
This dissertation investigates depictions of the medieval virgin in both pre- and postmodern literature and cinema, including women who chose physical virginity as well as spiritual virginity in their quests to be sponsae Christi. I argue that unlike much modern cinema, specifically Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring and Chris Newby's Anchoress, which attempts to reify the present at the expense of an Othered Middle Ages, the medieval and post-modern authors in my study use the relative safety of temporal and geographical distance in order to explore and, at times, question cultural constructions of gender and sexuality. To demonstrate the pervasiveness of this phenomenon, I include vernacular texts from different genres, including historical, hagiographical, and fictional, as well as texts such as Robert Glück's 1994 Margery Kempe that defy categorization. Using queer theory, especially Judith Butler's theory of the performativity of gender, and Julia Kristeva's theory of the abject, this project reveals the dynamic nature of virginity and gender as signifiers and shows how their implications for society change over time. While there have been a number of studies on medieval virginity in recent decades, this project expands the conversation by including medieval fiction as well as post-modern representations of the female religious in the Middle Ages.
2013-09-30T21:57:03Z
2013-09-30T21:57:03Z
2012-05-31
2012
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:12078
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/12356
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Coleridge’s Attitude Toward Various Subjects as Shown in His “Biographia Epistolaris”
Steven, Effie Louise
2011-11-22T20:40:24Z
2011-11-22T20:40:24Z
1911
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8474
en_US
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The Essays of Elia
Smith, Helen Beach
2011-11-22T17:05:54Z
2011-11-22T17:05:54Z
1909-01
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8439
en_US
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Identity and Awareness: Manifestations of Self and Persona in Early Modern English Drama
Mohi, Zsolt Imre
Sousa, Geraldo U. de
Bergeron, David M.
Hardin, Richard F.
Caminero-Santangelo, Byron
Keel, William
British and Irish literature
Drama
Early Modern
English
Identity
Language
Perception
This dissertation traces five early modern English dramatic characters through their crises of identity. The reader will follow the very different ways these characters respond to the demand that they represent themselves in the respective social worlds they inhabit. The protagonist in each of the plays, in Gammer Gurton's Needle, in Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, in Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, in Arden of Faversham, and in Shakespeare's Othello, uses rhetorical skills, personal appearance to the senses, and action to embody the function the fictional world prescribes for them. It will appear that the three corresponding media, that is, language, perception, and action, do not only give characters an opportunity to manifest aspects of their public persona; they also represent that dramatic world, its social conditions, and the identity of others to the characters I examine. Besides building a complex image of who they are, each character negotiates his or her relationships to others through these three media. Are characters content with the social identity they build in the process, or are they aware of who they are in some way other than what they show? Is there a part of who they are that eludes representation? When they fail to comply with the requirements of a social identity, or when they decide to withdraw from it, characters testify to a degree of consciousness that they possess, or wish they possessed, an interior space, a sense of self, as a part of their identity. The self is elusive; it resists a simple definition, but the chapters that follow point out hints and signs that in characters are aware of their precious inwardness, often in the moment when they are losing it. The analyses take advantage of the critical literature on the early modern individual both before Stephen Greenblatt's groundbreaking work appeared in the field and in the era that it has strongly influenced. Reflections on a range of contemporary written discourse support the study of the characters' success and failures in their search for identity.
2017-05-07T20:10:01Z
2017-05-07T20:10:01Z
2014-12-31
2014
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http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:13693
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/23947
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Aspects of the Gothic Romance
Derby, Jesse Raymond
2011-11-22T21:41:12Z
2011-11-22T21:41:12Z
1912-06
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8490
en_US
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From Conflict to Concord: Copyeditors, Composition, and Technology
Chrisman Jacques, Kelly
Devitt, Amy
Kunkel, Adrianne
Language
Rhetoric and composition
Composition
Computers
Copy editor
Editing
Publishing
Technology
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 better understand the copyeditor's role in the publication process and within authors' writing and revision processes, this study examined how thirty copyeditors describe their roles; how they feel about their interactions with authors; and how they feel about the role of technology in the writing process and how they have adapted to technology. Overall, copyeditors were confident in their ability to copyedit using technology. In revising/editing, copyeditors are responsible for grammar, punctuation, and style; additionally, however, this study posits that they are also responsible for engaging in a collaborative revision process with the author. They must be recognized as both readers and writers and thus have the ability to affect a writer's revision and writing processes.
2010-07-25T22:30:40Z
2010-07-25T22:30:40Z
2009-01-25
2010
Thesis
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:10718
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/6424
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Up from the Ground: Blogging the Farm and Farming the Blog
Humphrey, Jen L.
Harrington, Joseph
Antatol, Giselle
Web studies
Agriculture
Blogging
Blogs
Creative writing
Farming
Master of fine arts
Up from the Ground: Blogging the Farm and Farming the Blog was written in the form of blog posts from May 2009 until March 2010. The blog chronicled successes and failures in the transition from city life to organic agriculture, as well as explored the nature of the blog form. The thesis reads in reverse chronological order, as a blog would. It was and remains an experiment in form, voice and technique.
2010-12-31T03:25:52Z
2010-12-31T03:25:52Z
2010-04-22
2010
Thesis
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:10823
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/6946
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The writers of Tennessee ; A manual of Tennessee literature
Don-Carlos, Louisa Cooke
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1925.
2017-01-03T15:08:09Z
2017-01-03T15:08:09Z
1925
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22404
eng
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Barely Hidden Magic: Acadiana Stories
Lopez, Allison Rose
Lorenz, Thomas D.
Johnson, Michael
Fine arts
American literature
Modern literature
Acadiana
Cajun
Fiction
Hurricane
Louisiana
New Iberia
The revelations that explain everything are often details that are missed. This is the theme that emerged during the compiling of this thesis. I wish I could claim it was by intention, but it is merely the reflection of my particular way of seeing the world. I had to spend years writing and working on it, only to arrive here, where I discover this thing about myself that should have been obvious all along. Oh, the irony. In "Fly Away, `Tite Fille," the narrator observes the world from which he came and sees that his father has already endured a spiritual death, which everyone else is too distracted to recognize. In "Passages at the End of a Crescent City Summer," he discovers that the ambitions that led him toward success have also led him away from the vivacious, less controllable kind of Louisiana life that would make him happy, and when he realizes this, he opens himself up to a relationship that is probably a bad idea. In "A Journey to the Interior," the father figure of the first two stories encounters death and transforms himself, but he cannot quite make the journey back to his old life to reap the full benefits. In "A Seldom-Heard Voice from Petit Coteau," the nameless narrator observes the true motivation and influence of her boyfriend's mother, who rejects her in ways that are socially deniable, and the narrator both passes judgment and wishes for a little kindness and acceptance. In "Blood Currents on the Lower Teche," a woman at the center of a tragedy realizes too late that she has completely misunderstood the effects of her actions. In "Lache Pas La Patate," a woman's life has been oppressed and overshadowed by her husband's expansive presence, so, while few understand her, this fact allows her to break free. Finally, in "The Hurricane Squatter," a narrator who lives close to the coast stubbornly refuses to evacuate to higher ground when a hurricane is forecasted. In the process of standing his ground, he realizes that spending a lifetime of doing that has paid off in loneliness and appreciating the best parts of his life only when they are over and it is too late to savor them. I almost hated to summarize the stories in this way, because it feels like giving a secret away. As suggested in the epigram, the stories reveal the kinds of observations that are available to anyone who wishes to mindfully observe the world in which they live and the people who are in it, but for that reason, they are often never noticed at all. The seven stories herein all originate in the same world, Acadiana, which is the regional name of the 22 Cajun and Creole parishes of Southern Louisiana. Acadiana stretches from the Texas border to New Orleans, and it is a sister culture to the Crescent City rather than an extension of it. Most of the stories occur in or around New Iberia, along the famous Bayou Teche, in what is considered the heart of Cajun country. It was a mystical, magical place to grow up, though of course it seemed normal at the time. In writing these stories, I aimed to honor the culture without erasing the emotional realities. Someday, when this collection becomes a part of a book, people may not agree with or even like any portrayal that seems less than flattering to the outside world. But the facts of fiction and of gossip are the same: There are no memorable stories of perfect lives of the rich, beautiful, flawless and blessed. Nobody believes gossip like that. It's boring, and nobody remembers it. And what I hope to spend my writing life doing is making sure that the many facets of Acadiana are remembered.
2012-11-19T23:00:02Z
2012-11-19T23:00:02Z
2010-05-31
2010
Thesis
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:10888
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10397
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Treatment of foreign characters in Thackeray
Hendrickson, Ethel E.
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1918. ; Includes bibliographical references.
2015-09-21T18:31:48Z
2015-09-21T18:31:48Z
1918
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18500
eng
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Transpacific Transcendence: The Buddhist Poetics of Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, and Philip Whalen
Giles, Todd
Harrington, Joseph
Irby, Kenneth
American literature
American Buddhism
Beat generation
Pacific rim poetry
Post-world war ii American poetry
Zen
"Transpacific Transcendence: The Buddhist Poetics of Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, and Philip Whalen" examines the influence of East Asian literature and philosophy on post-World War II American poetry. Kerouac's "Desolation Blues," Snyder's "On Vulture Peak," and Whalen's "The Slop Barrel" were all written one year after the famous Six Gallery reading in San Francisco where Allen Ginsberg shocked the literary establishment with Howl, and one year before the belated publication of Kerouac's On the Road, both of which changed the face of postwar American literature. These authors, along with other experimental writers on both coasts, were searching for a larger geographic and temporal connection to help them break through tightening social, artistic, and spiritual strictures of postwar America. The East-West cross-fermentation which developed after the war provided these poets with an inroad for post-Modernist textual and philosophical experimentation set against a backdrop of Cold War anxieties, urban sprawl, gray flannel suits, and ultra-conservative poetics. All three poets grappled with some of the key texts of Mahâyâna Buddhism, such as the Lankâvatâra, Heart and Vimalakîrti sûtras, The Gateless Gate, as well as incorporated Chinese shih and Japanese haiku forms. In "On Vulture Peak," Snyder creates a unique poetic sûtra form by incorporating shih and his own brand of Japanese Rinzai kôan interviews, taking on the role of Zen master to Kerouac's questioning Dharma Bum to explore issues of impermanence, interconnectedness, and emptiness. Likewise, in Whalen's "The Slop Barrel," the poet struggles with these concepts, particularly the idea that we mistake the aggregates of attachment that collectively make up our personality (the Five Skandhas) for the notion of a unique, permanent ego-self. And in "Desolation Blues," Kerouac comes face-to-face with the four perverted views (the Viparyasas) one thinks into existence as a way of establishing the reality of the mundane world. Kerouac's spiritual quest was doomed from the outset, though, because so much of his project as a writer centered on trying to totalize his life, something much of his fiction and poetry argues against: selfhood. In working towards a unique postwar transpacific ontology centered around notions of interconnectedness and (no)self, these poets radically changed the face of American literature and culture under the specter of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, influencing poets, musicians, and artists for generations to come.
2011-06-21T20:42:05Z
2011-06-21T20:42:05Z
2010-09-10
2010
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:11155
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/7703
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Conception of Death and Immortality in the English Monodies From 1485 to 1784
Garvey, Annabel Alexander
2014-07-21T17:30:14Z
2014-07-21T17:30:14Z
1914-06-01
Thesis
Garvey, Annabel Alexander. "Conception of Death and Immortality in the English Monodies From 1485 to 1784." University of Kansas. June 1914.
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/14788
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Autobiography: "Index to the norm"
Freese, Esther
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1925.
2016-03-08T20:24:58Z
2016-03-08T20:24:58Z
1925
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/20497
eng
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Booth Tarkington : a study
Lemon, Goldie May
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1928.
2016-11-30T14:14:41Z
2016-11-30T14:14:41Z
1928
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22076
eng
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A dictionary of the characters in the novels of William Dean Howells
Hess, Kathleen Garnet
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1928.
2016-12-13T18:54:03Z
2016-12-13T18:54:03Z
1928
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22210
eng
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Anxious Origins: Zora Neale Hurston and the Global South, 1927-1942
Badley, Dana Nelson, III
Fowler, Doreen A
Anatol, Giselle
Lester, Cheryl
Literature
African American studies
American literature
Freud
Global South
Hurston
psychoanalysis
trauma
Zora Neale Hurston's autoethnographic trilogy of the Global South - Mules and Men (1935), Tell My Horse (1938), and Dust Tracks on a Road (1942) - charts a geocultural terrain that recovers transgressive histories otherwise erased from public historical discourse. The medium is the message: penned in dialect obscuring the subversive "inside meanin' of words," her folklore collections split the historical archive wide open by incorporating the lives and deaths of "unreal" bodies into a preexisting narrative of Southern subjugation. These politically subversive tales of agency and resistance enact a dynamic, malleable, intergenerational mode of oral history that suggests the unfinished work of mourning for that which is no longer there. Trained as an anthropologist at Columbia University yet distrustful of the profession's intentions, Hurston confronts her own ambivalence towards the ethnographic archive throughout her career dedicated to (re)tracing these anxious origins, prefigured as both genetically specific and racially mythologized, across a region beset by a politics of racialized loss. In fighting to make these "unreal" lives legible, her autoethnographic trilogy offers a model of the interplay between the affective state of melancholia and the literary imagination. Within this multifaceted portrait of the Global South, Hurston reconciles private memory with public history in order to underscore the social dynamics at work in determining the contours of acceptable loss.
2017-01-08T19:14:01Z
2017-01-08T19:14:01Z
2014-05-31
2014
Thesis
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:13324
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22530
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Women in Jane Austen
Woods, Mabel Faye
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1916. ; Includes bibliographical references.
2015-07-11T03:53:22Z
2015-07-11T03:53:22Z
1916
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18220
eng
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Collected Works
Turner, Lance
Moriarty, Laura
Lorenz, Thomas D
Literature
Modern literature
Fine arts
Creative writing
Experience
Fiction
GLBT
Loss
Narrative
The collection of work presented here illustrates the constant struggle individuals face in understanding the repercussions of their past, the weight of their decisions in the present moment, and the possibilities of the future. When taken as a whole, this collection represents a fractured, multi-perspective narrative; it is a reflection of life through the use of many lives. The pieces throughout this collection interact with many universal themes and ideas, whether it is the wants of childhood, the notions surrounding virginity, the loss of trust, the moment of death, the loss of memory, or even the pull of hunger, by locating the piece, the characters, and thus the reader, in an intimate moment of human experience. When looking at these works individually, one can see these characters caught in their own worlds, their own reflections of humanity. It is in these characters, whether man or woman, young or old, gay or straight, that I tried to represent the truthful nature of humanity and the human interactions that take place in the environments we live in. These characters inhabit country, rural, suburban, and city landscapes. Sometimes characters are bound to their relationships with others. Sometimes they are alone. Sometimes they do not know what they are doing. Sometimes their actions contradict their own thoughts. The characters are not always pretty, but they are real. In its entirety, this collection parallels our own human nature. This collection reflects the loss of what we thought or did not even know we had; it incorporates our darkness and our light, our fears and our hopes; it is a narrative representation of the experiences we take part in.
2011-08-02T00:40:30Z
2011-08-02T00:40:30Z
2011-04-26
2011
Thesis
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:11519
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/7821
en
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We would come to the edge
Moulton, Iris
Lorenz, Thomas D.
Glick, Robert
Literature
Creative writing
Prose
Abstract: This small collection centers on ideas of dislocation and place. With a sharp awareness of the Midwest, its gory history and oppressive weather, many of these pieces delve into these obsessions through a speaker who is both a guest struggling to come to terms with landscape, and a native accustomed to these things. We then experience a transition where the work turns away from the windows, looking at the politics of place when place is the living room, the dinner table. We leave the Midwest to enter Europe where the examination of war, beauty, and bloody landscape continues. Through references to iconic art, holocaust imagery, and the fumblings of a tourist, we witness the minutia of dislocation, the haunting confusion that comes with a strange place. We are then left with our final location: The American West. The final frontier in many senses of the phrase, this is amplified when viewed throught the eyes of a child. All of these works grapple with place--the smothering humidity of Kansas, the staggering Eastern Block, childhood, death. In addition to a sense of disorientation, this small collection aims to reveal what we reach for when we reach for familiarity.
2012-11-26T21:43:57Z
2012-11-26T21:43:57Z
2012-05-31
2012
Thesis
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:11991
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10443
en
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The old Irish saga -- romance of Deirdre
Bloch, Bernard
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1929.
2017-01-30T14:41:03Z
2017-01-30T14:41:03Z
1929
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22700
eng
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TALES OF A FRIJOLERA
Gonzales, Anna Monica
Lorenz, Thomas D.
Caminero-Santangelo, Marta
American literature
Individual & family studies
Early childhood education
Coming of age
Family
Folklore
Original writing
Religion
A coming of age story about the struggles a young girl faces as she negotiates childhood fears and threats to the foundation of everything she knows, her family.
2011-09-22T02:10:08Z
2011-09-22T02:10:08Z
2011-07-25
2011
Thesis
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:11725
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8067
en
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/184952020-06-24T19:59:23Zcom_1808_979com_1808_1260col_1808_14116col_1808_7158
The relation of mother and daughter in Ibsen and later dramatists
Prather, Orra
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1918. ; Includes bibliographical references.
2015-09-21T18:31:35Z
2015-09-21T18:31:35Z
1918
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18495
eng
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The difficulty of the King James version of the Bible for the modern reader
Browne, Hazel Earnestine
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1929.
2016-11-30T14:14:45Z
2016-11-30T14:14:45Z
1929
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22086
eng
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The earlier and later works of Virginia Woolf
Sleeth, Pauline B.
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1931.
2017-02-14T19:30:04Z
2017-02-14T19:30:04Z
1931
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/23163
eng
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Miss Jane Porter as a Romantic Writer
Beatty, Cora Belle
2011-11-22T21:11:32Z
2011-11-22T21:11:32Z
1912-05-15
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8482
en_US
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These Are Your Eyes Now: Poems
Wheeler, Satarah B.
Kaminski, Megan
Moriarty, Laura
Canady, Darren
Creative writing
ALMA
color
poetry
telescope
This collection of poems features two separate but related projects, "Telescope City" and "Paint Can Can-Can." "Telescope City" is a speculative project focusing on high-powered ground telescopes as a place to call home, and what a life so intertwined with the cosmos might reveal about our own solitude. Similarly, "Paint Can Can-Can" explores the relationship between humanity and natural spaces, including our perception of our place in the universe. Additionally, this latter collection began as a generative exercise using the names of interior paint colors as poem titles, which offers a critical lens for thinking about how marketing and artifice encroaches on and appropriates elements that are “organic” or “natural.” A statement of poetics that explores the theories and inspirations of this collection follows.
2017-05-07T15:43:44Z
2017-05-07T15:43:44Z
2015-12-31
2015
Thesis
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:14353
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/23914
en
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/225222018-01-31T20:07:52Zcom_1808_979com_1808_1260col_1808_14116col_1808_1951
"Narratives of Technological Globalization and Outsourced Call Centers in India: Droids, Mimic Machines, Automatons, and Bad 'Borgs"
Lowe, Annie
Outka, Paul
Caminero-Santangelo, Byron
Tell, Dave
Rhetoric
South Asian studies
Labor relations
call centers
cyborg
globalization
India
nationalism
technology
Taking as a premise that contemporary communication and information technology-aided globalization is a world-making practice that relies on narratives to construct and transmit global imaginaries and relational identities, this project evaluates narrative discourses of Indian call centers serving clients and customers in the United States in order to analyze evolving hegemonic narratives of the "global" of late capitalism. In this project, I argue that constellations of local, national, and transnational hegemonies map outsourced Indian call centers into a position in capitalist geography at which vectors of the production of national, corporate, and racial identities converge in the technological production of power. Specifically, I look at assemblages of narratives corresponding to four tropes that metaphorize Indian tech workers as machines--the oriental droid, the mimic machine, the productive automaton, and the bad 'borg--how each metaphor is reinforced by labor processes in the call center, and how these are assimilated into new forms of subjugation to further extend and entrench participation in zero-sum economics across the globe.
2017-01-08T19:01:32Z
2017-01-08T19:01:32Z
2014-05-31
2014
Thesis
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:13387
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22522
en
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/197152017-12-08T21:34:35Zcom_1808_979com_1808_1260col_1808_14116col_1808_7158
The influence of Christ in recent American verse
Nelson, Lawrence E.
Includes bibliographical references.
2016-01-06T17:16:18Z
2016-01-06T17:16:18Z
1921
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/19715
eng
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Performance and Performativity in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford and Ruth
Nurulhady, Eta Farmacelia
Elliott, Dorice W.
Rowland, Ann W.
English literature
Gaskell, Elizabeth
Cranford
Ruth
Performance
Performativity
Victorian
This thesis analyzes the aspects of performance and performativity in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford and Ruth. Gaskell shows through her characters how gender and class intertwine, involving the notions of cultural, social, and economic capital. Although contested concepts, performance and performativity can be significant tools in analyzing how Victorian narratives such as Cranford and Ruth could subvert dominant assumptions about gender and gender roles. The first chapter discusses Elizabeth Gaskell, the concepts of performance and performativity, and Victorian doctrine of separate spheres. The second chapter analyzes how the Cranford ladies in Cranford perform stylized repetition of certain acts to maintain their identity. The third chapter shows performances in Ruth and how the heroine acquires her gender by accreting its behavior, strengthening the understanding of Ruth by using the notion of performativity. The fourth chapter consolidates the main points that performance and performativity help to show: how Cranford challenges the stereotype of a "redundant woman," and Ruth challenges the stereotype of a "fallen woman."
2008-08-05T03:47:30Z
2008-08-05T03:47:30Z
2008-05-08
2008
Thesis
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:2521
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/4044
EN
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"Wundorlice hit hæleþ": Organization and Metatextual Markers in Old English Recipes
Brussow, Jennifer
Grund, Peter
Schieberle, Misty
Language
Linguistics
Anglo-saxon
Discourse markers
Herbal
Medicinal
Metatextual markers
Organization
This study seeks to examine the ways structural components and metatextual markers contribute to the organization of Old English medicinal texts. Through quantitative linguistic analysis of the Læceboc, Lacnunga, Herbarium, and Medicina de Quadrupedibus, the study shows that Old English medicinal recipes follow a defined structure: heading (consisting of a starting word and an ailment listing), ingredient list, preparation, administration, and efficacy statement. This structure bears marked similarities to the organizational strategies scholars have advanced for Middle English recipes. However, this analysis shows that Old English recipes do not possess any obligatory components. Instead, all components are optional, though some, such as administration, display less optionality than others, such as the ingredient list and the efficacy statement. The overall similarities in structure suggest a continuing textual tradition between Old English and Middle English recipes. In addition to component-based organization, these medicinal texts were found to contain metatextual markers, or words and phrases that appear to serve an organizational function within the texts yet fail to meet the definition of formal discourse markers. Though wiþ, genim and nim, and generic efficacy statements serve metatextual functions and demonstrate many of Brinton's features of discourse markers, none of these elements can be categorized as discourse markers.
2012-10-28T15:34:36Z
2012-10-28T15:34:36Z
2012-08-31
2012
Thesis
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:12219
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10269
en
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Social elements in the novels of George Eliot /
Opperman, Margaret Elizabeth.
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1916. ; Includes bibliographical references.
2015-04-06T16:50:42Z
2015-04-06T16:50:42Z
1916.
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/17311
eng
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Kansas literature : a historical sketch to 1875
Long, Edgar Fauver
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1916. ; Includes bibliographical references.
2015-12-04T15:09:53Z
2015-12-04T15:09:53Z
1916
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/19106
eng
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Community and little theatres in America
Dodge, Mildred Gavitt
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1928.
2016-12-13T18:54:14Z
2016-12-13T18:54:14Z
1928
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22230
eng
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Sir Thomas Browne and his age: An examination of the life and writings of Sir Thomas Browne with a view to determining their relation to the age in which he lived
Larson, Garnet Ireva
The common conception of Sir Thomas Browne was that he was an antiquarian, a recluse who withdrew from the political and religious controversies of his age to live his own peaceful and uneventful life alone with his thoughts and who found his deepest enjoyment and. interest in ancient and unusual events, in the books, thoughts, and superstitions that belong to the antiquarian. This conception has permeated almost all the criticism that has been written about him and his works until it has become almost traditional. It is the purpose of this study to show that the conception, while it has some justification, is, for the most part, false, and to indicate by a close examination of Browne’s works and his private correspondence the interest that he had both in the events and in the changes of thought that were taking place during his lifetime.
2019-10-14T16:32:41Z
2019-10-14T16:32:41Z
1935-05-31
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/29621
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The nature essay of the twentieth century American magazines
Boell, Sarah Joanna
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1924.
2016-06-30T14:47:29Z
2016-06-30T14:47:29Z
1924
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21069
eng
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Shared Recklessness
Goodman, Danya Laura
Lorenz, Thomas D.
Moriarty, Laura
Fine arts
Language arts
Creative writing
Death
Nonfiction
Sex
Short fiction
Short shorts
A collection of fiction, nonfiction, and short shorts that together demonstrate my development as a writer. In these pieces, I explore themes of sexuality, religion, and death. I am interested in why people do what they do, especially actions that are considered taboo. One of my goals was to investigate socially abhorrent behaviors to find the truth and empathy hidden there. My characters embark on journeys, and take risks to ultimately forge connections to people and to life, despite the questions of loneliness and meaninglessness.
2013-01-20T17:29:09Z
2013-01-20T17:29:09Z
2012-05-31
2012
Thesis
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:11995
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10681
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Twentieth century American criticism of Spanish literature
Wheatley, Edna Laura
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1927.
2016-07-29T15:13:07Z
2016-07-29T15:13:07Z
1927
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21235
eng
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Nature in the works of Hamlin Garland
Wirth, Bernard A.
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1925.
2016-06-30T14:47:27Z
2016-06-30T14:47:27Z
1925
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21066
eng
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Continental Breakfast
Caine, Daniel
Kamiski, Megan
Drake, Philip
Knox, Jennifer L
Creative writing
Capitalism
Consumerism
Humor
Landscape
Poetry
Religion
A collection of poems investigating the impact of junk capitalism on identity, place, desire, and religion.
2018-11-14T00:25:42Z
2018-11-14T00:25:42Z
2017-05-31
2017
Thesis
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:15153
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/27349
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William Blake's Laocoon: The Genealogy of a Form
McCarthy, Erik
Rowland, Ann
Elliott, Dorice W.
English literature
Art history
Blake, William
Laocoon
The four Zoas
The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the relationship between the British artist and poet William Blake and the art of Antiquity, in particular the Laocoön sculpture group in the Museo Pio-Clementino in Rome. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Blake never saw the work firsthand, but he knew of it through the writings of such prominent eighteenth-century art theorists as Winckelmann, Lessing and Fuseli, and from plaster casts in the Royal Academy collections. The recurrence of the Laocoöntic gesture in his art and illuminated poetry testifies to its powerful hold on his imagination, and my goal is to ascertain the significance of this gesture in relation to his own theories of art and, more particularly, his prophetic writings. The first two chapters discuss the sculpture in the broader context of late eighteenth-century aesthetic theory, art historiography, and Anglo-French nationalism. This includes a detailed discussion of the popular debate surrounding the semiotics of graphic and textual representation, a debate that has long been at the center of Blake studies, since his prophetic books consist of both visual and verbal elements. Further attention is given to the prominence of the sculpture in the development of neoclassical taste and the privileging of the Greek ideal in the art academies of England and France. Both countries adopted this ideal as a way to give cultural legitimacy to their respective geopolitical and economic ambitions. Blake's writings on art reveal his keen awareness and interest in these debates, culminating in his remarkable engraving of the Laocoön surrounded by a dense, disjointed textual apparatus that addresses all these concerns. Chapters three and four deal specifically with the recurrence of the Laocoöntic gesture in Blake's graphic work and illuminated poetry. I begin by explaining the rationale behind such formulaic repetitions as the foundation for an elaborate expressive code that assigns specific meanings to the gesture, and then trace these meanings in several of the illuminated prophecies, starting first with the shorter Lambeth books (America, Europe, and The Book of Urizen), and then proceeding to a chapter-length study of the Four Zoas manuscript, a work that has received less critical attention than his two other epic-length prophecies, Milton and Jerusalem. My primary point in these readings is that, in the same way the sculpture came to symbolize for Blake ideal beauty degraded by imperialism and war, in the illuminated poetry the same figure represents humanity in both its fallen and redemptive states.
2008-08-05T03:03:37Z
2008-08-05T03:03:37Z
2008-01-11
2007
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:2306
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/4028
EN
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What Really Happened
Smith, Benjamin Ryan
Lim, Paul
Lim, Paul S.
Fine arts
Performing arts
Creative writing
Playwriting
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 death of his son. Themes of violence, excess, and mystery are interwoven with literary and biblical references in this contemporary modernist drama. Cast of two men, four women. The script received a full production at Lawrence Arts Center in Lawrence, KS on Nov. 21 and 22 of 2009. Thesis defense passed on Nov. 23 of 2009. It was one of two scripts nominated for the David Mark Cohen Playwriting Award in Region IV of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in 2010.
2010-03-18T04:50:20Z
2010-03-18T04:50:20Z
2009-121-17
2009
Thesis
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:10623
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/5987
EN
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At the Center of Her Art: Ex/Isle, Trauma, and Story-Telling in Julia Alvarez's First Three Novels
Robbins, Emily Rebecca
Anatol, Giselle
Graham, Maryemma
Caribbean literature
Julia Alvarez's first three novels, which can be read as a story cycle, are highly autobiographical, and, if studied together, reveal how she progresses as an author. Drawing from theories concerning life writing, language, and madness, I read How the García Girls Lost Their Accents as a dual kunstlerroman, demonstrating the growth of both Alvarez's and Yolanda's agency. In her second novel, In the Time of the Butterflies, Alvarez wrestles with what "lies at the center of [her] art" -- the Dominican Republic and the trauma associated with living on and away from the island. Using cryptonomy and trauma theory, I investigate the effect of silence on both the Dominicans and Alvarez. Finally, in ¡Yo! Alvarez suggests that the responsible storyteller listens to those she represents. When considered together, these three novels reveal Alvarez's quest to articulate her development as a writer who can represent the voices of the collective.
2008-10-06T20:50:48Z
2008-10-06T20:50:48Z
2007-12-20
2007
Thesis
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:2281
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/4253
EN
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/66132020-07-20T13:50:52Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_979col_1808_1952col_1808_14116
Representing the Museum and the People: Rhetorical Sovereignty and the Representational Genres of American Indian Museums
King, Lisa
Farmer, Frank
Lyons, Scott R.
Rahder, Bobbi
Language
Rhetoric and composition
Native American studies
Museology
Rhetorical sovereignty
Genre theory
New museology
This study addresses questions surrounding American Indian representations, specifically how Native nations use standard museum communicative structures to forward those communities' needs and goals, thus enacting what Scott Richard Lyons terms "rhetorical sovereignty." Using rhetoric studies' genre theory as the methodological tool, the genres of publicity/orientation literature, exhibits, and gift shops at three sites, the National Museum of the American Indian, Haskell Cultural Center and Museum, and Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture & Lifeways, are analyzed for how Native peoples employ these genres for their own purposes for multiple audiences. The analysis suggests these genres are retailored depending upon the cultural and rhetorical context of each site, revealing that "rhetorical sovereignty" grounds itself in the context of an individual community. Furthermore, while positive changes have occurred in American Indian representations through the adaptation of museum genres by Native communities, the potential for communicative contradictions across genres and audiences still occurs.
2010-09-03T01:50:20Z
2010-09-03T01:50:20Z
2008-07-29
2008
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:2497
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/6613
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9687-4815
EN
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The Effects of Informal Training on Graduate Teaching Assistants’ Response Beliefs
Moos, Andrew Thomas-James
Devitt, Amy J
Reiff, Mary Jo C
Farmer, Frank M
Teacher education
Higher education
beginning teachers
feedback and assessment
feedback beliefs
graduate teaching assistants
responding to writing
teacher training
As recent studies have shown (Ferris, 2014; Reid, Estrem, & Belcheir, 2012), formalized types of pedagogical instruction may be less effective on new instructors than previously thought. In new instructors continuing to form beliefs about responding to student writing through their first years of teaching and training, they may continue to rely heavily on knowledge gained from extracurricular sources and prior experiences in shaping their beliefs about feedback. This study aims to examine these informal influences on feedback beliefs on beginning first-year writing instructors. Specifically, this study uses both surveys and interviews with teachers in their first two years of teaching at a single university in the United States to uncover influences on these individuals that result from informal training. The purpose of this study is to then examine how personal experiences, values, or beliefs based in their own experiences as students and writers may affect the beliefs with which instructors respond to their students’ writing in the classroom. This study suggests that informal training is a valuable tool to new teachers in helping to both motivate them to respond and assist them in a more concrete manner than formal training, and it should be taken into account in teacher training.
2018-10-24T19:39:03Z
2018-10-24T19:39:03Z
2017-12-31
2017
Thesis
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:15676
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26985
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4423-3976
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/160572018-03-26T21:45:34Zcom_1808_979com_1808_1260col_1808_14116col_1808_1951
The love of the soil as a motivating force in literature relating to the early development of the Middle West
Henderson, Caroline Agnes
Submitted to the Department of English and the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts.
2014-12-09T21:05:03Z
2014-12-09T21:05:03Z
1935-01-01
Thesis
Henderson, Caroline Agnes. (1935). "The love of the soil as a motivating force in literature relating to the early development of the Middle West." University of Kansas.
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/16057
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The diction in volume I of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Dred
Clark, Blanche E.
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1928.
2017-01-30T14:41:04Z
2017-01-30T14:41:04Z
1928
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22702
eng
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The Use of Conversation in the English Novel
Schafer, Bertha B.
2011-10-06T16:21:31Z
2011-10-06T16:21:31Z
1896
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8123
en_US
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/235442017-12-08T21:43:44Zcom_1808_979com_1808_1260col_1808_14116col_1808_1951
The influence of Italy and Italian art on certain American writers of the nineteenth century before 1860
Weir, Mary Alta Lola
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1931.
2017-03-31T19:33:07Z
2017-03-31T19:33:07Z
1931
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/23544
eng
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Idaho in American literature
Brubaker, Crawford F.
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1928.
2016-09-30T14:39:24Z
2016-09-30T14:39:24Z
1928
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21586
eng
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God, Love, and Immortality in Shakespere and the Elizabethan Dramatists
Briggs, Ada Eleanor
2014-08-22T21:21:06Z
2014-08-22T21:21:06Z
1889-05-01
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/14939
en
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The University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/55202020-07-27T12:53:58Zcom_1808_979com_1808_1260col_1808_14116col_1808_1951
The Distressed School Committee, Interiors of Modern Play, and Olivia's Passionate Sketches
Stevens, Rhoads Elliott
Olin-Unferth, Deb
Ohle, David
American literature
Cultural anthropology
Language
Linguistics
This is a work of fiction that is concerned primarily with what individuals--especially those called "protagonists"--do to themselves.
2009-10-13T04:10:17Z
2009-10-13T04:10:17Z
2009-04-28
2009
Thesis
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:10292
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/5520
EN
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93 pages
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University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/83002020-06-25T18:48:54Zcom_1808_979com_1808_1260col_1808_14116col_1808_7158
A Concept of Oratory
Hambleton, Antrum Marion
2011-10-27T20:03:19Z
2011-10-27T20:03:19Z
1907
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8300
en_US
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University of Kansas
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Consuming Communities: U.S. Women's Regionalism and Consumer Culture, 1870-1930
Tigchelaar, Jana Michelle
Harris, Susan K
Mielke, Laura
Outka, Paul
Lester, Cheryl
Vanchena, Lorie
American literature
Regional studies
Women's studies
American
Community
Consumerism
Literature
Regionalism
Women's
Literary regionalism has always faced critical devaluation, both at the time of its greatest popularity in the late nineteenth century and during its critical rediscovery in the past twenty years. Even those critics who seek to laud regionalist texts for offering alternatives to dominant national narratives assume that regionalism is removed from centers of power and authority and not involved in the creation of national identity. Regional literature's peripheral communities, inhabitants, and localized lives were seen as somehow more authentically American than urban scenes and city dwellers, but paradoxically regionalism's purported authenticity also doomed the genre in the face of the rising changes brought by modernity and literary modernism. My dissertation argues that regional literature by American women of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was not only a product of the expanding consumer culture, but was also fundamentally engaged with this culture, using consumer goods to attempt to define and control the communities they depict. This claim challenges concepts of regionalist literature as a marginal generic category as well as traditional beliefs about the consumer economy's destructive impact on regional community identities. Through my examination of texts by Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Edith Wharton, Anzia Yezierska, and Willa Cather, I challenge prevailing notions of regional literature's marginal status. In these texts, individuals consume to both validate their sense of community and attempt to realize their ambitions for social mobility. In doing so, regionalist authors use consumer objects and material exchange to reimagine communities that transgress the presumably fixed margins of the local to promote fluid, permeable notions of modernity and national identity.
2017-01-08T19:03:14Z
2017-01-08T19:03:14Z
2014-05-31
2014
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:13340
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22523
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University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/306252020-08-21T08:00:49Zcom_1808_979com_1808_1260col_1808_14116col_1808_1951
The development of English prose with special reference to ornamentation
Whitzel, Frank R.
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1896.
2020-08-20T16:08:33Z
2020-08-20T16:08:33Z
1896-05-31
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30625
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Literary Reality: Rhetoricizing Literature and English Studies
Williams, Erin Ann
Hartman, James
Anatol, Giselle
Language
Linguistics
Autobiography
Conceptual metaphor theory
Life writing
Metaphor
Rhetoric
Rhetoric and composition
Drawing on conceptual metaphor theory and John Bender and David E. Wellbery's description of rhetoricality, I offer a reconceptualization of literature as a conceptual metaphorization of the experience of the cognitive concept of LIFE. I demonstrate the value of such a rhetoricized reconceptualization of literature and literary study by applying them to four American autobiographies written after 1970: Bill Clinton's My Life, James Frey's A Million Little Pieces, Audre Lorde's Zami, and Walter Dean Myers' Autobiography of my Dead Brother. I also speculate about what a rhetoricized English studies in contemporary American higher education - one that sees (what Pierre Bourdieu describes as) heteronomy rather than autonomy as its primary organizing principle - might entail.
2012-11-26T21:11:23Z
2012-11-26T21:11:23Z
2011-05-31
2011
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:11515
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10430
en
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/195842018-02-01T22:22:39Zcom_1808_979com_1808_1260col_1808_14116col_1808_1951
Penelope Salvo and Impossible Red
Zaruba, Justin
Johnson, Kij
Lorenz, Tom
McKitterick, Chris
Folklore
banana
booze
lolcat
monkey
Nirvana
roflcopter
All Penelope Salvo wanted was a place to live. After her mother died, her only goal was to never be homeless. This eventually leads to a flower pot Houng, a man in Chinatown with a room to rent. Moving into his herbal shop opens the door for supernatural things to happen to her: she meets Lordes from a fairy tale world, Voodoo spirits, and a corporate field agent intent on killing her.
2016-01-03T21:00:40Z
2016-01-03T21:00:40Z
2015-05-31
2015
Thesis
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:14088
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/19584
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/106482018-01-31T20:08:05Zcom_1808_979com_1808_1260col_1808_14116col_1808_1951
"Beasts," "Beings," and Everything Between: Environmental and Social Ethics in Harry Potter
Fettke, Sarah
Anatol, Giselle
Caminero-Santangelo, Byron
British & Irish literature
Animal studies
Environmental criticism
Harry Potter
Posthuman studies
This paper examines J.K. Rowling's fictional textbook, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, alongside the Harry Potter series, exploring how Rowling questions official academic discourse that defines boundaries between the human and nonhuman. By creating magical characters that straddle the line between "beast" and "being," as defined by fictional scholar Newt Scamander, Rowling blurs the boundary between human and animal and questions the treatment of the nonhuman as subhuman that results from such firm boundaries. At the same time, in other areas of her novels Rowling seems to reiterate the division of the human from the nonhuman, and seems to maintain a hierarchy of power that positions fully human characters over their nonhuman - and "part-human" - counterparts. The weakened boundary between beast and being complicates any discussion of the novels' social agenda, particularly regarding what many critics have perceived as Rowling's racial stereotyping of her part-human characters according to white, imperialist tropes. The result is an ambiguous code of environmental and social ethics that hinges on the question of what it means to be a being - human - as opposed to a beast - animal - and whose right it is to define these important legal and social categories.
2013-01-20T16:03:56Z
2013-01-20T16:03:56Z
2012-05-31
2012
Thesis
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:12103
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10648
en
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University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/210962021-08-26T21:58:57Zcom_1808_979com_1808_1260col_1808_14116col_1808_7158
A critical edition of Home's Douglas
Tunney, Hubert James
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1924.
2016-07-13T13:36:31Z
2016-07-13T13:36:31Z
1924
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21096
eng
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/197122017-12-08T21:34:35Zcom_1808_979com_1808_1260col_1808_14116col_1808_7158
The treatment of royalty in the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher
Larson, Alphild
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1919. ; Includes bibliographical references.
2016-01-06T17:16:17Z
2016-01-06T17:16:17Z
1919
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/19712
eng
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