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Because you flinch

Morrison, Brian Daniel (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)

This thesis is a lyric examination of child abuse which deals directly with the psychological issues that surface in abused children as they grow into adulthood. I'm trying to show that the harm done by abuse is often ...
Beyond fig leaves and scarlet letters: women voicing themselves in diaries and blogs

McKnight, Elizabeth Simpson (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

This project explores the reasons that women write in diaries and blogs and the ways that they reckon with audience and identity through private writing in public spaces. It observes that women write to work through difficult ...
Beyond nostalgia: a walking guide to American small-town literature, 1940-1960

Booth, Nathanael T. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

Typically, the small town in fiction is critiqued—or, at worst, ignored—as a form of nostalgia. Readers seem to go to small-town fiction as a means of seeking safety and escape from the pressures of Modernity. For some ...
Black women as monuments in Nella Larsen's Quicksand

Barksdale, Nadia Ashae (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

Given examples such as the Statue of Liberty and various Civil War monuments to the Confederate “Lost Cause,” it is clear that many monuments rooted in the American landscape take the form of the female body. I propose ...
Blood nativity: poems

Pinho, Kirk (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)

Blood Nativity: Poems.
Bodies at war: the female ruler in John Webster's the Duchess of Malfi and Lope de Vega's El Mayordomo de la Duquesa de Amalfi

Reinwald, Elizabeth Marie Beaumont (University of Alabama Libraries, 2014)

This thesis uses the theory of the king's two bodies to interrogate the portrayal of the female ruler in both Webster's The Duchess of Malfi and Lope de Vega's El mayordomo de la duquesa de Amalfi. These two plays are based ...
Bramble

Hamilton, Richard (University of Alabama Libraries, 2008)

A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts.
Broken English, broken morality: English as virtue in Equiano's interesting narrative

Caddis, Samantha Simmons (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written By Himself, is one of the earliest and most widely published slave narratives. It is an abolitionist text as well as a ...
Burning blushes, weeping water: the perversion of nature and its relation to female agency in Shakespeare’s A Lover’s Complaint

Leisentritt, Emma Eileen (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

Scholarship on Shakespeare’s enigmatic, female-voiced narrative poem A Lover’s Complaint, which first appeared in the 1609 edition of the Sonnets, often revolves around attempting to definitively determine the poem’s ...
Carnival incarnate: maternal bodies in medieval and early modern literature

Winn, Catherine Marie (University of Alabama Libraries, 2016)

The female body has long been a contested site of conflict between the sexes, and it has been manipulated, unmade, and reformed many times since the earliest physicians first theorized a model of human anatomy. Common ...
Character in the cue space: an analysis of part scripts in shakespeare's Coriolanus and Julius Caesar

Pieschel, Alex (University of Alabama Libraries, 2014)

This paper aspires to perform an analysis of Early Modern character by thinking of character as a formative process, spanning playwriting to part-learning to dramatic performance. My analysis, which will focus on Shakespeare's ...
Chasing after the funeral

McWhirter, Elizabeth Evans (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

This is an original work of fiction.
Chehalis stories

Amrine, Jolynn Renee (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

This dissertation presents a critical edition of the Chehalis stories collected by Franz Boas on the Chehalis Reservation in 1927. The primary goal of this project is to repatriate these stories to the Chehalis people. ...
Churchyards and crossroads: monuments, tombs, and commemoration in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama

Whitver, Harry Austin (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

This project explores how tombs and monuments erected for the dead function in the early modern playhouse, both when used as stage locations in dramatic scenes and when invoked imaginatively by characters grappling with ...
Concordance-based glosses for facilitating semantization and enhancing productive knowledge of academic vocabulary

Poole, Robert Edward (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)

Extensive research has been conducted on the use of electronic glosses for second language vocabulary learning. However, many of the studies have assessed the effectiveness of textual and pictorial glosses at lower proficiency ...
"Cracked within the ring": the spillable female body in Shakespearean tragedy

Luca, Carmen Abigail (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)

This thesis explores the myriad ways in which the invocation of the female body enriches Shakespearean tragedy. Beginning with an Aristotelian definition of tragedy and then moving through a survey of Elizabethan and ...
"creeping into the conversation": tracing hip hop literature from margin to center

Dente, Shahara'Tova V. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

In “Creeping into the Conversation,” I examine canonical texts from the African American Literary Tradition, including Ann Petry’s The Street (1946) and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970), alongside contemporary, oft ...
Cultural identity and language: the narratives of people of color with Creole descent in south Louisiana

Donatto, Teranda Joy (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

Because of their mixed descent and because of changes throughout history, people of color with Creole lineage have different ways of identifying themselves culturally. Building on Dubois and Melançon (2000), this study ...
Data visualization of Indian Mutiny causes in Victorian higher journalism

Easter, Brandee Danielle (University of Alabama Libraries, 2013)

When its Indian colony revolted in the summer of 1857, England was caught off guard. Largely ignored before the uprising, India surged to the forefront of foreign affairs discourse as periodical writers attempted to ...
Deceived from within: monstrosity and villainy in William Shakespeare's Richard III

Bone, Kirstin Marie (University of Alabama Libraries, 2013)

William Shakespeare's Richard III has been the victim of a gross crime: For four hundred years, he has been condemned as a dastardly villain. Scholars and performers alike have declared that Richard is obviously evil, but ...

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