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  • Kindred ambivalence: art and the adult-child dynamic in America's Cold War 
    Marberry, Michael Odell (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)
    The pervasive ideological dimension of the Cold War resulted in an extremely ambivalent period in U.S. history, marked by complex and conflicting feelings. Nowhere is this ambivalence more clearly seen than in the American ...
  • King of America 
    Rutherford, Curtis Lance (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)
    This is a collection of poetry and prose by Curtis Rutherford. The majority of this manuscript was written between April 2010 and February 2011.
  • La mandragola 
    Crawford, Jacob Andrew (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)
    The current best-selling bilingual edition of Machiavelli’s plays, The Comedies of Machiavelli, edited by David Sices and James B. Atkinson, contains several errors, mistranslations, and historical inaccuracies. Though ...
  • Landscapes of memory: the cartography of longing 
    Strong, Frances Justina (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)
    Landscapes of Memory: The Cartography of Longing examines three disparate twentieth century writers--Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, and Virginia Woolf--who use similar fictive strategies for the reclamation and revision ...
  • “Learn thou of Faustus manly fortitude”: masculinity and the texts of doctor faustus 
    Bell, Charles Nathaniel (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)
    This thesis is an examination of masculinity in Doctor Faustus that pays special attention to editorial theory and the complicated textual history of Christopher Marlowe’s play, which exists in two substantially different ...
  • "Like life in excrements": natural philosophy, hair, and the limits of the body's vitality in early modern English thought 
    Geisweidt, Edward James (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)
    This study focuses on early modern understandings of hair as a means to investigate English thought about life, the soul, identity, and the place of the human in the natural world. Hair is a useful body part for exploring ...
  • Lost in the rift: exploring the rhetoric of immersion and identity in virtual realities 
    Berge, Peter Sverre (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)
    Rhetorical games scholarship over the past two decades has demonstrated an elaborate fascination with the resonance between players and their digital avatars in the discourse surrounding video games and virtual realities. ...
  • “Madmen and fools": mental illness and disability in Middleton and Rowley's The Changeling 
    McNamee, Hope Elizabeth (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)
    Criticism of The Changeling, while abundant, has historically either neglected the madhouse subplot or treated it as a symbolic reflection of the main plot. While some scholars have examined the historical context of the ...
  • Madness, the supernatural, and child murder in tragedy 
    Hutchison, Gennifer Arwen (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)
    Child murder in modern American drama draws heavily from Greek tragic traditions, both stylistically and thematically. The number of playwrights (and authors) who have chosen to include infanticide in their works in both ...
  • "Make several kingdoms of this monarchy": place and identity in early modern drama 
    Ferretti, Alexandra Stewart (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)
    In the phenomenological theory of space and place, best articulated by Yi-Fu Tuan, Edward Casey, J.E. Malpas, and Michel de Certeau, an individual’s experiences inscribe a space (or an undifferentiated area) and make it a ...
  • Making past present: Henry V in contemporary performance 
    Jobe, Alaina Elizabeth (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)
    Traditionally, Shakespeare's Henry V is viewed as either pro- or anti-war, but the play actually revels in its own political ambiguity. Thus, in order to make some sort of socio-political statement, directors have to, in ...
  • Making quality contact in the writing center: a collective case study of the relation between writing consultants' discourse community knowledge and genre knowledge 
    Kane, Erin Elizabeth (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)
    Since the first writing centers were established on college and university campuses, their directors have struggled to convince others of the writing center's role as more than a "fix-it shop" for editing mistakes. Given ...
  • Masculinity in peril: mutiny fiction and Victorian man-making 
    Phillips, Amanda Lynn (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)
    In Victorian Masculinities, Herbert Sussman identifies the emergence of the "masculine plot" in mid-nineteenth century writing by male authors. The masculine plot, an alternative to the marriage plot's bourgeois domestic ...
  • Mediations on the lake 
    Hawkins, Jeremy Allan (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)
    A volume of work selected from poems written between 2007 and 2010.
  • The Myth of the Quest and the Novel: The Vision of Hermann Hesse 
    Bradford, Beverly (1974)
    Hermann Hesse was born on July 2, 1877 in Calw, a town in southern Germany. Though born in Germany he was a Swiss citizen because of his father, a Baltic-Russian with Swiss citizenship. He became a naturalized German citizen ...
  • Narrative analysis of oral personal experience across two languages and cultures: Brazilian Portuguese and American English 
    Junqueira, Luciana (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)
    Stories play a significant role in human culture, and storytelling is "both universal and timeless" (Wajnryb, 2003, p. 1). The importance of narratives in our everyday lives does not lie in its interactional function only, ...
  • Nellie Bly, "the best reporter in America": one woman's rhetorical legacy 
    Parham, Stacey Gaines (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)
    My project shares the story of Nellie Bly, a true writer who applied her energies to accomplish more in her writing than most women of her time ever dreamed possible. During the Progressive Era (1890-1920), Bly fervently ...
  • Nesting 
    Jorgenson, Kirsten Marie (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)
    Nesting is a book of poems that explores the way we come to find location--in time, in companionship, in our landscape, etc.-- in the midst of the greater activity always already going on around us.
  • Not here, not dead 
    De Dominic, Nicholas Paul (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)
    In this collection of poems, my concern is with patriarchy and story telling, specifically of stories passed from father to son, and the failure of hyper masculinity (cyclical violence, impotence, addiction, &c). The book ...
  • Notes on excavation 
    Gray, Chapin Rose (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)
    A collection of poems.

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