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Take (meta) physic, pomp: King Lear and (dis) oriented ontology

Smith, Matthew Burdick (University of Alabama Libraries, 2016)

“‘Take (Meta) Physic, Pomp’: King Lear and (Dis)oriented Ontology” negotiates the intersection between ontology—our abstract, philosophical conception of reality—and practice—how characters relate to objects in the play. ...
Teachers, preachers, or...: goals of church-based volunteer ESL instructors

Sanchez, Lindsey Erin (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

For many years, Christian churches have been used as sites for education, including language education. Within churches, ESL classes are often staffed by volunteers who provide tutoring for adults. Recently, the ultimate ...
"Teachin' good": including students' and instructors' linguistic identities in the composition classroom

Lyons-Burns, Syreeta (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

This dissertation presents the findings of an IRB-approved case study on language exploration within the first-year composition classroom. The purpose of this case study is to determine the social and academic implications ...
Tell me again

Gray, Samuel John Allen (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)

A collection of lyric poems.
The 20th and 21st century literary afterlives of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Kelly, Matthew (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

This project examines ways in which the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne has been appropriated, inscribed, and variously intertextualized in the writings of a collection of twentieth and twenty-first century authors. From William ...
The American counter gothic: monstrous women and their monstrous texts

Whitener, Bonnie (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

Various texts theorize the wanton woman and the conditions that created her but none so much as Leslie Fiedler's Love and Death in the American Novel. His book speaks to a particularly American wanton, monstrous woman ...
The constitutive relationship between race and disability in African American literature: a Black critical disabilities studies approach

Steverson, Delia (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

In this project, I examine what disability scholars such as Ellen Samuels, Nirmala Erevelles, and Cynthia Wu label as the “constitutive relationship” between race and disability, meaning that race informs disability in the ...
The convent of measure: prosodic passing and stable subjectivity in Margaret Cavendish's The convent of pleasure

Swanner, Seth Logan (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)

Although contemporary criticism of Margaret Cavendish's The Convent of Pleasure often focuses on Happy's convent as a site of queer resistance, my prosodic analysis of the verse structure of the 4.1 pastoral scene suggests ...
The efficacy of peer review in a university-level ESL writing class

Brathwaite, Sara Strickland (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

Currently, there is a great debate concerning whether peer review is an effective activity in the university-level English-as-a-Second-Language writing classroom. Peer review offers the unique opportunity for second-language ...
The fortune stick

Grimes, Nancy S. I. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

Collection of poems and stories.
The great white while

Gnall, Stacy Celine (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

This thesis is a collection of poems by Stacy Gnall.
The influences of multimodality on international Chinese students' identity negotiation while using l2 literacies skills

Wang, Min (University of Alabama Libraries, 2016)

This research explored how three newly arrived Chinese ELI students interacted with multiple modes and tools to (re)construct multiple identities. It also examined to what extent multimodality influenced these three ELI ...
"The multitude of thronging thoughts and baseless dreams": the diary of Caroline Stern

Lamar, Anne Franklin (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)

Caroline Stern, the "Mother of Greenville's authors," is a legend in the Mississippi Delta, but little if anything is known about her life outside of her role as an influential teacher. Through this transcription and ...
The new woman of the New South: gender and class in 20th century Southern women's literature

Sumner, Caitlan Aleah (University of Alabama Libraries, 2013)

The theoretical study of Southern literature has become increasingly popular in recent decades. Many of the studies focus on women's rights, racial inequality, class relations, and other injustices as they are depicted ...
The pleasure pier of amusements & curios

McMillin, Erin Bracken (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)

Collection of short stories.
The poison principle: experiencing William James through Gertrude Stein's repetition in three lives

Parker, Stephanie Don Chiemi (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

While previous critics have synthesized William James's stream of consciousness with Gertrude Stein's use of repetition in Three Lives, I argue that the reader's response to repetition enables an awareness of a physical ...
The politics of blogging: identity, access, and composition

Gutenson, Leah DiNatale (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

This dissertation titled “The Politics of Blogging: Identity, Access, and Composition” explores the findings of six IRB-approved case studies on the blogging practices of millennial women between the ages of 20-27. The ...
The reader's progress: Thomas Pynchon's novels as allegories of critical reading practices since 1945

Meinel, Tobias Julian (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)

This project describes the influence of post-1945 cultural, societal, and political developments on reading practices in literature departments in the United States. Reading has been central to the way academics saw ...
The short story composite and the roots of modernist narrative

Matheny, Kathryn Grace (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

While the story cycle form has been popular for centuries, as seen in works like 'The Decameron' and 'One Thousand and One Arabian Nights,' it is especially important to modern Anglo-American literature. Twentieth century ...
The social network in Charles Dickens's Barnaby Rudge and Martin Chuzzlewit

Porter, Jessica Lynn (University of Alabama Libraries, 2013)

In the foundational text, George Eliot and Blackmail, Alexander Welsh charts the development of modern society, from the birth of our information culture to the emergence of new community patterns, and he explains how the ...

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