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A body of suffering: reading Shakespeare's tragedies through cognitive theory

Helms, Nicholas Ryan (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

In this thesis I attempt to build and use a cognitive theory of tragedy. I base this theory upon the work of George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, and Mark Turner, whose studies of embodied metaphor and conceptual blending offer ...
A Daoist perspective on George Oppen's poetry and poetics

Yang, Xiaosheng (University of Alabama Libraries, 2016)

I use Daoist principles of ontological simplicity and the unmediated relationship between man and the ten thousand things to analyze George Oppen’s poems and poetics. First, I conduct a survey of the current state of ...
A fragmentary study of the animals

Hollister, Colleen Megan (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)

A collection of short stories.
A loom of her own?: weaving men and spinning women in Thomas Deloney's Jack of Newbury

Merritt, Catherine Marie (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)

To show how popular (male) sentiment pushed against female participation in cloth production during this period, I will look closely at Thomas Deloney's Jack of Newbury, a romance novel whose protagonist conquers the weaving ...
A poetics of listening: sound as distant diapason delight in the work of Susan Howe

Beasley, Aaron Michael (University of Alabama Libraries, 2013)

Susan Howe is well known for her visual scatterings of text. This essay explores her early and late poetry's acoustic dimensions as framed by an attention to the "stutter" in American literature. Howe unlocks the wildness ...
A re-vision of women: approaching gender equality in Prometheus unbound and Proserpine

Hopper, Natalie Nicole (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

Whereas ancient accounts of the Prometheus story cast the Titan's wife in a secondary and easily overlooked role, Percy Shelley portrays Prometheus and Asia as mutually dependent partners, establishing the couple as equals ...
A rhetoric of revival: reimagining museum spaces through digital media

Stevens, Amanda (University of Alabama Libraries, 2016)

Though this dissertation’s ideas and theories are grounded in multiple disciplines, its primary focus is on voices. Voices that are heard, voices that are marginalized, and voices that are erased from narratives altogether. ...
"A scene acting that argument": rhetorical revision in Shakespeare's Henriad

Chatham, Bretton Hughes (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

In this thesis, I read Shakespeare’s second tetralogy, also known as the Henriad, and examine how King Henry IV revises the history of Richard II in subsequent plays. Henry must revise his rise to the throne in order to ...
A symphony of voices: digital and visual narratives of Japanese American incarceration

Parker, Stephanie Don Chiemi (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

This project both analyzes and enacts the complex role of genre in the production of historical and aesthetic experience. The dissertation itself is a mixed-genre, multimodal work, comprising analysis that focuses on the ...
Abject aesthetics in contemporary Christian art: the de-euphemizing impulse in Flannery O’Connor, Andres Serrano, and Bruce Beasley

Kim, Ariana (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

Examining works by Christian artists Flannery O’Connor, Andres Serrano, and Bruce Beasley, this thesis explores the role of abject aesthetics within the contemporary American devotional imagination. While recent scholarship ...
African American Vernacular English: affirming spaces for linguistic identity within the composition classroom

Golar, Regina Latonya (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)

This dissertation, "African American Vernacular English: Affirming Spaces for Linguistic Identity within the Composition Classroom," presents the findings of an IRB-approved case study on African American female identity ...
African-American attitudes toward higher education and their struggle with collective identity and the burden of "acting White"

Cope, Frederick LaRon (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

This project explores the cultural shift from the value African- Americans during the time of Washington and DuBois placed on industrial and higher education to the value placed by contemporary African- Americans. This ...
After Mary Prince: navigating 'authenticity' in 20th-century diasporic women's migration narratives

Simmons, Kathryn Merinda (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

This project calls for a renewed consideration of Mary Prince's 1831 Caribbean slave narrative in critical readings of 20th-century women's migration novels. Specifically, I offer readings of how the signs "gender" and ...
All about the Benjamins: the nineteenth century character assassination of Benjamin Franklin

Dixon, Charles Robert (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)

Early in his Autobiography, Benjamin Franklin proclaims that the chief benefit of the autobiographical form is that it affords one the opportunity to replicate oneself. In his self-replication, Franklin creates an American ...
All was well: Harry Potter in the medievalist tradition

Wilkes, Hannah (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)

Going beyond the obvious visual medievalisms -- such as Hogwarts Castle and its sundry suits of armor -- in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series and instead examining textual medievalisms -- those plot points with precedents ...
Analyzing semantic/usage distributions of phrasal verbs across registers: a corpus-based study on PVs’ most frequent senses in academic and spoken English

Myers, Daniel J. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

Due to L2 English speakers’ immense difficulties with phrasal verbs (PVs), this study will focus extensively on investigating their semantic usages and their distributions across the spoken and academic registers. Although ...
Any hollow place

Browne, Ryan (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

This is a collection of poems by Ryan James Browne.
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 ...

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