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Werner, Courtney

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Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

A rethinking of the Burkean parlor in the post-truth classroom, 2019

 Item — Call number MU Thesis Rad
Identifier: b7930092
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of theses written by students enrolled in the Monmouth University graduate English program. The holdings are primarily bound print documents that were submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the Master of Arts or Master of Fine Arts degrees. Students become eligible to pursue the Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) degree if they have obtained a Master of Arts (M.A.)...
Dates: 2019

"Belle of Monticello" : the transgressive rhetoric of Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 2019

 Item — Call number MU Thesis Tur
Identifier: b7929338
Introduction [excerpt] Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge has all but been forgotten by history. Those who know her name associate her with Thomas Jefferson, her nation-building grandfather who once authored The Declaration of Independence. During her life she functioned as, and behind-the-scenes, played a major role as Jefferson's biographer and apologist, educating others about his personal life and defending him against some of his harshest critics. Yet, like many women of the...
Dates: 2019

Conversing on disability : analyzing and exploring how scholars are discussing disability studies, discovering disability in YA literature, and finding disability analyses in composition classrooms, 2018

 Item — Call number MU Thesis McC
Identifier: b7929087
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of theses written by students enrolled in the Monmouth University graduate English program. The holdings are primarily bound print documents that were submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the Master of Arts or Master of Fine Arts degrees. Students become eligible to pursue the Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) degree if they have obtained a Master of Arts (M.A.)...
Dates: 2018

Digital technology's effect on adolescents' writing processes, 2019

 Item — Call number MU Thesis Tre
Identifier: b7929342
[Introduction -- excerpt] [T]he current study uses a RAD [replicable, agreeable, and data supported] approach to answer the question: how is digital technology affecting the composing process through a qualitative examination and analysis of the literary practices of Generation Y? Generation Y, which includes those born in 1997 or later, has never known to compose without digital technology; they are the generation most affected by digital technology, and their writing skills and processes have been influenced by...
Dates: 2019

Emotions, discomfort, and ethical responsivity : taking the risk to care, 2020

 Item — Call number MU Thesis Hla
Identifier: b7930285
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of theses written by students enrolled in the Monmouth University graduate English program. The holdings are primarily bound print documents that were submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the Master of Arts or Master of Fine Arts degrees. Students become eligible to pursue the Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) degree if they have obtained a Master of Arts (M.A.)...
Dates: 2020

Gender-as-rhetoric : the rhetorical complexity of transgender identity and the challenge to performativity in Redefining Realness and Tomorrow Will Be Different, 2023

 Item — Call number MU Thesis Cop
Identifier: b7931647
Abstract Since the publication of Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble in 1990, transgender scholars have challenged performativity theory on the basis that it describes gender as something frivolous and quickly “taken off” or “put on.” However, these critiques are inadequate because a closer reading of performativity theory shows that the theory stresses the slow sedimentation of gender over time. Regardless, performativity theory still does not properly accommodate...
Dates: 2023

Haunting space and place in Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House' and Helen Oyeyemi's White is for Witching, 2020

 Item — Call number MU Thesis Nad
Identifier: b7930275
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of theses written by students enrolled in the Monmouth University graduate English program. The holdings are primarily bound print documents that were submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the Master of Arts or Master of Fine Arts degrees. Students become eligible to pursue the Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) degree if they have obtained a Master of Arts (M.A.)...
Dates: 2020

Muriel Rukeyser's The Book of the Dead (1938) : examining documentary poetics, witness-bearing, and searching for the female voice, 2022

 Item — Call number MU Thesis Pic
Identifier: b7930852
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of theses written by students enrolled in the Monmouth University graduate English program. The holdings are primarily bound print documents that were submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the Master of Arts or Master of Fine Arts degrees. Students become eligible to pursue the Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) degree if they have obtained a Master of Arts (M.A.)...
Dates: 2022

Re-gendering the monarchy as the queen's three bodies : Spenser's use of the body politic as a metaphor for England's political state and the de-feminization of the English empire in The Faerie Queen, 2017

 Item — Call number MU Thesis Ris
Identifier: b7717404
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of theses written by students enrolled in the Monmouth University graduate English program. The holdings are primarily bound print documents that were submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the Master of Arts or Master of Fine Arts degrees. Students become eligible to pursue the Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) degree if they have obtained a Master of Arts (M.A.)...
Dates: 2017

Waiting for the world to be made through folklore, food, and feminism : an analysis of Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, 2020

 Item — Call number MU Thesis Bal
Identifier: b7930294
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of theses written by students enrolled in the Monmouth University graduate English program. The holdings are primarily bound print documents that were submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the Master of Arts or Master of Fine Arts degrees. Students become eligible to pursue the Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) degree if they have obtained a Master of Arts (M.A.)...
Dates: 2020