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
Introduction [excerpt]
The current study contributes to some of the earliest empirical work done on post-truth rhetoric by investigating the connection between post-truth rhetoric, the Burkean Parlor metaphor, and student source integration. How do first-year composition students understand source integration? Do first-year composition students' integration of sources provide evidence that they have been impacted by post-truth rhetoric? Are first-year composition students "entering the conversation?"...
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...
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
Introduction [excerpt]
Drawing on my experiences as a secondary educatator, my research into the affective turn in composition theory--and intending to participate in and contribute to recent conversations among scholars in the field about how to respond to the emergence of post-truth--I propose in my thesis a new paradigm for composition educators to embrace in addressing the challenges that the Rhetoric Society of America, Writing Program Administration, and scholars such as [Bruce] McComiskey, [Ellen C.]...
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
Introduction [excerpt]
I argue that Jackson and Oyeyemi escape the underlying patriarchal connontations of the novel and writing by creating temporal spaces within their texts for the purpose of discussing gender issues facing middle-class women at their time. By placing temporal space within the houses, Jackson and Oyeyemi demonstrate that both social norms and change are born in the home. Analyzing the writing techniques of these authors, I address the social commentary made within each novel. In Chapter 1, I...
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
Abstract
Muriel Rukeyser's book of poetry, The Book of the Dead (1938), focuses on detaling the industrial tragedy of the Hawk's Nest Tunnel Disaster in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia. This thesis examines the poet's use of documentary poetics as a channel for witness-bearing to victims of the tragedy. Rukeyser uses testimonial documents, doctors' reports, and interviews to support her overview of the tragic events through her writing. Several of Rukeyser's twenty...
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
Introduction [excerpt]
In literature, government and its structures are often related to the human body. Edmund Spenser uses the body as a metaphor to represent the body politic of the nation of England in The Faerie Queen .... For example, Britomart's virginity is similar to the powerful political position of England during this time period. All of England's borders were secure and Queen Elizabeth I was successful at maintaining a secure and inviolable nation. Adding to the...
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
Introduction [excerpt]
Zora Neale Hurston is a renowned author, folklorist, anthropologist, and a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. Hurston infused Southern vernacular and poetic expression to produce an unprecedented narrative voice.... I argue that Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God is a modern folktale intended to expose and reconstruct the repetitive paradigms of racial and gender ... inequality while creating a new consciousness of egalitarianism.
Dates:
2020