Azcuy, Mary Kate
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Found in 15 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
Carol Kennicott's articulation of voice in Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, 2015
Item — Call number MU Thesis Kab
Identifier: b7667293
Abstract
The focus of this thesis is Carol Kennicott's articulation of voice in Main Street by Sinclair Lewis. In the last two decades, Sinclair Lewis has received very limited attention from scholars. As a result, in order to bridge the gap and make Lewis's Main Street relevant in current critical debate, this project consults some prominent theorists like J.L. Austin, Judith Butler, bell hooks etc. and their respective theories on...
Dates:
2015
Dracula : an intertextual, Byronic romance, 2019
Item — Call number MU Thesis Sch
Identifier: b7929340
[Introduction -- excerpts]
First published in 1897, Bram Stoker's novel Dracula has become embedded in modern culture, primarily through its extensive adaptations in Hollywood films. The story tells a gothic tale of Count Dracula, a Transylvanian vampire who travels to England in the late-nineteenth century to terrorize London society and suck the blood of his unfortunate and unsuspecting victims. Written during a time of globalization, Dracula...
Dates:
2019
How to polish the "perfectly polished floor" and write about it, too : life, death, and the domestic aesthetic, or poemesticity, of Linda Pastan, 2012
Item — Call number MU Thesis Mon
Identifier: b5596206
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:
2012
Late 20th Century gay drama and the party motif, 2009
Item — Call number MU Thesis Dur
Identifier: b2233156
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:
2009
Negotiating between adult author and young adult audience : characterization in House of Many Ways, 2012
Item — Call number MU Thesis Mye
Identifier: b5596280
Introduction [excerpt]
When I was a teenager, I was an avid reader even though I found most plots predicatably boring and frequently found the characters in them to be one-dimensional stereotypes who were no reflection of the world I lived in. I wanted an escape or just the ability to relate to a character, so I felt like I wasn't alone. A children's librarian directed me to The Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne Jones. This book featured a hero who was flawed, frequently...
Dates:
2012
"She holds the world together" : how women work in One Hundred Years of Solitude, 2008
Item — Call number MU Thesis Ang
Identifier: b2233147
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:
2008
Speak up : sexual articulation in The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, 2013
Item — Call number MU Thesis Sci
Identifier: b7666528
Introduction [excerpt]
Taken together, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and chosen narratives from The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler help readers and viewers to identify the impact articulation has on marginalized sexualities and the driving movements of women's histories. It is important to note that these two works have not been examined next to each other in the past. I argue that sexual articulation occurs...
Dates:
2013
The contemporary American wasteland of Infinite Jest, 2019
Item — Call number MU Thesis Yar
Identifier: b7929339
Introduction/Overview [excerpt]
As scholar Cory Hudson notes, a paradigmatic shift has occurred in the way that critics read David Foster Wallace's fiction in the wake of the author's 2008 suicide. This shift has seen readings of Wallace's fiction turn away from the texts themselves and begin instead in para-textual materials such as interviews and personal writings. This causes scholars to often conflate their interpretations of the texts with details from Wallace's personal life (especially his own troubles with...
Dates:
2019
The feminist gothic : an analysis of The Handmaid's Tale, 2018
Item — Call number MU Thesis Dib
Identifier: b7876913
Preface [excerpt]
Margaret Atwood's acclaimed novel The Handmaid's Tale has piqued the interest of many Americans, most recently due to its eerie anticipation of current politics. Since the main plot point of the text is the forced removal of women's rights, feminists today feel strongly about the subject matter. While the text is typically analyzed through a feminist lens and much has been written about the novel on points of oppression and women's rights, there is more to...
Dates:
2018