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Recycled Rose Canvas Art
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Save money and time with recycled crafts for the home. Use plastic coffee cups to construct your own Recycled Rose Canvas Art - it's a pretty project that's sure to brighten your space. The exaggerated floral looks divine on a blank canvas.
- Aleene's Super Thick Tacky Glue (available in the Aleene's Tacky Pack or full size)
- Aleene's Hot Glue Gun and Glue Sticks
- Starbucks cardboard coffee cups (approximately 5 cups will be needed per flower)
- Scissors
- Pinking shears (optional)
- Stretched canvas (4″ x 4″)
- Black flat spray paint
- Acrylic paint (several floral colors of choice and two selections of green, plus complementary colors for the canvas)
- Paper towels
- Paint brush
- Scoring tool
Measure and cut approximately 2-1/2″ to 3″ wide strip from top of each cup.
Leave one strip its full length. This will create the bud of the flower. (Note that you will only be using the rim strips for most of this project so save the remainder of the cups for another project and set one aside for the leaves.) Gently bend the rim edge to soften its rigidity. This will help when you need to roll it into a bud.
Cut one strip into approximately 2″ long pieces. Cut the top corners to round them. Repeat to create graduating larger lengths of petals.
In this technique, you will use both the Aleene's Super Thick Tacky Glue and the hot glue to secure the pieces. The hot glue holds the pieces quickly and the Aleene's Tacky Glue holds the pieces forever. This is a great way to get the quick holding benefits of hot glue but be assured that your project will hold season after season.
Apply Tacky glue along one end of strip and apply hot glue along side of wet glue. Begin to roll from end to end adding both glues as you work the length. Glue to secure the end. You should now have a fairly tight bud.
Find the center point of your canvas and use both glues to adhere the bud to the canvas.
To prepare all petals for gluing, use scoring tool to draw a line approximately 1/4″ up from cut edge (opposite the rim edge). The line should start in one corner, slightly round up to 1/4″ and then go down to the other corner. You will use this score line as a cutting guide to create a bend in the bottom of the petal. This will give you a broader gluing edge. Before cutting, gently bend the rim edge to curve the petal.
Use scissors to snip petal up to the score line. Space your snips approximately 1/4″ apart. Gently bend up along the score line. You should now have a slightly curved petal with a snipped and folded edge along the bottom.
Apply both glues to the underside of the folded edge and glue the first petal onto the canvas, wrapping gently around the bud. Continue to add petals, gluing in place, until you have the entire flower glued in place.
In a well ventilated area, spray paint the entire canvas and flower with black paint. Let dry.
To add painted color to the flower, dip brush in first color, brush excess paint onto paper towel and then brush onto flower. This will create a dry brush effect. Continue with all colors until you have the painted effect and coloring you desire.
Dry brush paint the canvas top and sides.
Cut leaf designs from remainder of one cup. Use pinking shears to cut notched edges. Note: if you cut once and then cut again, slightly offset, you will create smaller notches in the sides of your leaves.
- Paint leaves, let dry and then glue in place. Let dry.
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Title: Mr. Kurokawa
Artist: Daniel Young & Christian Giroux
Year: 2014
Materials: aluminum
Location: Minto Recreation Complex - Barrhaven
Address: 3500 Cambrian Drive
City of Ottawa Art Collection: 2015-0002
The two modular sculptures suspended overhead, inspired by the late, celebrated Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa, revisit a utopic vision of the future, expressing past ideals within a contemporary framework. With its retro-futuristic quality, Mr. Kurokawa enhances the space by encouraging a dialogue between old and new. Pods set within the grid of aluminum tubes reflect the colours and textures of surfaces found in the building. Both industrial and organic, the artwork gives the impression that it will continue to grow and expand through the space.
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Help prosecute attorney Thomas Ho'okano
and those in the
CA Bar Assn. ( a fraudulent private corp.) who have helped him to continue to prey on the public.
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Help prosecute attorney Thomas Ho'okano
and those in the
CA Bar Assn. (a fraudulent private corp.) who have helped him to continue to prey on the public.
Help prosecute corrupt attorneys:
This website has been sabotaged by an unknown person, so all the public has been able to see was
"This site is not currently available..." The site was cleared up with GoDaddy, but AGAIN the site has disappeared.
Now THAT is legal corruption!
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THOMAS E. HO'OKANO is one of the sleaziest attorneys in California. He was sued by former clients, then tried to get that charge eliminated in bankruptcy, but a judge ordered him to pay his victims $3,777,787.73.
Since Ho'okano was never disbarred, he worked to pay off that debt by continuing his crime spree by defrauding other clients for up to a million dollars in one case, and again the CA Bar Assn. refused to disbar or even censure him.
Attorney Thomas Ho'okano, who was being sued by a former client
in August 2011
, lied to the judge and won.
Ho'okano is being sued in Sacramento, CA on 9-16-12, by former clients, and has twice issued threats to the plaintiff after being served the summons
"If you do not dismiss the Sacramento County Small Claims Court within five days from this communication, I shall seek dismissal and sanctions against you in an appropriate venue and I may retain private counsel to seek redress."
From a former client:
Ho'okano scammed us out of over a quarter million dollars
and sent us deep into debt.
We could not get him prosecuted, could not legally sue him in spite of clear evidence and numerous witnesses, and the California Bar Association found that he did nothing wrong.
Sacramento D.A. Jan Scully has repeatedly refused to prosecute
, or even investigate, complaints that Ho'okano is guilty of
hundreds of acts of fraud
, etc. committed over a period of several years, and
hundreds of thousands of dollars
As the fraud is being revealed to the public, Ho'okano has responded with threats.
We were told that
Ho'okano deliberately sets up clients to lose in court
so he can take the case one appeal and continue to make a small fortune from their misery.
That would explain why the insurance company didn't want to settle out of court.
We have demanded his prosecution
but, because he's an attorney, he's above the law, so the Sacramento D.A., Jan Scully, has refused to even investigate.
Here's a partial list of what he's done to us:
1. Before the trial, he s
He NEVER went over our testimony with us
. As a result, we were lost during our testimony and didn't even know what questions Ho'okano was going to ask us.
I kept telling him to subpoena witnesses
to the violence, but
he never did
. Instead, he had only one person who
offered heresay testimony
, which everyone knows is not allowed.
4. The insurance company had destroyed evidence which would have proven they were lying, and
Ho'okano had copies of that evidence but never used it
, so the falsified evidence was allowed throughout the trial.
That evidence was critical
to proving that the insurance company witnesses were committing hundreds of counts of perjury.
5. The insurance company spent approximately twice as long presenting their case, presented numerous witnesses, a showed how different it is when professionals are prepared and have talked to their clients about their testimony.
At the last minute he told us we had to hire a second attorney to help him, and that attorney did a much better job.
He was NOT PREPARED FOR TRIAL. DURING THE TRIAL:
4. He would say things like naming the next witness and asking me what I "had on" them. He was so unprepared, and
didn't even have the facts that I had told him about long before trial
He kept doing things over and over again that infuriated us, the judge, and probably the jury too.
Comments made by the judge to Ho'okano
- "
Mr. Ho'okano, you've got to stop your question at some point and let him answer."
- After Ho'okano objected to a question he thought might be asked, the judge said, "
First, I don't know what the next question or even the line of questioning is going to be at this point. And if you want to make that objection, if and when that comes up.
- "
Objection's overruled" after Ho'okano
f you talk over the Court or over somebody else, the court reporter's record is not going to be complete. So please bear that in mind. So state your objection, please, for the record."
- Ho'okano: "
What kind of conclusion would you draw from this? Would it be possible that that..." JUDGE: "Okay. One question at a time."
- Insurance company atty: "
Objection, your Honor, to the way the question was phrased. It's argumentative." JUDGE: "Objection sustained."
- "
Your Honor, I want to object
JUDGE: Counsel...you can make an objection.
The objection would be it lacks foundation."
MR. HO'OKANO: "Lacks foundation, your Honor." Judge: "
I'm going to overrule the objection
- Judge: "
I would caution Mr. Ho'okano that your enthusiasm for your case can't translate into hostility towards the other side." MR. HO'OKANO: "Yes, your Honor." JUDGE: And it's the wrong thing to do, and I also believe it's ineffective to the advance of your cause."
He was supposed to produce a DVD as evidence
, but allegedly couldn't play it for the jury, because
Ho'okano's expert witness:
He insisted on one expert witness who was difficult, demanding, extremely expensive, and was then presented in a "limited capacity", whereas the insurance company produced two expert witnesses
who were very convincing, knowledgable,
He asked his own expert witness if he believed the insurance company clients were telling the truth and he said 'yes'. Those clients were completely lying about that, so Ho'okano sabotaged our case
His expert witness agreed with numerous lies posed by the insurance company lawyer
, and
he had been contacting that insurance company, trying to work for them, with Ho'okano's knowledge, at the same time he was supposed to be testifying against them
11. Then he asked if the attacker had counseling, and
the expert talked about their side's
, etc.
The attacker had NO counseling as far as we knew, was never called as a witness, and never showed us any remorse. So, it was outrageous for Ho'okano and his expert witness to deliberately speak in his defense!
He then asked if his own client was "predisposed to mood disorders
" and the
witness said, "
I think he has more disposition than the average person
by a small but significant percentage to have a major depressive disorder."
Nobody else made that claim, but they both continued to attack their own client.
In fact, they falsely claimed their client did things to others, but couldn't call a single witness to cooberate anything.
The expert then falsely claimed his client provoked the attack, even though the insurance company's witnesses knew better, and never said that
. Under Ho'okano's questioning, he continued to lie about events he had no knowledge of. He even admitted, many times, under cross examination that he hadn't even read documents that he considered important to his evaluation.
That was the expert we repeatedly told Ho'okano that we did NOT want, but Ho'okano insisted that he was the ONLY one he could find
The expert testified that their client may have omitted details
, may have forgotten things,
15. The insurance company's lawyer said, regarding the expert witness and Ho'okano, "...
there are many things that he wasn't provided by Mr. Ho'okano
. We already -- and that's why I went to such length to establish that it was so important to the doctor that he receive these things."
16. While there were ongoing statements about their client, we couldn't find anything positive about him, except that he was intelligent,
giving the jury the impression that there was nothing good to say about him
The expert testified against his own client over a period of days, and volunteered negative information about their client, as Ho'okano kept asking him the questions which they must have discussed many times previously
Ho'okano had told us not to be present in court when the expert testified
, and now we know why.
One of the worst acts of betrayal
was Ho'okano, telling the jury that we were asking for the outrageous amount of
$735,000 for non-punitive
damages. We were as horrified as the jury, and
that was probably the reason they awarded us nothing
, even though the jury decided in our favor, that the school principals were at fault.
The insurance company lawyer tore Ho'okano's expert to shreds.
These complaints are shocking proof of how corrupt the legal system is, and why there can't be a statute of limitations for prosecuting and suing lawyers (
There will be no justice until Ho'okano is in prison and has paid all his victims.
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December 29, 1941
GLEITSMAN et al.
MONARCH SANITARY PRODUCTS, Inc.
CAMPBELL, District Judge.
This is a motion to punish the defendant for contempt of court for an alleged violation of an injunction issued pursuant to a decree of this Court enjoining defendant from making or selling hampers embodying the design of design patent No. 110,355 issued to Harold Gleitsman on July 5, 1938.
The said design patent does not contain any written description, but has a single sketch showing the patented design.
The art, as far as designs are concerned, is a crowded one, and the patent in question was sustained because of certain elements pointed out in my opinion rendered after the trial, which as I found made it distinguishable in appearance and fact from the prior art (D.C., 26 F.Supp. 152) and all of those elements are not found in the defendant's article on which this motion is based.
The true test in the case of a design patent is whether the impression made on the mind of the ultimate purchaser of the design of the alleged infringing article is the same as that of the patent in suit, and whether the average purchaser seeing one structure would mistake it for the other.
It seems clear to me that the impression made on the mind of the average purchaser by the defendant's article, on which this motion is based, is not the same as that of the plaintiff's patent which was in suit, whether viewed together or separately, and that the average purchaser seeing the defendant's said article would not mistake it for that of the plaintiff's patent which was in suit.
It seems hardly necessary to point out the specific differences between defendant's article on which this motion is based and that of the plaintiff's patent which was in suit, as they are clearly visible.
In fact, plaintiffs say that Monarch, the defendant herein, has departed further from the infringing design than has New York Standard, the defendant in the companion suit decided by me today, Gleitsman v. New York Standard Mfg. Co., D.C., 42 F.Supp. 259, and, therefore, if I was right in denying that motion, as I did, of course I must be right in denying this motion.
If plaintiff is entitled to any relief, it is by way of supplemental complaint and not by a motion to punish for contempt.
Motion denied, without any costs, disbursements or counsel fee.
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United States District Court, Ninth Circuit
June 11, 2013
WILLIE RAY JONES, Petitioner,v.DUFFY, Respondent.
ALLISON CLAIRE, Magistrate Judge.
Petitioner is a state prisoner proceeding pro se on his petition for writ of habeas corpus, filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254.
Petitioner is currently serving a sentence of 25 years to life after a 2007 conviction for assault with force likely to cause great bodily injury. He initially pled nolo contendre to a lesser count in 2003, but then successfully argued to the state Court of Appeal that the plea had been induced by misrepresentations. The Court of Appeal reversed and remanded the 2003 judgment, and petitioner was re-tried and convicted in 2007. According to the petitioner, the parties agreed in his original 2003 plea bargain that petitioner would serve a sentence of twelve years. Petitioner appears to seek specific performance of that plea bargain now.
Petitioner has filed in this court at least two prior challenges to his 2007 conviction. The first, Jones v. Haws, 2:09-cv-1735 MCE CHS, was denied on the merits in 2011. The second, Jones v. Gipson, 2:11-cv-1190 CMK, was summarily dismissed as second or successive on May 8, 2013. The instant petition was filed on May 31, 2013.
To the extent petitioner again seeks to raise a challenge to his 2007 conviction, he must move in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for an order authorizing the district court to consider the application. 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3). Therefore, petitioner's application must be dismissed without prejudice to its re-filing upon obtaining authorization from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
To the extent petitioner seeks to challenge his 2003 conviction and sentence, petitioner's challenge must fail. The 2003 judgment was reversed and remanded. Such a disposition leaves nothing to challenge, because, under California law, the reversal placed the parties into the same position as if the cause had never been tried. E.g., People v. Phillips , 75 Cal.App.2d 381 (1969) (defendant who obtains reversal subjects himself to retrial that may reach same result), cert. denied, 396 U.S. 1021(1970); People v. Murphy , 59 Cal.2d 818 (1963); Oldum v. Duffy , 35 Cal.2d 562 (1950). Additionally, it is not clear how this court would have jurisdiction over such a challenge, or how petitioner would be able to establish that he has a "personal stake" in the outcome. See, e.g., Camreta v. Greene , 131 S.Ct. 2020 (2011) (petitioner must show that he has suffered an injury in fact, caused by the conduct complained of, that will be redressed by a favorable decision).
In accordance with the above, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT the Clerk assign a district judge to this matter; and
IT IS HEREBY RECOMMENDED that this action be dismissed without prejudice.
These findings and recommendations are submitted to the United States District Judge assigned to the case, pursuant to the provisions of 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(l). Within twenty-eight days after being served with these findings and recommendations, any party may file written objections with the court and serve a copy on all parties. Such a document should be captioned "Objections to Magistrate Judge's Findings and Recommendations." Any reply to the objections shall be served and filed within twenty-eight days after service of the objections. The parties are advised that failure to file objections within the specified time may waive the right to appeal the District Court's order. Martinez v. Ylst , 951 F.2d 1153 (9th Cir. 1991).
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How to Hard Reset a Phone
If your mobile phone starts to malfunction, you may decide to perform a hard reset to troubleshoot the problem. A hard reset restores the phone to the original factory settings. Essentially, the phone would be returned to the same state that it was in when you purchased it. This also means that your contacts, media and messages will be erased. Fortunately, most smartphones allow users to back up their data in the event that you need to reset your device.
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Giving existing things new relationships, this is a visual fusing of effects and classic archive. Thanks to Turtle for a beautiful track.... I pretty much fell in love with this song the first time I heard it. Video featuring Edie Sedgwick, Diane Keaton and Nico.
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Kentucky Public Defender Jason Hart '08 was mentioned in The Lexington Herald-Leader for filing a 50-page defense brief with the Kentucky Supreme Court to have his client's murder conviction overturned.
From The Lexington Herald-Leader: "The most substantial document filed in the case — which is
now in the hands of the Kentucky Supreme Court — remains the 50-page
defense brief, which was filed Oct. 11 by two attorneys representing
Public defenders Shannon Dupree and Jason Hart argued
that Southworth's conviction should be overturned based on several
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50, is serving a life sentence at Northpoint Training Center in Boyle
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fingerprints or DNA — linking Don Southworth to the crime. The defense
brief takes issue with much of the evidence and testimony, citing a
number of alleged fair-trial violations."
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We start off at 9am with the Spectro Radio debut of the Disney vinyl soundtrack of America Sings! America sings opened in Disneyland in 1974 and replaced the Carousel of Progress.
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- The Afro-British Slave Narrative: The Rhetoric of Freedom in the Kairos of Abolition
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The dissertation argues that the development of the British abolition movement was based on the abolitionists' perception that their actions were kairotic; they attempted to shape their own kairos by taking temporal events and reinterpreting them to construct a kairotic process that led to a perceived fulfillment: abolition. Thus, the dissertation examines the rhetorical strategies used by white abolitionists to construct an abolitionist kairos that was designed to produce salvation for white Britons more than it was to help free blacks. The dissertation especially examines the three major texts produced by black persons living in England during the late eighteenth centuryIgnatius Sancho's Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho (1782), Ottobauh Cugoano's Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery (1787), and Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African (1789)to illustrate how black rhetoric was appropriated by whites to fulfill their own kairotic desires. By examining the rhetorical strategies employed in both white and black rhetorics, the dissertation illustrates how the abolitionists thought the movement was shaped by, and how they were shaping the movement through, kairotic time. While the dissertation contends that the abolition movement was rhetorically designed to provide redemption, and thus salvation, it illustrates that the abolitionist's intent was not merely to save the slave, but to redeem blacks first in the eyes of white Christians by opening blacks to an understanding and acceptance of God. Perhaps more importantly, abolitionists would use black salvation to buy back their own souls and the soul of their nation in the eyes of God in order to regain their own salvation lost in the slave trade. But ironically, they had to appear to be saving others to save themselves. So white abolitionists used the black narratives to persuade their overwhelmingly white audience that slavery was as bad for them as it was for the African slave. And in the process, a corpus of black writing was produced that gives current readers two glimpses of one world. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2278/
- American Grotesque from Nineteenth Century to Modernism: the Latter's Acceptance of the Exceptional
- This dissertation explores a history of the grotesque and its meaning in art and literature along with those of its related term, the arabesque, since their co-existence, specifically in literature, is later treated by a well-known nineteenth-century American writer in Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque- Theories or views of the grotesque (used in literature), both in Europe and America, belong to twelve theorists of different eras, ranging from the sixteenth century to the present period, especially Modernism (approximately from 1910 to 1945)--Rabelais, Hegel, Scott, Wright, Hugo, Symonds, Ruskin, Santayana, Kayser, Bakhtin, (William Van) O'Connor, and Spiegel. My study examines the grotesque in American literature, as treated by both nineteenth-century writers--Irving, Poe, Hawthorne, and, significantly, by modernist writers--Anderson, West, and Steinbeck in Northern (or non-Southern) literature; Faulkner, McCullers, and (Flannery) O'Connor in Southern literature. I survey several novels and short stories of these American writers for their grotesqueries in characterization and episodes. The grotesque, as treated by these earlier American writers is often despised, feared, or mistrusted by other characters, but is the opposite in modernist fiction. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278030/
- American Literary Pragmatism : Lighting Out for the Territory
- This thesis discusses pragmatist philosophy in the nineteenth century and its effect on American literature of the time. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278511/
- Animals-as-Trope in the Selected Fiction of Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison
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In this dissertation, I show how 20th century African-American women writers such as Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison utilize animals-as-trope in order to illustrate the writers' humanity and literary vision. In the texts that I have selected, I have found that animals-as-trope functions in two important ways: the first function of animal as trope is a pragmatic one, which serves to express the humanity of African Americans; and the second function of animal tropes in African-American women's fiction is relational and expresses these writers' "ethic of caring" that stems from their folk and womanist world view. Found primarily in slave narratives and in domestic fiction of the 19th and early 20th centuries, pragmatic animal metaphors and/or similes provide direct analogies between the treatment of African-Americans and animals. Here, these writers often engage in rhetoric that challenges pro-slavery apologists, who attempted to disprove the humanity of African-Americans by portraying them as animals fit to be enslaved. Animals, therefore, become the metaphor of both the abolitionist and the slavery apologist for all that is not human. The second function of animals-as-trope in the fiction of African-American women writers goes beyond the pragmatic goal of proving African-Americans's common humanity, even though one could argue that this goal is still present in contemporary African-American fiction. Animals-as-trope also functions to express the African-American woman writer's understanding that 1) all oppressions stem from the same source; 2) that the division between nature/culture is a false onethat a universal connection exists between all living creatures; and 3) that an ethic of caring, or relational epistemology, can be extended to include non-human animals. Twentieth-century African-American writers such as Hurston, Walker, and Morrison participate in what anthropologists term, "neototemism," which is the contemporary view that humankind is part of nature, or a vision that Morrison would most likely attribute to the "folk." This perspective places their celebration of the continuous relations between humans and animals within a spiritual, indeed, tribal, cosmological construction. What makes these particular writers primarily different from their literary mothers, however, is a stronger sense that they are reclaiming the past, both an African and African-American history. What I hope to contribute with this dissertation is a new perspective of African-American women writers' literary tradition via their usage of animals as an expression of their "ethic of caring" and their awareness that all oppression stems from a single source. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2227/
- Asleep in the Arms of God
- A work of creative fiction in the form of a short novel, Asleep in the Arms of God is a limited-omniscient and omniscient narrative describing the experiences of a man named Wafer Roberts, born in Jack County, Texas, in 1900. The novel spans the years from 1900 to 1925, and moves from the Keechi Valley of North Texas, to Fort Worth and then France during World War One, and back again to the Keechi Valley. The dissertation opens with a preface, which examines the form of the novel, and regional and other aspects of this particular work, especially as they relate to the postmodern concern with fragmentation and conditional identity. Wafer confronts in the novel aspects of his own questionable history, which echo the larger concern with exploitative practices including racism, patriarchy, overplanting and overgrazing, and pollution, which contribute to and climax in the postmodern fragmentation. The novel attempts to make a critique of the exploitative rage of Western civilization. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2253/
- (Broken) Promises
- The dissertation begins with an introductory chapter that examines the short story cycle as a specific genre, outlines tendencies found in minimalist fiction, and discusses proposed definitions of the short story genre. The introduction examines the problems that short story theorists encounter when they try to.define the short story genre in general. Part of the problem results from the lack of a definition of the short story in the Aristotelian sense of a definition. A looser, less traditional definition of literary genres helps solve some of the problem. Minimalist fiction and the short story cycle are discussed as particular forms of the short story. Sixteen short stories follow the introduction. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278454/
- Chaucer and the Rhetorical Limits of Exemplary Literature
- Though much has been made of Chaucer's saintly characters, relatively little has been made of Chaucer's approach to hagiography. While strictly speaking Chaucer produced only one true saint's life (the Second Nun's Tale), he was repeatedly intrigued and challenged by exemplary literature. The few studies of Chaucer's use of hagiography have tended to claim either his complete orthodoxy as hagiographer, or his outright parody of the genre. My study mediates the orthodoxy/parody split by viewing Chaucer as a serious, but self-conscious, hagiographer, one who experimented with the possibilities of exemplary narrative and explored the rhetorical tensions intrinsic to the genre, namely the tensions between transcendence and imminence, reverence and identification, and epideictic deliberative discourse. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279341/
- Deserts I Have Known
- Deserts! Have Known contains a scholarly preface exploring why writers write, examining the characteristics offictionwriters, and addressing the importance of place, both emotional and geographical, in fiction. Four original short stories are included in this thesis. "Miracle at Mita" depicts an aging surfer trying to overcome his fear of commitment. "Coyote Man" explores a father's guilt and the isolation resulting from that guilt. "Time, and Time Again" traces a young woman's fear of marriage to her memory of her parents' relationship, and "Paraplegia" examines a young woman immobilized by her own lack of self-esteem. These stories are connected through their themes of isolation and reconnection. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277955/
- Diane Di Prima: The Muffled Voice of the Beat Generation
- The Beat rejection of conventional values meant a rejection of marriage, family, and a nine-to-five job, and few women were prepared to make that kind of radical shift in a society that condemned women for behaving the way the Beats behaved. Though she has faced difficulty in getting published, Beat writer Diane Di Prima has been publishing steadily for the past forty years. Di Prima has also lived the life of a Beat, wandering the country, avoiding nine-to-five work and supporting herself with grants, teaching and poetry readings. In spite of her success and adherence to the Beat lifestyle, Di Prima has given birth to five children, all of whom she took with her in her travels. Diane Di Prima has always faced the particular challenge of gaining the acceptance of her male peers amid indifference and hatred toward her sex while not allowing these men to go unanswered. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279198/
- Do Not Eat Fish from These Waters and Other Stories
- Earl suffers from a guilty obsession with a monster catfish. Eddie Klomp searches dog tracks for the ghosts of his lost childhood. Mike Towns is a hopeless blues musician who loses everything he cares for. Blair Evans learns to love a pesky wart. Americana becomes confused with the difference between knowledge and sex. Do Not Eat Fish from These Waters And Other Stories is a collection of short stories that explores the strange and often defeated lives of these Southern characters (and one from the point-of-view of a feral hog). Each man, woman, and hog flails through a period of potential metamorphosis trying to find some sort of meaning and worth in the past, present and future. Not all of these characters succeed. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278886/
- East, West, Somewhere in the Middle
- A work of creative fiction in novella form, this dissertation follows the first-person travails of Mitch Zeller, a 26-year-old gay man who is faced with an unexpected choice. The dissertation opens with a preface which examines the form of the novella and the content of this particular work. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277715/
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Quest for the Father
- This dissertation explores Elizabeth Barrett's dependency on the archetypal Victorian patriarch. Chapter I focuses on the psychological effects of this father-daughter relationship on Elizabeth Barrett. Chapter II addresses Barrett's acceptance of the conventional female role, which is suggested by the nature and the situation of the women she chooses to depict. These women are placed in situations where they can reveal their devotion to family, their capacity for passive endurance, and their wish to resist. Almost always, they choose death as an alternative to life where a powerful father figure is present. Chapter III concentrates on the highly sentimental images of women and children whom Barrett places in a divine order, where they exist untouched by the concerns of the social order of which they are a part. Chapter IV shows that the conventional ideologies of the time, society's commitment to the "angel in the house," and the small number of female role models before her increase her difficulty to find herself a place within this order. Chapter V discusses Aurora Leigh's mission to find herself an identity and to maintain the connection with her father or father substitute. Despite Elizabeth Barrett's desire to break away from her paternal ties and to establish herself as an independent woman and poet, her unconditional loyalty and love towards her father and her tremendous need for his affection, and the security he provides restrain her resistance and surface the child in her. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279212/
- Everything and Nothing at the Same Time
- This paradoxically titled collection of poems explores what the blues and blindness has come to mean to the author. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2168/
- The Evolution of Dexter and Me
- The Evolution of Dexter and Me is a collection of one vignette and four short stories. All of the stories deal with young men figuring out and coping with their daily life and environment. The "Dexter stories" deal with a character I developed and evolved, Dexter, a sane young man trying to find the best way to cope in an insane system. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279313/
- The Fool-Saint and the Fat Lady: an Exploration of Freaks and Saints in Robertson Davies's The Deptford Trilogy
- In The Deptford Trilogy, Robertson Davies uses the circus freaks and the Roman Catholic Saints who influence the main characters to illustrate the duality inherent in all human beings. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277600/
- From Skeletons to Orchards
- This thesis is a creative work that is segmented into three main phases in order to display the developing poetic growth and control in the work of Paul Andrew Thies. The first phase is titled "Skeletons and Rhinoceri." It was a phase where I focused on more classical forms of poetry, namely accentual and syllabical sonnets. This phase was greatly influenced by both Charles Baudelaire and William Butler Yeats. The second phase, titled "Clandestinies," was one in which I tried to develop a more dense form. Lord Byron and Pablo Neruda were the two main influences on my work at this time, largely in terms of imaginative exoticism and figurative energy. The third section of this thesis, titled "Graffiti in the Orchard," is an exploration of my current work as a poet. In this phase, Rainer Maria Rilke was the primary influence as I began to develop a more fluid and expressive style. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2177/
- The Gender of Time in the Eighteenth-century English Novel
- This study takes a structuralist approach to the development of the novel, arguing that eighteenth-century writers build progressive narrative by rendering abstract, then conflating, literary theories of gendered time that originate in the Renaissance with seventeenth-century scientific theories of motion. I argue that writers from the Renaissance through the eighteenth century generate and regulate progress-as-product in their narratives through gendered constructions of time that corresponded to the generation and regulation of economic, political, and social progress brought about by developing capitalism. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278321/
- Idea of Natural Law in Milton's Comus and Paradise Lost
- This dissertation tries to locate Milton's optimistic view of man and nature as expressed in Comus, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, and Paradise Lost in the long tradition of natural law that goes back to Aristotle, Cicero, and Aquinas. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277958/
- Interactions Between Texts, Illustrations, and Readers: The Empiricist, Imperialist Narratives and Polemics of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- While literary critics heretofore have subordinated Conan Doyle to more "canonical" writers, the author argues that his writings enrich our understanding of the ways in which Victorians and Edwardians constructed their identity as imperialists and that we therefore cannot afford to overlook Conan Doyle's work. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279069/
- Into the Woods: Wilderness Imagery as Representation of Spiritual and Emotional Transition in Medieval Literature
- Wilderness landscape, a setting common in Romantic literature and painting, is generally overlooked in the art of the Middle Ages. While the medieval garden and the city are well mapped, the medieval wilderness remains relatively trackless. Yet the use of setting to represent interior experience may be traced back to the Neo-Platonic use of space and movement to define spiritual development. Separating themselves as far as possible from the material world, such writers as Origen and Plotinus avoided use of representational detail in their spatial models; however, both the visual artists and the authors who adopted the Neo-Platonic paradigm, elaborated their emotional spaces with the details of the classical locus amoenus and of the exegetical desert, while retaining the philosophical concern with spiritual transition. Analysis of wilderness as an image for spiritual and emotional transition in medieval literature and art relates the texts to an iconographic tradition which, along with motifs of city and garden, provides a spatial representation of interior progress, as the medieval dialectic process provides a paradigm for intellectual resolution. Such an analysis relates the motif to the core of medieval intellectual experience, and further suggests significant connections between medieval and modern narratives in regard to the representation of interior experience. The Divine Comedy and related Continental texts employ both classical and exegetical sources in the representation of psychological transition and spiritual conversion. Similar techniques are also apparent in English texts such as Beowulf and the Anglo-Saxon elegies, in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, and Troilus and Criseyde, and in the northern English The Pearl and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. These literary texts, further, include both ideas and techniques which are analogous to those of visual arts, where frescos and altarpieces show the wilderness as metaphor for transition, and where manuscript illuminations relate this visual concept to texts. Thus, the wilderness as a landscape of personal crisis becomes in the Middle Ages a significant part of the representation of interior experience in painting and in literature. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc501240/
- Language and Identity in Post-1800 Irish Drama
- Using a sociolinguistic and post-colonial approach, I analyze Irish dramas that speak about language and its connection to national identity. In order to provide a systematic and wide-ranging study, I have selected plays written at approximately fifty-year intervals and performed before Irish audiences contemporary to their writing. The writers selected represent various aspects of Irish society--religiously, economically, and geographically--and arguably may be considered the outstanding theatrical Irish voices of their respective generations. Examining works by Alicia LeFanu, Dion Boucicault, W.B. Yeats, and Brian Friel, I argue that the way each of these playwrights deals with language and identity demonstrates successful resistance to the destruction of Irish identity by the dominant language power. The work of J. A. Laponce and Ronald Wardhaugh informs my language dominance theory. Briefly, when one language pushes aside another language, the cultural identity begins to shift. The literature of a nation provides evidence of the shifting perception. Drama, because of its performance qualities, provides the most complex and complete literary evidence. The effect of the performed text upon the audience validates a cultural reception beyond what would be possible with isolated readers. Following a theoretical introduction, I analyze the plays in chronological order. Alicia LeFanu's The Sons of Erin; or, Modern Sentiment (1812) gently pleads for equal treatment in a united Britain. Dion Boucicault's three Irish plays, especially The Colleen Bawn (1860) but also Arrah-na-Pogue (1864) and The Shaughraun (1875), satirically conceal rebellious nationalist tendencies under the cloak of melodrama. W. B. Yeats's The Countess Cathleen (1899) reveals his romantic hope for healing the national identity through the powers of language. However, The Only Jealousy of Emer (1919) and The Death of Cuchulain (1939) reveal an increasing distrust of language to mythically heal Ireland. Brian Friel's Translations (1980), supported by The Communication Cord (1982) and Making History (1988), demonstrates a post-colonial move to manipulate history in order to tell the Irish side of a British story, constructing in the process an Irish identity that is postnational. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277916/
- Melville's Vision of Society : A Study of the Paradoxical Interrelations in Melville's Major Novels
- I hold that Melvillean society consists of paradoxical relationships between civilization and barbarianism, evil and good, the corrupt and the natural, the individual and the collective, and the primitive and the advanced. Because these terms are arbitrary and, in the context of the novels, somewhat interchangeable, I explore Melville's thoughts as those emerge in the following groups of novels: Typee, Omoo, and White-Jacket demonstrate the paradox of Melvillean society; Redburn, Moby-Dick, and Mardi illustrate the corrupting effects of capitalism and individualism; and The Confidence-Man, Israel Potter, and Pierre depict a collapsed paradox and the disintegration of Melville's society. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278456/
- "Mislike Me not for My Complexion": Shakespearean Intertextuality in the Works of Nineteenth-Century African-American Women
- Caliban, the ultimate figure of linguistic and racial indeterminacy in The Tempest, became for African-American writers a symbol of colonial fears of rebellion against oppression and southern fears of black male sexual aggression. My dissertation thus explores what I call the "Calibanic Quadrangle" in essays and novels by Anna Julia Cooper, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins. The figure of Caliban allows these authors to inflect the sentimental structure of the novel, to elevate Calibanic utterance to what Cooper calls "crude grandeur and exalted poesy," and to reveal the undercurrent of anxiety in nineteenth-century American attempts to draw rigid racial boundaries. The Calibanic Quadrangle enables this thorough critique because it allows the black woman writer to depict the oppression of the "Other," southern fears of black sexuality, the division between early black and white women's issues, and the enduring innocence of the progressive, educated, black female hero ~ all within the legitimized boundaries of the Shakespearean text, which provides literary authority to the minority writer. I call the resulting Shakespearean intertextuality a Quadrangle because in each of these African-American works a Caliban figure, a black man or "tragic mulatto" who was once "petted" and educated, struggles within a hostile environment of slavery and racism ruled by the Prospero figure, the wielder of "white magic," who controls reproduction, fears miscegenation, and enforces racial hierarchy. The Miranda figure, associated with the womb and threatened by the specter of miscegenation, advocates slavery and perpetuates the hostile structure. The Ariel figure, graceful and ephemeral, usually the "tragic mulatta" and a slave, desires her freedom and complements the Caliban figure. Each novel signals the presence of the paradigm by naming at least one character from The Tempest (Caliban in Cooper's A Voice from the South; "Mirandy" in Harper's Iola Leroy; Prospero in Hopkins's Contending Forces; and Ariel in Hopkins's Hagar's Daughter). digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278175/
- The Monomythic Journey of the Feminie Hero in the Novels of Anita Brookner
- Joseph Campbell, in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, establishes a pattern for the hero to answer the call to adventure, ask the question of the goddess and receive her boon, and return to his homeland. Campbell does not, however, make any suggestions about a myth whose protagonist is female. Erich Neumann, in The Origins and History of Consciousness, hints that the woman may, indeed, be her own goddess, that she must give herself the boon she already carries. The novels of Anita Brookner illustrate the dual nature of the feminine protagonist: the seeker and the boon giver. The feminine hero (even when Brookner's protagonist is masculine, he exhibits feminine qualities) hears the call to adventure, receives the teachings of the goddess and/or her representative, receives help fromother beings (in myth these would be supernatural beings), realizes that she carries the answer to the cosmic question of selfhood within her, and, following an apotheosis, makes a return to society. Much of the present work is spent delving into both the monomythic and feminist structures of Brookner's novels. Although Brookner characterizes herself as a "reluctant feminist," examination of her novels reveals a subtle adherence to feminist principles which can be ascertained by viewing each novel in terms of the monomyth schema. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278679/
- The Monstrance: A Collection of Poems
- These poems deconstruct Mary Shelley's monster from a spiritually Chthonian, critically post-structuralist creative stance. But the process here is not simple disruption of the original discourse; this poetry cycle transforms the monster's traditional body, using what pieces are left from reception/vivisection to reconstruct, through gradual accretion, new authority for each new form, each new appendage. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277686/
- Morality in Six Novels of Martin Amis
- Six novels of Martin Amis--The Rachel Papers, Dead Babies, Success, Money: A Suicide Note, London Fields, and The Information--are analyzed to determine to what extent they uphold moral standards traditional in Western society, particularly the categories of virtue that have descended from Aristotle and Aquinas. Thus the novels are analyzed in relation to what they show about the three theological virtues of faith, hope, and love, the cardinal virtues of prudence, temperance, courage, and justice, and the intellectual virtues of knowledge, art, skill, and understanding. Nearly all of these virtues turn out to be important in varying degrees. Faith and hope are mocked, and courage is given incidental attention. The other virtues, however, are strongly upheld, including prudence and temperance, and particularly love, justice, and the intellectual virtues. In the earlier novels, the protagonists understand love between adults egoistically, only as romance or sexual passion, with emphasis not on the welfare of the other but on getting what one wants. The need for parental love is upheld, however, with a clear understanding that its lack produces danger for the children and for society. The protagonists pity the weak, but have little understanding of love as self-sacrifice. Ego-based justice predominates as the primary motive—obtaining what the self thinks is deserved. The intellectual virtues then become servants of this self-centered justice rather than servants of others-centered love. Though the extreme results of this situation are decried, especially in Dead Babies, generally the protagonists do not realize the extent of their egoism and lack of love. In London Fields and The Information, self-sacrifice, particularly for the sake of children, emerges, and what little hope there is is invested in family love. Love between adults is still largely justice-based, but there is some evidence that all the virtues, including justice and intellect, are subordinated to love, especially family love, love that considers the welfare of others. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277805/
- Night of No Exile
- Night of no Exile is a collection of poems preceded by a critical article entitled "'Exile seems both a blessing and a curse': A Blissful Reading of Li-Young Lee's Poetry." That article discusses Lee's quest to achieve communication, truth, and transcendence through poetic language and concludes that he finally reaches his goal through a leap from narrative poetry to lyricism. The "exile" alluded to in the title of the article is not only geographic, but also interioran exile due to the natural limitations of all languages, and which can be bridged only in linguistic ways. Lee's solution to that problem (lyricism) turns his poetry into what Roland Barthes would call "a text of bliss," a text that manages to deeply destabilize language, while simultaneously achieving a new kind of meaning. In the main body of the manuscript, the first section contains short love lyrics. The second section, "Night of no Exile," is an attempt at the demanding genre of the longer lyric poem. The third section uses short lyrics to explore various topics, such as discovering one's identity, friendship and solidarity between women, family history, and childhood memories. Finally, the last section includes poems, four of them longer, attempting to combine narrative and lyric impulses in a way not unlike Li-Young Lee's experimentation with those two genres. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2217/
- Non-Native Speakers of English and Denominal Regularization
- The purpose of this study was to determine whether nonnative speakers of English have access to specifically-linguistic constraints governing past tense morphology. Forty non-native speakers of English rated the naturalness of 29 exocentric, or headless, verbs in a partial replication of Kim, Pinker, Prince, and Prasada (1991) which looked at the same phenomenon in native speakers. Nonnative speaker performance was similar to the 40 subject native speaker control group. A correlation also existed between length of residence and subject ratings. The results imply that non-native speakers have access to the rules governing past tense morphology although not as completely as native speakers. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279230/
- The Opened Letter: Rereading Hawthorne
- The recent publication of the bulk of Hawthorne's letters has precipitated this study, which deals with Hawthorne's creative and subversive narration and his synchronic appeal to a variety of readers possessing different tastes. The author initially investigates Hawthorne's religion and demonstrate how he disguised his personal religious convictions, ambiguously using the intellectual categories of Calvinism, Unitarianism, and spiritualism to promote his own humanistic "religion." Hawthorne's appropriation of the jeremiad further illustrates his emphasis on religion and narration. Although his religion remained humanistic, he readily used the old Puritan political sermon to describe and defend his own financial hardships. That jeremiad outlook has significant implications for his art. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278343/
- Orality-Literacy Theory and the Victorian Sermon
- In this study, I expand the scope of the scholarship that Walter Ong and others have done in orality-literacy relations to examine the often uneasy juxtaposition of the oral and written traditions in the literature of the Victorian pulpit. I begin by examining the intersections of the oral and written traditions found in both the theory and the practice of Victorian preaching. I discuss the prominent place of the sermon within both the print and oral cultures of Victorian Britain; argue that the sermon's status as both oration and essay places it in the genre of "oral literature"; and analyze the debate over the extent to which writing should be employed in the preparation and delivery of sermons. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279297/
- Overcoming the Regional Burden: History, Tradition, and Myth in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy
- In Overcoming the Regional Burden: History, Tradition, and Myth in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy, I contend that McCarthy's literary aesthetic develops and changes as he moves from Tennessee to Texas. McCarthy's conspicuous Southern and Southwestern regional affiliations have led critics to expect his works to recapitulate native history, traditions, and myths. Yet, McCarthy transcends provincial regionalism by challenging the creation of the regional and national myths we confuse with our actual histories and identities. McCarthy's fictions point away from accepted histories and point instead to figures marginalized by society and myth makers. These figures, according to McCarthy, are just as much a part of the creation of myth as those figures indelibly imprinted on our consciousness by literary and historical tradition. My dissertation, in many respects, focuses on McCarthy's debunking of both literary and historical tradition, and his concomitant revitalization of American identity. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279386/
- Plain and Ugly Janes: the Rise of the Ugly Woman in Contemporary American Fiction
- Women characters in American literature of the nineteenth century form an overwhelmingly lovely group, but a search through some of the overlooked works reveals a thin but discernible thread of plain, even homely, heroines. Most of these fall into the stereotypical "old maid" category, and, like their real-life counterparts, these "undesirable" women are considered failures, even if they have money or satisfying careers, because they do not have boyfriends, husbands, or children. During the twentieth century, the old maid figure develops into someone not just homely, but downright ugly; in addition, the number of these characters increases, especially in the latter half of the century. In many works written since the 1960s, the woman's ugliness is such an intrinsic part of the story that it could not take place if she were beautiful. In subtle ways, these "ugly woman" stories begin to question the overwhelming value placed on beauty, to question the narrow definition of beauty in American society as a whole, and to suggest that the price for such a "blessing" might indeed be too high. Rather than settling for being a mere "heroine"—which still carries feminine connotations of passive behavior and second-class status—the ugly woman's increase in power over her own life and the lives of others, allows her to achieve a status more in keeping with the more "masculine" and active role of hero. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278032/
- The Politics of Romance: Henry James's Social (Un)Conscious
- This study addresses the ideological properties of the two main modal strains in fictional representation of romance and realism in order to provide an antidote to the currently extremely negative view of the representational function of fiction. In the course of the discussion, three received positions in traditional literary criticism are challenged. Firstly, the view of literary form as ideology-free is undermined by demonstrating the ideological properties of the two modes. Secondly, the realism/romance binary opposition regarding the mode of fictional representation is critiqued by both uncovering the misconception of the former's competence for transparent representation and evincing the two modes' ideologically interactive relation. Lastly, the categorization of Henry James as an aesthete is problematized by historicizing and socializing his three texts. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277823/
- Pre-Feminist Indicators in Margaret Oliphant's Early Responses to the Woman Question
- Margaret Oliphant's fiction has generated some interest in recent years, but her prose essays have been ignored. Critics contend her essays are unimportant and dismiss Oliphant as a hack writer who had little sympathy with her sex. These charges are untrue, however, because many influences complicated Oliphant's writings on the Woman Question. She suffered recurring financial difficulties and gender discrimination, she lacked formal education, and most of her work was published by Blackwood's, a conservative, male-oriented periodical edited by a close personal friend. Readers who are aware of these influences find Oliphant's earliest three essays about the Woman Question especially provocative because in them Oliphant explored the dichotomy between the perceived and the real lives of women. Oliphant refined her opinions each time she wrote on the Woman Question, and a more coherent, more clearly feminist, perspective emerges in each succeeding article. In "The Laws Concerning Women," despite Oliphant's apparent position, pre-feminist markers suggest that she is tentative about feminist ideas rather than negative towards them. "The Condition of Women" offers even more prefeminist markers, Oliphant's ostensible support of the patriarchal status quo notwithstanding. In "The Great Unrepresented," an article cited by some as proof that Oliphant was against women's suffrage, she argues not against enfranchising women, but against the method proposed for securing the vote. In this article, many pre-feminist markers have become decidedly feminist. Scholars may have overlooked Oliphant's feminism because her rhetorical strategies are more complicated than those of most other Victorian critics and invite her audience to read between the lines. Although her writing sometimes lacks unity and focus, and her prose is often turgid, convoluted, and digressive, she creates elaborate inverse arguments with claims supporting patriarchy but evidence that supports feminism. A rich feminist subtext lies beneath the surface text of Oliphant's essays, demonstrating that her perspective on the Woman Question is far more complex than it initially appears. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278209/
- A Reading of Shakespeare's Problem Plays into History: A New Historicist Interpretation of Social Crisis and Sexual Politics in Troilus and Cressida and Measure for Measure
- This study is aimed to read Shakespeare's problem comedies, Troilus and Cressida and Measure for Measure into the historical and cultural context of dynamically-changing English Renaissance society at the turn of the sixteenth century. In the historical context of emerging capitalism, growing economic crisis, reformed theology, changing social hierarchy, and increasing sexual control, this study investigates the nature of complicated moral problems that the plays consistently present. The primary argument is that the serious and dark picture of human dilemma is attributed not to Shakespeare's private imagination, but to social, political, economic, and religious crises in early modern England. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279130/
- Remembering the Forgotten Beauty of Yeatsian Mythology: Personae and the Problem of Unity in The Wind Among the Reeds
- Remembering the Forgotten Beauty of Yeatsian Mythology: Personae and the Problem of Unity in The Wind Among the Reeds digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2235/
- Revisiting the Grotesque: Poems
- This thesis consists of a group of poems around a central concept: language as a physical dwelling place—a place much like what Raphael discovered in the grottoes of Rome and named "grotesque," or "grotto-esque." Using the word, "grotesque," as an example, the preface illustrates how poetry can play with the lost histories of words while still searching for new referents and associations. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278154/
- The Rhetoric of Androgyny: Gender and Boundaries in Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness
- The androgyny of the Gethenians in The Left Hand of Darkness is a vehicle for Ursula Le Guin's rhetoric concerning gender roles. Le Guin attempts to make the reader identify with an ideal form of androgyny, through which she argues that many of the problems of human existence, from rape and war to dualistic thought and sexism, are products of gender roles and would be absent in an androgynous world. The novel also links barriers of separation and Othering with masculine thought, and deconstructs these separative boundaries of opposition, while promoting connective borders which acknowledge difference without creating opposition. The novel thus criticizes gendered thought processes and social roles, because they lead to opposition and separation. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277680/
- The Rhetoric of Posthumanism in Four Twentieth-Century International Novels
- The dissertation traces the trope of the incomplete character in four twentieth-century cosmopolitan novels that reflect European colonialism in a global context. I argue that, by creating characters sharply aware of the insufficiency of the Self and thus constantly seeking the constitutive participation of the Other, the four authors E. M. Forster, Samuel Beckett, J. M. Coetzee, and Congwen Shen all dramatize the incomplete character as an agent of postcolonial resistance to Western humanism that, tending to enforce the divide between the Self and the Other, provided the epistemological basis for the emergence of European colonialism. For example, Fielding's good-willed aspiration to forge cross-cultural friendship in A Passage to India; Murphy's dogged search for recognition of his Irish identity in Murphy; Susan's unfailing compassion to restore Friday's lost speech in Foe; and Changshun Teng, the Chinese orange-grower's warm-hearted generosity toward his customers in Long River--all these textual occasions dramatize the incomplete character's anxiety over the Other's rejection that will impair the fullness of his or her being, rendering it solitary and empty. I relate this anxiety to the theory of "posthumanism" advanced by such thinkers as Marx, Bakhtin, Sartre, and Lacan; in their texts the humanist view of the individual as an autonomous constitution has undergone a transformation marked by the emphasis on locating selfhood not in the insular and static Self but in the mutable middle space connecting the Self and the Other. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278990/
- Richard Wilbur and the Poetry of Apocalyptic Interstices
- In my dissertation I assert that Wilbur's poetry is not so much an attempt to balance spiritual and physical realities as an attempt to mine the richness that exists in the boundary between the two worlds. I also examine and comment on his poetry that exists in the space created by other apocalyptic interstices as well. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278344/
- A Sensory Tour of Cape Cod: Thoreau's Transcendental Journey to Spiritual Renewal
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Predominantly darker than his other works, Cape Cod depicts Henry David Thoreau's interpretation of life as a struggle for survival and a search for salvation in a stark New England setting. Representing Thoreau's greatest test of the goodness of God and nature, the book illustrates the centrality of the subject of death to Thoreau's philosophy of life. Contending that Thoreau's journey to the Cape originated from an intensely personal transcendental impulse connected with his brother's death, this study provides the first in-depth examination of Thoreau's use of the five senses in Cape Cod to reveal both the eccentricities inherent in his relationship with nature and his method of resolving his fears of mortality. Some of the sense impressions in Cape Cod--particularly those that center around human death and those that involve tactile sensations--suggest that Thoreau sometimes tried to master his fears by subconsciously altering painful historical facts or by avoiding the type of sensual contact that aggravated the repressed guilt he suffered from his brother's death. Despite his personal idiosyncrasies, however, Thoreau persisted in his search for truth, and the written record of his journey in Cape Cod documents how his dedication to the transcendental process enabled him to surmount his inner turmoil and reconfirm his intuitive faith. In following this process to spiritual renewal, Thoreau begins with subjective impressions of nature and advances to knowledge of objective realities before ultimately reaching symbolic and universal truth. By analyzing nature's lessons as they evolve from Thoreau's use of his senses, this dissertation shows that Cape Cod, rather than invalidating Thoreau's faith, actually expands his transcendental perspective and so rightfully stands beside Walden as one of the fundamental cornerstones of his canon. In addition, the study proffers new support for previous psychoanalytical interpretations of Thoreau and his writings, reveals heretofore unrecognized historical inaccuracies in his account of the shipwreck that frames the book's opening, and provides the first detailed consideration of the linguistic implications of Cape Cod. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2264/
- The Ties that Bind : Breaking the Bonds of Victimization in the Novels of Barbara Pym, Fay Weldon and Margaret Atwood
- In this study of several novels each by Barbara Pym, Fay Weldon, and Margaret Atwood, I focus on two areas: the ways in which female protagonists break out of their victimization by individuals, by institutions, and by cultural tradition, and the ways in which each author uses a structural pattern in her novels to propel her characters to solve their dilemmas to the best of their abilities and according to each woman's personality and strengths. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278737/
- Toward a Rhetoric of Marketing for High-Tech Services
- The market for high-tech services is expanding, and writers will have to create more documents to market these services. Researchers note marked differences between traditional goods marketing and services marketing. A rhetorical framework for high-tech services marketing will give writers a tool for creating effective marketing messages. This study examines the five canons of rhetoric in their classical context, and then examines how the first professional teachers, the Sophists, used rhetoric to promote their services. The canons of rhetoric are then analyzed to show their modern significance. This study also considers visual rhetoric and how writers can use it effectively. This study shows that companies should promote service quality and strong service relationships through the rhetorical element of ethos. This study examines services marketing samples through a visual and verbal rhetorical framework, providing rhetorical insights that writers can use in their work. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2432/
- Unearthing the Spiritual Message in Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire
- Unearthing Edward Abbey's spiritual philosophy is not an easy task. One must sift through Abbey's humor, sort through Cactus Ed's flamboyant character, look under the veneer of this character, and beyond Abbey's overt objective of convincing readers to defy the destruction of wilderness, and only then does the spiritual philosophy of Abbey become visible. To understand his perception of spirituality, one must define what constitutes a mystic and determine what American theological philosophies mystics tend to adopt. Once these are defined, one can apply those principles to Abbey's Desert Solitaire, and determine that Abbey is a nature mystic who adheres to the ecocentric based immanence theology. This theology is contrary to the Judeo-Christian based emanation theology which supports anthropocentricism and resourcism. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277699/
- What Spins Away
- What Spins Away is a novel about a man named Caleb who, in the process, of searching for a brother who has been missing for ten years, discovers that his inability to commit to a job or his primary relationships is both the result of his history with that older missing brother, and his own misconceptions about the meaning of that history. On a formal level, the novel explores the ability of traditional narrative structures to carry postmodern themes. The theme, in this case, is the struggle for a stable identity when there is no stable community against which or in relationship to an identity might be defined. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2182/
- Why Orville and Wilbur Built an Airplane
- This dissertation comprises two sections. The title section collects a volume of the author's original poetry, subdivided into four parts. The concerns of this section are largely aesthetic, although some of the poems involve issues that emerge in the introductory essay. The introductory essay itself looks at slightly over three centuries of poetry in English, and focuses on three representative poems from three distinct periods: the long eighteenth century and the Romantic period in England, and the Post-war period in the United States. John Dryden's translation of Ovid's "Cinyras and Myrrha," John Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale," and James Dickey's "The Sheep Child," whatever their stylistic and aesthetic differences may be, all share a concern with taboo. Each of the poems, in its own way, embraces taboo while transgressing societal norms in order to effect a synthesis that merges subject and object in dialectical transcendence. For Dryden, the operative taboo is that placed on incest. In his translation of Ovid, Dryden seizes on the notion of incest as a metaphor for translation itself and views the violation of taboo as fructifying. Keats, in his Nightingale ode, toys with the idea of suicide and reconstructs a world both natural and mythic on the ephemeral foundation of the nightingale's song. Closer to our own time, James Dickey, in "The Sheep Child," envisions a circumstance that forges a union, however transient, between the human and the natural worlds---a union that, in violation of religious taboo, directs gentle parody at the merger of the human world with the divine. Each of the poets employs, in Keats' words, "negative capability" as a tool with which to escape the prescribed order of existence. This ability to "live with uncertainties" beyond the world's conventions fuels the poets' invocation of epiphany, of satori, of the transcendent moment. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278948/


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