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Considering the Impact of the WPA Outcomes Statement on Second Language Writers (open access)

Considering the Impact of the WPA Outcomes Statement on Second Language Writers

Book chapter on considerations on the impact of the Council of Writing Program Administrators (WPA) Outcomes Statement (OS) on second language writers. This chapter examines the extent to which the WPA OS reflects (or does not reflect) the presence and needs of second language writers.
Date: 2012
Creator: Matsuda, Paul Kei & Skinnell, Ryan
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Theory of Tragedy (open access)

A Theory of Tragedy

This study defines and applies a theory of tragedy which is based on the work of Friedrich Nietzsche in The Birth of Tragedy. In the first chapter the writer argues for the need of a widely accepted theory of tragedy and show that we do not presently have one. In the same chapter, the writer presents the theory that tragedy is a very specific art type which transcends genre and which is the product of a synthesis of the Dionysiac and Apollonian forces in Western culture. The writer argues that by understanding the philosophical and aesthetic nature of the forces as they are expressed in tragedy we can isolate and define the essential elements of tragedy. Tragedy must have a person of heroic stature as its main protagonist. It must have a specific kind of plot in which a reversal of the hero's experience of the universe occurs. It must have a choric element, which is a combination of two components: communality and lyricism. Finally, tragedy must contain a mythic background which allows for the expression of two themes, the Dionysiac theme and the Apollonian theme.
Date: May 1981
Creator: Dodson, Diane Martha
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Emily Bronte's Word Artistry: Symbolism in Wuthering Heights (open access)

Emily Bronte's Word Artistry: Symbolism in Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights is a composite of opposites. Its two houses, its two families, its two generations, its two planes of existence are held in place by Emily Bronte's careful manipulation of repetitive, yet differentiated, symbols associated with each of these pairs. Using symbols to develop her polarities and to unify them along the imaginatively rendered horizontal axis connecting Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, the vertical axis connecting the novel's several "heavens" and "hells," and the third dimensional axis connecting the spiritual and corporeal worlds, Emily Bronte gives the divided world of Wuthering Heights an almost perfect symmetry. This study divides the more than seven hundred symbols into physical and nonphysical. The physical symbols are subdivided into setting, animal life, plant life, people, celestial objects, and miscellaneous objects. The fewer nonphysical symbols are grouped under movement, light, time, emotions, concepts, and miscellaneous terms. Verticality and thresholds, the two most important symbolic motifs, are drawn from both physical and nonphysical symbols.
Date: December 1981
Creator: Madewell, Viola D'Ann
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Dynamic Encounter: Shakespearean Influence on Structure and Language in Moby-Dick (open access)

The Dynamic Encounter: Shakespearean Influence on Structure and Language in Moby-Dick

An understanding of the influence of Shakespeare on the structure and language of Moby-Dick is important because the plays of Shakespeare gave Melville a sudden insight into the significance of form and because his absorption of Shakespearean rhetoric enabled him to solve a serious artistic problem. In Moby-Dick Melville wished to write a work of symbolic fiction which would have both epic scope and tragic depth, but his difficulty lay in finding a structural and stylistic method which would provide the amplitude necessary to epic and at the same time could achieve the compression and verbal economy necessary to tragedy. He solved this problem by learning from Shakespeare to create a multi-layered dramatic structure and to use a dramatic language which becomes one layer of that structure. In Shakespeare's greatest plays there is a virtual fusion of form and meaning, and it is this fusion which, in its greatest moments, the language of Moby-Dick achieves.
Date: May 1981
Creator: Smith, Marion L. (Marion Lynch), 1937-
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Word Order and Style in the Old English "Apollonius of Tyre" (open access)

Word Order and Style in the Old English "Apollonius of Tyre"

The Old English Apollonius of Tyre survives as only a fragment of a popular medieval romance which is recorded in numerous Latin manuscripts. Approximately half the story is missing; therefore, studies of this prose romance are usually restricted to linguistic and stylistic analyses. Hence this study focuses on the word order of phrases and clauses and on features of style apparent in the Old English version, with comparison to the Latin source where significant divergences occur.
Date: August 1983
Creator: Simpson, Dale W. (Dale Wilson)
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Psychological Orientation Towards Growth in Lawrence Durrell's "The Alexandria Quartet" (open access)

The Psychological Orientation Towards Growth in Lawrence Durrell's "The Alexandria Quartet"

In this dissertation I argue that in the characters in Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet there is consistently evidenced a psychological orientation towards growth. An introductory Chapter One surveys and a concluding Chapter Six summarizes the dissertation, but the body of the text is four chapters demonstrating the growth-orientation in four characters.
Date: May 1981
Creator: Fordham, Glenn Wayne, Jr.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Strain of Melancholy in Eighteenth Century Poetry (open access)

The Strain of Melancholy in Eighteenth Century Poetry

This thesis addresses the possible sources of melancholy evident in Eighteenth Century writing. Possibilities include nature, mental state, attitudes, sentimentalism, and significant works of fiction.
Date: May 1939
Creator: Savage, Manera Crass
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Witchcraft in the Elizabethan Drama (open access)

Witchcraft in the Elizabethan Drama

This thesis resulted from an examination of the influence of witchcraft superstitions upon Elizabethan-era dramas.
Date: August 1940
Creator: Jaeggli, Clarence
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Imperialist Discourse: Critical Limits of Liberalism in Selected Texts of Leonard Woolf and E.M. Forster (open access)

Imperialist Discourse: Critical Limits of Liberalism in Selected Texts of Leonard Woolf and E.M. Forster

This dissertation traces imperialist ideology as it functions in the texts of two radical Liberal critics of imperialism, Leonard Woolf and E. M. Forster. In chapters two and three respectively, I read Woolf's autobiographical account Growing and his novel The Village in the Jungle to examine connections between "nonfictional" and "fictional" writing on colonialism. The autobiography's fictive texture compromises its claims to facticity and throws into relief the problematic nature of notions of truth and fact in colonialist epistemology and discursive systems.
Date: December 1991
Creator: De Silva, Lilamani
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Narrative Art of Edgar Allan Poe (open access)

The Narrative Art of Edgar Allan Poe

This thesis is focused on the motivations and influences on the writings of Edgar Allan Poe. Poe's work and letters are used to support the hypothesis that his work resulted from a desire to be recognized.
Date: August 1939
Creator: Hanks, LaCola Lu
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Jonathan Swift as a Satirist (open access)

Jonathan Swift as a Satirist

This thesis presents a the satire of Jonathan Swift's writings framed within the context of the historical events and conditions as they existed during his lifetime.
Date: August 1939
Creator: Holcomb, Sallie B. (Couch)
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Concept of Tragedy and Tragicomedy as Revealed in the Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher (open access)

The Concept of Tragedy and Tragicomedy as Revealed in the Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher

This thesis is an analysis of the comic and tragicomic styles that are evident in plays written by Beaumont and Fletcher.
Date: August 1940
Creator: Parker, William J.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study of the Effects of Certain Visual Aids on Pupil Achievement in General Science (open access)

A Comparative Study of the Effects of Certain Visual Aids on Pupil Achievement in General Science

This thesis presents the results of a study conducted to determine if visual aids impacted the general science capabilities of middle school students.
Date: August 1940
Creator: Neely, Thomas O.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Infinite Hallways: “Parabola Heretica” and Other Journeys (open access)

Infinite Hallways: “Parabola Heretica” and Other Journeys

This creative thesis collects five fictional stories, as well as a critical preface entitled “Fractals and the Gestalt: the Hybridization of Genre.” The critical preface discusses genre as a literary element and explores techniques for effective genre hybridization. The stories range from psychological fiction to science fiction and fantasy fiction. Each story also employs elements from other genres as well. These stories collectively explore the concept of the other and themes of connection and ostracization.
Date: December 2013
Creator: Garay, Christopher
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
User Experience of Access Points: Eye-tracking, Metadata, and Usability Testing (open access)

User Experience of Access Points: Eye-tracking, Metadata, and Usability Testing

This doctoral dissertation applies user experience and complex systems theory, combining eye-tracking data with verbal and observational data from user test instances, to study the effectiveness of metadata records that accompany digital primary source objects available on The Portal to Texas History.
Date: May 2016
Creator: Krahmer, Ana
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Topics in the Morphology and Phonology of Mandarin Chinese (open access)

Topics in the Morphology and Phonology of Mandarin Chinese

This thesis examines some selective cases of morphophonemic alternation in Mandarin Chinese. It presents analyses of the function -of the retroflex suffix -r and describes several conditions for tone sandhi. The suffix -r functions not simply as a noun formative. Some of the suffixed forms have consistently different meanings from the roots on which they are based. The suffix -r also plays a role in poetry as a time-filler to make each line of a poem fulfill the requirements of the strict number of characters and rhyme. This thesis also explains what causes the tone pattern of words such as xiaojie and jiejie to be pronounced differently. These tonal changes are found to be related to the way in which a word is formed. Compounding, reduplication and suffixation differ with respect to how they effect tone sandhi. Tone alternations in actual speech are explored to determine how tone sandhi produces each pronunciation and how grammatical structure and other factors are relevant.
Date: August 1990
Creator: Xu, Shu Hua
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conflict in The Brothers Karamazov: Dostoevsky's Idea of the Origin of Sin (open access)

Conflict in The Brothers Karamazov: Dostoevsky's Idea of the Origin of Sin

The thesis systematically explicates Dostoevsky's portrayal of the origin of human evil on earth through the novel The Brothers Karamazov. Drawing from the novel and from Augustine, Pelagius, and Luther, the explication compares and contrasts Dostoevsky's doctrine of original conflict against the three theologians' views of original sin. Following a brief summary of the three earlier theories of original sin, the thesis describes Dostoevsky's peculiar doctrine of Karamazovism and his unique account of how human evil originated. Finally, the thesis shows how suffering, love, and guilt grow out of the original conflict and how the image of Christ serves as an icon of the special kind of social unity projected by Zosima the Elder in The Brothers Karamazov.
Date: August 1992
Creator: Kraeger, Linda T.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Authorial Subversion of the First-Person Narrator in Twentieth-Century American Fiction (open access)

Authorial Subversion of the First-Person Narrator in Twentieth-Century American Fiction

American writers of narrative fiction frequently manipulate the words of their narrators in order to convey a significance of which the author and the reader are aware but the narrator is not. By causing the narrator to reveal information unwittingly, the author develops covert themes that are antithetical to those espoused by the narrator. Particularly subject to such subversion is the first-person narrator whose "I" is not to be interpreted as the voice of the author. This study examines how and why the first-person narrator is subverted in four works of twentieth-century American fiction: J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to , and Philip Roth's Goodbye, Columbus
Date: December 1988
Creator: Russell, Noel Ray
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
At Once in All its Parts: Narrative Unity in the Gospel of Mark (open access)

At Once in All its Parts: Narrative Unity in the Gospel of Mark

The prevailing analyses of the structure of the Gospel of Mark represent modifications of the form-critical approach and reflect its tendency to regard the Gospel not as a unified narrative but as an anthology of sayings and acts of Jesus which were selected and more or less adapted to reflect the early Church's theological understanding of Christ. However, a narrative-critical reading of the Gospel reveals that the opening proclamation, the Transfiguration, and the concluding proclamation provide a definite framework for a close pattern of recurring words, repeated questions, interpolated narrative, and inter locking parallels which unfold the basic theme of the Gospel: the person and work of Christ.
Date: December 1988
Creator: Kevil, Timothy J. (Timothy Jack)
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

THATCamp: The Humanities and Technology Camp

Presentation for the first Open Data Hackathon at UNT, organized as part of International Open Data Day. This presentation discusses The Humanities and Technology (THAT) Camp.
Date: February 21, 2015
Creator: Laredo, Jeanette Ann
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Consumption of Simulacra: Deconstructing Otherness in Katherine Anne Porter’s Mexican Conceptual Space (open access)

The Consumption of Simulacra: Deconstructing Otherness in Katherine Anne Porter’s Mexican Conceptual Space

This article explores the ways in which Katherine Anne Porter's fiction uniquely supplements cultural narratives of Mexicanness, Americanness, and the implications of their co-existence.
Date: 2009
Creator: Hubbs, Travis R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mental Illness in Literature: Case Studies of Sylvia Plath and Charlotte Perkins Gilman (open access)

Mental Illness in Literature: Case Studies of Sylvia Plath and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

This study examines mental illness in literature, with a focus on Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and Sylvia Plath's 'The Bell Jar', the primary texts of the research, and develops similarities and personal connections between the authors and their mentally unstable main characters.
Date: April 15, 2010
Creator: Dyer, Darby & Flowers, Theresa
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Extreme Empiricism: John Howard, Poetry, and the Thermometrics of Reform

This article examines an outpouring of printed poems and biographical publications in the 1780s and 1790s that sought to shape the public image of the celebrated prison reformer John Howard
Date: January 1, 2016
Creator: Cervantes, Gabriel & Porter, Dahlia
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

ALA Values and LGBT Social Justice

This dataset contains survey results from librarians regarding their stance on American Library Association values and social justice in relation to LGBTQ issues.
Date: May 30, 2017
Creator: Keralis, Spencer D. C. & Elkins, Aaron
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library