Neoliberal Dispositif and the Rise of Fundamentalism: The Case of Pakistan (open access)

Neoliberal Dispositif and the Rise of Fundamentalism: The Case of Pakistan

Article discussing neoliberal dispositif and the rise of fundamentalism.
Date: November 1, 2011
Creator: Raja, Masoof Ashraf
System: The UNT Digital Library
Joseph Conrad: The Question of Racism and Representation of Muslims in his Malayan Works (open access)

Joseph Conrad: The Question of Racism and Representation of Muslims in his Malayan Works

Article discussing Joseph Conrad's alleged racism beyond 'The Heart of Darkness,' and highlighting the importance of Conrad's Muslim characteristics in his Malay novels.
Date: 2007
Creator: Raja, Masoof Ashraf
System: The UNT Digital Library
Circuitry in Motion: Rhetoric(al) Moves in YouTube's Archive (open access)

Circuitry in Motion: Rhetoric(al) Moves in YouTube's Archive

Article on YouTube and how YouTube videos have become an influential source of argumentation, suggesting that they often serve a highly rhetorical function.
Date: 2010
Creator: Skinnell, Ryan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Elizabeth Cady Stanton's 1854 "Address to the Legislature of New York" and the Paradox of Social Reform Rhetoric (open access)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton's 1854 "Address to the Legislature of New York" and the Paradox of Social Reform Rhetoric

Article on Elizabeth Cady Stanton's 1854 "Address to the Legislature of New York."
Date: 2010
Creator: Skinnell, Ryan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Salman Rushdie: Reading the Postcolonial Texts in the Era of Empire (open access)

Salman Rushdie: Reading the Postcolonial Texts in the Era of Empire

This article discusses Salman Rushdie and reading the postcolonial texts in the era of empire. Using the first three novels of Salman Rushdie, this essay articulates a different conceptual framework for reading the postcolonial texts.
Date: 2009
Creator: Raja, Masoof Ashraf
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Rhetoric of Democracy and War on Terror: The Case of Pakistan (open access)

The Rhetoric of Democracy and War on Terror: The Case of Pakistan

Article discussing the rhetoric of democracy on the war on terror. It offers a brief analysis of United States (U.S.) policy toward Pakistan during the last days of General Pervez Husharraf's unconstitutional regime.
Date: 2009
Creator: Raja, Masoof Ashraf
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Problem of Publics and the Curious Case at Texas (open access)

A Problem of Publics and the Curious Case at Texas

Article on the problem of publics and the curious case of Texas.
Date: January 2010
Creator: Skinnell, Ryan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Episodic or Novelistic? Law in the Atlantic and the Form of Daniel Defoe's Colonel Jack (open access)

Episodic or Novelistic? Law in the Atlantic and the Form of Daniel Defoe's Colonel Jack

Article discussing the form of Daniel Defoe's 'Colonel Jack.'
Date: January 2012
Creator: Cervantes, Gabriel
System: The UNT Digital Library
Convict Transportation and Penitence in 'Moll Flanders' (open access)

Convict Transportation and Penitence in 'Moll Flanders'

Article discussing convict transportation and penitence in 'Moll Flanders.'
Date: June 8, 2011
Creator: Cervantes, Gabriel
System: The UNT Digital Library
Institutionalizing Normal: Rethinking Composition's Precedence in Normal Schools (open access)

Institutionalizing Normal: Rethinking Composition's Precedence in Normal Schools

Article on rethinking composition's precedence in normal schools.
Date: 2013
Creator: Skinnell, Ryan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Who Cares If Rhetoricians Landed on the Moon? Or, a Plea for Reviving the Politics of Historiography (open access)

Who Cares If Rhetoricians Landed on the Moon? Or, a Plea for Reviving the Politics of Historiography

This article discusses a plea for reviving the politics of historiography.
Date: March 26, 2015
Creator: Skinnell, Ryan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Harvard, Again: Considering Articulation and Accreditation in Rhetoric and Composition's History (open access)

Harvard, Again: Considering Articulation and Accreditation in Rhetoric and Composition's History

This article discusses considerations in articulation and accreditation in rhetoric and composition's history.
Date: March 13, 2014
Creator: Skinnell, Ryan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Strengthening Graduate Student Preparation for WPA Work (open access)

Strengthening Graduate Student Preparation for WPA Work

Article on strengthening graduate student preparation for the Writing Program Administration (WPA) work.
Date: Spring 2014
Creator: Elder, Cristyn L.; Schoen, Megan & Skinnell, Ryan
System: The UNT Digital Library
William James, Gustav Fechner, and Early Psychophysics (open access)

William James, Gustav Fechner, and Early Psychophysics

This article examines aspects of William James's thought such as his "transmission theory" of consciousness, his ideas on the "knowing of things together," and "the compounding of consciousness," which suggest his working toward a naturalistic understanding of consciousness.
Date: October 4, 2011
Creator: Hawkins, Stephanie
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
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.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Perspective and Language in Percy Shelley’s Signification of Liberty (open access)

Perspective and Language in Percy Shelley’s Signification of Liberty

Paper closely examines the thematic and linguistic content of Percy Shelley's poem "Ode to Liberty".
Date: 2014
Creator: Cowles, Matthew
System: The UNT Digital Library
Women’s Rights, Education, and the Uncollected Letters of William Ellery Channing in the Christian Inquirer (open access)

Women’s Rights, Education, and the Uncollected Letters of William Ellery Channing in the Christian Inquirer

Paper discusses the content and implications of three previously uncollected letters written by minister William Ellery Channing, a progressive nineteenth century thinker.
Date: 2016
Creator: Riddell, Molly
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pilgrimage (open access)

Pilgrimage

A collection of poems by Caleb Braun following his experiences with spirituality.
Date: 2014
Creator: Braun, Caleb
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sophism and Disordered Democracy (open access)

Sophism and Disordered Democracy

Paper explores sophism and it's effect on modern democracy in the United States.
Date: 2014
Creator: Zaragoza, Kathryn
System: The UNT Digital Library
Musical Language: The Bay Psalm Book and Anne Bradstreet’s Poetic Style (open access)

Musical Language: The Bay Psalm Book and Anne Bradstreet’s Poetic Style

Paper discusses the shift in the poetic style of Anne Bradstreet’s poetry after The Tenth Muse, framed in the context of how language was viewed by American Puritans in the seventeenth century.
Date: 2014
Creator: Smith, Caitlin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Janie's Story: Surpassing Alienation to Achieve a Feminist Narrative (open access)

Janie's Story: Surpassing Alienation to Achieve a Feminist Narrative

Paper argues that Janie, the protagonist of Their Eyes Were Watching God, achieves agency and identity through the act of storytelling rather than through the actions she takes within the story itself.
Date: 2013
Creator: Ruliffson, Meagan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Government Policy on Racial Genocide Through Eugenics Exposed: Joseph Bruchac’s Hidden Roots (open access)

Government Policy on Racial Genocide Through Eugenics Exposed: Joseph Bruchac’s Hidden Roots

Paper discusses eugenics policies brought against Native Americans as explored in the young adult novel Hidden Roots.
Date: 2014
Creator: Williams, Sheri "Cat"
System: The UNT Digital Library
“Man Delights Not Me”: Hierarchy and Homosocial Tension in Hamlet (open access)

“Man Delights Not Me”: Hierarchy and Homosocial Tension in Hamlet

Paper discusses the ways in which the play Hamlet frames homosocial relationships, arguing that the homosocial relationship of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern serves as a counterpoint to the Neo-Platonic friendship represented by Horatio.
Date: 2013
Creator: Vera, Adam
System: The UNT Digital Library