My Spent Life's Breath: A Psychoanalytic Study of Don Carlo Gesualdo (open access)

My Spent Life's Breath: A Psychoanalytic Study of Don Carlo Gesualdo

Undergraduate thesis psychoanalyzing the composer Don Carlo Gesualdo. It focuses on the relationship between the composer and mastery of the musical task. The author examines the life and work of Don Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, who was commonly referred to as both musician and murderer.
Date: December 3, 2012
Creator: Coronado, Sam
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
“That One Congenial Friend:” Hawthorne’s Search for a Careful Reader (open access)

“That One Congenial Friend:” Hawthorne’s Search for a Careful Reader

Paper discusses the prefaces to the novels and short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and argues that the author uses this space to describe political views that are clear to only a select audience.
Date: 2012
Creator: Garrido, Alejandro
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Shutters Shut and Open: Photographic Theory in Gertrude Stein’s Literary Portraits (open access)

Shutters Shut and Open: Photographic Theory in Gertrude Stein’s Literary Portraits

Paper investigates how Gertrude Stein uses photographic theory in the formal construction of her literary portraits in order to create an autonomous work of art and an authentic resemblance to her human subjects.
Date: 2012
Creator: Parkinson, Laure
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
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
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
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
After the Planes (open access)

After the Planes

The dissertation consists of a critical preface and a novel. The preface analyzes what it terms “polyvocal” novels, or novels employing multiple points of view, as well as “layered storytelling,” or layers of textuality within novels, such as stories within stories. Specifically, the first part of the preface discusses polyvocality in twenty-first century American novels, while the second part explores layered storytelling in novels responding to World War II or the terrorist attacks of 9/11. The preface analyzes the advantages and difficulties connected to these techniques, as well as their aptitude for reflecting the fractured, disconnected, and subjective nature of the narratives we construct to interpret traumatic experiences. It also acknowledges the necessity—despite its inherent limitations—of using language to engage with this fragmentation and cope with its challenges. The preface uses numerous novels as examples and case studies, and it also explores these concepts and techniques in relation to the process of writing the novel After the Planes. After the Planes depicts multiple generations of a family who utilize storytelling as a means to work through grief, hurt, misunderstanding, and loss—whether from interpersonal conflicts or from war. Against her father’s wishes, a young woman moves in with her nearly-unknown grandfather, …
Date: May 2012
Creator: Boswell, Timothy
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

"That One Congenial Friend": A Study of Hawthorne's Aim and Audience

Presentation for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing "That One Congenial Friend" and a study on Nathaniel Hawthorne's political aims and divided audience.
Date: April 19, 2012
Creator: Garrido, Alejandro & Joines, Richard
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Narration in a Narrative

Poster for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on the narration of a narrative.
Date: April 19, 2012
Creator: Peak, Alexandra & Rodman, Barbara
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Factors That Affect Children's Literacy

Poster presentation for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on factors that affect children's literacy.
Date: April 19, 2012
Creator: Bellotte, Amy & Eve, Susan Brown
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Patchwork Paraphrasing in 'The Clensyng of Mannes Sowle: Comparing Pepys 2125 to Bodley 923

Poster presentation for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas. This presentation discusses research on an excerpt of a confessional narrative in an early 15th century manuscript known as Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepys 2125 against 'The Clensyng of Mannes Sowle', found in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 923.
Date: April 19, 2012
Creator: DeLaughter, Amy & Smith, Nicole D.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Media Coverage of Modern Environmentalism

Poster presentation for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on media coverage of modern environmentalism.
Date: April 19, 2012
Creator: Kettavong, Lasamee; Taylor, James David & Verrill, Diane
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

"That One Congenial Friend": Hawthorne's Political Aims and Divided Audience

This paper discusses research on Nathanial Hawthorne's political aims and divided audience.
Date: April 19, 2012
Creator: Garrido, Alejandro & Joines, Richard
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Secrets Between Selves and Exchanged Desires: Mirror-Stage Politics and Self-Reflecting Desires Within Conrad's "The Secret Sharer" and Under Western Eyes

This paper discusses research on literature by Joseph Conrad.
Date: April 19, 2012
Creator: Savage, Jon & Peters, John G.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library