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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

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
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
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

The Beatles as Poets (1965-70)

Poster presentation for the 2005 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas. This poster analyzes and identifies the poetic elements of The Beatles' lyrics from 1965 to 1970. The primary goal is to demonstrate that the band's lyrics are serious poetry, not merely performance.
Date: March 31, 2005
Creator: Murphy, Stephanie M. & Baird, James L.
Object Type: Poster
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
Object Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Criticisms of Patriarchy in Mary Rowlandson’s The Sovereignty and Goodness of God (1682) (open access)

Criticisms of Patriarchy in Mary Rowlandson’s The Sovereignty and Goodness of God (1682)

Paper analyzes Mary Rowlandson's The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, arguing that she Rowlandson resists patriarchy by working within her socially accepted roles.
Date: 2013
Creator: Hansard, Chelsea
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Criticisms of Patriarchy in Women's Captivity Narratives: A Close Look at Mary Rowlandson's The Sovereignty and Goodness of God (1862) and Sarah Wakefield's Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees: A Narrative of Indian Captivity (1862) (open access)

Criticisms of Patriarchy in Women's Captivity Narratives: A Close Look at Mary Rowlandson's The Sovereignty and Goodness of God (1862) and Sarah Wakefield's Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees: A Narrative of Indian Captivity (1862)

Undergraduate thesis exploring criticisms of patriarchy in women's captivity narratives by examining Mary Rowlandson's The Sovereignty and Goodness of God (1862) and Sarah Wakefield's Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees: A Narrative of Indian Captivity (1862). Both used their socially acceptable roles in order to assert their own ideas regarding the patriarchy. The author concludes that both narratives therefore assert that patriarchal societies did not necessarily produce justice for English or American women who were a part of these societies, or for the Dakota Indians who lived in close contact with a patriarchal society.
Date: May 3, 2013
Creator: Hansard, Chelsea
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Decay of Romanticism in the Poetry of Thomas Hardy (open access)

The Decay of Romanticism in the Poetry of Thomas Hardy

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that the concept of a godless universe governed by a consciousless and conscienceless Immanent Will in Hardy's poetry is an ineluctable outcome, given the expanded scientific knowledge of the nineteenth century, of the pantheistic views of the English Romantic poets. The purpose is accomplished by tracing characteristically Romantic attitudes through the representative poetry of the early Victorian period and in Hardy's poetry. The first chapter is a brief introduction. Chapter II surveys major Romantic themes, illustrating them in Wordsworth's poetry. Chapter III treats the decline of the Romantic vision in the poetry of Tennyson and Arnold. Hardy's views and the Victorian poets' influence are the subject of Chapter IV. Chapter V demonstrates Wordsworth's influence on Hardy in several areas.
Date: December 1978
Creator: Wartes, Carolynn L.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dis(Agreements) (open access)

Dis(Agreements)

(Dis) Agreements Section of L'Atalante: Revista de Estudios Cinematográficos Issue 28. This section includes assessments of the topic of censorship and cinematic classicism that serve to correct and update numerous aspects in relation to the real scope and impact of the Hays Code on Hollywood films.
Date: 2019
Creator: Gilbert, Nora; Jacobs, Lea; Staiger, Janet; Grieveson, Lee; Schaefer, Eric; Maltby, Richard et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Disrupting Labor in Digital Humanities; or, The Classroom Is Not Your Crowd (open access)

Disrupting Labor in Digital Humanities; or, The Classroom Is Not Your Crowd

This chapter critiques the use of student labor on digital humanities projects in and out of the classroom.
Date: November 6, 2018
Creator: Keralis, Spencer D. C.
Object Type: Book Chapter
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
Electronic Undergraduate Research Journals: A Survey of their Characteristics (open access)

Electronic Undergraduate Research Journals: A Survey of their Characteristics

Paper survey's the characteristics of undergraduate student journals which are published electronically.
Date: 2009
Creator: Reno, Ariel
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
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
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

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

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