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“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
Fitzgerald’s Women: Motherhood and Masculinity in the Flapper Era (open access)

Fitzgerald’s Women: Motherhood and Masculinity in the Flapper Era

Paper discusses how changing gender roles in the 1920s, particularly for mothers, are depicted in the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald, and how mother figures influence the development of his leading male characters.
Date: 2010
Creator: Vincent, Emily S.
Object Type: Article
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
Market Evolution: Marketing to the Mexican American Female (open access)

Market Evolution: Marketing to the Mexican American Female

Paper examines the effectiveness of advertising techniques used in print magazines that target Mexican American consumers.
Date: 2008
Creator: Evins-Ketron, Bethany
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Identifying and Analyzing the Poetic Qualities of The Beatles’ Lyrics from 1965-1970 (open access)

Identifying and Analyzing the Poetic Qualities of The Beatles’ Lyrics from 1965-1970

Paper analyzes song lyrics written by The Beetles from 1965 to 1970 as poetry.
Date: 2006
Creator: Murphy, Stephanie M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Writing Transformations: Mediating the Effects of High-Stakes Testing Through the National Writing Project (open access)

Writing Transformations: Mediating the Effects of High-Stakes Testing Through the National Writing Project

Paper discusses the efforts of the National Writing Project (NWP) to mitigate the effects of high-stakes testing on teachers and students.
Date: 2008
Creator: Llanes, Sharaya
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
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"
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Kenya Believe it? Tracking Orientations Toward Reconciliation After a Period of Acute Civil Conflict (open access)

Kenya Believe it? Tracking Orientations Toward Reconciliation After a Period of Acute Civil Conflict

Paper describes study exploring parliamentary speakers’ orientation toward reconciliation (OTR) over a period of one year in Kenya after the Kenyan election crisis of 2007-2008.
Date: 2013
Creator: Kellam, Deva
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Feared or Family: Portrayal of Native Americans in Redeemed and Unredeemed Captivity Narratives (open access)

Feared or Family: Portrayal of Native Americans in Redeemed and Unredeemed Captivity Narratives

Paper explores the difference in the portrayal of Native Americans in captivity narratives that did result in acculturation and those that did not.
Date: 2014
Creator: Dismukes, Emily
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Introduction to Special Section on English Literature (open access)

Introduction to Special Section on English Literature

Introduction to the special section on English Literature for the 2014 edition of The Eagle Feather, written by Kelly Wisecup.
Date: 2014
Creator: Wisecup, Kelly
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
Pics or It Didn’t Happen: Sexist Hyperskepticism in the Modern Skeptical Movement (open access)

Pics or It Didn’t Happen: Sexist Hyperskepticism in the Modern Skeptical Movement

Paper discusses issues of sexism and anti-feminist sentiment in the modern organized skepticism movement.
Date: 2013
Creator: Forester, Jennifer
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

Popular Resistance, Leadership Attitudes, and Turkish Accession to the European Union

This paper discusses research on popular resistance, leadership attitudes, and Turkish accession to the European Union (E.U.).
Date: April 14, 2011
Creator: Dean, Tahirah & Breuning, Marijke
Object Type: Paper
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
The "Nature" of Sovereignty and the Female Intellectual in Milton's Paradise Lost (open access)

The "Nature" of Sovereignty and the Female Intellectual in Milton's Paradise Lost

This paper examines the effect of Queen Elizabeth I's sovereignty as a monarch on English literature in the 17th century England, especially the work of John Milton, 'Paradise Lost'.
Date: April 15, 2010
Creator: Trotter, Megan & Curran, Kevin
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library