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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
We Were Once All Gentle Creatures: Modular Stories (open access)

We Were Once All Gentle Creatures: Modular Stories

Undergraduate thesis that is a collection of short stories preceded by critical preface. The preface, which is divided into two sections, contextualizes the function and presence of the modular narrative. The first section explores the criticism of the form and the second section provides contextual examples of contemporary stories which more or less exhibit elements of the modular. This collection entitled "We Were Once All Gentle Creatures" employs the many conventions and elements of the modular story as means to show how the modular replicates the atemporal qualities of human experience.
Date: 2013
Creator: Dash, Jessica
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
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

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

Presentation for the 2011 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on popular resistance, leadership attitudes, and Turkish accession to the European Union (EU).
Date: April 14, 2011
Creator: Dean, Tahirah & Breuning, Marijke
Object Type: Presentation
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
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
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

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

Poster presentation for the 2010 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on mental illness in literature and a case study of Sylvia Plath and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Date: April 15, 2010
Creator: Dyer, Darby & Scroggins, Daryl
Object Type: Poster
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
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Noble Appeal: Establishing Truth in True Reports from the Early Modern Era

Presentation for the 2010 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research the noble appeal and establishing truth in true reports from the early modern era.
Date: April 15, 2010
Creator: Fletcher, David & Wisecup, Kelly
Object Type: Presentation
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
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
“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

"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

"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
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
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