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

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
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
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
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

THATCamp: The Humanities and Technology Camp

Presentation for the first Open Data Hackathon at UNT, organized as part of International Open Data Day. This presentation discusses The Humanities and Technology (THAT) Camp.
Date: February 21, 2015
Creator: Laredo, Jeanette Ann
Object Type: Presentation
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
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
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
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
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
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
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
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
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
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
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library