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Writing, Domesticity, and Suicide: A Biographical Comparison of Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath (open access)

Writing, Domesticity, and Suicide: A Biographical Comparison of Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath

Undergraduate thesis biographically examining the lives, deaths, and works of Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath, including their roles as daughters, wives, mothers, and female writers. This thesis has implications for the relevancy and pertinence of Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath to literary, gender, and even political studies today as evident in their being namesakes of their crafts, hallmarks of the literary periods in which they wrote, and some of the most recognized and referenced literary names in popular culture.
Date: 2013
Creator: Peebles, Emily
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
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
Parallel Narratives: The Role of the Zimbabwean Writer during the Lost Decade (2000-2009) (open access)

Parallel Narratives: The Role of the Zimbabwean Writer during the Lost Decade (2000-2009)

Undergraduate thesis exploring how the economic collapse of Zimbabwe from 2000 to 2009 has been expressed in literature by Zimbabwean writers. It seeks to establish a connection between the strong-government controls of information in the media and the politicized nature of fiction during this period. It examines the nationalist narrative created by the Zimbabwean government and shows how the works of fiction of writers like Brian Chikwava and Petina Gappah have undermined this narrative by revealing parallel narratives that reveal the spin the government has put on society.
Date: 2013~
Creator: Muchemwa, Chido
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
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
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
“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
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
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
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