Browsing English by Title

Now showing items 102-109 of 109

  • The Visit, Like Sisters, Storjka 

    Aeby, Elizabeth Carpenter (East Carolina University, 2013)
    This master's thesis is comprised of three short film scripts: The Visit, Like Sisters, and Storjka.  The Visit, a Depression-era dramatic short film, is filled the realities of hard living in the dust bowl of America's ...

  • Visualizing Images in Writing : Pedagogical and Professional Implications of Image Analysis 

    Hurley, Frank P. (East Carolina University, 2013)
    A recent and growing discussion among rhetoric and composition scholars has emerged surrounding the ways in which images influence the evolving nature of contemporary text. For the most part, scholars in the field agree ...

  • Voices of Desire : Heteroglossia in Graham Greene's The End of the Affair 

    Scott, Cheryl Modlin (East Carolina University, 2010)
    The voice of the author permeates the novel, according to Mikhail Bakhtin, and this voice is not isolated to the words or convictions of a particular character. The characters in the novel are masked with dialogue, ...

  • The Waltzing Dead : The Merit of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies 

    Koballa, Katherine (East Carolina University, 2013)
    When Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was published in 2009, the parody of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice that now takes place in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, few expected the novel to be more ...

  • When Death Gave Birth to a Writer : A Collection of Essays and Poems 

    Carpenter, Amber (East Carolina University, 2012)
    This personal collection of creative nonfiction sheds light on issues of abandonment, victimization, and dysfunctional relationships. It is accompanied by poems that serve as prefaces to each individual story, as well as ...

  • Word Magic : Defining Harry Potter's World in New Terms 

    VonHilsheimer, Tessa (East Carolina University, 2011)
    Since 1997, Harry Potter has captivated wizards and Muggles alike. A large part of the series' appeal is Rowling's language and ability to create a world that completely immerses readers into the depths of their imagination ...

  • Writing in My Language : Students' Perceptions of Informal Writing in the Composition Classroom 

    Query, Allison (East Carolina University, 2011)
    This classroom study examines students' perceptions of informal writing in a first-year composition classroom. Informal writing, as defined in this study, includes any in-class exercises that provide students the freedom ...

  • YURI ANIMATION : QUEER IDENTITY AND ECOFEMINIST THINKING 

    Thompson, Kimberly D. (East Carolina University, 2010)
    Yuri or Shojo-ai, a sub-genre of Japanese Animation and Manga, can be defined as women-loving-women narratives that explore the relationships between women. Although the sub-genre has only been recently introduced to the ...