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Memetic Rhetorical Theory in Technical Communication: Re-Constructing Ethos in the Post-Fact Era
(East Carolina University, 2018-07-20)This dissertation interrogates existing interpretations of ethos by analyzing the spread of misinformation through online communities. In particular, this dissertation argues that the rhetorical concept of ethos should ... -
Memorializing Individuals, Seeking Justice for Communities: The Epidemic of Systemic Violence Against Indigenous Peoples and the Role of Art and Public Response in Bringing About Social Change
(East Carolina University, 2016-05-03)Indigenous peoples throughout the Americas are often targets of violence stemming from settler colonial societies that would position Indigenous peoples on the outskirts of mainstream, often Eurocentric societies. For ... -
The Mimicking of Oral Traditions in African American Literature
(East Carolina University, 2012)The authors Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Randall Kenan create a authentic listener experience through the use of literary features that mimic oral tradition in African American culture. The "authentic listener ... -
MOHSIN HAMID AND THE NOVEL OF GLOBALIZATION
(East Carolina University, 2014)With the rise of globalization, people and cultures are interconnected economically, culturally, and socially like never before. Where nationalism defined much of the modern period, defining how people formed social bonds ... -
Mohsin Hamid, Precarity, and the (Re)Education of Western Audiences in Post-9/11 West Asian Literature
(East Carolina University, 2016-07-25)This thesis explores the idea that the theory of precarity, as found throughout Judith Butler's post-9/11 essays, makes a useful tool and criticism in analyzing Mohsin Hamid's post-9/11 work to discover that one of the ... -
The "Most Accurate, Least Factual" Writer : Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist
(East Carolina University, 2010)New Journalism, as practiced by Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, and other writers, loosened the accepted bounds of journalism in the 1960s. Embracing these unrestricted journalism practices, Hunter S. Thompson adapted the New ... -
Moving a Lighthouse : Cape Hatteras
(East Carolina University, 2010)Moving a Lighthouse is a collection of poems that focuses on the evolution of coastal fishing villages. This collection discusses the changing way of life on Hatteras Island. -
Multiculturalism as an Alternative to Nihilism in Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother and Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners
(East Carolina University, 2013)This thesis analyzes how internal oppression, or nihilism, has emerged amongst many of the Caricom community. It focuses on the history of colonialism and the psychological destruction it has left across the Caribbean. ... -
Narrative, Identity, and Sense of Place Discourse : Woman's Club of Fayetteville, North Carolina, 1906-1912
(East Carolina University, 2012)This dissertation analyzes the discourse (the narratives) used by members of the Woman's Club of Fayetteville in Fayetteville, North Carolina, from 1906 through 1912, as they (1) saved the Market House from destruction and ... -
Necessary Absence: Familial Distance and the Adult Immigrant Child in Korean American Fiction
(East Carolina University, 2016-04-25)In the novels Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee, The Interpreter by Suki Kim, and Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee, adult immigrant children feature as protagonists and experience moments of life-defining difficulty ... -
The Need for Educating Technical Communicators on the Changing Face of Copyright and its Impact on the Public Domain and Fair Use
(East Carolina University, 2014)This thesis presents a framework for understanding the historical basis of copyright in the United States and the impact that recent events have had upon the public domain and fair use. The necessity of technical communicators ... -
"Never Waste a Good Crisis": An Interview with Mary Mellor
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New Gnostic Gospels
(East Carolina University, 2013)Science Fiction writer Philip K. Dick's quest for God becomes a binding theme in many of his works, including VALIS and The Divine Invasion, two of his final three novels. Together, these two novels, combined with his ... -
Next Door
(East Carolina University, 2021-05-03)The following is a screenplay that tells the story of two African American teenage girls, Lena and Jada, whose lives are interrupted by the mysterious teenage boy, Owen, who moves in next door to Lena. Lena, plagued by ... -
"Of my own accord" : Milton's Dialogue with the Rabbis in Samson Agonistes
(East Carolina University, 2014)This thesis examines rabbinic commentaries on the Samson story and the ways in which Milton appropriates or differs from these interpretations. It considers the critical debate over whether Samson's character and violent ... -
On Edge: A Techné of Marginality
(East Carolina University, 2019-07-24)Technical and professional communication has traditionally been rooted in the white, Western, hetero-patriarchal rhetorical tradition and bound by rigid notions of objectivity and neutrality that exclude historically ... -
One Day Your Ship Will Come In
(East Carolina University, 2012)My thesis is called One Day Your Ship Will Come In and consists of several pieces of fiction. The setting of most of these pieces is deliberately vague for aesthetic reasons, but any reader inclined to investigate can ... -
One Love : Collective Consciousness in Rap and Poetry of the Hip-Hop Generation
(East Carolina University, 2012)This study aims to offer an understanding of hip-hop culture through which three concepts are elucidated: (1) the existence and dimensions of a collective consciousness within rap and poetry of the hip-hop generation ... -
Otherworldliness: Uncanny Literary Devices in the Liminal Spaces Created by Transnational Authors
(East Carolina University, 2021-04-20)This thesis will argue that contemporary transnational authors, by virtue of their often complex, multicultural identities, have a unique ability to create "otherworldly" stories of global significance through their use ... -
Overcoming Marginalization and Discovering Identity through Literacy in Representative Works of Multi-Ethnic Literature
(East Carolina University, 2021-04-14)In a study of multicultural literature, the dominance of ignorance and prejudice in propagating and perpetuating oppression and marginalization of others is all too common, as is the denial or suppression of the identity ...