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Rich Spirits
(East Carolina University, 1/13/16)Rich Spirits is about three homeless people huddled together behind a strip mall on a cold winter night. This two-act, social drama explores themes of family, abandonment, dreams, and glass-ceiling culture. -
Breaking Down Borderland Stereotypes: The Borderland Mindset and Double Consciousness
(East Carolina University, 1/13/16)This thesis examines three different texts, using borderland theories as a framework, to demonstrate that borderlands are not about physical locations but psychological states of mind. By studying three distinct texts, ... -
A Handbook of the Mythological and Biblical Allusions in Lamb's Essays of Elia
(1935)The study is divided into two parts: the first deals with The Essays of Elia, and the second, with the Last Essays of Elia. The explanations are given in the order of the allusions in the essays. Those essays in ... -
Arthur Miller: A Writer of Tragedy
(1967-08)The purpose of this study is to prove that Arthur Miller, American playwright, accomplishes his stated aim--the creation of drama similar in purpose and spirit to that of the classical Greeks. This thesis goes a step ... -
Spin Cycle
(East Carolina University, 2009)Spin Cycle is a two-act stage play detailing the adventures of a group of people in the political consulting trade. Action takes place in a simple hotel room somewhere in the American Midwest during an extended primary ... -
A Search for Authenticity : Understanding Zadie Smith's White Teeth Using Judith Butler's Performativity and Jane Austen's Satire
(East Carolina University, 2009)The purpose of this thesis is to explore the search for authentic self in Zadie Smith's White Teeth. Using Judith Butler's theory of performance and performativity, a close reading of White Teeth provides concrete literary ... -
The Borderlands in Puerto Rico : Creating New Identities
(East Carolina University, 2010)Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera is one of the most influential books on border theory, but because her theories are rooted in her experiences in the Rio Grande Valley between Texas and Mexico, they cannot be ... -
Practical Pedagogy for the Use of Filmic Adaptations of Canonical Texts
(East Carolina University, 2010)The following study is dedicated to the practical usage of filmic adaptations in the academic setting; more specifically, I explore the usage of adaptations based on The Scarlet Letter and how they can be integrated into ... -
FOUR STORIES : A STUDY IN GENRE
(East Carolina University, 2010)Genre is a label of classification imposed on literary works, usually as a means to understand how to market a project. The traditional form - "literary fiction" - is the most common, but a visit to any bookstore will ... -
Destruction of the Caribbean Landscape Through Colonization in Edgar Mittelholzer's Corentyne Thunder, Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea, and Wilson Harris' Palace Of The Peacock
(East Carolina University, 2010)The Caribbean Islands have long been known for their lush, tropical scenery. For this distinctive landscape to continue to be so alluring throughout the centuries, to the natives as well as to others, it must be respected, ... -
THE COUNTER-COLONIAL TRAVEL WRITING OF FANNY PARKES AND E.M. FORSTER
(East Carolina University, 2010)During the colonial period in India, British travelers wrote various forms of travel writing texts, such as letters, diaries, travelogues, scientific or geographical exposés, and novels. Usually those texts reflected an ... -
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 ... -
SHERMAN ALEXIE'S RESERVATION : RELOCATING THE CENTER OF INDIAN IDENTITY
(East Carolina University, 2010)Indian reservations are territories within the United States recognized by the federal government as land reserved specifically for American Indians. Indigenous communities still referred to as tribes have some autonomy ... -
FISTFUL OF DEBRIS
(East Carolina University, 2010)Fistful of Debris is a collection of fiction aimed to explore the varied dimensions of familial loss. Each piece focuses on the personal growth and intimate details of a female protagonist's life, as she attempts to rebuild ... -
Postcolonial African American Female Writers and their Three-Way battle against Imperialism, Canonization, and Sexism : Developing a New Multicultural Feminism
(East Carolina University, 2010)Female writers continue to remind us of the differences between themselves and males and the separate struggles they face. For a woman, the task of liberation through writing must include also a thrash against the ... -
Voices of Desire : Heteroglossia in Graham Greene's The End of the Affair
(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, ... -
Power and Place : A Case Study Approach to Rethinking Crisis Communication
(East Carolina University, 2010)This dissertation examines a 2003 explosion at a pharmaceutical plant in Kinston, North Carolina against the framework of both crisis communication theory and critical discourse analysis theory. In the wake of the explosion, ... -
COME ON DOWN TO SEE FOR YOURSELF : SOUTHERN RAILROAD TRACKS AS RACIAL SEGREGATORS--THE CASE OF GREENVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA
(East Carolina University, 2010)Throughout American culture and through varying mediums, railroad tracks have been depicted as tropes of socioeconomic repression, technological development, and even bountiful migration. For instance, Joseph's Millichap, ...