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QUEERING WITCHES: A QUEER FEMINIST EXPLORATION OF WITCHES IN MEDIA
(East Carolina University, 2020-06-22)
This thesis is an exploration of witches, as depicted in entertainment media. "Queering Witches: A Queer Feminist Exploration of Witches in Media" analyzes the way history has contributed to the reinforcement of stereotypes ...
RURALITY
(East Carolina University, 2020-06-22)
Rurality is a collection of short fiction that seeks to explore the unique lives of characters in rural areas. The stories display the ways in which characters engage moral codes and challenges, while remaining in pursuit ...
Recreating Spenser: The Irish Castle of an English Poet
(2020-06-23)
This iBook showcases illustrations and subject matter taken directly
from the website Centering Spenser: a digital resource for Kilcolman
Castle, an ongoing open-access digital humanities project based at
East Carolina ...
GENRE FLUIDITY AND WRITING IDENTITY: ACTIVIST WRITERS, QUEER FEMINIST RHETORICS, WORKING FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE
(East Carolina University, 8/5/2020)
My dissertation proffers genre fluidity as a term to describe the rhetorical acts of shifting across and moving among genre conventions by blending and/or transgressing genre boundaries. Genre fluidity is defined as two ...
LOVE IN POSTCOLONIAL TIMES: EXPLORING ECHOES OF C.S. LEWIS’ FOUR LOVES IN SELECTED WORKS OF DEREK WALCOTT, V.S. NAIPAUL, TONI MORRISON, AND PABLO NERUDA
(East Carolina University, 8/5/2020)
This thesis explores the universal theme of love, as analyzed by C.S. Lewis in his classical essay The Four Loves. In the course of this literary quest, selected literary works of four laureates of Nobel Prize in literature ...
Ghost Whispers: Physical Memory and the Self in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(East Carolina University, 2020-06-22)
In Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex director Kenji Kamiyama tells the story of Motoko Kusanagi, a young woman who has inhabited a prosthetic body from the age of six. Through her life and the lives of her team, ...
Glass Kingdom
(East Carolina University, 2020-06-22)
Glass Kingdom is a collection of short stories, running the gamut of literary to speculative fiction. An overarching theme is inherent fragility, whether it is in a human life or a tyrannical government. These fragile ...
SUPPORTING TEACHER-WRITERS ENGAGEMENT WITH TROUBLESOME KNOWLEDGE: EVIDENCE OF TRANSFER IN WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
(East Carolina University, 2020-06-22)
Writing Across the Curriculum has typically been discussed in terms of curricular or pedagogical transformation. While it helped to transform teaching from lecture-centered classrooms into more student-centered pedagogies, ...
CULTURAL HAUNTINGS: TRANSCENDING GHOSTS, SPIRITS AND LITERARY GENRES
(East Carolina University, 2020-11-11)
This thesis explores the cultural haunting genre by examining works by LeAnne Howe, Li-Young Lee, and Monique Truong. This project looks to further define and expand the cultural haunting genre to include all of the cultural ...
Superhero Influences: Connotations and Cultural Codes in Comic Book Culture
(East Carolina University, 8/5/2020)
This thesis examines the role and representation of the superhero in establishing socio-political ideology through connotations and cultural codes. Beginning with an analysis of some of the earliest images of Superman and ...