This dissertation investigates the literary style of four modernists—Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Mae West—in terms of camp. As Susan Sontag suggests in her essay about camp, the concept is useful in reexamining the interrelationship between form an…
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Bu çalışmanın amacı Kuran-ı Kerim'deki metaforları, indiği dönemin kullanımlarını dikkate alarak ortaya koymaktır. İlk bölümde metafor ve metaforik anlamın ne olduğu tarihsel arka planı ile birlikte incelenecektir. İkinci bölümde ise metaforun klasik ve çağdaş felsefedeki tanım …
The marketing of DNA ancestry tests plays a major role in circulating ideas about how the public should interpret DNA test results, the way DNA connects us to people around the world, and the connections between race, ethnicity, nationality, genetics, and ancestry. This thesis c…
What is the symbolic potential of Glitch in popular culture? That question animates this cultural critique, which argues that modern representations of glitch phenomena in popular culture are part of a significant pattern of communication. In the age of hyper-networked, polymedi…
A perennial problem for many first-year composition (FYC) instructors is deciding what curricular materials to use to teach their students about rhetoric and composition and how to use those resources to enable their students to practice and hone their writing skills. This disse…
As leader of the Russian Federation, a state with both a large military stockpile and veto power in the United Nations, it is important to understand who Vladimir Putin is as a leader. In order to do so, we must first identify and understand the contexts of Putin’s leadership. O…
My dissertation uses critical race theory, poststructuralist theory, and mixed-methods empirical analysis to study diversity discourse(s) in the USA. The keyword “diversity” has many meanings and can refer to a wide variety of personal and social differences, yet diversity disco…
The world we live in is increasingly becoming authoritarian. Although the majority of the world’s states are now ruled by authoritarian regimes, there is no clear scholarly consensus on how the rising authoritarian regimes legitimize their rule to stay in power. This thesis inve…
In the landscape of writing instruction in higher education, there has been a longstanding critique of the efficacy of Generalized Writing Skills Instruction (GWSI) for preparing students to write in the genres of their majors, disciplines and workplaces (Petraglia, et al 1995).…
Mixed opinions of cute heavy metal band Babymetal reveal a genuine misunderstanding of historical Japanese musicianship and heavy metal scenes, while also exemplifying racist and misogynistic attitudes that are endemic to the heavy metal community as a whole. Drawing on Kimberle…
Graduate writing can manifest as a barrier to successful and timely degree completion as writing is the primary modality in which graduate programs use to evaluate depth of learning and quality of knowledge created. Native language status, inexperience with advanced academic gen…
This dissertation offers a camp reading of five animated sitcoms from three sets of primary auteurs – Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy, American Dad!), Matt Groening (The Simpsons, Futurama), and Trey Parker and Matt Stone (South Park). Chapter 1 provides an overview of the study, in…
This doctoral thesis consisted of a cultural-rhetorical-cognitive approach to the work of the English street artist Banksy and in particular of his graffiti. By examining the aesthetics and function of Banksy’s graffiti in both street and contemporary art, this study has shown t…
“Making Land, Making People: Rhetorics of Value and Improvement in Early Modern English Literature,” explores early modern English conceptions of land use and agriculture as they appear in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century agricultural treatises and poetry. I argue that the ove…
ال مندوحة للباحث يف اللغة العربية من الوقوف ىلع القرآن الكريم، ذروة ابلالغة وأرفعها، وال غرو يف ذلك ً ألنه الكم اهلل، من جهود العلماء اذلين ما برحوا ينهلون من معينها وافرا ً وذلا فقد القت ابلالغة القرآنية حظا دوها َّ الصايف إىل أن رسموا حدودها وقع ، أتاح ملن بعدهم رؤية معاملها ود ً ف…
This dissertation investigates how discourses and practices of political spirituality contributed to forming an idea of México as a national entity in the early nineteenth century. During the struggles for Novohispanic Independence from 1810 to 1821, there was little consensus o…
This dissertation is the culmination of three years of participant observation in city-driven climate action in St. Louis Park, MN. Drawing from observations, semi-structured interviews, and textual analysis, I present an analysis of temporal rhetorics circulating at this climat…
Within the last 40 years, academic research on disasters has focused on resilience as applied to individual adaptive capacities, rebuilding resources, and policy-driven solutions. While there has been an increased awareness of the many gendered dimensions of post-disaster recove…
Malgré des données qui indiquent une amélioration de la place des femmes en entrepreneuriat, de nombreuses études ont démontré que les femmes sont globalement moins présentes dans le cycle entrepreneurial que les hommes (Bosma & Kelley, 2019; Marlow & Patton, 2005). Le s…