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- Creator:
- Lo, Isabella
- Description:
- The Hmong people are a group of Southeast Asians who came to America around 45 years ago. Because they are still so new and still such a small group, their stories have only began to come to light. As a group of becoming, the Hmong are now engaging in conversation with Western perspective as to who they, the Hmong, really are. Through this thesis I hope to inform and teach a little more about the Hmong community. I want to help rhetoric and composition scholars to understand more on how to incorporate our Hmong stories and narratives into the field. With more generations being born in America, the Hmong are beginning to find agency in the midst of the dominant culture. Where there was silence before, a rhetoric from the Hmong community is starting to spill over and into the dominant culture, demanding to be heard.
In this thesis I analyze many texts and artifacts in relation to and within the Hmong community in order to bring to the forefront the Hmong rhetoric that has been pushed aside due to the dominant culture’s idea of what counts as rhetoric. In Chapter 2: “Voices from the War,” I highlight personal narratives of the Hmong people and “the Secret War” through documentary evidence. In Chapter 3: “Voices of a Daughter,” I investigate Hmong weddings to highlight the cultural relevance of the wedding in The Bride Price through the use of critical rhetorical analysis. Finally, in Chapter 4: “Voices from the Cloth,” I investigate the cultural and rhetorical relevance of the Hmong stitching and quilting, as material rhetoric and cultural literacy.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- Evans, Megan Day
- Description:
- Feminist rhetoric often looks back in history to find instances of women’s voices in writings, but for my thesis, I argue the importance of looking at modern forms of feminist rhetoric in academia. I am specifically looking at what I term as Rouge Feminist rhetoric, and how it situates itself in public feminist conversations online. My thesis brings forth questions about current understandings of feminist rhetoric online, and it calls for further study on how this new form is different or adding to the discussion of digital feminist rhetoric. I also suggest how future studies can be conducted by researchers looking at modern instances of feminist rhetoric online in order to answer the questions I pose.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- Westerling, Janice.
- Description:
- Shakespeare's poetic dramas mark the height in the evolution of a form that had begun with the dramatizations of the medieval mystery plays, and they have a power that has not been realized in the genre since. We may describe this power as the capacity for universalizing experience, for his poetic dramas possess an enduring vitality. As modern viewers we delight in the spectacle of the action on stage, for certainly Shakespeare was a master dramatist; but his reference is not merely to the visible or external world. Shakespeare's interest is in the dramatic experience itself, the patterns of basic human experiences. As poetic dramatist, he seeks expression for those truths that go far beneath the facade of appearance to the often chaotic subterranean and emotional forces that shape our lives. His appeal speaks to that "inward life" that is seldom seen and perhaps even less understood. We respond emotionally to truths that are universal, basic to our experience. The fusion of the poetic and dramatic accomplishes the form's peculiar power; it has an immediate, visual, and aural impact because it is presented on stage, but it also utilizes traditionally "poetic" resources to probe the hidden conflicts of the mind. The generality and profundity of the poetic
drama are rooted in human passion, psychology, and spiritual experience.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- Thompson, Alvin Joseph.
- Description:
- In his essay "Technique as Discovery," Mark Schorer observes, "The difference between content, or experience, and achieved content, or art, is technique." According to Schorer, "When we speak of technique ... we speak of nearly everything. . . . Technique is the only means [the writer] has of discovering, exploring, developing his subject, of conveying meaning, and finally, of evaluating it."1 Since technique gives a story its "form" or shape, and insofar as form is meaning, technique embraces more than technical proficiency. By controlling the manner in which the subject is communicated to the reader--a process that makes content achievee content—technique determines meaning.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- Taylor, J. Mark.
- Description:
- Traditionally Shakespeare's Henry V has been seen as a panegyric celebrating King Henry V as the ideal monarch. Some critics acclaim Henry as the poet's finest conception of the statesman-king, a monarch who brought unity and peace to a disturbed England, expanded his domain by invading France, and became the one beacon of triumph in the dark years of civil unrest prior to the ascension of the Tudors.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- Pena, Manuel H.,1942-
- Description:
- One difficulty in preparing a lexicon for Finnegans Wake lies in coming to grips with the way Joyce fuses the basic English underlying the book with the seemingly endless number of words, fragments, and phrases from every conceivable language. For though the syntax of the work is English, the constant intrusion of foreign elements distorts the morphology and creates an anomalous poly-language that baffles the mind as one tries to unravel its labyrinth--or labaryntos, to use one of Joyce's Spanish-English words.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- Kurihara, Martha Haruko.
- Description:
- Herman Melville will surely be remembered as the author of that epic of whaling, Moby Dick, with its savage harpooneers, loyal mates, and the monomaniac Captain Ahab grimly pursuing the white whale. His accounts of trips to the South Seas (Typee, Omoo), to England (Redburn), and around Cape Horn (White-Jacket) deal primarily with young men aboard sailing vessels. It may come as a surprise to the casual reader to realize that, besides the native girls in his South Seas stories, Melville wrote about women of his own society and time. He portrayed several such feminine characters, for instance, in his sentimental novel Pierre. His "romance of Polynesian adventure," as he styled Mardi in his preface, introduced his first use of the Fair Maiden/Dark Lady pair that reappeared in Pierre with certain changes. Melville's shorter works intended for magazine publication, often presented women as either victims of circumstance or as vixens in the battle of the sexes.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- English