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- Creator:
- Salisbury, Amy
- Description:
- This paper argues that written comments without conversational augmentation are not adequate feedback for producing successful revisions of essays nor do traditional vocabulary terms for revision provide sufficient concepts to incite the action of revision. Based on interviews with students, instructors, and tutors and analyses of survey data, I claim that student-student and student-instructor conversations about written feedback are best modeled after student-tutor interactions in writing centers. This project includes a digital video component.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Literature and Writing Studies
- Creator:
- Becerra, Dawn Marie Sax
- Description:
- This text highlights the women and muxe (a third gender) of Juchitan, Mexico. The Cuentitos (little stories) found within emphasize food's place in traditions and daily life. Food stories and travel (both mental and physical) are written in a genre-mixing format. The introductions describe the author's reluctance to follow classic ethnographic studies. Presented are interviews, events, and quotidian life recorded in the winter of 2004. Key words: Juchitan, Zapotec, Food, Women, Muxe, Mexico Supplemental audio file not digitized.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Literature and Writing Studies
- Creator:
- Mogil, Blaine
- Description:
- A revisioning of the classic Washington Irving tale of "Rip Van Winkle" through the eyes of his grandson, Rip Van Winkle III, or Trip Van Winkle. Trip relives his grandfather's historic sleep. Trip falls asleep in 1799, only to reawaken on the historic day, September 11, 2001
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Literature and Writing Studies
- Creator:
- Wilkinson, Sean
- Description:
- This thesis looks at the critical ways literary scholars can approach the works of Hunter S. Thompson. It addresses the issues of definition that Gonzo Journalism has faced over the last few decades, and proposes that Thompson's works should be analyzed in comparison with classical literary styles like the Picaresque narrative.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Literature and Writing Studies
- Creator:
- Fields, Gregg
- Description:
- This project focuses on the translingual approach and stretches the current focus on contact zones into a positive and playful linguistic liminality. This motivation behind this project is to change the way writing instructors and scholars approach the language-use of first non-native or second language speakers and, ultimately, all language users. Chapter 1 - Approaches the term "translingual" from an historical perspective, illuminating the progression of scholars from areas of study like contrastive rhetoric and intercultural rhetoric. This chapter also highlights the growing popularity of TR concepts. Chapter 2 - Focuses on the contact zone, challenging this seemingly unchallenged discussion of intercultural interaction. The contact zone primarily and almost completely focuses on the tension and conflict, but the writer addresses the need for encouraging linguistic play. This chapter acts a bridge to set up the discussion of a positive linguistic liminality in chapter 3. Chapter 3 - enngages the parallel concepts of the translingual and the liminal. This chapter illuminates the varied benefits of a liminal linguistic play. Finally, the appendix houses a practical classroom activity to anchor some of the more historical/research-based/theoretical work of the rest of the project.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Literature and Writing Studies
- Creator:
- Zavodny, Tatiana
- Description:
- Throughout the nineteenth century, Ireland experienced rapid political transformations and a shifting socio-political climate. During this time, Ireland began to develop its own national identity through the Celtic Revival. A subset of this movement, the Irish Literary Revival or Irish Renaissance explored the notion of national identity and questioned what it meant to be Irish in the struggle to become an independent, post-colonial nation. Two dramas in this movement include John Bull’s Other Island by George Bernard Shaw and Cathleen ni Houlihan by William Butler Yeats. For this project, I incorporate post-colonial and Kristevan semiotic theory in order to compare each author’s reaction to British colonialism within the greater Irish Literary Revival movement to illustrate how Shaw and Yeats construct Ireland’s imagined national identity as the “other,” abject of a post-colonial United Kingdom. Applying this approach as a way to characterize the Anglo-Irish relations at play within each drama will provide a new perspective not previously discussed in scholarship surrounding these texts. Furthermore, in comparing these two authors and their reaction to British colonialism, it is then possible to examine the unique ways each author develops an imagined national identity that places Ireland as the abject of the United Kingdom.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Literature and Writing Studies
- Creator:
- Sadeghipour, Allia Elizabeth
- Description:
- The thesis contests that the physical body is insignificant and temporary: whereas consciousness is invaluable and boundless. All forms of consciousnesses, human or not, are valid regardless of the physical form. However, human society has consistently used physical bodies to determine the validity of a being’s consciousness. The presence of a physical body is not enough to identify a human experience and cannot be the sole factor determining one’s humanity. The recognition and acceptance of one’s humanity is vital for the success and happiness of a person. Without which, the person is unable to establish its own agency. The solution to such a dissociation is to recognize and incorporate the experiences of textual representations into one's own. Textual representations allow for the ultimate freedom by giving a person the ability to explore all embodied human experiences regardless of their physical representation. The permeability of human experiences through textual representations makes the physical body irrelevant when determining one's humanity. Through personal narrative and theoretical analysis, this thesis redefines “human” beyond the obsolete paradigm of gendered humanity to include all consciousness without conformity to bodily representations.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Literature and Writing Studies
- Creator:
- York, Kellie
- Description:
- As our world becomes increasingly globalized, boundaries are becoming less rigid while managing change and difference is becoming more commonplace. Because the processes and effects of globalization are so complex, it is difficult to grasp the impact it has on the world, let alone come to an agreement on how the world should respond to it. What can be agreed upon within the study of globalization, however, is that the phenomenon is continually altering physical and metaphysical spaces through contact. Our response to difference in this ever changing geopolitical and cultural landscape has indeed been the focus of academic debates and discussions. Through my analysis of both Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness and Ana Castillo’s So Far From God, I hope to contribute to this debate by engaging the effects that globalization has on communities confronted by its various challenges. Each text illuminates how local identities are disrupted and forced to deal with change, whether they choose to embrace or resist such change. Both texts exemplify globalization’s ability to invoke conflicting responses to its effects which in turn divides communities, and inhibits effective progress. The texts propose a solution to the unease caused by cultural conflict brought on by globalization through neither completely resisting nor accepting its influences. They insist that there must be a negotiation that takes place in order to find a compromising middle ground. These texts respond similarly to the acceleration of globalization despite their different socio-historical, geographic, and cultural differences. We must, therefore, all learn how to understand each other’s differences in order to progress in a globalized world.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Literature and Writing Studies
- Creator:
- Dutton, Walter L
- Description:
- There are 6,000,000 new head injury cases every year. Of these, at least 3 million will suffer significant deficits resulting from brain injury. Traditionally, acute care through rehabilitation has not included substantial writing tasks. Writing is a cognitive skill that has great impact on the rate of growth of new neural pathways in rehabilitating the brain injury survivor. Story and narrative are underutilized and virtually ignored in therapy. It is story and narrative that allows the brain injury survivor to develop concepts of self, self esteem, and to recognize and implement stories that allow the survivor to achieve emotional, intellectual, educational, and occupational goals. Traditional psychotherapy, speech and language therapy, and occupational therapy have not made adequate use of story and narrative to facilitate the most rapid and highest level of functioning of brain injury survivors. This thesis demonstrates that the sociopsychobiological case narrative, combined with story and narrative therapy, when used beginning in the acute stage of care through rehabilitation, is the most effective method for patient recovery.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Literature and Writing Studies