Category: Scholarly Research
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Billy Pilgrim and the Metafiction of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
English 680B Seminar in a Theme: Metafiction 17 March 2014 Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five has been widely discussed as an antiwar novel based on the author’s experiences in World War II as a German prisoner of war. Vonnegut’s difficulties with voicing are proof of chronic psychic intrusions of the traumatic experiences he experienced I the war…
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The Non-Human Characters of the Intercalary Chapters of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath
English 690-A Major Author Seminar: John Steinbeck 21 February 2014 John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath came to the forefront of American literary culture following the Great Depression era of the 1930s. The novel, published in 1939, received a mixed reception by the public due to the attention placed on the difficulties and hardships of…
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Cognitive Theory and the Composition Process Model of Flowers and Hayes
Janet Ridout Dr. Mark Mabrito English 655: Composition Pedagogy 31 October 2013 The Processes of Composing a Writing Assignment Part 1: Create a Visual Model of Out Loud Protocol Utilizing Frank Montesonti’s Writing Process While Composing a Newspaper Editorial about the American Electoral College The “Out Loud Protocol” for Composition Writing I have designed based…
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The Hippo Conspiracy
(5067 words / 15 pages) The culmination of research on the novel And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks has brought rise to a conspiracy theory rather than a thesis. One might see the title And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks and draw many conclusions. To some it sounds suspect. To others it is suspect.…
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Academia.edu | Account. Follow me on Academia.edu Related articles Emancipatory Digital Archaeology on Academia.edu (middlesavagery.wordpress.com) More Thoughts on Academic Paywalls (sarahkendzior.com) Kristin Gjesdal (profacero.wordpress.com) “In The Studio,” Academia.edu’s Richard Price Is A Founder On A Mission (techcrunch.com)
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Fortune Cookies…
National University Fortune Cookie Soup Sandwiches in the Burkean Parlor A Term Paper Submitted to the Faculty of School of Arts and Sciences For the Partial Fulfillment of the Degree Requirements Of a Master of Fine Art in Creative Writing By Janet Alisa Ridout Copyright © 2012 by Janet Alisa Ridout All rights reserved. Abstract…
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Understanding
“Why Must We Reinvent the Wheel?” A Writer’s Struggle for Understanding Janet Ridout In “The Workshop and Its Discontents” by Camoin, he writes “‘Well write the stuff,’ we say. ‘Let the others (across the hall, the critics) talk about it.’” (Camoin 3) This is how some feel in the discipline of English, the visual arts,…
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Serendipity
Janet Alisa Ridout Jervey Tervalon MCW 600 14 November 2012 Didactic Instruction and the Elusive Muse of Serendipity Silence is conducive to introversion. Inhibition begets silence. Some revere silence as uncomfortable. Silence denotes peace. Silence is golden. Silence is presence of mind. Silence is discipline, thought, reflection, and wisdom. Silence means it is time to…
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