Browsing English Masters Papers by Issue Date
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Christabel’s Complexity: Coleridge’s View of Science, Nature and the Supernatural
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s unfinished poem, “Christabel,” follows the meeting and interaction of a young maiden and a deceptive demonesque woman. This paper explores the interactions between the natural, supernatural, and ... -
East Lynne’s Transatlantic Course: From British Serialization to American Theatre
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Ellen Wood’s East Lynne, a popular sensation fiction, began because of its original and insatiable British readership; however, the texts immediate and drastic reception into American theater confirms that this narrative ... -
Dancing through Issues of Class and Race in the Composition Classroom
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Within the writing classroom, teachers (and students) tend to understand writing and rhetoric as a mental activity, rarely considering the body’s role in effective communication—even more rarely do they incorporate the ... -
Reprinting Russia: Anti-Imperial Discourse in Elias Boudinot’s Cherokee Phoenix
(North Dakota State University, 2017)While much work has explored American Indian print resistance to the encroaching United States, little scholarship has explored reprinting as a method of resistance. Building on Meredith McGill’s argument that reprinting ... -
Literacy Narratives of Pre-Literate and Non-Literate Adult Refugee Women
(North Dakota State University, 2017)This study focuses on the Literacy Narratives of Pre-Literate and Non-Literate Adult Refugee Women in the Fargo-Moorhead community. Personal interviews were conducted to gather data. The recorded interviews were then ... -
“Your Legacy Is Yours to Build”: Defining Leadership in Beowulf and Its Adaptations
(North Dakota State University, 2017)This paper analyzes how narrative choice and media affect the depiction of leadership in Beowulf by studying three texts: the medieval Beowulf, the 2007 Hollywood film of the same name, and Beowulf: The Game. While the ... -
Breaking the Binary: Sex Power, Sentiment, and Subversive Agency in Anita Loos’ Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Anita Loos’ novel, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, first appeared in a 1925 issue of Harper’s Bazar to commercial success. Often compared to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, as both depict the 1920s and were published the ... -
The Heroine Sabrina: Dismantling Binaries in A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Sabrina, the heroine of A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle, is an exemplar of ethical, intellectual, and magical power. Although scholarship has focused on male characters in the masque, I argue that this story is about ... -
Empowering Native American Students: Approaches to Enhancing the Tribal College Writing Classroom
(North Dakota State University, 2018)This research aims to address the writing methods and strategies used within the Tribal College Writing classroom by providing insight into best practices to improve writing at Tribal Colleges. While elaborating on classroom ... -
Facing Death in The Book Thief: Confronting the Real of the Holocaust and Mortality
(North Dakota State University, 2018)This paper examines the personification of Death in The Book Thief and its impact on young adult readers using Slavoj Žižek’s analysis of the Real and Hayden White’s discussion of how history and its representations in ... -
Something Wicked This Way Comes: How the Horror Genre Revitalizes Macbeth
(North Dakota State University, 2019)This project examines Rupert Goold’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth in terms of the horror genre. Using filmic elements of the horror genre, touchstone horror texts, and Carol Clover’s Men, Women, and Chainsaws, this ... -
Blackness in the “Grey Area”: Representations of Virtuous Labor in Venture Smith’s Narrative
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Scholarly treatments of Venture Smith, an African man who gained freedom and went on to own land and slaves in the late eighteenth-century United States, almost exclusively consider the 1798 edition of his narrative, ... -
“What Shall Befall Him or His Children”: The Figure and Anxiety of the Child in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man
(North Dakota State University, 2019)The scholarship currently surrounding Mary Shelley’s The Last Man is scarce in comparison to the amount of scholarship with her more well-known text Frankenstein. One of the popular trends of Frankenstein scholarship centers ... -
Bilingual Rabbits, Bilingual Readers: Watership Down as a Case for Animal Texts in Translation
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Richard Adams’ Watership Down provides readers a unique view of a world that is and isn’t their own, a familiar space from the unfamiliar perspective of an animal. Animal narratives like these are at the core of Animal ... -
The Last Breath is Hers: Reassessing Feminist Film Approaches to the Slasher Genre in the #MeToo Era
(North Dakota State University, 2019)You’re Next (2011) and Hush (2016), feature women who at first glance resemble stereotypical final girls. However, throughout their respective films, Erin (You’re Next) and Maddie (Hush) break the expected binary outcome ... -
The Dangers of Power: Government Control in the Worlds of Condie’s Matched and Lowry’s The Giver
(North Dakota State University, 2020)This paper considers the topic of government control through the context of young adult dystopian literature. The novels The Giver (1993) by Lois Lowry and Matched (2011) by Ally Condie are specifically considered in their ... -
Girls Shouldn’t Behave Like That: Exploitation of Women’s Emotion in Professional Wrestling
(North Dakota State University, 2020)WWE has always been known to have problematic representation for women. Recently, they have attempted to make a change. In 2016, WWE finally retired the outdated “Diva’s Division” and made strides toward a more woman-inclusive ... -
Blessed Is She: Gender Critique Through Performativity and Portrayals of the Divine in Naomi Alderman’s The Power
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Naomi Alderman’s 2016 novel The Power details the events that occur after women develop the ability to produce an electrical current throughout their bodies. This new physical power allows a matriarchal power structure to ... -
Which Witch is Witch: The Appropriation of Women’s Pain in the Use of the Witch Hunt Metaphor in Modern Political Rhetoric
(North Dakota State University, 2020)The evolution of the term “witch hunt” from a physical act to a political metaphor is largely overlooked by modern audiences. As the hysteria of the witch trials fades into popular memory, certain associations live on. In ... -
Nongrievable Bodies: Sex Trafficking Subjects Embodied in Social Media Rhetoric
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Every year thousands of women, men, and children are trafficked for sexual exploitation (sex trafficking) around the world. Legal, social, scholarly, and theoretical discourses all discuss sex trafficking, yet often times ...