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Shakespeare Adaptations in a Canadian Context and the Question of Canadian Identity.
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-24)The doctoral thesis, Shakespeare Adaptations in a Canadian Context and the Question of Canadian Identity examines the representation, production and interpretation of Canadian identity through Shakespeare’s plays at two ... -
Shakespeare, Youth, and Comic Books
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-29)This thesis examines how Shakespearean play-texts are adapted into comic books in order to appeal to young readers. By analyzing four different adaptations including two comic book series and two manga series, it seeks to ... -
Signature Event C*ntext
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-25)This thesis examines how context in Derridean signature theory is taboo and underutilized, and calls signature theory to embrace the contaminating mark of context. Signature theory, as proposed by Jacques Derrida and Peggy ... -
Some Mysterious Resonance Between Thing and Language: On Contradiction and the Materialist Theologies of Cormac McCarthy and Marilynne Robinson
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-24)At first glance, the works of the contemporary American authors Marilynne Robinson and Cormac McCarthy look so distinctly unlike that they seem to represent opposing poles on a hypothetical literary spectrum. The fundamental ... -
“Sorry If My Words Aren’t Right”: Writing Studies’ Partnership with Second Language Writing to Support Translingual Students in the Anglo-Canadian Classroom
(University of Waterloo, 2021-11-02)Since the early 2000s, Canadian higher education has recognized the economic benefit of courting and enrolling visa students at higher tuition rates. Austerity measures in federal funding combined with falling domestic ... -
Sounds of the Land of Promise: Listening to Ralph Ellison’s Metaphors of Memory in Invisible Man
(University of Waterloo, 2023-10-12)This project studies Ralph Ellison’s incorporation of sonic memory, soundscapes (sonic environments), and music into his novel Invisible Man (1952). The central focus of this dissertation is the influence of the sonic on ... -
South Asian Muslim Americans as Model Minorities: Conflicted Identities in Mohsin Hamid and Ayad Akhtar
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-31)This thesis argues that Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced portray the struggles of South Asian Muslims in light of the model minority myth. The protagonists’ struggles for assimilation ... -
Stories in Play: Narrative Formation in Sports and Esports
(University of Waterloo, 2021-11-11)Sports depend on narrative to function as media content, yet sports are difficult to narrativize because they are unpredictable. This project proposes a model for analyzing the narrative formation in sports broadcasts by ... -
Sympathetic Imagination: Posthumanist Thought in Electronic Literature and Games
(University of Waterloo, 2016-02-19)Martha Nussbaum insists on the power of “sympathetic imagining” for considering the lives of nonhuman animals. Literature, for Nussbaum, is a powerful site for imaging the lives of animals. This study extends Nussbaum’s ... -
Talk, Body, Performance: Mental Health Rhetoric in Corporate, Government, and Institutional Settings
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-17)Rhetorical studies in health and medicine often point out the ways in which medical empiricism is structured as an arhetorical entity. This dissertation delves into a rhetorical analysis of psychiatric illness through a ... -
Technologies of Identity: A Queer Media Archaeology
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-16)This dissertation explores how queer people use media technology to make and construe their identities through a series of cases extending from the Victorian era to the present day. Each case is driven by three interlocking ... -
Telling the Stories, Branding the Land: Examining Regional Narratives and Texts in Northern Alberta
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-23)This ecocritical study analyzes literary works and narratives related to northern Alberta. It establishes correlations between the way the land, history, and culture have been represented in these buried texts and the ... -
“That’s Gold, Jerry, Gold!”: The Sophisticated Contradiction at the Heart of Stand-Up Comedy
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-15)This dissertation examines the word “sophisticated” by re-situating it within the Greek tradition and explicating how such a move informs a study of humor and amusement. In regard to “techniques and theories,” the OED ... -
"This Third Space": Real-and-Imagined Spaces in Turn-of-the-Century American Settlement Fiction
(University of Waterloo, 2012-06-22)This thesis is a literary analysis of American settlement fiction, using a spatially-informed cultural historicist approach. The settlement movement in the U.S. was both a Progressive Era reform movement and a precursor ... -
Till We Have Faces: C. S. Lewis's Textual Metamorphosis
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-12)C. S. Lewis’s novel, Till We Have Faces, has been misunderstood by both scholars and readers alike. This paper seeks to read the text through the lens of Lewis’s own literary criticism. It begins by presenting Lewis’s ... -
To Hurt the Pain: An Ethical Criticism of Nathanael West
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-30)Nathanael West is typically considered to be a “major minor” American writer of the late modernist period. Best known today for Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) and The Day of the Locust (1939), West wrote four dark novellas that ... -
Tongues Tide: Translingual Directions for Technologically-Mediated Composing Platforms
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-26)This dissertation examines the link between classroom practices, language policies, and writing technologies in a translingual framework. Specifically, in the context of higher education, I explore the ways in which ... -
A Transmogrifying Discourse of Sexual Violence: Resisting, Redressing, and Re-writing Racial Scripts in Contemporary African American Women's Theatre
(University of Waterloo, 2019-02-14)This dissertation examines contemporary African American women's theatre that addresses the absented and erased reality of black women as victims of sexual violence. This thesis investigates how contemporary African American ... -
Transposition of Joy in C.S. Lewis
(University of Waterloo, 2015-02-09)C.S. Lewis’s lifelong pursuit of ‘Joy,’ in addition to being the focus of two autobiographical texts (Surprised by Joy and The Pilgrim’s Regress) is also manifested throughout his fiction writing. His earliest poetry ... -
Trauma and Beyond: Ethical and Cultural Constructions of 9/11 in American Fiction
(University of Waterloo, 2012-06-19)My dissertation focuses on a set of Anglo-American novels that deal with the events of 9/11. Identifying thematic and stylistic differences in the fiction on this topic, I distinguish between novels that represent directly ...