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(Un)Reasonable, (Un)Necessary, and (In)Appropriate Biographic Mediation of Neurodivergence in Academic Accommodations
(Centre for Biographical Research, 2019-12)Biographic mediation of disability through accommodations bureaucracies in the academic workplace attempts to contain and control difference in such a way as to leave intact the fundamentally ableist set of values, practices, ... -
Uncommon Places: The Multimodal Art of Embodied Invention
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-02)This dissertation develops the concept of embodied invention, an epistemology and design philosophy that treats multimodal media—such as comics and videogames—as heuristics for translating knowledges between bodies, ... -
Under Review: Source Use and Speech Representation in the Critical Review Essay
(University of Waterloo, 2012-02-15)This thesis features a qualitative study of student source use and speech representation in two corpora of review essays that acknowledges the complexity of classroom writing contexts and the rhetorical nature of school ... -
"Unscrupulously Epic": Examining Female Epic in the Poetry of Felicia Hemans and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-10)Virginia Woolf once remarked that, “[t]here is no reason to think that the form of the epic ... suit[s] a woman any more than the [masculine] sentence” (Woolf 84). This thesis represents an attempt to explore what the ... -
Unwilled Lives: The Etiology of Poverty in Eighteenth-Century Literature
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-25)Affecting up to three-quarters of Britons in the eighteenth century, poverty was both a constitutive feature of the body politic and, for many, a disruptive, unpredictable force that, many feared, threatened to undo the ... -
The Urban Web: Metonymic Representation in the Work of Charles Dickens and George Gissing
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-12)This dissertation deploys the resources of cognitive linguistics and ecocriticism to gain insight into the role of metonymy in the Victorian novel’s representation of an increasingly complex and interconnected urban world. ... -
We Are Having All Kinds of Fun: Fluidity in Shoebox Project
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-15)Made public on LiveJournal between 2004 and 2008, Shoebox Project (SBP) is a multimedia fanfic written by ladyjaida and dorkorific. The plot takes place before that of the Harry Potter novels, detailing the last two years ... -
William Blake as a Visionary of the New Age: Comparing the New Age Concepts of Eckhart Tolle’s Mind-Body-Spirit Books with Blake’s Illuminated Works
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-17)Although William Blake was overlooked in his time, today he is considered a visionary who created worlds with his mythology and encrypted symbolic language. Scholars such as Mark Lussier and David Weir have connected the ... -
Wish You Were Here: Representing Trans Road Narratives in Mainstream Cinema (1970-2016)
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-02)When Christine Jorgensen stepped off a plane in New York City from Denmark in 1952, she became one of the first instances of trans celebrity, and her intensely popular story was adapted from an article to a memoir and then ... -
Years Between Stations: The Dream of America in Steve Erickson
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-04)Steve Erickson is an author so worried about the meaning of his country that his thematic obsessions influence and dictate the form and content of his writing. This project follows his thematic fixations over the course ... -
The Zombie in American Culture
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-13)My research explores how the oft-maligned zombie genre reveals deep-seated American cultural tendencies drawn from the nation's history with colonization and imperialism. The zombie genre is a quintessentially American ...