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Philosophy in Pieces: The Aphorisms of Nietzsche's Human, All Too Human and Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-28)This thesis considers the philosophical importance of the literary form of two aphoristic works of philosophy: Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human and Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations. Though both these German-speaking ... -
The Pivot of Athwartedness: Roy Kiyooka's "Pacific Windows"
(Guernica, 2020)Published as a full issue of The Capilano Review in August 1990, Roy Kiyooka’s “Pacific Windows” exists on the periphery of Kiyooka’s canon. Despite the various ways in which this text could be considered the culmination ... -
Plain, but not Simple: Plain Language Research with Readers, Writers, and Texts
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-01)Plain language is defined in a variety of ways, but is generally understood to refer to language and design strategies that make texts easier for target audiences to understand and use. Research has helped demonstrate that ... -
Playing the Story: The Emergence of Narrative through the Interaction between Players, Game Mechanics, and Participatory Fan Communities.
(University of Waterloo, 2017-12-07)If all games are understood as ultimately driven by the operation of their mechanics, then that operation cannot fully exist without the interaction of a player, and by extension the participatory fan community in which ... -
Plurality, promises and practice: A case of Nepali immigrants’ transliterating and translanguaging in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-20)Plurality, promises and practice: A case of Nepali immigrants’ transliterating and translanguaging in Canada is a community-based study among sixteen Nepali immigrant students in graduate and undergraduate programs that ... -
Posthumanist Medicine: Participatory Healthcare, Medical Humanities, and Digital Media
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-24)This dissertation explores the construction of illness in the context of two interrelated processes that both propose a more empowered patient role and a whole person model for healthcare. Specifically, these contexts are ... -
Private People in Public Places: Contemporary Canadian Mennonite Life Writing
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-14)This study examines the autobiographical writing of five contemporary Canadian Mennonite authors in order show how these texts, when read collectively, work to disrupt conventional ways of thinking about life writing. Life ... -
Promotional (Meta)discourse in Research Articles in Language and Literary Studies
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-21)Abstract It is now widely recognized that promotionalism permeates scholarly discourse. Yet a systematic account of rhetorical and linguistic means, which researchers across disciplines deploy to achieve this effect, is ... -
Queen of the Academy: Academic Drag as Pedagogy and Praxis
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-22)Direct stories from and pedagogical representations of equity-denied and oppressed bodies remain largely missing from and kept out of the academy. And scholarship and scholarly gate-keepers across the academy – and especially ... -
Ralph Barnes Grindrod's <em>Slaves of the Needle</em>: An Electronic Scholarly Edition
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This thesis involves both editorial practice and literary analysis. In order to establish an editorial framework for the electronic scholarly edition of Dr. Ralph Barnes Grindrod's pamphlet <em>Slaves of the Needle</em>, ... -
Renaissance Texts, Medieval Subjectivities: Vernacular Genealogies of English Petrarchism from Wyatt to Wroth
(University of Waterloo, 2012-07-03)This dissertation investigates the symbolic presence of medieval forms of textual selfhood in early modern English Petrarchan poetry. Undertaking a systematic re-reading of a significant body of English Petrarchism through ... -
Representational Queerness Within Marvel’s Loki: Liminality through Identity, Genre, and Medium
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-02)Loki, a prominent Norse god and more recently prominent Marvel character, is entwined with an understanding of liminal queerness. Part of the broader notion of liminal queerness is its relationship to questions of identity ... -
Resisting Transculturation: The European Woman in English Travel Writing
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)Comprised of four separate case studies – one on the Eastern novels of Penelope Aubin and Eliza Haywood written in the 1720’s, one on Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Turkish Embassy Letters, one that features female castaway ... -
Rethinking Maritime Literary Regionalism: Place, Identity, and Belonging in the Works of Elizabeth Bishop, Maxine Tynes, and Rita Joe
(University of Waterloo, 2014-10-08)In this dissertation I argue that the dominant concept of Maritime literary regionalism is informed by a Euro-settler definition of belonging, one that prescribes an author’s long-term residency and family history in a ... -
The Rhetoric of Silence: John Cage, Exigence and the Art of the Commonplace
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-02)This thesis approaches the work of American avant-garde composer John Cage from an unconventional perspective by utilizing rhetorical theory to examine the intellectual history informing his collected writings in the text ... -
Rhetorical Figures in Music
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-01)This paper looks at rhetorical figures in music, focusing on figures within the chiastic suite. It argues for a cognitive provenance of these figures, accounting for their appearance in both literature and music. It looks ... -
The Rhetorical Life of Surgical Checklists: A Burkean Analysis with Implications for Knowledge Translation
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-10)This dissertation uses the terms of Kenneth Burke’s dramatism to identify rhetorical aspects of surgical team checklists as they have been promoted, performed, studied, and surveilled. I argue that these terms can help to ... -
Rhetorics Rising: The Recovery of Rhetorical Traditions in Ralph Ellison's <em>Invisible Man</em> and N. Scott Momaday's <em>House Made of Dawn</em>
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This study suggests, through a rhetorical analysis of the role of orators and oration in Ralph Ellison's <em>Invisible Man</em> and N. Scott Momaday's <em>House Made of Dawn</em>, that literature can be a valuable resource ... -
Securitizing Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-07)Securitization is the process by which subjects move from the mundane to “worth securing”. What a group of people consider to be “worth securing” reflects how they understand that subject’s value in relation to their lives. ... -
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 ...