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Spring 2014

Johnson, Daniel Morley

This thesis examines Indigenous rhetorics of resistance from the Treaty Six negotiations in 1876 to the 1930s. Using methods from Comparative Literature and Indigenous literary studies, the thesis situates the rhetoric of northern Plains Indigenous peoples in the context of settler-colonial...

2017-08-23

Martin, Jan

2016-10-28

Thibault, Sean

Fall 2013

Arsenault, Jeffrey A

What does it mean to be emotionally affected by music? This study considers the experience of listening to music for political implications of affect in light of John Protevi’s concept of political affect and Eric Clarke’s concept of musical affordances. In considering this, I discuss John...

Spring 2022

Calloway, David L

In this dissertation, I examine the major texts of nineteenth-century African American abolitionist Martin Delany to show how he transforms literary genres to develop his arguments for emigration and the uplift of African Americans in the United States. By doing so, I argue first that Delany is...

Fall 2012

Burden, Michael P

Algorithms are increasingly present in our lives and responsible for many aspects of society – but are hidden from inspection. As codified instructions they require design (unless simplistic) and this design emerges from a web of social factors. Web sites and video games contain decision-making...

Spring 2013

Kutuzov, Maria

This dissertation examines the process of creation and evolution of the personal mythology of the 7th Russian Emperor Peter III. It explores the phenomenon of personal mythology as a system of representation of the monarch’s identity, which was, on the one hand, clearly displayed and, on the...

2004

Le, E.

This article presents and illustrates a formal model of linguistic analysis in order to explain a phenomenon that is fundamental to translators in their practice: the construction of coherence. First, the role of paragraphs in the construction of coherence is explained with the application of the...

Fall 2011

McCarroll, Cody

This dissertation examines the ideological force of the smallholder trope in various discourses, from classical political economy to early Canadian poetry and agribusiness advertising. The project investigates the increasing elision of smallholders from the socio-economic landscape in Canada by...

Spring 2014

Lefsrud, Lianne M.

Although resources are central in many organizational theories, we tend to overlook the social processes by which these become defined, infused with value, and made usable by rules. Thus I ask: How has a once legitimate and unquestioned energy source – the Alberta oil sands – become...