• An analysis of the influence of the Quakers on Daniel Defoe 

  Reeve, Juliet (Wichita State University, 1943-03)

• Scanner darkly: unpopularization in the Burney Newspaper Collection 

  Lanning, Katie (Routledge, 2021-01-18)

  This essay explores the paradox of inaccessibility in popular archives. Often understood as democratizing, even digital databases of popular literature ironically contain a series of barriers: an extraordinary paywall and ...

• Writing self-efficacy and linguistic diversity of first-year composition students: An exploratory study 

  Wadman-Goetsch, Ellery Glenn (Wichita State University, 2020-12)

  This study investigates the potential relationship between student writing self-efficacy and marginalized linguistic identities. A total of sixty-nine first-year composition students across two semesters responded to ...

• Protest in the work of Richard Wright prior to 1956 

  Harris, Cassie M. (Wichita State University, 1957-07)

• The aspectual structure of the adjective Spanish ser and estar 

  Pardo, Alfredo Garcia; Menon, Mythili (John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020-05-13)

  This paper argues that the stage-level and individual-level distinctions for adjectival predicates, diagnosed in Spanish by the copulas ser and estar, can be derived by positing a sortal distinction in the temporal arguments ...

• The Quaker City: George Lippard's critique of capitalism through sensational advocacy for the disenfranchised 

  Dickerson, Lillian (Wichita State University, 2019-12)

  Nineteenth-century author and journalist George Lippard advocated for the underprivileged by devoting himself to his self-founded labor union, "The Brotherhood of the Union," as well as by incorporating fresh and fiery ...

• Postcolonial types of ambiguity: on interculturality and anglophone poetic form 

  Boynton, T. J. (West Chester University, 2019)

  Since at least the publication of William Empson’s seminal study of the concept in 1930, ambiguity has been acknowledged as an unparalleled source of poetic significance. Poetry’s defining feature, its verbal economy, ...

• Local color and realism in Hamlin Garland's short stories 

  Anderson, Zora H. (Wichita State University, 1932-05)

  The purpose of this work has been to investigate and determine, by careful and methodical procedure, the characteristics of Hamlin Garland that cause him to be recognized as a local colorist and veritist of high note in ...

• The nature treatment of the classicists compared with that of the Romanticists 

  Beebe, Viola M. (Wichita State University, 1932-05)

• The English and American new comedy: Its ancestory, aims, and tendencies 

  Peek, Samuel E. (Wichita State University, 1930-05)

• Tragedy in contemporary drama with an historical survey of the tragedy of the past 

  Cowley, John P. (Wichita State University, 1930-06)

  The following is an attempt to analyse the elements or contemporary English tragedy in the light or the tragedy of the past, with the view not so much of defining the present type as of determining the differences ...

• Outstanding nineteenth century poets: An aid to their appreciation 

  Gepharte, Elden E. (Wichita State University, 1929-07)

  The purpose of this paper is to serve as an aid to the teacher in the presentation of the representative works of ten outstanding English poets from the time of Burns to that of Rossetti inclusively, and to serve as a guide ...

• "Speak American": linguistic discrimination against Latino residents of Garden City, KS 

  Colcher, Drew C. (Wichita State University, 2019-05)

  Carter (2014), Phillips (1998), and Zentella (1997) have extensively discussed the ways that linguistic discrimination functions to suppress the maintenance of minority languages like Spanish in the U.S. This study analyzes ...

• Book review: Poe's Silent Music 

  Bechtold, Rebeccah B. (JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PRESS, 2018)

  That scarce awake, thy soul shall deem / My words the music of a dream," proclaims the speaker of Poe's "Serenade" to his love, Adeline [Works, 1:223]. In so doing, "Serenade," titled after a type of nocturnal music, ...

• Coaching through humanism 

  Lubbers-Payne, Mercedes (Wichita State University, 2019-04-26)

  Core learning theories such as Cognitivism, Behaviorism, and Humanism are not only applicable for educators, but may be used as a basis for effective academic advising. The importance of effective academic advising is ...

• Sacramental tempest: a return to literary mystery 

  Busenitz, Stuart S. (Wichita State University, 2018-12)

  Early modernity's rise during the seventeenth century in England created a shift in culture including literary artistic expressions. This paper proposes that the rise of modernity limited the communicative power of language ...

• Book review: The Bones of Paradise 

  Quantic, Diane D. (Western Literature Association, 2019)

  "It was midmorning in early May when J.B. Bennett crested the hill, stopped, and surveyed the little Sand Hills meadow where the windmill was slowly clanking in a wobbly circle" (3). This sentence opens Jonis Agee's novel, ...

• The Rose 

  Whitake, Carolyn (Stand Magazine, 2017)

• Developing a multimodal pedagogy 

  Wiley, Emma (Wichita State University, 2018-05)

  "Developing a Multimodal Pedagogy" explores the adaptation process of multimodal strategies into pedagogical practice. This research attempts to examine the relationship between multimodal assignments and creativity, and ...

• Blood (and other things) in the gutter: deconstructing McCloud's "pleasure in closure" for intersectional exploration 

  Allen, Jessica (Wichita State University, 2018-05)

  This research explores gutter theory in comics and graphic novels. While many regard Scott McCloud's theoretical work as the gold standard, others such as Theirry Groenstein, Theresa Tensuan, and Hannah Miodrag believe ...

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