The Importance of Language in Plato\u27s Cratylus

By suggesting that Plato’s Cratylus is in the form of a ring composition, this paper explores how this form plays out within the context of a dialogue on the nature of language. It traces the ring composition form as it applies to the issue of naming. In the end it argues that for Plato the development of language is essential for the growth and maintenance of the soul. The twin structures of the ring compositional form enable this understanding in interesting and complex ways

Letter, 1976 October 24, from Alvis Lee Tinnin to ?

2 pages, Tinnin was a friend of ?. Etta Moten Bannett and Etta Troylor nee Vee are mentioned

Encouraging professional competency development of higher education administration graduate students through supervised student affairs practice

Professional preparation and socialization of student affairs educators and their competency development is increasingly important in today\u27s higher education environment (ACPA & NASPA, 2015; Janosik, Creamer, Hirt, Winston, Saunders, & Cooper, 2003; Schuh, Jones, & Harper, 2010). This professional preparation often occurs during graduate programs in higher education administration, and features a supervised practice component (CAS, 2012; Janosik, Cooper, Sauders, & Hirt, 2015). The purpose of this grounded theory study is to explore the process of competency development of higher education administration graduate students as part of their professional socialization into the student affairs profession. The intent of the study is to derive a grounded theory of how site supervisors contribute to professional socialization and competency development of student affairs graduate students. Nine graduate students and eight supervisors from three campuses with higher education administration graduate programs in the Philadelphia region participated in interviews describing supervisor support, professional socialization, and significant learning moments as contributors to competency development

Madness Narratives: Victorian Textual Responses to the Insanity Diagnosis

In Madness Narratives, I examine four understudied texts at the intersection of Victorian asylums, patients’ lack of voice, and resistance narratives. I argue that these texts all reject the silencing power of the insanity diagnosis as they represent patients, former patients, and asylum reformers creating counternarratives that call for recognition of the patients’ humanity and right to be heard. In my first chapter, “Narrating Insanity: Constructing the Madness Narrative in Charles Reade’s Hard Cash,” I assert that Reade’s 1863 novel proposes a nuanced understanding of the insanity diagnosis as a collaboratively-composed story that justifies the confinement of the patient. This story, which I call the madness narrative, is supported by the symbolic capital of the psychiatric establishment and operates under the authority of the asylum system. Reade’s novel suggests that the only way to resist the madness narrative is to create counternarratives supported by symbolic capital and offered outside the asylum system. In the second chapter, “Exposing the System: Richard Paternoster’s The Madhouse System as Early Exposé,” I claim that Paternoster’s 1841 publication features rhetorical techniques that allow him to reject assumptions about his objectivity, self-control, and sense of judgment, practices that would eventually become common in investigative journalism. Paternoster’s rhetorical approach foreshadows the rise of the undercover journalist later in the century and allows him to resist his confinement by rejecting his madness narrative and working to build an identity as an objective investigator. In “A Magazine of Their Own: Literary Periodicals of Victorian Asylums in Scotland,” the final chapter, I study two magazines, The New Moon (1844-1937) and The Gartnavel Gazette (1853-54), that were established by asylum patients. Created to benefit the patients and to support the reputations of the asylums, these periodicals align with moral management’s goal of providing patients with productive occupation. Patients use these creative spaces for identity reinforcement and reclamation. The opportunity for self-expression is occasionally problematic, for some of the contributions challenge the respectability of the sponsoring asylums, subverting the “civilizing” influence of moral management. In conclusion, Madness Narratives: Victorian Textual Responses to the Insanity Diagnosis reframes these texts within the context of the narrative nature of the insanity diagnosis and shows how the authors create counternarratives that reject or modify the implicit narratives about their sanity and humanity

Whither the Gender of Get Out: A Critique of the Cinematic (Im)Possibilities of the Black Political Imagination

This thesis investigates the entanglements of spatialized racial-sexual violence, conceptualizations of black female subjectivity, questions of the limitations and excesses of media representations and the socioeconomic, cultural and spatiotemptoral relations that make black images visible and (im) possible as they are situated in the cinematic black political imagination. Through a materialist media analysis of the 2017 film Get Out, I argue that the film and its articulation of the afterlife of slavery fails to account for gender by tangentially engaging black women in its dissection of race and racism. I contend that black women are the absent presence in the film and a dissection of their (in) visibilities is necessary to reveal race\u27s unresolved relationship to race and deepen the film\u27s mediation of the connection between race, gender and representation