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Amy Chaney

-teacher|student-

"Matter to someone today."

Currently,

I am pursuing my Master of Arts in English.

Modern American Literature

Research Analysis

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Gatsby and Exposing “The American Dream” Literary Research Analysis

Multimedia Presentation

The Maltese Falcon and Film Noir Article Presentation

Essays

Phony Dreams and Misguided Life Goals: Navigating Personal Issues and Societal Changes in Miller’s Salesman and Williams’s Streetcar

Streetcar’s Unsympathetic Yet Sympathetic Character, Blanche Dubois

Modern Cinema’s Representation of Women as Commodities

Double Indemnity’s Femme Fatale Challenges Societal Expectations

Framing, Focusing, and Layering the Narrative in Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane

Apocalypse Now: The Razor's Sharp Edge

Motifs and Existentialism in The Grapes of Wrath

The Harlem Renaissance and Modernism

The Great Gatsby and Modernism

Final Exam

The Broadening of My Horizons

Early

American Literature

Study Prompt Responses

“Prefiguring the European Novel”

Week 1 Peer Reply

“Attempting to Change the Discourse of History"

Week 2 Peer Reply

“Challenging the Narratives"

“The Realignment of the Corn Myths"

"Violence, Sexual Tension, and Self-Sustaining Life in Zolbrod’s 'Passion of the Corn'”

Week 3 Peer Reply

"The Clash of Early Capitalism and Collective Enterprise Narratives"

"Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: A Changed Man of Faith"

Week 4 Peer Reply

"Witchcraft and Spirituality in New Spain"

Week 5 Peer Reply

"The Spirit of Place and The Great Circle "

Week 6 Peer Reply

"Involuntary Colonists Find Security and Eventual Freedom in New Spain’s Yucatan District, Meridia"

"Reconciling Frontier Struggles"

"The Pismires and The Plough"

Week 8 Peer Reply

"Sanguine Expectations"

"The Elusive Truth"

Week 9 Peer Reply

"The Removes of Charlotte Lennox"

"Unmasking Oppressive Patriarchy"

Week 10 Peer Reply

Research Analysis

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s Relación: Exploring the Development of North American Frontier History and the Iconic Western Hero Through Literature

Final Exam

“We all come to literature with different backgrounds, experiences, and beliefs, and it is acceptable to have different interpretations, which is the beauty of literature.”

Studies in

American Literature

Essays

Genius Between the Lines

Harry Bosch, A Tragic Hero

The Dark Recesses of Detective Fiction

Learning to Navigate the Business of Life Through a Neurodiverse Perspective

Personal Identity: A “Fascinating Project”

The Subjugation of Man in the Digital Age

Whoever Controls the Elevators, Controls the World

Lecter Got to Me

The Effects of the Unsophisticated Penny-Fiction

Multimedia Presentation

The Urban Gothic Vision of Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist

Research Analysis

Annotated Bibliography

Detective Fiction’s Attempt to Breach African American Socioeconomic and Political Barriers

Final Exam

For the Love of Tragic Heroes and Evil Monsters, Keep Them Coming

Usage

and

Style

Discussion Posts

Erasmus, Locke, and Blair: Rhetoric and Style

Spencer and Orwell: Rhetoric and Style

Revised Essay Project

Detective Fiction’s Attempt to Breach African American Socioeconomic and Political Barriers

Final Exam

Part 1: Write to Others as You Would Have Others Write to You, A Reflection

Part 2: The Verdict—Keep It Simple, An Essay

Part 3: Accommodate the Audience and Win Their Approval, An Essay

Special Topics: British Monsters

Discussion Boards

Parallel Genius, to an Extent

Negotiating Acts of Science

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a Gothic Novella

The Importance of Watson's Narrative

Disenchanted, Disgruntled, and Disillusioned Until the Research Enlightened Me

The Monstrosity of the Victorian New Woman

Bertha Boardman’s Review, Feelings, and Analysis, Azkaban Chapters 1-14

Mental Monsters: Depression, Fear, and Stress

A Meeting of Two Novels on the Dissecting Table

The Most Monstrous of Them All

Comparative Analysis

The Monster Within Man

Research and Analysis

Gothic Fiction’s Cautionary Tales: Man, the Monster

Final Exam

Reflections

Advanced Research

Critical Analyses & Research

“So What?” Back to the Drawing Board

Chicken Soup for MY Soul with a Dash of Poe

Did Democracy Kill Poe?

Critical Analysis: Death By Writing

No One Has Time for 2-2-2-2-2

Academic Reading: Frustrating and Fun?

Constructing the Conversation & an Annotated Bibliography

Stilettos and Murder: Interested in Conferencing?

Diagnose and Revise: Write for Others as You Would Have Them Write for You

Life Imitates Art: A Thousand Insults and Injuries Silence Fortunato and His Creator, Edgar Allan Poe, a Conference Paper Abstract

PMLA: “One of the Most Distinguished Journals in the Humanities”

Death by Writing: Barbed Criticism, Election Fraud, and the Silencing of Edgar Allan Poe, Forevermore

Jane Austen Sampler

Discussions

Survival and the Revolutionary Mrs. Bennet (VidGrid); PDF

Pemberley, the Symbolic Heart of the Novel (VidGrid)

Persuaded into Silence (VidGrid)

Testing Anne Elliot (VidGrid)

Love: an Invisible Psychological Reality (VidGrid)

Miss Bates, a Beautiful Disaster (VidGrid)

Research Essay & Analysis

Jane Austen’s Architectural Settings and the Shaping of Their Inhabitants’ Lives

Final Exam

Dipping My Toes into a Little Jane Austen: My Reflections

Literary

Theories

Discussions

The Formalists Confuse Me, I Think!

Structuralism, I Almost Subscribe to You!

A Structuralist Analysis of “Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane," a poem by Etheridge Knight

Phenomenology, Reception, and Ethics Through a Teacher's Eyes

Reception Theory & T.S. Eliot’s Ash Wednesday

The Uncanny in Literature: A Psychoanalytical Approach

A Psychoanalytical Approach to Hamlet

Cixous and Brontë: Writing with Female Authority

"Nanette, try to be happy."

Pierre Bourdieu and Geoffrey Chaucer’s Tales

Strengthening Our Minds’ Empathetic Capacities with Hester Prynne

The Evolution of "Hard Rock"

Animal Turn & Anthropocentrism: Oh, My Heart

The Non-representational Aspects of Annihilation, an Ecocritical Piece

Discursive Reality in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Wife of Bath: A Brief Glimpse into the Theory of Structuralism, an Implied Order of the Nature of Culture through Language

My Final Thoughts

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