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This dissertation examined the presidential elections of 1992, 1996 and 2000 for the narrative tools used to persuade Latino voters. Using Walt Fisher's narrative theory, I evaluated the various parts of the American Dream myth, looking specifically at the characters and settings used in the candidate's narrative. Then, I evaluated the values in those narratives through the lens of the Plan of Delano, specifically looking for ways these candidates actually reinforced important Latino values. The new tellings of the American Dream myth valued specific characters- characters that had been blessed by the American Dream. Clinton's 1992 character had to work to gain success, but he was also blessed. George P. Bush (George W. Bush's nephew) was another character blessed by the American Dream. As a first-generation American, he represented the hope that brings many to America; the idea that their children could have opportunities the parents could not. The settings of the American Dream story were also important. These settings varied greatly-from the decrepit and desolate to the fanciful and idyllic-but they represented all the different places where the American Dream is possible. Hope, Arkansas is not a place where much hope seems to exist. But even a community as impoverished as Hope can be the birthplace of a President, because of the amazing ability of the Dream to permeate even the darkest corners of America. The barrios of the Southwest appear to be hopeless, but as Clinton's telling of the myth reminded Latinos, even people growing up in the barrios should have hope-because the American Dream can exist anywhere. These values, these characters, these settings have added to the rich rhetorical history of the American Dream myth. These presidential candidates expanded the places where that hope could reach, and the people who could be blessed by the Dream. All of this culminated in a story that Latinos could relate to, that they shared in and that rhetorically persuaded them to believe in these candidates.

This essay aims to explore the transformational writing of ¡§emotion¡¨ and ¡§women¡¨ embedded in The Peony Pavilion and The Dream of The Red Chamber in the field of Chinese women study during the Ming and Qing Dynasty of China, attempting to testify that text is writer¡¦s grand work to establish humanitarian caring. The research purposes lie in the following areas. First, the contemporary research leans toward the integrative approach. Hence, how can traditional text and contemporary research subject be well blended to generate continuous interpretations? Second, in light of text, what is the most significant meaning of the text while deciphering The Peony Pavilion and The Dream of The Red Chamber from the perspectives of time and space? Third, how to evaluate the continuality and transformation of the textual spirit embedded in The Peony Pavilion and The Dream of The Red Chamber? In terms of the scholarship, this essay hopes to expand the author¡¦s early work entitled ¡§Illustrated Fine-lined Portrait Novel of The Dream of The Red Chamber in the Qing Dynasty¡¨ (1992), which investigates the aesthetic views of illustrated fine-lined portrait novel of The Dream of The Red Chamber. On the other hand, this essays combines the author¡¦s recent research on Chinese gender study. Consequently, this essay attempts to study two ¡§Romance¡¨ Classics¡XThe Peony Pavilion from the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty in the 17th century and The Dream of The Red Chamber from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty in the 18th century. The essay deepens its caring about emotion and women in order to discover the consistent remote sound of life value crossing from the Ming-Qing era to the contemporary period, highlighting the humanitarian significance of text. Moreover, it explores the theme of caring to pinpoint the meaning of text, providing an innovative approach for the frequent but weak interpersonal caring attitude in our contemporary life. This essay examines texts in an attempt to integrate texts and gender with field of caring ethics to some extent, expanding the plausibility of interpreting texts to multiple explanations and extending rich and coexisting meanings. In particular, it analyzes female images written by male writers. It first probes into the emotion writing and women writing in The Peony Pavilion and The Dream of The Red Chamber respectively. Then it compares and contrasts the emotion writing and women writing of these two classics as well as the comparison and continuality of activity space. These two classics are known for its emotion characteristics. For instance, the emotion of Du Li-niang and the emotion of Jia Bao-yu both denote writers¡¦ experiences and status, the components and levels of endorsements, emotion between Du Li-niang and Liu Meng-mei, background, ending, and application of emotion between Jia Bao-yu and Lin Dai-yu, as well as Du Li-niang¡¦s and Liu Meng-mei¡¦s female experiences, activities, space, and skills. Put differently, this essay respects and promotes women¡¦s consciousness. The main characters in The Peony Pavilion and The Dream of The Red Chamber, such as Du Li-niang, Liu Meng-mei, Jia Bao-yu, and Lin Dai-yu, speak for the writers and turn themselves into ¡§ideal lovers.¡¨ ¡§Typical Lady¡¨ is the ¡§ideal woman¡¨ created by the writers for the female roles. While shaping the ideal image for Du Li-niang and for Lin Dai-yu, the long-term gender dilemma of women is also highlighted as the important description of the texts. In addition, the earlier studies on Ming-Qing women¡¦s situation and image have biased conclusion that male texts tend to be presented with flair of patriarchal domination. In contrast with female texts, male texts deserve further exploration. Furthermore, some men held positive views on women during the Ming-Qing era. Coincidentally, these men overlapped with the writers who stressed the importance of emotion. Consciousness often takes precedence over implementation. Scholars remark that prior to the booming of Western feminism in the 18th century, women¡¦s consciousness was already popularized during the Ming-Qing Era in the 16th and 17th century, which not only paved the way to the new women¡¦s thinking but also set up foundation for introducing Western feminist concepts. This essay is divided into five chapters. Chapter One includes research purpose, research focus, research methodology, and research questions. In particular, it discusses writers¡¦ psychological basis of caring via emotion and women, including the discussion and molding of emotion and women in the long-term Chinese thinking. The focus of this chapter consists of impact of Confucianism, politics, and education on emotion writing and women writing, thinking background of writing on emotion and women in late Ming Dynasty, positive views of emotion, as well as women¡¦s confinement, reflection, and representation. Chapter Two investigates writing and caring about emotion and women as described in The Peony Pavilion. The focus of this chapter includes Tang Xian-zu¡¦s life story and his life-long emotion-oriented writing transformation and determination, the content and level of emotion theme in The Peony Pavilion as well as the pursuit of true emotion process and aesthetic significance occurred between Du Li-niang and Liu Meng-mei. Chapter Three discusses writing and caring of emotion and women, including textual pursuit of Grand theme emotion as described by writer Cao Xue-qin, implication and level of theme emotion as portrayed in The Dream of The Red Chamber, the pursuit process of emotion alliance and aesthetic significance occurred between Jia Bao-yu and Lin Dai-yu as well as significance of female artistic ability as found among Lin Dai-yu, Wang Xi-feng, and Jia Tan-chun. Chapter Four compares these two classic texts, including text inheritance, meaning and difference of emotion and women caring, and transformation and contrast, such as meaning of transformation among emotion, ideal emotion, ideal women, and women space. Chapter Five concludes male texts of The Peony Pavilion and The Dream of The Red Chamber, analyzing its value on oneself, female caring, and contemporary meaning.

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Naratologijos sąvoka siejama su G. Genette’o vardu. Jo teorijos leidžia kitaip pažvelgti į teksto analizę. Svarbiausia yra ne kas papasakota, bet kaip papasakota. Naratologijos teorija padeda atskleisti pasakojimo ypatybes, naratoriaus santykį su tekstu. Todėl ir yra svarbiausia, kaip pasakojama. / The concept of narratology is related to the name of G. Genette. His theories allow regarding the text analysis differently. The most important is not what is narrated, but how it is narrated. The theory of narratology helps to reveal the peculiarities of narration and narrators relation to the text. Therefore, how it is narrated is most important.

Thesis(M.A.)--Auburn University, 2006. / Abstract. Includes bibliographic references.

Thesis (Ph. D. in Religion)--Vanderbilt University, Dec. 2007. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis(M.S.)--Auburn University, 2005. / Abstract. Vita. Includes bibliographic references (p.98-101).

The editor's Thesis--Göttingen. / Schlegel's translation of A midsummer night's dream.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Syracuse University, 2008. / "Publication number: AAT 3347262."