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The Campus as Carnival: The Students for a Democratic Society's Heteroglossic Challenge of Unitary Language Authority at Three Ohio Universities, 1967-1970

Goodnough, Michael Daniel
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1366740534

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2013, MA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of History.
The Students for a Democratic Society was the largest New Left organization in the United States during the 1960s. The organization gained momentum through the Civil Rights Movement and the anti-war movement and eclipsed other student organizations of the time. As the organization’s numbers swelled to roughly 15,000 officially registered members by the mid-1960s, SDS became known for its increasing radicalism. By 1970, SDS had split into various factions, the most famous being the Weathermen, who promoted the violent overthrow of the American government. Utilizing the semiotic theories of the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin, this thesis compares and contrasts three SDS chapters active in Northeast Ohio during the late 1960s and early 1970s to explore how SDS used heteroglossic language and carnivalesque techniques to create an identity that challenged—both symbolically and physically—the unitary language of the established university administrations. Although different in location, prestige, and student enrollment, the campuses of Kent State University, Case Western Reserve University, and John Carroll University experienced SDS’s carnivalesque and heteroglossic tactics at varying levels of intensity. By using the theories of Bakhtin, this thesis provides a new angle to SDS studies and protest movements.
Kenneth Bindas, PhD (Advisor)
Wunderlin Clarence , PhD (Committee Member)
John Jameson, PhD (Committee Member)
145 p.
History; Language; Linguistics; Modern History; Religion
The Students for a Democratic Society; SDS; Mikhail Bakhtin; Carnival; Carnivalesque; Kent State University; Case Western Reserve University; John Carroll University

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  • Goodnough, M. D. (2013). The Campus as Carnival: The Students for a Democratic Society's Heteroglossic Challenge of Unitary Language Authority at Three Ohio Universities, 1967-1970 [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1366740534

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Goodnough, Michael. The Campus as Carnival: The Students for a Democratic Society's Heteroglossic Challenge of Unitary Language Authority at Three Ohio Universities, 1967-1970. 2013. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1366740534.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Goodnough, Michael. "The Campus as Carnival: The Students for a Democratic Society's Heteroglossic Challenge of Unitary Language Authority at Three Ohio Universities, 1967-1970." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1366740534

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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