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  • William Ernest Castle, American geneticist : a case-study in the impact of the Mendelian research program

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    Taylor, H. Terry
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    In their modern context questions of heredity have come to be closely aligned with theories of evolution because all such theories require the presence of heritable variation. Thus the need for an understanding of a source of variation and a mechanism for its inheritance became very apparent with the general...
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    William Ernest Castle, American geneticist : a case

  • Hamlet's delay : an attempt at synthesis

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    Cohen, Martin, 1943-
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    The study of the question of why Shakespeare's Hamlet delays killing Claudius in revenge for his father's murder is examined in light of the major critical theories from neo-classical to modern scholarship. An expanded treatment of the works of Fredson Bowers, Eleanor Prosser, Bertram Joseph, and Roland Frye, is provided...
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  • "Present fears" and "Horrible Imaginings" : Gothic elements in Shakespearean Tragedy

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    Appel, Ian S.
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    Gothic literary works are characterized as such by their ability to represent and evoke terror. The form this representation takes is varied; often terror originates in the atmospheric effects of settings, in the appearance of mysterious, supposedly supernatural phenomena, and, perhaps most significantly, in the behavior of villainous characters. Shakespearean...
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    William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! M.H. Abrams allows for this diversity of applications in his

  • On his own terms : William James, identity, and the development of American Psychology

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    Stoller, Kevin R.
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    William James came of age at a time of great social and intellectual change in the United States. During this period, new professional identities proliferated, and a new culture of professionalization developed with important ramifications for conceptions of individual and social identity. Professionalization was also closely related to key intellectual...
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    Master of Arts in History of Science presented on July 24, 2002. Title: On His Own Terms: William James

  • A feminist love story : the cinematic possibilities of Shakespeare's Juliet

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    Faherty, Dionna E.
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    Literary and feminist theory have recently begun to recognize William Shakespeare's character of Juliet as a possible feminist heroine, but communicating this interpretation on film will be complicated. Not only will the film need to deal with the issues of adaptation that come with moving any play onto film, but...
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    begun to recognize William Shakespeare's character of Juliet as a possible feminist heroine, but

  • The social dimension of Shakespeare's art : a Midsummer Night's Dream

    Creator:
    Schaefer, Mimi
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    The study of the social dimensions of Shakespeare's art is represented by the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, C.L. Barber, Robert Weimann, Edward Berry, and Michael Bristol. Their work analyzes the background in Elizabethan social practices and popular dramatic traditions that contribute to the form, structure, and meaning of Shakespeare's comedies....
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  • Classified bodies : disability, identity, and the technological classroom

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    Iwertz, Chad E.
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    This thesis pursues a flexible understanding and definition of dis/ability as a broadly and liberally applied mark of stigma. It asks questions that develop a deeper understanding of how disability influences mētis, a knowledge or cunning use of the body. Through this framework of mētis, this thesis explores technologies as...
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    with embodied disability. In 1990, George H. W. Bush signed into law the Americans with

  • Willed Women : Female Bodies & Subversive Being in the Knight’s and Second Nun’s Tales

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    McLemore, Emily C.
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    This project examines two understudied female characters from Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales who emerge as subversive figures by striving to maintain control over their bodies and being. Through my analyses of the Knight’s and Second Nun’s Tales, I reveal how virginity correlates with bodily autonomy for the narratives’ respective protagonists,...
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    Agnes’s story, which appears in the first volume of The Golden Legend, tell us that “[h]er face was very

  • The accessible Chaucer

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    Luepke, Natasha M.
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    In this thesis I explore the ways in which twenty-first century Americans have access to Geoffrey Chaucer and his works. I look at issues surrounding Chaucer within the canon debate, high school history and literature textbooks, and Chaucer in popular culture, such as in movies like A Knight's Tale. I...
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    William Shakespeare. I seek to avoid that rhetoric in my own work, in that I view reading of any kind

  • The Clerk’s Tale : literal monstrosities and allegorical problems

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    Brock, Christopher J.
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    My thesis, entitled “The Clerk’s Tale: Literal Monstrosities and Allegorical Problems,” argues that Chaucer’s Clerk is engaging both sides of a binary system. The Clerk has situated himself in a precarious position between two major schools of thought in the medieval culture, Franciscan and Dominican; the former promotes the will...
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    tales. S. H. Rigby describes the theory of a dialogic Canterbury Tales as, “A collection of