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Producing possibility : glimmering alternatives in Willa Cather and Virginia Woolf

Creator:: Nipper, Sarah
Abstract:: This thesis examines alternative modes and forms of production in texts by Willa Cather and Virginia Woolf. Applying queer methodologies drawn from the work of Michel Foucault, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Lee Edelman, and Elizabeth Freeman, I show how Cather’s The Professor’s House and Woolf’s To the Lighthouse demonstrate and interrogate...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , 2017. Title: Producing Possibility: Glimmering Alternatives in Willa Cather and Virginia Woolf

A study of the reactions of students at Oregon State College to their curricula and instruction

Creator:: Davolt, Claudine Virginia
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: TO THEIR CURRICULA AND INSTRUCTION by VIRGINIA DAVOLT A THESIS submitted to the OREGON

Revisioning grandeur : an exploration of intertextuality in Alice Munro and Virginia Woolf

Creator:: King, Michelle L.
Abstract:: In this thesis I argue that Alice Munro’s work takes part in an ongoing feminist discourse that examines alterations in male and female gender relations, as they have been represented in domestic fiction by women writers since the late nineteenth century. I analyze two short stories written by Munro: “Meneseteung,”...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : Revisioning Grandeur: An Exploration of Intertextuality in Alice Munro and Virginia Woolf Abstract

Vibrant colors, transient shadows : woman artists and the brushstrokes of impressionist sensibility in Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse

Creator:: Kondrack, Kayleen Rose
Abstract:: This thesis explores the artistic imperatives and internal struggles of women painters in two novels, Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899) and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (1927). I identify Chopin's Edna Pontellier and Woolf’s Lily Briscoe as painters who exhibit Impressionist strains, both in how they paint and how they...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Chopin’s The Awakening and Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. Abstract approved

Environmental Virtue Ethics in Buddhism

Creator:: Peng, Chih-Wei
Abstract:: In this thesis, in order to understand why Buddhists in Southeast Asia protect rainforests and to establish a solid foundation for Buddhist environmental ethic, my first two tasks are to draw a clear picture regarding two major environmental concepts--nature and anthropocentrism--in Buddhism and to defend the claims that the Buddhist...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Chih-Wei Peng for the degree of Master of Arts in Applied Ethics presented

Stability of flows of thermo-viscoelastic fluids between rotating coaxial circular cylinders

Creator:: Ghandour, Nabil Nassib
Abstract:: We investigate in this thesis, the problem of stability of thermo-viscoelastic fluid flow between rotating coaxial cylinders. By using the thermo-viscoelastic constitutive equations given by Eringen, we reduce the equations of motion into a form suitable for stability analysis. The course of reduction which we follow yields some interesting intermediate...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: m and a m are the contravariant components of the stress tensor T, the body force 4 and the

"No one cared we was just Indian women" : plants as a catalyst to Eastern Shawnee women's identity change

Creator:: Osborne-Gowey, Cathleen
Abstract:: Being an Eastern Shawnee Tribal member I understand the importance of documenting oral histories of Tribal elders to ensure that our cultural history is passed on to future generations. Therefore, the focus of this project is the collection, of oral histories and folklore in order to document traditional knowledge and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : Signature redacted for privacy. Deanna M. Kingston Being an Eastern Shawnee Tribal member I understand the

An Evental Romanticism

Creator:: Webster, Austin
Abstract:: The Romantic period sits in a liminal historical space when radically different ideas about the categories of past, future, progress, and change coexisted in popular consciousness. The French Revolution inaugurated the concept of an Event, something that appears to come out of nowhere, and that not even the most well-informed...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Evan M. Gottlieb The

The wild flesh of Gary Snyder's "natural language"

Creator:: Hanson, Michael (Michael Edward)
Abstract:: This paper explores the language theories of Gary Snyder, an important modern environmental author whose early work was associated with the Beat movement of the early 1950's. I am particularly interested in Snyder's thoughts on how language relates to nature. I focus primarily on Snyder's prose in attempts to understand...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Language" Abstract approved: David M. Robinson This paper explores the language theories of Gary Snyder

Fitzgerald’s idealism and the question of wealth

Creator:: Wood, Amy
Abstract:: In This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and several of his short stories, F. Scott Fitzgerald questions the importance of wealth as a factor in supporting happiness and fostering the American Dream on an individual basis. With these texts, Fitzgerald acknowledges that wealth is a factor and, simultaneously, a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: approved: ______________________________________________ David M. Robinson In This Side of

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Producing possibility : glimmering alternatives in Willa Cather and Virginia Woolf

A study of the reactions of students at Oregon State College to their curricula and instruction

Revisioning grandeur : an exploration of intertextuality in Alice Munro and Virginia Woolf

Vibrant colors, transient shadows : woman artists and the brushstrokes of impressionist sensibility in Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse

Environmental Virtue Ethics in Buddhism

Stability of flows of thermo-viscoelastic fluids between rotating coaxial circular cylinders

"No one cared we was just Indian women" : plants as a catalyst to Eastern Shawnee women's identity change

An Evental Romanticism

The wild flesh of Gary Snyder's "natural language"

Fitzgerald’s idealism and the question of wealth

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