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  • Analysis of semi-volatile trace metals in basaltic glass by LA-ICP-MS 
    Loewen, Matthew W. (2011-06-20)
    Semi-volatile trace metals (e.g., Cd, Sn, Pb, Zn, Cu, Mo) have been analyzed by using laser ablation ICP-MS in a number of silicate glasses (GSE-1G, GSD-1G, NIST 610, NIST 612, BCR-2G, BHVO-2G). Our work investigates and ...
  • Caution – ideological mechanisms at work : interpellation and the melancholic turn in Jack Kerouac's On the Road and Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden 
    Travers, Jessica D. (2012-12-03)
    In this thesis I examine the ideological mechanisms that work to constitute, construct, and maintain subject identity. Such mechanisms include repetition, performativity, identification, and interpellation. I incorporate ...
  • David Foster Wallace's communal middle ground 
    Randlemon, Daniel E. (2012-05-25)
    Throughout the course of this thesis, I argue that the prose of David Foster Wallace, specifically his posthumously published novel The Pale King, inhabits a middle ground between universal sincerity and the particulariz ...
  • Edith Wharton’s dark ecology : representations of nature in three major novels 
    Bacon, Julie M. (2009-08-19)
    This thesis is arranged in three chapters which explore Wharton’s representations of nature in three novels: The House of Mirth (1905), The Fruit of the Tree (1907), and The Custom of the County (1913). This thesis conte ...
  • Elementary Music 
    Treat, Tanya (2000-04-18)
    The four stories and one essay within are linked by themes: love, sex, truth, and music. Three of the stories are told by first person narrators who are also musicians. In "Elementary Music," a young girl views her par ...
  • Enhancing social-ecological resilience in the Colorado River Basin 
    Eidem, Nathan T., 1978- (2012-03-08)
    This research presents the Colorado River basin as a social-ecological system. Utilizing event data on cooperative and conflictive interactions over fresh water, the system is decomposed to look for evidence of outcomes ...
  • Everybody doing pretty here 
    Elbom, Emily Rebecca (2011-06-14)
    In Everybody Doing Pretty Here, a collection of eight interconnected short stories, Emily R. Elbom chronicles the lives of a married couple, Max and Willa. Both characters survive various forms of physical, emotional, an ...
  • Fighting tradition : Hemingway’s Nick Adams and shell shock 
    McGrath, Cole P. (2007-06-20)
    In his Nick Adams stories, Ernest Hemingway traces the life of a single man as he moves from boyhood to adolescence to adulthood to fatherhood. From the beginning of Nick Adam’s life, it is clear that he does not fit i ...
  • Fitzgerald’s idealism and the question of wealth 
    Wood, Amy (2007-11-20)
    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 ...
  • A fool's marathon 
    DeTal, Trev (2011-06-14)
    "A Fool's Marathon" is a fabulist novel exploring themes of Platonic love, imagination and its relationship to reality, and psychological coming of age through the exploits of a young Oscar Duplenty. The work-in-progress ...
  • A form with a message : didacticism, adolescence, and femininity in young adult novels 
    Davenport, Mattie R. (2010-06-24)
    In this thesis, I discuss the uses of two different forms of young adult novels for relaying messages about adolescence and femininity to adolescents from adult authors. I explore the traditional and organized quest nar ...
  • Killing the Father and the Father Lives On: The Literary Influence of Richard Wright on James Baldwin 
    Stoneberg, Michael R (2010-08-17)
    This thesis discusses the African American authors Richard Wright and James Baldwin, and their views regarding how literature should be written. These views are examined as laid out in a selection of each author‟s essays ...
  • Land cover change along the Willamette River, Oregon 
    Oetter, Doug Rudolph, 1962- (2002-08-16)
    The Willamette River and its floodplain in northwest Oregon have changed dramatically since European settlement. At one time, the river was a vast complex system of braided channels with a broad floodplain forest; it has ...
  • Music for strings 
    deTal, Vicki (2009-04-27)
    In this collection of linked stories, four characters navigate space between selves they’ve been and those to come. Alice must invent an autonomous identity after her husband dies in a bike crash. As she casts about to p ...
  • On top 
    Richter, Amanda M. (2007-05-14)
    This collection of stories spans a range of content: the personal, the domestic, the political, and the downright terrifying. In “Ilka the Flyer,” a young man is faced with his own crisis and that of his veteran uncle. S ...
  • The postwar novel as postmodern : revisiting Catch-22 & Slaughterhouse-five 
    Spreitzer, Peter (Peter William) (2009-06-04)
    This thesis is an exploration of Catch-22 (1961) and Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), two early documents of American postmodern literature. In particular, this thesis attempts to present the critical discussions surrounding ...
  • A quest to redefine feminine heroism : heroines of the Brothers Grimm and Angela Carter 
    Butler, Kelly E. (2008-09-09)
    Literary fairy tales facilitate a specific inquiry into heroine quests. Due to the flexibility of the fairy tale genre, a variety of heroine tales have been produced. The specific stages of a heroine quest must be descri ...
  • Radical/domestic : representations of the professor in Willa Cather's The Professor's House and Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin 
    Butcher, Ian (Ian Alexander) (2010-07-06)
    This thesis is an exploration of literary representation of professors, specificially in Willa Cather's The Professor's House and Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin. I explicate the political unconscious of these texts by teasing o ...
  • The skipping stone 
    Peacock, Jonathan Austin (2010-06-17)
    The Skipping Stone is a collection of poetry investigating a wide range of themes: self-displacement, southern heritage, identity of the Self, loss, and grief. At times, the poems confess a kind of anxiety associated wit ...
  • Space and movement : dance, art, and the poetry of William Carlos Williams 
    Hoch, Jamie (2004-06-01)
    The Modern era, roughly the time between 1860-1930, brought about a significant restructuring of artistic mediums. From the canvas to the page, artists of the twentieth century turned towards collaboration as a means b ...

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