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  • After we lost the wind 
    Watterson, Jaclyn (2010-06-30)
    My thesis is a collection of short stories in which I explore themes like loss, identity, and memory. The collection includes both short stories and short short stories, and through in-depth exploration of character and ...
  • Asynthesis & act: the evental sublime in Badiou, Byron, and Barker 
    Drury, Adam Marshall (2009-09-08)
    Asynthesis & Act is a significant intervention into the discourse of the sublime. Through a deep investigation of the critical metaphysics of Immanuel Kant, the first chapter of this thesis puts forth the claim that t ...
  • Beneath this roof : stories 
    Carpenter, Claire (2008-05-02)
    These stories follow the lives of women in a variety of roles—housewife, deli employee, artist, bird keeper, and sitter for the elderly—and at different stages of life. In “Beneath this Roof,” a young housewife’s life ...
  • "Born of ourselves" : gendered doubling and the femme fatale in Vernon Lee's ghost stories 
    Delf, Liz (2011-06-21)
    This thesis examines the characterization of the femme fatale and the implications of this trope for late-Victorian gender and sexuality in the ghost stories of female aesthete Vernon Lee. In her treatment of the femme f ...
  • Cartoon All Stars to the Rescue : from public service announcement to program-length commercial 
    Seiber, Rich (1999-10-13)
    Animation has long been a staple of children's television programming As public service announcements (PSA5) have become an important part of children's television programming, cartoon characters have started to appear ...
  • Caught in the act : casting myself as a performing writer in rhetoric and writing studies 
    Dieter, Thomas Edward (2011-08-11)
    The following thesis explores the potential for autoethnography to serve as an enabling method for developing a grounded understanding of literacy, performance, gender and sexuality. As autoethnographic writing insists t ...
  • Changing stories and moving bones : correlation of Chinatown and mother-daughter relationships in Kingston's The Woman Warrior and Ng's Bone 
    Fujii, So (2012-06-04)
    This thesis argues for significant correlations in the politics of representation of Chinatown and mother-daughter relationships in two literary texts by Maxine Hong Kingston and Fae Myenne Ng. The two novels do not foll ...
  • Confessing our sims : the construction of gender and sexuality among women ages 18-22 on MySpace. 
    Papaleo, November R. (2008-08-06)
    MySpace is a social network phenomenon with over 100 million profiles and a strong presence in over 24 countries. As digital media become more commonplace, social networks are becoming sites where women create and man ...
  • The Death of (a story about(me)) 
    Hauck, Jayme E (2007-06-14)
    The first chapter of the graphic novel The Death of, which illustrates the opposition of a young girl to her stagnant environment through thoughts of creativity and death. Rendered in graphite pencil.
  • Discovering white privilege : a series of difficult stories 
    Blumhardt, Tammy (2006-07-19)
    This project combines service learning with narrative writing (fiction and non-fiction) as an effective tool for the discovery and communication of social understanding; more specifically, the project discusses white pri ...
  • "A dissonant element" : the difficulty of Anais Nin 
    Burghauser, Sarah B. (2007-06-29)
    This thesis is arranged in three main chapters, each of which focuses on a particular type of Anaїs Nin text, and each of which is intended to enlarge Nin's complexities through distinct but overlapping perspectives. Th ...
  • Ecuador's informal sector : an analysis of gender and empowerment programs 
    Ota, Brandy (2006-08-01)
    Over the last 25 years structural adjustment programs have challenged Ecuador's ability to provide adequate social services and employment opportunities. In the wake of these policies, many women have turned to non-gov ...
  • 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 ...
  • The effect of videotaped poetry readings on students' responses to poetry 
    Bernhisel, Donna (2008-05-15)
    This research study focused on the ways that reading poetry in print differs from viewing poetry in performance and the effect this had on comprehension and appreciation. Videotaped poetry readings provided students with ...
  • The folklore of daughters 
    Bremicker, Heather (2011-06-20)
    This collection of poems and essays is about the folklore of family and the shadowy imprint family myth can leave on its members. At the center of the argument is a struggle about coming to terms with these shadows from ...
  • Fostering authority in readers and writers 
    Love, Jennifer Mary (1993-07-08)
    As a reader and as a teacher of introductory reading and writing courses, I am persuaded by the concept of a genuine authority in which all readers both value and seek to examine their early readings of texts. What I h ...
  • Freeway : poems 
    Dickey, Eric Wayne (2009-04-14)
    This collection of poems focuses on a range of content. They pose many questions that consider issues surrounding driving, cars and independence, as well as masculinity, fatherhood, domesticity and parental identity. The ...
  • Gender, genre, and the canon : teaching Aemilia Lanyer 
    Jurgens, Jeremy (2010-09-02)
    Traditionally, Renaissance studies have neglected or overlooked the contributions of early modern female poets, many of whom produced lively, engaging, and highly creative work despite the limitations imposed on them by ...
  • George Bernard Shaw's "Big Three" : an althusserian reading of Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara 
    Kramer, Johanna I. (1998-06-11)
    Traditional readings of George Bernard Shaw's texts suggest that he is not a pure Marxist socialist because of the spiritual and nationalist aspects of his vision. This thesis attempts to confront Shaw's politics in or ...
  • Half-life : essays 
    Fath, Lauren (2008-04-21)
    Lauren Fath, in her non-fiction collection Half-Life: Essays, examines the underpinnings of her upbringing in suburban Fort Wayne, Indiana, focusing primarily on familial relationships and the importance of hindsight in ...

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