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  • Herman Melville's Moby-Dick : hermeneutics and epistemology in Ishmael's seafaring

    Creator:
    Goodrum, Emily A.
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    This paper defends a reading of Hennan Melville's Moby-Dick that elevates Ishmael's status from mere narrator of Ahab's tragedy to that of protagonist of his own story, a novel of epistemological seafaring. As a metaphysical quester, Ishmael provides the novel's only reliable and complex vision of the condition of man...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Emily A. Goodrum for the degree of

  • Water, fire, and stone : images and meaning in Melville

    Creator:
    Martin, Brian D.
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    This thesis is a study of Herman Melville’s symbolism. I have chosen to investigate the elemental images of water, fire, and stone in Moby-Dick (1851), Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities (1852), and Clarel; A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876). This work is a semiotic study, insofar as the...
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    approved: ____________________________________________________________________ David M. Robinson

  • Writing (righting) the silences : "points of perspective" for texts and students

    Creator:
    Payne, Eva M.
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    The classroom practices discussed in this thesis come slowly and at a "slant" to feminism through critical reading of texts, a practice that I call a (re)presentation of the silent women in texts. Given our patriarchal western culture, making meaning, and especially making sense, of the role and representations of...
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    texts and students AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Eva M. Payne for the degree of Master of Arts in

  • Beckett, Barthelme, and Vonnegut : finding hope in meaninglessness

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    Britten, Alex M.
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    This thesis is a study of the shifting philosophical trends in the works of Samuel Beckett, Donald Barthelme, and Kurt Vonnegut as representations of a greater shift from modernism to postmodernism. I have chosen to explore Beckett's plays Waiting for Godot and Krapp's Last Tape, Barthelme's short stories "Nothing: A...
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    ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Alex M. Britten for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on

  • Breeding the new woman : the eugenic discourse of motherhood in Shaw, Yeats, and Lawless

    Creator:
    Tracy, Hannah R.
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    The popularity and pervasiveness of eugenic discourse during the modernist period in England and Ireland raised many questions about race, class, and gender. While Hitler's Nazi "experiment" ultimately demonstrated the consequences of implementing eugenic ideas, forcing eugenicists to abandon, or at least mask, their theories, the eugenics movement before World...
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    examines the works of G.B. Shaw, W.B. Yeats, and Emily Lawless, who all participated in the discourse of

  • From weakness to wisdom : Jane Austen transforms the female of sensibility tradition

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    Mosher-Knoshaug, Jessica M.
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    The eighteenth-century female of sensibility was characterized by delicate nerves that allowed her to feel her surroundings and enabled her to choose virtue over vice more consistently than males. While females were considered virtuous, their "innate" delicacy or weakness became their dominant trait and the true focus of male admiration....
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    sensibility tradition AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jessica M. Mosher-Knoshaug for the degree of Master of

  • Writing against convention : Kate Chopin's short fiction in Vogue, 1893-1900

    Creator:
    VanKooten, Crystal
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    Kate Chopin, author of the proto-feminist novel The Awakening, was also a prolific writer of short stories. Nineteen of her stories were originally published in Vogue magazine between 1893 and 1900. This study looks at six of these stories, "The Father of Desiree's Baby," "A Respectable Woman," "The Dream of...
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    accepting forum for her bold themes of female autonomy and sexual desire" in Vogue (84). Emily Toth notes

  • Vicarious power : masculinity, access and the hard-boiled detective

    Creator:
    Winsor, Shiloh
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    Dashiell Hammett's fiction and detective pulps generally, offered the reader a chance to participate in vicarious power, by giving them a sense of the profession of detection, both in and out of the stories. It was the realism of the detective figure that allowed the audience to relate to him....
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    stay there forever, but it was a good idea to begin by getting it as far as possible from Emily Post's

  • Byron, Don Juan, and catharsis

    Creator:
    Greene, Wanda S.
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    This thesis seeks to explain how Lord George Gordon Byron achieves catharsis through the writing of his truth in Don Juan. In the poem the narrator expresses Byron's innermost emotion while at the same time the protagonist, Juan, relates to readers on a more conscious level. The ability that Byron...
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  • "Style upon style": The Handmaid's Tale as a palimpsest of genres

    Creator:
    Boulware, Taylor J.
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    This thesis undertakes an examination of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, as a layering of genres. A futuristic dystopia that imagines late twentieth-century America as having fallen into neo-Puritanism and totalitarianism following widespread infertility and violence, The Handmaid’s Tale invites contemplation of various forms of fundamentalism, radicalism, and...
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    : Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale as Critique of Second Wave Feminism”; Lucy M. Freibert’s “Control