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  • An autumn journey : time, place, and pattern in Henry David Thoreau's later work

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    Dotterman, Anthony Matthew
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    This thesis situates a discussion of Thoreau's later natural history essays in the context of the author's other writings. Beginning with an examination of the writings of Thoreau's friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, this paper examines Thoreau's relation to and departure from Emerson's understanding of time, place, and pattern...
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    Pattern in Henry David Thoreau's Later Work by Anthony Matthew Dotterman A THESIS submitted to Oregon

  • Fitzgerald’s idealism and the question of wealth

    Creator:
    Wood, Amy
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    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...
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    importance of wealth as a factor in supporting happiness and fostering the American Dream on an individual

  • From the encoded to the explicit in the 20th Century Irish romance : a study of Elizabeth Bowen's The last September and Edna O'Brien's The country girl's trilogy

    Creator:
    Breeden, Shobana L.
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    This thesis uses both feminist and new historic theories to argue that the women's romance novels The Last September (1929) by Elizabeth Bowen and The Country Girl's Trilogy (1960, 1962, 1964) by Edna O'Brien are tragic bildungsroman that subvert and challenge the Irish patriarchal marriage expectations of their respective time...
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    June 4, 2008. Title: From the Encoded to the Explicit in the 20th Century Irish Romance: A Study

  • Religion in the writing classroom : toward a pedagogy of possibility

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    May, Laura D.
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    In this thesis, I examine composition scholarship on the intersections of religious faith and writing pedagogy over the past twenty years, tracing the origins of compositionists' discomfort with religion and focusing on pedagogical approaches for working with religiously-committed students. In particular, I emphasize the way in which these approaches are...
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    Writing Classroom: Toward a Pedagogy of Possibility. Abstract approved

  • Learning by imitation : the scholarly works of David Bartholomae

    Creator:
    Gallup, Sarah E.
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    This thesis examines the scholarship in pedagogical theory and practice of David Bartholomae over the past thirty-five years, in particular examining the role that the rhetorical construct of imitation has played in its development. Through my research, I trace the evolution of Bartholomae’s pedagogical stances and practices, as these both...
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    . Learning by Imitation: The Scholarly Works of David Bartholomae by Sarah E. Gallup A THESIS

  • Of mice and bunnies : Walt Disney, Hugh Hefner, and the age of consensus

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    Allen-Spencer, Patricia C.
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    Post World War II victory culture and its fallout-the consensus ideology-led to the creation of a middle class willing to conform to a prescribed set of ideals, safely removed from all danger, and enjoying the material benefits of a growing middle-class income bracket. Walt Disney and Hugh Hefner, two seemingly...
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    and its falloutthe consensus ideologyled to the creation of a middle class willing to conform to a

  • Unfinished work : reading Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth

    Creator:
    Ridinger, Angela F.
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    Ralph Ellison died without ever completing his second novel. After his death, the executor of his literary estate, John F. Callahan, edited Ellison's work into a novel published under the title Juneteenth. This thesis examines the problems posed by Ellison's posthumously released text, especially the issues of authorial intent and...
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    his literary estate, John F. Callahan, edited Ellison's work into a novel published under the title

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

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    Hanson, Michael (Michael Edward)
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    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...
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    Snyder bridges a divide between two environmental movements which are often thought to be in tension

  • Constructing heroic identities : masculinity and the western film

    Creator:
    Foster, Brad D.
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    This thesis employs the study of gender to demonstrate how recent Hollywood western films have constructed a hero that is reflective of contemporary beliefs regarding masculinity. Beginning with a New Historicist approach at studying gender, this work first considers the construction of masculinity in post World War II America and...
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    , 2007. Title: Constructing a Heroic Identity: Masculinity and the Western Film Abstract

  • The culture of academia : authorizing students to read and write

    Creator:
    Mitchell, Danielle M.
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    Presenting and synthesizing several paradigms for the teaching of literature in American colleges, I investigate how definitions of reading, readers, texts, interpretations, and knowledge affect student acts of reading and writing. In addition, I draw upon specific examples of text-based, reader-based, and social-cultural based models for the teaching of reading...
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    example, have been used by theorists who advocated a text-based approach to literary analysis. Even