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

    Creator:
    May, Laura D.
    Abstract:
    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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    . May for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on March 4, 2010. Title: Religion in the

  • "'I wouldn't have believed it -- even of a white man'" : critiquing whiteness in Charles Chesnutt's "The house behind the cedars" and Nella Larsen's "Passing"

    Creator:
    Franks, Tricia May
    Abstract:
    In their respective novels, The House Behind the Cedars (1900) and Passing (1929), both Charles Chesnutt and Nella Larsen utilize racial passing, the process of a mixed-race individual living as "white," to explore the relations between black and white people during early-twentieth century America. This thesis specifically argues that Chesnutt...
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    ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Tricia May Franks for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on

  • Empire and other stories

    Creator:
    Gelper, Cynthia H.
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    This is a collection of eight short stories, all of which deal on some level with alienation and the struggle to find meaning in one's life. Although most of the stories deal with issues related to women or feature female protagonists, I did not set out to create a political...
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    Cyuglia H. Gelper for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on May 6, 1996 Title

  • Charting their own course as writers : a study of writing-intensive students’ self-assessment and goal-setting at start of term

    Creator:
    Robinson, Tracy Ann
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    Curricular models and teaching techniques that support college students as the primary authors of their writing-across-the-curriculum experiences remain largely unexplored. This thesis addresses that research gap by investigating the use of a start-of-term writing self-assessment and goal-setting questionnaire (STQ) for upper-division undergraduates taking writing-intensive (WI) college courses in their majors....
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    suggest that its benefits may have been reinforced by students’ end-of-course review of their STQ

  • Hamlet's delay : an attempt at synthesis

    Creator:
    Cohen, Martin, 1943-
    Abstract:
    The study of the question of why Shakespeare's Hamlet delays killing Claudius in revenge for his father's murder is examined in light of the major critical theories from neo-classical to modern scholarship. An expanded treatment of the works of Fredson Bowers, Eleanor Prosser, Bertram Joseph, and Roland Frye, is provided...
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    to apply the wisdom gleaned from such an examination so as to create a synthesis that may best

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

    Creator:
    Payne, Eva M.
    Abstract:
    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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    English presented on May 16, 1997. Title: Writing (Righting) the Silences: "Points of Perspective" for

  • A circle of response : addressing the tensions of teacher responseto student writing

    Creator:
    Carothers, April D.
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    What students need most from instructors’ written response on their texts is commentary that evokes a sense of exchange. Teachers often believe that their job is to point out the deficits in a student’s paper and help eliminate those deficits. While this is a part of the function of response,...
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    the confusion and frustration inexperienced instructors may feel when they respond to student

  • 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.
    Abstract:
    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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    creating for themselves a fulfilling life in whatever sphere they may have chosen. Breeden 2

  • Angel of Tough Love and other stories

    Creator:
    Wells, Jerome B.
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    The overarching theme of these stories is the relationship between love and hate, especially the connection between kindness and violence. In this fictional world, love often begets hate, and hate, love: a man's capacity for empathy serves as the catalyst for an act of brutality; a character's loneliness, his desire...
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    THESIS OF Jerome B. Wells for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on May 10, 2000. Title

  • Double exposure

    Creator:
    Raleigh, Elisabeth A.
    Abstract:
    DOUBLE EXPOSURE is a novel concerned with the phenomenon of memory. The story explores such questions as: To what extent does "memory" (and the narratives we construct from it) explain who we are? How is memory influenced by others-and does it matter if it is? Can a memory that is...
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    versions may be as "right" or "real" as the one that is the basis for her suit. What she "knows" thereby