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  • Rethinking the dualism : Don DeLillo's White Noise and the ecocritical possibilities of the nature/culture mix

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    Bowman, Natalie A.
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    Rethinking the Dualism: Don DeLillo's White Noise and the Ecocritical Possibilities of the Nature/Culture Mix questions current applications of ecocriticism and offers that these applications are inadequate in dealing with the perceived nature/culture dualism. This thesis suggests that ecocritics need to stop thinking in dualistic terms, but instead must consider...
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    desires" in the citizens of the seemingly cut-off town (85). However, according to Murray, it is still "a

  • Asynthesis & act: the evental sublime in Badiou, Byron, and Barker

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    Drury, Adam Marshall
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    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 the sublime is a radical experience that occasions a possibility for the individual to commit...
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    Abstract approved: Evan Gottlieb Asynthesis & Act is a significant intervention into the discourse of the

  • Mike Rose : composing a reading of inclusion

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    Jameson, Sara
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    Mike Rose researcher, professor, scholar, and author of numerous articles and books including the literacy memoir - Lives on the Boundary - has been active in the field of education and composition for over 30 years. This thesis looks back at the development of the discipline of composition studies to...
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    Master of Arts in English presented on April 28, 2004. Title: Mike Rose: Composing a Reading of

  • Invitations to the writing life : a study of popular writing books

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    Finley, Devon
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    The field of composition studies has concerned itself with the way in which people learn to write and the role schooling plays in writing development. Recently a trend has developed within the field towards exploring writing development outside of the classroom, termed the extracurriculum. Much of the scholarship thus far...
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    Invitations to the writing life : a study of popular writing

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

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    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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    of Master of Arts in English presented on July 30, 2008. Title: A Circle of Response: Addressing

  • Byron, Don Juan, and catharsis

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    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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    the same time the protagonist, Juan, relates to readers on a more conscious level. The ability that

  • Speaking for the dead : funeral rhetoric and women's lament in ancient Athens

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    Robertson, Wayne
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    Recently, feminist scholars have begun to question the traditional telling of the history of rhetoric. Dissatisfied with a history which is told in terms of privileged, white males to the exclusion of all other voices, these scholars have worked to recover "lost" female rhetoricians and have begun critically rereading the...
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    question the traditional telling of the history of rhetoric. Dissatisfied with a history which is told in

  • Traversing the city of blogs : pedagogy, performance, and public spheres

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    Faris, Michael J.
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    In this thesis, I conduct an analysis of blogs in order to understand their potential use in the composition classroom with the goals of students writing for a public audience and developing their rhetorical and civic agency. I do so by exploring the potential for the blogosphere as a public...
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    understand their potential use in the composition classroom with the goals of students writing for a public

  • Artificial intelligence and cyberpunk

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    Scott, Ron
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    This thesis examines the ways in which cyberpunk science fiction novels and short stories reflect our cultural relation with technology, a series of relationships predicated on the way that corporate control of knowledge industries increased during the 1980s. The document begins by locating the means of corporate control in the...
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    cyberpunk science fiction novels and short stories reflect our cultural relation with technology, a series

  • Constructing heroic identities : masculinity and the western film

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    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