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Patoka : four stories of Southern Indiana

Creator:

Drew, Christopher M. (Christopher Max)

Abstract:

These stories are an attempt to give a distinct literary voice to the people and places of rural Southern Indiana. They also strive to deal with certain elements indigenous to that region, some of which can be described generally as the tension between modernization and tradition, family and marriage as...

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Masters Thesis

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Christopher M. Drew for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing presented on April 18, 2007
Constructing heroic identities : masculinity and the western film

Creator:

Foster, Brad D.

Abstract:

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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Masters Thesis
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

Abstract:

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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Masters Thesis