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  • The athlete and two stories

    Creator:
    McDonnell, Peter A.
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    The purpose of this document is to display a portion of the work I have completed over the last two years. The Athlete is the recently written opening to a novel of the same name. I've decided not to excerpt a longer section of the novel because the novel isn't...
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    therefore temporary. Then I graduated and saw Mary at a crowded party and we escaped to the rooftop and

  • Literacy narratives across the curriculum

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    Coffey, Marjorie D.
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    This thesis proposes expanding the locations where literacy narratives are currently used as readings and as writing assignments and considering broad conceptions of the types and uses of literacy narratives read in classrooms. In particular, this thesis asserts the value of expanding the literacy narratives read beyond the current canonical...
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    for Memory by Richard Rodriguez, and Lives on the Boundary by Mike Rose. Using these three canonical

  • 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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    contemporaries, detested the idea that females could only be virtuous if they were delicate as much as did Mary

  • 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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    for the rest of the semester. (14) And Mary Louise Buley-Meissner et al, editors of The Academy

  • Writing Rhodesia : young girls as narrators in works by Doris Lessing and Tsitsi Dangarembga

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    Thomas, Jane McCauley
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    Doris Lessing and Tsitsi Dangarembga write fiction set in Zimbabwe, the former Southern Rhodesia. Although Lessing grew up as a white settler and Dangarembga, a generation later, as part of the colonized African population, the women sometimes address similar issues. Both write of young girls trying to find a speaking...
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    about Africa, shows the emotional deterioration of Mary Turner as she and her ineffectual husband Dick

  • Her hair is an open hand

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    Olson, Rebecca (Rebecca Jean)
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    Her Hair is an Open Hand is a collection of free verse poems exploring unity and division through the lens of myth and place. The collection is organized into three sections. The first reflects on division: alienation between the speaker and physical landscapes, isolation within romantic relationships, and the violation...
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    ……………………………………………………………………………………33 Mary, There Are Wires in All of Us………………………………………………………………..34 Blue Lupine

  • Porchless staircase

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    Jordan, Robin Lee
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    Porchless Staircase is a collection of poetry investigating a wide range of themes: consumerism, death, sexuality, alcoholism, religion, writing, family, and, most frequently, isolation. At times toying with notions of the sublime and surrealism, the confessional and the imagistic, these poems vary in form, process, and style, but are loosely...
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    stumbled soft like a peach down aisles to avoid the hard settling —that her arms rose above her

  • The matter between them

    Creator:
    Shumway, Charity D.
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    A collection of short stories about the Gardner family, spanning several generations, but focusing on the children of Len and Laura Gardner, Brooke, the second oldest, in particular. Set primarily in Utah, the collection tells the story of family members' struggles with one another, with their religious faith, and with...
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    ............................................ 119 8. What We Say About Mary Petersen Laws ......................... 134 The Downstairs The room

  • "Born of ourselves" : gendered doubling and the femme fatale in Vernon Lee's ghost stories

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    Delf, Liz
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    This thesis examines the characterization of the femme fatale and the implications of this trope for late-Victorian gender and sexuality in the ghost stories of female aesthete Vernon Lee. In her treatment of the femme fatale figure, Lee both reinforces and complicates the image of the sexualized, often bestialized woman...
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    friendships with Mary Robinson and Kit Ansthruther-Thomson, and who explored the slippage of culturally

  • Remaking myths and subverting the mainstream : teen girls come of age on and off the screen

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    Hentges, Sarah Duncan
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    For at least 30 years American culture has failed to provide empowering myths and symbols to its adolescents as they come of age and try to make sense of their selves, sexuality and the culture that surrounds them. This lack of myths and symbols is especially harmful to girls and...
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    as well be community­ sanctioned. They are a part of what adolescent psychologist Mary Pipher calls