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Women's voices : the emergence of female identity in Bleak House and Little Dorrit

Creator:: Van Ras, Tamara L.
Abstract:: Dedicated to recording, portraying, and indicting the social inequities that he witnessed in nineteenth century Victorian England, one of Charles Dickens' many concerns was the roles assigned to women both in the public and private spheres. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the narratives of Amy Dorrit and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Identity in Bleak House and Little Dorrit. Abstract approved: Dr. Elizabeth Campbell Dedicated to

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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September and Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls Trilogy

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....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: CHAPTER 6: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Tracy Ann

Review of the books The Poetics of Enclosure: American Women Poets from Dickinson to Dove; Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and May Swenson: The Feminist Poetics of Self-Restraint; Of Women, Poetry, and Power: Strategies of Address in Dickinson, Miles, Brooks, Lorde, and Angelou

Creator:: Helle, Anita Plath
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and May Swenson: The Feminist Poetics of Self-Restraint; Of Women, Poetry

"Style upon style": The Handmaid's Tale as a palimpsest of genres

Creator:: Boulware, Taylor J.
Abstract:: This thesis undertakes an examination of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, as a layering of genres. A futuristic dystopia that imagines late twentieth-century America as having fallen into neo-Puritanism and totalitarianism following widespread infertility and violence, The Handmaid’s Tale invites contemplation of various forms of fundamentalism, radicalism, and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Michael’s Feminism and the Postmodern Impulse; and Coral Ann Howells’ “Science Fiction in the Feminine

Sound and death in John Haines's poetry

Creator:: Noble, Darren L.
Abstract:: Poet John Haines is best known for his first book of poetry, Winter News, which was published in 1966. The book contains poems about the Alaskan landscape that surrounded Haines during his many years of living in Richardson, Alaska. The recurring motifs in his poems include hunting, trapping, the Arctic...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: reviewing this paper as committee members: Elizabeth Campbell and David Robinson of the English Department

Gender, genre, and the canon : teaching Aemilia Lanyer

Creator:: Jurgens, Jeremy
Abstract:: Traditionally, Renaissance studies have neglected or overlooked the contributions of early modern female poets, many of whom produced lively, engaging, and highly creative work despite the limitations imposed on them by a rigidly patriarchal society. In my thesis, I examine the life and work of Aemilia Lanyer, a 17th century...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: conversation. The period itself began with the death of a powerful matriarch (Queen Elizabeth) in 1603 and

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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Composition Classroom, Bonnie Lenore Kyburz and Elizabeth Vander Lei present the work of fourteen scholars

Breeding the new woman : the eugenic discourse of motherhood in Shaw, Yeats, and Lawless

Creator:: Tracy, Hannah R.
Abstract:: The popularity and pervasiveness of eugenic discourse during the modernist period in England and Ireland raised many questions about race, class, and gender. While Hitler's Nazi "experiment" ultimately demonstrated the consequences of implementing eugenic ideas, forcing eugenicists to abandon, or at least mask, their theories, the eugenics movement before World...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of women" (42). Elizabeth Grugbeld has also noticed this trend in Lawless's writing, acknowledging

"Present fears" and "Horrible Imaginings" : Gothic elements in Shakespearean Tragedy

Creator:: Appel, Ian S.
Abstract:: Gothic literary works are characterized as such by their ability to represent and evoke terror. The form this representation takes is varied; often terror originates in the atmospheric effects of settings, in the appearance of mysterious, supposedly supernatural phenomena, and, perhaps most significantly, in the behavior of villainous characters. Shakespearean...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: permutations; indeed, what literary scholars define as Gothic seems continually to be evolving. Ann Williams

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Women's voices : the emergence of female identity in Bleak House and Little Dorrit

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

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

Review of the books The Poetics of Enclosure: American Women Poets from Dickinson to Dove; Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and May Swenson: The Feminist Poetics of Self-Restraint; Of Women, Poetry, and Power: Strategies of Address in Dickinson, Miles, Brooks, Lorde, and Angelou

"Style upon style": The Handmaid's Tale as a palimpsest of genres

Sound and death in John Haines's poetry

Gender, genre, and the canon : teaching Aemilia Lanyer

Religion in the writing classroom : toward a pedagogy of possibility

Breeding the new woman : the eugenic discourse of motherhood in Shaw, Yeats, and Lawless

"Present fears" and "Horrible Imaginings" : Gothic elements in Shakespearean Tragedy

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