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

    Creator:
    Hentges, Sarah Duncan
    Abstract:
    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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    Masters Thesis
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    , and confusions,"9 as Sara Shandler explains in Ophelia Speaks: Adolescent Girls Write about Their

  • Responsible pedagogy : (re)framing contemporary educational theory and American cultural politics

    Creator:
    Rust, Stephen
    Abstract:
    Responsible Pedagogy is examination of contemporary education in the United States. Responsible educators are dedicated to being representative, responsive, and respectful. These three principles guide the best teaching and learning that are taking place in classrooms across the country. Launched in 2003, Shakespeare in American Communities is the most ambitious...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Contemporary Educational Theory and American Cultural Politics Abstract approved: Jon Lewis Responsible

  • A feminist love story : the cinematic possibilities of Shakespeare's Juliet

    Creator:
    Faherty, Dionna E.
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    Literary and feminist theory have recently begun to recognize William Shakespeare's character of Juliet as a possible feminist heroine, but communicating this interpretation on film will be complicated. Not only will the film need to deal with the issues of adaptation that come with moving any play onto film, but...
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    Masters Thesis
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    revisions. This work began as a paper for a film theory class taught by Dr. Jon Lewis, and it is

  • 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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    Masters Thesis
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    the King at prayers, the slaying of Polonius, Hamlet's treatment of Gertrude, the madness of Ophelia

  • Water, fire, and stone : images and meaning in Melville

    Creator:
    Martin, Brian D.
    Abstract:
    This thesis is a study of Herman Melville’s symbolism. I have chosen to investigate the elemental images of water, fire, and stone in Moby-Dick (1851), Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities (1852), and Clarel; A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876). This work is a semiotic study, insofar as the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Melville read by Radcliffe, Walker, Horace Walpole, Matthew Gregory Lewis, and Sir Walter Scott (Parker

  • Scenes from the Tarot

    Creator:
    Stephens, Nia C.
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    Scenes from the Tarot is a novella that explores the desire to control time. The narrator, Truth Aiken, spurred by fear of her own death, recounts the story of her sister Beauty's death and its effects on Truth's highly unusual family. Proceeding backwards through time, Truth describes her tumultuous relationships...
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    Masters Thesis