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  • Counterfeit arcadias : Nathaniel Hawthorne's materialist response to the culture of reform

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    White, Andrew
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne lived and wrote in an age of reform efforts, and the progressive movement with which he was most familiar was Transcendentalism. However, he was not sympathetic with Emerson's idealism, a sentiment which comes out in his fiction in way of critique. Throughout Hawthorne's work there is an emphasis...
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    Arcadias: Nathaniel Hawthorne's Materialist Response to the Culture of Reform by Andrew White A

  • Herman Melville's Moby-Dick : hermeneutics and epistemology in Ishmael's seafaring

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    Goodrum, Emily A.
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    This paper defends a reading of Hennan Melville's Moby-Dick that elevates Ishmael's status from mere narrator of Ahab's tragedy to that of protagonist of his own story, a novel of epistemological seafaring. As a metaphysical quester, Ishmael provides the novel's only reliable and complex vision of the condition of man...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Emily A. Goodrum for the degree of

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

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    Boulware, Taylor J.
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    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...
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    , 2008. Title: "Style Upon Style": The Handmaid's Tale as a Palimpsest of Genres Abstract approved

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

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    Martin, Brian D.
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    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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    one perceives as harmful is reasonable. A passage from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s journal, which may

  • Believing details

    Creator:
    Harrell, Anna M.
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    In this creative non-fiction thesis, the author reads her own life, suggesting that she believes in the details of experience and knows truth in and through experience even though the truth is not always clear. The first chapter includes several narratives from her childhood experience. In the second chapter, the...
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    friendlier, plainer sister, Nathaniel, a skinny boy with glasses who I later secretly liked (playing

  • Cutting off the Medusa's head : mythological transcendence in Emily Brontë and Eudora Welty

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    Caputi, Roseanne Pascalette
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    The purpose of this project is to draw a more explicit connection between Eudora Welty and the literary influence Emily Brönte had on her, revealing Welty as a writer who is more integrated into literary tradition and history than many readers and critics have acknowledged. Both writers rely heavily on...
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    purpose of this project is to draw a more explicit comiection between Eudora Welty and the literary

  • "Living Outside the Madness" : reform and ecology in the work of Henry Thoreau and Gary Snyder

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    Hiatt, Bryan
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    Recent conflicts in America concerning the environment (the harvesting of old growth timber in the Pacific Northwest, or the proposed opening of public lands in southern Utah to mining interests, for instance) have precipitated a personal examination of "historical others" (Jensen 64), individuals that possess very different sensibilities from a...
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    instance) have precipitated a personal examination of "historical others" (Jensen 64), individuals that

  • Literacy politics and literacy education : thematic perspectives in contemporary Chicana/o narrative

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    Bowman, Christine D.
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    Literacy is often considered to be a basic set of skills to be mastered by the student; the conventional wisdom maintains that the individual who has mastered these skills is then literate. Scholars in the field of literacy studies, however, argue that such assumptions about literacy fail to take into...
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    redacted for privacy. Anita Helle Literacy is often considered to be a basic set of skills to be

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

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    Rust, Stephen
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    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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    , succinctly invokes a discussion of the juxtaposition of the politics of literature, art, and education in