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  • A form with a message : didacticism, adolescence, and femininity in young adult novels

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    Davenport, Mattie R.
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    In this thesis, I discuss the uses of two different forms of young adult novels for relaying messages about adolescence and femininity to adolescents from adult authors. I explore the traditional and organized quest narrative as written by Anne McCaffrey in her Harper Hall Trilogy with a young female hero....
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    : ________________________________________________________________________ Kerry D. Ahearn In this thesis, I discuss the uses of two different forms of young adult

  • Codified into the word : the intersections of language and violence in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian

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    Hagan, Matthew T.
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    In this thesis I argue that Cormac McCarthy's 1985 novel Blood Meridian serves as a critique of the American Western mythos by collapsing aspects of myth, ideology, and the sublime into the question of violence's relationship to language. In explicating the novel, I demonstrate how the ironies staged between the...
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    McCarthy‘s Blood Meridian Abstract approved: Kerry D. Ahearn In this thesis I argue that Cormac

  • Half-life : essays

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    Fath, Lauren
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    Lauren Fath, in her non-fiction collection Half-Life: Essays, examines the underpinnings of her upbringing in suburban Fort Wayne, Indiana, focusing primarily on familial relationships and the importance of hindsight in understanding how our families make an imprint on our lives. By looking at our relationships through the lens offered by...
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    encountered here at Oregon State—Dr. Kerry Ahearn, Dr. Lisa Ede, Dr. Vreneli Farber, Dr. Anita Helle, Dr

  • 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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    unexamined assumptions about religion (Vander Lei and Fitzgerald). Anne Ruggles Gere does draws attention

  • The infinite margin : living in reading

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    Kleiman, Alicia J. Alicia J.
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    This thesis, a collection of creative non-fiction essays, explores the nature and influence of reading and school in the author's life. After a brief introduction explaining the title, part one describes the sensory dimensions of reading. Part two discusses the author's work as a student and teacher and the contradictions...
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    the thoughts of others in these areas, the margin repeatedly emerged, even widened. Anne Fadiman's

  • "It was on the tip of everyone's tongue, Tyler and I just gave it a name" : Fight Club's representation of consumer culture

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    Wicks, James Anthony
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    This thesis examines the representation of consumer culture in Fight Club within the context of Frederic Jameson's theory of postmodernism. I propose that the film represents consumer culture as a totalizing system. This representation is evident in the setting of the film and in the Narrator's attempt to escape from...
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    to thank Dr. Kerry Ahearn. Dr. Ahearn taught me as an undergrad that all fictional texts ask

  • 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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    to express my profound thanks to Professors Jon Lewis, Lisa Ede, Kerry Ahern, Heidi Brayman Hackel

  • Asynthesis & act: the evental sublime in Badiou, Byron, and Barker

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    Drury, Adam Marshall
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    Asynthesis & Act is a significant intervention into the discourse of the sublime. Through a deep investigation of the critical metaphysics of Immanuel Kant, the first chapter of this thesis puts forth the claim that the sublime is a radical experience that occasions a possibility for the individual to commit...
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    conversations throughout the course of this project, and to Anita Helle, Neil Davison, and Kerry Ahearn for