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

    Creator:
    Delf, Liz
    Abstract:
    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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    Masters Thesis

  • Always talk to strangers

    Creator:
    Buck, C. Nathan
    Abstract:
    Always Talk to Strangers contains the first seven chapters to a novel. The novel focuses on the friendship between Amanda and Maria, two fourteen-year-old girls who are experiencing their last summer before high school in Madison, Wisconsin. Their friendship is a complicated one: Maria was kidnapped four years ago, the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . The novel focuses on the friendship between Amanda and Maria, two fourteen-year-old girls who are

  • Mike Rose : composing a reading of inclusion

    Creator:
    Jameson, Sara
    Abstract:
    Mike Rose researcher, professor, scholar, and author of numerous articles and books including the literacy memoir - Lives on the Boundary - has been active in the field of education and composition for over 30 years. This thesis looks back at the development of the discipline of composition studies to...
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    Masters Thesis