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Traversing the city of blogs : pedagogy, performance, and public spheres

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Faris, Michael J.

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In this thesis, I conduct an analysis of blogs in order to understand their potential use in the composition classroom with the goals of students writing for a public audience and developing their rhetorical and civic agency. I do so by exploring the potential for the blogosphere as a public...

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OF THE THESIS OF Michael J. Faris for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on
Rethinking the dualism : Don DeLillo's White Noise and the ecocritical possibilities of the nature/culture mix

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Bowman, Natalie A.

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Rethinking the Dualism: Don DeLillo's White Noise and the Ecocritical Possibilities of the Nature/Culture Mix questions current applications of ecocriticism and offers that these applications are inadequate in dealing with the perceived nature/culture dualism. This thesis suggests that ecocritics need to stop thinking in dualistic terms, but instead must consider...

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Constructing heroic identities : masculinity and the western film

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Foster, Brad D.

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This thesis employs the study of gender to demonstrate how recent Hollywood western films have constructed a hero that is reflective of contemporary beliefs regarding masculinity. Beginning with a New Historicist approach at studying gender, this work first considers the construction of masculinity in post World War II America and...

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Edith Wharton’s dark ecology : representations of nature in three major novels

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Bacon, Julie M.

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This thesis is arranged in three chapters which explore Wharton’s representations of nature in three novels: The House of Mirth (1905), The Fruit of the Tree (1907), and The Custom of the County (1913). This thesis contends that Wharton’s novels reveal changes in the interplay between representations of nature and...

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Blogs1
DeLillo, Don -- Criticism and interpretation1
DeLillo, Don. White noise1
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