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    Creator:
    Dunham, Karen L.
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    This thesis is a collection of six essays with interconnecting elements and themes. Two overriding themes which pervade the collection are the search for spiritual wholeness and the relationships between humans and their environments. The essays document my recent explorations of and experimentations with the "creative nonfiction" genre. have worked...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Search images AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Karen L

  • Learning by imitation : the scholarly works of David Bartholomae

    Creator:
    Gallup, Sarah E.
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    This thesis examines the scholarship in pedagogical theory and practice of David Bartholomae over the past thirty-five years, in particular examining the role that the rhetorical construct of imitation has played in its development. Through my research, I trace the evolution of Bartholomae’s pedagogical stances and practices, as these both...
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    Masters Thesis

  • There were bears and rumors of bears

    Creator:
    Miftaraj, Andre M.
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    There Were Bears and Rumors of Bears is a collection of stories that explores spiritual injury and recovery using a variety of interior and exterior narrative approaches to depict the profane and sacred, the mundane and non-ordinary, aspects of experience. In each story, the characters encounter situations in the physical...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Living by the wayside and other stories

    Creator:
    Buchanan, Sherry
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    Living by the Wayside and Other Stories explores the tension between control and dependence and how that tension affects the ability to sustain intimate relationships. These are stories about women who struggle for independence, but experience the cost of self-rule as isolation. Living by the Wayside and Other Stories focuses...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Buchanan, and the other women in my family, Julia, Joyce, Elaine, and Ella for their support and teachings

  • "A dissonant element" : the difficulty of Anais Nin

    Creator:
    Burghauser, Sarah B.
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    This thesis is arranged in three main chapters, each of which focuses on a particular type of Anaїs Nin text, and each of which is intended to enlarge Nin's complexities through distinct but overlapping perspectives. The idea connecting these three chapters is that Nin, who has been radically misrepresented by...
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    Masters Thesis
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    are Lorett Reily, Karen Holmberg, and Tab Dansby. Finly, than you to my MA cohort without whose

  • West of Ellis

    Creator:
    Tafolla Young, Kathryne M.
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    Ellis, a booming mid-sized town in California's Central Valley, is packed with farmers and commuters, and plagued with a dwindling sense of itself and its history. Set against the backdrop of a failed murder-suicide, a secret affair and a wealthy local mogul's attempt to develop the town into something it's...
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    Masters Thesis