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  • 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
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Sarah E. Gallup for the degree of Master of Arts in

  • Leaving the body : an elegy

    Creator:
    Harwell, Sarah
    Abstract:
    The death of a child is, for many, a fear too terrifying to imagine. The poems collected here explore this difficult loss; they examine the realities that form, and fall away, after the realization of a parent?s worst fear. Through the poems? speaker, a bereaved mother, a multitude of worlds...
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    Masters Thesis

  • "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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    own ters. (9Copyright by Sarah B. Burghauser June 19,2007 All Rights Reserved "A Dissonant

  • Remaking myths and subverting the mainstream : teen girls come of age on and off the screen

    Creator:
    Hentges, Sarah Duncan
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    For at least 30 years American culture has failed to provide empowering myths and symbols to its adolescents as they come of age and try to make sense of their selves, sexuality and the culture that surrounds them. This lack of myths and symbols is especially harmful to girls and...
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    Masters Thesis
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    of age on and off the screen AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Sarah Duncan Hentges for the degree

  • The mercurial : stories and essays

    Creator:
    Dmitriev, Vladena Aleksandra
    Abstract:
    Vladena Aleksandra Dmitriev, in her collection of fiction and nonfiction The Mercurial: Stories and Essays, examines the conflicts inherent in language, whether in her own experiences as a non-English speaking immigrant from the Soviet Union to the submersed anger and resentment that emerges quietly in disintegrating relationships. What unites these...
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    Masters Thesis
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    irony where I couldn’t; Sara Jameson for giving me the building blocks; Sarah Henderson for agreeing

  • A quest to redefine feminine heroism : heroines of the Brothers Grimm and Angela Carter

    Creator:
    Butler, Kelly E.
    Abstract:
    Literary fairy tales facilitate a specific inquiry into heroine quests. Due to the flexibility of the fairy tale genre, a variety of heroine tales have been produced. The specific stages of a heroine quest must be described in order to understand the direction and goals of these quests. In order...
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    Undergraduate Thesis
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    Feminine Heroism: Heroines of the Brothers Grimm and Angela Carter by Kelly E. Butler

  • Freeway : poems

    Creator:
    Dickey, Eric Wayne
    Abstract:
    This collection of poems focuses on a range of content. They pose many questions that consider issues surrounding driving, cars and independence, as well as masculinity, fatherhood, domesticity and parental identity. The collection consists of three parts, Freeway, Menace, and Control. Freeway contains poems on driving and cars, some of...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    : _____________________________________________________________________ Karen E. Holmberg This collection of poems focuses on a range of content. They pose many

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    Creator:
    Oleson, Wendy E.
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    This thesis is the first third of a coming of age novel called i. In this selection the central character, Bea Bouvier, prepares to see her estranged mother on a cruise ship to the Bahamas. She hopes her parents will decide to reunite as a family, though it becomes increasingly...
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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Wendy E. Ole son for the degree of

  • The magnitiseur and other stories

    Creator:
    van Belle, Christine E.
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    This thesis is a collection of three short stories and the beginnings of a novel. A similar thread is woven through all the stories: in the attempt to know spiritual truth, what it is to be a woman, and to know themselves, the various protagonists precariously oscillate between the seemingly...
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    Masters Thesis
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    OF Christine E. van Belle for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on May 9, 1996

  • The matter between them

    Creator:
    Shumway, Charity D.
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    A collection of short stories about the Gardner family, spanning several generations, but focusing on the children of Len and Laura Gardner, Brooke, the second oldest, in particular. Set primarily in Utah, the collection tells the story of family members' struggles with one another, with their religious faith, and with...
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