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  • Whitman and technology: a modern romance

    Creator:
    Turner, David N.
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    Walt Whitman looked to the natural world, which he considered an original example of divine creation, for insights into the methods and patterns of the Creative Force; the poet then intuited connections between these divine natural patterns and human existence and spirituality. Convinced of the divinity of the human body,...
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    . Turner for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on July 20, 2006. Title: Whitman and

  • Expression & identity : the word made flesh

    Creator:
    Beach, J. M.
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    This essay is an exploration of identity formation and expression. Humanity's identity formations create the orientations and languages with which we use to create our knowledge and understanding of the surrounding external environment (both social and physical) and our internal environment (psychological). This essay traces the sources of identity formation...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . Wordsworth, William. "Preface to the Lyrical Ballads (1802)." William Wordsworth. Ed. Stephen Gill. Oxford

  • Water, fire, and stone : images and meaning in Melville

    Creator:
    Martin, Brian D.
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    This thesis is a study of Herman Melville’s symbolism. I have chosen to investigate the elemental images of water, fire, and stone in Moby-Dick (1851), Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities (1852), and Clarel; A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876). This work is a semiotic study, insofar as the...
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    in his work Natural Theology (1802), which “was to be one of the most popular works of

  • "Living Outside the Madness" : reform and ecology in the work of Henry Thoreau and Gary Snyder

    Creator:
    Hiatt, Bryan
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    Recent conflicts in America concerning the environment (the harvesting of old growth timber in the Pacific Northwest, or the proposed opening of public lands in southern Utah to mining interests, for instance) have precipitated a personal examination of "historical others" (Jensen 64), individuals that possess very different sensibilities from a...
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    significant influence in American intellectual thought when Thoreau lived at Walden from 1845 to 1847. Karl