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  • Omen of Mere Event : Vignettes in a Post-Wilderness Landscape

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    Schultz, Aaron A.
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    This thesis uses a series of non-fiction vignettes to explore objects, agencies, and networks, applying theories of rhetoric and composition directly to experience and vise versa. Focusing on agency--as understood through sociology's actor-networks, post- humanism’s Object Orientated Ontology, and Ecocriticism's ecological approach--I look at events, landscapes, and partnerships that have...
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  • Immigrant encounters : film narratives of the modern immigrant

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    Yeager, Angela L.
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    This thesis employs a narrative analysis of more than twenty-five films that are centrally concerned with immigrants and the immigrant experience. In Part One, drawing from the work of Yosefa Loshitzky, I will focus on films that feature an immigrant lead character. In Part Two, I will explore movies that...
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    member. The train tracks are being used as a hiding spot for immigrants, including Sayra, a young woman

  • Wild nature or the garden : conservation themes in the forests of Tarzan and Herland/Ourland

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    Davis, Caryn M.
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    At first glance, Edgar Rice Burroughs's wildly popular romantic fantasy novel, Tarzan of the Apes (1912), and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's feminist science fiction-utopian novel, Herland (1915), with its dystopian companion, With Her in Ourland (1916), may appear to have little in common. Tarzan celebrates the human connection with wild nature...
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    Hetchy Valley, Yosemite National Park, California, c. 1900. ........... 2 2.1 Cover of The All-Story

  • "Its Own Sense of Verisimilitude" : The Lizzie Bennet Diaries As a Transhistorical Adaptation of the Semipublic

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    Surface, Samara
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    The Lizzie Bennet Diaries is a multimodal adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, released from 2012-2013. As a media event, the show proved how effective transmedia storytelling can be, eventually winning an Emmy for Original Interactive Program. In creating an intensely immediate narrative world, the series adapted more than Jane Austen’s...
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    room, often around other people and the possibility of interruption. Park Honan expounds on J.E

  • Bright lights, big city : electrified female desire in Edith Wharton and Theodore Dreiser

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    Larsen, Haley A.
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    This thesis explores the electrified female subject in two novels, Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie (1900) and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth (1905). As cultural touchstones, two literary works that prominently feature electricity -- Henry James' story "In the Cage" and Henry Adams' biography The Education of Henry Adams --...
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    as we crescendo to a forte, to a booming loudness, suddenly, a young black man with drumsticks in

  • The objects within : an applied OOO literary criticism

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    Dodson, Matthew J.
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    For centuries, continental philosophy has clung to the belief that the world only meaningfully exists through human perception--that, in other words, when a tree falls in the forest, it does not make a sound. Literary theory, which has strong roots in continental philosophy, followed suit, remaining tied to humanism even...
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    ’ than ‘Dick Van Dyke,’ more ‘South Park’ than ‘The Simpsons.’”20 Consider another pair of comics

  • Rational Madmen : Monomania in Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” and Stedman’s “How Old Brown Took Harpers Ferry”

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    Green, Paisley
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    In this project, I explore the use of monomania as a literary and rhetorical device that pathologizes deviance from certain norms—in this case, sexual and political norms— and allows for contradiction, dissonance, and reform. Using Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Birthmark” and Edmund Clarence Stedman’s poem “How Old Brown Took...
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    young and beautiful Georgiana. Soon after they are married, Aylmer becomes increasingly obsessed with

  • The soul announces itself : Terrence Malick's Emersonian cinema

    Creator:
    Fech, Bill
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    This thesis takes an auteurist approach to the films of director Terrence Malick by reading them through the spiritual philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson. I establish Malick's thematic concern with the human struggle to achieve better existences in a broken material world, a concern buoyed by his signature aesthetic that...
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    . Days of Heaven similarly features a young couple on the run for whom a rich homesteader’s wealth

  • In Defense of the "Ringding Mukta" : The Later Work of J.D. Salinger

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    Herb, Danielle Kristine
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    My thesis explores the later work of author J.D. Salinger, including two narratives featured in Nine Stories, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," and "Teddy," and Franny and Zooey, "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters," and "Seymour: an Introduction." Through my analysis I argue that the religious nature of Salinger's fiction...
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    story that Teddy is not a typical child (like so many of Salinger‘s young characters), and he himself

  • Vibrant colors, transient shadows : woman artists and the brushstrokes of impressionist sensibility in Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse

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    Kondrack, Kayleen Rose
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    This thesis explores the artistic imperatives and internal struggles of women painters in two novels, Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899) and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (1927). I identify Chopin's Edna Pontellier and Woolf’s Lily Briscoe as painters who exhibit Impressionist strains, both in how they paint and how they...
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    points for analyzing the texts. Barbara H. Weinberg, Doreen Bolger, and David Park Curry also offer