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Wendy Bishop : a feminist voice at the intersections of composition, creative writing, and ethnography

Creator:: Rosman, Alice L.
Abstract:: Wendy Bishop's lively voice and scholarly contribution continue to resonate and be important in composition studies. Bishop--poet, scholar, feminist, teacher, ethnographer, and compositionist--sought to blur the lines between creative writing and composition. This thesis argues that in challenging the boundaries that exist between creative writing and composition, Bishop also challenged...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: feminist studies. Additionally, a huge thank you to the faculty in the School of Writing, Literature, and

"Her Hypnotic Eyes" : Reading the Optical in Aaron Douglas’s Aspects of Negro Life and Nella Larsen's Passing

Creator:: Barkley, Charles K.
Abstract:: This thesis examines two cultural productions of the Harlem Renaissance: Aaron Douglas's mural series, Aspects of Negro Life, and Nella Larsen's novel Passing. I read these works together because, more than their shared time period, they showcase an attention to the visual. Both Larsen and Douglas's works are concerned with...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the complex ways that art and literature intersect in discussions of racialized bodies. Though I do

"Otherwise I hear riffs and drones": Sound and Decoloniality in Contemporary Latinx Poetics

Creator:: Diaz-Hui, Alexander
Abstract:: This thesis examines Latinx poetry in relation to the September 11th attacks and the reconfigurations of racial structures and the American empire that followed, most notably through the Department of Homeland Security and their agency Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). ICE politically characterizes immigrants as anti-American to perpetuate stereotypes against...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: — appropriation” (“Poetry on the Brink”). Though this practice is crucial in visual art, performance, literature

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

Creator:: Herb, Danielle Kristine
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: development of Salinger‘s art. The role of the spiritual inherent in Salinger‘s story-telling is also used

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

Creator:: Davis, Caryn M.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: in the School of Writing, Literature, and Film who offered assistance and encouragement over the

Sexologists, What of the Night?: Parody and Resistance in Nightwood

Creator:: Simpson, Taylor
Abstract:: The present study considers the mid-nineteenth century origins of the term “sexual inversion,” as it became applied to a variety of nonnormative subjects and sexual practices. Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood (1936) has long been recognized as a discursive space wherein socially constructed notions of sexuality and gender are interrogated. A key...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: and ultimately for its containment and cure” (256). Literature is found in nearly every sexological

The adorned and the adored : issues of sympathy and ownership in Victorian literature

Creator:: Schmuhl, Emily J.
Abstract:: This thesis is comprised of two articles that examine sympathy, material culture, and ownership in Victorian literature. In the first article, I explore the figure of the heiress in the Victorian literary tradition, focusing on Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. George Eliot marked the heiress figure...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : Issues of Sympathy and Ownership in Victorian Literature. Abstract approved

Primal Matter : Deep Objects in Historical Accounts of the Glanton Gang

Creator:: Schauer, Austin A.
Abstract:: The question of deep time has been widely debated in the field of American Literature, with scholar Wai Chee Dimock arguing that a deep time perspective puts the chronology of different nations against one another. However, this argument has not adequately addressed the issue of how deep time theories would...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: The question of deep time has been widely debated in the field of American Literature, with scholar

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

Creator:: Larsen, Haley A.
Abstract:: 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 --...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Blue” conjure, and brings to bear the singular intensity of the novel form, the art of literature

"Land of War and Blood" : spectacular violence, conflicting medievalisms, and chivalric legacies in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones

Creator:: Horton, Kaely
Abstract:: This thesis examines depictions of medievalism in three central texts: Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones. Each of these texts provides an entry point for exploring the ways in which English and American writers have...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: presented in modern literature and mass media, suggesting that the 2 Middle Ages can be, among

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Wendy Bishop : a feminist voice at the intersections of composition, creative writing, and ethnography

"Her Hypnotic Eyes" : Reading the Optical in Aaron Douglas’s Aspects of Negro Life and Nella Larsen's Passing

"Otherwise I hear riffs and drones": Sound and Decoloniality in Contemporary Latinx Poetics

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

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

Sexologists, What of the Night?: Parody and Resistance in Nightwood

The adorned and the adored : issues of sympathy and ownership in Victorian literature

Primal Matter : Deep Objects in Historical Accounts of the Glanton Gang

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

"Land of War and Blood" : spectacular violence, conflicting medievalisms, and chivalric legacies in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones

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