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Composing for Social Change : Clashes of Ideographs and Ideology in the Composition Classroom

Creator:

Gasser, Chris

Abstract:

Clashes of ideology are all around us, from our computer and television screens to our composition classrooms, and they merit attention within the composition classroom. This thesis examines the justifications and pedagogies that scholars in rhetoric and composition use to infuse issues of ideology and social ethics into writing instruction...

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Masters Thesis
Genres at Play : History, Tragedy, and Comedy in Shakespeare's Richard II

Creator:

Wiley, Marie

Abstract:

This thesis examines a range of generic influences in William Shakespeare's Richard II. By exploring the play's references to conflicting interpretations of history from different generic perspectives, I hope to advance a more nuanced reading of the play's dynamic staging of history. In Chapter One, I suggest that Richard II...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis

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counsayle, lawe, or virtue to despise… I am a Kyng that ruled all by lust, That forced not of vertue
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