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  • Abraham's daughter

    Creator:
    Melton, Barbara
    Abstract:
    This thesis is a series of personal essays that explore themes of fundamentalism, family, loss, personal growth and the question of free will. The work reflects my study of the written word, of language, and of how people have tried to define, or have experienced, the numinous. The essays are...
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    Masters Thesis
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    down my quarter and buy five packages of plain M&Ms. Then I'd find somewhere quiet, somewhere private

  • "Sorrow's springs are the same" : synoeciosis in the poetry of Alfred Tennyson and Gerard Manley Hopkins

    Creator:
    Adamson, Christopher
    Abstract:
    Tennyson and Hopkins scholarship is dominated by a focus on antithetical dichotomies. Tennyson's speakers are fractured selves focused on the gap between matter and spirit, faith and reason, solitude and community. Likewise, Hopkins' doubled vocation as priest and poet is presented as a contradiction to the point that the transition...
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    Masters Thesis