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Filtering by: Subject Dance in literature Advisor Betjemann, Peter J. Committee Member Robinson, David Resource Type Masters Thesis

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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desires. In many instances during the modern era in literature, charged boundaries have tragic
Patriarchal power and punishment : the trickster figure in the short fiction of Shirley Jackson, Flannery O'Connor, and Joyce Carol Oates

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Strempke-Durgin, Heather D.

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This thesis is an exploration of how male trickster figures operate in the Gothic fiction of 20th century American female authors. Specifically, I look at the short stories “The Daemon Lover” by Shirley Jackson, “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor, and “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by...

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You Going, Where Have You Been?” in an introduction to literature class taken during my first year
Fighting tradition : Hemingway’s Nick Adams and shell shock

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McGrath, Cole P.

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In his Nick Adams stories, Ernest Hemingway traces the life of a single man as he moves from boyhood to adolescence to adulthood to fatherhood. From the beginning of Nick Adams life, it is clear that he does not fit into the role of the traditional hero. In addition, Nick...

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the Chimera. On a looser level, many adversaries in epic literature are not clearly defined

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

Patriarchal power and punishment : the trickster figure in the short fiction of Shirley Jackson, Flannery O'Connor, and Joyce Carol Oates

Fighting tradition : Hemingway’s Nick Adams and shell shock

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