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  • Claims to Universal Possessiveness through Exclusive Discourses Medieval and Early-Modern Narratives of Othering

    Creator:
    Abu Aiada, Eman
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    This thesis examines the discursive seeds of the European endeavor to supremacy and dominance by tracing the germination of Eurocentrism and European exceptionalism in two different eras. Through close attention to textuality, I suggest a rhetorical continuity between the medieval and the early modern eras by focusing not directly on...
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    Neil R. Davison This thesis examines the discursive seeds of the European endeavor to

  • Immigrant encounters : film narratives of the modern immigrant

    Creator:
    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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    , or fate. Enrique gets a decent job as a busboy at an upscale French restaurant, and after a short

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

    Creator:
    Schmuhl, Emily J.
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    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...
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    illegitimate daughter by his former French mistress, Celine Varens (147). This critique, of course, is

  • Willed Women : Female Bodies & Subversive Being in the Knight’s and Second Nun’s Tales

    Creator:
    McLemore, Emily C.
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    This project examines two understudied female characters from Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales who emerge as subversive figures by striving to maintain control over their bodies and being. Through my analyses of the Knight’s and Second Nun’s Tales, I reveal how virginity correlates with bodily autonomy for the narratives’ respective protagonists,...
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    pedagogy through their courses and mentorship – in particular, Tim Jensen and Neil Davison. Thank you

  • Scenes of language

    Creator:
    Duerst, Gretchen
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    In this creative non-fiction thesis, I present a collection of personal essays that examine my significant moments of awkwardness with failed communications or frustrated relationships when I wanted to draw people closer with language, but was unsuccessful. In the twelve stories, I discuss these issues in my interpersonal communication interwoven...
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    Neil played with his camera, already snapping photos, the two brothers competing for the best wedding

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

    Creator:
    Wiley, Marie
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    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...
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