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

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Barkley, Charles K.

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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...

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Masters Thesis

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throughout the process, and for your encouragement in our class work together. To Peter Betjemann, thank
Codified into the word : the intersections of language and violence in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian

Creator:

Hagan, Matthew T.

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In this thesis I argue that Cormac McCarthy's 1985 novel Blood Meridian serves as a critique of the American Western mythos by collapsing aspects of myth, ideology, and the sublime into the question of violence's relationship to language. In explicating the novel, I demonstrate how the ironies staged between the...

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Masters Thesis

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about my passions with such a brilliant man. I‘d also like to give special thanks to Dr. Peter
"Pretty and patriotic" : women's consumption of apparel during World War II

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Mower, Jennifer M.

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The War Production Board issued limitation order 85 in April 1942 in order to conserve fabric and manpower needed for the war effort. The L-85 order froze the silhouette so no major style changes in women's wear would occur during the war. It is clear that on the one hand...

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also thank Kim Burgel at the Oregon Historical Society, Amy Gamblin at the Lane County Historical