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  • Team Bella : reimagining character portrayals and engaging with social constructions of power in Twilight fanfiction

    Creator:
    Rost, Coral
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    Online fanfiction communities have received attention for providing spaces of creativity and individual empowerment. Yet as critics have sought to establish fanfiction as a worthy object of study, many have not grappled with the ways that fanfictions not only trouble, but also reinforce various discourses and ideas of gender and...
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    to literature, and do so voluntarily, but can also craft their responses in sophisticated, polished

  • Fitzgerald’s idealism and the question of wealth

    Creator:
    Wood, Amy
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    In This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and several of his short stories, F. Scott Fitzgerald questions the importance of wealth as a factor in supporting happiness and fostering the American Dream on an individual basis. With these texts, Fitzgerald acknowledges that wealth is a factor and, simultaneously, a...
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    whom he went to college, and he wanted to fit in with them. His “moving experience” was the “poor

  • The hand of humanity : Eliot's religious reformation in Middlemarch

    Creator:
    Peake, Natasha C.
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    As the embodiment of the religiously unsettled Victorian Era in which she lived, George Eliot sought to discover a system of belief that would allow her to reaffirm and maintain her feelings of faith and morality. She believed that the subjective nature of traditional Christianity needed to be replaced with...
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    The hand of humanity : Eliot's religious reformation in

  • Revisioning grandeur : an exploration of intertextuality in Alice Munro and Virginia Woolf

    Creator:
    King, Michelle L.
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    In this thesis I argue that Alice Munro’s work takes part in an ongoing feminist discourse that examines alterations in male and female gender relations, as they have been represented in domestic fiction by women writers since the late nineteenth century. I analyze two short stories written by Munro: “Meneseteung,”...
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    program in English Literature and Culture here at OSU, I’ve grappled with my growing obsession with the

  • Learning by imitation : the scholarly works of David Bartholomae

    Creator:
    Gallup, Sarah E.
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    This thesis examines the scholarship in pedagogical theory and practice of David Bartholomae over the past thirty-five years, in particular examining the role that the rhetorical construct of imitation has played in its development. Through my research, I trace the evolution of Bartholomae’s pedagogical stances and practices, as these both...
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    valid discipline. Instead, he pursued a doctoral degree in British Literature, focusing on issues of

  • Of tales changed to other forms : an analysis of the traditions and future of Ovidian adaptations

    Creator:
    Moy, Shaleena
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    Not only does the publication of Ovidian adaptations online increase public awareness of Ovid, but it also offers new material for research and pedagogical purposes. Consequently, in this thesis, I explore both the historical tradition of Ovidian adaptations, specifically adaptations of Ovid's Orpheus tale, and the modern presentation of Ovidian...
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     demonstrate the potential such adaptations hold for  Ovidian scholarship and Ovidian curriculum in literature