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  • Our Moral Educators : Educational Debate and Representations of Teachers in the Mid-Century Victorian Novel

    Creator:
    Taylor, Corey
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    In this thesis, I read the teachers in four mid-century Victorian novels--Charles Dickens' David Copperfield (1850) and Hard Times (1854), Thomas Hughes' Tom Brown’s Schooldays (1857) and Charlotte Brontё's Villette (1853)-- within the context of mid-century English educational debate in an effort to explicate the ways in which these characters...
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    Masters Thesis
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    -Shuttleworth and Dunn, in advocating for a French-like public education system in England, writes that

  • Intersections of new historicism and contemporary theory in renaissance literature

    Creator:
    Harrington, Erin R.
    Abstract:
    In this thesis, I use modern concepts of feminism, gender performativity, and psychoanalysis as a means to understand female characters and authors of Renaissance England in a new way. In my first article, I analyze various texts and performances of Queen Elizabeth I, as well as texts of Renaissance female...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Foucault, Stephen Orgel, and others have explained, in the 16th century, sexual culture (in particular

  • The accessible Chaucer

    Creator:
    Luepke, Natasha M.
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    In this thesis I explore the ways in which twenty-first century Americans have access to Geoffrey Chaucer and his works. I look at issues surrounding Chaucer within the canon debate, high school history and literature textbooks, and Chaucer in popular culture, such as in movies like A Knight's Tale. I...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , perhaps even morally corrupting. If left to their own devices, people would choose Stephen King over

  • Discovering Antigone: A Non-Normative Political Figure

    Creator:
    Patten, Jennifer A.
    Abstract:
    This thesis analyzes Sophocles’ classic Greek tragedy Antigone as it relates to biopolitics, biopower, democratic language and non-normative principles of politics. I argue that the figure of Antigone enables a better understanding of exclusive biopolitical philosophy. Antigone is a figure not recognized as human because her gender is tortured and...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Forms of Life: Goethe’s Impact on Twentieth-Century Anglophone Botany and Morphology

    Creator:
    Hahn, Andre M.
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    This dissertation examines the impact of the German naturalist and literary figure Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s ideas on twentieth century Anglophone plant morphology and biology. Goethe interpreted the organ forms of flowering plants as metamorphoses of each other. His literary, historical, and philosophical writings suggest themes of alienation from and...
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    Dissertation
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    , Craig Holdrege, Henrike Holdrege, Stephen Talbott, and John Brett for taking the time to talk with me

  • 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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    Masters Thesis

  • Water, fire, and stone : images and meaning in Melville

    Creator:
    Martin, Brian D.
    Abstract:
    This thesis is a study of Herman Melville’s symbolism. I have chosen to investigate the elemental images of water, fire, and stone in Moby-Dick (1851), Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities (1852), and Clarel; A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876). This work is a semiotic study, insofar as the...
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    Masters Thesis