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  • 'That life of commonplace sacrifices' : representations of womanhood in Irish Catholic culture in James Joyce's Dubliners

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    McGrory, Suzette L.
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    Traditional interpretations of James Joyce's Dubliners have often focused on the pervasive "paralysis" of the city, covered in the stories' range of "childhood, adolescence, maturity, and public life." However, these approaches have limited their focus on the women in the stories, often spotlighting the male characters--and the author--through a Freudian...
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    womanhood in Irish Catholic culture in James Joyce's Dubliners AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Suzette L

  • "Born of ourselves" : gendered doubling and the femme fatale in Vernon Lee's ghost stories

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    Delf, Liz
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    This thesis examines the characterization of the femme fatale and the implications of this trope for late-Victorian gender and sexuality in the ghost stories of female aesthete Vernon Lee. In her treatment of the femme fatale figure, Lee both reinforces and complicates the image of the sexualized, often bestialized woman...
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    within it, yet she 9 admired both Walter Pater and Henry James, and dedicated books to each of them

  • Gender, genre, and the canon : teaching Aemilia Lanyer

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    Jurgens, Jeremy
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    Traditionally, Renaissance studies have neglected or overlooked the contributions of early modern female poets, many of whom produced lively, engaging, and highly creative work despite the limitations imposed on them by a rigidly patriarchal society. In my thesis, I examine the life and work of Aemilia Lanyer, a 17th century...
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    lasted through the reign of James, a monarch who worked diligently to instill (or re-instill) the notion

  • Cartoon All Stars to the Rescue: from Public Service Announcement to Program- Length Commercial

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    Seiber, Rich
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    Animation has long been a staple of children's television programming As public service announcements (PSA5) have become an important part of children's television programming, cartoon characters have started to appear in this form of nonprogram material. By standard definition, PSAs are usually a 15 to 60-second spot that promote education...
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    members of my committee, Dr. Anita Helle, Dr. William Earl and Professor Andrea Marks. Numerous friends

  • Measures of reality : the religious life of Virginia Woolf

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    Streufert, Mary J.
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    Virginia Woolf was a self-proclaimed atheist, yet her fictional and personal writing reveal her ecstatic consciousness. Characters in Woolf s novels experience ecstasy, and her letters and diaries support the theory that she herself had experienced ecstatic consciousness. Major figures in the philosophy of religion assert that ecstatic consciousness is...
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    .' In 1902 William James published his famous work, The Varieties of Religious Experience, in which he

  • The Listening Cure: Theorizing Gender Fluid Performance through Katharine Hepburn’s Transatlantic Accent

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    Dawson, Katherine
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    My mother named me after Hollywood icon Katharine Hepburn, but what made a working-class girl grow to love this posh celebrity so much? The obvious answer is that my mother aspired to be posh herself; but lack of money or sophistication were not the only things impacting her potential— there...
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    of the ‘30s and ‘40s, for him, simply “unwatchable.”2 Four years later, James Fallow published a

  • Caught in the act : casting myself as a performing writer in rhetoric and writing studies

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    Dieter, Thomas Edward
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    The following thesis explores the potential for autoethnography to serve as an enabling method for developing a grounded understanding of literacy, performance, gender and sexuality. As autoethnographic writing insists that even the seemingly most personal aspects of a researcher's character are deeply embedded in larger political and sociocultural narratives, this...
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    this time: Dr. Scott Baird, Ruben Casas, William Delgado, Trev DeTal, Dylan Geil, Benjamin Lansky

  • Leslie Marmon Silko and the New Sincerity

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    Lackey, Ryan W.
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    One reading of the post-postmodern literary period argues that as formal aesthetics have (re)engaged with ethics there has been a concomitant move to treat literature as a space of ethical potential. Adam Kelly has called this attitude, when combined with the appropriation of certain metafictional and postmodern techniques, the “New...
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  • LSD, Mules and Men : Hypermediation in Hunter S. Thompson and Zora Neale Hurston

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    Collins, Harold R., III.
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    Hypermediation, as described by Jay Bolter and Richard Grusin in their book Remediation, is a style of writing, recording, presenting, etc. that “makes us aware of the medium or media and (in sometimes subtle and sometimes obvious ways) reminds us of our desire for immediacy” (34). This mode of production...
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    ); William Murphy Jr., a Baltimore lawyer representing the Freddie Gray family, “[thanked] God for cell

  • "We Share a Common Disinheritance": Subjectivity, Dispossession, and Antiblackness in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Paul Beatty's The Sellout

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    Becker, Jade M.
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    Recent work in moral philosophy has displayed a renewed interest in ethics and ontology that consider the social constitution of the subject. However, these approaches to ethics, exemplified in Judith Butler’s work in Giving an Account of Oneself, often neglect the problem of antiblackness, which Afro-pessimist scholars argue operates at...
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    individual’s journey toward self-possession. Critics like James Albrecht and Jack Turner have offered similar