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

Creator:: Delf, Liz
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: French poet Charles Baudelaire’s interest in decay and death, as well as extravagance, excessiveness

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

Creator:: Seiber, Rich
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: members of my committee, Dr. Anita Helle, Dr. William Earl and Professor Andrea Marks. Numerous friends

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

Creator:: Moy, Shaleena
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: poet who dies young after being turned on by his audience. According to scholar Charles Segal, pre

Measures of reality : the religious life of Virginia Woolf

Creator:: Streufert, Mary J.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: .' In 1902 William James published his famous work, The Varieties of Religious Experience, in which he

The wild flesh of Gary Snyder's "natural language"

Creator:: Hanson, Michael (Michael Edward)
Abstract:: This paper explores the language theories of Gary Snyder, an important modern environmental author whose early work was associated with the Beat movement of the early 1950's. I am particularly interested in Snyder's thoughts on how language relates to nature. I focus primarily on Snyder's prose in attempts to understand...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: -referential, closed system of relations. Yet Charles Molesworth identifies both influences in Snyder

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

Creator:: Dieter, Thomas Edward
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: this time: Dr. Scott Baird, Ruben Casas, William Delgado, Trev DeTal, Dylan Geil, Benjamin Lansky

George Bernard Shaw's "Big Three" : an althusserian reading of Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara

Creator:: Kramer, Johanna I.
Abstract:: Traditional readings of George Bernard Shaw's texts suggest that he is not a pure Marxist socialist because of the spiritual and nationalist aspects of his vision. This thesis attempts to confront Shaw's politics in order to demonstrate that he indeed offers a viable socialist program. Overlaying his socialism with Louis...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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

Creator:: McGrory, Suzette L.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Mike Rose : composing a reading of inclusion

Creator:: Jameson, Sara
Abstract:: Mike Rose researcher, professor, scholar, and author of numerous articles and books including the literacy memoir - Lives on the Boundary - has been active in the field of education and composition for over 30 years. This thesis looks back at the development of the discipline of composition studies to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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

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

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

Measures of reality : the religious life of Virginia Woolf

The wild flesh of Gary Snyder's "natural language"

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

George Bernard Shaw's "Big Three" : an althusserian reading of Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara

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

Mike Rose : composing a reading of inclusion

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