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Leslie Marmon Silko and the New Sincerity

Creator:: Lackey, Ryan W.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: subjective interiority, and Wallace’s declaration to McCaffery that “[r]ecursive metafiction worships the

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
Full Text:: approved: Neil R. Davison Traditional readings of George Bernard Shaw's texts suggest that he is not a

'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
Full Text:: . Abstract approved: Neil R. Davison Traditional interpretations of James Joyce's Dubliners have often

The Oregon State University Writing Center : history and context

Creator:: Weintraub, Melissa R.
Abstract:: The Oregon State University (OSU) Writing Center: History and Context provides a detailed and multi-faceted view of the Writing Center from its start in 1976 through the present. The information was gathered from interviews, annual reports, archival sources, and scholarly research. Chapter One examines the scholarly conversation about writing centers,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Melissa R. Weintraub for the

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

Creator:: Dawson, Katherine
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: -Webster.com (accessed November 2019) can be understood as “an accent or dialect in English in which an /r

On the Rhetorical Disability of Students with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Rhetorical Approach to the Trauma-Informed Teaching of College Composition

Creator:: McDowell, Amanda J.
Abstract:: Composition scholars who have written about trauma have typically focused on creating classrooms that are conducive to healing and learning. In doing this work, however, they have considered neither how PTSD nor other people’s responses to it can impact one’s perceived rhetoricity in the college classroom. In other words, they...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: healing trauma (the work of psychology researcher James W. Pennebaker, including his book Writing to

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
Full Text:: : When Smart is Dumb, and follows that with an excerpt from John R. Hayes and Linda S. 20 Flower's

Revisiting hypertext communities of practice

Creator:: Breitenfeldt, Jeffrey
Abstract:: This thesis is an exploration of writing from two communities of practice addressing different aspects of hypertext--an electronic medium used to link text, images, and other content such that it can be accessed by users non-sequentially. In particular, I examine multiple narratives of hypertext development and key theoretically oriented approaches...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: a very 17 appropriately titled chapter “How Did We Get Here?,” that “[w]e can see Bush

Traversing the city of blogs : pedagogy, performance, and public spheres

Creator:: Faris, Michael J.
Abstract:: In this thesis, I conduct an analysis of blogs in order to understand their potential use in the composition classroom with the goals of students writing for a public audience and developing their rhetorical and civic agency. I do so by exploring the potential for the blogosphere as a public...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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

Creator:: Becker, Jade M.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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Leslie Marmon Silko and the New Sincerity

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

The Oregon State University Writing Center : history and context

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

On the Rhetorical Disability of Students with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Rhetorical Approach to the Trauma-Informed Teaching of College Composition

Mike Rose : composing a reading of inclusion

Revisiting hypertext communities of practice

Traversing the city of blogs : pedagogy, performance, and public spheres

"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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