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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:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Mary J. Streufert for the degree of Master of Arts in

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:: friendships with Mary Robinson and Kit Ansthruther-Thomson, and who explored the slippage of culturally

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:: autoethnography as Mary Louise Pratt defines it, as those instances when 'colonized subjects undertake to

Creator:: Carpenter, Claire
Abstract:: These stories follow the lives of women in a variety of roles—housewife, deli employee, artist, bird keeper, and sitter for the elderly—and at different stages of life. In “Beneath this Roof,” a young housewife’s life is rocked by a visit from an old friend who has changed in unexpected ways....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: .” Lincoln approached the doorway with a glass in each hand. Beth half-rose to take hers. “Thank you kindly

Creator:: Watterson, Jaclyn
Abstract:: My thesis is a collection of short stories in which I explore themes like loss, identity, and memory. The collection includes both short stories and short short stories, and through in-depth exploration of character and form, the stories here attempt to fit into a tradition of writers articulating the experiences...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . “Breathing Jesus” from Amy Hempel’s Reasons to Live and “The Deep,” a novella, from Mary Swan’s The Deep

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

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

Creator:: Reed, Donna L.
Abstract:: The purpose of this multi-case study was to describe how library deans and directors at large comprehensive community colleges strategically advocate for and support instructional and technological innovation despite the reality of limited resources and the stress caused by recurring funding crises in higher education. It further sought to examine...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: I have hope'—the library is integral to that. Mary Kay Rudolph, VP of Academic Affairs, Santa

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