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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...
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    ghost stories of female aesthete Vernon Lee. In her treatment of the femme fatale figure, Lee both

  • The folklore of daughters

    Creator:
    Bremicker, Heather
    Abstract:
    This collection of poems and essays is about the folklore of family and the shadowy imprint family myth can leave on its members. At the center of the argument is a struggle about coming to terms with these shadows from a speaker trying to find a sense of a self...
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    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...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Keeper: James Joyce's Early Years. New York: Viking, 1958. For Martha Alice Orin Cottew, my

  • Revisiting hypertext communities of practice

    Creator:
    Breitenfeldt, Jeffrey
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    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...
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    Masters Thesis
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    European Particle Physics Laboratory) hired Tim Berners- Lee, a computer scientist, as a contractor to

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

    Creator:
    Faris, Michael J.
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    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...
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    Masters Thesis