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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...
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    ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Ryan Lackey for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on April 11

  • Confessing Our Sims: The construction of gender and sexuality among women ages 18-22 on MySpace

    Creator:
    Papaleo, November R.
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    MySpace is a social network phenomenon with over 100 million profiles and a strong presence in over 24 countries. As digital media become more commonplace, social networks are becoming sites where women create and manage relationships and identities. This thesis is a study of how women ages 18-22 are constructing...
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    their friend’s sites to see if they forgot any important films. Ryan Guy (2007) follows this vein by

  • 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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    ideal city. I argue that the ideal city, as described by theorist Iris Marion Young, provides a

  • Fostering Authority in Readers and Writers

    Creator:
    Love, Jennifer Mary
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    As a reader and as a teacher of introductory reading and writing courses, I am persuaded by the concept of a genuine authority in which all readers both value and seek to examine their early readings of texts. What I have come to regard as a pretended authority or mastery,...
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    and instructor. I am steadily grateful to Ryan Hare, for his support in concerned looks, spoken

  • Patriarchal power and punishment : the trickster figure in the short fiction of Shirley Jackson, Flannery O'Connor, and Joyce Carol Oates

    Creator:
    Strempke-Durgin, Heather D.
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    This thesis is an exploration of how male trickster figures operate in the Gothic fiction of 20th century American female authors. Specifically, I look at the short stories “The Daemon Lover” by Shirley Jackson, “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor, and “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by...
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    encouragement. I am especially indebted to my husband, Ryan, my most supportive editor, for tolerating me and

  • After we lost the wind

    Creator:
    Watterson, Jaclyn
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    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...
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    family, she can see a wistful expression, her grandmother imagining, even so young, that she’d one day

  • The folklore of daughters

    Creator:
    Bremicker, Heather
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    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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    loud. Even at a very young age we are self-conscious about loving ourselves in front of others, even

  • Half-life : essays

    Creator:
    Fath, Lauren
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    Lauren Fath, in her non-fiction collection Half-Life: Essays, examines the underpinnings of her upbringing in suburban Fort Wayne, Indiana, focusing primarily on familial relationships and the importance of hindsight in understanding how our families make an imprint on our lives. By looking at our relationships through the lens offered by...
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    for his contributions as a reader; Ryan Scammell for his insights on craft; Ann Hagedorn for pointing

  • 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.
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    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...
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    event (72). In the same article, fellow first-year writing instructor Ryan Muckerheide describes

  • "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.
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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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    the truth, and for your commitment to having a good time while you do it. To Ryan Lackey, thank you