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The adorned and the adored : issues of sympathy and ownership in Victorian literature

Creator:: Schmuhl, Emily J.
Abstract:: This thesis is comprised of two articles that examine sympathy, material culture, and ownership in Victorian literature. In the first article, I explore the figure of the heiress in the Victorian literary tradition, focusing on Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. George Eliot marked the heiress figure...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : __________________________________________________________________ Meghan A. Freeman This thesis is comprised of two articles that examine sympathy, material

Feminized in Form, Non-Linear in Practice: Diaspora in Asian American Poetics

Creator:: Norris, Precious
Abstract:: Asian American poetry is often considered a subcategory of poetry centered on the poets’ backgrounds. However, this project engages with the complexity of Asian American identity and experience as they trickle down from the poets, to their works, to interpretations of their art. Thus, I contend that these poets’ engagement...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Patricia A. Sakurai Asian American poetry is often considered a subcategory of

Discovering Antigone: A Non-Normative Political Figure

Creator:: Patten, Jennifer A.
Abstract:: This thesis analyzes Sophocles’ classic Greek tragedy Antigone as it relates to biopolitics, biopower, democratic language and non-normative principles of politics. I argue that the figure of Antigone enables a better understanding of exclusive biopolitical philosophy. Antigone is a figure not recognized as human because her gender is tortured and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: January 3, 2021. Title: Discovering Antigone: A Non-Normative Political Figure. Abstract

Decentering the Human in 12th Century Histories and Chronicles: Divine Nonhumans at the Center of the Itinerarium Cambriae and the Historia Anglorum

Creator:: Phelps, Nathan J.
Abstract:: This thesis primarily investigates nonhumans in the writings of 12th century historians. Where these writings may typically be seen as having little room for nonhuman agency, this thesis investigates how divinity, as an important part of medieval life, creates a space for nonhuman agency that is otherwise overlooked. In chapter...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: office open for me, and who has always been a source of good advice; and Rebecca Olson, whose support

Fiction's fatal flaw : misrepresentation of the average scientist

Creator:: Basler, Emily
Abstract:: Fiction facilitates the attribution of unrealistic character traits to scientists, and skews general understanding of the scientific process-- a fatal flaw resulting in self-doubt within undergraduate scientists, and apprehension and distrust in several communities. Misconceptions and the absence of significant ideas were identified by analyzing novels within the “Lab Lit”...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: Average Scientist by Emily Basler A THESIS submitted to

A form with a message : didacticism, adolescence, and femininity in young adult novels

Creator:: Davenport, Mattie R.
Abstract:: In this thesis, I discuss the uses of two different forms of young adult novels for relaying messages about adolescence and femininity to adolescents from adult authors. I explore the traditional and organized quest narrative as written by Anne McCaffrey in her Harper Hall Trilogy with a young female hero....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Davenport for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on May 24 2010. Title: A Form with a

More than an Accommodation: Teaching in the Remote First-Year Composition Classroom

Creator:: Goicochea, Andrea R.
Abstract:: This thesis evaluates the contact zone of the remote composition classroom and offers mediations for leveling the authoritative powers by fronting disability studies in pedagogies. The purpose of this thesis is to create pedagogies from disability scholarship and real teaching experiences that can be implemented in the remote classroom to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial

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:: Stress Disorder: A Rhetorical Approach to the Trauma-Informed Teaching of College Composition

Faculty-Led Study Abroad as Social Justice Praxis: A Phenomenological Case Study

Creator:: Barbour, Nancy Staton
Abstract:: Faculty-led short-term programs are the most popular type of study abroad experience for undergraduate students in the United States. The rise of the FLST model has created new challenges for institutions and faculty. This study undertakes a critical analysis of the practice of faculty-led short-term (FLST) study abroad at U.S....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : Faculty-Led Study Abroad as Social Justice Praxis: A Phenomenological Case Study. Abstract

Piers Plowman, Healthcare Praxis, and the Corporal Mercies

Creator:: MacDougall, Eric W.
Abstract:: I argue that Matthew’s seven acts of corporal mercies provide a means of reading Piers Plowman within a framework familiar to medieval audiences, but also exposes the different models of health that are at work within the poem and the soteriological significance of these healths. In chapter one, I focus...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ). 16 Rebecca Davis discusses a similar dynamic in the “law of kynde”: [T]he poem’s assertions that God

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The adorned and the adored : issues of sympathy and ownership in Victorian literature

Feminized in Form, Non-Linear in Practice: Diaspora in Asian American Poetics

Discovering Antigone: A Non-Normative Political Figure

Decentering the Human in 12th Century Histories and Chronicles: Divine Nonhumans at the Center of the Itinerarium Cambriae and the Historia Anglorum

Fiction's fatal flaw : misrepresentation of the average scientist

A form with a message : didacticism, adolescence, and femininity in young adult novels

More than an Accommodation: Teaching in the Remote First-Year Composition Classroom

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

Faculty-Led Study Abroad as Social Justice Praxis: A Phenomenological Case Study

Piers Plowman, Healthcare Praxis, and the Corporal Mercies

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