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  • Breeding the new woman : the eugenic discourse of motherhood in Shaw, Yeats, and Lawless

    Creator:
    Tracy, Hannah R.
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    The popularity and pervasiveness of eugenic discourse during the modernist period in England and Ireland raised many questions about race, class, and gender. While Hitler's Nazi "experiment" ultimately demonstrated the consequences of implementing eugenic ideas, forcing eugenicists to abandon, or at least mask, their theories, the eugenics movement before World...
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    the "New Woman" was primarily a critical construct used in early modernist literature to representa

  • Asynthesis & act: the evental sublime in Badiou, Byron, and Barker

    Creator:
    Drury, Adam Marshall
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    Asynthesis & Act is a significant intervention into the discourse of the sublime. Through a deep investigation of the critical metaphysics of Immanuel Kant, the first chapter of this thesis puts forth the claim that the sublime is a radical experience that occasions a possibility for the individual to commit...
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    in literature and culture. It was in reading a book of his dramatic theory, rather than one of his

  • Ms. Miles is missing

    Creator:
    Wisniewski, Stephanie E.
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    Ms. Miles is Missing—the beginning of a novel—is the story of a woman who, in her early thirties comes to realize that the life she is living is not the life she wants. She yearns for her lost childhood, and tries to come to terms with her mother’s death. Martha...
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    Stephanie E. Wisniewski for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing presented on May 2, 2007

  • Expression & identity : the word made flesh

    Creator:
    Beach, J. M.
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    This essay is an exploration of identity formation and expression. Humanity's identity formations create the orientations and languages with which we use to create our knowledge and understanding of the surrounding external environment (both social and physical) and our internal environment (psychological). This essay traces the sources of identity formation...
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    compartmentalization of the humanities in general (and literature specifically) wherein each 'field' materializes into

  • Violence and voice

    Creator:
    Dahlin, Angela
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    Violence and voice seem to be related. In this thesis I detail personal experiences with violence, and then put them into the context of research done about the ways in which violence affects the writing voice, as well as the speaking voice. Helene Cixous' writings about the writing voice and...
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    Master of Arts in English presented on April 24, 2002. Title: Violence and Voice. Abstract approved

  • Water, fire, and stone : images and meaning in Melville

    Creator:
    Martin, Brian D.
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    This thesis is a study of Herman Melville’s symbolism. I have chosen to investigate the elemental images of water, fire, and stone in Moby-Dick (1851), Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities (1852), and Clarel; A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876). This work is a semiotic study, insofar as the...
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    in landscape imagery associations, both visually and in literature; people saw—wanted to see

  • The influence of imperialist ideology on the dichotomy of passion and reason in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

    Creator:
    Dietrich, Rhonda
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    A prevalent belief during the Victorian age was that the world was divided between inferior beings governed by passion and superior reasoning beings. On the political level, this idea separated inferior passion-driven natives from superior reasoning Europeans. This division contributed to the maintenance and expansion of imperialist rule in distant...
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    arguments regarding the symbiotic relationship between scholarly texts and works of literature today and in

  • Writing Rhodesia : young girls as narrators in works by Doris Lessing and Tsitsi Dangarembga

    Creator:
    Thomas, Jane McCauley
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    Doris Lessing and Tsitsi Dangarembga write fiction set in Zimbabwe, the former Southern Rhodesia. Although Lessing grew up as a white settler and Dangarembga, a generation later, as part of the colonized African population, the women sometimes address similar issues. Both write of young girls trying to find a speaking...
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    Jane McCauley Thomas for the degree of Master of Arts in English

  • An autumn journey : time, place, and pattern in Henry David Thoreau's later work

    Creator:
    Dotterman, Anthony Matthew
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    This thesis situates a discussion of Thoreau's later natural history essays in the context of the author's other writings. Beginning with an examination of the writings of Thoreau's friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, this paper examines Thoreau's relation to and departure from Emerson's understanding of time, place, and pattern...
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    degree of Master of Arts in English presented on July 25, 2001. Title: An Autumn Journey: Time. Place

  • The problems [of Paul Ricoeur's symbols] of evil

    Creator:
    Ritenour, Karen E.
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    In the early part of his philosophical career, Paul Ricoeur worked out a general theory of symbols which he illustrated with the symbols of evil. He subsequently explained this theory in several essays (his final major statement on symbols can be found in Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of...
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    of Master of Arts in English presented on November 16, 2001. Title: The Problems lof Paul Ricoeur's