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  • "The life of things" : weird realisms in Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads

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    England, Saara Amelia
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    My thesis explores the poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth as emblematic of Western philosophy and literature's longstanding preoccupation with the relationship between mind and matter. The poets' attempts to mediate their languages and sensibilities with "real nature" have a complicated legacy for today's readers, as Romantic literature...
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    complexities that shape human subjectivity. Applying concepts from Bruno Latour, Jane Bennett, and Ian Bogost

  • Negotiating conflicted climates : the experiences of transgender students attending women's colleges

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    Jones, Whitney K.
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    The conversation regarding transgender students in the context of women's colleges is inherently complicated due to the binary gender system that the existence of women's colleges reinforce. The primary goal of this phenomenological research was to examine the lived experiences of transgender college students at U.S. women's colleges. Because the...
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    the experiences of students at Bryn Mawr, Smith and Mount Holyoke; three of the remaining 44 women’s

  • "Walloped" by the weather? Deflections, diversions, and dubious representations of women in climate change discourse

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    Brinker, Rachel K.
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    Research shows that women's lives are disproportionately impacted by the effects of climate change. While the topic of women is largely absent from climate discourse overall, the representations of women that occur reveal underlying structures of power rooted in imperialism and colonial dominance. This thesis presents an analysis of the...
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    justify. In addition, as Linda Tuhiwai Smith (1999) and Mohanty (2003), among others, discuss

  • Translating the Animal

    Creator:
    Owen, Melody
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    My thesis in Environmental Arts and Humanities concerned the idea of animal language, as well as other posthuman ideas around animality and indistinction. I also explored virtual space as it relates to human identity, our notions of reality and perception, and the way contemporary digital artists approach animal subjectivity in...
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    , journey, encounter with the other, and return to mud. 12 I met Catherine Clover at an

  • Abstract Aesthetics and Liberation Theology : Figurations and Invocations of Black Jesus in Early Twentieth Century American Literature

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    Dahl, Peter C.
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    This thesis invokes Black Jesus as an abstract figure in two seemingly disparate early twentieth century American novels and, in doing so, intervenes in ongoing debates about the ethical capacities of literature as means of grappling with difference. The Christ figure is a literary trope of waning importance in contemporary...
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    . He refers to Aristotle and Adam Smith to explain that, in addition to difference, literature must

  • "Born of ourselves" : gendered doubling and the femme fatale in Vernon Lee's ghost stories

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    Delf, Liz
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    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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    restrictions placed upon them. Conversely, however, Lee critic Catherine Maxwell 3 argues that while

  • Argument and common ground : scholarly research meets the common core state standards

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    Clark, Jillian
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    This thesis examines the recent history of the teaching of argument and its implications in the face of new writing standards being implemented in K-12 classrooms under the Common Core State Standards. The new educational policies will shift the focus of writing instruction onto argument writing as part of students'...
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  • The adorned and the adored : issues of sympathy and ownership in Victorian literature

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    Schmuhl, Emily J.
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    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...
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    William Smith Williams in which she addresses critical reaction to Bertha’s character in Jane Eyre: “[The

  • "Its Own Sense of Verisimilitude" : The Lizzie Bennet Diaries As a Transhistorical Adaptation of the Semipublic

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    Surface, Samara
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    The Lizzie Bennet Diaries is a multimodal adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, released from 2012-2013. As a media event, the show proved how effective transmedia storytelling can be, eventually winning an Emmy for Original Interactive Program. In creating an intensely immediate narrative world, the series adapted more than Jane Austen’s...
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    Catherine de Bourgh, they still play a vital role in the series. With a nod to the nineteenth century

  • Gender, Race, and Nation in the Dear America Series

    Creator:
    Furman, Kali
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    Books and literature help children and young adults develop language, cognitive, and social skills. Additionally children's literature enables individuals to develop a deeper appreciation for their own, and others' cultures and histories. This thesis analyzes the young adult historical fiction series Dear America, published by Scholastic press, and examines how...
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    approximately 250,000 (Macionis). Andrea Smith argues that genocide and colonialism form one pillar that