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  • Wendy Bishop : a feminist voice at the intersections of composition, creative writing, and ethnography

    Creator:
    Rosman, Alice L.
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    Wendy Bishop's lively voice and scholarly contribution continue to resonate and be important in composition studies. Bishop--poet, scholar, feminist, teacher, ethnographer, and compositionist--sought to blur the lines between creative writing and composition. This thesis argues that in challenging the boundaries that exist between creative writing and composition, Bishop also challenged...
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    feminist studies. Additionally, a huge thank you to the faculty in the School of Writing, Literature, and

  • "Her Hypnotic Eyes" : Reading the Optical in Aaron Douglas’s Aspects of Negro Life and Nella Larsen's Passing

    Creator:
    Barkley, Charles K.
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    This thesis examines two cultural productions of the Harlem Renaissance: Aaron Douglas's mural series, Aspects of Negro Life, and Nella Larsen's novel Passing. I read these works together because, more than their shared time period, they showcase an attention to the visual. Both Larsen and Douglas's works are concerned with...
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    the complex ways that art and literature intersect in discussions of racialized bodies. Though I do

  • 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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    access to, and representation in, literature. In the United States, due to systemic power and social

  • The art of resisting the patriarch

    Creator:
    Nasser, Aisha K.
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    This study examines the theme of power in Naguib Mahfouz's The Cairo Trilogy (1956/57). Contrasting my analysis with earlier review of the novel that emphasized a hegemonic patriarchal power, I argue that such power was constantly subverted by the dominated: family members of the patriarch. Using James C. Scott's notions...
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    1 The Art of Resisting the Patriarch Abstract This article examines the theme of power in

  • In Defense of the "Ringding Mukta" : The Later Work of J.D. Salinger

    Creator:
    Herb, Danielle Kristine
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    My thesis explores the later work of author J.D. Salinger, including two narratives featured in Nine Stories, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," and "Teddy," and Franny and Zooey, "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters," and "Seymour: an Introduction." Through my analysis I argue that the religious nature of Salinger's fiction...
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    development of Salinger‘s art. The role of the spiritual inherent in Salinger‘s story-telling is also used

  • Team Bella : reimagining character portrayals and engaging with social constructions of power in Twilight fanfiction

    Creator:
    Rost, Coral
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    Online fanfiction communities have received attention for providing spaces of creativity and individual empowerment. Yet as critics have sought to establish fanfiction as a worthy object of study, many have not grappled with the ways that fanfictions not only trouble, but also reinforce various discourses and ideas of gender and...
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    requirements for the degree of Master of Art in Interdisciplinary Studies Presented June

  • Beckett, Barthelme, and Vonnegut : finding hope in meaninglessness

    Creator:
    Britten, Alex M.
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    This thesis is a study of the shifting philosophical trends in the works of Samuel Beckett, Donald Barthelme, and Kurt Vonnegut as representations of a greater shift from modernism to postmodernism. I have chosen to explore Beckett's plays Waiting for Godot and Krapp's Last Tape, Barthelme's short stories "Nothing: A...
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    in a new secular humanism. He hopes to increase the morality of humanity through art and imitation

  • Fantasy and Hate: A Fantasy Theme Analysis of Der Giftpilz

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    Rosenberg, Matthew S.
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    In Nazi Germany, 1938, Der Stürmer publishing house, under the control of Julius Striecher, published Der Giftpilz or The Poisonous Mushroom; an anti-Semitic children's book. Disseminated in the thousands, Der Giftpilz became infamously known as a children's book so grotesque it could be, and in fact was, admitted as evidence...
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    for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies Name in Speech Communication, Speech

  • Putting Coyolxauhqui Back Together : Queer Nepantleras Rewriting Latinx Memory

    Creator:
    Villalba, Alex Aleman
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    Indigenous and Latinx communities have always used storytelling to pass along ancestral histories and memories, whether it be through the act of speaking, performing or other types of artwork. This thesis examines the ways that queer Latinx artists are retelling the stories that have been mistold to erase, repress and...
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    placing art in the public sphere tells stories that remember indigenous and queer histories

  • Wild nature or the garden : conservation themes in the forests of Tarzan and Herland/Ourland

    Creator:
    Davis, Caryn M.
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    At first glance, Edgar Rice Burroughs's wildly popular romantic fantasy novel, Tarzan of the Apes (1912), and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's feminist science fiction-utopian novel, Herland (1915), with its dystopian companion, With Her in Ourland (1916), may appear to have little in common. Tarzan celebrates the human connection with wild nature...
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    in the School of Writing, Literature, and Film who offered assistance and encouragement over the