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  • 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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    ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Aisha K. Nasser for the degree of Master of Arts in Women, Gender and

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

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    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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    Herb for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on May 1, 2015. Title: In Defense of

  • 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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    to literature, and do so voluntarily, but can also craft their responses in sophisticated, polished

  • 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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    ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Alex M. Britten for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on

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

    Creator:
    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

  • 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

  • Sexologists, What of the Night?: Parody and Resistance in Nightwood

    Creator:
    Simpson, Taylor
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    The present study considers the mid-nineteenth century origins of the term “sexual inversion,” as it became applied to a variety of nonnormative subjects and sexual practices. Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood (1936) has long been recognized as a discursive space wherein socially constructed notions of sexuality and gender are interrogated. A key...
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    and ultimately for its containment and cure” (256). Literature is found in nearly every sexological

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

    Creator:
    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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    : Issues of Sympathy and Ownership in Victorian Literature. Abstract approved

  • Primal Matter : Deep Objects in Historical Accounts of the Glanton Gang

    Creator:
    Schauer, Austin A.
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    The question of deep time has been widely debated in the field of American Literature, with scholar Wai Chee Dimock arguing that a deep time perspective puts the chronology of different nations against one another. However, this argument has not adequately addressed the issue of how deep time theories would...
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    The question of deep time has been widely debated in the field of American Literature, with scholar