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  • 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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  • Renovations

    Creator:
    Gallagher, Scott V.
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    The six stories within, "Still and Silent," "Cold Comfort," "The King of Porn," "Miscuts," "In Between," and "Renovations," are part of a work in progress. They attempt to show how the characters, although they may seem to struggle for independence from the family unit, are in fact strengthening the bonds...
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  • Re-sounding Harlem Renaissance narratives : the repetition and representation of identity through sound in Nella Larsen's Passing and Toni Morrison's Jazz

    Creator:
    Aragon, Racheal
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    The cultural and historical construction of African American identity in the United States has been closely tied to the dialectical relationship formed between sound and silence. This thesis examines the modernist and postmodernist representation of sound and silence in the African American novels Passing (1929), by Nella Larsen, and Jazz...
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    symbolic4), like the ringing of a bell or drumming of a drum, or by word sounds/onomatapoeia (indexical5

  • Scenes of language

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    Duerst, Gretchen
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    In this creative non-fiction thesis, I present a collection of personal essays that examine my significant moments of awkwardness with failed communications or frustrated relationships when I wanted to draw people closer with language, but was unsuccessful. In the twelve stories, I discuss these issues in my interpersonal communication interwoven...
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    my father Jon and brother Joe for their support, love, and artistic inspiration; And to Richard for

  • Furthering Rhetorical Genre Studies Within the Context of Identity and Transfer in First Year Composition

    Creator:
    Alfaqih, Jessica
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    Within composition studies, rhetorical genre studies (RGS) and labor-based grading (LBG) are engaged in similar projects that consider students not only as individuals but also as always part of a community; as such, both have worked to understand how students learn, how students value themselves and their work, and how...
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    , analysts Jaison Abel and Richard Dietz found that 72.7% of college graduates aren’t working in a field

  • Courting Elizabeth : the virgin queen and Elizabethan literature

    Creator:
    Zinck, Jaime
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    Sixteenth century Elizabeth I of England has long been a figure of interest to Renaissance scholars, and their work largely focuses on how her gender impacted the power, politics, and culture of her day. Many have perceived her to be a heroine whose ingenuity and determination circumvented the limitations imposed...
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    marital chastity, to be silent and honorable. Ilona Bell describes a married woman’s chastity as a

  • Women's voices : the emergence of female identity in Bleak House and Little Dorrit

    Creator:
    Van Ras, Tamara L.
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    Dedicated to recording, portraying, and indicting the social inequities that he witnessed in nineteenth century Victorian England, one of Charles Dickens' many concerns was the roles assigned to women both in the public and private spheres. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the narratives of Amy Dorrit and...
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    sort of house, with a dead wall over the way and a dead gateway at the side, where a pendant bell

  • "They called me the hyacinth girl" : T. S. Eliot, masculinity, and the Great War

    Creator:
    Query, Patrick
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    This thesis traces the relationship between the First World War, constructions of masculinity, and the life and poetry of T.S. Eliot. Central to this relationship is a study of homoeroticism, which the author characterizes as different from homosexuality but not exclusive of it, in late 19th and early 20th century...
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    pealing of a deeper bell, do you remember?) suddenly I think of you as ten o'clock is striking. And your

  • Geography and other stories

    Creator:
    Cook, Molly Larson
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    This thesis comprises a collection of six short stories written and developed in the Creative Writing program at Oregon State University and particularly in fiction workshops with Dr. Tracy Daugherty and Marjorie Sandor. These stories explore the human condition, and human connections, in contemporary society. The characters here are ordinary...
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    than Maggie perhaps, but both of them are ready for the change. For three months, since Richard, a

  • The soul announces itself : Terrence Malick's Emersonian cinema

    Creator:
    Fech, Bill
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    This thesis takes an auteurist approach to the films of director Terrence Malick by reading them through the spiritual philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson. I establish Malick's thematic concern with the human struggle to achieve better existences in a broken material world, a concern buoyed by his signature aesthetic that...
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    of such calls to higher consciousness, a struggle described by Emerson scholar Richard Geldard as