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

    Creator:
    Davis, Caryn M.
    Abstract:
    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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    Wild Nature or the Garden: Conservation Themes in the

  • Edith Wharton’s dark ecology : representations of nature in three major novels

    Creator:
    Bacon, Julie M.
    Abstract:
    This thesis is arranged in three chapters which explore Wharton’s representations of nature in three novels: The House of Mirth (1905), The Fruit of the Tree (1907), and The Custom of the County (1913). This thesis contends that Wharton’s novels reveal changes in the interplay between representations of nature and...
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    Custom of the County (1913). This thesis contends that Wharton’s novels reveal changes in the interplay

  • "Living Outside the Madness" : reform and ecology in the work of Henry Thoreau and Gary Snyder

    Creator:
    Hiatt, Bryan
    Abstract:
    Recent conflicts in America concerning the environment (the harvesting of old growth timber in the Pacific Northwest, or the proposed opening of public lands in southern Utah to mining interests, for instance) have precipitated a personal examination of "historical others" (Jensen 64), individuals that possess very different sensibilities from a...
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    Pacific Northwest, or the proposed opening of public lands in southern Utah to mining interests, for

  • The Night Before the Elections and other stories

    Creator:
    Clarke, Patrick J.
    Abstract:
    The stories here are stories of childhood. To me, they concern the shift between dependence to independence, comfort to instability, which is disastrous for the characters but also a point of awakening. The move from childhood to adulthood puts the characters in a world that is neither made for the...
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    is neither made for the adult or the child, but someplace between these two. It's here that a kind

  • Scenes of language

    Creator:
    Duerst, Gretchen
    Abstract:
    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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    examine my significant moments of awkwardness with failed communications or frustrated relationships when

  • Claire Lies and other stories

    Creator:
    Rosenberg, Valerie P.
    Abstract:
    The five short stories included in this thesis depict characters who struggle as they try to balance their responsibilities to each other, and their own independent desires. Whether those desires include personal freedom, another relationship, or self-protection, these characters are at least minimally aware that obtaining what they most want...
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    , or self- protection, these characters are at least minimally aware that obtaining what they most

  • (Mis)representation & Postcolonial Masculinity : The Origins of Violence in the Plays and Films of Martin McDonagh

    Creator:
    Evans, Nicolas M. J.
    Abstract:
    This thesis examines the postmodern confrontation of representation throughout the oeuvre of Martin McDonagh. I particularly look to his later body of work, which directly and self-reflexively confronts issues of artistic representation & masculinity, in order to gain a more nuanced understanding of his earliest and most controversial plays. In...
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    caricature and cultural stereotypes. Rather than perpetuating propagandistic or offensive representations

  • Search images

    Creator:
    Dunham, Karen L.
    Abstract:
    This thesis is a collection of six essays with interconnecting elements and themes. Two overriding themes which pervade the collection are the search for spiritual wholeness and the relationships between humans and their environments. The essays document my recent explorations of and experimentations with the "creative nonfiction" genre. have worked...
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    expanded upon over the next year or two, and I plan to incorporate additional essays into the work

  • The Andy Stories

    Creator:
    Henkel, William B.
    Abstract:
    The four stories within, "Jim of India," "Shooting the Breeze," "Bridge," and "Point Reyes," are part of a longer work in progress, tentatively titled The Andy Stories. The stories follow Andy, a woman in her 50s, on a voyage across the continent and into herself. Of these, all are written...
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    collection or novel, the author intends this thesis to represent early drafts of what may eventually be a

  • A form with a message : didacticism, adolescence, and femininity in young adult novels

    Creator:
    Davenport, Mattie R.
    Abstract:
    In this thesis, I discuss the uses of two different forms of young adult novels for relaying messages about adolescence and femininity to adolescents from adult authors. I explore the traditional and organized quest narrative as written by Anne McCaffrey in her Harper Hall Trilogy with a young female hero....
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    adults is proof that there is no clearly defined reality, adolescent path, or femininity. The