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Caught between two spheres : the relationship of Charles Dickens' street people to the Victorian concept of home

Creator:: Wylie, Lynne S.
Abstract:: Nineteenth-century England witnessed burgeoning urban growth and the resultant struggle of the poor to find adequate shelter. Against this backdrop, Charles Dickens was a fierce advocate for the rights of the street people of London to have sanitary and adequate housing, earning him the title of radical. By combining sentimentality...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : The Relationship of Charles Dickens' Street People to the Victorian Concept of Home. Abstract

The practice of home

Creator:: Goodrich, Charles
Abstract:: If home is the hearth, a place of safety and centeredness, it is also the portal, the magic door. From home we go out into spaces more humanized and technologized, or into spaces more natural, more other-than-humanized. We dress up and head downtown, or we pack up and head for...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Charles Goodrich for the degree of

Constructing heroic identities : masculinity and the western film

Creator:: Foster, Brad D.
Abstract:: This thesis employs the study of gender to demonstrate how recent Hollywood western films have constructed a hero that is reflective of contemporary beliefs regarding masculinity. Beginning with a New Historicist approach at studying gender, this work first considers the construction of masculinity in post World War II America and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Confessing Ireland : the colonial politics of Irish Catholicism in James Joyce's A portrait of the artist as a young man

Creator:: Rathert, Gregory S.
Abstract:: Ireland's Catholic Church played an important role in the turn-of-the-century nationalism that shaped James Joyce's identity and writing; yet it also played an important part in preventing that nationalism from achieving its goals of autonomy and cultural independence. For Joyce, this was particularly evident in the dialects and thought structures...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: -clerical Joyce, the duopolistic rule of Rome and England helped end Charles Stewart Parnell's promising

The Impact of World Literature in Secondary Schools in Oregon and Chile : A Comparative Case Study

Creator:: McFarland, Annette Catherine
Abstract:: The reading of world literature, literary works from cultures other than one’s own, offers an effective means of creating greater awareness and sensitivity towards others. Research on the subject makes it clear that world literature can help lay the groundwork for a sense of world citizenship in students. To what...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: publications” (Tymoczko 164). Charles Bassett includes in his list of influences on the canon the 19th-century

Writing against convention : Kate Chopin's short fiction in Vogue, 1893-1900

Creator:: VanKooten, Crystal
Abstract:: Kate Chopin, author of the proto-feminist novel The Awakening, was also a prolific writer of short stories. Nineteen of her stories were originally published in Vogue magazine between 1893 and 1900. This study looks at six of these stories, "The Father of Desiree's Baby," "A Respectable Woman," "The Dream of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , illustrated books by authors such as Henry James and George William Curtis, and fur capes and outerwear. Two

British policies toward Palestine

Creator:: Earl-Taylor, Michael A.
Abstract:: This study traces British government policies with regard to Palestine from the time the British Expeditionary Forces under General Allenby invested Jerusalem in December 1917 to the imposition of the Mandate with Britain as the Mandatory power, which came into effect on July 22, 1922. The first chapter provides an...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Africa, Smuts' knowledge of guerilla warfare was extensive. Field Marshal Sir William Robertson, Chief

Revisioning grandeur : an exploration of intertextuality in Alice Munro and Virginia Woolf

Creator:: King, Michelle L.
Abstract:: In this thesis I argue that Alice Munro’s work takes part in an ongoing feminist discourse that examines alterations in male and female gender relations, as they have been represented in domestic fiction by women writers since the late nineteenth century. I analyze two short stories written by Munro: “Meneseteung,”...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Teaching Short Fiction (Spring 2006) edition focusing on the art of Alice Munro, Charles Mayer writes

Charting their own course as writers : a study of writing-intensive students’ self-assessment and goal-setting at start of term

Creator:: Robinson, Tracy Ann
Abstract:: Curricular models and teaching techniques that support college students as the primary authors of their writing-across-the-curriculum experiences remain largely unexplored. This thesis addresses that research gap by investigating the use of a start-of-term writing self-assessment and goal-setting questionnaire (STQ) for upper-division undergraduates taking writing-intensive (WI) college courses in their majors....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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Caught between two spheres : the relationship of Charles Dickens' street people to the Victorian concept of home

The practice of home

Constructing heroic identities : masculinity and the western film

Confessing Ireland : the colonial politics of Irish Catholicism in James Joyce's A portrait of the artist as a young man

The Impact of World Literature in Secondary Schools in Oregon and Chile : A Comparative Case Study

Writing against convention : Kate Chopin's short fiction in Vogue, 1893-1900

British policies toward Palestine

Revisioning grandeur : an exploration of intertextuality in Alice Munro and Virginia Woolf

Charting their own course as writers : a study of writing-intensive students’ self-assessment and goal-setting at start of term

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