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  • 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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    Masters Thesis
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    : ______________________________________________________ David M. Robinson My thesis explores the later work of author J.D. Salinger

  • The Art of Noticing : An Essay on Contemporary Ecological Writing

    Creator:
    West, Rex Alan, 1967-
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    A number of thinkers are becoming increasingly persuaded that our anthropocentric view of nature is inadequate, that we need a "new morality" with regard to the environment. In this essay, I argue that an alternative to anthropocentricism is available to us now-and has been since at least 1836. I look...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Privacy David Robinson A number of thinkers are becoming increasingly persuaded that our anthropocentric

  • Emersonian Non-Conformity in J.D. Salinger and Hunter S. Thompson

    Creator:
    Cooley, Katelyn E.
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    The purpose of this thesis is to thematically explore two novels which are considered to be “non-conformist” for the ways that the characters struggle to understand themselves as separate from society. By comparing the non-conformity of each character to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s theory of individualistic non-conformity, as presented in his...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    . Thompson.     Abstract approved:     David Robinson         The purpose of

  • Herman Melville's Moby-Dick : hermeneutics and epistemology in Ishmael's seafaring

    Creator:
    Goodrum, Emily A.
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    This paper defends a reading of Hennan Melville's Moby-Dick that elevates Ishmael's status from mere narrator of Ahab's tragedy to that of protagonist of his own story, a novel of epistemological seafaring. As a metaphysical quester, Ishmael provides the novel's only reliable and complex vision of the condition of man...
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    Masters Thesis
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    and Epistemology in Ishmael' s Seafaring. Abstract Approved: David Robinson This paper defends a

  • Counterfeit arcadias : Nathaniel Hawthorne's materialist response to the culture of reform

    Creator:
    White, Andrew
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne lived and wrote in an age of reform efforts, and the progressive movement with which he was most familiar was Transcendentalism. However, he was not sympathetic with Emerson's idealism, a sentiment which comes out in his fiction in way of critique. Throughout Hawthorne's work there is an emphasis...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Materialist Response to the Culture of Reform. Abstract approved: David M. Robinson Nathaniel

  • Radical centrism : The Bakatcha Bandit, Emook, and the hope of the riparian

    Creator:
    Scruton, Evan
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    In 1965 Malcolm X said that we are living in a time of extremism. People in power have misused it now there has to be a change, and a better world has to be built, and the only way it's going to be built is with extreme methods. And I,...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : ______________________________________________________ David M. Robinson In 1965 Malcolm X said that "we are living in a time of extremism

  • 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....
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    Masters Thesis
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    thesis committee— Lisa Ede, David Robinson, and Jun Xing—each of whom has asked important questions

  • Patriarchal power and punishment : the trickster figure in the short fiction of Shirley Jackson, Flannery O'Connor, and Joyce Carol Oates

    Creator:
    Strempke-Durgin, Heather D.
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    This thesis is an exploration of how male trickster figures operate in the Gothic fiction of 20th century American female authors. Specifically, I look at the short stories “The Daemon Lover” by Shirley Jackson, “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor, and “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by...
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    Masters Thesis
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    without their support. Thank you sincerely Dr. David Robinson, Dr. Anita Helle, and Dr. Steven Rubert. I

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    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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    Masters Thesis
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    revise and polish, even after their publication as part of this thesis. Thanks also to David Robinson

  • Slipping into the Dark: Death as a Means of Discovery in Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo and Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping

    Creator:
    Hansen, Sarah Anne
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    This thesis compares and contrasts Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo and Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping to explore how Mexican and American cultures perceive death. By examining the thoughts and actions of the young protagonists through the lens of the uncanny, it becomes obvious that they are searching for a history that has...
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    Undergraduate Thesis
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    Marilynne Robinson biography.......................................... 7 3. Methods