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

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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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. Thompson. Abstract approved: David Robinson The purpose of
The Legends of a Traveler : Excavating a Transnational Past through Storytelling in Irving's Alhambra

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Lammers, Jack

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To the chagrin of his American comrades, Washington Irving would spend much of his life in Europe as a writer and cross-cultural explorer, including a stay in the halls of the Alhambra. This experience led to the completion of Tales of the Alhambra (1832), a collection of sketches, anecdotes, and...

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David Robinson, Committee Member, representing English Nick Fleury, Committee Member
Under the Shadow of this Red Rock: Reading T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land for its Places, Persons, and Poetics

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Summers, Stephen James

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Thomas Stearns Eliot’s 1922 modernist poem The Waste Land presents itself as an alternative to the decaying society Eliot found himself inhabiting. It begins as a personal means of pulling together one’s fragmented consciousness, but in doing so Eliot manages to present a solution to a world of selfishness—looking beyond...

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

The Legends of a Traveler : Excavating a Transnational Past through Storytelling in Irving's Alhambra

Under the Shadow of this Red Rock: Reading T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land for its Places, Persons, and Poetics

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