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  • An informed and ignorant readership : the contradictions of creative nonfiction

    Creator:
    Rush, Lani
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    Creative nonfiction is a genre replete with contradictions--the name itself shows that: nonfiction writing is true and factual, but creative writing is imaginative and inventive. Because of fundamental contradictions like this, there is no standardized or even most common definition of the genre. This creates confusion for both critics and...
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    nonfiction is a genre replete with contradictions—the name itself shows that: nonfiction writing is true

  • Theodore Dwight Weld's use of the judicial motif in American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses

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    Trudeau, Justin Thomas
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    This thesis examines the rhetoric of Theodore Dwight Weld's American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses. Published anonymously in 1839, Weld's publication became the longest antislavery tract in American history. It left its mark on the abolitionist movement itself and future antislavery literary works most notably Uncle...
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    Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Justin Thomas Trudeau

  • Houses of fiction, houses of confinement : character introductions, autonomy, and domestic spaces in two works by Henry James

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    Killips, Lisa M.
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    My thesis examines a total of fourteen characters from The Portrait of a Lady and The Turn of the Screw. Primarily, I have discovered an overwhelming pattern in these two works by Henry James; when characters make direct entrances--that is when they are not described or discussed in absentia by...
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    Works by Henry James Abstract approved: Peter J. Betjemann David M. Robinson My thesis examines a

  • Inside, Outside : Light and Dark

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    Knotts, L. William
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    In a story of his life Les reflects on what he has gained and what he has lost while seeking success in the moving and shifting of military and academic life through homes and schools all over the United States. He describes himself as between races, languages, and cultures.
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    . Title: Inside, Outside: Light and D rk RA edacted for PrivacyAbstract Approved: A Chris/Anaerson In

  • The Morphology of Goethe’s Botanical Work

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    Hahn, Andre M.
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    This thesis examines the morphology of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) through several lenses. The first explores Goethe's morphology as he applied it in his botanical work and supplies an explanation of what Goethe referred to as archetypal phenomena and the archetypal plant. The scope of exploration then broadens to...
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    Abstract Approved: Michael A. Osborne This thesis examines the morphology of Johann

  • Drum Languages and Their Messages

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    Jewett, Susan E.
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    With over 800 languages spoken on the continent of Africa, inter-cultural communication has always been difficult. In addition, many of the peoples of Africa have experienced colonial oppression. Various powers have sought to interfere with intra-cultural dialogues and the free flow of information. Their effectiveness, however, was limited because of...
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    surrogates. Messages are relayed on them in a codal form. This form is based on the tonal language of the

  • Bleeding Assemblages: Translating Borders in the Bilingual Poetry of Irma Pineda Santiago

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    Killeen, Shanna
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    This thesis examines the bilingual poetry of indigenous, Mexican poet Irma Pineda Santiago. In her work, she composes mirrored poems in Isthmus Zapotec and Spanish. I analyze the ways in which her work brings Zapotec and Spanish into contact with one another, demanding that readers acknowledge narratives of erasure that...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Christina A León Adam Schwartz This thesis examines

  • Writing a feminist position in the classroom

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    Forrest, Dodie A.
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    Like other social institutions, universities have been created and administered by and for a white-male dominant culture that continues to marginalize women and anyone else designated as -Other- according to race, class, ethnicity, ability, age, size, and sexuality. This discussion questions the dominant model of standard written discourse in the...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Dodie A. Forrest for the degree of

  • Discovering Antigone: A Non-Normative Political Figure

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    Patten, Jennifer A.
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    This thesis analyzes Sophocles’ classic Greek tragedy Antigone as it relates to biopolitics, biopower, democratic language and non-normative principles of politics. I argue that the figure of Antigone enables a better understanding of exclusive biopolitical philosophy. Antigone is a figure not recognized as human because her gender is tortured and...
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    January 3, 2021. Title: Discovering Antigone: A Non-Normative Political Figure. Abstract

  • Omen of Mere Event : Vignettes in a Post-Wilderness Landscape

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    Schultz, Aaron A.
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    This thesis uses a series of non-fiction vignettes to explore objects, agencies, and networks, applying theories of rhetoric and composition directly to experience and vise versa. Focusing on agency--as understood through sociology's actor-networks, post- humanism’s Object Orientated Ontology, and Ecocriticism's ecological approach--I look at events, landscapes, and partnerships that have...
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    OF THE THESIS OF Aaron A. Schultz for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on April