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  • Bildungsroman in contemporary black women's fiction

    Creator:
    Carey, Cecelia V.
    Abstract:
    Bildungsroman in Contemporary Black Women's Fiction is a study of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Alice Walker's The Color Purple. Both of these writers implement a newer version of the genre of Bildungsroman to reveal the complexities involved in coming of age for a young woman of color. Both...
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    29. 2001. Title: Bildungsroman in Contemporary Black Women's Fiction. Abstract approved: David M

  • Bright lights, big city : electrified female desire in Edith Wharton and Theodore Dreiser

    Creator:
    Larsen, Haley A.
    Abstract:
    This thesis explores the electrified female subject in two novels, Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie (1900) and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth (1905). As cultural touchstones, two literary works that prominently feature electricity -- Henry James' story "In the Cage" and Henry Adams' biography The Education of Henry Adams --...
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    thank Peter Betjemann, Meghan Freeman, David Robinson, and Susan Shaw for serving on my thesis

  • 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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    and a son, all off now and doing okay, except maybe David. Jim stood there hands dangling. He

  • Empire and other stories

    Creator:
    Gelper, Cynthia H.
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    This is a collection of eight short stories, all of which deal on some level with alienation and the struggle to find meaning in one's life. Although most of the stories deal with issues related to women or feature female protagonists, I did not set out to create a political...
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  • Chazzonos

    Creator:
    Rockler, Lyle
    Abstract:
    Chazzonos, as presented here for my thesis, represents three chapters of what will be a novel of the same name. Chazzonos is about Hal Perlmutter, a cantor, who at the outset of the novel, is resigning his position of twenty years. The novel progresses as Hal decides where he will...
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    is one morning I could have used David, he thinks. At the crest of the second hill, out of breath

  • A Style Analysis of Army Doctrine Publications

    Creator:
    Frier, Don
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    This project performs a style analysis of three sentences from three military manuals written across an 80 year time-period. I first discuss the history of style within academic discourse and how it has impacted the study of style within the field of writing and rhetoric. Using this background, I then...
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    always consistent. I like David Klein’s description of style from The Army Writer where he says “Style

  • Claude McKay's Vision of Community in the African Diaspora : A Fresh Take on Home to Harlem and Banjo

    Creator:
    De Jesus, Michael A. (Michael Anthony)
    Abstract:
    This research examines the literary and philosophical dimensions of the African American Harlem Renaissance, beginning with the historical milieu of the early twentieth century. A social movement that became known as Uplift and the so-called Cabaret Movement emerged as important, competing literary and social ideologies within the Renaissance. W.E.B. Du...
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    discriminatory laws. Rather, these writers highlighted cultural products such as poetry and literature. David

  • The Listening Cure: Theorizing Gender Fluid Performance through Katharine Hepburn’s Transatlantic Accent

    Creator:
    Dawson, Katherine
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    My mother named me after Hollywood icon Katharine Hepburn, but what made a working-class girl grow to love this posh celebrity so much? The obvious answer is that my mother aspired to be posh herself; but lack of money or sophistication were not the only things impacting her potential— there...
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  • Things not seen, and other stories

    Creator:
    Walsh, Amy M.
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    These six stories investigate characters who must begin to understand their own actions, which are often made in response to authority. In the lives of these characters, there are schemas which they believe they fit, certain rules placed on them by society that they each feel they must obey. It...
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    read the sign below his name: "Artistic Director" it says, in crisp block letters designed and

  • Elementary Music

    Creator:
    Treat, Tanya
    Abstract:
    The four stories and one essay within are linked by themes: love, sex, truth, and music. Three of the stories are told by first person narrators who are also musicians. In "Elementary Music," a young girl views her parents' divorce through the lens of an orchestra concert in which she...
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    want Beethoven's Fifth. And they want them crisp, clean, and articulate. Not beautiful, but blended