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Killing the Father and the Father Lives On: The Literary Influence of Richard Wright on James Baldwin

Creator:: Stoneberg, Michael R.
Abstract:: This thesis discusses the African American authors Richard Wright and James Baldwin, and their views regarding how literature should be written. These views are examined as laid out in a selection of each author‟s essays, as well as through an analysis of the characters Bigger Thomas and Rufus Scott in...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Michael Richard

Genres at Play : History, Tragedy, and Comedy in Shakespeare's Richard II

Creator:: Wiley, Marie
Abstract:: This thesis examines a range of generic influences in William Shakespeare's Richard II. By exploring the play's references to conflicting interpretations of history from different generic perspectives, I hope to advance a more nuanced reading of the play's dynamic staging of history. In Chapter One, I suggest that Richard II...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , 2016. Title: Genres at Play: History, Tragedy and Comedy in Shakespeare’s Richard II

The problems [of Paul Ricoeur's symbols] of evil

Creator:: Ritenour, Karen E.
Abstract:: In the early part of his philosophical career, Paul Ricoeur worked out a general theory of symbols which he illustrated with the symbols of evil. He subsequently explained this theory in several essays (his final major statement on symbols can be found in Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: More than anyone else, I am deeply indebted to Professor Richard Daniels for his help in guiding me

Vicarious power : masculinity, access and the hard-boiled detective

Creator:: Winsor, Shiloh
Abstract:: Dashiell Hammett's fiction and detective pulps generally, offered the reader a chance to participate in vicarious power, by giving them a sense of the profession of detection, both in and out of the stories. It was the realism of the detective figure that allowed the audience to relate to him....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: for Privacy Redacted for Privacy Redacted for privacy ACKNOWLEDGMENTS To Michael Oriard: I would

The Morphology of Goethe’s Botanical Work

Creator:: Hahn, Andre M.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Abstract Approved: Michael A. Osborne This thesis examines the morphology of Johann

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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Michael A. De Jesus for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary

Traversing the city of blogs : pedagogy, performance, and public spheres

Creator:: Faris, Michael J.
Abstract:: In this thesis, I conduct an analysis of blogs in order to understand their potential use in the composition classroom with the goals of students writing for a public audience and developing their rhetorical and civic agency. I do so by exploring the potential for the blogosphere as a public...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: OF THE THESIS OF Michael J. Faris for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on

Confusion and disappointment in the dream world: the allegorical senses, courtly language, and poetic landscape in Pearl

Creator:: Lewis, Michael Stewart
Abstract:: My current Project on the late fourteenth-century Pearl observes the workings of allegory, courtly language, and poetic landscape. During this study, I pursue the elements of the poem that suggest a lack of spiritual growth and change, and an abundance of pain, torment, and confusion for the poem's narrator. I...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Michael Stewart Lewis for the

Morrison’s Magical Reality: Disrupting the Politics of Memory

Creator:: Littke, Amanda L.
Abstract:: Novelist Toni Morrison is well-known for using the concept she calls rememory, or the process of actively revisiting and reconstructing a cultural past. Many critics agree that Morrison uses rememory in a strategic way, so that it provides sturdy framework for a larger discussion of issues of race, class, and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Re-Viewing Literacy : A Language Arts Teacher's Perspective

Creator:: Van Develder, Pamela A.
Abstract:: A controversy regarding literacy lies at the heart of debates over the current state of American education. In response to the debate, this study reviews and analyzes the literacy theories of E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Walter Ong, Sylvia Scribner and Michael Cole, Shirley Brice Heath, and Paulo Freire. The author presents...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: theories of E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Walter Ong, Sylvia Scribner and Michael Cole, Shirley Brice Heath, and Paulo

The social dimension of Shakespeare's art : a Midsummer Night's Dream

Creator:: Schaefer, Mimi
Abstract:: The study of the social dimensions of Shakespeare's art is represented by the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, C.L. Barber, Robert Weimann, Edward Berry, and Michael Bristol. Their work analyzes the background in Elizabethan social practices and popular dramatic traditions that contribute to the form, structure, and meaning of Shakespeare's comedies....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: represented by the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, C.L. Barber, Robert Weimann, Edward Berry, and Michael Bristol

A Different Kind of Fatigue : A Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Etiology of Burnout in Medical Literature

Creator:: Tran, Jessica
Abstract:: The rate of physician dissatisfaction is steadily rising. Between 2011 and 2012, the number of physicians that would not choose a career in medicine if given the opportunity to decide again increased by 15% (Adams). This discontentment has major repercussions in the midst of the rising need for physicians: it...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: (Bernstein). One reason for the increasing dissatisfaction is burnout, which physician Richard Gunderman

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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: FledermausThe Emperor Waltzes." "That would be Johann. This is Richard." He stood behind me, rubbed my

Aliens and academics : how cultural representations of alien abduction support an entrenched consensus reality

Creator:: Bryan, Frederick Clark
Abstract:: The alien abduction phenomenon has garnered considerable media attention in the last fifteen years, including many representations in books, film, and television. An overview of significant abduction literature is presented. Contrasts and comparisons are noted between popular written accounts and both the visual representations they engender and reports outside the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Karl Brunstein, Michael Grosso, Michael Woodhouse, Carl Raschke, David Hufford, Kenneth Ring and

Rethinking the dualism : Don DeLillo's White Noise and the ecocritical possibilities of the nature/culture mix

Creator:: Bowman, Natalie A.
Abstract:: Rethinking the Dualism: Don DeLillo's White Noise and the Ecocritical Possibilities of the Nature/Culture Mix questions current applications of ecocriticism and offers that these applications are inadequate in dealing with the perceived nature/culture dualism. This thesis suggests that ecocritics need to stop thinking in dualistic terms, but instead must consider...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: connects individuals to nature proves to be problematic for these characters because, as Richard Kerridge

Cartoon All Stars to the Rescue: from Public Service Announcement to Program- Length Commercial

Creator:: Seiber, Rich
Abstract:: Animation has long been a staple of children's television programming As public service announcements (PSA5) have become an important part of children's television programming, cartoon characters have started to appear in this form of nonprogram material. By standard definition, PSAs are usually a 15 to 60-second spot that promote education...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: cartoons. In 1981, Medhurst and co-author Michael A. DeSousa published an article in Communication

Of dragons, palaces, and gods : a mormon perspective on C. S. Lewis

Creator:: Garrett, Christopher Edward
Abstract:: During his lifetime C. S. Lewis chose to speak to Christians in plain and simple language that they could understand. Lewis taught and defended truths that he felt were discernible through reason. Morality, free will, and the divinity of Jesus Christ were fundamental to his core beliefs and teachings. His...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: identifY Lewis was Richard L. Evans. Evans not only served as a member of the Quorum ofthe Twelve

Composing for Social Change : Clashes of Ideographs and Ideology in the Composition Classroom

Creator:: Gasser, Chris
Abstract:: Clashes of ideology are all around us, from our computer and television screens to our composition classrooms, and they merit attention within the composition classroom. This thesis examines the justifications and pedagogies that scholars in rhetoric and composition use to infuse issues of ideology and social ethics into writing instruction...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: effective and accessible way to discuss the clashing ideologies surrounding the death of Michael Brown. I

How the Portrayal of Women Characters in the Zorro and Robin Hood Stories Has Changed Over Time

Creator:: Rodriguez-Walmisley, Olga B.
Abstract:: This thesis explores how female characters in the Zorro and Robin Hood stories have changed throughout time, from beginnings until present day. I began my analysis by first researching whether Zorro and Robin Hood existed, and found that Robin Hood was most likely a real man who lived during the...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: marry Rowena to one of his own advisors as part of a plot to prevent King Richard from taking back power

Women's voices : the emergence of female identity in Bleak House and Little Dorrit

Creator:: Van Ras, Tamara L.
Abstract:: Dedicated to recording, portraying, and indicting the social inequities that he witnessed in nineteenth century Victorian England, one of Charles Dickens' many concerns was the roles assigned to women both in the public and private spheres. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the narratives of Amy Dorrit and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Skimpole, is a shiftless parasite, and that Richard Carstone, Ada's betrothed, lacks a work ethic and

James Joyce's critique of "Faubourg Saint Patrice" : Ulysses, the Catholic Panopticon, and religious dressage

Creator:: Nelson, John C. M.
Abstract:: In his works, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Ulysses (1922), James Joyce demonstrates what he perceives to be the paralyzing effects of those institutionalized religions that sit at the center of cultures. Drawing on Michel Foucault's analysis of institutional dressage as well as his...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: avant-garde artists and theorists, most significantly Henrik Ibsen and Freidrich Nietzche. Richard

Literacy narratives across the curriculum

Creator:: Coffey, Marjorie D.
Abstract:: This thesis proposes expanding the locations where literacy narratives are currently used as readings and as writing assignments and considering broad conceptions of the types and uses of literacy narratives read in classrooms. In particular, this thesis asserts the value of expanding the literacy narratives read beyond the current canonical...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: feat. Special thanks to friends who have constantly encouraged me: Mikey Cassella, Michael Faris

(Com)Posing Rhetorical Ecology: Cultivating Phronesis via Permacultural Praxis

Creator:: Ferris, Ian
Abstract:: Contrasting the productive ground gained in ecological rhetorical theory through embedded fieldwork, composition as a discipline has yet to enact such transformative engagements with ecology. In this thesis, I put forward a praxis for ecological rhetoric and composition through permaculture design, utilizing the design framework’s system of ethics and principles...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: described by rhetorical ethnographers Michael K. Middleton, Samantha Senda-Cook, and Danielle Endres

The Word Made Flesh: Molly Bloom’s Political Body

Creator:: Dennon, Anne
Abstract:: The century since James Joyce published Ulysses has been an era of incredible social reconfiguration, particularly for women’s roles and rights, which Joyce foreshadowed in his major works. The developments and divisions of feminist theory ultimately return to Joyce as an author who attempted an early example of what might...
Resource Type:: Research Paper
Full Text:: femininity to many early academics. Richard Bentley went so far as to postulate that a woman must have

The control, resistance, and evolution of digital artifacts: a materialist study of internet culture

Creator:: Villemarette, Chris
Abstract:: My goal is to demonstrate that a coevolutionary relationship exists between decentralized networks over which digital media are used and the control mechanisms placed on those networks and digital media. The resisting digital media and the control mechanisms placed on them push each other toward further decentralization. The aspects of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: work in the area of human geography. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri have combined Marxist analysis

Learning by imitation : the scholarly works of David Bartholomae

Creator:: Gallup, Sarah E.
Abstract:: This thesis examines the scholarship in pedagogical theory and practice of David Bartholomae over the past thirty-five years, in particular examining the role that the rhetorical construct of imitation has played in its development. Through my research, I trace the evolution of Bartholomae’s pedagogical stances and practices, as these both...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: as Imitation……………………….. 12 Richard Poirier……………………………………………………………….. 15 Harold Bloom

Claire Lies and other stories

Creator:: Rosenberg, Valerie P.
Abstract:: The five short stories included in this thesis depict characters who struggle as they try to balance their responsibilities to each other, and their own independent desires. Whether those desires include personal freedom, another relationship, or self-protection, these characters are at least minimally aware that obtaining what they most want...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Oregon State: Jennifer Cornell, Richard Daniels, Tracy Daugherty, Ehud Havazelet and Marjorie Sandor

An Exploration of Scholarship on Peer Review in Composition Studies : Looking to the Future with Replicable, Aggregated, and Data-Supported Research Methodologies

Creator:: Day, Jacob E.
Abstract:: This thesis examines the nature of evidence in scholarship on peer review in composition studies. I argue that the nature of evidence present in scholarship on peer review over the past three decades is typically anecdotal, theoretical, and based on limited case studies. I argue that peer review research in...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: -Mediated Response Group Practices” being asked by well known composition scholar Richard Fulkerson if

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

Creator:: Dawson, Katherine
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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

Reverend Jesse Jackson's Rhetorical Strategy : A Case for the Functional Role of Narratio

Creator:: Bruno, Edward Louis
Abstract:: The purpose of this study is to investigate the rhetorical strategies used by Reverend Jesse L. Jackson from the 1970's to the 1990's. Specifically, this study examines Jackson's use of narrative to empower himself, his constituency, and his political ideologies without possessing a traditional political platform. Jackson raised political and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: that has responded to Fisher's call also emanates from the functional aspect of narration. Michael

The role(s) of literature in introductory composition classrooms

Creator:: Caster, Peter
Abstract:: First year college writing classes originated in the United States at Harvard University in 1874. Since then, theorizing such a course has proven a place of contention, as its purposes and subjects have proven difficult to sort and impossible to agree upon. When Harvard first began teaching introductory composition, literature...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: courses to argue for or against such use, as Erwin Steinberg and Gary Tate do. Others, such as Michael

"They called me the hyacinth girl" : T. S. Eliot, masculinity, and the Great War

Creator:: Query, Patrick
Abstract:: This thesis traces the relationship between the First World War, constructions of masculinity, and the life and poetry of T.S. Eliot. Central to this relationship is a study of homoeroticism, which the author characterizes as different from homosexuality but not exclusive of it, in late 19th and early 20th century...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: 74n, 71n). It is doubtful that, as Richard Kaye argues, Eliot's own early poem, "The Love Song of

The Legend of the Three Living and the Three Dead : The Development of the Macabre in Late Medieval England

Creator:: Sandeno, Robin M.
Abstract:: Many authorities state that the development of macabre images were a result of the plague that first swept through western Europe 1347-1350. However, many aspects of the macabre were already in place prior to the plague. A more realistic explanation for the macabre is in the modification of religious belief,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Cecily Howard, died 1499 ................................... 84 11. Transi of Richard Fox, Bishop of

Of mice and bunnies : Walt Disney, Hugh Hefner, and the age of consensus

Creator:: Allen-Spencer, Patricia C.
Abstract:: Post World War II victory culture and its fallout-the consensus ideology-led to the creation of a middle class willing to conform to a prescribed set of ideals, safely removed from all danger, and enjoying the material benefits of a growing middle-class income bracket. Walt Disney and Hugh Hefner, two seemingly...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: this process a positive experience. I owe more than words can express to the Beck family. Michael

Immigrant encounters : film narratives of the modern immigrant

Creator:: Yeager, Angela L.
Abstract:: This thesis employs a narrative analysis of more than twenty-five films that are centrally concerned with immigrants and the immigrant experience. In Part One, drawing from the work of Yosefa Loshitzky, I will focus on films that feature an immigrant lead character. In Part Two, I will explore movies that...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Responsible pedagogy : (re)framing contemporary educational theory and American cultural politics

Creator:: Rust, Stephen
Abstract:: Responsible Pedagogy is examination of contemporary education in the United States. Responsible educators are dedicated to being representative, responsive, and respectful. These three principles guide the best teaching and learning that are taking place in classrooms across the country. Launched in 2003, Shakespeare in American Communities is the most ambitious...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Bradbury, and, when the situation seemed to call for it, Michael Moore and Donald Rumsfeld. We'd talk

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

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

Creator:: White, Andrew
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: privileges over intuition. Michael Colacurcio has argued that Hawthorne is a "moral historian," noting

Preach my gospel : a metaphoric analysis of Mormon missionary rhetoric

Creator:: Roberts, Myra Nichole
Abstract:: The rhetorical significance of Mormonism stems from its history and its success—this success being measured by its consistent increase in membership. The total membership of the Mormon Church has grown from 6 members in 1830 to just over 14 million in just over 180 years. A consistently high rate of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The identification and division of Steve Jobs

Creator:: Anderson, Scott M. (Scott Matthew)
Abstract:: On April 1, 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak entered into a partnership agreement to found Apple Computer. In the decade that followed, Apple experienced remarkable growth and success, as Jobs catapulted Apple to the Fortune 500 list of top‐flight companies faster than any other company in history. Under direction...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text::  company’s future (75).  The following month, Jobs returned to  11 PARC with Apple President Michael

Mike Rose : composing a reading of inclusion

Creator:: Jameson, Sara
Abstract:: Mike Rose researcher, professor, scholar, and author of numerous articles and books including the literacy memoir - Lives on the Boundary - has been active in the field of education and composition for over 30 years. This thesis looks back at the development of the discipline of composition studies to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: We Need to Know about Writing" (1982), and Marilyn Cooper and Michael Holzman's "Talking About

The adorned and the adored : issues of sympathy and ownership in Victorian literature

Creator:: Schmuhl, Emily J.
Abstract:: This thesis is comprised of two articles that examine sympathy, material culture, and ownership in Victorian literature. In the first article, I explore the figure of the heiress in the Victorian literary tradition, focusing on Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. George Eliot marked the heiress figure...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Richard Witt, who specifically focuses on the suggestive cut of Miss Havisham’s gown and how “the

A circle of response : addressing the tensions of teacher responseto student writing

Creator:: Carothers, April D.
Abstract:: What students need most from instructors’ written response on their texts is commentary that evokes a sense of exchange. Teachers often believe that their job is to point out the deficits in a student’s paper and help eliminate those deficits. While this is a part of the function of response,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Robert Connors, Andrea Lunsford, and Richard Straub, just to name a 4 very few. Many of these are

Expression & identity : the word made flesh

Creator:: Beach, J. M.
Abstract:: This essay is an exploration of identity formation and expression. Humanity's identity formations create the orientations and languages with which we use to create our knowledge and understanding of the surrounding external environment (both social and physical) and our internal environment (psychological). This essay traces the sources of identity formation...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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:: Michael Oriard and Professor Lisa Ede were wonderfully supportive and considerate. I will never forget

Re-sounding Harlem Renaissance narratives : the repetition and representation of identity through sound in Nella Larsen's Passing and Toni Morrison's Jazz

Creator:: Aragon, Racheal
Abstract:: The cultural and historical construction of African American identity in the United States has been closely tied to the dialectical relationship formed between sound and silence. This thesis examines the modernist and postmodernist representation of sound and silence in the African American novels Passing (1929), by Nella Larsen, and Jazz...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of sound as it relates to the representation of identity in the African American novel. Michael

A study of the stylistic ramifications of Father Charles Edward Coughlin's sermons from 1930 to 1934

Creator:: Acklin, Melissa Barrett
Abstract:: During the depression era, millions of Americans listened to the weekly radio addresses given by Father Charles Edward Coughlin. He devoted his career to speaking out against the evils of America and felt it his duty to warn Americans against the perpetrators of this evil. But after 1934, the tone...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: investigation, Edwin Black's "The Second Persona," Richard Hofstadter's "The Paranoid Style in American

Argument and common ground : scholarly research meets the common core state standards

Creator:: Clark, Jillian
Abstract:: This thesis examines the recent history of the teaching of argument and its implications in the face of new writing standards being implemented in K-12 classrooms under the Common Core State Standards. The new educational policies will shift the focus of writing instruction onto argument writing as part of students'...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Now-familiar names such as Corbett, Richard Leo Enos, and Andrea Lunsford pursued classical rhetoric

A rhetoric of transformation : the emergence of community literacy within composition studies

Creator:: Vega-Peters, Susan T.
Abstract:: Within literacy and composition studies, writing, as a social act, is believed by many to have the potential to effect change in and transform situations of injustice. Community literacy, as an emergent practice within composition studies, embraces and stretches this notion of linking literacy to social change. Community literacy also...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Michael Holzman in Writing as Social Action, the "central purpose in the . . writing class is to

Imagining the Future into Reality: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of The Jetsons

Creator:: Myrick, Jane E.
Abstract:: This investigation examines The Jetsons’ vision of the future and tracks to what extent the content of the show is relevant to the modern era, both technologically and socially. Much of the dazzling technology in the show feels familiar, and most of it is either already available or is in...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis

Revisiting hypertext communities of practice

Creator:: Breitenfeldt, Jeffrey
Abstract:: This thesis is an exploration of writing from two communities of practice addressing different aspects of hypertext--an electronic medium used to link text, images, and other content such that it can be accessed by users non-sequentially. In particular, I examine multiple narratives of hypertext development and key theoretically oriented approaches...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

“I Can’t Believe I’m Marching for Reality”: Examining the Rhetorical Role of Science in the “Post-Truth” Era

Creator:: Baker, Carlee A.
Abstract:: In the months preceding the 2016 presidential election and during the Trump presidency, rhetoric, composition, and communications scholars expressed an urgent concern about the threat that Trump and his political affiliates posed to the status of truth in political life (McComiskey; Rice; Harsin; Cloud). However, the conversations surrounding the discipline’s...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Sullivan. In chapter 3, I apply this analytic lens to the March for Science. I first introduce Michael

Truth, justice, and the American way : what Superman teaches us about the American Dream and changing values within the United States

Creator:: Karp, Lauren N.
Abstract:: This thesis is a study of the changes in the cultural definition of the American Dream. I have chosen to use Superman comics, from 1938 to the present day, as litmus tests for how we have societally interpreted our ideas of “success” and the “American Way.” This work is primarily...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: imagination and supported me throughout this program. I am also grateful to Michael Gustie, who helped

'That life of commonplace sacrifices' : representations of womanhood in Irish Catholic culture in James Joyce's Dubliners

Creator:: McGrory, Suzette L.
Abstract:: Traditional interpretations of James Joyce's Dubliners have often focused on the pervasive "paralysis" of the city, covered in the stories' range of "childhood, adolescence, maturity, and public life." However, these approaches have limited their focus on the women in the stories, often spotlighting the male characters--and the author--through a Freudian...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Richard Ellman (Vol. II and III). New York: Viking, 1957, 1966. MBK Joyce, Stanislaus. My Brother's

Geography and other stories

Creator:: Cook, Molly Larson
Abstract:: This thesis comprises a collection of six short stories written and developed in the Creative Writing program at Oregon State University and particularly in fiction workshops with Dr. Tracy Daugherty and Marjorie Sandor. These stories explore the human condition, and human connections, in contemporary society. The characters here are ordinary...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: than Maggie perhaps, but both of them are ready for the change. For three months, since Richard, a

"It was on the tip of everyone's tongue, Tyler and I just gave it a name" : Fight Club's representation of consumer culture

Creator:: Wicks, James Anthony
Abstract:: This thesis examines the representation of consumer culture in Fight Club within the context of Frederic Jameson's theory of postmodernism. I propose that the film represents consumer culture as a totalizing system. This representation is evident in the setting of the film and in the Narrator's attempt to escape from...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . A heartfelt thanks also to Dr. Chris Anderson, Dr. Lisa Ede, Dr. Richard Daniels, and Dr. Jennifer

Eternal Years : Religion, Psychology and Sexuality in the Art of Emily Bronte

Creator:: Miranda, Pamela C.
Abstract:: This thesis offers a textual analysis of Emily Bronte's novel Wuthering Heights and, to a lesser extent, her poems in an effort to understand fully the complicated relationship of gender to time that characterizes her artistic imagination. The study emphasizes the interplay of religious, psychological and sexual forces inherent in...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

George Bernard Shaw's "Big Three" : an althusserian reading of Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara

Creator:: Kramer, Johanna I.
Abstract:: Traditional readings of George Bernard Shaw's texts suggest that he is not a pure Marxist socialist because of the spiritual and nationalist aspects of his vision. This thesis attempts to confront Shaw's politics in order to demonstrate that he indeed offers a viable socialist program. Overlaying his socialism with Louis...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: that he considered poverty as a pervasive cause of all social evils and, in Michael Holroyd's words

The Way In: Interviews with Evangelical Christians

Creator:: Williams, B. Patrick
Abstract:: The purpose of this study is to examine the most significant reasons evangelical Christian faith is compelling to its adherents. Through the interviews of nineteen Evangelical Christians, it becomes clear that evangelicals see the Bible and Christian theology in a literal and factual way. Thus, contrary to some strains of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: from age four through their teen-age years and have been solidly Christian ever since (Richard, Mark

The soul announces itself : Terrence Malick's Emersonian cinema

Creator:: Fech, Bill
Abstract:: This thesis takes an auteurist approach to the films of director Terrence Malick by reading them through the spiritual philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson. I establish Malick's thematic concern with the human struggle to achieve better existences in a broken material world, a concern buoyed by his signature aesthetic that...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of such calls to higher consciousness, a struggle described by Emerson scholar Richard Geldard as

Wild nature or the garden : conservation themes in the forests of Tarzan and Herland/Ourland

Creator:: Davis, Caryn M.
Abstract:: At first glance, Edgar Rice Burroughs's wildly popular romantic fantasy novel, Tarzan of the Apes (1912), and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's feminist science fiction-utopian novel, Herland (1915), with its dystopian companion, With Her in Ourland (1916), may appear to have little in common. Tarzan celebrates the human connection with wild nature...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Scripts and Minoritarian Subjectivity: Examining Ambivalence and Asian Diasporas in Kim Jee-woon’s The Good, The Bad, The Weird, Kim Fu’s For Today I Am a Boy, and R. Zamora Linmark’s Rolling the R’s

Creator:: Son, Rachana C.
Abstract:: This thesis explores the roles of scripts in shaping minoritarian subjectivity through Kim Jee-woon’s film The Good, The Bad, The Weird (2008), Kim Fu’s novel For Today I Am a Boy (2014), and R. Zamora Linmark’s novel Rolling the R’s (1995). In all three works, diasporic characters of Asian descent...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

An autumn journey : time, place, and pattern in Henry David Thoreau's later work

Creator:: Dotterman, Anthony Matthew
Abstract:: This thesis situates a discussion of Thoreau's later natural history essays in the context of the author's other writings. Beginning with an examination of the writings of Thoreau's friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, this paper examines Thoreau's relation to and departure from Emerson's understanding of time, place, and pattern...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: forces language to take on symbols and meanings he never considered before. As Michael Berger argues

A Style Analysis of Army Doctrine Publications

Creator:: Frier, Don
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . We can use the definition that Richard Ohmann employs when he says that style is “a way of

Measures of reality : the religious life of Virginia Woolf

Creator:: Streufert, Mary J.
Abstract:: Virginia Woolf was a self-proclaimed atheist, yet her fictional and personal writing reveal her ecstatic consciousness. Characters in Woolf s novels experience ecstasy, and her letters and diaries support the theory that she herself had experienced ecstatic consciousness. Major figures in the philosophy of religion assert that ecstatic consciousness is...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: experiences. Around the time when Woolf was born, Richard Jeffries published The Story of My Heart, which

Speaking for the dead : funeral rhetoric and women's lament in ancient Athens

Creator:: Robertson, Wayne
Abstract:: Recently, feminist scholars have begun to question the traditional telling of the history of rhetoric. Dissatisfied with a history which is told in terms of privileged, white males to the exclusion of all other voices, these scholars have worked to recover "lost" female rhetoricians and have begun critically rereading the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Sourvinou-Inwood's hypothesis, classical scholar Richard Seaford argues that her explanation fails to

From the encoded to the explicit in the 20th Century Irish romance : a study of Elizabeth Bowen's The last September and Edna O'Brien's The country girl's trilogy

Creator:: Breeden, Shobana L.
Abstract:: This thesis uses both feminist and new historic theories to argue that the women's romance novels The Last September (1929) by Elizabeth Bowen and The Country Girl's Trilogy (1960, 1962, 1964) by Edna O'Brien are tragic bildungsroman that subvert and challenge the Irish patriarchal marriage expectations of their respective time...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: return Ireland to a Catholic conservatism. Breeden 22 Historian Richard Killeen observes

"Born of ourselves" : gendered doubling and the femme fatale in Vernon Lee's ghost stories

Creator:: Delf, Liz
Abstract:: This thesis examines the characterization of the femme fatale and the implications of this trope for late-Victorian gender and sexuality in the ghost stories of female aesthete Vernon Lee. In her treatment of the femme fatale figure, Lee both reinforces and complicates the image of the sexualized, often bestialized woman...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: politics of the Aesthetic movement in two antithetical ways. One group of critics, typified by Richard

Fostering a Multidimensional, Metacognitive Landscape Through Rhetorical Narrative Analysis

Creator:: Breeden, Regan
Abstract:: Close reading has long been favored as an interpretative framework within those classrooms commonly united under the umbrella of English studies. This thesis explores the role of a particular brand of close reading—one often assessed through text-dependent questions—and critiques its centrality within assessment and curriculum materials for the AP Program...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: composition or introductory English course. In 1993, Daniel Mahala and Michael Vivion called on the readers

"A Sea of Grief is Not a Proscenium": Claudia Rankine's Citizen and the Spectacle of Racist Violence in Cyberculture

Creator:: Lathos, Athena M.
Abstract:: In her 2016 article “Beyond Rights as Recognition, Black Twitter and Posthuman Coalitional Possibilities,” Pritha Prasad argues that the hashtag, one of the decade’s most omnipresent features of digital communication, functions as “a performative composing medium that not only demands relationality” and “call[s] for the recognition of both the Black...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: #IfTheyGunnedMeDown, which circulated after Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown were killed by police in 2012 and 2014

"Justify[ing] the ways of God to man" : John Milton's Use of Satan to Promote a Christian Message in Paradise Lost

Creator:: Burkett, Kristen A.
Abstract:: This paper focuses on Satan as a sympathetic figure in Paradise Lost, and it argues that readers' sympathy for Satan drives them to pursue God's grace in order to avoid falling into the same fate as Satan. It uses Reader Response theory to show how readers connect with Satan, and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The postwar novel as postmodern : revisiting Catch-22 & Slaughterhouse-five

Creator:: Spreitzer, Peter
Abstract:: This thesis is an exploration of Catch-22 (1961) and Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), two early documents of American postmodern literature. In particular, this thesis attempts to present the critical discussions surrounding each novel as parallel to the broader theoretical discussions surrounding the concept of postmodernism. My contention is that, in both of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

To mend the walls of Babel : essays on identity and ethnicity

Creator:: Inoue, Asao B.
Abstract:: In this thesis, I explore experiences with my identity, looking at the identity people have seen me as, who I've thought I was, and the identities my mother's and father's different family backgrounds suggest I should be. I have divided this discussion into three main areas: my complexion, the first...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , unfortunately, (here is where I differ from Fuentes) none of them. Michael Omi and Howard Winant suggest that

Breeding the new woman : the eugenic discourse of motherhood in Shaw, Yeats, and Lawless

Creator:: Tracy, Hannah R.
Abstract:: The popularity and pervasiveness of eugenic discourse during the modernist period in England and Ireland raised many questions about race, class, and gender. While Hitler's Nazi "experiment" ultimately demonstrated the consequences of implementing eugenic ideas, forcing eugenicists to abandon, or at least mask, their theories, the eugenics movement before World...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Sexologists, What of the Night?: Parody and Resistance in Nightwood

Creator:: Simpson, Taylor
Abstract:: The present study considers the mid-nineteenth century origins of the term “sexual inversion,” as it became applied to a variety of nonnormative subjects and sexual practices. Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood (1936) has long been recognized as a discursive space wherein socially constructed notions of sexuality and gender are interrogated. A key...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: 8 See also Harry Oosterhuis. “Sexual Modernity in the Works of Richard von Krafft-Ebing and Albert

Quintilian's influence on Obadiah Walker

Creator:: O'Rourke, Kathryn Ann
Abstract:: The nature and extent of classical rhetoric's influence on subsequent ages has been the focus of much recent study. Scholars have been concerned with how classical authors, particularly Cicero and Quintilian, emerged in educational and rhetorical theories of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and later centuries. Despite this flurry of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Berlin, Robert Connors, Sharon Crowley, Richard Enos, Nan Johnson, Jan Swearingen, Carole Blair and Mary

The influence of imperialist ideology on the dichotomy of passion and reason in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

Creator:: Dietrich, Rhonda
Abstract:: A prevalent belief during the Victorian age was that the world was divided between inferior beings governed by passion and superior reasoning beings. On the political level, this idea separated inferior passion-driven natives from superior reasoning Europeans. This division contributed to the maintenance and expansion of imperialist rule in distant...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Thanks also to Richard Anderson who patiently listened in my times of frustration. He also believed in

Re-viewing the canon : using film and critical pedagogy in the standards-based classroom

Creator:: Divelbiss, John D.
Abstract:: This thesis analyzes the efficacy of emancipatory (critical) pedagogical practices in an educational climate of standards-based reform. Using two films noir of the blacklist era--Body and Soul and Crossfire--as the core texts of a unit in a secondary school curriculum, I argue that an emphasis on student agency and a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: pedagogy and media literacy. Scholars JuliAnna Avila and Michael Moore address the potential embedded in

Fantastic Histories: How Malory's Morte Darthur Influenced Tolkien's The Silmarillion

Creator:: Tatom, Simon K.
Abstract:: My thesis, entitled "Fantastic Histories: How Malory's Morte Darthur Influenced Tolkien's The Silmarillion," argues that J.R.R. Tolkien's Silmarillion shares distinct similarities in style and content with Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur, primarily in the lack of detail in the descriptions of characters and events, as each attempts to create a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . The literary men (as Richard Firth Green puts it) of the earliest courts were, most often

A Rhetorical Analysis of William Wilberforce's First Official Proposal for the Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Creator:: Zach, Anne M.
Abstract:: The abolition of the Atlantic slave trade was a long struggle in British Parliament between the slave trade defenders and the abolitionists. The Act of 1807 officially abolished the Atlantic slave trade, eighteen years after the initial abolition proposal to Parliament. William Wilberforce was a member of a committee that...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

(Mis)representation & Postcolonial Masculinity : The Origins of Violence in the Plays and Films of Martin McDonagh

Creator:: Evans, Nicolas M. J.
Abstract:: This thesis examines the postmodern confrontation of representation throughout the oeuvre of Martin McDonagh. I particularly look to his later body of work, which directly and self-reflexively confronts issues of artistic representation & masculinity, in order to gain a more nuanced understanding of his earliest and most controversial plays. In...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Michael is unable to resist the Shan Van Vocht’s call to arms as he is irresistibly compelled to follow

"Its Own Sense of Verisimilitude" : The Lizzie Bennet Diaries As a Transhistorical Adaptation of the Semipublic

Creator:: Surface, Samara
Abstract:: The Lizzie Bennet Diaries is a multimodal adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, released from 2012-2013. As a media event, the show proved how effective transmedia storytelling can be, eventually winning an Emmy for Original Interactive Program. In creating an intensely immediate narrative world, the series adapted more than Jane Austen’s...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Water, fire, and stone : images and meaning in Melville

Creator:: Martin, Brian D.
Abstract:: This thesis is a study of Herman Melville’s symbolism. I have chosen to investigate the elemental images of water, fire, and stone in Moby-Dick (1851), Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities (1852), and Clarel; A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876). This work is a semiotic study, insofar as the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Crossing the Human: Posthumanist Deviations in Cormac McCarthy’s The Border Trilogy

Creator:: Johnson, Anthony
Abstract:: This thesis argues that the first two novels of Cormac McCarthy’s The Border Trilogy mark a sharp turn from the antihumanism of his earlier ‘Southern’ novels to a more affective exploration of posthumanist subjectivity within a world dominated by social discourse and metanarratives. In my examination of All the Pretty...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: performing a play whose lead actor is none other than Richard Nixon. Ultimately, the plot of Gravity’s

Extending and Visualizing Authorship in Comics Studies

Creator:: Brown, Nicholas A.
Abstract:: This thesis complicates the traditional associations between authorship and alphabetic composition within the comics medium and examines how the contributions of line artists and writers differ and may alter an audience's perceptions of the medium. As a fundamentally multimodal and collaborative work, the popular superhero comic muddies authorial claims and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Time to listen : an annotated bibliography of environmental readings, featuring Oregon writers, for middle school and high school students

Creator:: Crateau, Carole Ann
Abstract:: The purpose of this annotated bibliography is to guide middle school and high school students into critical thinking about environmental issues. Through keen observation of their bioregion and through an integration of interdisciplinary literature which focuses on Oregon writers, students will be challenged to think, write, and discuss current issues...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The beat generation : a rhetoric of negation

Creator:: Mackaman, Julie Irene
Abstract:: The Beat Generation was an American counter-culture movement in the 1950's. Comprised of nomadic writers, poets, actors, musicians, and artists, the Beat movement represented no systematic philosophy and its most distinguishing characteristic was its apolitical disengagement from society. The Beats offered no substantive alternatives to the existing social order, but...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Literary proletarianism : a critical re-vision of the Gastonia novels

Creator:: Nieberding, Jon
Abstract:: My primary purpose in this thesis is to continue the refocused attention given to American "proletarian" fiction of the 1930's. Because of their politics and supposed artistic inferiority, many of these works have been marginalized by American literary critics. However, many contemporary scholars are reconsidering this genre and devoting more...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: constructing identity, an issue taken up in part by Michael Denning in his work on Popular Front culture The

"The life of things" : weird realisms in Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads

Creator:: England, Saara Amelia
Abstract:: My thesis explores the poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth as emblematic of Western philosophy and literature's longstanding preoccupation with the relationship between mind and matter. The poets' attempts to mediate their languages and sensibilities with "real nature" have a complicated legacy for today's readers, as Romantic literature...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The Oregon State University Writing Center : history and context

Creator:: Weintraub, Melissa R.
Abstract:: The Oregon State University (OSU) Writing Center: History and Context provides a detailed and multi-faceted view of the Writing Center from its start in 1976 through the present. The information was gathered from interviews, annual reports, archival sources, and scholarly research. Chapter One examines the scholarly conversation about writing centers,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: J/ews1etter (WLJV) exemplifies this. Michael A. Pemberton details this history in his article "The

Radical/domestic : representations of the professor in Willa Cather's The Professor's House and Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin

Creator:: Butcher, Ian
Abstract:: This thesis is an exploration of literary representation of professors, specificially in Willa Cather's The Professor's House and Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin. I explicate the political unconscious of these texts by teasing out the tensions and ironies stemming from the conflict between the radical political consequences of the titular characters' scholarship...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: those personal memories to work, as Michael Leddy claims, like “a private mental accompaniment to the

Finding Fantasy : Three Newspapers Tell the Story of Kip Kinkel and Thurston High School

Creator:: Wood, Josie MaryAnne Soules
Abstract:: On May 21, 1998 Kip Kinkel drove to Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon. Kinkel killed two students and wounded another twenty-two students. He killed his parents the day before. The shootings at Thurston High School came on the heels of a number of prominent school shootings and Kip Kinkel...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Schweitzer and Michael Sugihara deserve special thanks for being my writing/library pals. I am also

Feedback as Critical Care: An Antiracist, Feminist Praxis for Composition

Creator:: Rowland, Olivia A.
Abstract:: Feminist compositionists have long argued for addressing the feminization of composition, or its association with low value “women’s work,” by revaluing caring labor (Enos; Heinert and Phillips; Tuell). However, this argument assumes that writing teachers’ care work is beneficial for all students and teachers. Focusing on responding to student writing...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

More than an Accommodation: Teaching in the Remote First-Year Composition Classroom

Creator:: Goicochea, Andrea R.
Abstract:: This thesis evaluates the contact zone of the remote composition classroom and offers mediations for leveling the authoritative powers by fronting disability studies in pedagogies. The purpose of this thesis is to create pedagogies from disability scholarship and real teaching experiences that can be implemented in the remote classroom to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: talk about the composition classroom, Cynthia L. Selfe and Richard J. Selfe Jr. identified, in 1994

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

Creator:: Scruton, Evan
Abstract:: 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,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: According to Ken Kesey," and Richard D. Maxwell's "The Abdication of Masculinity in One Flew Over the

The power of conceptual metaphor in Diana Abu-Jaber's The Language of Baklava and Birds of Paradise

Creator:: Gratz, Kimberly A.
Abstract:: This thesis examines the use of religious metaphor as it applies to food in two literary works by Diana Abu-Jaber. First, The Language of Baklava, a culinary memoir published in 2005, reveals aspects of cultural identity and memory through food and metaphor. Second, Abu-Jabers most recent novel, Birds of Paradise,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: you to my husband and partner in life, Richard, and to my sweet Bug, Anna G. I am one lucky girl

Remaking myths and subverting the mainstream : teen girls come of age on and off the screen

Creator:: Hentges, Sarah Duncan
Abstract:: For at least 30 years American culture has failed to provide empowering myths and symbols to its adolescents as they come of age and try to make sense of their selves, sexuality and the culture that surrounds them. This lack of myths and symbols is especially harmful to girls and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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

Creator:: Summers, Stephen James
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: , falling back into German in lines 31-4. They are taken from the first act of Richard Wagner’s 1865 opera

Hamlet's delay : an attempt at synthesis

Creator:: Cohen, Martin, 1943-
Abstract:: The study of the question of why Shakespeare's Hamlet delays killing Claudius in revenge for his father's murder is examined in light of the major critical theories from neo-classical to modern scholarship. An expanded treatment of the works of Fredson Bowers, Eleanor Prosser, Bertram Joseph, and Roland Frye, is provided...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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