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  • The Clerk’s Tale : literal monstrosities and allegorical problems

    Creator:
    Brock, Christopher J.
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    My thesis, entitled “The Clerk’s Tale: Literal Monstrosities and Allegorical Problems,” argues that Chaucer’s Clerk is engaging both sides of a binary system. The Clerk has situated himself in a precarious position between two major schools of thought in the medieval culture, Franciscan and Dominican; the former promotes the will...
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    approved: Tara N. Williams My thesis, entitled “The Clerk’s Tale: Literal Monstrosities

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

    Creator:
    Tatom, Simon K.
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    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...
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    Masters Thesis
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    approved: Tara N. Williams My thesis, entitled "Fantastic Histories: How Malory's Morte Darthur

  • A Novel Elysium

    Creator:
    Anderson, Evan Crichton
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    As a metafictional work of science fiction literature, A Novel Elysium explores the timelessness of both the human mind and its literary surroundings, comparing the self-awareness of its characters to the sometimes tragic or empowering metaphysical realizations of human beings. Within this framework, any concrete place or time is unimportant;...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    hallway. Someone was approaching. He rose from the day couch, leaving the memory throw pillows behind

  • On the Rhetorical Disability of Students with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Rhetorical Approach to the Trauma-Informed Teaching of College Composition

    Creator:
    McDowell, Amanda J.
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    Composition scholars who have written about trauma have typically focused on creating classrooms that are conducive to healing and learning. In doing this work, however, they have considered neither how PTSD nor other people’s responses to it can impact one’s perceived rhetoricity in the college classroom. In other words, they...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Johnson provides additional nuance in “The Skeleton on the Couch: The Eagleton Affair, Rhetorical

  • Scenes of language

    Creator:
    Duerst, Gretchen
    Abstract:
    In this creative non-fiction thesis, I present a collection of personal essays that examine my significant moments of awkwardness with failed communications or frustrated relationships when I wanted to draw people closer with language, but was unsuccessful. In the twelve stories, I discuss these issues in my interpersonal communication interwoven...
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    Masters Thesis

  • David Foster Wallace's communal middle ground

    Creator:
    Randlemon, Daniel E.
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    Throughout the course of this thesis, I argue that the prose of David Foster Wallace, specifically his posthumously published novel The Pale King, inhabits a middle ground between universal sincerity and the particularized authenticity of postmodern irony. I examine Lionel Trilling's definitions of sincerity and authenticity before moving toward an...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Olson, Dr. Tara Williams, Marjorie Sandor, Keith Scribner, Dr. Peter Betjemann, and Dr. Chris Anderson

  • Changing stories and moving bones : correlation of Chinatown and mother-daughter relationships in Kingston's The Woman Warrior and Ng's Bone

    Creator:
    Fujii, So
    Abstract:
    This thesis argues for significant correlations in the politics of representation of Chinatown and mother-daughter relationships in two literary texts by Maxine Hong Kingston and Fae Myenne Ng. The two novels do not follow traditional representations of Chinatown and provide critical representations of Chinatown and mother-daughter relationships. First, Kingston's The...
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    Masters Thesis
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    reductively read and interpreted as representing a static image of Asian American cultures. Shirley Geok-lin

  • 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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    Masters Thesis
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    soft, vertical couch. She could hug her mother and look at her afterward, but she had to keep her

  • Dead or less himself : A novel

    Creator:
    Curtis, Devin
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    Dead or Less Himself is a novel concerning creative impotence and the ways in which people become repressed and stagnate through expectation, isolation, and over-analyzing. The novel takes place across high school to chart the ways the characters change or refuse to change as they “grow up.” The novel is...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    . Lin is a dry, sarcastic wit, finding the absurdity in everyday things and conversations. I would

  • Differences Between Public Attention and Understanding of School Budget Formats Published in Newspapers

    Creator:
    Mason, Sue Cockeram
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    This thesis study attempts to differentiate between attention and understanding as separate phases of communication theory. To do this, additional analysis was made of data already gathered from a random sample of Oregonians by the Survey Research Center at Oregon State University. An additional objective was to determine the role...
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    Masters Thesis

  • From weakness to wisdom : Jane Austen transforms the female of sensibility tradition

    Creator:
    Mosher-Knoshaug, Jessica M.
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    The eighteenth-century female of sensibility was characterized by delicate nerves that allowed her to feel her surroundings and enabled her to choose virtue over vice more consistently than males. While females were considered virtuous, their "innate" delicacy or weakness became their dominant trait and the true focus of male admiration....
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    Masters Thesis