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Voices of CALYX: Narratives of Feminist Publishing Activism, 1976-2006

Creator:: Steuben, Marieke L.
Abstract:: This thesis examines the nature of publishing as a political endeavor through a detailed investigation of the feminist publishing movement in the U.S. since the 1970s. Feminist publishers emerged from an activist context of feminist struggle, and they evolved within changing political and social climates, facing ideological and economic challenges...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Revisioning grandeur : an exploration of intertextuality in Alice Munro and Virginia Woolf

Creator:: King, Michelle L.
Abstract:: In this thesis I argue that Alice Munro’s work takes part in an ongoing feminist discourse that examines alterations in male and female gender relations, as they have been represented in domestic fiction by women writers since the late nineteenth century. I analyze two short stories written by Munro: “Meneseteung,”...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: constable won’t go down Pearl Street on a Saturday night ” (M 55-56). Almeda, however, sleeps at the back

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:: purpose, a discussion of the research on blogs and genre is in order. From Carolyn Miller's description

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:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Robin M. Sandeno for the

Irreconcilable differences : modernist representations of class and gender in the early work (1911-1936) of Rebecca West

Creator:: Pence, Peggy D.
Abstract:: This thesis on Rebecca West's writing (1911-1936) addresses the relationship between her polemical essays and her fiction, exploring modernist representations of class and gender differences and conflicts. West expresses a view of gender and class relations in early twentieth century Great Britain that is based on opposed and dichotomous pairs...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

A form with a message : didacticism, adolescence, and femininity in young adult novels

Creator:: Davenport, Mattie R.
Abstract:: In this thesis, I discuss the uses of two different forms of young adult novels for relaying messages about adolescence and femininity to adolescents from adult authors. I explore the traditional and organized quest narrative as written by Anne McCaffrey in her Harper Hall Trilogy with a young female hero....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: adaptation of the adolescent journey. I then discuss the requirements and allowances of realism in Carolyn

Sound and death in John Haines's poetry

Creator:: Noble, Darren L.
Abstract:: Poet John Haines is best known for his first book of poetry, Winter News, which was published in 1966. The book contains poems about the Alaskan landscape that surrounded Haines during his many years of living in Richardson, Alaska. The recurring motifs in his poems include hunting, trapping, the Arctic...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: placement, which follows several fluid lines. Lots of 1 and m sounds precede (and contrast) the final line

"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

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:: misunderstood. As Stephen North puts it, [m]isunderstanding is something one expects [. . .] in the writing

Caught in the act : casting myself as a performing writer in rhetoric and writing studies

Creator:: Dieter, Thomas Edward
Abstract:: The following thesis explores the potential for autoethnography to serve as an enabling method for developing a grounded understanding of literacy, performance, gender and sexuality. As autoethnographic writing insists that even the seemingly most personal aspects of a researcher's character are deeply embedded in larger political and sociocultural narratives, this...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Narrative Research,” Margaret S. Ewing, Adrienne E. Hyle, Judith S. Kaufman, Diane M. Montgomery, and

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Voices of CALYX: Narratives of Feminist Publishing Activism, 1976-2006

Revisioning grandeur : an exploration of intertextuality in Alice Munro and Virginia Woolf

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

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

Irreconcilable differences : modernist representations of class and gender in the early work (1911-1936) of Rebecca West

A form with a message : didacticism, adolescence, and femininity in young adult novels

Sound and death in John Haines's poetry

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

The Oregon State University Writing Center : history and context

Caught in the act : casting myself as a performing writer in rhetoric and writing studies

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