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

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    Tracy, Hannah R.
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    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...
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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE ThESIS OF Hannah R. Tracy for the degree of

  • Failure as a Rhetorical Force in First-Year Composition

    Creator:
    Du Bose, Hannah L.
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    Recognized as a site of risk, innovation, and inspiration, failure is a growing area of multidisciplinary inquiry. My thesis draws attention specifically to the way composition studies approaches failure in order to ask: how can we implement failure pedagogies safely, and how do rhetorics of failure move toward social justice...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Hannah Du Bose for

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

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    Gratz, Kimberly A.
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    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,...
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    also like to thank the members of my committee; Joan Gross, Norma Cardenas and Hannah Gosnell for

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

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    Surface, Samara
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    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...
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    Hannah, Rita, Ethan, Hayley, the Emily’s, Melissa, and more. To the graduate students from other

  • An Evental Romanticism

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    Webster, Austin
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    The Romantic period sits in a liminal historical space when radically different ideas about the categories of past, future, progress, and change coexisted in popular consciousness. The French Revolution inaugurated the concept of an Event, something that appears to come out of nowhere, and that not even the most well-informed...
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    . Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Evan M. Gottlieb The

  • Possessed : embodiment, circulation, & subjectivity in Robinson Crusoe, Roderick Random, & Rob Roy

    Creator:
    Schneider, Rebecca
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    A majority of eighteenth-century novels remain in regular print over two hundred years since their inception. Yet with the possible exception of Robinson Crusoe, they have largely fallen out of popularity, rarely appearing on "The Summer's Hottest Reading" lists or receiving celebrity endorsement. I consider Ian Watt's foundational study, The...
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    : ________________________________________________________________________ Evan M. Gottlieb A majority of eighteenth-century novels remain in regular print over two

  • Defining the Novel by Conventions of Realism and Fictionality

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    Villanti, Rebekah M.
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    As a relatively recent literary genre, the origin and parameters of the novel are yet to be specifically defined. This essay uses characteristics of early novels to attempt a definition for the novel based on its marks of realism and fictionality. Referencing the novelistic theories of Georg Lukács, Ian Watt,...
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    establishment, The Bondwoman’s Narrative by Hannah Crafts (mid-19th century). These novels exemplify a unifying

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

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    Zach, Anne M.
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    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...
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    official proposal for the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Anne M

  • Public Proof : Science Communication, Weak Theory, and the Nonrational

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    Snyder, Wesley M.
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    A 2014 Pew Research poll revealed large gaps between public opinion and scientific opinion over environmental and biomedical issues (Funk and Rainie). Similarly, a number of recent popular books have described a growing public mistrust in scientific expertise (Mooney; Storr; Specter). Why is it, then, that so much of the...
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    ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Wesley M. Snyder for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on

  • Believing details

    Creator:
    Harrell, Anna M.
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    In this creative non-fiction thesis, the author reads her own life, suggesting that she believes in the details of experience and knows truth in and through experience even though the truth is not always clear. The first chapter includes several narratives from her childhood experience. In the second chapter, the...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Anna M. Harrell for the degree of