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

    Creator:
    Dotterman, Anthony Matthew
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    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...
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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Anthony Matthew Dotterman for the

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

    Creator:
    Schmuhl, Emily J.
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    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...
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    heiress in the Victorian literary tradition, focusing on Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Charles

  • 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)
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    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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    Masters Thesis

  • Fitzgerald’s idealism and the question of wealth

    Creator:
    Wood, Amy
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    In This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and several of his short stories, F. Scott Fitzgerald questions the importance of wealth as a factor in supporting happiness and fostering the American Dream on an individual basis. With these texts, Fitzgerald acknowledges that wealth is a factor and, simultaneously, a...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Charles Norris directly warned Fitzgerald that he would be finished as a respected author if he

  • Shifting the scholarly conversation : a rhetorical reading of Peter Elbow's work

    Creator:
    Slaton, Dorothy N.
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    Shifting the Scholarly Conversation: A Rhetorical Reading of Peter Elbow's Work explores Peter Elbow's contributions to the field of writing and rhetoric. Over the course of his long career, Elbow’s scholarly and pedagogical work has been much praised and much criticized. Elbow's work has influenced generations of teachers and writers,...
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    contributions edited by Pat Belanoff, Marcia Dickson, Sheryl I. Fontaine, and Charles Moran, devotes a section

  • Discovering white privilege : a series of difficult stories

    Creator:
    Blumhardt, Tammy
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    This project combines service learning with narrative writing (fiction and non-fiction) as an effective tool for the discovery and communication of social understanding; more specifically, the project discusses white privilege in literary form. Four short stories and seven vignettes, drawn from service learning experience over the course of three years,...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    , and without them, I could never have developed this creation: James, Jalone, Isaiha, Anthony, Lonzo

  • Quintilian's influence on Obadiah Walker

    Creator:
    O'Rourke, Kathryn Ann
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    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...
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    Masters Thesis
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    of Children in Learning (1588). Charles bole discussed both topics in A New Discovery in the Old

  • The wild flesh of Gary Snyder's "natural language"

    Creator:
    Hanson, Michael (Michael Edward)
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    This paper explores the language theories of Gary Snyder, an important modern environmental author whose early work was associated with the Beat movement of the early 1950's. I am particularly interested in Snyder's thoughts on how language relates to nature. I focus primarily on Snyder's prose in attempts to understand...
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    wisdomin his pack" (160- 161). Anthony Hunt draws this connection even closer in his essay on this

  • Constructing heroic identities : masculinity and the western film

    Creator:
    Foster, Brad D.
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    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...
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    Masters Thesis

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

    Creator:
    Wiley, Marie
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    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...
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    , such as that of Charles Forker, often note the influence of the de casibus tradition in the play’s