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  • Conjuring September 11, 2001 : Midwest Narratives in the Time of Death

    Creator:
    Josten, Jonathon M.
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    Over the past fourteen years since the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, Americans of varied political persuasions have continually identified the day as a defining moment in the history of the nation, which caused a rupture in the cultural rhythm and psyche. This sensibility is...
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    ”, Jonathan Franzen’s novel Freedom, and Richard Powers’ novel The Echo Maker. Despite their differing

  • Chatting, cooking, curating : English language learners as sponsors of literacy in a multicultural literacy center

    Creator:
    Saleh, Natalie K.
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    Drawing on Deborah Brandt’s “literacy sponsorship,” this thesis examines ways English language learners (ELLs) in the Corvallis Multicultural Literacy Center (CMLC) act as literacy sponsors, sharing their expertise in language, textiles, and cooking, based on nine in-depth interviews with ELLs at the center. The findings of this thesis are presented...
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    the opportunity to have learned from you in these past two years. Thank you also Jonathan Katz for

  • Twin Peaks and the Ideological Problematic of Feminine Representation: An Examination of the Character Audrey Home

    Creator:
    Wood, Susan (Susan Elaine)
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    In this thesis, I examine the ways in which the television series Twin Peaks represents the feminine through a textual analysis of the character Audrey Home. Using reader-response theory, I seek to show that while the series conforms to patriarchal media conventions such as the male gaze and narrative stereotypes...
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    . agent Gordon Cole. The series ran for twenty-nine hour-long episodes, but was interrupted in February

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

    Creator:
    Butcher, Ian
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    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...
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    Said, Jonathan Cole, Provost and Dean of Faculties, stated “there is nothing more fundamental to a

  • Mike Rose : composing a reading of inclusion

    Creator:
    Jameson, Sara
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    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...
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    Jonathan Kozol and Lisa D. Delpit. In both "Education Standards Must be Reclaimed" and "Saving Public

  • Comics in the classroom

    Creator:
    Mosher, Brian S.
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    As the necessity grows for undergraduate English teachers to incorporate various multimodal texts into their course material due to the changing landscape of what is considered English studies, comics can be an increasingly viable source for such texts. This thesis introduces several formal qualities of comics available for teachers to...
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  • Counseling

    Creator:
    Burns, Robert N.
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    Counseling is a novel in three parts structurally and metaphorically comparing and contrasting the workings of the brain and mind. Through the story of a man recovering from a head injury I am creating a world in the text which equates the schizophrenia of postmodern criticism with the literal problems...
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    about my Selmer alto sax and my Ornette Cole- man collection and Professor Longhair and Bob Marley? I