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Women's individual accounts of the romantic content in glamour and cosmopolitan and its relationship to their lived experiences

Creator:: Weaver, Shauna Q.
Abstract:: The following question guided this research: How do female readers understand the romantic content of Cosmopolitan and/or Glamour magazines, and how do they perceive connections between their readership of this content and their personal ideas and behaviors regarding romantic relationships? This study involved a series of responsive interviews in which...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Abstract approved: Judith K. Bowker The following question guided this research: How do female

A Rhetorical Analysis of Feminist Critics' References to Virginia Woolf

Creator:: Stockton, Judith D.
Abstract:: Virginia Woolf wrote both prose and poetry, both fiction and non-fiction: she was both a creative writer and a politically conscious reporter. She left a wealth of beautifully crafted observations and comments that continue to be immensely quotable and influential. Feminist critics today use Woolf's vocabulary to continue the feminist...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: VIRGINIA WOOLF by Judith D. Stockton A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial

Corvallis and Salem, Oregon newspapers in transition

Creator:: Carlson, Judith Carol
Abstract:: This thesis examines three newspapers in Corvallis and Salem, Oregon: the Corvallis Gazette-Times, the Oregonstatesman (Salem) and the Community Press (Salem). It examines the histories of the Gazette-Times and the Oregon Statesman as family-owned papers, and their current status as properties of newspaper chains. Based on interviews of key staff...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Running Athwart the Human : Queer (Un)Intelligibility and Animal Connections in Justin Torres' We the Animals and Mario Bellatín's Beauty Salon

Creator:: Kennedy, Amy
Abstract:: This thesis examines notions of social unintelligibility produced within queer spaces in two primary texts: Justin Torres' We the Animals and Mario Bellatín's Beauty Salon. Chapter One discusses the racial and queer marginalization of the unnamed narrator and explores his turn towards an "animal language" in his moment of exposure...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: in a way that is necessarily committed to the equal value of lives.” ~Judith Butler from

"A dissonant element" : the difficulty of Anais Nin

Creator:: Burghauser, Sarah B.
Abstract:: This thesis is arranged in three main chapters, each of which focuses on a particular type of Anaїs Nin text, and each of which is intended to enlarge Nin's complexities through distinct but overlapping perspectives. The idea connecting these three chapters is that Nin, who has been radically misrepresented by...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ofNin critics as well as theorist such as Roland Bares and Judith Butler, ths thesis seks to offer a

"We Share a Common Disinheritance": Subjectivity, Dispossession, and Antiblackness in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Paul Beatty's The Sellout

Creator:: Becker, Jade M.
Abstract:: Recent work in moral philosophy has displayed a renewed interest in ethics and ontology that consider the social constitution of the subject. However, these approaches to ethics, exemplified in Judith Butler’s work in Giving an Account of Oneself, often neglect the problem of antiblackness, which Afro-pessimist scholars argue operates at...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: degree of Master of Arts in English presented on April 29, 2019. Title: “We Share a Common

Feminized in Form, Non-Linear in Practice: Diaspora in Asian American Poetics

Creator:: Norris, Precious
Abstract:: Asian American poetry is often considered a subcategory of poetry centered on the poets’ backgrounds. However, this project engages with the complexity of Asian American identity and experience as they trickle down from the poets, to their works, to interpretations of their art. Thus, I contend that these poets’ engagement...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Patricia A. Sakurai Asian American poetry is often considered a subcategory of

Caution – ideological mechanisms at work : interpellation and the melancholic turn in Jack Kerouac's On the Road and Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden

Creator:: Travers, Jessica D.
Abstract:: In this thesis I examine the ideological mechanisms that work to constitute, construct, and maintain subject identity. Such mechanisms include repetition, performativity, identification, and interpellation. I incorporate structuralist, post-structuralist, and psychoanalytic theories as a means to discuss the ways in which gender, sexuality, and identity are performative masquerades. Furthermore, these...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: theories as a means to discuss the ways in which gender, sexuality, and identity are performative

Bleeding Assemblages: Translating Borders in the Bilingual Poetry of Irma Pineda Santiago

Creator:: Killeen, Shanna
Abstract:: This thesis examines the bilingual poetry of indigenous, Mexican poet Irma Pineda Santiago. In her work, she composes mirrored poems in Isthmus Zapotec and Spanish. I analyze the ways in which her work brings Zapotec and Spanish into contact with one another, demanding that readers acknowledge narratives of erasure that...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Christina A León Adam Schwartz This thesis examines

Discovering Antigone: A Non-Normative Political Figure

Creator:: Patten, Jennifer A.
Abstract:: This thesis analyzes Sophocles’ classic Greek tragedy Antigone as it relates to biopolitics, biopower, democratic language and non-normative principles of politics. I argue that the figure of Antigone enables a better understanding of exclusive biopolitical philosophy. Antigone is a figure not recognized as human because her gender is tortured and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: January 3, 2021. Title: Discovering Antigone: A Non-Normative Political Figure. Abstract

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Women's individual accounts of the romantic content in glamour and cosmopolitan and its relationship to their lived experiences

A Rhetorical Analysis of Feminist Critics' References to Virginia Woolf

Corvallis and Salem, Oregon newspapers in transition

Running Athwart the Human : Queer (Un)Intelligibility and Animal Connections in Justin Torres' We the Animals and Mario Bellatín's Beauty Salon

"A dissonant element" : the difficulty of Anais Nin

"We Share a Common Disinheritance": Subjectivity, Dispossession, and Antiblackness in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Paul Beatty's The Sellout

Feminized in Form, Non-Linear in Practice: Diaspora in Asian American Poetics

Caution – ideological mechanisms at work : interpellation and the melancholic turn in Jack Kerouac's On the Road and Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden

Bleeding Assemblages: Translating Borders in the Bilingual Poetry of Irma Pineda Santiago

Discovering Antigone: A Non-Normative Political Figure

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