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  • Renovations

    Creator:
    Gallagher, Scott V.
    Abstract:
    The six stories within, "Still and Silent," "Cold Comfort," "The King of Porn," "Miscuts," "In Between," and "Renovations," are part of a work in progress. They attempt to show how the characters, although they may seem to struggle for independence from the family unit, are in fact strengthening the bonds...
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    . Jennifer Cornell The six stories within, "Still and Silent," "Cold Comfort," -The King of Porn

  • Discovering Antigone: A Non-Normative Political Figure

    Creator:
    Patten, Jennifer A.
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    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...
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    : A Non-Normative Political Figure by Jennifer Patten A THESIS

  • Claire Lies and other stories

    Creator:
    Rosenberg, Valerie P.
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    The five short stories included in this thesis depict characters who struggle as they try to balance their responsibilities to each other, and their own independent desires. Whether those desires include personal freedom, another relationship, or self-protection, these characters are at least minimally aware that obtaining what they most want...
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    want may have a negative impact on those closest to them. Many times, the cost of maintaining the

  • An informed and ignorant readership : the contradictions of creative nonfiction

    Creator:
    Rush, Lani
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    Creative nonfiction is a genre replete with contradictions--the name itself shows that: nonfiction writing is true and factual, but creative writing is imaginative and inventive. Because of fundamental contradictions like this, there is no standardized or even most common definition of the genre. This creates confusion for both critics and...
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    nonfiction is a genre replete with contradictions—the name itself shows that: nonfiction writing is true

  • Fostering Authority in Readers and Writers

    Creator:
    Love, Jennifer Mary
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    As a reader and as a teacher of introductory reading and writing courses, I am persuaded by the concept of a genuine authority in which all readers both value and seek to examine their early readings of texts. What I have come to regard as a pretended authority or mastery,...
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    Writers by Jennifer Mary Love A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment

  • Chrysalis

    Creator:
    Harrison, S. S.
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    A creative work of literary fiction, Chrysalis is the story of Rachelle Long: a young woman who struggles to find her identity in a world marked by changing (and often, conflicting) ideas regarding sexuality, economics, gender roles and relations, and individual rights. Just one year into the workforce following her...
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    on May 8, 1997. Title: Chrysalis. Abstract approved: 17Tracy Daug erty A creative work of literary

  • Writing a feminist position in the classroom

    Creator:
    Forrest, Dodie A.
    Abstract:
    Like other social institutions, universities have been created and administered by and for a white-male dominant culture that continues to marginalize women and anyone else designated as -Other- according to race, class, ethnicity, ability, age, size, and sexuality. This discussion questions the dominant model of standard written discourse in the...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Dodie A. Forrest for the degree of

  • Omen of Mere Event : Vignettes in a Post-Wilderness Landscape

    Creator:
    Schultz, Aaron A.
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    This thesis uses a series of non-fiction vignettes to explore objects, agencies, and networks, applying theories of rhetoric and composition directly to experience and vise versa. Focusing on agency--as understood through sociology's actor-networks, post- humanism’s Object Orientated Ontology, and Ecocriticism's ecological approach--I look at events, landscapes, and partnerships that have...
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    OF THE THESIS OF Aaron A. Schultz for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on April

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

    Creator:
    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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    THESIS OF Kimberly A. Gratz for the degree of Master of Art in Interdisciplinary Studies in

  • Feedback as Critical Care: An Antiracist, Feminist Praxis for Composition

    Creator:
    Rowland, Olivia A.
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    Feminist compositionists have long argued for addressing the feminization of composition, or its association with low value “women’s work,” by revaluing caring labor (Enos; Heinert and Phillips; Tuell). However, this argument assumes that writing teachers’ care work is beneficial for all students and teachers. Focusing on responding to student writing...
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    necessity of problematizing writing teachers’ care for students. A critical interrogation of current