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  • (In)Forming the Female Bildungsroman in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea and Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John

    Creator:
    Farrow, Rebecca L.
    Abstract:
    Caribbean women authors, in an attempt to reclaim their voices lost to patriarchy and colonialism, are creating a new literary tradition by expanding the boundaries of the Bildungsroman genre. Many have challenged the conservative male Bildungsroman's deeply entrenched gender bias where female transcendence was impossible due to cultural prescriptions that...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • Does lesbian identity development affect college women's experience of OSU's campus environment?

    Creator:
    Repp, Betty Jean
    Abstract:
    This study explored lesbian identity development and the relationship between Oregon State University campus climate as reported by 35 lesbian students. Identity development was measured by using Cass's (1984b) Stage Allocation Measure (SAM) which is a self-select tool for determining stage of lesbian identity development. The SAM was then used...
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    Dissertation
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    experience of OSU's campus environment? AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Betty Jean (Bee Jai) Repp

  • Confessing Ireland : the colonial politics of Irish Catholicism in James Joyce's A portrait of the artist as a young man

    Creator:
    Rathert, Gregory S.
    Abstract:
    Ireland's Catholic Church played an important role in the turn-of-the-century nationalism that shaped James Joyce's identity and writing; yet it also played an important part in preventing that nationalism from achieving its goals of autonomy and cultural independence. For Joyce, this was particularly evident in the dialects and thought structures...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Colonial Politics of Irish Catholicism in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Abstract

  • Houses of fiction, houses of confinement : character introductions, autonomy, and domestic spaces in two works by Henry James

    Creator:
    Killips, Lisa M.
    Abstract:
    My thesis examines a total of fourteen characters from The Portrait of a Lady and The Turn of the Screw. Primarily, I have discovered an overwhelming pattern in these two works by Henry James; when characters make direct entrances--that is when they are not described or discussed in absentia by...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Works by Henry James Abstract approved: Peter J. Betjemann David M. Robinson My thesis examines a

  • The Morphology of Goethe’s Botanical Work

    Creator:
    Hahn, Andre M.
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    This thesis examines the morphology of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) through several lenses. The first explores Goethe's morphology as he applied it in his botanical work and supplies an explanation of what Goethe referred to as archetypal phenomena and the archetypal plant. The scope of exploration then broadens to...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Abstract Approved: Michael A. Osborne This thesis examines the morphology of Johann

  • 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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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Dodie A. Forrest for the degree of

  • In and Out of Touch : Fabricated Histories in Nella Larsen's Passing and James VanDerZee's Studio Portraiture

    Creator:
    Trowbridge, A. Hayley
    Abstract:
    Author Nella Larsen and photographer James VanDerZee are two of the most canonical figures of Harlem Renaissance studies, whose respective novels and portraits have been explored extensively, if separately, by scholars. Both Larsen's 1929 novel Passing and VanDerZee's studio portraiture of the 1920s and 1930s have been read in terms...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    Touch_Revisions.docx AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF A. Hayley Trowbridge for the degree of Master of Arts in

  • 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...
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    Masters Thesis
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    January 3, 2021. Title: Discovering Antigone: A Non-Normative Political Figure. Abstract

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

    Creator:
    Schultz, Aaron A.
    Abstract:
    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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    Masters Thesis
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    OF THE THESIS OF Aaron A. Schultz for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on April

  • Extending and Visualizing Authorship in Comics Studies

    Creator:
    Brown, Nicholas A.
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    This thesis complicates the traditional associations between authorship and alphabetic composition within the comics medium and examines how the contributions of line artists and writers differ and may alter an audience's perceptions of the medium. As a fundamentally multimodal and collaborative work, the popular superhero comic muddies authorial claims and...
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    Masters Thesis
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    2015 AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Nicholas A. Brown for the degree of Master of Arts in English