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  • Hamlet's delay : an attempt at synthesis

    Creator:
    Cohen, Martin, 1943-
    Abstract:
    The study of the question of why Shakespeare's Hamlet delays killing Claudius in revenge for his father's murder is examined in light of the major critical theories from neo-classical to modern scholarship. An expanded treatment of the works of Fredson Bowers, Eleanor Prosser, Bertram Joseph, and Roland Frye, is provided...
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    Masters Thesis
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    expanded treatment of the works of Fredson Bowers, Eleanor Prosser, Bertram Joseph, and Roland Frye, is

  • Inside, Outside : Light and Dark

    Creator:
    Knotts, L. William
    Abstract:
    In a story of his life Les reflects on what he has gained and what he has lost while seeking success in the moving and shifting of military and academic life through homes and schools all over the United States. He describes himself as between races, languages, and cultures.
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    Masters Thesis
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    THESIS OF L. William Knotts for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies, in the co

  • The social dimension of Shakespeare's art : a Midsummer Night's Dream

    Creator:
    Schaefer, Mimi
    Abstract:
    The study of the social dimensions of Shakespeare's art is represented by the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, C.L. Barber, Robert Weimann, Edward Berry, and Michael Bristol. Their work analyzes the background in Elizabethan social practices and popular dramatic traditions that contribute to the form, structure, and meaning of Shakespeare's comedies....
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    Masters Thesis
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    Max Reinhardt, Peter Hall, and Joseph Papp. This study suggests that the popular festive tradition

  • The postwar novel as postmodern : revisiting Catch-22 & Slaughterhouse-five

    Creator:
    Spreitzer, Peter
    Abstract:
    This thesis is an exploration of Catch-22 (1961) and Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), two early documents of American postmodern literature. In particular, this thesis attempts to present the critical discussions surrounding each novel as parallel to the broader theoretical discussions surrounding the concept of postmodernism. My contention is that, in both of...
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    Masters Thesis
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anti‐war
 messages,
Catch­22
(1961)
by
Joseph
Heller
and
Slaughterhouse­Five
(1969)
by
Kurt
 Vonnegut

  • A Rhetorical Analysis of William Wilberforce's First Official Proposal for the Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade

    Creator:
    Zach, Anne M.
    Abstract:
    The abolition of the Atlantic slave trade was a long struggle in British Parliament between the slave trade defenders and the abolitionists. The Act of 1807 officially abolished the Atlantic slave trade, eighteen years after the initial abolition proposal to Parliament. William Wilberforce was a member of a committee that...
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    Masters Thesis
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    A rhetorical analysis of William Wilberforce's first

  • The accessible Chaucer

    Creator:
    Luepke, Natasha M.
    Abstract:
    In this thesis I explore the ways in which twenty-first century Americans have access to Geoffrey Chaucer and his works. I look at issues surrounding Chaucer within the canon debate, high school history and literature textbooks, and Chaucer in popular culture, such as in movies like A Knight's Tale. I...
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    William Shakespeare. I seek to avoid that rhetoric in my own work, in that I view reading of any kind

  • Willed Women : Female Bodies & Subversive Being in the Knight’s and Second Nun’s Tales

    Creator:
    McLemore, Emily C.
    Abstract:
    This project examines two understudied female characters from Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales who emerge as subversive figures by striving to maintain control over their bodies and being. Through my analyses of the Knight’s and Second Nun’s Tales, I reveal how virginity correlates with bodily autonomy for the narratives’ respective protagonists,...
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    departs from that of Joseph Harrison, who concludes that Diana’s temple is “free of the painted

  • Under the Shadow of this Red Rock: Reading T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land for its Places, Persons, and Poetics

    Creator:
    Summers, Stephen James
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    Thomas Stearns Eliot’s 1922 modernist poem The Waste Land presents itself as an alternative to the decaying society Eliot found himself inhabiting. It begins as a personal means of pulling together one’s fragmented consciousness, but in doing so Eliot manages to present a solution to a world of selfishness—looking beyond...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    . Likewise, William Yeats’ “Easter, 1916” and Milton’s “On the Massacre in Piedmont” all expound a

  • Immigrant encounters : film narratives of the modern immigrant

    Creator:
    Yeager, Angela L.
    Abstract:
    This thesis employs a narrative analysis of more than twenty-five films that are centrally concerned with immigrants and the immigrant experience. In Part One, drawing from the work of Yosefa Loshitzky, I will focus on films that feature an immigrant lead character. In Part Two, I will explore movies that...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . Joseph Orosco for his guidance in helping navigate some of the tricky areas of immigration policy and

  • 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)
    Abstract:
    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