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

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    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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    English and Anthropology presented on April 23, 2012. Title: The Power of Conceptual Metaphor in Diana

  • Possessed : embodiment, circulation, & subjectivity in Robinson Crusoe, Roderick Random, & Rob Roy

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    Schneider, Rebecca
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    A majority of eighteenth-century novels remain in regular print over two hundred years since their inception. Yet with the possible exception of Robinson Crusoe, they have largely fallen out of popularity, rarely appearing on "The Summer's Hottest Reading" lists or receiving celebrity endorsement. I consider Ian Watt's foundational study, The...
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    : ________________________________________________________________________ Evan M. Gottlieb A majority of eighteenth-century novels remain in regular print over two

  • Spirituality and Aging Among Women

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    Orcutt, Nancy Wilson
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    The term, spirituality, as used in this study, refers to that part of our lives that has the deepest meaning, that which nurtures each of us and moves us toward wholeness. It is the basis for which we live out our lives, following our own truths with honesty and commitment....
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    and Aging Among Women Abstract approve Marcus J. Q Bdrg The term, spirituality, as used in this

  • The accessible Chaucer

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    Luepke, Natasha M.
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    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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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Natasha M. Luepke for the degree of Master of Arts in English

  • Things not seen, and other stories

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    Walsh, Amy M.
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    These six stories investigate characters who must begin to understand their own actions, which are often made in response to authority. In the lives of these characters, there are schemas which they believe they fit, certain rules placed on them by society that they each feel they must obey. It...
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    OF Amy M. Walsh for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on May 10, 1996. Title

  • Decentering the Human in 12th Century Histories and Chronicles: Divine Nonhumans at the Center of the Itinerarium Cambriae and the Historia Anglorum

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    Phelps, Nathan J.
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    This thesis primarily investigates nonhumans in the writings of 12th century historians. Where these writings may typically be seen as having little room for nonhuman agency, this thesis investigates how divinity, as an important part of medieval life, creates a space for nonhuman agency that is otherwise overlooked. In chapter...
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  • Translingual Science Communication: From Local Publications to the STEM Writing Classroom

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    Werndli, Alexander J.
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    In order to assist WAC/WID practitioners and science writing faculty in incorporating translingual perspectives in disciplinary writing instruction, this study extends translingualism to language practice in the sciences by conducting a corpus study of Al-Awamia, a Moroccan agronomic journal. Mapping rhetorically significant changes across abstracts authored in English, French, and...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Alexander J. Werndli

  • Breeding the new woman : the eugenic discourse of motherhood in Shaw, Yeats, and Lawless

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    Tracy, Hannah R.
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    The popularity and pervasiveness of eugenic discourse during the modernist period in England and Ireland raised many questions about race, class, and gender. While Hitler's Nazi "experiment" ultimately demonstrated the consequences of implementing eugenic ideas, forcing eugenicists to abandon, or at least mask, their theories, the eugenics movement before World...
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    fathers as well) to prevent degeneration of the race (Greenslade 206). Although Galton's writings speak

  • "Justify[ing] the ways of God to man" : John Milton's Use of Satan to Promote a Christian Message in Paradise Lost

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    Burkett, Kristen A.
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    This paper focuses on Satan as a sympathetic figure in Paradise Lost, and it argues that readers' sympathy for Satan drives them to pursue God's grace in order to avoid falling into the same fate as Satan. It uses Reader Response theory to show how readers connect with Satan, and...
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    significant readings of Paradise Lost discuss the loss that comes from the fall. Diana Treviño Benet, in her

  • Argument and common ground : scholarly research meets the common core state standards

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    Clark, Jillian
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    This thesis examines the recent history of the teaching of argument and its implications in the face of new writing standards being implemented in K-12 classrooms under the Common Core State Standards. The new educational policies will shift the focus of writing instruction onto argument writing as part of students'...
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    , Diana George, and Marilyn M. Cooper, describing their own classroom practices in a 1997 article