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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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Works by Henry James Abstract approved: Peter J. Betjemann David M. Robinson My thesis examines a

James Joyce's critique of "Faubourg Saint Patrice" : Ulysses, the Catholic Panopticon, and religious dressage

Creator:: Nelson, John C. M.
Abstract:: In his works, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Ulysses (1922), James Joyce demonstrates what he perceives to be the paralyzing effects of those institutionalized religions that sit at the center of cultures. Drawing on Michel Foucault's analysis of institutional dressage as well as his...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : Neil R. Davison In his works, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Ulysses (1922

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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Colonial Politics of Irish Catholicism in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Abstract

James Baldwin's Pedagogy of Love: A Method for Transforming American Political Thinking and Pedagogy in the Academy

Creator:: Saleem, Ikhzaan
Abstract:: My thesis examines how the American identity is constructed through thinking shaped by deception and domination, as James Baldwin argues in the corpus of his work. I rely on the work of Eddie Glaude Jr., Sean Kim Butorac, and Joel Schlosser to forward love in Baldwin’s political vision as being...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ? …………………………………………………………………………...…… 1 Chapter I: James Baldwin’s Politics of Love: A Political Vision Towards a Pedagogy of Love

"Land of War and Blood" : spectacular violence, conflicting medievalisms, and chivalric legacies in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones

Creator:: Horton, Kaely
Abstract:: This thesis examines depictions of medievalism in three central texts: Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones. Each of these texts provides an entry point for exploring the ways in which English and American writers have...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Chivalric Legacies in Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe, Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

To Express the Inexpressible: Poetry as Philosophy within Mystical Discourse

Creator:: Hyam, Jarrod
Abstract:: Within this thesis, I posit that poetry, rather than philosophical argument, is a more effective means of expressing and understanding the nature of mystical experiences. William James’ analysis of mysticism inspires the theoretical approach utilized in this thesis. An analysis of the unique qualities of poetic language within mystical discourse...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: -cultural analysis, William James (306-307), reviewing the literature of world religions, summarized a

Wild nature or the garden : conservation themes in the forests of Tarzan and Herland/Ourland

Creator:: Davis, Caryn M.
Abstract:: At first glance, Edgar Rice Burroughs's wildly popular romantic fantasy novel, Tarzan of the Apes (1912), and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's feminist science fiction-utopian novel, Herland (1915), with its dystopian companion, With Her in Ourland (1916), may appear to have little in common. Tarzan celebrates the human connection with wild nature...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of Tarzan and Herland/Ourland Abstract approved: Peter J. Betjemann At first glance, Edgar

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
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: James Summers A PROJECT Submitted to Oregon State University University Honors

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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: jazz music by the Amsterdam and Messenger journalist James A. Rogers, which ends with an admonishment

The Way In: Interviews with Evangelical Christians

Creator:: Williams, B. Patrick
Abstract:: The purpose of this study is to examine the most significant reasons evangelical Christian faith is compelling to its adherents. Through the interviews of nineteen Evangelical Christians, it becomes clear that evangelicals see the Bible and Christian theology in a literal and factual way. Thus, contrary to some strains of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: that evangelicals see the Bible and Christian theology in a literal and factual way. Thus, contrary to

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

James Joyce's critique of "Faubourg Saint Patrice" : Ulysses, the Catholic Panopticon, and religious dressage

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

James Baldwin's Pedagogy of Love: A Method for Transforming American Political Thinking and Pedagogy in the Academy

"Land of War and Blood" : spectacular violence, conflicting medievalisms, and chivalric legacies in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones

To Express the Inexpressible: Poetry as Philosophy within Mystical Discourse

Wild nature or the garden : conservation themes in the forests of Tarzan and Herland/Ourland

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

Claude McKay's Vision of Community in the African Diaspora : A Fresh Take on Home to Harlem and Banjo

The Way In: Interviews with Evangelical Christians

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