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Fitzgerald’s idealism and the question of wealth

Creator:: Wood, Amy
Abstract:: In This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and several of his short stories, F. Scott Fitzgerald questions the importance of wealth as a factor in supporting happiness and fostering the American Dream on an individual basis. With these texts, Fitzgerald acknowledges that wealth is a factor and, simultaneously, a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and several of his short stories, F. Scott Fitzgerald questions the

"Living Outside the Madness" : reform and ecology in the work of Henry Thoreau and Gary Snyder

Creator:: Hiatt, Bryan
Abstract:: Recent conflicts in America concerning the environment (the harvesting of old growth timber in the Pacific Northwest, or the proposed opening of public lands in southern Utah to mining interests, for instance) have precipitated a personal examination of "historical others" (Jensen 64), individuals that possess very different sensibilities from a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of Henry Thoreau and Gary Snyder AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Bryan Hiatt for the degree of

"My nonsense is only their own in motley" : Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Ware Jr., and the "nature" of christian character"

Creator:: Jensen, Timothy Ward
Abstract:: Recent changes in the historiography of American Transcendentalism have inspired a reappraisal of the relationship between the Transcendentalist movement in New England and the pietistic wing of the Unitarian church. This thesis explores this reappraisal through a close reading of selected writings by Henry Ware Jr. in juxtaposition to the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: November 14, 1995. Title: "My Nonsense is Only Their Own Thought in Motley:" Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry

"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:: , Sir Walter Scott writes that “it was peculiar to the institution of chivalry, to blend military

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

Creator:: Schneider, Rebecca
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: eighteenth century from Defoe to Scott. To give this project that allowance, I should clarify that I

The Legend of the Three Living and the Three Dead : The Development of the Macabre in Late Medieval England

Creator:: Sandeno, Robin M.
Abstract:: Many authorities state that the development of macabre images were a result of the plague that first swept through western Europe 1347-1350. However, many aspects of the macabre were already in place prior to the plague. A more realistic explanation for the macabre is in the modification of religious belief,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Ken Winograd, and Henry Sayre, who gave their advice and time. Scott Montgomery, who "inherited" me

Justice Isn't Fair: A Collection of Monologues

Creator:: Ferriso, Alessandra B.
Abstract:: I always knew I was interested in the criminal justice system, evident from the hours I spent as a child binge watching Law & Order, Rizzoli and Isles, and Dateline when my parents weren’t home. I very nearly pursued criminal justice as a major, but ended up going a different...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: _____________________________________________________________________ Scott Akins, Committee Member, representing Sociology

Caught between two spheres : the relationship of Charles Dickens' street people to the Victorian concept of home

Creator:: Wylie, Lynne S.
Abstract:: Nineteenth-century England witnessed burgeoning urban growth and the resultant struggle of the poor to find adequate shelter. Against this backdrop, Charles Dickens was a fierce advocate for the rights of the street people of London to have sanitary and adequate housing, earning him the title of radical. By combining sentimentality...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: contemporary of Dickens, Henry Mayhew in his work London Labour and the London Poor. I show that Dickens

“I Can’t Believe I’m Marching for Reality”: Examining the Rhetorical Role of Science in the “Post-Truth” Era

Creator:: Baker, Carlee A.
Abstract:: In the months preceding the 2016 presidential election and during the Trump presidency, rhetoric, composition, and communications scholars expressed an urgent concern about the threat that Trump and his political affiliates posed to the status of truth in political life (McComiskey; Rice; Harsin; Cloud). However, the conversations surrounding the discipline’s...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Calvin McGee’s concept of the ideograph as an analytic tool to apply the lens and modify the concept

Reverend Jesse Jackson's Rhetorical Strategy : A Case for the Functional Role of Narratio

Creator:: Bruno, Edward Louis
Abstract:: The purpose of this study is to investigate the rhetorical strategies used by Reverend Jesse L. Jackson from the 1970's to the 1990's. Specifically, this study examines Jackson's use of narrative to empower himself, his constituency, and his political ideologies without possessing a traditional political platform. Jackson raised political and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: need to thank Harry P. Smith, Nick Dahl, John Scott Benton, and Kristine Igawa. I am GRATEFUL to Harry

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Fitzgerald’s idealism and the question of wealth

"Living Outside the Madness" : reform and ecology in the work of Henry Thoreau and Gary Snyder

"My nonsense is only their own in motley" : Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Ware Jr., and the "nature" of christian character"

"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

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

The Legend of the Three Living and the Three Dead : The Development of the Macabre in Late Medieval England

Justice Isn't Fair: A Collection of Monologues

Caught between two spheres : the relationship of Charles Dickens' street people to the Victorian concept of home

“I Can’t Believe I’m Marching for Reality”: Examining the Rhetorical Role of Science in the “Post-Truth” Era

Reverend Jesse Jackson's Rhetorical Strategy : A Case for the Functional Role of Narratio

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