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  • 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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    Masters Thesis
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    proposal of a graduate-only class focused on Geoffrey Chaucer, shocked my fellow graduate students. They

  • The Clerk’s Tale : literal monstrosities and allegorical problems

    Creator:
    Brock, Christopher J.
    Abstract:
    My thesis, entitled “The Clerk’s Tale: Literal Monstrosities and Allegorical Problems,” argues that Chaucer’s Clerk is engaging both sides of a binary system. The Clerk has situated himself in a precarious position between two major schools of thought in the medieval culture, Franciscan and Dominican; the former promotes the will...
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    Masters Thesis
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    and Allegorical Problems,” argues that Chaucer’s Clerk is engaging both sides of a binary system

  • An informed and ignorant readership : the contradictions of creative nonfiction

    Creator:
    Rush, Lani
    Abstract:
    Creative nonfiction is a genre replete with contradictions--the name itself shows that: nonfiction writing is true and factual, but creative writing is imaginative and inventive. Because of fundamental contradictions like this, there is no standardized or even most common definition of the genre. This creates confusion for both critics and...
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    Masters Thesis
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    nonfiction is a genre replete with contradictions—the name itself shows that: nonfiction writing is true

  • Feminized in Form, Non-Linear in Practice: Diaspora in Asian American Poetics

    Creator:
    Norris, Precious
    Abstract:
    Asian American poetry is often considered a subcategory of poetry centered on the poets’ backgrounds. However, this project engages with the complexity of Asian American identity and experience as they trickle down from the poets, to their works, to interpretations of their art. Thus, I contend that these poets’ engagement...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : ______________________________________________________ Patricia A. Sakurai Asian American poetry is often considered a subcategory of

  • Extending and Visualizing Authorship in Comics Studies

    Creator:
    Brown, Nicholas A.
    Abstract:
    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

  • Writing (righting) the silences : "points of perspective" for texts and students

    Creator:
    Payne, Eva M.
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    The classroom practices discussed in this thesis come slowly and at a "slant" to feminism through critical reading of texts, a practice that I call a (re)presentation of the silent women in texts. Given our patriarchal western culture, making meaning, and especially making sense, of the role and representations of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    an old ingress in Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Reeve's Tale," I have created a new "point of perspective

  • 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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    Masters Thesis
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    : ______________________________________________________ Tara Williams This project examines two understudied female characters from Geoffrey

  • Whitman and technology: a modern romance

    Creator:
    Turner, David N.
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    Walt Whitman looked to the natural world, which he considered an original example of divine creation, for insights into the methods and patterns of the Creative Force; the poet then intuited connections between these divine natural patterns and human existence and spirituality. Convinced of the divinity of the human body,...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Technology: A Modern Romance. Abstract approved: - Kdrry D. Ahearn Walt Whitman looked to the natural

  • A material approach : Anne Frances Wysocki and new media

    Creator:
    Margoni, Travis
    Abstract:
    Anne Frances Wysocki, a scholar in the field of new media and composition studies, has published many articles, book chapters, a textbook, and is a major contributor to a multi-authored collection titled Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. This thesis considers the five openings...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , 2010. Title: A Material Approach: Anne Frances Wysocki and New Media. Abstract Approved

  • Recreating the Past: A Look at Colonial Latin America

    Creator:
    Vandetta, Crystal N.
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    Court cases, wills, and letters are common examples of surviving primary texts from colonial Latin America. These documents are important to historians because they provide a unique glimpse into the lives of ordinary people who lived hundreds of years ago. This thesis is a recreation of these types of primary...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    Recreating the Past: A Look at Colonial Latin America