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  • Mother's Choices

    Creator:
    Dietz, Amy L.
    Abstract:
    A memoir is variously defined as an abbreviated autobiography; a record of events based on the writer's personal observation or knowledge; and the written story of one's own life. I set out to do those things. But when I sat back to read the first of many drafts, I discovered...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Amy L. Dietz for the degree of

  • 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...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Amy Wood for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented

  • Things not seen, and other stories

    Creator:
    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

  • In Defense of the "Ringding Mukta" : The Later Work of J.D. Salinger

    Creator:
    Herb, Danielle Kristine
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    My thesis explores the later work of author J.D. Salinger, including two narratives featured in Nine Stories, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," and "Teddy," and Franny and Zooey, "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters," and "Seymour: an Introduction." Through my analysis I argue that the religious nature of Salinger's fiction...
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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...
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    Works by Henry James Abstract approved: Peter J. Betjemann David M. Robinson My thesis examines a

  • The objects within : an applied OOO literary criticism

    Creator:
    Dodson, Matthew J.
    Abstract:
    For centuries, continental philosophy has clung to the belief that the world only meaningfully exists through human perception--that, in other words, when a tree falls in the forest, it does not make a sound. Literary theory, which has strong roots in continental philosophy, followed suit, remaining tied to humanism even...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Matthew J

  • Words of Well-Being : The Relation of an Individual's Word Choice to their Social Well-Being

    Creator:
    Krieger, Katy
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    The present research sought to investigate the relationship between an individual's word choice and their social well-being. In the present investigation, social well-being is a person's social health in relation to their social environment, social network, and ability to interact with others in a social context. This thesis was based...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Frank J. Bernieri The present research sought to investigate the relationship between

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

    Creator:
    Davis, Caryn M.
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    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...
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    of Tarzan and Herland/Ourland Abstract approved: Peter J. Betjemann At first glance, Edgar

  • The problems [of Paul Ricoeur's symbols] of evil

    Creator:
    Ritenour, Karen E.
    Abstract:
    In the early part of his philosophical career, Paul Ricoeur worked out a general theory of symbols which he illustrated with the symbols of evil. He subsequently explained this theory in several essays (his final major statement on symbols can be found in Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    children, Amy and Michael Ritenour The Problems [of Paul Ricoeur's Symbolsj of Evil I. Introduction

  • Radical/domestic : representations of the professor in Willa Cather's The Professor's House and Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin

    Creator:
    Butcher, Ian
    Abstract:
    This thesis is an exploration of literary representation of professors, specificially in Willa Cather's The Professor's House and Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin. I explicate the political unconscious of these texts by teasing out the tensions and ironies stemming from the conflict between the radical political consequences of the titular characters' scholarship...
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    issue. W. J. T. Mitchell, Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago