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  • 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...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Robinson Crusoe, Roderick Random, & Rob Roy by Rebecca Schneider A THESIS

  • Killing the Father and the Father Lives On: The Literary Influence of Richard Wright on James Baldwin

    Creator:
    Stoneberg, Michael R.
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    This thesis discusses the African American authors Richard Wright and James Baldwin, and their views regarding how literature should be written. These views are examined as laid out in a selection of each author‟s essays, as well as through an analysis of the characters Bigger Thomas and Rufus Scott in...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    author‟s essays, as well as through an analysis of the characters Bigger Thomas and Rufus Scott in the

  • The wild flesh of Gary Snyder's "natural language"

    Creator:
    Hanson, Michael (Michael Edward)
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    This paper explores the language theories of Gary Snyder, an important modern environmental author whose early work was associated with the Beat movement of the early 1950's. I am particularly interested in Snyder's thoughts on how language relates to nature. I focus primarily on Snyder's prose in attempts to understand...
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    Masters Thesis
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    the early 1950's. I am particularly interested in Snyder's thoughts on how language relates to

  • Queering Ever After: Temporality, Magic, and Endings in Victorian Fairy Tales

    Creator:
    Damschen, Kalli M.
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    This thesis analyzes two Victorian fairy tales that feature queer endings, or endings that offer alternatives to the heteronormative fairy-tale tradition that idealizes heterosexual marriage and the biological family. In both George MacDonald’s The Wise Woman (1875) and E. Nesbit’s “The Island of the Nine Whirlpools” (1901), I argue that...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Dinshaw and Carla Freccero. 4 Examples include José Esteban Muñoz, Annamarie Jagose, and Roderick

  • Black Motherhood and Freedom in Nella Larsen's "Passing"

    Creator:
    O'Sullivan, Honor
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    In Nella Larsen’s novel Passing, the character of Irene notes how “no one is every completely happy, or free, or safe,” which highlights how social limitations in American society restrict access to freedom and safety from those who do not conform to standards as defined by American society– something especially...
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    Undergraduate Thesis
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    sticky and soiled from contact with s many sweating bodies.” (Larsen 175). We see Irene note how no one

  • Sound and death in John Haines's poetry

    Creator:
    Noble, Darren L.
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    Poet John Haines is best known for his first book of poetry, Winter News, which was published in 1966. The book contains poems about the Alaskan landscape that surrounded Haines during his many years of living in Richardson, Alaska. The recurring motifs in his poems include hunting, trapping, the Arctic...
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    Masters Thesis
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    (Fables and Distances 4-5) In his book Wilderness and the American Mind author Roderick Nash writes

  • "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...
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    Masters Thesis
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    habits acquired by [individuals] as . . . member[s] of society" (Tylor 1). Culture also includes the

  • Islam, Feminism, and Third-Worldism: Women's Equality in Muslim Spaces

    Creator:
    Ghanizadeh, Azadeh
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    This project investigates the ways in which conceptions of women and gender in Islam are articulated within discourses of modernity, freedom, and justice. Considering the ways in which third-world literature and scholarship interacts with, and creates, multiculturalist discourse, this paper examines representation, spokesmanship, and the role of the cosmopolitan humanities...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Time to listen : an annotated bibliography of environmental readings, featuring Oregon writers, for middle school and high school students

    Creator:
    Crateau, Carole Ann
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    The purpose of this annotated bibliography is to guide middle school and high school students into critical thinking about environmental issues. Through keen observation of their bioregion and through an integration of interdisciplinary literature which focuses on Oregon writers, students will be challenged to think, write, and discuss current issues...
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    "First Salmon Ceremony." Historians in the early 1800's recorded the Columbia teeming with salmon

  • 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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    Roderick Nash’s classic work, Wilderness and the American Mind: With a considerable shock, Americans of