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  • The practice of home

    Creator:
    Goodrich, Charles
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    If home is the hearth, a place of safety and centeredness, it is also the portal, the magic door. From home we go out into spaces more humanized and technologized, or into spaces more natural, more other-than-humanized. We dress up and head downtown, or we pack up and head for...
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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Charles Goodrich for the degree of

  • 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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    Masters Thesis
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    ontology (Graham Harman, Timothy Morton, and Ian Bogost), vibrant materialism (Jane Bennett), and actor

  • "The life of things" : weird realisms in Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads

    Creator:
    England, Saara Amelia
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    My thesis explores the poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth as emblematic of Western philosophy and literature's longstanding preoccupation with the relationship between mind and matter. The poets' attempts to mediate their languages and sensibilities with "real nature" have a complicated legacy for today's readers, as Romantic literature...
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    Masters Thesis
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    implications of their work (theorists like Timothy Morton are concerned with what he calls “hyperobjects” and

  • Narrative frames and the works of John Coltrane

    Creator:
    Duncan, James Bryan
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    In Culture and Imperialism, Said illustrates that we have no "autonomous cultural forms," but rather "impure" ones that are the products of historically "discrepant experiences." American culture has an interesting relationship with the history of imperialism. The Europeans that settled the U.S. imported slave labor to assist in the growth...
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    Masters Thesis
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    major innovators. According to one legend, Jelly Roll Morton in 1909 distributed business cards to

  • Towards meaningful intercultural interactions: a case study of service-learning in a business writing classroom

    Creator:
    Sprague, Allen
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    The following thesis presents a case study analyzing a service-learning project implemented in a second-year level Writing in Business course at Oregon State University. The classroom project required business writing students to serve as cultural ambassadors and conversation partners with international students through INTO OSU's Cultural Ambassador Conversant Program. Relying...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Russell’s synthesis of Yrjo Engeström’s activity theory and Charles Bazerman’s genre systems theory, I

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

    Creator:
    Bruno, Edward Louis
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    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...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , Charles L. Prysby argues that critics should not apply Neo-European standards of evaluation.5 In

  • Intertextuality in The Bondwoman's Narrative : structural and individual perspectives of freedom

    Creator:
    Brandt, Anna
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    The Bondwoman’s Narrative, the first novel written by an enslaved Black woman, borrows heavily from other texts and genres to investigate what freedom looks like in the context of slavery. Crafts rewrites characters, scenes, and plots, adapting them to her setting and placing herself as a heroine within them. Scholars...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    references to the Bible, Lord Byron, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, and others (xxxiii). These features

  • Public Proof : Science Communication, Weak Theory, and the Nonrational

    Creator:
    Snyder, Wesley M.
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    A 2014 Pew Research poll revealed large gaps between public opinion and scientific opinion over environmental and biomedical issues (Funk and Rainie). Similarly, a number of recent popular books have described a growing public mistrust in scientific expertise (Mooney; Storr; Specter). Why is it, then, that so much of the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Prelli, Charles Bazerman, and many others. Rhetoric of science has been, for the most part, critical of

  • 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.
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    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...
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    Masters Thesis
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    -clerical Joyce, the duopolistic rule of Rome and England helped end Charles Stewart Parnell's promising

  • Mike Rose : composing a reading of inclusion

    Creator:
    Jameson, Sara
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    Mike Rose researcher, professor, scholar, and author of numerous articles and books including the literacy memoir - Lives on the Boundary - has been active in the field of education and composition for over 30 years. This thesis looks back at the development of the discipline of composition studies to...
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    Masters Thesis