Search Constraints

Start Over
Filtering by: Alternative title ssim Roaming Slavage II Remove constraint Alternative title ssim: Roaming Slavage II Degree Field English Remove constraint Degree Field: English

Search Results

  • Paxton : a cartography

    Creator:
    Hogg, Charlotte
    Abstract:
    This thesis is a collection of essays about Paxton, a small town in western Nebraska, and an exploration of the contradictions and complexities found there. It is also a reflection on the layers of history and connections that exist not only among families that have lived in these towns for...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
    Full Text:
    . Chapter II delves into the complications and connections I eventually discovered while living in

  • How the Portrayal of Women Characters in the Zorro and Robin Hood Stories Has Changed Over Time

    Creator:
    Rodriguez-Walmisley, Olga B.
    Abstract:
    This thesis explores how female characters in the Zorro and Robin Hood stories have changed throughout time, from beginnings until present day. I began my analysis by first researching whether Zorro and Robin Hood existed, and found that Robin Hood was most likely a real man who lived during the...
    Resource Type:
    Honors College Thesis
    Full Text:
    Edward II. Apparently, the early ballads and the details in these rolls correspond closely, and include

  • Artificial intelligence and cyberpunk

    Creator:
    Scott, Ron
    Abstract:
    This thesis examines the ways in which cyberpunk science fiction novels and short stories reflect our cultural relation with technology, a series of relationships predicated on the way that corporate control of knowledge industries increased during the 1980s. The document begins by locating the means of corporate control in the...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • The beat generation : a rhetoric of negation

    Creator:
    Mackaman, Julie Irene
    Abstract:
    The Beat Generation was an American counter-culture movement in the 1950's. Comprised of nomadic writers, poets, actors, musicians, and artists, the Beat movement represented no systematic philosophy and its most distinguishing characteristic was its apolitical disengagement from society. The Beats offered no substantive alternatives to the existing social order, but...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
    Full Text:
    encouragement. TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Prologue: The Anti-Movement 1 II. Inception: The Social Nay-Sayers 10

  • "Present fears" and "Horrible Imaginings" : Gothic elements in Shakespearean Tragedy

    Creator:
    Appel, Ian S.
    Abstract:
    Gothic literary works are characterized as such by their ability to represent and evoke terror. The form this representation takes is varied; often terror originates in the atmospheric effects of settings, in the appearance of mysterious, supposedly supernatural phenomena, and, perhaps most significantly, in the behavior of villainous characters. Shakespearean...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
    Full Text:
    Tragedy ... 13 3. II: Anomalous Others as Objects of Terror: Gender, Ethnicity, and Shakespeare's Social

  • Measures of reality : the religious life of Virginia Woolf

    Creator:
    Streufert, Mary J.
    Abstract:
    Virginia Woolf was a self-proclaimed atheist, yet her fictional and personal writing reveal her ecstatic consciousness. Characters in Woolf s novels experience ecstasy, and her letters and diaries support the theory that she herself had experienced ecstatic consciousness. Major figures in the philosophy of religion assert that ecstatic consciousness is...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
    Full Text:
    determination. Table of Contents Page I. God, Atheism and Reality 1 II. Cultural Forces 14 III. A

  • Fostering a Multidimensional, Metacognitive Landscape Through Rhetorical Narrative Analysis

    Creator:
    Breeden, Regan
    Abstract:
    Close reading has long been favored as an interpretative framework within those classrooms commonly united under the umbrella of English studies. This thesis explores the role of a particular brand of close reading—one often assessed through text-dependent questions—and critiques its centrality within assessment and curriculum materials for the AP Program...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
    Full Text:
    three-essay structure of Section II, the College Board is stingy and inconsistent with this

  • Revisioning grandeur : an exploration of intertextuality in Alice Munro and Virginia Woolf

    Creator:
    King, Michelle L.
    Abstract:
    In this thesis I argue that Alice Munro’s work takes part in an ongoing feminist discourse that examines alterations in male and female gender relations, as they have been represented in domestic fiction by women writers since the late nineteenth century. I analyze two short stories written by Munro: “Meneseteung,”...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
    Full Text:
    …………………………………………………..29 The Feminine Masquerade……………………………………………………….38 PART II……………………………………………………………………………...49

  • We Are the Thing Itself : Essays

    Creator:
    Anderson, Monica L.
    Abstract:
    This collection of creative nonfiction essays seeks to examine my expanding consciousness and the people and experiences that have contributed to it. The first essay juxtaposes competitive running and dancing, the second considers how food choices challenge relationships, the third unpacks an implausible friendship while paralleling an Audre Lorde essay,...
    Resource Type:
    Honors College Thesis
    Full Text:
    of success was unbreakable. II. Red Meat, Chicken, Fish, Eggs, Dairy At the beginning of my

  • Inside, Outside : Light and Dark

    Creator:
    Knotts, L. William
    Abstract:
    In a story of his life Les reflects on what he has gained and what he has lost while seeking success in the moving and shifting of military and academic life through homes and schools all over the United States. He describes himself as between races, languages, and cultures.
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
    Full Text:
    Photographs Introduction 01 Section I: Something in the Music 03 Section II: Against the Flow 42 Section