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  • An autumn journey : time, place, and pattern in Henry David Thoreau's later work

    Creator:
    Dotterman, Anthony Matthew
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    This thesis situates a discussion of Thoreau's later natural history essays in the context of the author's other writings. Beginning with an examination of the writings of Thoreau's friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, this paper examines Thoreau's relation to and departure from Emerson's understanding of time, place, and pattern...
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    . and Pattern in Henry David Thoreau's Later Work. Abstract approved: David Robinson This thesis

  • Zora Neale Hurston : freedom from the inside out

    Creator:
    Rasmussen, Patricia Ann, 1947-
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    Zora Neale Hurston was a Black American writer during the period of the Harlem Renaissance. The purpose of this study is to show that three of her four novels form a protracted discussion of a particular type of freedom which was of especial interest to Hurston. The study seeks to...
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    Abstract approved: Dr. David Robinson Zora Neale Hurston was a Black American writer Renaissance. The

  • "Living Outside the Madness" : reform and ecology in the work of Henry Thoreau and Gary Snyder

    Creator:
    Hiatt, Bryan
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    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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    and Ecology in the Work of Henry Thoreau and Gary Snyder. Abstract Approved: David Robinson

  • Who We Are and Will Be

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    Jackson, Linda Carol, 1949-
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    The protagonists in the fiction of Paule Marshall, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison illuminate American cultural perceptions of black women and illustrate how the creators of these characters hope to change those perceptions. I studied Paule Marshall's Daughters, Alice Walker's Meridian and The Color Purple, and Toni Morrison's The Bluest...
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    Education. Presented on April 1, 1994. Title: Who We Are and Will Be. Abstract approved: David Robinson

  • Herman Melville's Moby-Dick : hermeneutics and epistemology in Ishmael's seafaring

    Creator:
    Goodrum, Emily A.
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    This paper defends a reading of Hennan Melville's Moby-Dick that elevates Ishmael's status from mere narrator of Ahab's tragedy to that of protagonist of his own story, a novel of epistemological seafaring. As a metaphysical quester, Ishmael provides the novel's only reliable and complex vision of the condition of man...
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    and Epistemology in Ishmael' s Seafaring. Abstract Approved: David Robinson This paper defends a

  • Possessed : embodiment, circulation, & subjectivity in Robinson Crusoe, Roderick Random, & Rob Roy

    Creator:
    Schneider, Rebecca
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    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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    Robinson Crusoe, Roderick Random, & Rob Roy by Rebecca Schneider A THESIS

  • Unfinished work : reading Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth

    Creator:
    Ridinger, Angela F.
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    Ralph Ellison died without ever completing his second novel. After his death, the executor of his literary estate, John F. Callahan, edited Ellison's work into a novel published under the title Juneteenth. This thesis examines the problems posed by Ellison's posthumously released text, especially the issues of authorial intent and...
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    to Dr. David Robinson for helping me unravel the Emersonian connection to Juneteenth and serving as

  • 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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    Language" Abstract approved: David M. Robinson This paper explores the language theories of Gary Snyder

  • "My nonsense is only their own in motley" : Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Ware Jr., and the "nature" of christian character"

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    Jensen, Timothy Ward
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    Recent changes in the historiography of American Transcendentalism have inspired a reappraisal of the relationship between the Transcendentalist movement in New England and the pietistic wing of the Unitarian church. This thesis explores this reappraisal through a close reading of selected writings by Henry Ware Jr. in juxtaposition to the...
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    Ware Jr., and the "Nature" of "Christian Character." Abstract approved: David M. Robinson Recent

  • Fitzgerald’s idealism and the question of wealth

    Creator:
    Wood, Amy
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    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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    approved: ______________________________________________ David M. Robinson In This Side of