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Creator:: Dunham, Karen L.
Abstract:: This thesis is a collection of six essays with interconnecting elements and themes. Two overriding themes which pervade the collection are the search for spiritual wholeness and the relationships between humans and their environments. The essays document my recent explorations of and experimentations with the "creative nonfiction" genre. have worked...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Search images AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Karen L

Playwriting and Authority : Collaborative Art and Feminine Production

Creator:: Brown, Colleen Karen
Abstract:: In that the concept of authority in terms of the creation of a literary work of art indicates a single creator or controller of a literary work, a delineated inscriber of the text who initiates the act of communication, writing for theatrical production can be described as a feminized art...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: feminine production AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Colleen Karen Brown for the degree of Master of Arts in

Breast cancer experience literature : women's stories as cultural critique

Creator:: Cohen, Karla R.
Abstract:: Breast cancer statistics in the United States are staggering. As the number of women diagnosed grows, so does the number of women who are writing about their experiences. This thesis is a multi-textual work which includes both the stories of women with breast cancer as well as the thesis author's...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Learning by imitation : the scholarly works of David Bartholomae

Creator:: Gallup, Sarah E.
Abstract:: This thesis examines the scholarship in pedagogical theory and practice of David Bartholomae over the past thirty-five years, in particular examining the role that the rhetorical construct of imitation has played in its development. Through my research, I trace the evolution of Bartholomae’s pedagogical stances and practices, as these both...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Composing for Social Change : Clashes of Ideographs and Ideology in the Composition Classroom

Creator:: Gasser, Chris
Abstract:: Clashes of ideology are all around us, from our computer and television screens to our composition classrooms, and they merit attention within the composition classroom. This thesis examines the justifications and pedagogies that scholars in rhetoric and composition use to infuse issues of ideology and social ethics into writing instruction...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: from personal experience. In her reflection on her critical classroom, Karen Keaton Jackson writes

Things I Thought I Knew : An Exploration and Experimentation in Autobiography as Literature

Creator:: Sundberg, Brittany Kay
Abstract:: Autobiography is usually categorized with essays and other technical writings, and rarely considered creative or artistic literature in the public eye. This project explores the elements of autobiography and two authors who break the barriers of conventional practices to create works that also function as creative and artistic literature. Maya...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: _____________________________________________________________________ Karen Holmberg, Committee Member, representing the English Department

Team Bella : reimagining character portrayals and engaging with social constructions of power in Twilight fanfiction

Creator:: Rost, Coral
Abstract:: Online fanfiction communities have received attention for providing spaces of creativity and individual empowerment. Yet as critics have sought to establish fanfiction as a worthy object of study, many have not grappled with the ways that fanfictions not only trouble, but also reinforce various discourses and ideas of gender and...
Resource Type:: 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
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: thank her. Mimi , Joyce Fargo and my mother, Florence Herndon, helped proof-read and polish. I also

"A dissonant element" : the difficulty of Anais Nin

Creator:: Burghauser, Sarah B.
Abstract:: This thesis is arranged in three main chapters, each of which focuses on a particular type of Anaїs Nin text, and each of which is intended to enlarge Nin's complexities through distinct but overlapping perspectives. The idea connecting these three chapters is that Nin, who has been radically misrepresented by...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: are Lorett Reily, Karen Holmberg, and Tab Dansby. Finly, than you to my MA cohort without whose

Under the Shadow of this Red Rock: Reading T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land for its Places, Persons, and Poetics

Creator:: Summers, Stephen James
Abstract:: Thomas Stearns Eliot’s 1922 modernist poem The Waste Land presents itself as an alternative to the decaying society Eliot found himself inhabiting. It begins as a personal means of pulling together one’s fragmented consciousness, but in doing so Eliot manages to present a solution to a world of selfishness—looking beyond...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis

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Playwriting and Authority : Collaborative Art and Feminine Production

Breast cancer experience literature : women's stories as cultural critique

Learning by imitation : the scholarly works of David Bartholomae

Composing for Social Change : Clashes of Ideographs and Ideology in the Composition Classroom

Things I Thought I Knew : An Exploration and Experimentation in Autobiography as Literature

Team Bella : reimagining character portrayals and engaging with social constructions of power in Twilight fanfiction

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

"A dissonant element" : the difficulty of Anais Nin

Under the Shadow of this Red Rock: Reading T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land for its Places, Persons, and Poetics

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