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  • A Decolonial Option for Literary Criticism

    Creator:
    Bhogra, Siddharth
    Abstract:
    The ongoing “method war” in literary criticism that has manifested as the impasse between Critique and Postcritique, which are identified respectively with paranoid and reparative modes of reading, raises existential questions about criticism in the face of its declining social value under neoliberalism. This thesis enters that impasse to suggest...
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    Masters Thesis
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    performed in Chapter I and lay out a quieter form of being present with, through Beth Piatote’s short story

  • "Justify[ing] the ways of God to man" : John Milton's Use of Satan to Promote a Christian Message in Paradise Lost

    Creator:
    Burkett, Kristen A.
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    This paper focuses on Satan as a sympathetic figure in Paradise Lost, and it argues that readers' sympathy for Satan drives them to pursue God's grace in order to avoid falling into the same fate as Satan. It uses Reader Response theory to show how readers connect with Satan, and...
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    Masters Thesis
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        AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Kristen A. Burkett for the degree of Master of Art in English

  • “I Can’t Believe I’m Marching for Reality”: Examining the Rhetorical Role of Science in the “Post-Truth” Era

    Creator:
    Baker, Carlee A.
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    In the months preceding the 2016 presidential election and during the Trump presidency, rhetoric, composition, and communications scholars expressed an urgent concern about the threat that Trump and his political affiliates posed to the status of truth in political life (McComiskey; Rice; Harsin; Cloud). However, the conversations surrounding the discipline’s...
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    Masters Thesis
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    THE THESIS OF Carlee A. Baker for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on May 25

  • Double exposure

    Creator:
    Raleigh, Elisabeth A.
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    DOUBLE EXPOSURE is a novel concerned with the phenomenon of memory. The story explores such questions as: To what extent does "memory" (and the narratives we construct from it) explain who we are? How is memory influenced by others-and does it matter if it is? Can a memory that is...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Double exposure AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Elisabeth A

  • Re-Viewing Literacy : A Language Arts Teacher's Perspective

    Creator:
    Van Develder, Pamela A.
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    A controversy regarding literacy lies at the heart of debates over the current state of American education. In response to the debate, this study reviews and analyzes the literacy theories of E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Walter Ong, Sylvia Scribner and Michael Cole, Shirley Brice Heath, and Paulo Freire. The author presents...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Re-viewing literacy : a language arts teacher's

  • Women's individual accounts of the romantic content in glamour and cosmopolitan and its relationship to their lived experiences

    Creator:
    Weaver, Shauna Q.
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    The following question guided this research: How do female readers understand the romantic content of Cosmopolitan and/or Glamour magazines, and how do they perceive connections between their readership of this content and their personal ideas and behaviors regarding romantic relationships? This study involved a series of responsive interviews in which...
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    regarding romantic relationships? This study involved a series of responsive interviews in which the

  • In the words of a woman

    Creator:
    Rose, Kerin G.
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    I am a woman who writes. I am a writer who is a woman. In the Words of a Woman is an exploration of how these two facts of my life merge and influence each other. It is a work written to mediate between the supposed dichotomies of creative and...
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    Masters Thesis
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    In the words of a woman AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF

  • Dead or less himself : A novel

    Creator:
    Curtis, Devin
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    Dead or Less Himself is a novel concerning creative impotence and the ways in which people become repressed and stagnate through expectation, isolation, and over-analyzing. The novel takes place across high school to chart the ways the characters change or refuse to change as they “grow up.” The novel is...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    Dead or Less Himself: A Novel by Devin Curtis A THESIS submitted

  • Religion in the writing classroom : toward a pedagogy of possibility

    Creator:
    May, Laura D.
    Abstract:
    In this thesis, I examine composition scholarship on the intersections of religious faith and writing pedagogy over the past twenty years, tracing the origins of compositionists' discomfort with religion and focusing on pedagogical approaches for working with religiously-committed students. In particular, I emphasize the way in which these approaches are...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Writing Classroom: Toward a Pedagogy of Possibility. Abstract approved

  • A History of the National Pygmy Goat Association

    Creator:
    Coneybeer, Jane K.
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    The National Pygmy Goat Association is a hobby livestock organization founded in 1975. Over the past five decades, it has grown in size and importance, occupying a niche role as the primary breed registry and certification authority for the smallest domestic ruminant. This history attempts to capture the scope of...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    A History of the National Pygmy Goat Association