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  • Rethinking the dualism : Don DeLillo's White Noise and the ecocritical possibilities of the nature/culture mix

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    Bowman, Natalie A.
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    Rethinking the Dualism: Don DeLillo's White Noise and the Ecocritical Possibilities of the Nature/Culture Mix questions current applications of ecocriticism and offers that these applications are inadequate in dealing with the perceived nature/culture dualism. This thesis suggests that ecocritics need to stop thinking in dualistic terms, but instead must consider...
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    . Robert Wess for his time, guidance and valuable insights into her work. The author would also like to

  • From weakness to wisdom : Jane Austen transforms the female of sensibility tradition

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    Mosher-Knoshaug, Jessica M.
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    The eighteenth-century female of sensibility was characterized by delicate nerves that allowed her to feel her surroundings and enabled her to choose virtue over vice more consistently than males. While females were considered virtuous, their "innate" delicacy or weakness became their dominant trait and the true focus of male admiration....
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    the Female of Sensibility. Tradition. Abstract approved: Robert V. Wess The eighteenth-century

  • George Bernard Shaw's "Big Three" : an althusserian reading of Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara

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    Kramer, Johanna I.
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    Traditional readings of George Bernard Shaw's texts suggest that he is not a pure Marxist socialist because of the spiritual and nationalist aspects of his vision. This thesis attempts to confront Shaw's politics in order to demonstrate that he indeed offers a viable socialist program. Overlaying his socialism with Louis...
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    committee members: Dr. Robert Wess, whose knowledge of theory has contributed substantially to the

  • James Joyce's critique of "Faubourg Saint Patrice" : Ulysses, the Catholic Panopticon, and religious dressage

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    Nelson, John C. M.
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    In his works, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Ulysses (1922), James Joyce demonstrates what he perceives to be the paralyzing effects of those institutionalized religions that sit at the center of cultures. Drawing on Michel Foucault's analysis of institutional dressage as well as his...
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    development. I also wish to express my gratitude to the other members of my graduate committee, Dr. Bob Wess

  • Ideology, reality, and rhetoric : Kenneth Burke's dramatism

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    Beach, Josh M.
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    The American philosopher and literary critic Kenneth Burke was an "ideologist" (although he never called himself this, and added to that, he spent most of his life avoiding the Marxist term of ideology to describe human "systems" of ideas). Burke instead used the terms "orientation," "rationalization," "perspective." "critical perspective," "way...
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    ideologies evolved and changed hands through what Robert Wess has called the "agon of history." He invents a

  • A Rhetorical Analysis of William Wilberforce's First Official Proposal for the Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade

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    Zach, Anne M.
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    The abolition of the Atlantic slave trade was a long struggle in British Parliament between the slave trade defenders and the abolitionists. The Act of 1807 officially abolished the Atlantic slave trade, eighteen years after the initial abolition proposal to Parliament. William Wilberforce was a member of a committee that...
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    English - Robert Wess 1Th Redacted for Privacy C ai an of Department of Communication - C.V. Bennett

  • The role(s) of literature in introductory composition classrooms

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    Caster, Peter
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    First year college writing classes originated in the United States at Harvard University in 1874. Since then, theorizing such a course has proven a place of contention, as its purposes and subjects have proven difficult to sort and impossible to agree upon. When Harvard first began teaching introductory composition, literature...
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    reading even without the signposts, and Dr. Bob Wess, who showed me that theory can have a sense of

  • Literary proletarianism : a critical re-vision of the Gastonia novels

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    Nieberding, Jon
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    My primary purpose in this thesis is to continue the refocused attention given to American "proletarian" fiction of the 1930's. Because of their politics and supposed artistic inferiority, many of these works have been marginalized by American literary critics. However, many contemporary scholars are reconsidering this genre and devoting more...
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    Bob Wess for their thoughtful help and advice. Eric Hill provided much-needed computer assistance

  • The problems [of Paul Ricoeur's symbols] of evil

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    Ritenour, Karen E.
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    In the early part of his philosophical career, Paul Ricoeur worked out a general theory of symbols which he illustrated with the symbols of evil. He subsequently explained this theory in several essays (his final major statement on symbols can be found in Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of...
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    to thank Professor Robert Wess, too: in the courses I took with him, he both complicated and

  • Writing Rhodesia : young girls as narrators in works by Doris Lessing and Tsitsi Dangarembga

    Creator:
    Thomas, Jane McCauley
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    Doris Lessing and Tsitsi Dangarembga write fiction set in Zimbabwe, the former Southern Rhodesia. Although Lessing grew up as a white settler and Dangarembga, a generation later, as part of the colonized African population, the women sometimes address similar issues. Both write of young girls trying to find a speaking...
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    impossible to finish. I would also like to thank the other members of my committeeKeith Scribner, Bob Wess