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Slipping into the Dark: Death as a Means of Discovery in Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo and Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping

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Hansen, Sarah Anne

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This thesis compares and contrasts Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo and Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping to explore how Mexican and American cultures perceive death. By examining the thoughts and actions of the young protagonists through the lens of the uncanny, it becomes obvious that they are searching for a history that has...

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Undergraduate Thesis

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in each novel by using both Freud’s 1919 essay and Nicholas Royle’s 2003 book The Uncanny as
The Impact of World Literature in Secondary Schools in Oregon and Chile : A Comparative Case Study

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McFarland, Annette Catherine

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The reading of world literature, literary works from cultures other than one’s own, offers an effective means of creating greater awareness and sensitivity towards others. Research on the subject makes it clear that world literature can help lay the groundwork for a sense of world citizenship in students. To what...

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Honors College Thesis

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teaching world literature? Thomas M. Greene outlines many considerations to make in his article
Reason as Race : Enlightenment Voyages of Discovery and their Effect on 18th Century Racial Discourse

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Parker, Katherine A.

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The proper way to order knowledge and find truth about the natural world in the eighteenth century lay in one’s ability to correctly learn and employ the quality of reason. While all had the right to seek reason, only a privileged few achieved its proper use, creating an intellectual elite...

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Honors College Thesis

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: They have need only of reason.”19 Indeed, reason was also the road to religion.20 Thomas Paine wrote