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  • Brenda Ueland : Early Feminist and Writing Theorist

    Creator:
    Firmin, Mary Ann
    Abstract:
    Brenda Ueland is a writer whose most noted work is a book which explains her theory about how to write. She also published an autobiography and a co11ection of essays as well as achieving some notoriety as a magazine writer to the twenties and thirties. Ueland's writing theory is based...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Theorist by Mary Ann Firmin A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfilment of

  • Measures of reality : the religious life of Virginia Woolf

    Creator:
    Streufert, Mary J.
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    Virginia Woolf was a self-proclaimed atheist, yet her fictional and personal writing reveal her ecstatic consciousness. Characters in Woolf s novels experience ecstasy, and her letters and diaries support the theory that she herself had experienced ecstatic consciousness. Major figures in the philosophy of religion assert that ecstatic consciousness is...
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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Mary J. Streufert for the degree of Master of Arts in

  • Wiesel's Night: A Biography

    Creator:
    Krueger, Jessica
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    Elie Wiesel’s Night has become a canonical work in the genre of Holocaust literature. This thesis examines the process by which Night achieved this status. An argument will be composed using, as evidence, analysis of Elie Wiesel’s life, the broad history of Holocaust literature, and the complexities surrounding Night’s publication...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    _____________________________________________________________________ Elizabeth Barstow, Committee Member, representing Department of History, Philosophy, and Religion

  • The Art of Noticing : An Essay on Contemporary Ecological Writing

    Creator:
    West, Rex Alan, 1967-
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    A number of thinkers are becoming increasingly persuaded that our anthropocentric view of nature is inadequate, that we need a "new morality" with regard to the environment. In this essay, I argue that an alternative to anthropocentricism is available to us now-and has been since at least 1836. I look...
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    Masters Thesis
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    contemporary writing of Gretel Ehrlich, Gary Snyder, Wendell Berry, Mary Oliver, and A. R. Ammons. In short

  • Abraham's daughter

    Creator:
    Melton, Barbara
    Abstract:
    This thesis is a series of personal essays that explore themes of fundamentalism, family, loss, personal growth and the question of free will. The work reflects my study of the written word, of language, and of how people have tried to define, or have experienced, the numinous. The essays are...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Elizabeth gave me leave, I hopped on my bike and rode to Woody's Market three blocks away. I would plunk

  • To Express the Inexpressible: Poetry as Philosophy within Mystical Discourse

    Creator:
    Hyam, Jarrod
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    Within this thesis, I posit that poetry, rather than philosophical argument, is a more effective means of expressing and understanding the nature of mystical experiences. William James’ analysis of mysticism inspires the theoretical approach utilized in this thesis. An analysis of the unique qualities of poetic language within mystical discourse...
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    Masters Thesis
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    grateful to my family, Arnold Hyam, Elizabeth Lopez-Hyam, and Jessica Hyam, for their constant support

  • Women combatants in the United States Navy : a victory for equal opportunity

    Creator:
    Rosenberg, Holly A.
    Abstract:
    The issue of Navy women in combat has been widely discussed since women first served during World War I. In this paper I intend to present the political, philosophical, and historical reasoning behind the changing of the regulations to allow women in combat. History shows that the Navy has faced...
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    Masters Thesis

  • The Morphology of Goethe’s Botanical Work

    Creator:
    Hahn, Andre M.
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    This thesis examines the morphology of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) through several lenses. The first explores Goethe's morphology as he applied it in his botanical work and supplies an explanation of what Goethe referred to as archetypal phenomena and the archetypal plant. The scope of exploration then broadens to...
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    published in 1968) translated by W. H. Auden and Elizabeth Mayer, and the two volume Correspondences with

  • 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
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    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

  • Quintilian's influence on Obadiah Walker

    Creator:
    O'Rourke, Kathryn Ann
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    The nature and extent of classical rhetoric's influence on subsequent ages has been the focus of much recent study. Scholars have been concerned with how classical authors, particularly Cicero and Quintilian, emerged in educational and rhetorical theories of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and later centuries. Despite this flurry of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Berlin, Robert Connors, Sharon Crowley, Richard Enos, Nan Johnson, Jan Swearingen, Carole Blair and Mary