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Whitman and technology: a modern romance

Creator:: Turner, David N.
Abstract:: Walt Whitman looked to the natural world, which he considered an original example of divine creation, for insights into the methods and patterns of the Creative Force; the poet then intuited connections between these divine natural patterns and human existence and spirituality. Convinced of the divinity of the human body,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Turner for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on July 20, 2006. Title: Whitman and

Life in (an)other world : issues of otherness and magic in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series

Creator:: Fennell, Dalicia K.
Abstract:: My thesis is comprised of two articles, titled "Journeying Through (An)Other World: Examining the Role of Magic and Transformational Otherness in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and "Magic, Muggles, and Mudbloods: Examining Magical Otherness in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series." The introduction frames the thematic, theoretical, and critical connections...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Spell: The Meaning behind the Mania for J. K. Rowling's Bestselling Books. 3rd ed. Carol Stream, IL

In Defense of the "Ringding Mukta" : The Later Work of J.D. Salinger

Creator:: Herb, Danielle Kristine
Abstract:: My thesis explores the later work of author J.D. Salinger, including two narratives featured in Nine Stories, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," and "Teddy," and Franny and Zooey, "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters," and "Seymour: an Introduction." Through my analysis I argue that the religious nature of Salinger's fiction...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: simply fulfilling ―God‘s will.‖ Gordon E. Slethaug argues that for Seymour, ―Each stage is an act in

David Foster Wallace's communal middle ground

Creator:: Randlemon, Daniel E.
Abstract:: Throughout the course of this thesis, I argue that the prose of David Foster Wallace, specifically his posthumously published novel The Pale King, inhabits a middle ground between universal sincerity and the particularized authenticity of postmodern irony. I examine Lionel Trilling's definitions of sincerity and authenticity before moving toward an...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Daniel E. Randlemon for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on May 25, 2012. Title

Primal Matter : Deep Objects in Historical Accounts of the Glanton Gang

Creator:: Schauer, Austin A.
Abstract:: The question of deep time has been widely debated in the field of American Literature, with scholar Wai Chee Dimock arguing that a deep time perspective puts the chronology of different nations against one another. However, this argument has not adequately addressed the issue of how deep time theories would...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Raymond J. Malewitz

An exploration of information and communication technology use on the part of Eritrean refugees in Rome, Italy

Creator:: Opas, Matthew E.
Abstract:: Thesis explores the ways in which Information and Communication Technology (ICT)use, specifically that of telephones and the Internet, impacts the lives of Eritrean refugees in Rome, Italy. Informal interviews, semi-structured interviews, and participant observation were carried out in a 'center of second reception.' Results show that information obtained through the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSRACT OF THE THESIS OF Matthew E. Opas for the degree of

Cartographies of Haunting : Black Feminist Refusal in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and Octavia Butler’s Kindred

Creator:: Spencer, Megan
Abstract:: This thesis explores the gendered histories of slavery through the concept of haunting in two neo-slave narrative novels: Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and Octavia Butler’s Kindred. I offer readings of these texts through slavery’s geographic and temporal implications, in order to argue that the logics of antiblackness remain a fundamental...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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

Creator:: Ritenour, Karen E.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: dicussed in those categories below). E. J. Piscitelli asks, "What about the mythic paradigms or types that

Hemolytic streptococcus bacteriophage

Creator:: Gross, Noel Harden
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: and helpful criticisms in preparing this thesis, and to Professor J. E. Simmons, Associate Professor

Conversion of a model DBS Loran indicator to a fixed time-base oscilloscope

Creator:: Trolan, J. Kenneth
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: 144 00 6 E 2,7 C 40e 500 200 CPS PIP I-J 14 This ajpears as a distortion on one

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Whitman and technology: a modern romance

Life in (an)other world : issues of otherness and magic in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series

In Defense of the "Ringding Mukta" : The Later Work of J.D. Salinger

David Foster Wallace's communal middle ground

Primal Matter : Deep Objects in Historical Accounts of the Glanton Gang

An exploration of information and communication technology use on the part of Eritrean refugees in Rome, Italy

Cartographies of Haunting : Black Feminist Refusal in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and Octavia Butler’s Kindred

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

Hemolytic streptococcus bacteriophage

Conversion of a model DBS Loran indicator to a fixed time-base oscilloscope

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