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"Land of War and Blood" : spectacular violence, conflicting medievalisms, and chivalric legacies in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones

Creator:: Horton, Kaely
Abstract:: This thesis examines depictions of medievalism in three central texts: Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones. Each of these texts provides an entry point for exploring the ways in which English and American writers have...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones

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

Creator:: Kramer, Johanna I.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: approved: Neil R. Davison Traditional readings of George Bernard Shaw's texts suggest that he is not a

The activities of the idle males on the breeding ground of the Alaska fur seal on St. George Island, Alaska

Creator:: McGilvrey, Frank Byron
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Fantastic Histories: How Malory's Morte Darthur Influenced Tolkien's The Silmarillion

Creator:: Tatom, Simon K.
Abstract:: My thesis, entitled "Fantastic Histories: How Malory's Morte Darthur Influenced Tolkien's The Silmarillion," argues that J.R.R. Tolkien's Silmarillion shares distinct similarities in style and content with Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur, primarily in the lack of detail in the descriptions of characters and events, as each attempts to create a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The hand of humanity : Eliot's religious reformation in Middlemarch

Creator:: Peake, Natasha C.
Abstract:: As the embodiment of the religiously unsettled Victorian Era in which she lived, George Eliot sought to discover a system of belief that would allow her to reaffirm and maintain her feelings of faith and morality. She believed that the subjective nature of traditional Christianity needed to be replaced with...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , George Eliot sought to discover a system of belief that would allow her to reaffirm and maintain her

Byron, Don Juan, and catharsis

Creator:: Greene, Wanda S.
Abstract:: This thesis seeks to explain how Lord George Gordon Byron achieves catharsis through the writing of his truth in Don Juan. In the poem the narrator expresses Byron's innermost emotion while at the same time the protagonist, Juan, relates to readers on a more conscious level. The ability that Byron...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: approved: This thesis seeks to explain how Lord George Gordon Byron achieves catharsis through the

Biosystematics of parsley-ferns, Cryptogramma R. Br., in western North America

Creator:: Alverson, Edward R.
Abstract:: A biosystematic investigation of Cryptogramma section Cryptogramma in western North America has been directed towards resolution of two separate taxonomic questions. Results of this research support the hypothesis that a previously undescribed diploid (2n = 30 II) taxon, C. cascadensis, is present along with the common and widespread C. acrostichoides....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Development of seed and plant certification procedure with special reference to Oregon

Creator:: Gross, Alvin Eugene
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Effects of temperature and holding time during pre-blanch on pH, pectic substances and quality characteristics of canned green beans

Creator:: Boni, Magloire C.
Abstract:: Physical, chemical and sensory attributes were examined on canned green beans (Oregon 1604) of sieve sizes 3 & 4 and 5 & 6 after one and three months of storage at room temperature (RT). The green beans subjected to different pre-blanch conditions in water (T1t1: 160°F - 30 min.; T1t2:...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: and_Quality_Characteristics of Canned Green Beans. Abstract approved Mr. George W. Varseveld Physical, chemical and

Reasserting moral boundaries : representations of fame in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda

Creator:: Foster, Emily S.
Abstract:: Celebrity culture is part of a long history of fame, but the modern celebrity individual came into focus in the nineteenth century. The first part of this thesis distinguishes modern celebrity – including its morality – from other types of fame, explores the intersection of celebrity and gender through the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: 18, 2017. Title: Reasserting Moral Boundaries: Representations of Fame in George Eliot’s Daniel

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"Land of War and Blood" : spectacular violence, conflicting medievalisms, and chivalric legacies in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones

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

The activities of the idle males on the breeding ground of the Alaska fur seal on St. George Island, Alaska

Fantastic Histories: How Malory's Morte Darthur Influenced Tolkien's The Silmarillion

The hand of humanity : Eliot's religious reformation in Middlemarch

Byron, Don Juan, and catharsis

Biosystematics of parsley-ferns, Cryptogramma R. Br., in western North America

Development of seed and plant certification procedure with special reference to Oregon

Effects of temperature and holding time during pre-blanch on pH, pectic substances and quality characteristics of canned green beans

Reasserting moral boundaries : representations of fame in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda

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