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Creator:: Lammers, Jack
Abstract:: To the chagrin of his American comrades, Washington Irving would spend much of his life in Europe as a writer and cross-cultural explorer, including a stay in the halls of the Alhambra. This experience led to the completion of Tales of the Alhambra (1832), a collection of sketches, anecdotes, and...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: 4 (Reyes Católicos) Isabella I of Castille and Ferdinand II of Aragon would see to the completion

Creator:: Summers, Stephen James
Abstract:: 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
Full Text:: understanding it, identifying it; naming it as such gives power over it. The entirety of The Waste Land will

Creator:: Ross, McKenzie
Abstract:: Rather than focus intently on the text and its infrastructure, academics treat literature as an ossuary for theoretical machinations and thus relegate art to serve as a vehicle for erudite discourse. This thesis hopes to offer a counter by underscoring the ways in which texts subvert extra-textual applications. In disavowing...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: General Linguistics,” Ferdinand de Saussure formulates the dyadic framework of the sign, where a

Creator:: Wojtas, Miriam
Abstract:: A recipe as a piece of text can tell a variety of stories as well as any other. Using a feminist rhetorical analysis, I read my grandmother’s personal recipe journal to show that her writings contain valuable information about women’s lives in twentieth century Poland. Through the close examination of...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: . Anuncia Escala, Whitney Archer, Cindy Konrad… and many more, who I will always think of not only as some

Creator:: Tawzer, Alexa J.
Abstract:: This thesis attempts to identify and develop a new narrative structure that has not yet been identified. This structure, which traces a character’s internal process of change throughout a work of literature, is known as the Awakening Arc. The Awakening Arc has seven stages that loosely correspond to Freytag’s external...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: Ferdinand de Saussure, Roland Barthes, and Claude Lévi-Strauss. The theory of structuralism is grounded in

Creator:: Mallery, Adah E.
Abstract:: Women’s history is often not included in K-12 classes. However, women are an essential part of American history and should be better represented in the K-12 curricula and classrooms. The purpose of this thesis is to both acknowledge that women’s history is often missing in K-12 classrooms and to provide...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: persistent historical, social, and political issues, conflicts, and compromises in regards to power

Creator:: Richards, Rosalie A.
Abstract:: Women in Transition: The Mexican Family, Migration, and the Mothers of Casa de los Angeles is broken into three parts: methodology, history of migration and gender roles, and in Mexico, the examination of interviews from mothers in San Miguel de Allende. Methodology explores the various ways historian collect oral histories....
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: tales about dolphins and their mythological power. Slater mentions that she was careful to formulate

Creator:: Parker, Katherine A.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: philosophes’ reaction to political power. Although they did not do so uniformly, many Enlightenment thinkers

Creator:: Richardson, Carolyn N.
Abstract:: This project examines the portrayal of the life and times of Kaiserin Elisabeth von Österreich (Empress Elisabeth of Austria) in the popular Austrian musical "Elisabeth das Musical" (Elisabeth the Musical), written by Michael Kunze and Sylvester Levay. "Elisabeth" was first performed in Vienna in 1992 and has since become the...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: feared that joining this larger German entity would lessen Austria’s power. Although Austria and

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