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"Sorrow's springs are the same" : synoeciosis in the poetry of Alfred Tennyson and Gerard Manley Hopkins

Creator:: Adamson, Christopher
Abstract:: Tennyson and Hopkins scholarship is dominated by a focus on antithetical dichotomies. Tennyson's speakers are fractured selves focused on the gap between matter and spirit, faith and reason, solitude and community. Likewise, Hopkins' doubled vocation as priest and poet is presented as a contradiction to the point that the transition...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ______________________________________________________ AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Christopher

The Clerk’s Tale : literal monstrosities and allegorical problems

Creator:: Brock, Christopher J.
Abstract:: My thesis, entitled “The Clerk’s Tale: Literal Monstrosities and Allegorical Problems,” argues that Chaucer’s Clerk is engaging both sides of a binary system. The Clerk has situated himself in a precarious position between two major schools of thought in the medieval culture, Franciscan and Dominican; the former promotes the will...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: THESIS OF Christopher James Brock for the degree of Master of Arts in English, presented on June 4

Science, service, and specialized agriculture : the re-invention of the maraschino cherry

Creator:: Jolly, J. Christopher
Abstract:: From 1925 to 1930, Ernest H. Wiegand, a professor of Horticultural Products at Oregon State Agricultural College, developed an improved brining process for cherries. Brined cherries are used in the production of maraschino and glacé cherries, which already had a sizable market in the United States by the 1920s. This...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF J. Christopher Jolly for the

(Mis)representation & Postcolonial Masculinity : The Origins of Violence in the Plays and Films of Martin McDonagh

Creator:: Evans, Nicolas M. J.
Abstract:: This thesis examines the postmodern confrontation of representation throughout the oeuvre of Martin McDonagh. I particularly look to his later body of work, which directly and self-reflexively confronts issues of artistic representation & masculinity, in order to gain a more nuanced understanding of his earliest and most controversial plays. In...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: my writing. Thanks also to Dr. Peter Betjemann, Dr. Jon Lewis, and Dr. Christopher Higgins for

The cage has two sides : an ethical perspective of prison abolition

Creator:: Lenn, Christopher
Abstract:: Current calls for prison abolition have been met with major public resistance. It is time for movements for prison abolition to engage with these questions: How have contemporary people of the United States come to accept mass incarceration and the prison industrial complex, and, what is the impact? Using an...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Christopher Lenn for the degree of Master of Arts in Applied Ethics

Local resilience, canola cropping, and biodiesel production

Creator:: Bates, Christopher Allen
Abstract:: New technology may have negative, as well as positive, effects on a sociocultural system. Biodiesel is growing in popularity as a fuel alternative that addresses global warming and reduces dependency on petroleum. The biodiesel innovation fits well into the existing behavioral infrastructure of Linn and Benton Counties, Oregon. The introduction...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Christopher Allen Bates for the

Educational Migration in Indonesia : An Ethnography of Eastern Indonesian Students in Malang, Java

Creator:: Foertsch, Christopher R.
Abstract:: This research explores the experience of the growing number of students from Eastern Indonesia who attend universities on Java. It asks key questions about the challenges these often maligned students face as ethnic, linguistic, and religious minorities exposed to the dominant culture of their republic during their years of education....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Christopher R. Foertsch for the degree of Master of Arts in Applied Anthropology presented on June 3, 2016

Pottery, Politics, and Trade Routes : Evaluating Independence in Late Classic Jalieza, Oaxaca

Creator:: Walker, Sarah T.
Abstract:: The Oaxaca Valley, located in the state of Oaxaca in Southern Mexico, was the site of the Zapotec civilization and its now famous capital, Monte Albán. This site, with political, military, and economic influence and control, helped to consolidate the three arms of the Oaxaca Valley, resulting in a state-level...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Wild nature or the garden : conservation themes in the forests of Tarzan and Herland/Ourland

Creator:: Davis, Caryn M.
Abstract:: At first glance, Edgar Rice Burroughs's wildly popular romantic fantasy novel, Tarzan of the Apes (1912), and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's feminist science fiction-utopian novel, Herland (1915), with its dystopian companion, With Her in Ourland (1916), may appear to have little in common. Tarzan celebrates the human connection with wild nature...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of Tarzan and Herland/Ourland Abstract approved: Peter J. Betjemann At first glance, Edgar

Vibrant colors, transient shadows : woman artists and the brushstrokes of impressionist sensibility in Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse

Creator:: Kondrack, Kayleen Rose
Abstract:: This thesis explores the artistic imperatives and internal struggles of women painters in two novels, Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899) and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (1927). I identify Chopin's Edna Pontellier and Woolf’s Lily Briscoe as painters who exhibit Impressionist strains, both in how they paint and how they...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Peter J. Betjemann This thesis explores the artistic imperatives and internal

ScholarsArchive@OSU

"Sorrow's springs are the same" : synoeciosis in the poetry of Alfred Tennyson and Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Clerk’s Tale : literal monstrosities and allegorical problems

Science, service, and specialized agriculture : the re-invention of the maraschino cherry

(Mis)representation & Postcolonial Masculinity : The Origins of Violence in the Plays and Films of Martin McDonagh

The cage has two sides : an ethical perspective of prison abolition

Local resilience, canola cropping, and biodiesel production

Educational Migration in Indonesia : An Ethnography of Eastern Indonesian Students in Malang, Java

Pottery, Politics, and Trade Routes : Evaluating Independence in Late Classic Jalieza, Oaxaca

Wild nature or the garden : conservation themes in the forests of Tarzan and Herland/Ourland

Vibrant colors, transient shadows : woman artists and the brushstrokes of impressionist sensibility in Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse

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