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Filtering by: Creator Goerndt, Michael E. Degree Name Master of Arts (M.A.) Subject Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 -- Criticism and interpretation

A literary discourse on the evolution of gender & sexuality in the first & second waves of feminism : Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" deconstructs established gender roles as Willa Cather's "Paul's Case" reconstructs them

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Hotard, Tami

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The two literary touchstones of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Willa Cather examined in this thesis anchored a larger discussion of the discourse about gender and sexuality during the First and Second Waves of feminism in America. "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Gilman deconstructed the notion of "femininity" manifested at the turn...

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Masters Thesis

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Radical/domestic : representations of the professor in Willa Cather's The Professor's House and Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin

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Butcher, Ian

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This thesis is an exploration of literary representation of professors, specificially in Willa Cather's The Professor's House and Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin. I explicate the political unconscious of these texts by teasing out the tensions and ironies stemming from the conflict between the radical political consequences of the titular characters' scholarship...

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Masters Thesis

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