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  • Shifting the scholarly conversation : a rhetorical reading of Peter Elbow's work

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    Slaton, Dorothy N.
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    Shifting the Scholarly Conversation: A Rhetorical Reading of Peter Elbow's Work explores Peter Elbow's contributions to the field of writing and rhetoric. Over the course of his long career, Elbow’s scholarly and pedagogical work has been much praised and much criticized. Elbow's work has influenced generations of teachers and writers,...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Lisa S. Ede Shifting the Scholarly Conversation: A Rhetorical Reading of Peter

  • The role(s) of literature in introductory composition classrooms

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    Caster, Peter
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    First year college writing classes originated in the United States at Harvard University in 1874. Since then, theorizing such a course has proven a place of contention, as its purposes and subjects have proven difficult to sort and impossible to agree upon. When Harvard first began teaching introductory composition, literature...
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    turn. The Role(s) of Literature in Introductory Composition Classrooms. by Peter Caster A

  • LSD, Mules and Men : Hypermediation in Hunter S. Thompson and Zora Neale Hurston

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    Collins, Harold R., III.
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    Hypermediation, as described by Jay Bolter and Richard Grusin in their book Remediation, is a style of writing, recording, presenting, etc. that “makes us aware of the medium or media and (in sometimes subtle and sometimes obvious ways) reminds us of our desire for immediacy” (34). This mode of production...
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    presented on May 25, 2016. Title: LSD, Mules and Men: Hypermediation in Hunter S. Thompson and Zora

  • "They called me the hyacinth girl" : T. S. Eliot, masculinity, and the Great War

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    Query, Patrick
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    This thesis traces the relationship between the First World War, constructions of masculinity, and the life and poetry of T.S. Eliot. Central to this relationship is a study of homoeroticism, which the author characterizes as different from homosexuality but not exclusive of it, in late 19th and early 20th century...
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    "They called me the hyacinth girl" : T. S. Eliot, masculinity

  • Discovering Antigone: A Non-Normative Political Figure

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    Patten, Jennifer A.
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    This thesis analyzes Sophocles’ classic Greek tragedy Antigone as it relates to biopolitics, biopower, democratic language and non-normative principles of politics. I argue that the figure of Antigone enables a better understanding of exclusive biopolitical philosophy. Antigone is a figure not recognized as human because her gender is tortured and...
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    approved: ______________________________________________________ Peter Betjemann This thesis

  • Fighting tradition : Hemingway’s Nick Adams and shell shock

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    McGrath, Cole P.
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    In his Nick Adams stories, Ernest Hemingway traces the life of a single man as he moves from boyhood to adolescence to adulthood to fatherhood. From the beginning of Nick Adam’s life, it is clear that he does not fit into the role of the traditional hero. In addition, Nick...
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    . Title: Fighting Tradition: Hemingway’s Nick Adams and Shell Shock. Abstract approved: Peter

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

    Creator:
    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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    : _____________________________________________________________________ Peter Betjemann This thesis is an exploration of literary representation of professors

  • Houses of fiction, houses of confinement : character introductions, autonomy, and domestic spaces in two works by Henry James

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    Killips, Lisa M.
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    My thesis examines a total of fourteen characters from The Portrait of a Lady and The Turn of the Screw. Primarily, I have discovered an overwhelming pattern in these two works by Henry James; when characters make direct entrances--that is when they are not described or discussed in absentia by...
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    Works by Henry James Abstract approved: Peter J. Betjemann David M. Robinson My thesis examines a

  • American identity at a crossroads : Cotton Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World

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    Evans, Laura A.
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    Cotton Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World (1692) has traditionally been dismissed as a failed missive attempting to defend the controversial Salem Witch Trials. What is missing from this characterization is an analysis of the degree to which the text, written at a moment of crisis in Puritan culture, actually...
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    Abstract approved: _____________________________________________________________________ Peter J

  • Rational Madmen : Monomania in Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” and Stedman’s “How Old Brown Took Harpers Ferry”

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    Green, Paisley
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    In this project, I explore the use of monomania as a literary and rhetorical device that pathologizes deviance from certain norms—in this case, sexual and political norms— and allows for contradiction, dissonance, and reform. Using Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Birthmark” and Edmund Clarence Stedman’s poem “How Old Brown Took...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Peter J. Betjemann In this project, I explore the use of monomania as a literary and