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The accessible Chaucer

Creator:: Luepke, Natasha M.
Abstract:: In this thesis I explore the ways in which twenty-first century Americans have access to Geoffrey Chaucer and his works. I look at issues surrounding Chaucer within the canon debate, high school history and literature textbooks, and Chaucer in popular culture, such as in movies like A Knight's Tale. I...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: read Chaucer and teach Chaucer because he 14 endures, because he still has lessons to

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:: “pervasive tendency to think in allegorical terms.” 14 Robertson’s thesis immediately incensed the

Water over stones : Oregon watershed stories

Creator:: Oberst, Gail D.
Abstract:: The 13 personal essays in Water over Stones: Oregon Watershed Stories explore the author's experiences in dozens of Oregon watersheds. Using the genre of the personal essay, the author, a fifth-generation Oregonian and amateur ecologist, writes about her life and family relationships in stories that are saturated with the waters...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Gail D. Oberst for the degree of

In Defense of the "Ringding Mukta" : The Later Work of J.D. Salinger

Creator:: Herb, Danielle Kristine
Abstract:: My thesis explores the later work of author J.D. Salinger, including two narratives featured in Nine Stories, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," and "Teddy," and Franny and Zooey, "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters," and "Seymour: an Introduction." Through my analysis I argue that the religious nature of Salinger's fiction...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: his adult characters can be measured by 14 their closeness to the children around them

A study of the differential equation d²w/dz² + (m + z²)w=0

Creator:: Morris, C. Gordon
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Transformed Equation ii VI. The Relation between Our Equation and the Weber Equation 14 VII. The

On the enumeration of certain equivalence classes of Euler paths of full graphs

Creator:: Prothero, Stephen Kerron
Abstract:: This thesis treats the problem of enumerating equivalence classes of Euler paths of full graphs. A full graph is a complete, unordered, graph with no loops or repeated edges. Two Euler paths are equivalent if and only if one can be transformed into the other by a finite sequence of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Mathematics (Name) (Degree) (Major) Date thesis is presented May 14, 1963 Title ON THE ENUMERATION OF

Codified into the word : the intersections of language and violence in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian

Creator:: Hagan, Matthew T.
Abstract:: In this thesis I argue that Cormac McCarthy's 1985 novel Blood Meridian serves as a critique of the American Western mythos by collapsing aspects of myth, ideology, and the sublime into the question of violence's relationship to language. In explicating the novel, I demonstrate how the ironies staged between the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: February 14, 2012. Title: Codified into the Word: The Intersections of Language and Violence in Cormac

Dissonance of the Self: Applying the Philosophy of Patañjali’s Yogasūtra to the Effects of Prolonged Engagement in Virtual Synchronous Platforms

Creator:: Darshana, Jocelyn D.
Abstract:: This thesis analyzes contributing factors to Zoom Fatigue and the issues surrounding “attentional dissonance,” or a feeling of tension or rupture between actual and virtual self-perception. The research examines current literature on Zoom Fatigue, and uses the sociological theory of Dramaturgical Analysis, developed by Erving Goffman, to further assess the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

A taxonomic study of the vascular flora on Ashland Peak, Jackson County, Oregon

Creator:: Johnston, L. D. (La Rea Dennis)
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Patterns from the past : exploring gender and ethnicity through historical archaeology among fur trade families in the Willamette Valley of Oregon

Creator:: McAleer, Carolyn Patricia
Abstract:: This thesis examines archaeological material in order to explore gender and ethnicity issues concerning fur trade era families from a settlement in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. Ethnohistorical information consisting of traders journals and travelers observations, as well as documentation from the Hudson's Bay Company, Catholic church records, and genealogical information...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: degree of Master of Arts in Applied Anthropology presented on November 14, 2003. Title: Patterns from the

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The accessible Chaucer

The Clerk’s Tale : literal monstrosities and allegorical problems

Water over stones : Oregon watershed stories

In Defense of the "Ringding Mukta" : The Later Work of J.D. Salinger

A study of the differential equation d²w/dz² + (m + z²)w=0

On the enumeration of certain equivalence classes of Euler paths of full graphs

Codified into the word : the intersections of language and violence in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian

Dissonance of the Self: Applying the Philosophy of Patañjali’s Yogasūtra to the Effects of Prolonged Engagement in Virtual Synchronous Platforms

A taxonomic study of the vascular flora on Ashland Peak, Jackson County, Oregon

Patterns from the past : exploring gender and ethnicity through historical archaeology among fur trade families in the Willamette Valley of Oregon

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