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  • Space and movement : dance, art, and the poetry of William Carlos Williams

    Creator:
    Hoch, Jamie
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    The Modern era, roughly the time between 1860-1930, brought about a significant restructuring of artistic mediums. From the canvas to the page, artists of the twentieth century turned towards collaboration as a means by which they could reconfigure their works. Painters, writers, and dancers, borrowed aesthetic techniques from one another...
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    Master of Arts in English presented on June 1, 2004. Title: Space and Movement: Dance, Art, and the

  • Learning by imitation : the scholarly works of David Bartholomae

    Creator:
    Gallup, Sarah E.
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    This thesis examines the scholarship in pedagogical theory and practice of David Bartholomae over the past thirty-five years, in particular examining the role that the rhetorical construct of imitation has played in its development. Through my research, I trace the evolution of Bartholomae’s pedagogical stances and practices, as these both...
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    that a great portion of art consists in imitation, since, though to invent was first in order of time

  • Wendy Bishop : a feminist voice at the intersections of composition, creative writing, and ethnography

    Creator:
    Rosman, Alice L.
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    Wendy Bishop's lively voice and scholarly contribution continue to resonate and be important in composition studies. Bishop--poet, scholar, feminist, teacher, ethnographer, and compositionist--sought to blur the lines between creative writing and composition. This thesis argues that in challenging the boundaries that exist between creative writing and composition, Bishop also challenged...
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    feminist studies. Additionally, a huge thank you to the faculty in the School of Writing, Literature, and

  • "'I wouldn't have believed it -- even of a white man'" : critiquing whiteness in Charles Chesnutt's "The house behind the cedars" and Nella Larsen's "Passing"

    Creator:
    Franks, Tricia May
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    In their respective novels, The House Behind the Cedars (1900) and Passing (1929), both Charles Chesnutt and Nella Larsen utilize racial passing, the process of a mixed-race individual living as "white," to explore the relations between black and white people during early-twentieth century America. This thesis specifically argues that Chesnutt...
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    female historically as a figure in American literature, tracing her beginnings as the "tragic

  • Breeding the new woman : the eugenic discourse of motherhood in Shaw, Yeats, and Lawless

    Creator:
    Tracy, Hannah R.
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    The popularity and pervasiveness of eugenic discourse during the modernist period in England and Ireland raised many questions about race, class, and gender. While Hitler's Nazi "experiment" ultimately demonstrated the consequences of implementing eugenic ideas, forcing eugenicists to abandon, or at least mask, their theories, the eugenics movement before World...
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    the "New Woman" was primarily a critical construct used in early modernist literature to representa

  • Asynthesis & act: the evental sublime in Badiou, Byron, and Barker

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    Drury, Adam Marshall
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    Asynthesis & Act is a significant intervention into the discourse of the sublime. Through a deep investigation of the critical metaphysics of Immanuel Kant, the first chapter of this thesis puts forth the claim that the sublime is a radical experience that occasions a possibility for the individual to commit...
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    in literature and culture. It was in reading a book of his dramatic theory, rather than one of his

  • "Her Hypnotic Eyes" : Reading the Optical in Aaron Douglas’s Aspects of Negro Life and Nella Larsen's Passing

    Creator:
    Barkley, Charles K.
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    This thesis examines two cultural productions of the Harlem Renaissance: Aaron Douglas's mural series, Aspects of Negro Life, and Nella Larsen's novel Passing. I read these works together because, more than their shared time period, they showcase an attention to the visual. Both Larsen and Douglas's works are concerned with...
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    the complex ways that art and literature intersect in discussions of racialized bodies. Though I do

  • Expression & identity : the word made flesh

    Creator:
    Beach, J. M.
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    This essay is an exploration of identity formation and expression. Humanity's identity formations create the orientations and languages with which we use to create our knowledge and understanding of the surrounding external environment (both social and physical) and our internal environment (psychological). This essay traces the sources of identity formation...
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    history's mythological structures of identity formation in the various historical manifestations of art

  • Violence and voice

    Creator:
    Dahlin, Angela
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    Violence and voice seem to be related. In this thesis I detail personal experiences with violence, and then put them into the context of research done about the ways in which violence affects the writing voice, as well as the speaking voice. Helene Cixous' writings about the writing voice and...
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    Master of Arts in English presented on April 24, 2002. Title: Violence and Voice. Abstract approved

  • Water, fire, and stone : images and meaning in Melville

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    Martin, Brian D.
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    This thesis is a study of Herman Melville’s symbolism. I have chosen to investigate the elemental images of water, fire, and stone in Moby-Dick (1851), Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities (1852), and Clarel; A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876). This work is a semiotic study, insofar as the...
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    in landscape imagery associations, both visually and in literature; people saw—wanted to see