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  • Caught in the act : casting myself as a performing writer in rhetoric and writing studies

    Creator:
    Dieter, Thomas Edward
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    The following thesis explores the potential for autoethnography to serve as an enabling method for developing a grounded understanding of literacy, performance, gender and sexuality. As autoethnographic writing insists that even the seemingly most personal aspects of a researcher's character are deeply embedded in larger political and sociocultural narratives, this...
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    Dieter Dieter AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Thomas Edward

  • The social dimension of Shakespeare's art : a Midsummer Night's Dream

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    Schaefer, Mimi
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    The study of the social dimensions of Shakespeare's art is represented by the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, C.L. Barber, Robert Weimann, Edward Berry, and Michael Bristol. Their work analyzes the background in Elizabethan social practices and popular dramatic traditions that contribute to the form, structure, and meaning of Shakespeare's comedies....
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    represented by the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, C.L. Barber, Robert Weimann, Edward Berry, and Michael Bristol

  • Byron, Don Juan, and catharsis

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    Greene, Wanda S.
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    This thesis seeks to explain how Lord George Gordon Byron achieves catharsis through the writing of his truth in Don Juan. In the poem the narrator expresses Byron's innermost emotion while at the same time the protagonist, Juan, relates to readers on a more conscious level. The ability that Byron...
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    issues Byron writes about in Don Juan more positive. Edward Bostetter in his essay "Masses and Solids

  • The Grizzly Bear and the Deer : the history of Federal Indian Policy and its impact on the Coast Reservation tribes of Oregon, 1856-1877

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    Van Laere, M. Susan
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    The Coast Reservation of Oregon was established under Executive Order of President Franklin Pierce in November, 1855, as a homeland for the southern Oregon tribes. It was an immense, isolated wilderness, parts of which had burned earlier in the century. There were some prairies where farming was possible, but because...
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    Key 73 5.6 Superintendent of Indian Affairs Circular 88 5.7 Edward R. Geary, Superintendent of

  • The adorned and the adored : issues of sympathy and ownership in Victorian literature

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    Schmuhl, Emily J.
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    This thesis is comprised of two articles that examine sympathy, material culture, and ownership in Victorian literature. In the first article, I explore the figure of the heiress in the Victorian literary tradition, focusing on Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. George Eliot marked the heiress figure...
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    of the most imaginative male protagonists, Pip Pirrip and Edward Rochester. In situating the

  • Cosmopolitan Communitarianism: Embracing Nonviolence through an Ecological Perspective

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    Henschke, Stefan
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    In order to advocate for a nonviolent future, I argue throughout this thesis that we must redefine our sense of self within a social context. I assert that Communitarianism, which seeks balance between the individual and their many overlapping communities, can situate our identities as less absolute and more constitutive...
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  • The light within us : Quaker women in science

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    McCabe, Leslie N.
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    This thesis explores the role of Quaker women in science in an attempt to arrive at some understanding of what motivated Quaker women in nineteenth century America to go into the sciences. George Fox founded the Society of Friends in the mid-seventeenth century in England and the Quaker theology centered...
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    scientific work.' Of course, one religion that is Benjamin and Barbara Shearer, eds. Notable Women in the

  • Picture this, imagine that : the literary and pedagogic force of ekphrastic principles

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    Pajak, Zachary E.
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    My thesis is comprised of two articles, titled "Interpreting Britomart's Encounters with Art: The Cyclic Nature of Ekphrasis in Spenser's Faerie Queene III," and "Picture This, Imagine That: Teaching Visual Literacy in the Disciplines." The purpose of my first article is to argue that Edmund Spenser uses ekphrasis in his...
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    Edward Pajak. They are simply the greatest. I will always love you two, with a brimming, brimming

  • Responsible Generation: How Care Ethics Can Activate a Just Energy Transition

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    Grubby, Emily C.
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    At the urging of international scientists, large industrialized nations like the United States must transition away from fossil fuel energy and toward renewable energy by 2030 in order to stay the tide of climate change. To complete this energy transition citizens must take up responsibilities to change the known paradigms...
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    mean that they are clean. Benjamin Sovacool astutely reminds us: “imperialism and colonialism arose

  • Re-viewing the canon : using film and critical pedagogy in the standards-based classroom

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    Divelbiss, John D.
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    This thesis analyzes the efficacy of emancipatory (critical) pedagogical practices in an educational climate of standards-based reform. Using two films noir of the blacklist era--Body and Soul and Crossfire--as the core texts of a unit in a secondary school curriculum, I argue that an emphasis on student agency and a...
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