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  • "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

  • Writing against convention : Kate Chopin's short fiction in Vogue, 1893-1900

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    VanKooten, Crystal
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    Kate Chopin, author of the proto-feminist novel The Awakening, was also a prolific writer of short stories. Nineteen of her stories were originally published in Vogue magazine between 1893 and 1900. This study looks at six of these stories, "The Father of Desiree's Baby," "A Respectable Woman," "The Dream of...
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    Dr. Michael Oriard, my thesis advisor, for all of the constructive criticism and time he has given

  • Socio-ecological vulnerability in a Tibetan village on the Lancang River, China

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    Galipeau, Brendan A.
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    This ethnographic research examines socioeconomic vulnerabilities to resettlement from a large hydropower dam and agricultural commodification in a Tibetan village in Yunnan Province, Southwest China. After providing an initial background on the dynamics of the research region and hydrodevelopment on its rivers, the research framework of examining vulnerability through a...
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    . First I would like to thank my committee, Nancy Rosenberger, Aaron Wolf, and Michael Campana for their

  • Possessed : embodiment, circulation, & subjectivity in Robinson Crusoe, Roderick Random, & Rob Roy

    Creator:
    Schneider, Rebecca
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    A majority of eighteenth-century novels remain in regular print over two hundred years since their inception. Yet with the possible exception of Robinson Crusoe, they have largely fallen out of popularity, rarely appearing on "The Summer's Hottest Reading" lists or receiving celebrity endorsement. I consider Ian Watt's foundational study, The...
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  • Real roots of polynomials : an interactive computer approach

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    Moussaoui, Ahmed
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    This is an interactive, self explanatory computer program on real roots of polynomials with real coefficients. This program called POLYROOT has the double feature of tutoring and problem solving. It allows the user to enter on one line any polynomial with real coefficients. Then, the user can find : 1....
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    for Privacy Abstract approved : Michael Y. Shauessy 6 This is an interactive, self explanatory

  • Vicarious power : masculinity, access and the hard-boiled detective

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    Winsor, Shiloh
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    Dashiell Hammett's fiction and detective pulps generally, offered the reader a chance to participate in vicarious power, by giving them a sense of the profession of detection, both in and out of the stories. It was the realism of the detective figure that allowed the audience to relate to him....
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    for Privacy Redacted for Privacy Redacted for privacy ACKNOWLEDGMENTS To Michael Oriard: I would

  • This Earth Emanating Enchantment: What Wonder and Joy Can Teach Us Within Traditional Western Environmentalism

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    Ohotnicky, Colette E.
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    G.K. Chesterton once stated, “I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairytales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts….The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in the fairy book,...
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    : _____________________________________________________ Michael Paul Nelson G.K. Chesterton once stated, “I am concerned with a certain way of

  • Requirement for the growth and maintenance of Alphanizomenon flos-aquae in culture

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    O'Flaherty, Larrance Michael
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    Aphanizomenon flos-aquae from Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon was introduced into culture in a precipitate -free medium developed by modification of McLachlan's ASM medium. This medium ASMT No. 8 contained no organic substances other than ethylendiaminetetraacetate (EDTA) and Trishydroxymethylamino methane (Tris), and was developed by modifying the concentrations of certain elements,...
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    Aphanizomenon flos-aquae in culture AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Larrance Michael O'Flaherty for the M. A

  • Lamarck's approach to an understanding of man

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    Dobson, Christopher Michael
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    Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) is considered here in the context of the Enlightenment effort to develop a science of man. His Philosophie zoologique (1809) and the Systeme analytique (1820) are the two principal relevant works examined in depth to discover how he meant to base a science of man on...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Christopher Michael Dobson for

  • To restore what once was : a mixed methods approach to understanding the shoe repair transaction

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    Giulietti, Michael P.
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    The shoe repair transaction, as it occurs in the 5000 or so remaining shoe repair shops in the United States, is currently unexamined in academic literature for the significance it holds for either shoe repairers or their customers. Making use of both quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection, this...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Michael P