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  • "A Sea of Grief is Not a Proscenium": Claudia Rankine's Citizen and the Spectacle of Racist Violence in Cyberculture

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    Lathos, Athena M.
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    In her 2016 article “Beyond Rights as Recognition, Black Twitter and Posthuman Coalitional Possibilities,” Pritha Prasad argues that the hashtag, one of the decade’s most omnipresent features of digital communication, functions as “a performative composing medium that not only demands relationality” and “call[s] for the recognition of both the Black...
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    : Raymond J. Malewitz In her 2016 article “Beyond Rights as Recognition, Black Twitter and

  • Symbols of trauma: A mythological view on Toni Morrison's Beloved

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    Tollbom, Camille J.
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    The purpose of this paper is to engage in a mythological discussion which enriches current scholarship regarding the title character of Toni Morrison’s Beloved. While major scholars suggest that Beloved as a character is either a solid ghost or—as Zora Neale Hurston suggests based on the quote “people who die...
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    “Ghost, n.” Oxford University Press 2016. Oxford English Dictionary Online. Web. 23 Apr. 2016

  • Conjuring September 11, 2001 : Midwest Narratives in the Time of Death

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    Josten, Jonathon M.
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    Over the past fourteen years since the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, Americans of varied political persuasions have continually identified the day as a defining moment in the history of the nation, which caused a rupture in the cultural rhythm and psyche. This sensibility is...
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    Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Raymond J. Malewitz Over

  • David Foster Wallace's communal middle ground

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    Randlemon, Daniel E.
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    Throughout the course of this thesis, I argue that the prose of David Foster Wallace, specifically his posthumously published novel The Pale King, inhabits a middle ground between universal sincerity and the particularized authenticity of postmodern irony. I examine Lionel Trilling's definitions of sincerity and authenticity before moving toward an...
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    : __________________________________________________________________ Raymond J. Malewitz Throughout the course of this thesis, I argue that the prose of David

  • The objects within : an applied OOO literary criticism

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    Dodson, Matthew J.
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    For centuries, continental philosophy has clung to the belief that the world only meaningfully exists through human perception--that, in other words, when a tree falls in the forest, it does not make a sound. Literary theory, which has strong roots in continental philosophy, followed suit, remaining tied to humanism even...
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    : _______________________________________________________________________________ Raymond J. Malewitz For centuries, continental philosophy has clung to the belief that the

  • The Space Between: How We Understood, Valued, and Governed the Ocean Through the Process of Marine Science and Emerging Technologies

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    Newton, Samantha
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    Ian Angell, in the New Barbarian Manifesto, said “A ‘brave new world’ is being forced upon unsuspecting societies by advances in information technology.” It would seem then, that technological advances happen automatically and have a life of their own. There is a logic to technological advancements that is outside human...
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  • "Sorrow's springs are the same" : synoeciosis in the poetry of Alfred Tennyson and Gerard Manley Hopkins

    Creator:
    Adamson, Christopher
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    Tennyson and Hopkins scholarship is dominated by a focus on antithetical dichotomies. Tennyson's speakers are fractured selves focused on the gap between matter and spirit, faith and reason, solitude and community. Likewise, Hopkins' doubled vocation as priest and poet is presented as a contradiction to the point that the transition...
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    . I would also like to thank my committee members, Dr. Peter Betjemann and Dr. Raymond Malewitz

  • Radical centrism : The Bakatcha Bandit, Emook, and the hope of the riparian

    Creator:
    Scruton, Evan
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    In 1965 Malcolm X said that we are living in a time of extremism. People in power have misused it now there has to be a change, and a better world has to be built, and the only way it's going to be built is with extreme methods. And I,...
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    Notion, Elizabeth McMahan's "The Big Nurse as Ratchet: Sexism in Kesey's Cuckoo's Nest," and Raymond M

  • "The life of things" : weird realisms in Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads

    Creator:
    England, Saara Amelia
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    My thesis explores the poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth as emblematic of Western philosophy and literature's longstanding preoccupation with the relationship between mind and matter. The poets' attempts to mediate their languages and sensibilities with "real nature" have a complicated legacy for today's readers, as Romantic literature...
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    through a difficult but fantastic year of graduate school. Thank you to Dr. Raymond Malewitz and Dr

  • Amino acids in tissues from healthy and crown gall infected Kalanchoe pinnata

    Creator:
    Harris, Raymond Gene
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    Crown gall infected and healthy Kalanchoe pinnata (Lam.) Persoon plants were analyzed for soluble amino acids. Specifically the amino acids in young leaf, mature leaf, stem, root, and gall tissues were quantitatively measured. The plants were inoculated with the bacterium, Agrobacterium tumefaciens (Smith and Townsend) Conn., on one side of...
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    infected Kalanchoe pinnata AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF RAYMOND GENE HARRIS for the (Name of Student