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  • Sound and death in John Haines's poetry

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    Noble, Darren L.
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    Poet John Haines is best known for his first book of poetry, Winter News, which was published in 1966. The book contains poems about the Alaskan landscape that surrounded Haines during his many years of living in Richardson, Alaska. The recurring motifs in his poems include hunting, trapping, the Arctic...
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    reviewing this paper as committee members: Elizabeth Campbell and David Robinson of the English Department

  • Cartographies of Haunting : Black Feminist Refusal in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and Octavia Butler’s Kindred

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    Spencer, Megan
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    This thesis explores the gendered histories of slavery through the concept of haunting in two neo-slave narrative novels: Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and Octavia Butler’s Kindred. I offer readings of these texts through slavery’s geographic and temporal implications, in order to argue that the logics of antiblackness remain a fundamental...
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    , sexualized violence, and gendered racialization. Both Butler and Morrison construct non-linear plots, with

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

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    Herb, Danielle Kristine
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    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...
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    : ______________________________________________________ David M. Robinson My thesis explores the later work of author J.D. Salinger

  • "Living Outside the Madness" : reform and ecology in the work of Henry Thoreau and Gary Snyder

    Creator:
    Hiatt, Bryan
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    Recent conflicts in America concerning the environment (the harvesting of old growth timber in the Pacific Northwest, or the proposed opening of public lands in southern Utah to mining interests, for instance) have precipitated a personal examination of "historical others" (Jensen 64), individuals that possess very different sensibilities from a...
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    and Ecology in the Work of Henry Thoreau and Gary Snyder. Abstract Approved: David Robinson

  • Exploring Embodied Gender Identities in Steven Universe

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    Painter, Stephanie
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    Steven Universe, a relatively new show from Cartoon Network, explores an unexpectedly complex understanding of gender through their main protagonists. Utilizing Judith Butler’s work on gender performativity and doing gender, as well as Daniel Dennett’s conception of the self as a theorist’s fiction, and Alexander Weheliye’s understanding of power and...
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    how oppression is tied to physical embodiment. Weheliye’s theory combined with Butler and Dennett

  • One methodology for the incorporation of entomological material in the discipline of historic archaeology using the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) as a test subject

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    Kellar, Brenda M.
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    Using the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) this thesis shows that entomological information and material can be retrieved using current historical archaeological methods. Historical archaeology has the ability to uncover connections between arenas as varied, and seemingly isolated, as the honey bee, the environment, and human cultures. By focusing on...
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    mellifera L.) as a Test Subject. Abstract approved:. David R. Brauner Using the honey bee (Apis mellifera

  • Foodways at Fort Yamhill, 1856-1866 : an archaeological and archival perspective

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    Eichelberger, Justin E.
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    Fort Yamhill, located in the eastern foothills of the Oregon Coast Range near modern day Grand Ronde, Oregon, was a U.S. Army post established in March 1856 as part of a three fort system to guard the newly established Coast Reservation and to provide a Union presence in the state...
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    Archival Perspective. Abstract approved: David R. Brauner Fort Yamhill

  • The archaeology of the Smith House (ORYA3), Dayton, Oregon

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    Stone, Helen Delight
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    Site ORYA3, the Smith House, is located in Dayton, Oregon. The archaeological project originated because owners of this structure, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, applied for a demolition permit. The 1859 home, first occupied by two early Oregon pioneers, Andrew and Sarah Smith, was considered architecturally significant,...
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    Smith House (ORYA3), Dayton, Oregon. David Brauner Site ORYA3, the Smith House, is located in Dayton

  • Fishing Guides in the Anthropocene

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    Wind, Thad A.
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    How do fishing guides of the Cascade and Coast Range rivers negotiate the conflicting tensions between their client’s desire to experience the wild and the extractive nature based tourism of their role as fishing guides? How do they position their services relative to the environment and an imagined landscape that...
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    : ______________________________________________________ David A. McMurray How do fishing guides of the Cascade and Coast Range rivers negotiate

  • A study of acculturation : ORMU57, Portland's Old Chinatown, ca. 1870-1920

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    Wernz, Maralee
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    This archaeological based research uses ceramics in the study of acculturation from a site excavated by an urban archaeology contract firm, and utilizes the theories of consumer choice, ethnicity and acculturation. Artifact analysis took place in the form of minimum vessel counts, artifact relative frequencies, and Chinese artifact values, as...
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    : ORMU57, Portland's Old Chinatown, ca. 1870-1 920. Abstract approved: David Brauner This