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  • "Otherwise I hear riffs and drones": Sound and Decoloniality in Contemporary Latinx Poetics

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    Diaz-Hui, Alexander
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    This thesis examines Latinx poetry in relation to the September 11th attacks and the reconfigurations of racial structures and the American empire that followed, most notably through the Department of Homeland Security and their agency Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). ICE politically characterizes immigrants as anti-American to perpetuate stereotypes against...
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    Microsoft Word - Diaz-Hui, MA Thesis Manuscript (FINAL SUBMISSION

  • 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

  • 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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    : David Foster Wallace’s Communal Middle Ground Abstract approved

  • The Clerk’s Tale : literal monstrosities and allegorical problems

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    Brock, Christopher J.
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    My thesis, entitled “The Clerk’s Tale: Literal Monstrosities and Allegorical Problems,” argues that Chaucer’s Clerk is engaging both sides of a binary system. The Clerk has situated himself in a precarious position between two major schools of thought in the medieval culture, Franciscan and Dominican; the former promotes the will...
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    , setting him in company with David and Isaiah.” 25 The motivation for the medieval writer to

  • An autumn journey : time, place, and pattern in Henry David Thoreau's later work

    Creator:
    Dotterman, Anthony Matthew
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    This thesis situates a discussion of Thoreau's later natural history essays in the context of the author's other writings. Beginning with an examination of the writings of Thoreau's friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, this paper examines Thoreau's relation to and departure from Emerson's understanding of time, place, and pattern...
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    . and Pattern in Henry David Thoreau's Later Work. Abstract approved: David Robinson This thesis

  • Decaying in Storage: The Closures of Three Nuclear Reactors in the Pacific Northwest

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    Oney, Celia E.
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    People involved in a nuclear activity, whether they are developing it, benefiting from it, or opposing it, see inherent connections between various aspects of nuclear science and technology. This thesis investigates three nuclear sites: a university research reactor, a dual-purpose reactor that produced plutonium for the U.S. military and electricity...
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    , Linda Richards, Marisa Chappell, and David Bernell. Thanks also to Trina Hogg for her advice and

  • "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

  • Neo-Ottoman perspectives : Turkish identity and culinary culture in a sociopolitical context

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    Kinoğlu, Sera D.
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    As Turkey's cultural and economic climate has experienced dramatic shifts in accordance with its changing role in global society, a neo-Ottoman movement has taken root in recent years which can offer insight into the new Turkish identity. This sociopolitical movement captures a diverse set of cultural attributes through a contemporary...
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                ____________________________________________________________ AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Sera D. Kinoğlu for the degree of Master

  • Frontier military medicine at Fort Hoskins, 1857-1865 : an archaeological and historical perspective

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    Trussell, Timothy D.
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    Fort Hoskins, located in Kings Valley, Oregon, was a U.S. Army post established in 1856 and decommissioned in April 1865. In 1992, the site of Fort Hoskins went into the public trust as a Benton County Park. Developing an interpretive center for the park will necessitate ground disturbing activities on...
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  • Water over stones : Oregon watershed stories

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    Oberst, Gail D.
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    The 13 personal essays in Water over Stones: Oregon Watershed Stories explore the author's experiences in dozens of Oregon watersheds. Using the genre of the personal essay, the author, a fifth-generation Oregonian and amateur ecologist, writes about her life and family relationships in stories that are saturated with the waters...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Gail D. Oberst for the degree of