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Truth, justice, and the American way : what Superman teaches us about the American Dream and changing values within the United States

Creator:: Karp, Lauren N.
Abstract:: This thesis is a study of the changes in the cultural definition of the American Dream. I have chosen to use Superman comics, from 1938 to the present day, as litmus tests for how we have societally interpreted our ideas of “success” and the “American Way.” This work is primarily...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ____________________________________________________________________ Evan Gottlieb This thesis is a study of the changes in the cultural definition of the

Properties of the hydrogenase system in bacteroids of soybean root nodules

Creator:: McCrae, Roberta Ellen
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: to Dr. Harold J. Evans for his continued interest and expert advice in the preparation of my thesis

Reasserting moral boundaries : representations of fame in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda

Creator:: Foster, Emily S.
Abstract:: Celebrity culture is part of a long history of fame, but the modern celebrity individual came into focus in the nineteenth century. The first part of this thesis distinguishes modern celebrity – including its morality – from other types of fame, explores the intersection of celebrity and gender through the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Deronda. Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Evan

Caution – ideological mechanisms at work : interpellation and the melancholic turn in Jack Kerouac's On the Road and Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden

Creator:: Travers, Jessica D.
Abstract:: In this thesis I examine the ideological mechanisms that work to constitute, construct, and maintain subject identity. Such mechanisms include repetition, performativity, identification, and interpellation. I incorporate structuralist, post-structuralist, and psychoanalytic theories as a means to discuss the ways in which gender, sexuality, and identity are performative masquerades. Furthermore, these...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: approved: Evan Gottlieb In this thesis I examine the ideological mechanisms that work to

Asynthesis & act: the evental sublime in Badiou, Byron, and Barker

Creator:: Drury, Adam Marshall
Abstract:: Asynthesis & Act is a signiﬁcant intervention into the discourse of the sublime. Through a deep investigation of the critical metaphysics of Immanuel Kant, the ﬁrst chapter of this thesis puts forth the claim that the sublime is a radical experience that occasions a possibility for the individual to commit...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Abstract approved: Evan Gottlieb Asynthesis & Act is a significant intervention into the discourse of the

"Style upon style": The Handmaid's Tale as a palimpsest of genres

Creator:: Boulware, Taylor J.
Abstract:: This thesis undertakes an examination of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, as a layering of genres. A futuristic dystopia that imagines late twentieth-century America as having fallen into neo-Puritanism and totalitarianism following widespread infertility and violence, The Handmaid’s Tale invites contemplation of various forms of fundamentalism, radicalism, and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : Evan Gottlieb This thesis undertakes an examination of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel, The

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

Creator:: Scruton, Evan
Abstract:: 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,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Evan Scruton for

On Happiness, Dysphoria and Pain

Creator:: Anderson, Eli Evan
Abstract:: This project is a personal exploration of happiness and optimism through the lens of a queer and transgender subject who experiences gender dysphoria, depression, and suicidality. Taking inspiration from Ann Cvetkovich’s (2012) Depression: A Public Feeling, this work incorporates both analysis of affective theory, especially Lauren Berlant’s theory of cruel...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Traversing the city of blogs : pedagogy, performance, and public spheres

Creator:: Faris, Michael J.
Abstract:: In this thesis, I conduct an analysis of blogs in order to understand their potential use in the composition classroom with the goals of students writing for a public audience and developing their rhetorical and civic agency. I do so by exploring the potential for the blogosphere as a public...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ): Sarah Burghauser Lisa Ede Evan Gottlieb Anita Helle Joscelyne Kravitz Joseph Orosco Lani

The objects within : an applied OOO literary criticism

Creator:: Dodson, Matthew J.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: thesis is slightly outside of your specializations, and especially to Evan Gottlieb and Ray Malewitz

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Truth, justice, and the American way : what Superman teaches us about the American Dream and changing values within the United States

Properties of the hydrogenase system in bacteroids of soybean root nodules

Reasserting moral boundaries : representations of fame in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda

Caution – ideological mechanisms at work : interpellation and the melancholic turn in Jack Kerouac's On the Road and Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden

Asynthesis & act: the evental sublime in Badiou, Byron, and Barker

"Style upon style": The Handmaid's Tale as a palimpsest of genres

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

On Happiness, Dysphoria and Pain

Traversing the city of blogs : pedagogy, performance, and public spheres

The objects within : an applied OOO literary criticism

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