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  • Space and movement : dance, art, and the poetry of William Carlos Williams

    Creator:
    Hoch, Jamie
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    The Modern era, roughly the time between 1860-1930, brought about a significant restructuring of artistic mediums. From the canvas to the page, artists of the twentieth century turned towards collaboration as a means by which they could reconfigure their works. Painters, writers, and dancers, borrowed aesthetic techniques from one another...
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    William Carlos Williams by Jamie Hoch A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial

  • Hamlet's delay : an attempt at synthesis

    Creator:
    Cohen, Martin, 1943-
    Abstract:
    The study of the question of why Shakespeare's Hamlet delays killing Claudius in revenge for his father's murder is examined in light of the major critical theories from neo-classical to modern scholarship. An expanded treatment of the works of Fredson Bowers, Eleanor Prosser, Bertram Joseph, and Roland Frye, is provided...
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    to apply the wisdom gleaned from such an examination so as to create a synthesis that may best

  • A feminist love story : the cinematic possibilities of Shakespeare's Juliet

    Creator:
    Faherty, Dionna E.
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    Literary and feminist theory have recently begun to recognize William Shakespeare's character of Juliet as a possible feminist heroine, but communicating this interpretation on film will be complicated. Not only will the film need to deal with the issues of adaptation that come with moving any play onto film, but...
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    begun to recognize William Shakespeare's character of Juliet as a possible feminist heroine, but

  • The social dimension of Shakespeare's art : a Midsummer Night's Dream

    Creator:
    Schaefer, Mimi
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    The study of the social dimensions of Shakespeare's art is represented by the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, C.L. Barber, Robert Weimann, Edward Berry, and Michael Bristol. Their work analyzes the background in Elizabethan social practices and popular dramatic traditions that contribute to the form, structure, and meaning of Shakespeare's comedies....
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    The social dimension of Shakespeare's art : a Midsummer

  • "Present fears" and "Horrible Imaginings" : Gothic elements in Shakespearean Tragedy

    Creator:
    Appel, Ian S.
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    Gothic literary works are characterized as such by their ability to represent and evoke terror. The form this representation takes is varied; often terror originates in the atmospheric effects of settings, in the appearance of mysterious, supposedly supernatural phenomena, and, perhaps most significantly, in the behavior of villainous characters. Shakespearean...
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    demonized others who threaten normalized social and moral order, and also evokes a religious dreada fear

  • William Ernest Castle, American geneticist : a case-study in the impact of the Mendelian research program

    Creator:
    Taylor, H. Terry
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    In their modern context questions of heredity have come to be closely aligned with theories of evolution because all such theories require the presence of heritable variation. Thus the need for an understanding of a source of variation and a mechanism for its inheritance became very apparent with the general...
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    William Ernest Castle, American geneticist : a case

  • On his own terms : William James, identity, and the development of American Psychology

    Creator:
    Stoller, Kevin R.
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    William James came of age at a time of great social and intellectual change in the United States. During this period, new professional identities proliferated, and a new culture of professionalization developed with important ramifications for conceptions of individual and social identity. Professionalization was also closely related to key intellectual...
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    , Identity, and the Development of American Psychology. Abstract Approved: William James came of age at a

  • "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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    of Things”: Weird Realisms in Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads

  • Slippery paths : connections and divergences between historic preservation and tourism in Micronesia

    Creator:
    Krause, Elizabeth L.
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    Micronesians are in the process of becoming independent nation-states after nearly a century of colonial rule, including four decades of U.S. administration as the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Pressures to attain self-sufficiency have led many of these island nations to embrace tourism as an economic development strategy. Meanwhile,...
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    Marshalls. Archaeologists Richard Ross and William Adams and I worked for a week in Majuro doing research

  • Fallow

    Creator:
    Lutz, Kevin W.
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    Fallow is a creative non-fiction book of memory and place. It chronicles the lives of William and Vera Lutz and their lives of struggle on the Northern Plains of North Dakota. It follows a narrator and his attempts to make sense of, and connect to their, lives following both of...
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    William and Vera Lutz and their lives of struggle on the Northern Plains of North Dakota. It follows a