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  • Life in (an)other world : issues of otherness and magic in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series

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    Fennell, Dalicia K.
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    My thesis is comprised of two articles, titled "Journeying Through (An)Other World: Examining the Role of Magic and Transformational Otherness in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and "Magic, Muggles, and Mudbloods: Examining Magical Otherness in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series." The introduction frames the thematic, theoretical, and critical connections...
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    provides a foundation on which to understand magic and otherness in medieval literature. My second

  • "'I wouldn't have believed it -- even of a white man'" : critiquing whiteness in Charles Chesnutt's "The house behind the cedars" and Nella Larsen's "Passing"

    Creator:
    Franks, Tricia May
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    In their respective novels, The House Behind the Cedars (1900) and Passing (1929), both Charles Chesnutt and Nella Larsen utilize racial passing, the process of a mixed-race individual living as "white," to explore the relations between black and white people during early-twentieth century America. This thesis specifically argues that Chesnutt...
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    female historically as a figure in American literature, tracing her beginnings as the "tragic

  • Breeding the new woman : the eugenic discourse of motherhood in Shaw, Yeats, and Lawless

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    Tracy, Hannah R.
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    The popularity and pervasiveness of eugenic discourse during the modernist period in England and Ireland raised many questions about race, class, and gender. While Hitler's Nazi "experiment" ultimately demonstrated the consequences of implementing eugenic ideas, forcing eugenicists to abandon, or at least mask, their theories, the eugenics movement before World...
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    the "New Woman" was primarily a critical construct used in early modernist literature to representa

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

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    Drury, Adam Marshall
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    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...
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    in literature and culture. It was in reading a book of his dramatic theory, rather than one of his

  • Expression & identity : the word made flesh

    Creator:
    Beach, J. M.
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    This essay is an exploration of identity formation and expression. Humanity's identity formations create the orientations and languages with which we use to create our knowledge and understanding of the surrounding external environment (both social and physical) and our internal environment (psychological). This essay traces the sources of identity formation...
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    compartmentalization of the humanities in general (and literature specifically) wherein each 'field' materializes into

  • Violence and voice

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    Dahlin, Angela
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    Violence and voice seem to be related. In this thesis I detail personal experiences with violence, and then put them into the context of research done about the ways in which violence affects the writing voice, as well as the speaking voice. Helene Cixous' writings about the writing voice and...
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    Master of Arts in English presented on April 24, 2002. Title: Violence and Voice. Abstract approved

  • Water, fire, and stone : images and meaning in Melville

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    Martin, Brian D.
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    This thesis is a study of Herman Melville’s symbolism. I have chosen to investigate the elemental images of water, fire, and stone in Moby-Dick (1851), Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities (1852), and Clarel; A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876). This work is a semiotic study, insofar as the...
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    in landscape imagery associations, both visually and in literature; people saw—wanted to see

  • The influence of imperialist ideology on the dichotomy of passion and reason in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

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    Dietrich, Rhonda
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    A prevalent belief during the Victorian age was that the world was divided between inferior beings governed by passion and superior reasoning beings. On the political level, this idea separated inferior passion-driven natives from superior reasoning Europeans. This division contributed to the maintenance and expansion of imperialist rule in distant...
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    arguments regarding the symbiotic relationship between scholarly texts and works of literature today and in

  • Gender, Race, and Nation in the Dear America Series

    Creator:
    Furman, Kali
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    Books and literature help children and young adults develop language, cognitive, and social skills. Additionally children's literature enables individuals to develop a deeper appreciation for their own, and others' cultures and histories. This thesis analyzes the young adult historical fiction series Dear America, published by Scholastic press, and examines how...
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    access to, and representation in, literature. In the United States, due to systemic power and social

  • "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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    I have worked with in the School of Writing, Literature, and Film and the Ethnic Studies department