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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:: . With that in mind, my thesis will look to Louis Althusser, Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Žižek, and Eve

The Night Before the Elections and other stories

Creator:: Clarke, Patrick J.
Abstract:: The stories here are stories of childhood. To me, they concern the shift between dependence to independence, comfort to instability, which is disastrous for the characters but also a point of awakening. The move from childhood to adulthood puts the characters in a world that is neither made for the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: their robes, standing in the hallway. Together, we went outside and found Mrs. Ricard, a fragile woman

Intersections of new historicism and contemporary theory in renaissance literature

Creator:: Harrington, Erin R.
Abstract:: In this thesis, I use modern concepts of feminism, gender performativity, and psychoanalysis as a means to understand female characters and authors of Renaissance England in a new way. In my first article, I analyze various texts and performances of Queen Elizabeth I, as well as texts of Renaissance female...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Louis Montrose and Susan Frye, have done a thorough job of providing a historical context for the

Culture built upon the land : a predictive model of nineteenth-century Canadien/Métis farmsteads.

Creator:: Hebert, James Michael
Abstract:: The objective of this thesis is to provide a predictive model for the archaeological investigation of the first farmsteads in the Pacific Northwest, established in the early- and mid-nineteenth century by Canadien and Métis families retiring from their service in the fur trade. Past studies of this population have either...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Hébert, Author ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Dedicated to my son Jacques-Michel Blaise Hébert

Re-viewing the canon : using film and critical pedagogy in the standards-based classroom

Creator:: Divelbiss, John D.
Abstract:: This thesis analyzes the efficacy of emancipatory (critical) pedagogical practices in an educational climate of standards-based reform. Using two films noir of the blacklist era--Body and Soul and Crossfire--as the core texts of a unit in a secondary school curriculum, I argue that an emphasis on student agency and a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: pedagogy. The less well-known work and pedagogical theories of French philosopher Jacques Rancière

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

Creator:: Stoller, Kevin R.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ," Journal of the History of Biology (2001) 34 (1): 3-50 and Philip J. Pauly, Controlling Ltfe: Jacques Loeb

John Turberville Needham (1713-1781) and eighteenth century theories of generation

Creator:: Benson, Keith Rodney
Abstract:: There were two viable theories of generation, preformation and epigenesis, existing in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Due to their irreconcilable nature, they were often at loggerheads during this time interval. The status of these generation theories can be effectively understood in terms of Thomas Kuhn's conception of preparadigm science....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: views of Needham. 4 (New Haven, 1964); Jacques Rper, Les Science de la Vie dans la pensee Francaise du

Patterns from the past : exploring gender and ethnicity through historical archaeology among fur trade families in the Willamette Valley of Oregon

Creator:: McAleer, Carolyn Patricia
Abstract:: This thesis examines archaeological material in order to explore gender and ethnicity issues concerning fur trade era families from a settlement in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. Ethnohistorical information consisting of traders journals and travelers observations, as well as documentation from the Hudson's Bay Company, Catholic church records, and genealogical information...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

“I Can’t Believe I’m Marching for Reality”: Examining the Rhetorical Role of Science in the “Post-Truth” Era

Creator:: Baker, Carlee A.
Abstract:: In the months preceding the 2016 presidential election and during the Trump presidency, rhetoric, composition, and communications scholars expressed an urgent concern about the threat that Trump and his political affiliates posed to the status of truth in political life (McComiskey; Rice; Harsin; Cloud). However, the conversations surrounding the discipline’s...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: generally. Scholars within the humanities had much to say about these attacks. Jacques Derrida, the oft

Unfinished work : reading Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth

Creator:: Ridinger, Angela F.
Abstract:: Ralph Ellison died without ever completing his second novel. After his death, the executor of his literary estate, John F. Callahan, edited Ellison's work into a novel published under the title Juneteenth. This thesis examines the problems posed by Ellison's posthumously released text, especially the issues of authorial intent and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: number have been less generous to the novel's editor. Louis Menand, professor of English at the Graduate

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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

The Night Before the Elections and other stories

Intersections of new historicism and contemporary theory in renaissance literature

Culture built upon the land : a predictive model of nineteenth-century Canadien/Métis farmsteads.

Re-viewing the canon : using film and critical pedagogy in the standards-based classroom

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

John Turberville Needham (1713-1781) and eighteenth century theories of generation

Patterns from the past : exploring gender and ethnicity through historical archaeology among fur trade families in the Willamette Valley of Oregon

“I Can’t Believe I’m Marching for Reality”: Examining the Rhetorical Role of Science in the “Post-Truth” Era

Unfinished work : reading Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth

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