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  • Meeting the Night : The Science and Mystery of an Endangered Habitat

    Creator:
    Sisson, Jill
    Abstract:
    Night is an extraordinary resource. Unlike air, water, or soil, nighttime is a spatio-temporal phenomenon, which leads to many crucial roles. It provides refuge to wildlife species, triggers hormonal and behavioral responses among a wide variety of organisms, and serves as an essential migratory backdrop for species that navigate by...
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    Capstone Project
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    out that low, deep sounds below middle C, like the rumble of passing trucks, emulate a thundering

  • Circles in the sand

    Creator:
    Amsk, Allyn W.
    Abstract:
    The creative writing project Circles in the Sand began as a collection of interrelated short stories but is now the three opening chapters of a novel, a chapter and an early draft of what was originally the ending to a novella, and one short story. The landscape is the upper...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    voice hoarse above the bike engine's rumble. "I'm going to see if I can hit third gear this time

  • The Orient King, and other stories

    Creator:
    Hess, Demian
    Abstract:
    These six stories represent a child's search for identity. The first story, "Road Map," is intended to be independent from the other pieces in this collection, but has been included because it is clearly set in the same place and explores many of the same themes of the other pieces....
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

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

    Creator:
    Brock, Christopher J.
    Abstract:
    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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    Masters Thesis
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    my committee members, Dr. Chris Anderson, Dr. Richmond Barbour, and Dr. John Simonsen, for their

  • Omen of Mere Event : Vignettes in a Post-Wilderness Landscape

    Creator:
    Schultz, Aaron A.
    Abstract:
    This thesis uses a series of non-fiction vignettes to explore objects, agencies, and networks, applying theories of rhetoric and composition directly to experience and vise versa. Focusing on agency--as understood through sociology's actor-networks, post- humanism’s Object Orientated Ontology, and Ecocriticism's ecological approach--I look at events, landscapes, and partnerships that have...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • The infinite margin : living in reading

    Creator:
    Kleiman, Alicia J. Alicia J.
    Abstract:
    This thesis, a collection of creative non-fiction essays, explores the nature and influence of reading and school in the author's life. After a brief introduction explaining the title, part one describes the sensory dimensions of reading. Part two discusses the author's work as a student and teacher and the contradictions...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Abstract Aesthetics and Liberation Theology : Figurations and Invocations of Black Jesus in Early Twentieth Century American Literature

    Creator:
    Dahl, Peter C.
    Abstract:
    This thesis invokes Black Jesus as an abstract figure in two seemingly disparate early twentieth century American novels and, in doing so, intervenes in ongoing debates about the ethical capacities of literature as means of grappling with difference. The Christ figure is a literary trope of waning importance in contemporary...
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    Masters Thesis
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    definition of the abstract aesthetic is broad, and he gives a range of examples, such as John Keane’s

  • Hannah of Troy, and other stories

    Creator:
    Nadelson, Scott
    Abstract:
    The six stories in this collection center around an extended Jewish family in the New York Metropolitan area and the curse its members relentlessly wish upon themselves. The protagonist in four of the six stories is Daniel Brickman, younger brother in a very ordinary and chaotic household in suburban New...
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    Masters Thesis