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  • Courting Elizabeth : the virgin queen and Elizabethan literature

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    Zinck, Jaime
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    Sixteenth century Elizabeth I of England has long been a figure of interest to Renaissance scholars, and their work largely focuses on how her gender impacted the power, politics, and culture of her day. Many have perceived her to be a heroine whose ingenuity and determination circumvented the limitations imposed...
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    on March 20, 2012 Title: Courting Elizabeth: The Virgin Queen and Elizabethan Literature Abstract

  • A preliminary regional analysis of lithic cache sites in central Oregon

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    Marschall, Mary Elizabeth
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    In the obsidian rich areas of central Oregon numerous lithic cache sites have been documented and strongly suggest the existence of a regional caching practice, however these sites remain poorly understood as cultural behavior. The primary objectives of this study are to develop and apply a research strategy addressing the...
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  • Producing possibility : glimmering alternatives in Willa Cather and Virginia Woolf

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    Nipper, Sarah
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    This thesis examines alternative modes and forms of production in texts by Willa Cather and Virginia Woolf. Applying queer methodologies drawn from the work of Michel Foucault, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Lee Edelman, and Elizabeth Freeman, I show how Cather’s The Professor’s House and Woolf’s To the Lighthouse demonstrate and interrogate...
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    Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Elizabeth M. Sheehan

  • The hand of humanity : Eliot's religious reformation in Middlemarch

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    Peake, Natasha C.
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    As the embodiment of the religiously unsettled Victorian Era in which she lived, George Eliot sought to discover a system of belief that would allow her to reaffirm and maintain her feelings of faith and morality. She believed that the subjective nature of traditional Christianity needed to be replaced with...
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    I would like to thank my committee members, Dr. Elizabeth Campbell, Dr. Lisa Ede, and Dr. Vicki

  • Socratic Enunciations: Renegade Speech, Counterfeit Enlightenment

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    Mago, Bhisma
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    In this two-article thesis, I argue that an opposition to Eurocentrism may be articulated without ethnic or identarian determinisms but through a critical engagement with the categories of ethics and truth in a global frame. I build upon the work of Frantz Fanon and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak to accomplish a...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Elizabeth Sheehan In this two-article thesis, I argue that an opposition to Eurocentrism

  • Women's voices : the emergence of female identity in Bleak House and Little Dorrit

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    Van Ras, Tamara L.
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    Dedicated to recording, portraying, and indicting the social inequities that he witnessed in nineteenth century Victorian England, one of Charles Dickens' many concerns was the roles assigned to women both in the public and private spheres. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the narratives of Amy Dorrit and...
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    Identity in Bleak House and Little Dorrit. Abstract approved: Dr. Elizabeth Campbell Dedicated to

  • Food systems in the Marys River region and reinhabitation

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    Burke, Erik P.
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    Reinhabitation is an approach to building local cultures and economies within industrial society. The food system is a vital starting point. What are the principles of reinhabitory food systems? What are the possibilities for a locally adapted food system in the Marys River region of western Oregon? I describe past...
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    : CONCLUSIONS 103 REFERENCES CITED 106 APPENDICES 126 LIST OF FIGURES Figure Page MARY S RIVER REGION 2

  • In and Out of Touch : Fabricated Histories in Nella Larsen's Passing and James VanDerZee's Studio Portraiture

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    Trowbridge, A. Hayley
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    Author Nella Larsen and photographer James VanDerZee are two of the most canonical figures of Harlem Renaissance studies, whose respective novels and portraits have been explored extensively, if separately, by scholars. Both Larsen's 1929 novel Passing and VanDerZee's studio portraiture of the 1920s and 1930s have been read in terms...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Elizabeth M. Sheehan Author Nella Larsen and photographer James VanDerZee are two of the

  • From the encoded to the explicit in the 20th Century Irish romance : a study of Elizabeth Bowen's The last September and Edna O'Brien's The country girl's trilogy

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    Breeden, Shobana L.
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    This thesis uses both feminist and new historic theories to argue that the women's romance novels The Last September (1929) by Elizabeth Bowen and The Country Girl's Trilogy (1960, 1962, 1964) by Edna O'Brien are tragic bildungsroman that subvert and challenge the Irish patriarchal marriage expectations of their respective time...
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    of Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September and Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls Trilogy

  • The role of competition, community, and priority in the discovery of the tau lepton

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    Swanner, Leandra
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    This study examines the interactions between the scientific communities of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in the discovery of the tau lepton by physicist Martin Perl between 1973- 1977. Perl became interested in searching for heavy leptons through positron-electron collision experiments using the...
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    : _____________________________________________________________________ Mary Jo Nye This study examines the interactions between the scientific communities of the