Index Catalog // ScholarsArchive@OSU

"Land of War and Blood" : spectacular violence, conflicting medievalisms, and chivalric legacies in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones

Creator:: Horton, Kaely
Abstract:: This thesis examines depictions of medievalism in three central texts: Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones. Each of these texts provides an entry point for exploring the ways in which English and American writers have...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones

George Bernard Shaw's "Big Three" : an althusserian reading of Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara

Creator:: Kramer, Johanna I.
Abstract:: Traditional readings of George Bernard Shaw's texts suggest that he is not a pure Marxist socialist because of the spiritual and nationalist aspects of his vision. This thesis attempts to confront Shaw's politics in order to demonstrate that he indeed offers a viable socialist program. Overlaying his socialism with Louis...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: approved: Neil R. Davison Traditional readings of George Bernard Shaw's texts suggest that he is not a

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

Creator:: Peake, Natasha C.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , George Eliot sought to discover a system of belief that would allow her to reaffirm and maintain her

Byron, Don Juan, and catharsis

Creator:: Greene, Wanda S.
Abstract:: This thesis seeks to explain how Lord George Gordon Byron achieves catharsis through the writing of his truth in Don Juan. In the poem the narrator expresses Byron's innermost emotion while at the same time the protagonist, Juan, relates to readers on a more conscious level. The ability that Byron...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: approved: This thesis seeks to explain how Lord George Gordon Byron achieves catharsis through the

Reasserting moral boundaries : representations of fame in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda

Creator:: Foster, Emily S.
Abstract:: Celebrity culture is part of a long history of fame, but the modern celebrity individual came into focus in the nineteenth century. The first part of this thesis distinguishes modern celebrity – including its morality – from other types of fame, explores the intersection of celebrity and gender through the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: 18, 2017. Title: Reasserting Moral Boundaries: Representations of Fame in George Eliot’s Daniel

Picture this, imagine that : the literary and pedagogic force of ekphrastic principles

Creator:: Pajak, Zachary E.
Abstract:: My thesis is comprised of two articles, titled "Interpreting Britomart's Encounters with Art: The Cyclic Nature of Ekphrasis in Spenser's Faerie Queene III," and "Picture This, Imagine That: Teaching Visual Literacy in the Disciplines." The purpose of my first article is to argue that Edmund Spenser uses ekphrasis in his...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : _____________________________________________________________________ Vicki Tolar Burton Rebecca R. Olson My thesis is comprised of two articles, titled

Neutron total cross sections using the optical model of the nucleus

Creator:: Dow, Shirley Lillian
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: which vary slowly with A, such as the nuclear radius. (5, p. 4L.9) The nuclear radius R may be

Development of proceedings for an urban renewal project : the Esther Short project

Creator:: Merrill, John Russell
Abstract:: Urban centers, in part, are in the process of deterioration. Consequently, land values in these areas, both in dollars and in contribution to the community, remain dormant or depressed. There seems little doubt that there will be greater pressure for urban land. Urban renewal is one method of returning deteriorated...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: {edera]. assist- ance to slum clearance and urban renewaL is TitLe r of the Eouslng Act of L9ll9 as

The anti-scientific attitudes among high school students

Creator:: Greisel, Irma Joy
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . that George ernard Shaw's statement (44, p. 1027) in the Preface to ¿aint Joan, "I affirm ihat the

The Jews of Portland (Oregon) : their religious practices and beliefs

Creator:: Segal, Jack
Abstract:: This dissertation is concerned with the synagogue-affiliated Jews of Portland, Oregon. Employing an elaborate questionnaire this writer examined the ritual practices (home and synagogue) and traditional beliefs of Judaism as practiced or accepted by the Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform Jews of Portland and thereby attempted to reach a conclusion whether...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: TLAND (OR EGON) : THEIR R ELIGIOUS Abstract approved (Major p ssor) This dissertation is concerned

ScholarsArchive@OSU

"Land of War and Blood" : spectacular violence, conflicting medievalisms, and chivalric legacies in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones

George Bernard Shaw's "Big Three" : an althusserian reading of Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara

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

Byron, Don Juan, and catharsis

Reasserting moral boundaries : representations of fame in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda

Picture this, imagine that : the literary and pedagogic force of ekphrastic principles

Neutron total cross sections using the optical model of the nucleus

Development of proceedings for an urban renewal project : the Esther Short project

The anti-scientific attitudes among high school students

The Jews of Portland (Oregon) : their religious practices and beliefs

Limit your search

Academic Affiliation

Advisor

Commencement Year

Committee Member

Creator

Contributor

Date

Decade

Degree Field

Degree Level

Degree Name

File Format

Language

License

Location

Non-Academic Affiliation

Peer Reviewed

Resource Type

Rights Statement

Subject

Search Constraints

Search Results

Limit your search