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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:: . This ekphrastic pattern by which art is depicted as regenerative suggests that the poet’s use of

To restore what once was : a mixed methods approach to understanding the shoe repair transaction

Creator:: Giulietti, Michael P.
Abstract:: The shoe repair transaction, as it occurs in the 5000 or so remaining shoe repair shops in the United States, is currently unexamined in academic literature for the significance it holds for either shoe repairers or their customers. Making use of both quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection, this...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: 2004). This was followed in 1969-1970 by rallying behind the Hollings-Cotton Bill (S 2885 & HR

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

Creator:: Drury, Adam Marshall
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: conversations throughout the course of this project, and to Anita Helle, Neil Davison, and Kerry Ahearn for

Writing Rhodesia : young girls as narrators in works by Doris Lessing and Tsitsi Dangarembga

Creator:: Thomas, Jane McCauley
Abstract:: Doris Lessing and Tsitsi Dangarembga write fiction set in Zimbabwe, the former Southern Rhodesia. Although Lessing grew up as a white settler and Dangarembga, a generation later, as part of the colonized African population, the women sometimes address similar issues. Both write of young girls trying to find a speaking...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: " her situation; by the book's publication, Rhodesia had overcome white rule, and it may be this

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:: approved: Evan Gottlieb In this thesis I examine the ideological mechanisms that work to

Conservation programs from the farmer's perspective : where is the greener grass?

Creator:: Gibson, Jennifer S.
Abstract:: On the national level, landowners demand for conservation programs like EQIP and WRP has far outstripped federal funding in 2001. Yet within Oregon's Willamette Valley, both EQIP and CREP have had a rough time gaining momentum. Much of the past research on rural landowners' conservation participation has relied on surveys...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: support and stimulation. Funding for this research was provided by the National Science Foundation

Changing pastoral lifeways in the land where the horse was king : the effects of China's Grassland Contract Policy on Mongolian herders' attitudes towards grassland management and cooperation

Creator:: Conte, Thomas J.
Abstract:: This thesis explore the effects of China's Grassland Contract policy on sedentary and mobile Inner Mongolian pastoralists' attitudes towards cooperation, current grassland management practices, and the future viability of livestock herding in New Barag Right Banner, Inner Mongolia. Semi-structured interviews, a scaled survey instrument, and participant observation were carried out...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the local police station. This is what I had feared for years: I was being apprehended by police in

An Exploration of Scholarship on Peer Review in Composition Studies : Looking to the Future with Replicable, Aggregated, and Data-Supported Research Methodologies

Creator:: Day, Jacob E.
Abstract:: This thesis examines the nature of evidence in scholarship on peer review in composition studies. I argue that the nature of evidence present in scholarship on peer review over the past three decades is typically anecdotal, theoretical, and based on limited case studies. I argue that peer review research in...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: all programs and departments can build on this preparation by helping students learn…to review work

Steps and Strikes

Creator:: Scopatz, Shane
Abstract:: Steps and Stikes is an Environmental Arts and Humanities capstone thesis project taking the shape of an art film. The video layers contemporary dance with natural and industrial imagery on a foundation of personal narrative. It engages with contemporary environmental discourse as a choreographed essay, questioning why the environmental movement...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: created on Native homelands. It was made possible by a Land Grant University— a product of the Morrill

Disciplining the reception of Darwin : the botanical and sociological work of Lester Frank Ward

Creator:: Zimmerman, Katharine
Abstract:: The publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, truly a synthesized work of natural history, coincided with the emergence of specialized disciplines in the 19th century. This thesis aims to explore the relationship between the specialization of knowledge, in the form of disciplinization, and the reception of new...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: contribute to work done by historians on the issue of disciplinarity

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

To restore what once was : a mixed methods approach to understanding the shoe repair transaction

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

Writing Rhodesia : young girls as narrators in works by Doris Lessing and Tsitsi Dangarembga

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

Conservation programs from the farmer's perspective : where is the greener grass?

Changing pastoral lifeways in the land where the horse was king : the effects of China's Grassland Contract Policy on Mongolian herders' attitudes towards grassland management and cooperation

An Exploration of Scholarship on Peer Review in Composition Studies : Looking to the Future with Replicable, Aggregated, and Data-Supported Research Methodologies

Steps and Strikes

Disciplining the reception of Darwin : the botanical and sociological work of Lester Frank Ward

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