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  • Sound and death in John Haines's poetry

    Creator:
    Noble, Darren L.
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    Poet John Haines is best known for his first book of poetry, Winter News, which was published in 1966. The book contains poems about the Alaskan landscape that surrounded Haines during his many years of living in Richardson, Alaska. The recurring motifs in his poems include hunting, trapping, the Arctic...
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    John Haines's Poetry. Kerry D. Ahearn Poet John Haines is best known for his first book of poetry

  • The accessible Chaucer

    Creator:
    Luepke, Natasha M.
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    In this thesis I explore the ways in which twenty-first century Americans have access to Geoffrey Chaucer and his works. I look at issues surrounding Chaucer within the canon debate, high school history and literature textbooks, and Chaucer in popular culture, such as in movies like A Knight's Tale. I...
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    one cannot include every relevant text. In The Importance of Chaucer, John H. Fisher poses a

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

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

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

    Creator:
    Benson, Keith Rodney
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    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....
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    John Turberville Needhuam (1713-1781) and eighteenth

  • Narrative frames and the works of John Coltrane

    Creator:
    Duncan, James Bryan
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    In Culture and Imperialism, Said illustrates that we have no "autonomous cultural forms," but rather "impure" ones that are the products of historically "discrepant experiences." American culture has an interesting relationship with the history of imperialism. The Europeans that settled the U.S. imported slave labor to assist in the growth...
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    Narrative frames and the works of John Coltrane AN

  • Water over stones : Oregon watershed stories

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    Oberst, Gail D.
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    The 13 personal essays in Water over Stones: Oregon Watershed Stories explore the author's experiences in dozens of Oregon watersheds. Using the genre of the personal essay, the author, a fifth-generation Oregonian and amateur ecologist, writes about her life and family relationships in stories that are saturated with the waters...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Gail D. Oberst for the degree of

  • In Defense of the "Ringding Mukta" : The Later Work of J.D. Salinger

    Creator:
    Herb, Danielle Kristine
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    My thesis explores the later work of author J.D. Salinger, including two narratives featured in Nine Stories, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," and "Teddy," and Franny and Zooey, "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters," and "Seymour: an Introduction." Through my analysis I argue that the religious nature of Salinger's fiction...
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    . 7). Likewise, John Updike, though perhaps more kind than Kazin, mocked Salinger for his rendering

  • The taxonomic value of the metathoracic wing in the Scutelleridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera)

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    Au, Eunice Chizuru
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    Classification based on metathoracic wing venation does not coincide with the existing higher classification of the family Scutelleridae. The wings of the genera in the Scutellerinae possess a similar general pattern of venation which is quite distinct from that of Eurygasterinae, Odontoscelinae, Odontotarsinae, and Pachycorinae. The Scutellerinae wings possess three...
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    : John D. Lattin Classification based on metathoracic wing venation does not coincide with the existing

  • A revision of the North American species of Pactopus Leconte and Trixagus Kugelann (Coleoptera: Throscidae)

    Creator:
    Yensen, Arthur Eric
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    This study was undertaken to find means of separating the morphologically similar species of North American Trixagus and to bring together information on Trixagus and Pactopus. A key to separate the world's eight genera of extant Throscidae is presented for the first time. A key to the five species of...
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    : THROSCIDAE) Abstract approved: Redacted for Privacy John D. Latin This study was undertaken to find means

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

    Creator:
    Divelbiss, John D.
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    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...
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    __________________________________________________________________ AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF John D. Divelbiss for the degree of Master of