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  • Herman Melville's Moby-Dick : hermeneutics and epistemology in Ishmael's seafaring

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    Goodrum, Emily A.
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    This paper defends a reading of Hennan Melville's Moby-Dick that elevates Ishmael's status from mere narrator of Ahab's tragedy to that of protagonist of his own story, a novel of epistemological seafaring. As a metaphysical quester, Ishmael provides the novel's only reliable and complex vision of the condition of man...
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    Melville. David guided this study from start to finish, critiqued early drafts, and motivated much of the

  • Caught between two spheres : the relationship of Charles Dickens' street people to the Victorian concept of home

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    Wylie, Lynne S.
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    Nineteenth-century England witnessed burgeoning urban growth and the resultant struggle of the poor to find adequate shelter. Against this backdrop, Charles Dickens was a fierce advocate for the rights of the street people of London to have sanitary and adequate housing, earning him the title of radical. By combining sentimentality...
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    : The Relationship of Charles Dickens' Street People to the Victorian Concept of Home. Abstract

  • Water, fire, and stone : images and meaning in Melville

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    Martin, Brian D.
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    This thesis is a study of Herman Melville’s symbolism. I have chosen to investigate the elemental images of water, fire, and stone in Moby-Dick (1851), Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities (1852), and Clarel; A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876). This work is a semiotic study, insofar as the...
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    , AND STONE: IMAGES AND MEANING IN MELVILLE Brian D. Martin

  • Hamlet's delay : an attempt at synthesis

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    Cohen, Martin, 1943-
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    The study of the question of why Shakespeare's Hamlet delays killing Claudius in revenge for his father's murder is examined in light of the major critical theories from neo-classical to modern scholarship. An expanded treatment of the works of Fredson Bowers, Eleanor Prosser, Bertram Joseph, and Roland Frye, is provided...
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  • Space and movement : dance, art, and the poetry of William Carlos Williams

    Creator:
    Hoch, Jamie
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    The Modern era, roughly the time between 1860-1930, brought about a significant restructuring of artistic mediums. From the canvas to the page, artists of the twentieth century turned towards collaboration as a means by which they could reconfigure their works. Painters, writers, and dancers, borrowed aesthetic techniques from one another...
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    Poetry of William Carlos Williams. Abstract approved: Tracy The Modern era, roughly the time between

  • An experimental string processing extension to Pascal

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    Weems, Charles Chilton
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    The need for and problems related to string processing are discussed and a definition of the term "string" is derived. A brief review of some existing string processing systems leads to the presentation of a design for a string processing extension to the programming language Pascal. A rationale for the...
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    ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Charles Chilton Weems Jr. for the degree of Master of Arts in Computer Science

  • The cultural implications of a careers oriented relevant education approach in junior high school settings in Springfield, Oregon

    Creator:
    Pierson, William Wilbur
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    This research details the adoption, implementation, and outcomes of Project C. 0. R. E. (Careers Oriented Relevant Education) in District #19 junior high schools in Springfield, Oregon. Information was gathered from teachers, students, and parents associated with each District #19 junior high school via questionnaires, interviews, and by field observations....
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    WILLIAM WILBUR PIERSON for the MASTER OF ARTS (Name of student) (Degree) in General Studies presented on

  • Size structure and growth rate of Euphausia pacifica off the Oregon coast

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    Smiles, Michael Charles Jr
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    Euphausia pacifica lives for a period of approximately one year, disappearing from the catches at a size of about 22-24 mm. Spawning, which occurs mainly inshore, extends from June through December but generally is most prominent in the autumn months. Average growth is calculated to be approximately 2.0 mm per...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF MICHAEL CHARLES SMILES, JR. for

  • "Present fears" and "Horrible Imaginings" : Gothic elements in Shakespearean Tragedy

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    Appel, Ian S.
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    Gothic literary works are characterized as such by their ability to represent and evoke terror. The form this representation takes is varied; often terror originates in the atmospheric effects of settings, in the appearance of mysterious, supposedly supernatural phenomena, and, perhaps most significantly, in the behavior of villainous characters. Shakespearean...
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    permutations; indeed, what literary scholars define as Gothic seems continually to be evolving. Ann Williams

  • William Ernest Castle, American geneticist : a case-study in the impact of the Mendelian research program

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    Taylor, H. Terry
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    In their modern context questions of heredity have come to be closely aligned with theories of evolution because all such theories require the presence of heritable variation. Thus the need for an understanding of a source of variation and a mechanism for its inheritance became very apparent with the general...
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    William Ernest Castle, American geneticist : a case