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The Legend of the Three Living and the Three Dead : The Development of the Macabre in Late Medieval England

Creator:: Sandeno, Robin M.
Abstract:: Many authorities state that the development of macabre images were a result of the plague that first swept through western Europe 1347-1350. However, many aspects of the macabre were already in place prior to the plague. A more realistic explanation for the macabre is in the modification of religious belief,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in History. Art, and English presented on April 14

A 1974 perspective of art interest among students enrolled in basic college art courses between 1968 and 1970

Creator:: Hardin, Priscilla
Abstract:: It can be hypothesized that the degree to which students value learning in the visual arts influences the amount of involvement in art oriented activities that will be pursued in later years. This investigation has compared former college students° valuations of the Basic Design course with levels of art interest...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Master of Arts Interdisciplinary Studies: in Art, Education, Anthropology presented on May 2, 1975

Indian Women Rewriting Themselves : The Representation of "Madness" by Women Writers

Creator:: Singh, Jaspal K., 1951-
Abstract:: Representations of "madness" in literature written by women have been the focus of feminist studies in the western world since the Victorian Era. When Charlotte Gilman Perkins wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper" in 1892, she "met with consternation of disapproving males ...[and] it was virtually ignored for thirty years" (Kasmer 1)....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Abstract approved: Fayad Representations of "madness" in literature written by women have been the focus

Team Bella : reimagining character portrayals and engaging with social constructions of power in Twilight fanfiction

Creator:: Rost, Coral
Abstract:: Online fanfiction communities have received attention for providing spaces of creativity and individual empowerment. Yet as critics have sought to establish fanfiction as a worthy object of study, many have not grappled with the ways that fanfictions not only trouble, but also reinforce various discourses and ideas of gender and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: requirements for the degree of Master of Art in Interdisciplinary Studies Presented June

A Thematic Feminist Analysis of Best-Selling Children’s Picture Books

Creator:: Marie, Michelle
Abstract:: Qualitative and quantitative analysis of the top ten best-selling children's picture books of 2006 reveals that these books contain elements of systematic privilege and oppression. Dominant group members are numerically overrepresented in the sample. Major emergent themes are the normalization of racism and white privilege, the stereotypical portrayal of the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: in the evaluation and selection of children’s literature. ©Copyright

Fantasy and Hate: A Fantasy Theme Analysis of Der Giftpilz

Creator:: Rosenberg, Matthew S.
Abstract:: In Nazi Germany, 1938, Der Stürmer publishing house, under the control of Julius Striecher, published Der Giftpilz or The Poisonous Mushroom; an anti-Semitic children's book. Disseminated in the thousands, Der Giftpilz became infamously known as a children's book so grotesque it could be, and in fact was, admitted as evidence...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies Name in Speech Communication, Speech

The power of conceptual metaphor in Diana Abu-Jaber's The Language of Baklava and Birds of Paradise

Creator:: Gratz, Kimberly A.
Abstract:: This thesis examines the use of religious metaphor as it applies to food in two literary works by Diana Abu-Jaber. First, The Language of Baklava, a culinary memoir published in 2005, reveals aspects of cultural identity and memory through food and metaphor. Second, Abu-Jabers most recent novel, Birds of Paradise,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: THESIS OF Kimberly A. Gratz for the degree of Master of Art in Interdisciplinary Studies in

The Art of Noticing : An Essay on Contemporary Ecological Writing

Creator:: West, Rex Alan, 1967-
Abstract:: A number of thinkers are becoming increasingly persuaded that our anthropocentric view of nature is inadequate, that we need a "new morality" with regard to the environment. In this essay, I argue that an alternative to anthropocentricism is available to us now-and has been since at least 1836. I look...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: NATURE POETRY 2 7 CONCLUSION 5 0 LITERATURE CITED 5 4 Preface "Modern Man...in the topmost tiers of

Teacher-Researchers in Composition Studies : Subverting Education's Political Hierarchy

Creator:: Hardin, Holly E.
Abstract:: This study focused on composition teachers in elementary and secondary schools who researched their own teaching practices. Specifically, it examined political implications of their work within the larger context of the education hierarchy. Central to this examination were teacher-researcher (t-r) perceptions of and interactions with other members of the education...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Teacher-researchers in composition studies

Claude McKay's Vision of Community in the African Diaspora : A Fresh Take on Home to Harlem and Banjo

Creator:: De Jesus, Michael A. (Michael Anthony)
Abstract:: This research examines the literary and philosophical dimensions of the African American Harlem Renaissance, beginning with the historical milieu of the early twentieth century. A social movement that became known as Uplift and the so-called Cabaret Movement emerged as important, competing literary and social ideologies within the Renaissance. W.E.B. Du...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: name in science, to make a name in literature, and thus to raise my race” (Du Bois, Against Racism 29

ScholarsArchive@OSU

The Legend of the Three Living and the Three Dead : The Development of the Macabre in Late Medieval England

A 1974 perspective of art interest among students enrolled in basic college art courses between 1968 and 1970

Indian Women Rewriting Themselves : The Representation of "Madness" by Women Writers

Team Bella : reimagining character portrayals and engaging with social constructions of power in Twilight fanfiction

A Thematic Feminist Analysis of Best-Selling Children’s Picture Books

Fantasy and Hate: A Fantasy Theme Analysis of Der Giftpilz

The power of conceptual metaphor in Diana Abu-Jaber's The Language of Baklava and Birds of Paradise

The Art of Noticing : An Essay on Contemporary Ecological Writing

Teacher-Researchers in Composition Studies : Subverting Education's Political Hierarchy

Claude McKay's Vision of Community in the African Diaspora : A Fresh Take on Home to Harlem and Banjo

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