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  • Unrequired reading; an annotated bibliography for teachers & school administrators

    Creator:
    Tiedt, Iris M. and Tiedt, Sidney W.
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    thought in panic.) Literature can also facilitate our understanding of the students with whom we are

  • Ms. Miles is missing

    Creator:
    Wisniewski, Stephanie E.
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    Ms. Miles is Missing—the beginning of a novel—is the story of a woman who, in her early thirties comes to realize that the life she is living is not the life she wants. She yearns for her lost childhood, and tries to come to terms with her mother’s death. Martha...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Stephanie E. Wisniewski for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing presented on May 2, 2007

  • Fitzgerald’s idealism and the question of wealth

    Creator:
    Wood, Amy
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    In This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and several of his short stories, F. Scott Fitzgerald questions the importance of wealth as a factor in supporting happiness and fostering the American Dream on an individual basis. With these texts, Fitzgerald acknowledges that wealth is a factor and, simultaneously, a...
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    creativity leads him to an authentic interest in literature and writing and helps to develop his intellect

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

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    Sandeno, Robin M.
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    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,...
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    in vision literature." The punishments in Hell are general for all, and not connected with specific

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

    Creator:
    Marie, Michelle
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    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...
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    in the evaluation and selection of children’s literature. ©Copyright

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

    Creator:
    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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    . Her expertise in the area of Victorian literature, her love of Dickens, her incredible teaching

  • Imagining Kenya in Ngugi's fiction

    Creator:
    Prasansak, Ram
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    The relationship between literature and nation-building has been one of the most crucial issues in postcolonial studies. The novel in particular is regarded as a means by which writers forge national consciousness among the colonized during the time of colonization. Many African writers themselves, for example, conceive of their work...
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    danger for [the principle of] nationality" (11: bracket original). Literature and Nation Formation In

  • Revisioning grandeur : an exploration of intertextuality in Alice Munro and Virginia Woolf

    Creator:
    King, Michelle L.
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    In this thesis I argue that Alice Munro’s work takes part in an ongoing feminist discourse that examines alterations in male and female gender relations, as they have been represented in domestic fiction by women writers since the late nineteenth century. I analyze two short stories written by Munro: “Meneseteung,”...
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    program in English Literature and Culture here at OSU, I’ve grappled with my growing obsession with the

  • Fighting tradition : Hemingway’s Nick Adams and shell shock

    Creator:
    McGrath, Cole P.
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    In his Nick Adams stories, Ernest Hemingway traces the life of a single man as he moves from boyhood to adolescence to adulthood to fatherhood. From the beginning of Nick Adam’s life, it is clear that he does not fit into the role of the traditional hero. In addition, Nick...
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    the Chimera. On a looser level, many adversaries in epic literature are not clearly defined