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  • Life in (an)other world : issues of otherness and magic in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series

    Creator:
    Fennell, Dalicia K.
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    My thesis is comprised of two articles, titled "Journeying Through (An)Other World: Examining the Role of Magic and Transformational Otherness in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and "Magic, Muggles, and Mudbloods: Examining Magical Otherness in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series." The introduction frames the thematic, theoretical, and critical connections...
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    provides a foundation on which to understand magic and otherness in medieval literature. My second

  • Morrison’s Magical Reality: Disrupting the Politics of Memory

    Creator:
    Littke, Amanda L.
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    Novelist Toni Morrison is well-known for using the concept she calls rememory, or the process of actively revisiting and reconstructing a cultural past. Many critics agree that Morrison uses rememory in a strategic way, so that it provides sturdy framework for a larger discussion of issues of race, class, and...
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    magischer realismus (magic realism) was first associated with German art critic Franz Roh in 1925 to

  • "'I wouldn't have believed it -- even of a white man'" : critiquing whiteness in Charles Chesnutt's "The house behind the cedars" and Nella Larsen's "Passing"

    Creator:
    Franks, Tricia May
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    In their respective novels, The House Behind the Cedars (1900) and Passing (1929), both Charles Chesnutt and Nella Larsen utilize racial passing, the process of a mixed-race individual living as "white," to explore the relations between black and white people during early-twentieth century America. This thesis specifically argues that Chesnutt...
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    female historically as a figure in American literature, tracing her beginnings as the "tragic

  • Breeding the new woman : the eugenic discourse of motherhood in Shaw, Yeats, and Lawless

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    Tracy, Hannah R.
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    The popularity and pervasiveness of eugenic discourse during the modernist period in England and Ireland raised many questions about race, class, and gender. While Hitler's Nazi "experiment" ultimately demonstrated the consequences of implementing eugenic ideas, forcing eugenicists to abandon, or at least mask, their theories, the eugenics movement before World...
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    the "New Woman" was primarily a critical construct used in early modernist literature to representa

  • Achievement as a family theme in drama

    Creator:
    Gray, Cecilia D.
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    The development and maintenance of a family achievement theme was analyzed using two dramas: Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill and A Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. Three propositions were tested: 1) The development of a family achievement theme involves a transaction between individual personality needs...
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    disgarded if it can assist us in this endeavor. Literature has supplied us with rich protrayals of family

  • Sex role stereotypes and children's memory for story content

    Creator:
    Gentry, Sally A.
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    The present experiment examined children's memory for stereotypic and non-stereotypic sex role content in their reading material. Twenty-four male and twenty-four female fifth grade subjects read two short stories, each depicting a male and female character who exhibited an equal number of masculine and feminine traits and behaviors. Results of...
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    literature, or its effect upon their memory for story material. In an effort to address this issue, the

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

    Creator:
    Drury, Adam Marshall
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    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...
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    in literature and culture. It was in reading a book of his dramatic theory, rather than one of his

  • 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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    Stephanie E. Wisniewski for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing presented on May 2, 2007

  • Content analysis of fiction as a technique for studying attitudes in social relationships

    Creator:
    Owen, Lois Darling
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    The purpose of the study was to attempt to develop a methodological approach which would tap the contribution of the literary artist to the understanding of human behavior. It was assumed that a content analysis of the social attitudes expressed in fiction would yield data which was complimentary, if not...
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    Porterfield, 1957) have pointed out that literature, and specifically fiction, might provide a source of in

  • Expression & identity : the word made flesh

    Creator:
    Beach, J. M.
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    This essay is an exploration of identity formation and expression. Humanity's identity formations create the orientations and languages with which we use to create our knowledge and understanding of the surrounding external environment (both social and physical) and our internal environment (psychological). This essay traces the sources of identity formation...
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    compartmentalization of the humanities in general (and literature specifically) wherein each 'field' materializes into