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  • Cutting off the Medusa's head : mythological transcendence in Emily Brontë and Eudora Welty

    Creator:
    Caputi, Roseanne Pascalette
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    The purpose of this project is to draw a more explicit connection between Eudora Welty and the literary influence Emily Brönte had on her, revealing Welty as a writer who is more integrated into literary tradition and history than many readers and critics have acknowledged. Both writers rely heavily on...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : Mythological Transcendence in Emily Brönte and Eudora Welty Abstract approved: David Miller Robinson The

  • Emersonian Non-Conformity in J.D. Salinger and Hunter S. Thompson

    Creator:
    Cooley, Katelyn E.
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    The purpose of this thesis is to thematically explore two novels which are considered to be “non-conformist” for the ways that the characters struggle to understand themselves as separate from society. By comparing the non-conformity of each character to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s theory of individualistic non-conformity, as presented in his...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    . Thompson.     Abstract approved:     David Robinson         The purpose of

  • The Art of Noticing : An Essay on Contemporary Ecological Writing

    Creator:
    West, Rex Alan, 1967-
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    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...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Privacy David Robinson A number of thinkers are becoming increasingly persuaded that our anthropocentric

  • Zora Neale Hurston : freedom from the inside out

    Creator:
    Rasmussen, Patricia Ann, 1947-
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    Zora Neale Hurston was a Black American writer during the period of the Harlem Renaissance. The purpose of this study is to show that three of her four novels form a protracted discussion of a particular type of freedom which was of especial interest to Hurston. The study seeks to...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Abstract approved: Dr. David Robinson Zora Neale Hurston was a Black American writer Renaissance. The

  • Who We Are and Will Be

    Creator:
    Jackson, Linda Carol, 1949-
    Abstract:
    The protagonists in the fiction of Paule Marshall, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison illuminate American cultural perceptions of black women and illustrate how the creators of these characters hope to change those perceptions. I studied Paule Marshall's Daughters, Alice Walker's Meridian and The Color Purple, and Toni Morrison's The Bluest...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Education. Presented on April 1, 1994. Title: Who We Are and Will Be. Abstract approved: David Robinson

  • "Living Outside the Madness" : reform and ecology in the work of Henry Thoreau and Gary Snyder

    Creator:
    Hiatt, Bryan
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    Recent conflicts in America concerning the environment (the harvesting of old growth timber in the Pacific Northwest, or the proposed opening of public lands in southern Utah to mining interests, for instance) have precipitated a personal examination of "historical others" (Jensen 64), individuals that possess very different sensibilities from a...
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    Masters Thesis
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    and Ecology in the Work of Henry Thoreau and Gary Snyder. Abstract Approved: David Robinson

  • An autumn journey : time, place, and pattern in Henry David Thoreau's later work

    Creator:
    Dotterman, Anthony Matthew
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    This thesis situates a discussion of Thoreau's later natural history essays in the context of the author's other writings. Beginning with an examination of the writings of Thoreau's friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, this paper examines Thoreau's relation to and departure from Emerson's understanding of time, place, and pattern...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . and Pattern in Henry David Thoreau's Later Work. Abstract approved: David Robinson This thesis

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

    Creator:
    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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    Masters Thesis
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    and Epistemology in Ishmael' s Seafaring. Abstract Approved: David Robinson This paper defends a

  • Radical centrism : The Bakatcha Bandit, Emook, and the hope of the riparian

    Creator:
    Scruton, Evan
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    In 1965 Malcolm X said that we are living in a time of extremism. People in power have misused it now there has to be a change, and a better world has to be built, and the only way it's going to be built is with extreme methods. And I,...
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    : ______________________________________________________ David M. Robinson In 1965 Malcolm X said that "we are living in a time of extremism

  • 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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    Masters Thesis
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    : ______________________________________________________ David M. Robinson My thesis explores the later work of author J.D. Salinger