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The Past And The Family Experience: Traditional Southern Themes In The Work Of Lee Smith, Theresa Martin

Theses & Honors Papers

No abstract provided.

Madness And Hope: Military Experience As Theme And Symbol In Contemporary African-American Drama, Ashley Reed Warren

Theses & Honors Papers

No abstract provided.

Jesse B. Semple And The Black Press : The Voice Of Black People, Mary Ann Massey

Master's Theses

Black newspapers play a vital role in keeping people up-to-date with what's happening in the Black community. This study will show how Black newspapers play a vital role in reporting news and comments from an Afro-American perspective. It will provide a historical overview of Black news as well as a close examination of Langston Hughes' columns and his character of Jesse B. Semple within the context of the Black press, particularly the Chicago Defender. The results of this study will reveal the joys and concerns that Afro-Americans shared with each other through the Black newspapers and show how the …

Language, Love, And The Use Of Signs In The Cantos Xxvi Of La Divina Commedia, Rebecca Anne Powell

Honors Theses

No abstract provided.

Walt Whitman's Poetics Of Labor, David Janssen

Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to organize and examine Walt Whitman's poetic representations and discussions of laborers and labor issues in order to argue that form a distinct "poetics" of labor in Leaves of Grass. This poetics of labor reveals that Whitman was attempting to enlarge the audience for American poetry by representing American society at work in poetry. Whitman also used labor as a poetic subject in order to justify the work of the poet in that society. In this sense, Whitman's poetics of labor is comprised of numerous demonstrations of his argument for the labor of poetry …

Softly Spoken, Sarah Inman

Senior Scholar Papers

No abstract provided.

Legacies Of Eowyn, The Female Heroes Of Marion Zimmer Bradley, Jason Laborde Rush

Honors Theses

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Beyond Diversity: Refigural Images Of Community In Novels By Gloria Naylor And Zora Neale Hurston, Jonathan Richard Moore

Honors Theses

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Dust, Kristin J. Winkler

Senior Scholar Papers

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. UNDER THE CARPET

Running Away

Call Me Sinner

Behind the Wheel

How It Is

Graffiti

The Father

On My Street

II. WINDSTORM

The Match

The Thunderstorm

Cedaredge Locker Plant

It's All Life

Something In Beige

A Wish

Peeling

Praying

The Empathetic Savior : Narcissism And The Role Of The Son In "Paradise Lost", Anna Nabb Meade

Master's Theses

I began my research intending to develop a coherent theory regarding the poolside scene in "Paradise Lost." Troubled by the recognition that Eve was created perfect and yet shows a disturbing tendency toward vanity, I began to probe possible interpretations for Milton's allusion to the Narcissus myth. I incorporated Satan and Adam as further exploration of narcissism, and the Father and Son as self-love recognized ideally. Working with the theories of Heinz Kohut, I concluded that certain aspects of the Son's role in the Christian faith are analogous to the role of the therapist in healing the narcissistically impaired individual, …

A Philosophical Investigation Of Sexual Jealousy And Jealousy In Shakespeare's Othello, Cymbeline, And The Winter's Tale, Greg P. Miner

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

Many poets, social scientists, and philosophers have tried to understand, explain, and define jealousy. The methods employed in their pursuits are as varied as the different conclusions they have given. Three of the difficulties involved in the pursuit of jealousy are: the complex nature of jealousy, the significant role jealousy plays in interpersonal relationships, and the labyrinth encountered when trying to distinguish between jealousy and envy. The most common questions asked about jealousy are: What is jealousy? and, How can jealousy be helped? This paper will focus on the question: What is jealousy? Specifically, the following questions will be answered. …

A Linguistic Approach To Gender Bias In Student Evaluations Of Teachers, Paula H. Larsen

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

Few people would deny that discrimination occurs in American society today. In spite of extensive national and local legislation intended to safeguard the rights of every individual, discrimination still exists although, of necessity, it is more insidious, often to the point of invisibility to all but those directly affected by it. Many groups of people experience discrimination in their everyday lives--Blacks, Hispanics, Vietnamese, physically handicapped persons, and the elderly--to name just a few. Another segment of our society, women, also experience discrimination.

Three Motifs In Christina Rossetti's Poetry, Mona Mohamed Safwat Abd El-Magied Gado

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Coordination And Subordination Of Clauses In The English Writing Of Native Arabic-Speaking Efl Students, John Maclean

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Ayn Rand, Female Misogynist: A Study Of Androgyny In Atlas Shrugged, Sara Kristin Parker

Theses & Honors Papers

Ayn Rand, renowned author of such titles as Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, based many of her heroines on her androgynist views derived from her upbringing and lifestyle. Parker balances her research mostly between Rand’s life and her female protagonist in Atlas Shrugged, Dagny Taggart. Taggart possesses some disdain for a few female characters in the novel, which reflects some of Rand’s lack of female friends due to anti-feministic opinions, the most notable identifying her own sex as weak and submissive. Ayn herself said that she based all of her characters off of a male hero in a children’s …

A Collection Of Short Stories, Charlotte Miller

Honors Theses

Syncopation; The Color of Massasaguas; Minnows' Inlet; A Seahorse Made of Wire; Cleaning; A Concert in Autumn

Classifying Gilbert And Sullivan, Joshua Rutsky

Honors Papers

The musical comedienne Anna Russell once said that it seemed to her that everywhere she was traveling, there was always someone in the process of staging a Gilbert and Sullivan opera. While she was joking, her claim is not that far from the truth. Until the D'Oyly Carte Company ceased its operation in February 1982, due to termination of its government funding, a professional company devoted solely to producing these shows existed in England. In the United States, amateur Gilbert and Sullivan societies abound; even at Oberlin College, Gilbert and Sullivan operas have been presented nearly every year for a …

Fresh Woods, And Pastures New: Chorography, Cartography And The Puritan Perspective In "Lycidas", Laura Nilges-Matias

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Revolution And Romance: Politics, Opera And Nineteenth Century Historical Fiction, Timothy O. Gray

Dissertations

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Theodore Parker's Man-Making Strategy: A Study Of His Professional Ministry In Selected Sermons, John Patrick Fitzgibbons

Dissertations

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"As If I Could Do Anything Except Just Sit And Stare": A Gaze Of A Viewer/Reader In Psycho And To The Lighthouse, Stephanie Hunt Hegstad

Honors Papers

At the end of Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho, the figure of Norman Bates (or maybe the figure of his mother--at this point, the distinction is fogged) hugs a blanket around him as he sits in his prison cell, staring, perfectly still except for the movements of his eyes, the expressions on his face, the slight movement of his head. He stares directly at the camera, the audience, while the phantom voice of Mother explains her trouble with her son ("he was always--bad"). The camera does not shift angles during this scene to relieve us of this penetrating gaze, but …

Spaces Between: Towards Depolarized Readings Of Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl, Bethany Suzanne Schneider

Honors Papers

Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl is a text which, written in a culture divided between polarities of race and gender, has continued in the 130 years of its reception to traverse a landscape of mutably yet continually divided racisms and sexisms, changeably yet continually cloven raced and gendered identities. The text itself, due to the legally and socially constructed polar ontologies of race and gender in 19th century America, is tom between what can be said and what can't, what is true and what is false, what is black and what is white. The "tears" …

Say What I Mean: Metaphor And The Exeter Book Riddles, Sarah L. Thomson

Honors Papers

The Exeter Book riddles are a heterogeneous collection, and at first glance it seems they have little III common beyond the riddle format and the final teasing challenge, "Say what I mean," or "Say what I am." The riddles range in length from a few lines to over a hundred, in tone from the religious to the mundane to the obscene; their subjects can be as specific as a butter churn or as broad as creation itself. One crucial similarity, however, does unify the riddles: all (well, almost all) are built around underlying, unstated metaphors. These metaphors-- such as a …

The Comic Form: Critical And Creative Peeks At An Important Yet Underappreciated Art, Philip R. Simon

Honors Theses

No abstract provided.

Visionaries Of The American West : Mari Sandoz And Her Four Plains Protagonists, Lisa R. Lindell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The authorial reputation of Mari Sandoz has long rested in the shadow of other writers of her era. First of all, Sandoz wrote from and about a relatively remote region of the United States. In addition, she firmly refused to produce popular works at the expense of sacrificing the truth she perceived and wished to express. Consequently, Sandoz has often been classified as a regional writer and her works have been overlooked by many readers and critics. Her status as a woman, her unconventional writing style, point of view, and subject matter, and the blending of historical and fictional elements …

A Distorting Mirror: "Wide Sargasso Sea" And "Jane Eyre", Laura Ellen Morey

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

The Muses And Creative Inspiration: Homer To Milton, Kathleen Potthoff Mchugh

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Tracing the influences and references to the Muses in written language from Ancient Greece through the end of the English Renaissance, I discover transformations and revivals in their usage. There are shifts from dependence on deified inspiration to the development of personal insight. Also, there appears to be a conscious substituting of the Muses with the beloved and Cupid or Apollo. But the Muses' religious significance returns in Paradise Lost.

The first part of this thesis focuses on the early Greek writers: Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, Plato, and the Latin writers: Ovid, Virgil, Boethius. The second part addresses the English poetic …

The Trials Of Creativity: A Rhetorical Analysis Of A View From The Bridge And The Crucible By Arthur Miller, Edward Hal Garnett

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Virginia Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway": Interpretation, Knowledge And Power, L. Monique Pittman

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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"A Girl Such As I Am": A Study Of Women In Anthony Trollope's Palliser Series, Catherine Ann Renko

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.