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San Francesco D'Assisi E Santa Caterina Da Siena. La Loro Influenza Sulla Letteratura, La Cultura, La Religione E L'Arte Italiana Dei Primordi, Ann-Frances Hamill
San Francesco D'Assisi E Santa Caterina Da Siena. La Loro Influenza Sulla Letteratura, La Cultura, La Religione E L'Arte Italiana Dei Primordi, Ann-Frances Hamill
Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview
Examines the works and thoughts of two Italian saints: Saint Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) and Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380). Explores the common ideological denominator in the works of these major figures and analyzes their impact on Italian society and culture.
Strange Way Home, Seema Raju Mukhi
Strange Way Home, Seema Raju Mukhi
Theses
Set in India, this novel follows the narrator, sixteen-year-old Asha Mehtani, in her two-year struggle to decide between following tradition and following her own desires. Asha encounters an American teacher at her school who encourages her to read, to learn, and to follow her own path in life. But Asha¿s parents want her to get married right after she finishes high school, in an arranged marriage. By refusing to get married, Asha will damage her family¿s reputation and ruin her younger sister¿s chances of finding a good husband. Will Asha choose to follow her heart, to go to college and …
Andalusia, Julia Clare Peteet
Andalusia, Julia Clare Peteet
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
This is a creative thesis in the form of a screenplay titled “Andalusia” in which a woman, Katherine, searches for meaning in her life. After suffering through a childhood wrought with tragedy, disappointment, and chaos, Katherine strives to create a healthy reality in which she can thrive. After failing miserably at this once, she takes a different path and finds herself hidden away in her dead father’s house writing about the Mississippi Delta town of Andalusia.
Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall Of The House Of Usher: Bilingual Approaches, Michelle Johnston
Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall Of The House Of Usher: Bilingual Approaches, Michelle Johnston
Theses
This literature curriculum unit includes some implements the bilingual strategies (ASL and printed English) to teach deaf students about Poe's short story, "The Fall of the House of Usher." Throughout the curriculum, the students will read, analyze, and interpret the story in primary and secondary languages: ASL and printed English. The bilingual reading and writing processes require the students to read the story in printed English, discuss the literature elements of the story in ASL to decode, interpret and understand the literature elements of this story. The students will go through the writing process to write a h a 1 …
Metaphor Manifested: An Examination Of Metaphor In Katherine Mansfield, Kathleen E. Kotaska
Metaphor Manifested: An Examination Of Metaphor In Katherine Mansfield, Kathleen E. Kotaska
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
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Lvn: A Fiction, Jacqueline S. Gill
Lvn: A Fiction, Jacqueline S. Gill
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
This is a creative thesis, the first 87 pages of an original novel divided into 14 chapters. This story takes place along the Mexican-American border and has elements of humor, mystery, witchcraft, and murder. It is written in first person from the point of view of the main character, Matt. Matt's normal life begins to change when he becomes best friends with a flamboyantly gay hairdresser who introduces him to Celeste - a mother of four, Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN), and a self proclaimed witch. Celeste practices the dark side of the craft; and when she feels the need for …
The Fellowship Of The (Devil) Ring: Ethnographic Translation In The 2002 聯經 Edition Of Tolkien's The Fellowship Of The Ring, Matthew G. Wright
The Fellowship Of The (Devil) Ring: Ethnographic Translation In The 2002 聯經 Edition Of Tolkien's The Fellowship Of The Ring, Matthew G. Wright
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
A recent book written by Tom Standage pays homage to six drinks that helped shape the history of the world. Following his discussion of the first five drinks (beer, wine, spirits, coffee and tea), Standage concludes with what he calls, the drink of the twentieth century. "Coca-Cola encapsulates what happened in the 20th century: the rise of consumer capitalism and the emergence of America as a superpower. It's globalization in a bottle," Standage said in an interview with National Geographic News (Handwerk). Today Coca-cola is everywhere from Cuba to the Czech Republic (Standage even claims the drink is in more …
Isolation And Community In Short Story Collections By Z.Z. Packer, Jhumpa Lahiri, And Mary Gaitskill, Katy A. Howe
Isolation And Community In Short Story Collections By Z.Z. Packer, Jhumpa Lahiri, And Mary Gaitskill, Katy A. Howe
Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview
Looking at short story collections by Z.Z. Packer, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Mary Gaitskill, this work explores the protagonists' development of identity in relation to others. Using relational psychoanalysis as a theoretical base, this thesis probes the tension between involvement in community and maintaining individuality.
Waking Life, Dionne Irving
Waking Life, Dionne Irving
Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview
Collection of short fiction dealing with themes of isolation and self-discovery. Contents include: Waking Life, Rice and Peas, Weaving, and Collage.
Nature And Mystical Identity: Three Journeys To The Absolute, Mayada Mahmoud Al Shereef
Nature And Mystical Identity: Three Journeys To The Absolute, Mayada Mahmoud Al Shereef
Archived Theses and Dissertations
This thesis demonstrates three kinds of the Absolute and three different ways of approaching them. Farid Ud-Din Attar, Kate Chopin and Theodore Roethke take different roads to reach their Absolute. Similarities among the three works tackled in this thesis are represented by the role of nature in the spiritual journey to attain a mystical identity, and by having an ultimate goal of the journey called the "Absolute" . On the other hand, differences are represented by the different definitions of the Absolute that the three authors offer. This thesis also presents different notions like annihilation, unity and illumination that the …
Man Thinking About Nature: The Evolution Of The Poet's Form And Function In The Journal Of Henry David Thoreau 1837-1852, Sh Bagley
Honors Papers
The real question at hand with the study of any work of prose literature is not related at all to the textual contents-the who, the what and the how that comprise its narrative-but the why. The attempt to understand the reasons behind the events described is often undergone in conjunction with a degree of considering the author's own role or purpose in the given written endeavor. These considerations are framed in their relationship to the reader, forcing the reader to become an active participant in something which amounts to an interaction with a text. This three-step process is, at bottom, …
Rumor, Gender, And Authority In English Renaissance Drama, Keith M. Botelho
Rumor, Gender, And Authority In English Renaissance Drama, Keith M. Botelho
Doctoral Dissertations
The dramatic works of Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and Ben Jonson register a certain type of male character who is capable of discerning listening, an action that becomes an agent of specific masculine authority and identity. However, rumor's inherent ambiguity and indeterminacy poses the greatest threat to discerning listening. The paradox that emerges is that while the drama posits men as superior authors of information, it is men---and not women---who are responsible for the circulation of unauthorized information and rumor on the stage. Early modern literary and cultural discourses repeatedly pointed to the dangers of loose tongues and transgressive speech, …
Red Ink: Native Americans Picking Up The Pen In The Colonial Period, Drew Lopenzina
Red Ink: Native Americans Picking Up The Pen In The Colonial Period, Drew Lopenzina
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation looks at the ways that Native Americans appropriated alphabetic literacy for their own purposes in the colonial period. Studies of Native writing tend to begin with the Mohegan preacher Samson Occom whose A Sermon Preached by Samson Occom (1772) is the first known publication by a Native author on the North American continent. This work, however, locates Occom near the end of a series of earlier Native contacts with the written word, the fragments of which are scattered throughout the archive of the colonizer. While scholars have become largely familiarized with the representational modes in American literature that …
Literature Based Discovery: Techniques And Tools, Ramalakshmi Sundar
Literature Based Discovery: Techniques And Tools, Ramalakshmi Sundar
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
Literature Based Discovery (LBD) was initially proposed by Don R. Swanson in 1980 as a method to establish relationships between disease and remedy from disjoint science literature. Consequently, he established a link between magnesium and migraines. Since then literature based discovery has been a subject of research and development for discovery in online medical publications. It has further been investigated in both chemistry and mathematics; In this thesis, we give an overview of LBD and the software tools necessary to automate this technique. We further provide an implementation of this technique that is intended to be used for computer science …
Hesitant Bodies., Julie Homenuik
Hesitant Bodies., Julie Homenuik
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
many bodies strewn across these pages in various stages of desire. they are measured with the muscles beneath the skin. they are embedded with nervous anticipation. each poem is a negotiation of space anxious with desire. curved lines into sheets waiting to be touched.Dept. of English Language, Literature, and Creative Writing. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis2006 .H66. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-01, page: 0089. Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 2006.
Like Bone From Skin (Original Writing)., Jenny Sampirisi
Like Bone From Skin (Original Writing)., Jenny Sampirisi
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
In October 1983, 8-year-old Christine Jessop went missing from the tiny Ontario town of Queensville. The discovery of her body months later sparked one of Canada's most embarrassing murder investigations. Like Bone From Skin revisits Queensville in the days after Christine Jessop's disappearance and discovery, recreates the fixed image of death and public record, and focuses its lens on five fictional characters who face the challenge of looking at the events of their own lives while watching the death of a child unfold in their midst. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-01, page: 0080. Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 2006.
Seasons Of Salt, Teeth, And Plastic (Original Writing, Short Stories)., David Miller
Seasons Of Salt, Teeth, And Plastic (Original Writing, Short Stories)., David Miller
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Incorporating stories in the modes of realism, marvellous realism, and autobiography, Seasons of Salt, Teeth, and Plastic is a Petri dish for examining how realism can be, and often is, limited in short stories so that the story suggests, rather than represents, reality. Realism is limited for reasons of plot, coherent themes, and ease of reading, because true realism would be less coherent and less interesting. Despite this, each story in Seasons is realistic, employing strategies to suggest that the realism portrayed is less limited than it actually is. This balance between suggesting and limiting realism is a tool for …
In/Pulse (Original Writing, Poetry)., Jessica Raffoul
In/Pulse (Original Writing, Poetry)., Jessica Raffoul
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
in/pulse is a collection of poems written to the beat of the body a collection of poems that reclaim the body in/pulse is within the body Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-01, page: 0089. Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 2006.
No Resort (Original Writing, Novel)., David Drouin
No Resort (Original Writing, Novel)., David Drouin
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
When Jack travels to Mexico with his girlfriend, Lesley, he isn't expecting her to abandon him in a hotel room. This, however, forces him to begin living the trip he ignored and come to grips with the life and emotions he continuously tried to hide from. Along the way he meets a host of characters who will help lead him through a country, which seems alien according to his preconceptions of Mexico. Jack's journey to Mexico becomes more than a tourist romp and along the way he just might discover what it means to be a traveller. This novel is …
The Red Memory Of My Hand (Original Writing, Autobiography), Kendall Mcculloch
The Red Memory Of My Hand (Original Writing, Autobiography), Kendall Mcculloch
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This Creative Writing Project, The Red Memory of My Hand, is Part One of my autobiography and it explores the narrator's developing subjectivity in the context of a dysfunctional matriarchal family. I wrote this autobiography to seize my own power from my existing family structure. In breaking the taboo of silence around my family history and risking rejection by both my family and readers, I claim the right to my history and identity. I am declaring my own agency, my right to tell my story, in the transgressive act of writing The Red Memory of My Hand. As the title …
Attitudes Des Éducateurs Envers Le Français Et Le Créole: Le Cas D'Haïti, Lesly Jean-François
Attitudes Des Éducateurs Envers Le Français Et Le Créole: Le Cas D'Haïti, Lesly Jean-François
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Language attitudes represent a serious challenge for Haitian education policy makers. This research is the first attempt to study the attitudes of elementary school educators toward the linguistic situation in Haiti. A survey of 154 teachers addressed their attitudes toward language use, preference and choice, and their stereotypes toward other Haitian native speakers. Three instruments (quantitative questionnaire, Match-Guise-Technique, and qualitative questionnaire) were utilized and two Statistical Methods (descriptive and inference), along with Chi-Square were used in order to observe the significance of differences in independent variables. Since Haitian teachers who participated in this study were assumed bilingual, the questionnaire first …
Heroic Individualism: The Hero As Author In Democratic Culture, Alan I. Baily
Heroic Individualism: The Hero As Author In Democratic Culture, Alan I. Baily
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
My study focuses on the literature of democratic morality, with specific reference to the question of "heroic individualism." I attempt to elucidate the notion of heroic individualism by examining three modern democratic moralists whose work occupies the space between politics and literature: Jean Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Carlyle and Friedrich Nietzsche. In brief, I conclude that the central aspiration of heroic individualism is to bridge the gap between writing and action, the Text and the Voice. The dialogue among Rousseau, Carlyle, and Nietzsche reveals that the problem of writing as action is central to heroic-individualist morality. Each of these authors demonstrates …
From Below Table Mesa, Cynthia Grier Lotze
From Below Table Mesa, Cynthia Grier Lotze
Theses and Dissertations
I lived in Boulder, Colorado longenough, and I dreamed low-resolutiondreams, sharp only at eyes and slow movinghands.Kate's hair was a cloud of insurrectionon the tarmac, then I would watch the hoursmelt off the wings of her plane as eachstate became not-Tennessee, not-Kansas.I wanted to meet her in the air; Icould will this without a plane, with sadness,with need, I would enter the plane in flightand I would say, "Kate, take me home," and shewould turn the plane around. Everythingwould become not-Colorado, not thisstaticky dream, hard breath miles up from the sea.
Claiming Agency: Edith Wharton's Public And Private Spaces In "The House Of Mirth", Lauren Del Polito
Claiming Agency: Edith Wharton's Public And Private Spaces In "The House Of Mirth", Lauren Del Polito
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
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