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The Enduring Austen Heroine: Self-Awareness And Moral Maturity In Jane Austen's Emma And In Modern Austen Fan-Fiction, Brittany A. Meng
The Enduring Austen Heroine: Self-Awareness And Moral Maturity In Jane Austen's Emma And In Modern Austen Fan-Fiction, Brittany A. Meng
Masters Theses
Jane Austen's novels continue to be popular in the twenty-first century because her heroines are both delightful and instructive; they can be viewed as role models of personal growth due to their honest self-examination and commitment to high moral standards. Chapter one establishes the patterns of personal growth that uniquely characterizes Austen's heroines in each of her six novels. Chapter two tests these conclusions by carefully examining the character of Emma Woodhouse. Though Emma is a unique heroine due to her wealth and social privileges, she follows the principles of personal growth possessed by Austen's other heroines. Chapter three further …
Hallo, Welt! Adolescent Angst Und Das Erwachsenwerden In Marisha Pessls Special Topics In Calamity Physics Und Zoe Jennys Das Blütenstaubzimmer, Franziska Ludemann
Hallo, Welt! Adolescent Angst Und Das Erwachsenwerden In Marisha Pessls Special Topics In Calamity Physics Und Zoe Jennys Das Blütenstaubzimmer, Franziska Ludemann
Masters Theses
Special Topics in Calamity Physics (2006) by Marisha Pessl and Das Blütenstaubzimmer (1997) by Zoё Jenny both feature strong female characters who go through difficult times because they experience genuine disillusionment with regard to their friends, the opposite sex, and, especially, their family.
The focus of this thesis was to analyze if the authors depict their characters in such a way that one can see correlations between the emotional behavior of these characters and a phenomenon that is often referred to as adolescent angst. The theoretical foundation for defining adolescent angst and for understanding mechanisms that trigger adolescent angst was …
Uncelebrated Stylists: Wyndham Lewis, Ford Madox Ford, And The Artist As Masochist, Chase Morgan Erwin
Uncelebrated Stylists: Wyndham Lewis, Ford Madox Ford, And The Artist As Masochist, Chase Morgan Erwin
Masters Theses
This study presents an attempt to understand the political and aesthetic relationship between two of Modernism’s most enigmatic authors, Wyndham Lewis and Ford Madox Ford by examining their novelistic practice in light of their writings on politics and social criticism. A close look at the use of ironic distance, a hallmark feature in our understanding of modernist fiction, in Tarr (1918) and The Good Soldier (1915) reveals both authors conscious effort to distance themselves from their novel’s subjects, Fredric Tarr and John Dowell respectively. In light of both novels’ satirical element, a scathing attack on bourgeois narcissism caused by the …
Apt Renderings And Ingenious Designs: Eavan Boland's New Maps Of Ireland, Rebecca Elizabeth Helton
Apt Renderings And Ingenious Designs: Eavan Boland's New Maps Of Ireland, Rebecca Elizabeth Helton
Masters Theses
Although many critics, and Eavan Boland herself, have written about how her poetry functions to reclaim the Irish feminine image from its static position as lyric representation of the nation, much remains to be said about how Boland represents and reimagines Ireland in her poetry. Using the metaphor of cartography, which Boland frequently refers to in her writing, I argue that she lyrically "maps" the nation across space, time, and language. Her palimpsestic poetic maps of Ireland include what a mere pictorial representation could never, and what prior male-written poetry never did, show: the space of a Dublin suburb, the …
Ragdoll, George Jarrard Pate
Ragdoll, George Jarrard Pate
Masters Theses
Ragdoll is a play in two acts telling the story of Jeff Stiles and his children, Annie and Andy. Jeff’s wife is a life-sized rag doll, and Annie and Andy have both human and doll parts to their physiology. Much of the play revolves around Andy and Jeff’s debate over the nature of their family’s existence.
Toward A Material History Of Epic Poetry, John Paul Hampstead
Toward A Material History Of Epic Poetry, John Paul Hampstead
Masters Theses
Literary histories of specific genres like tragedy or epic typically concern themselves with influence and deviation, tradition and innovation, the genealogical links between authors and the forms they make. Renaissance scholarship is particularly suited to these accounts of generic evolution; we read of the afterlife of Senecan tragedy in English drama, or of the respective influence of Virgil and Lucan on Renaissance epic. My study of epic poetry differs, though: by insisting on the primacy of material conditions, social organization and especially information technology to the production of literature, I present a discontinuous series of set pieces in which any …
Snaps Of Eden, Michael J. Hudson
Snaps Of Eden, Michael J. Hudson
Masters Theses
The following poems are and attempt at reclamation and reconciliation. The first section wades through the delicate subject of personal history and is an attempt to show truth as a means of both self and communal healing. The second is plaintive, a brief effort to interlope into and understand worlds outside (but not foreign) to my own. The third is a poetic essay detailing the journey of a young woman facing the horrors of an undeclared, and seemingly eternal war. The fourth and final sections serve as a means of exploration of the self and place; tackling issues of sex, …
Live Ghosts, Patricia Anne Ireland
Live Ghosts, Patricia Anne Ireland
Masters Theses
In Live Ghosts, Patricia (Patty) Ireland offers a gathering of short stories based upon real life characters she encountered while growing up in the South. Exploring the diversity, complexity and moral ambiguity of those we might normally perceive as being stereotypically “Southern,” Ireland’s tales encompass a variety of time periods, settings, and characters, including: a modern-day family struggling to reconcile the reality of death, interracial lovers in the early 1950’s who are descended from masters and slaves, and an insane killer locked for life in a mental institution of the 1990’s. Live Ghosts is infused with tales of fear, love, …
Witness, Rebecca Warren
Witness, Rebecca Warren
Masters Theses
The “Red Book” section of this work collects poems written with dream material. The “Couplings” poems investigate the mechanical and sexual implications of “coupling.” What is witnessed and how are the concerns of the poems in “Witness.”
Bharati Mukherjee And The American Immigrant: Reimaging The Nation In A Global Context, Leah Rang
Bharati Mukherjee And The American Immigrant: Reimaging The Nation In A Global Context, Leah Rang
Masters Theses
With its focus on immigration to the United States and development of American identity, Bharati Mukherjee’s fiction eludes literary categorization. It engages with the various contexts of multiculturalism, postcolonialism, and globalization, yet Mukherjee adamantly positions herself as an American author writing American literature. In this essay, I investigate the intersections between Mukherjee’s focus on the American character, culture, and people and developing theories and critical debates on globalization. Through Mukherjee’s works, we can see American identity in a state of flux, made possible by the immigrant and the relationships established between the transnational individual and America. Mukherjee’s immigrant characters challenge …
Hues, Tresses, And Dresses: Examining The Relation Of Body Image, Hair, And Clothes To Female Identity In Their Eyes Were Watching God And I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Alisha Priolo Castaneda
Hues, Tresses, And Dresses: Examining The Relation Of Body Image, Hair, And Clothes To Female Identity In Their Eyes Were Watching God And I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Alisha Priolo Castaneda
Masters Theses
Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings convey powerful relations between body image, hair, and clothes. Because a proper understanding of the theory of womanism provides a basis for comprehending the African American female's relation to herself and the world around her, a working definition and description of the term and its general significance to African American critical theory is provided in chapter two. The third chapter focuses on the general topic of body image in relation to black female identity and includes a more specific analysis of the …
Performance, Spectacle, Text: The Court Masques Of Samuel Daniel, Donica Martin Miller
Performance, Spectacle, Text: The Court Masques Of Samuel Daniel, Donica Martin Miller
Masters Theses
No abstract provided.
William Harper: A Story, J.T. Dawson
Frederick Douglass: The Man, His Words And His Legacy As A Master Rhetorician, Tameka Lashean Johnson
Frederick Douglass: The Man, His Words And His Legacy As A Master Rhetorician, Tameka Lashean Johnson
Masters Theses
No abstract provided.
Rhetorical Grammar And You: A Study Of First-Year Composition Papers, Kristi Mcduffie
Rhetorical Grammar And You: A Study Of First-Year Composition Papers, Kristi Mcduffie
Masters Theses
No abstract provided.
It's Not Catharsis, It's Cognition: A New Approach To Emotion In Composition, Caronia (Nia) Klein
It's Not Catharsis, It's Cognition: A New Approach To Emotion In Composition, Caronia (Nia) Klein
Masters Theses
No abstract provided.
An Economic Model Of Literary Studies, Devin Charles Black
An Economic Model Of Literary Studies, Devin Charles Black
Masters Theses
No abstract provided.
Monstrous Transformations: Loyalty And Community In Four Medieval Poems, Mary Lieske
Monstrous Transformations: Loyalty And Community In Four Medieval Poems, Mary Lieske
Masters Theses
No abstract provided.
A Teller Of Tales: Narratology And The Works Of Sherwood Anderson, Jamie Patton
A Teller Of Tales: Narratology And The Works Of Sherwood Anderson, Jamie Patton
Masters Theses
No abstract provided.
Marketing Campaign For Soup Stop, Nfp, Inc., Chelsea M. Mcbride
Marketing Campaign For Soup Stop, Nfp, Inc., Chelsea M. Mcbride
Masters Theses
No abstract provided.
You're Not Really Black Unless You've Been Shot-- Or So Says Black Urban Fiction, Erin A. Talley
You're Not Really Black Unless You've Been Shot-- Or So Says Black Urban Fiction, Erin A. Talley
Masters Theses
No abstract provided.
Going Home, Glen Davis
Strings, Willie J. Morris
Genre Awareness In The Writing Center, Ashok Bhusal
Genre Awareness In The Writing Center, Ashok Bhusal
Masters Theses
No abstract provided.
Wordsworth, Emerson, And The "Art Of Loss", Nicholas M. Shaner
Wordsworth, Emerson, And The "Art Of Loss", Nicholas M. Shaner
Masters Theses
No abstract provided.
In The Cold, Quiet Dark, Chris Ludwig
Invisible, Not Invincible: A Fiction And Memoir Thesis On Domestic Abuse, Jennifer Kaylynn O'Neil
Invisible, Not Invincible: A Fiction And Memoir Thesis On Domestic Abuse, Jennifer Kaylynn O'Neil
Masters Theses
No abstract provided.