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Writing For A “High Purpose”: Examining Charles Chesnutt’S Antiracist Manipulation Of Genre And Language In The Conjure Woman, Sheniah Lanier Jan 2023

Writing For A “High Purpose”: Examining Charles Chesnutt’S Antiracist Manipulation Of Genre And Language In The Conjure Woman, Sheniah Lanier

Masters Essays

No abstract provided.


Angelic And Demonic Womanhood: The Provocative Power Of Convergent Identities In Dickens And Eliot, Mackenzie Clinger Jan 2022

Angelic And Demonic Womanhood: The Provocative Power Of Convergent Identities In Dickens And Eliot, Mackenzie Clinger

Masters Essays

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Debating Birds Upend The Hierarchy Of Nature In The Owl And The Nightingale And The Parliament Of Fowls, Caragh Vasko Jan 2021

Debating Birds Upend The Hierarchy Of Nature In The Owl And The Nightingale And The Parliament Of Fowls, Caragh Vasko

Masters Essays

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Into The Woods And Out Of The Woods And Home Before Dark: Beowulf, Sir Gawain And The Green Knight, And The Role Of The Monstrous Intruder In Upsetting Social Structures, Ellen Ulinski Jan 2021

Into The Woods And Out Of The Woods And Home Before Dark: Beowulf, Sir Gawain And The Green Knight, And The Role Of The Monstrous Intruder In Upsetting Social Structures, Ellen Ulinski

Masters Essays

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Reimagining Reflection In First-Year Composition: A Freirean-Jesuit Perspective, Adrianna Deptula Apr 2020

Reimagining Reflection In First-Year Composition: A Freirean-Jesuit Perspective, Adrianna Deptula

Masters Essays

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Ignoring The Harlem Renaissance: The Failure Of Modernist Scholarship, Emily Elvoid Jan 2020

Ignoring The Harlem Renaissance: The Failure Of Modernist Scholarship, Emily Elvoid

Masters Essays

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The Squeaky Wheel Gets The Grease: Ap Students Ask For More Critical Reading And Writing And Less Test Preparation, Heidi S. Lateulere Jan 2020

The Squeaky Wheel Gets The Grease: Ap Students Ask For More Critical Reading And Writing And Less Test Preparation, Heidi S. Lateulere

Masters Essays

No abstract provided.


Yesterday’S Darkness: Spenser, Conrad, And Empire, Marten Frazier Apr 2019

Yesterday’S Darkness: Spenser, Conrad, And Empire, Marten Frazier

Masters Essays

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“All I Wanted To Know Was How To Live In It”: Rituals And The Quest For Meaning In Hemingway And Faulkner, Marissa Ortosky Apr 2019

“All I Wanted To Know Was How To Live In It”: Rituals And The Quest For Meaning In Hemingway And Faulkner, Marissa Ortosky

Masters Essays

No abstract provided.


Flappers And Gibson Girls: Faulkner’S Perspective On The Feminine Ideal, Rachel Schratz Apr 2019

Flappers And Gibson Girls: Faulkner’S Perspective On The Feminine Ideal, Rachel Schratz

Masters Essays

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“A Secret Place Above The Trees”: Keatsian Imagination In Fitzgerald’S The Great Gatsby, Kate Lisowski Jan 2019

“A Secret Place Above The Trees”: Keatsian Imagination In Fitzgerald’S The Great Gatsby, Kate Lisowski

Masters Essays

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J.M. Coetzee And Literary Paternity: The Father In The Work Of Writing, Joshua Kesterson Apr 2018

J.M. Coetzee And Literary Paternity: The Father In The Work Of Writing, Joshua Kesterson

Masters Essays

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A Lifetime Of Suffering And Survival: Eugene O’Neill And The Progressive Symbol Of Fog, Kelsey Shewbridge Apr 2018

A Lifetime Of Suffering And Survival: Eugene O’Neill And The Progressive Symbol Of Fog, Kelsey Shewbridge

Masters Essays

No abstract provided.


J.M. Coetzee’S Hall Of Mirrors: Elizabeth Costello And The Animal-Poet, Alec Ciferno Apr 2018

J.M. Coetzee’S Hall Of Mirrors: Elizabeth Costello And The Animal-Poet, Alec Ciferno

Masters Essays

No abstract provided.


“That Noble Northern Spirit”: J.R.R. Tolkien, The Great War, And The Germanic Heroic Tradition, Gregory L. Rabbitt Apr 2018

“That Noble Northern Spirit”: J.R.R. Tolkien, The Great War, And The Germanic Heroic Tradition, Gregory L. Rabbitt

Masters Essays

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Anxiety At John Carroll: Why Developmental Writers Avoid The Writing Center, Emily Tomusko Apr 2018

Anxiety At John Carroll: Why Developmental Writers Avoid The Writing Center, Emily Tomusko

Masters Essays

This paper describes the underlying issues and attempts to offer a possible remedy John Carroll University’s developmental writing students’ lack of engagement with the campus Writing Center. While developmental writing students across the United States visit their respective writing centers frequently, these students at JCU do not visit at the same pace. In this project, I draw from class surveys of student writers, from class visits, and from tracking student consultations at the Writing Center to learn why developmental writers do not visit as often as their EN 125 counterparts. In doing so, I argue that JCU’s developmental writing students …


Touched By Love: Florence As Christ-Figure In Dombey And Son, Sarah Flenniken Apr 2017

Touched By Love: Florence As Christ-Figure In Dombey And Son, Sarah Flenniken

Masters Essays

No abstract provided.


Comparing Two Christian Sermons: Morrison’S Song Of Solomon And Beloved, Christopher Connell Apr 2017

Comparing Two Christian Sermons: Morrison’S Song Of Solomon And Beloved, Christopher Connell

Masters Essays

No abstract provided.


Uncovering The Gothic In Chuck Palahniuk's "Inclinations", Emily M.M. Rogers Apr 2017

Uncovering The Gothic In Chuck Palahniuk's "Inclinations", Emily M.M. Rogers

Masters Essays

No abstract provided.


Aubrey’S Fragile Psyche And The Signal Of The Real: A Lacanian Analysis Of John William Polidori’S “The Vampyre”, Melissa Powell Jul 2016

Aubrey’S Fragile Psyche And The Signal Of The Real: A Lacanian Analysis Of John William Polidori’S “The Vampyre”, Melissa Powell

Masters Essays

No abstract provided.


Shadows Of Empire: The Displaced New World Of Antony And Cleopatra, Christopher Kane Jul 2016

Shadows Of Empire: The Displaced New World Of Antony And Cleopatra, Christopher Kane

Masters Essays

No abstract provided.


The Shadow Of The War: Postwar Destabilization, Nostalgia, And Fragile Truth In The Works Of A. A. Milne, Sarah E. Johnson Labarbera Apr 2016

The Shadow Of The War: Postwar Destabilization, Nostalgia, And Fragile Truth In The Works Of A. A. Milne, Sarah E. Johnson Labarbera

Masters Essays

No abstract provided.


A Rhetoric Of Suicide: Audience And The Confessional Poetry Of Anne Sexton And Sylvia Plath, Deirdre Byrne Apr 2016

A Rhetoric Of Suicide: Audience And The Confessional Poetry Of Anne Sexton And Sylvia Plath, Deirdre Byrne

Masters Essays

No abstract provided.


The Making Of The Effeminate Male: New York Society’S Influence On Newland Archer, Sean Kirby Apr 2016

The Making Of The Effeminate Male: New York Society’S Influence On Newland Archer, Sean Kirby

Masters Essays

No abstract provided.


Understanding The Human Experience Through Short Story: A Comparative Analysis Of Four Stories From James Joyce’S Dubliners And George Saunders’ Tenth Of December, Patrick Gallagher Jul 2015

Understanding The Human Experience Through Short Story: A Comparative Analysis Of Four Stories From James Joyce’S Dubliners And George Saunders’ Tenth Of December, Patrick Gallagher

Masters Essays

No abstract provided.


Transatlantic And The Invention Of Wings: Historiographic Metafiction In Contemporary Novels And The Importance Of Intersectionality On The Journey To Self-Knowledge, Samantha Rump Jul 2015

Transatlantic And The Invention Of Wings: Historiographic Metafiction In Contemporary Novels And The Importance Of Intersectionality On The Journey To Self-Knowledge, Samantha Rump

Masters Essays

No abstract provided.


The Deconstruction Of (Para)Text In Alasdair Gray’S Poor Things, Lila Ibrahim Apr 2015

The Deconstruction Of (Para)Text In Alasdair Gray’S Poor Things, Lila Ibrahim

Masters Essays

No abstract provided.


“If That Diamond Ring Don’T Shine”: Models Of Consumerism, The Cultural Dialectic, And The Imperialist Economy Of George Eliot’S England In Daniel Deronda, Renee F. Berkheimer Apr 2015

“If That Diamond Ring Don’T Shine”: Models Of Consumerism, The Cultural Dialectic, And The Imperialist Economy Of George Eliot’S England In Daniel Deronda, Renee F. Berkheimer

Masters Essays

No abstract provided.


Bringing Survivor Discourse Into The Dominant Discourse, Erin R. Kelley Apr 2015

Bringing Survivor Discourse Into The Dominant Discourse, Erin R. Kelley

Masters Essays

No abstract provided.


Subversion In Sand And Ink: A Study Of The Old English Life Of St. Mary Of Egypt, Darcy Egan Apr 2015

Subversion In Sand And Ink: A Study Of The Old English Life Of St. Mary Of Egypt, Darcy Egan

Masters Essays

No abstract provided.