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An Examination Of Principals In Effective High-Poverty Middle Schools With High Achievement, Rhonda J. Mull 2014 Indiana State University

An Examination Of Principals In Effective High-Poverty Middle Schools With High Achievement, Rhonda J. Mull

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Was Gawain A Gamer?, Gus Forester 2014 East Tennessee State University

Was Gawain A Gamer?, Gus Forester

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Describes a theory of gaming inspired primarily by Jean Baudrillard’s claim that gaming is characterized by a “passion for rules.” Key elements of the theory include that games are an attempt to create a new reality, that games create a space for individuality even in an otherwise homogenized world, and that pain and happiness are not diametrically opposed concepts to the gamer. The theory also emphasizes the importance of the player’s meeting with the “superplayer,” the player’s own constructed ideal that he tries to imitate within the game world. This theory of gaming is then applied to the 14th …


Culture In Crisis: The English Novel In The Late Twentieth Century, Michael F. Harper 2014 Scripps College

Culture In Crisis: The English Novel In The Late Twentieth Century, Michael F. Harper

Scripps Faculty Books

Culture in Crisis begins with political and social history at the moment of the election of Margaret Thatcher. Many saw in this event the dissolution of the ideal of the liberal State once believed to be shared by both the Left and the Right. Ranging widely over such writers as Anthony Powell, John LeCarre, Samuel Selvon, Salman Rushdie, and Margaret Drabble, Harper examines various responses to this “crisis” which he shows to have roots in a pernicious ideal of “Englishness” going back many generations. With considerable skill and a masterful grasp of books and ideas, he presents the novel as …


Extremes Of Gender And Power: Sycorax’S Absence In Shakespeare’S The Tempest, Brittney Blystone 2014 Northern Kentucky University

Extremes Of Gender And Power: Sycorax’S Absence In Shakespeare’S The Tempest, Brittney Blystone

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

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When Words Defile Things: Homoerotic Desire And Extreme Depictions Of Masculinity In Shakespeare’S Coriolanus And, Aaron Hubbard 2014 University of Akron

When Words Defile Things: Homoerotic Desire And Extreme Depictions Of Masculinity In Shakespeare’S Coriolanus And, Aaron Hubbard

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

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Jean-François Ducis: Re-Creating Shakespeare For An Eighteenth-Century Audience, Amy Drake 2014 Franklin University

Jean-François Ducis: Re-Creating Shakespeare For An Eighteenth-Century Audience, Amy Drake

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

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A Hot Mess: Knowing Juliet Through Accidental Encounters In Popular Culture, Kirk Hendershott-Kraetzer 2014 Olivet College

A Hot Mess: Knowing Juliet Through Accidental Encounters In Popular Culture, Kirk Hendershott-Kraetzer

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

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Helena And “The Rarest Argument Of Wonder”: All’S Well That Ends Well And The Romance Genre, Byron Nelson 2014 West Virginia University

Helena And “The Rarest Argument Of Wonder”: All’S Well That Ends Well And The Romance Genre, Byron Nelson

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


Front Matter, Hillary Nunn 2014 University of Akron Main Campus

Front Matter, Hillary Nunn

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


Lexical Dichotomy And Ethics In Macbeth, Lindsey Simon-Jones 2014 Pennsylvania State University, Fayette

Lexical Dichotomy And Ethics In Macbeth, Lindsey Simon-Jones

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


“How This World Is Given To Lying!”: Orson Welles’S Deconstruction Of Historiographies In Chimes At Midnight, Jeffrey Wayne Yeager 2014 West Virginia University

“How This World Is Given To Lying!”: Orson Welles’S Deconstruction Of Historiographies In Chimes At Midnight, Jeffrey Wayne Yeager

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


Tortured Calculations: Body Economies In Shakespeare’S Cultures Of Honor, Brandon E. Polite 2014 Knox College

Tortured Calculations: Body Economies In Shakespeare’S Cultures Of Honor, Brandon E. Polite

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


The Dangers Of Playing House: Celia's Subversive Role In As You Like It, Allison Grant 2014 University of Akron

The Dangers Of Playing House: Celia's Subversive Role In As You Like It, Allison Grant

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


“Much Virtue In If”: Ethics And Uncertainty In Hamlet And As You Like It, David Summers 2014 Capital University

“Much Virtue In If”: Ethics And Uncertainty In Hamlet And As You Like It, David Summers

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


Hamlet’S Hard-Boiled Ethics, James Lewin 2014 Shepherd University

Hamlet’S Hard-Boiled Ethics, James Lewin

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


Time Served In Prison Shakespeare, Niels Herold, Matt Wallace 2014 Oakland University

Time Served In Prison Shakespeare, Niels Herold, Matt Wallace

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


Front Matter, Hillary Nunn 2014 University of Akron Main Campus

Front Matter, Hillary Nunn

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


“We Know What We Are, But We Know Not What We May Be:” Marianne Faithfull, Ophelia And The Power Of Performance, Gabriel Rieger 2014 Concord University

“We Know What We Are, But We Know Not What We May Be:” Marianne Faithfull, Ophelia And The Power Of Performance, Gabriel Rieger

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


Hamlet: A Creature Swimming, Rachel Zlatkin 2014 Northern Kentucky University

Hamlet: A Creature Swimming, Rachel Zlatkin

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


Hamlet, 9/11, And Cultural Authority, James Lewin 2014 Shepherd University

Hamlet, 9/11, And Cultural Authority, James Lewin

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


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