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Run Me Dusk, Zane Truman Dezeeuw
Run Me Dusk, Zane Truman Dezeeuw
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
This is a full-length novel with a critical afterward. Run Me Dusk is a falling-out of love narrative about twenty-seven-year-old Milo who, after being broken up with by his boyfriend Red, flees from Illinois back to his hometown in southwestern Colorado to meditate on his place and purpose in life. The themes covered in this book are gay relationships, family relationships, mortality, and the natural world.
Strong Female Characters: Jane Austen's Vs. The Mashups', Rachel Mccoy
Strong Female Characters: Jane Austen's Vs. The Mashups', Rachel Mccoy
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
The comparison of Strong Female Characters in Jane Austen’s novels Pride & Prejudice and Sense & Sensibility, with the altered characters in the monster mashups by Seth Grahame-Smith and Ben Winters, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, respectively, reveals differences between the two society’s understanding and portrayal of strength and femininity. Because these texts are so closely connected – Austen is listed as a co-author of both mashups – the differences evident in the representations of women more clearly reveal the differing cultural values. Close textual analysis of the development of three primary female …