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My Child And My Life: Sacrificial Obligation And Chaucer
(English, 2011-07-14)
Medieval literature demonstrates that Christians of that era took their Bible seriously, particularly the Old Testament account of Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac. For them, the story was both fascinating and perplexing. Not ...
Imagining Judith: An Examination Of Judith's Representation In The Middle English Metrical Paraphrase Of The Old Testament
(English, 2012-04-20)
The poet-paraphraser of The Middle English Metrical Paraphrase of the Old Testament (MEMPOT) imagines Judith and other women biblical characters as courtly ladies, whose performance and dress reflect the values and customs ...
No Longer Estranged: Women, Science, Science Fiction
(English, 2014-03-10)
Feminist science fiction (SF) and feminist science studies share common concerns--the gendered perception of science and women's place in the sciences among them--but the two fields are rarely considered together. This ...
Mapping Men: Toward A Theory Of Material Masculinity
(English, 2013-07-22)
This project interrogates the possibilities of material gender theory as an interdisciplinary bridge between critical theory—like gender studies and eco–criticism—and soft–scientific men's studies. The primary theoretical ...
Kairos, Nomos, New Media: Paradox As A Reservoir For Invention
(English, 2007-08-23)
In the wake of the so-called "social turn" in writing studies, the scholarship of invention has enjoyed renewed interest. This dissertation is primarily concerned with invigorating the research of invention by turning ...
Selected Correspondence From The Horton Foote Collection, 1912-1991
(English, 2008-09-17)
This dissertation includes a discussion of archival research and editorial procedures employed in the study, introductory essays on the private correspondence of the family of Horton Foote, and transcriptions of one hundred ...
Misreading Justice: The Rhetoric Of Revenge In Feminist Texts About Domestic Violence
(English, 2008-08-08)
Feminist legal theories of battering homicides pose a challenge to feminist critics of American literature. Legal theorists argue that many women who are tried for killing their abusive partners should be acquitted on the ...
Teilhard De Chardin's View Of Diminishment And The Late Stories Of Flannery O'connor
(English, 2007-08-23)
ABSTRACT
Scholars have used different approaches to study and interpret the work of Flannery O'Connor; those approaches have ranged from Feminism to New Criticism to religious (Christian and non-Christian) to ...
Embodied Climate Change: Materiality, Language, Mediation, And The Legitimation Of The Unintelligible
“Embodied Climate Change: Materiality, Language, Mediation and the Legitimation of the Unintelligible” examines the intersections of language, technology, and the human and nonhuman worlds through the example of climate ...
Toward A Theory Of Narrative Rhetoric
(English, 2012-07-25)
This dissertation suggests that the question of whether or not America should employ torture as a means of fighting a post-9/11 War on Terror was not so much debated as it was asserted (in the affirmative) by the presidential ...