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Death In Paradise Lost
(English, 2009-09-16)
This thesis is an examination of the role that death plays in Paradise Lost. I argue that Milton's conception of death is a unified presentation of a complex but singular theological idea. My analysis examines the ways ...
"Is This Her Fault Or Mine?": An Examination Of The Overregulation Of Sexuality In Measure For Measure As An Argument Against Early Modern Anti-theatricalism
(English, 2007-08-23)
The early modern anti-theatricalist movement sought to permanently close the playhouses, arguing that theaters breed immorality through their association with prostitution and the female body. This thesis examines how ...
Language, Order And The Problem Of The Other: Inventing A Postmodern Service-learning Pedagogy
(English, 2013-03-20)
My dissertation argues for a different approach to implementing service-learning into composition pedagogy. I argue that because critical pedagogy has long been the primary vehicle for incorporating service-learning ...
Implicit Learning In The Remedial English Classroom: Steps Towards A Pedegogy Of Literacy
(English, 2012-07-25)
This paper discusses the dynamics of implicit learning in the Remedial English classroom. In order to elucidate the topic, the area of explicit learning is also covered. By tracing the history of implicit learning theoretically ...
Practical Magic: Magical Realism and the Possibilities of Representation in Twenty-First Century Fiction and Film
(2016-09-15)
Reflecting the paradoxical nature of its title, magical realism is a complicated term to define and to apply to works of art. Some writers and critics argue that classifying texts as magical realism essentializes and ...
Rethinking Resistance: Race, Gender, and Place in the Fictive and Real Geographies of the American West
(2016-05-10)
This project traces the history of the American West and its inhabitants through its literary, cinematic and cultural landscape, exploring the importance of public and private narratives of resistance, in their many ...
Strange and Unstable Bodies: Shifting Materialities in Early American Natural History Correspondence Networks
(2016-04-20)
This dissertation fills a gap in the study of early American natural history literature by investigating the representation of animal bodies within early American natural history writing and attending to the role animal ...
“THE GOD OF THE AGE”: RELIGION AND SERVITUDE IN THE WORKS OF AUGUSTA JANE EVANS
(2016-05-16)
Despite her widespread popularity in the mid-nineteenth century, Augusta Jane Evans and her novels went largely unnoticed for most of the twentieth century. It was not until Nina Baym included a chapter on Evans in her ...
Queering the Aftermath: Rethinking the Queer in Postcolonial and the (Post)colonial in Queer
(2016-05-13)
“Queering the Aftermath: Rethinking the Queer in Postcolonial and the (Post)colonial in Queer,” argues the necessity for a sustained dialogue between the fields of postcolonial studies and queer studies. The paucity of ...
Navigating Women's Cultural Representation Through Video Games in the Obama Era
(2016-12-20)
While the representations of women in video games have remained disappointingly negative since the 1980s, America’s political shift from the presidencies of George W. Bush to Barack Obama in 2007 had important cultural ...