Browsing MA Theses - DO NOT EDIT by Author "Gustafson, Kevin"
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Chaucer's De-colonized Custance
Sachs, Rod S. (English, 2014-07-14)Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale (MLT) contains several non-Western views, religious practices, cultures and laws. Most importantly, within the MLT readers can discover an alternative to viewing non-Western people as enemies. ... -
Cracked Foundations: St. Antony, Textual Production, And Genre
Rogers, William Auther (English, 2008-09-17)St. Antony is a saint who defies description. The foundational text about Antony--Athanasius' Life of Antony--is a text that introduces many of the paradigmatic elements of the hagiographic genre yet actually subverts ... -
The Development Of Rhetorical Satire In Humanist Literature: Erasmus' The Praise Of Folly And More's Utopia
Story, Luke (English, 2012-07-25)This thesis explores how early Renaissance humanists developed an effective rhetorical satire to combat the follies, injustices, and inequalities that afflicted the European population in the late Middle Ages, particularly ... -
Hold Your Tongue: Female Speech And Male Anxieties In Early Modern England
Lanzisero, Lindsey Nicole (English, 2007-08-23)For early Modern England, containing female speech was essential to maintaining order. Through their speech, women could raise questions about and subvert patriarchal power. The frequency of this trope shows that there ... -
Opinions In Context: Reconsidering Endoxa In Aristotle's On Rhetoric
Simpler, Kyle (English, 2009-09-16)In On Rhetoric, Aristotle describes rhetoric as an ability of seeing the available means of persuasion. Rather than suggesting that rhetoric is persuasive discourse, Aristotle presents it as a skill one utilizes to assess ... -
'Schyre Leuez' And Cesspits: An Ecocritical Reading Of Land Use And Apocalypse In Cleanness
Jaynes, KatelynThis thesis examines land use and apocalypse in Cleanness in order to investigate how land use participates in the construction of medieval social and political systems and how the apocalyptic destruction the land acts ...