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The Feminine Alternative: Men And Women In Modernist European Literature
(English, 2013-07-22)
My work examines four seminal pieces of modernist European literature: Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Gide's The Immoralist, and Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. I show two aspects of gender ...
Blood Path: An Original Screenplay Based On The Life And Works Of John Rollin Ridge
(English, 2013-03-20)
Blood Path is an original, feature-length screenplay based on the life of John Rollin Ridge (1827-1867), a mixed-blood Cherokee whose work of sensational fiction, The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta, is considered ...
"The Best And The Brightest:" The Overachievement Rhetoric During America's Polio Epidemics
(English, 2013-03-20)
In 1985, Dr. Richard Bruno, a post polio syndrome specialist, conducted a study on the personality traits of polio survivors, ultimately concluding that polio survivors have a significantly higher incidence of reporting ...
A Graduate English Major's Search For Meaning: Toward A Pedagogy Of Creative Rhetoric
(English, 2013-03-20)
Building upon recent work by Gerald Graff, Tim Mayers, Douglas Hesse, and Graeme Harper and Jeri Kroll, I propose a pedagogical approach that integrates creative writing with rhetoric, much as the emerging "creative writing ...
Perceptions Of Subversion: The Formation Of A Pop-subculture
(English, 2013-07-22)
This project seeks to examine the emerging cultural significance of the modern hipster and determine their contribution to the greater discourse of counter-cultural formations of subversion and identity. Hipsters are ...
No Utopia Is An Island: The Ecosystem Of Utopias In Paul Mcauley's Quiet War Saga
(English, 2013-03-20)
In this thesis, I argue that a new, ambitious variety of literary utopia, which I call an ecosystem utopia, has developed over the past forty years, chiefly in science fiction and fantasy. My primary examples are Paul ...