Browsing PhD Dissertations - DO NOT EDIT by Author "Gustafson, Kevin"
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Envisioning A Postfeminist Composition Studies
Miles, Melissa (English, 12-14-2012)We must look at the changing sociological conditions that challenge many of the foundations of composition studies in order to develop the discipline. Although postfeminism is evident within academic and popular culture, ... -
From Eve To Eve: Women's Dreaming In The Middle Ages And Renaissance
Dark, Rebecca (English, 2011-03-03)This project examines reports of the dreams of women in fictionalized as well as historical, biographical, and hagiographical accounts from the English Middle Ages and Renaissance. Because an unstable body/spirit dualism ... -
Imagining Judith: An Examination Of Judith's Representation In The Middle English Metrical Paraphrase Of The Old Testament
Vaughn, Terri (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 ... -
Liquid Assets: The Functions Of Forgetting In Shakespeare's Second Henriad
Dunn, Jonni Koonce (English, 2013-03-20)This dissertation examines Shakespeare's second historical tetralogy in which the playwright employs forgetfulness despite its pathologized position in early modern culture and its seeming incompatibility with history. In ... -
Masculinity and Chivalry: The Tenuous Relationship of the Sacred and Secular in Medieval Arthurian Literature
McCourt, Kaci (2018-08-13)Concepts of masculinity and chivalry in the medieval period were socially constructed, within both the sacred and the secular realms. The different meanings of these concepts were not always easily compatible, causing ... -
My Child And My Life: Sacrificial Obligation And Chaucer
Montano, Gary Scott (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 ... -
(Re)using Women: The Image Debate In Early Modern Allegory
Hubnik, Sandi J. (English, 2010-07-19)This project is concerned with how, during the reign of Elizabeth I, early modern writers use the representations of certain allegorical women characters to discuss the issues central to the image debate and the need for ...