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The American Tradition in Literature, 10th Ed., Volume 2
(McGraw Hill, 2002)
Lilith Rising: American Gothic Fiction And The Evolution Of The Female Hero In Sarah Wood's Julia And The Illuminated Baron, E.D.E.N. Southworth's The Hidden Hand, And Joss Whedon's Buffy The Vampire Slayer
(English, 2008-09-17)
The construction and gendered identity of the female hero has long been a pressing concern of feminist criticism. A female hero capable of sustaining a role as a central protagonist in terms of complexity of character and ...
The Drag Paradox
(English, 2009-09-16)
Why are so many of us intent on defining ourselves in terms of those anatomically well-protected, discrete, and proportionally insignificant parts of our bodies we choose to keep covered up in the first place? Drag, the ...
Falling Into The Rabbit Hole: Monstrosity, Modesty, And Mary Toft
(English, 2008-08-08)
The obstetrical hoax perpetrated by Mary Toft in eighteenth-century England is worth the further attention of English scholars, not only because numerous literary texts are inspired by or linked to the incident, but also ...
A Multi-functional Essay Prompt For State Mandated Assessments
(English, 2009-09-16)
A State-mandated assessment of high school English composition skills can be a trying experience for sophomore basic writers. Because students must construct a text-supported argument around the State's choice of theme, ...
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 ...
Playing In The Prose: Writing Instruction And Underprepared Student-athletes In Division I-a Universities
(English, 2009-09-16)
"Playing in the Prose: Writing Instruction and Underprepared Student-Athletes in Division I-A Universities," is a study that contributes to the continuedinterest in the pedagogical tools educators can use with underprepared ...
Tracking Whiteness: Portrayals Of Whites In American Indian Literature
(English, 2008-08-08)
Although whites have pervaded the lives and literatures of American Indians since contact, their own portrayals of whites have remained, for the most part, unexplored. I examine selected works of nineteenth and twentieth-century ...
Native Spaces Of Continuation, Preservation, And Belonging: Louise Erdrich's Concepts Of Home
(English, 2008-08-08)
In light of continual Native migration, relocation, and hybridization, it is my intention to examine the evolution and diversification of home in a spectrum of Louise Erdrich's writing. My examination of the texts focuses ...