Browsing Theses and Dissertations(library) 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
(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 ... -
'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 ...