Max Stirner's 19th century philosophy can be re-evaluated in the context of a contemporary union of anarchism and French post-structuralism. This union, known as post-anarchism, offers a new critical context in which Stirner can be read. I have argued . . .

This thesis applies Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory of trauma to William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury. Chapter One of this thesis discusses Freud's theory of archaic heritage, which argues that a trauma can be passed down from one generatio . . .

Dark Lens is an interactive Lovecraftian story utilizing colonial resistance to counter the colonialist and racist origins of the horror tropes of H. P. Lovecraft. This project utilizes interactive chapters which record reader choices that influence t . . .

This creative thesis project (re) imagines the representation of female villains from four classic children's narratives, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Frank Baum's The Wonde . . .

A metafictional fairytale narrative where the Reader gets taken on a visit to Lost Byblos, written by The Author.

In this thesis project, I aim to argue that confessional writing in the composition classroom can be a very important and trans-formative tool to produce a well-rounded academic and emotional foundation for students. Specifically sharing and work-shop . . .

This thesis examines how African American female authors challenge and resist racial oppression through their texts. I argue that their creative works function as a form of political activism and protest. I explore how selected authors seek to confron . . .

This thesis examines the monstrous female characters and horror archetypes in Stephen Graham Jones’ short story, “So Perfect,” his novel The Last Final Girl, and the Hollywood film Jennifer’s Body. In particular, this thesis aims at defining a subgenr . . .

In “Pedagogy of Peace: Mindful Transition Spaces for Student-Veterans in First-Year Writing Classes,” I ask that composition teachers open spaces and build communities within the classroom that offer pathways for veterans to “come home.” I argue that . . .

In this project, I examine texts created by three contemporary Native North American writers, Cherokee author Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water, Kickapoo artist Arigon Starr’s Super Indian: Volume One and Volume Two, and Blackfeet novelist Step . . .

This thesis explores the novels Winter in the Blood by James Welch (Blackfeet/ Gros Ventre), Ghost Singer by Anna Lee Walters (Pawnee/ Otoe-Missouria), and Perma Red by Debra Magpie Earling (Salish). My analyses of these novels focus on representation . . .

Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Project." No abstract is available.

This work describes some of the ways in which postcolonial literature is evolving in order to escape censorship by, to identify, and to resist neocolonial forces, very similar in effect to older colonial forces, which are damaging indigenous cultures, . . .

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The purpose of this thesis was to demonstrate there is a third language in bilingual Paraguay, despite disagreement among prominent scholars. Spanish and Guarani, the two most prominent languages of Paraguay, have traditionally been the languages spok . . .

From the mid 1970s to the mid 1990s, Chicana literary production increased. During this time, Chicana authors concentrate on women's issues and oppression within patriarchy. Their criticism and creative literature reflects those realities as well as t . . .

Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Project." No abstract is available.

Of those who take the time to lend a more critical eye to the fictional and non fictional works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, few will debate his atheistic leanings and blatant racism. Though Lovecraft dismissed any and all belief in organized religio . . .

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Irish contributions are integral to Californian and United States culture, and California contains the nation's largest population of people claiming Irish descent. Yet despite this, the Irish culture is both mis- and under-represented in California p . . .

The writing of contemporary feminist critics Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar indicates a belief that feminist rhetoric originated in the nineteenth century when decreased social restrictions allowed for a sudden growth in the number of English and F . . .

Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Project." No abstract is available.mation.

This work consists of an academic introduction that addresses hegemonic influences within the field of Literature as it pertains to Literary Theory, and its predominant paradigm of Cultural Studies. The work inquires as to the whereabouts of the aesth . . .

Words Fill Our Lungs explores the dialogue that we as readers develop with a text. Focusing in on Bakhtin's theory ofHeteroglossia and using it to demonstrate how and why a text can be passed from generation to generation, and still retain meaning. It . . .

Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Project." No abstract is available.

Throughout the majority of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, the characters and readers examine not Troy's martial aim but the equally significant struggle for power in the microcosm of a romantic relationship. The two plots converge as the politics of . . .

This study of the novels by Anne, Charlotte, and Emily Bronte examines the relationships between marriage and madness in many of the female characters. This thesis focuses on the social construction of madness and its use as a tool to mediate gender r . . .

Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Project." No abstract is available.

Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Project." No abstract is available.

Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Project." No abstract is available.

This thesis is in two parts, a critical introduction and a script for a graphic novel. The critical introduction examines Dante's Inferno and Milton's Paradise Lost, using them as a foundation to define the term of literature to include Graphic Novels . . .

Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Project." No abstract is available.

Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Project." No abstract is available.

The thesis, John Steinbeck as an American Modernist, begins by identifying Steinbeck's problematic literary placement within academia and then positions Steinbeck as an American modernist. The driving point of the thesis is to demonstrate Steinbeck as . . .

This work focuses on how succinctly Frankenstein adheres to many of the theories Heidegger presents in Being and Time, specifically Chapter II of Division Two: Dasein and Temporality. This is apparent through the relationships of the situations faced . . .

A Life Close to the Surface chronicles a year in the life of Alex Downs. Dirty and exhausted, protagonist Alex Downs flies home from Puerto Rico in hopes of helping the friends and family he's previously hurt. He has traveled from the fog-laden coast . . .

Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Project." No abstract is available.

Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Project." No abstract is available.

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This thesis explores both white and Native female characters from 19th and 20th century texts about colonial America in order to show how romanticized depictions and textual constructions of historical figures change the way we understand the literary . . .

Zephyr Chronicles: Book I -Becoming A Divine Malevolence is a mixed genre work consisting of verse, prose, hyperfiction, and hypermedia. The nonlinear plot structure, fragmented narrative and genre-blending are meant to project a postmodern environmen . . .

Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Project." No abstract is available.

This thesis contains two essays, a novella and questions to the author. The first essay contests the hegemony of the postmodem paradigm and challenges it; it thus sets the framework for the multi-genred text that will follow, and argues against a nihi . . .

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During the Victorian era, British society met with vast urbanization and the social and environmental problems associated with a dramatic shift from an agrarian economy to an industrialized one. As the landscape of society changed, the PreRaphaelite m . . .

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Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Project." No abstract is available.

Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Project." No abstract is available.

Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Project." No abstract is available.