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Title: Feminism in Oz: Representations of Gender and Sexuality in L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Series and Danielle Paige's Dorothy Must Die Series
Author: Murphy, Shannon
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: English literature
Description: L. Frank Baum is best known for his book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a story of a young girl named Dorothy who has an abundance of adventure. It is lauded by many as "the quintessential American Fairy Tale" (Riley 3), and it has become the inspira...

Title: Fill In the Blanks: White Space in Children's Picture Books on Grief and Loss
Author: Holt, Samantha
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: English literature
Description: White space in picture books about grief and loss is space that becomes participatory by asking the reader or listener to make sense of what they are seeing while simultaneously joining it with their own real life experiences. This thesis examines...

Title: Friendship Through Fantasy: Amity in the Novels of Tamora Pierce
Author: Johnson, Charlotte
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Literature
Description: Friendship is a strangely absent topic in the criticism of children’s and young adult (YA) literature. While ancient philosophers have tried to define this unique relationship, a more contemporary analysis that can account for changes in culture a...

Title: IDENTITY FORMATION IN SHERMAN ALEXIE’S THE LONE RANGER AND TONTO FISTFIGHT IN HEAVEN, FLIGHT AND THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN
Author: Palmer, Joye
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Literature
Description: AbstractJOYE PALMERIdentity Formation in Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Flight and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (under the direction of DR. MARK WEST) Poet, author, and filmmaker Sherman Alexie c...

Title: IT TAKES A GRAVEYARD: THE ROLE OF SUPERNATURAL GUARDIANS AND PARENTAL FIGURES IN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
Author: Anderson, Joseph
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Literature
Description: Children’s literature often has the child protagonist face a problem at home, such as large disagreements with parents or even the loss of a loved one. While realistic novels regularly tackle these concerns, supernatural novels are forced to use m...

Title: James no. 764
Author: Quitadamo, Melissa
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: English literature, Creative writing
Description: Container No. 764 has malfunctioned and its occupant is awake. This was never supposed to happen. It’s to be expected such things would happen under a human’s supervision, but what excuse do the humanoids have? What of the Master Computer who was ...

Title: Let's Talk About Rape: Sexual Assault in Young Adult Literature
Author: Moore, Makayla
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: English literature
Description: Sexual assault is an incredibly mature, sensitive, and disturbing topic to discuss, but it can be even harder to teach. However, by examining literature that depicts sexual assault, readers can develop empathy for the characters by understanding h...

Title: Looking Out From Another World
Author: McDonnell, James
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: Looking Out From Another World is a collection of five short stories that revolves around Charlotte. It features characters who are experiencing dramatic crises, both from within and without. They try to make sense and meaning out of these crises,...

Title: Macklemore, Iggy Azalea, and Contested Authenticity within the Hip-Hop Discourse Community
Author: Rines, Olivia
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Linguistics
Description: Authenticity within the hip-hop community has been a topic of conversation amongst researchers for a number of years. The hip-hop movement started in the 1970’s and has steadily grown over the years into a worldwide phenomenon. Although the succes...

Title: Mara's Inferno
Author: Massachi, Dina
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Literature, Creative writing
Description: Mara Weiss lives in her own private hell. Her father’s suicide left her alone with an unhinged mother. High school offers Mara no escape, and outside of school, Mara unsuccessfully clings to her first love. Feeling engulfed by rejection, Mara and ...

Title: Men of Violence
Author: Kessler, Cory
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: AbstractThe Cowboy Era in American history began following the end of the Civil War in the 1860s and lasted until the 1890s when much of the Western Frontier land was privatized and sectioned off by owners with the use of barbed wire. Despite the ...

Title: Needles and Dust
Author: Douglas, Charles
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Literature, Creative writing, Area studies
Description: Needles and Dust comprises the first part, approximately 20,000 words of a novel in progress. In the summer of 1988, Thao Dena, a twelve-year-old girl in the Ban Vinai refugee camp in Thailand, befriends the picaresque Vang Neng, who enchants Dena...

Title: OF PUMPKIN SPICE LATTES, HAMPLANETS, AND FATSPEAK: THE VENTING GENRE AS SUPPORT AND SUBVERSION ON REDDIT’S r/FATPEOPLESTORIES
Author: Signorelli, Julia
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Linguistics, Sociolinguistics
Description: Ten posts from the Reddit community Fat People Stories (/r/fatpeoplestories) and their corresponding comment sections comprise an analytical corpus of 45,867 words. Using both Askehave and Nielsen’s (2005) two-dimensional model for genre analysis ...

Title: OWL-MAN: A HISTORICAL FICTION WORK IN 16TH CENTURY MESOAMERICA
Author: Hartis, Andrew
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: "Owl-Man: A Historical Fiction Set in 16th Century Mesomamerica" is the start of a novel that aims to take both the reader and central character through a karmic process of rebirth as it would be viewed under the lens of Mesoamerican thought. Sant...

Title: Poor-Branded Women
Author: Goodnight, Melissa
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: English literature, Women's studies, Creative writing
Description: MELISSA ANN GOODNIGHT. Poor-Branded Women. (Under the direction of BRYN CHANCELLOR, M.F.A.) Poor-Branded Women is a collection of three creative nonfiction essays aiming to establish the idea that both morality and personal responsibility live on ...

Title: Queer Desire and Narrative Fiction in the Works of Colette, Renée Vivien and Natalie Barney
Author: Yates, Sophie
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: English literature, Sex role, Sex
Description: At the conclusion of the nineteenth century, Europe bore witness to what Lynne Huffer has termed "a crisis in sexual definition", stemming from the gradual shift in popular conceptions of non-normative sexual acts as behaviors monitored by ecclesi...

Title: Realm Hopper Project: Out of Office, Into Hell
Author: Mauldin, Brandi
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: English literature, Creative writing
Description: Cato and Remy are two demons forced to form an alliance when Cato’s life is on the line and Remy has no choice but to repay an old debt. They embark on a quest to find the Fates, the only ones who can set things right again. As they journey throug...

Title: Religious Questioning in Katherine Paterson’s and Judy Blume’s Fiction
Author: Rumfelt, Trina
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: English literature, Literature, Religion
Description: TRINA RUMFELT. Religious Questioning in Katherine Paterson’s and Judy Blume’s Fiction (Under Direction of DR. MARK I. WEST)Katherine Paterson and Judy Blume both began their careers as children’s authors in the late 1960s and achieved success in t...

Title: Science Writing: Specialist and Non-specialist Genre and Style from the Late 19th Century and Early 21st Century
Author: Marker, Kara
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Communication of technical information
Description: The first scientific journal was established in the 17th century. Over the last 140 years, science writing has developed along two clear lines targeting specialist and non-specialist audiences. In the 19th century, specialist publications Nature a...

Title: Strength in Silver
Author: Seabrook, Raymond
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: ABSTRACTRAYMOND SCOTT SEABROOK. Strength in Silver. (Under the direction of BRYN CHANCELLOR, M.F.A.) Preliminary chapters to a historic novel, Strength in Silver follows the lives of three women of the same family over the course of more than one ...