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Title: Affiliation and Participation: What Fannish Practices Can Tell Us About Building Community in the Writing Center
Author: Mayfield, Hannah
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Rhetoric
Description: This thesis examines the discursive activity of participatory fannish practices and the opportunities they afford the university writing center in responding to student writing. The project begins with an analysis of participatory fandom; specific...

Title: Becoming Virtuous: Overcoming the Monstrous in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre
Author: Atsavinh, Candice
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: English literature
Description: The aim of this thesis is to explore the emotional impact that three childhood environments have on the formation of Jane’s identity. These spatial boundaries are how Jane develops an understanding of herself and the ‘other’ while discovering the ...

Title: Coming of Age: The Narrative of Adolescence in David Almond's Kit's Wilderness and Nick Lake's In Darkness
Author: Blaylock, Brook
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: English literature
Description: The influence of ancient cultural narratives on contemporary reality, and the construction of literature reflecting the tradition of the past while representing modern cultural realities, remains a common feature of literary expression. However, a...

Title: Explorations of Childhood Gender-Fluidity and the Subversion of Masculinity in Peter Pan
Author: Weber, Ryan
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Literature, English literature, Sex role
Description: In declaring Peter Pan as the only child who will not grow up, J.M. Barrie has developed a character with an unmatched capacity for subverting masculine forms of normalization, social acceptance, and gender appropriation. Through Peter’s consisten...

Title: THE MAGIC OF THE HARRY POTTER SERIES FOR STUDENT ATHLETES
Author: Morris, Julia
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Literature, Reading
Description: With the contemporary scandals that currently characterize university-sanctioned athletics and student athlete participants, this study is aimed at using Joanne Kathleen Rowling’s Harry Potter series, as exemplary of young adult literature, as a g...

Title: THE PROGRESSION OF AGENCY OF THE FEMALE ROLE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
Author: Prysiazniuk, Stephanie
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: English literature, Children's literature
Description: This thesis will analyze four American children’s novels written during the mid to latter part of the nineteen century and demonstrate how a progression of agency of the female role took shape in girls’ fiction during this period in history. With ...

Title: The Hybridity of Humanity: Posthumanism within Marissa Meyer's The Lunar Chronicles
Author: Gonzalez Caban, Jasmin
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: English literature
Description: In the twenty-first century, advanced technology has become an integral component to how humans interact with the world. Because technology is gradually transforming the lifestyles and compositions of humans, it is important to introduce the conce...

Title: The Playful Elements in Emily Gravett's and David Wiesner's Postmodern Picturebooks
Author: Warnsing, Abbey
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: English literature
Description: Emily Gravett and David Wiesner play with existing texts, narrative structures, visual elements and connectivity in their picturebooks using a variety of metafictive devices that also play with the story, characters, and readers. Both authors crea...