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Becoming Virtuous: Overcoming the Monstrous in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre
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Author
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Atsavinh, Candice
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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English literature
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Description
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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 ...
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Fans Like Us: Anti-shipping, Othering, and the Reauthoring of Fandom
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Author
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Bradburn, Madison
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Rhetoric, English language--Composition
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Description
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The following thesis focuses on Anti- and Pro-shipping debates, their rhetorical behaviors, and their impacts on fandom spaces. These debates center around "shipping," the act of romantically pairing characters from media in fan productions such a...
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THE MAGIC OF THE HARRY POTTER SERIES FOR STUDENT ATHLETES
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Author
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Morris, Julia
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Literature, Reading
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Description
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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...
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The Hybridity of Humanity: Posthumanism within Marissa Meyer's The Lunar Chronicles
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Author
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Gonzalez Caban, Jasmin
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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English literature
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Description
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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...
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The Playful Elements in Emily Gravett's and David Wiesner's Postmodern Picturebooks
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Author
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Warnsing, Abbey
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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English literature
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Description
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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...