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Title
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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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Title
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Curse of Time: Book One of the Agnavina Series
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Author
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Ku, Jay
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Creative writing
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Description
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This Master's thesis contains the first five chapters of my novel in the young adult fantasy genre. The story revolves around a young man named Kieran and will explore themes of identity, depression, and family (both biological and chosen). The no...
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Dust
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Author
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Scheewe, Karen
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Creative writing
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Description
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In a culture dominated by Eurocentric traditions and narratives, there are many silences in our discourse. I seek to address the absence of multiculturalism in children’s literature. This creative project subverts the dominant white structure of o...
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Friendship Through Fantasy: Amity in the Novels of Tamora Pierce
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Author
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Johnson, Charlotte
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Literature
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Description
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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...
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James no. 764
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Author
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Quitadamo, Melissa
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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English literature, Creative writing
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Description
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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 ...
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Mara's Inferno
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Author
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Massachi, Dina
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Literature, Creative writing
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Description
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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 ...
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Realm Hopper Project: Out of Office, Into Hell
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Author
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Mauldin, Brandi
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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English literature, Creative writing
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Description
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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...
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Religious Questioning in Katherine Paterson’s and Judy Blume’s Fiction
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Author
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Rumfelt, Trina
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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English literature, Literature, Religion
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Description
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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...
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SOARING WITH DRAGONS: FINDING PLAY AND INTIMACY IN CHILDREN'S AND YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
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Author
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Williams, Joshua
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Literature, Philosophy, Philosophy and religion
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Description
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This thesis examines the way children’s and young adult literature deals with play and intimacy. Using Georges Bataille’s conception of intimacy, this thesis posits that intimacy, deriving from play, allows for a deeper understanding of self and a...
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That Southern Spirit: A Novel for Middle-Grade Readers
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Author
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Riley, Susan
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Creative writing, American literature, History
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Description
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When thirteen-year-old Delta Wells arrives on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina to visit her grandparents, she anticipates the usual peaceful summer of seaside fun. When she learns that Pops’ beloved Island History Museum will likely be replaced ...
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The Education of Dicey Tillerman
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Author
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Barrier, Julia
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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English literature
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Description
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In Cynthia Voigt’s Tillerman Cycle, the various novels from Dicey’s perspective (Homecoming, Dicey’s Song, and Seventeen Against The Dealer) show Dicey’s emotional growth, and the lessons she learns. Dicey learns lessons in trusting people close t...
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The Garden of Whispers
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Author
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Marlow, Mikayla
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Literature, Creative writing
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Description
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The following creative thesis includes the first 100 pages of a young adult fantasy novel, in which the child protagonist uses a creative outlet as means of coping with the challenges of reality. This thesis is divided into six sections with three...
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Title
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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...
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The ghost whisper: a young adult novel
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Author
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Case, Kari
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Literature
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Description
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This is a creative thesis telling the story of a young girl who finds herself when she goes away to college. This is a portion of a larger novel telling Kacey Alan’s story. The synopsis follows.Kacey Alan is starting her new life as a freshman at ...
