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Title
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American Daydreams: A Collection
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Author
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Winfrey, Russell
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Literature, English literature
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Description
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These four stories are very much a reaction to our current political moment, where mounting complexities in the world are met with untenable simplicity and hostile tribalism. The protagonists in "Miss Future Expat" and "Beans in Peru" are able to ...
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Explorations of Childhood Gender-Fluidity and the Subversion of Masculinity in Peter Pan
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Author
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Weber, Ryan
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Literature, English literature, Sex role
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Description
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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...
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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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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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Title
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Needles and Dust
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Author
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Douglas, Charles
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Literature, Creative writing, Area studies
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Description
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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...
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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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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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Telling Stories for The Last of Us: A Ludonarrative Trauma Analysis
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Author
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Buescher, Holly
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Literature, Rhetoric, Sex role
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Description
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In this thesis, I propose that The Last of Us franchise functions as an exemplar on how survival horror video games are uniquely situated as a genre and medium to make precise statements about empathy, complicity, and trauma. However, upon applyin...
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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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The changing roles of women in American comic books
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Author
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Loeffert, Amanda
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Literature, English literature
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Description
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The comic book industry is entering an era in which gender is the trending topic of conversation. Historically, comic books have catered to a masculine audience, with the majority of popular comic books featuring male characters, most often create...
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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 ...