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Title: "I was shot in the left arm by a friend": Transgression and the possibility of communication
Author: Humphries, Matthew
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Literature, History--Religious aspects
Description: For my paper I will look at contemporary communities built on violence, looking specifically at how the philosophy of Georges Bataille may allow for these groups to be interpreted in the context of sacrifice. Though I will look at some issues rela...

Title: American Daydreams: A Collection
Author: Winfrey, Russell
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Literature, English literature
Description: 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 ...

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: 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: 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: 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: Popular Purity: Change Over Time in the Racial Views of H.P Lovecraft, and the Spectrum of Racial Ideas as Promoted by Popular Culture: 1917-1936
Author: Nance, Logan
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: History, Literature
Description: Howard Phillips Lovecraft was a prominent horror author of the 1920s and 1930s, who helped pioneer the cosmic horror genre. Lovecraft’s racism is well known, but most of the literature on Lovecraft is from literary scholars, not historians, and th...

Title: Reality Collapses, "Real or Not Real?": The Theoretical Consequences of Compromised Authenticity in Suzanne Collins' Mockingjay
Author: Pailthorpe, Brittany
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Literature, Rhetoric
Description: This thesis proposes the theorization of the consequences of what I deem compromised authenticity, in this hyper-mediated age. Drawing from the work of scholars concerned with the growing anxiety over the tension between the authentic and the inau...

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: SOARING WITH DRAGONS: FINDING PLAY AND INTIMACY IN CHILDREN'S AND YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
Author: Williams, Joshua
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Literature, Philosophy, Philosophy and religion
Description: 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...

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: Telling Stories for The Last of Us: A Ludonarrative Trauma Analysis
Author: Buescher, Holly
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Literature, Rhetoric, Sex role
Description: 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...

Title: Territorializing Modernism: A Deleuzo-Guattarian Reading of Tender Buttons, Nightwood, and The Waves
Author: Gantz, Nicole
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Literature, English literature
Description: This examination of Modernist literature uses the philosophies of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in close readings of three texts with labyrinthine depictions of social production, alienation, and desire. In their work, I argue Gertrude Stein, ...

Title: The Garden of Whispers
Author: Marlow, Mikayla
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Literature, Creative writing
Description: 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...

Title: The changing roles of women in American comic books
Author: Loeffert, Amanda
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Literature, English literature
Description: 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...

Title: The ghost whisper: a young adult novel
Author: Case, Kari
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Literature
Description: 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 ...

Title: Witch Hunt: Persecution of "The Other" in Representations of Witches and Witchcraft in British and U.S. American Literature
Author: Schaefle, Jacquelyn
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Literature, Sex role
Description: Though it has been established that the concept of the witch is primarily used to demonize strong women whose strength derives from their deviation from the patriarchal norm, I argue the witch’s significance in literature and social development go...