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Memory, Memoir, and Mississippi: A Decolonial Approach to Southern Identity in Jesmyn Ward, Natasha Trethewey, and Kiese Laymon
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Interplay of Indigenous Representation and Ecological Issues in Children's Picture Books: An Ecocritical Analysis
(2022-12)This thesis examines children’s picture books authored by Indigenous creators published between 2012 and 2022 through an ecocritical lens. This study applies ecocritical theory to analyze three picture books addressing ... -
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'For every woman is at heart a witch': The New Iterations of the Literary Witch from Terry Pratchett and Sarah J. Maas
(2022-12)No abstract prepared. -
Maids in their-land: A study of the effects of the cult of true womanhood on Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland (1915) and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1986)
The "cult of true womanhood," as it came to be called by many modem day feminist critics, began in the early 1800's and thrived until it was trampled by the social and sexual revolution of the 1920's. According to the ... -
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An enfolded present: Aging and mourning in the fiction of Bellow, Welty, Bowen, and Sarton
(1998-08)The intensity of mourning in the elderly deepens with the attrition of time. Kathleen Woodward's model of aging grief in "Late Theory, Late Style" elaborates on Freud's theoretical views of the mastery of sadness, originating ... -
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The collage of metafictive themes in Gertrude Stein's A novel of thank you
(1999-05)No abstract prepared. -
Saul Bellow's The Bellarosa Connection and The Actual: Postmodernism, performance culture, and the search for salvation
(1999-05)No abstract prepared. -
Spenser's allusions to Sidney's "Astrophil and Stella": Historical or literary?
(1998-08)No abstract prepared. -
Empathy in Conversational AI: Rhetorical Analyses and Recommendations
(2022-05)The aim of this analysis is to understand how empathy is utilized in the design process of conversational artificial intelligence and to gather recommendations influenced by empathy rhetoric to broaden the use and ... -
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Faith, Sympathy, and Consolation in Milton’s Lycidas
(2022-05)In John Milton’s Lycidas, the speaker’s confusion over the death of Lycidas is represented to sympathize with other Christians who may have been in a similar situation of uncertainty and grief. As a Christian, Milton ... -
Chrome, Conversations and Intertextuality: The Counter Narrative of Pole Dancers on Instagram
(2022-05)No abstract prepared. -
Defying Deficiency: Rewriting Dominant Narratives of Identity, Ability, and Resilience in Literacy
(2022-05)No abstract prepared. -
Modeling a Minority: An Analysis of Asian American Representation in American Film
(2022-05)No abstract prepared. -
Coming out of the Dark: Trauma in R.A. Salvatore's Dark Elf Trilogy
(2022-05)No abstract prepared.