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Veils of Divinity: Christina Rossetti, the Oxford Movement and articulations of reserve and analogy in Seek and Find
(Texas A&M University, 2002)
This thesis analyzes Christina Rossetti's second devotional prose work, Seek and Find. Specifically, it examines her articulations of the Tractarian doctrines of Analogy and Reserve. In order to establish her familiarity ...
Communicating about feminism and implementing feminist practices in research methodology
(Texas A&M University, 2001)
This research project is an interdisciplinary study, intersecting the humanities with the social sciences and incorporating aspects of discourse analysis, sociology, and women's studies into a unified project. The study ...
Brown is the color of many things: a collection of short stories
(Texas A&M University, 2000)
The purpose of my thesis is to demonstrate a grasp of the techniques covered in Creative Writing workshops and lectures. The thesis consists of two parts-the critical introduction and the creative body. In the critical ...
Words, deeds, and the combat decision in Old English heroic literature
(Texas A&M University, 2001)
Old English heroic literature frequently deals with the tension surrounding a combat decision, or the decision to enter into avoidable, mortal combat. The combat decision figures prominently in the poems Beowulf, the ...
E(Race)ing gender: Stratified identities
(Texas A&M University, 2000)
In the discussion that follows, I will examine, on the broadest level, Hurston's complex negotiation of identity, as manifested in Their Eyes Were Watching God. Central to this investigation is an understanding of the ...
"To brush history against the grain": toward a historiography of dialectical materialism and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dicteé
(Texas A&M University, 2001)
Taking Cha's novel Dictě as a critical illustration, this study addresses some questions about the writing of history in search of a historiography that does not gloss over muffled stories of some in order to legitimize ...
Commerce and conquest in Tennyson's The Princess and Maud
(Texas A&M University, 2001)
Alfred Lord Tennyson's propensity to contribute with regularity during the first half of his career to feminized, popular "gift books" gives credence to the question of motivation for such frequent contributions. Certainly ...
A descriptive study in student self-assessment practices
(Texas A&M University, 2001)
Self-assessment as it usually occurs in writing portfolios provides the context for this study, which examines data from two diverse college settings. While much research has been conducted in conjunction with student ...
Ordinary revelations: stories
(Texas A&M University, 2001)
This creative writing thesis consists of a critical, reflexive introduction and nine short fictional stories. The critical introduction includes relevant ideas from short fiction theory, from Poe to the present, including ...
Toward reflexivity: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and George Washington G'omez
(Texas A&M University, 2001)
Since the publication of Huckleberry Finn in 1885, numerous highly esteemed authors and critics have reviewed the work. By examining the rhetorical situation of currents of praise and rejection in this scholarship, one ...