Browsing by Author "Perry, Nandra"
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Lawrence, Dana Eatman (2010-10-12)This dissertation examines the poetry of Isabella Whitney, a maidservant in London, Veronica Franco, a Venetian courtesan, Marie de Romieu, a baker's daughter in rural France, and Aemilia Lanyer, the daughter and wife of ...
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Sonnier, Mary Caroline (2015-12-16)Contemporary research in therapy, communication studies and alternative dispute resolution has found that narrative is powerful and can be used to understand and mediate conflict (Clair et al, 2014; Collins & Clark, 1991; ...
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Hagstrom-Schmidt, Nicole E. (2019-07-09)Evidence and Epistemology in Early Modern English Drama focuses on ways of knowing in a period before the disciplinary paradigms that we use today crystallized. Operating in a period of epistemological flux, writers in ...
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Pfannkoch, Thomas Andrew (2019-05-20)This study explores practices of forgiveness in post-Reformation England in light of the rejection of the Sacrament of Penance. I argue that forgiveness for 16th-century English Protestants was a communal technology and a ...
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Brown, Derek P (2017-04-25)While imprisoned as a nonconformist Baptist in 1675, John Bunyan “fell suddenly into allegory” as he wrote The Pilgrim’s Progress. In 1932, while staying in Belfast, C.S. Lewis wrote The Pilgrim’s Regress in a hasty two-week ...
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Newberry, Julie Nicole (2011-10-21)John Milton begins his Second Defence of the English People by stressing the universal importance of gratitude: "In the whole life and estate of man the first duty is to be grateful to God." Peter Medine has shown the ...
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Gray, Jordan A. (2017-11-02)I explore how two early modern plays, Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam, depict grief as feminized emotion. I consider how Shakespeare uses women as mediums for grief and how Cary gives female ...
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Kholinar, Andani (2020-07-21)In this dissertation, “An Inclusive Approach to Teaching Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century,” I use the lens of critical pedagogy and critical race theory to examine the ways teachers teach Shakespeare in American ...
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Jung, Youmi (2019-05-23)This dissertation reevaluates the role of early modern female libertines as sexual celebrities and analyzes how they performed their libertine sexuality in various types of literary and cultural texts. Female libertine ...
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Campbell, Heidi A. (2020-05-19)Religion in Quarantine: The Future of Religion in a Post-Pandemic World, is an eBook collection of essays written by religious studies faculty and graduates students from Texas A&M University. Coming from a variety of ...
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Perry, Nandra (Texas A&M University, 2007)
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Davis, Karen (2014-12-02)In a panoptic society like ours, prison arts programs can guide us in the task of revitalizing human values and building ethical communities. The quasi-ritual practice of theater, especially, has the potential to develop ...
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Morgan, Kelsey I (2016-03-24)This thesis is proposing an alternative way to view the notions of sacred and profane that better facilitates conversation in public discourse. Currently, public conversation tends to not acknowledge that there can be ...
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Baca, Michaela (2022-07-26)This work, “‘Thys boke ys myn’: Evolutions of Queenly Literary Authority, 1460-1603,” conducts a study of Tudor queens and the development of a community of queenly literary practitioners. This project examines Elizabeth ...
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Brenner, Caitlin R (2019-05-15)This work foregrounds gendered metaphors of translation in three collections of “good” women’s lives adapted and compiled from Ovid’s Heroides (Epistulae Heroidum): Geoffrey Chaucer Legend of Good Women, John Gower’s ...
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Woods, Bailey Jordan (2015-10-01)Through the narrative of this creative thesis, I will explore the sixth century monastic practice of peregrinatio and the nautical motifs found throughout the literary canon of voyage literature. The power of narrative, ...
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Campbell, Shawna Michelle (2019-04-05)This thesis consists of an essay which examines the psalm translations by Mary Sidney Herbert, the Countess of Pembroke. Recent scholarship has examined Mary Sidney Herbert’s treatment of grief in her psalms, as well as ...
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Parker, Meghan Lee (2013-04-30)This project explores how 17th-century English women writers used dedicatory epistles. The three case studies here represent different modes in which women writers interacted with readers: manuscript, print, and commercial ...