Browsing UCO - Graduate Works and Theses by Author "Macey, J. David"
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A song for Eurydice.
Hofrichter, Sarah Paige Berling (2015)A SONG FOR EURYDICE tells the tale of the human refugees living in the desert wasteland of Terra Arcturus, hundreds of light-years from their obliterated home, Old Earth. The story follows Captain Orion Andersen of the ... -
A view of the hallway : spectatorship and the trandsgender character
Lawson, Caitlin (2012)This thesis aims to reevaluate theories of the spectatorial gaze in light of films that feature transgender characters. Such theories, in particular those of Laura Mulvey, Mary Ann Doane, and Teresa de Lauretis, rely on ... -
Aemilia Lanyer's threads in the tapestry of dialectical devotion.
Alger, Jean (2010)Disparate and dialectical dialogues characterize sixteenth-century British cultural, religious, and political ideologies. Christian ideology, in its various forms and interpretations, was most commonly cited as support for ... -
All the world's my stage.
Treadway, Linda Kim (2015)All The World's My Stage is the action-filled comedy of Kimberly Peterson's woefully isolated and loveless life. Middle-aged and single, her most recent love affair only exists in her dreams with her favorite movie star. ... -
Angels, pins, dancing, prayers.
Judge, Mary Kathleen (2015)The content of the poems in Angels, Pins, Dancing, Prayers centers around five topics: art, religion, death, education, and travel. Poetry understands and dares to discuss God, love, pain, truth, war, death, and bubble gum ... -
Antithetical dialogue: claiming rhetorical sovereignty in contemporary American Indian literature
Thomson, Amy L. (2010)Canonical Euro-American literary and historical discourses exhibit American Indians in stereotypical terms. The characterization of American Indians in Euro-American discourse creates a silent absence in which American ... -
Boot party.
O'Neal, Erik (2011)Boot Party is a fictional screenplay consisting of essentially three acts which concerns an adolescent punk rocker in 1986 Denton, Texas called Jonah. Jonah leaves home following a violent confrontation with his stepfather ... -
Christian culture and Germanic tradition in Old English literature : a syncretic approach to reconciling faith and culture.
Crawford, Kyle R. (2011)Many conservative or 'traditional' Christians today contend that some modern churches, in an effort to engage with contemporary culture, adapt the values and practices of the secular world to too great a degree in order ... -
Claiming knowledge : challenges of gender and class in the composition classroom.
Thomas, L. M. (2008)Since English composition classes are rich in reading, language, dialogue, and writing, they offer the perfect venue in which to provide women and members of disadvantaged classes the opportunity to have their voices acknowledged. -
Constructing contemporary ethnic American identities by reconceptualizing ancient narratives.
Seagraves, Meredith R. (2014)For many ethnic Americans, forming a cultural identity is a complicated and arduous endeavor. Entrenched in an environment in which mainstream ideologies leave ethnic practices and histories vulnerable to marginalization, ... -
Corn silk dolls.
Vick, Sharen Fay (2007)When a family stays in an old farmhouse for a few weeks in the summer, their lives are changed when they find some corn silk dolls in the house. These are not ordinary dolls, they are soul-sucking dolls. -
Early English religious literature : the development of the genres of poetry, narrative, and homily.
Welch, Mary T. (2009)This thesis contends that during the medieval period, as Anglo-Saxon literature developed under, at first, the influence of Germanic oral traditions and later, the authority of continental (and particularly Latin) literary ... -
Elis Gruffydd and Welsh identity in the sixteenth century.
Riley-Adams, Ann Dobbs (2018)In 1552, Welsh soldier and chronicler Elis Gruffydd (c.1490-c.1552) completed a 2500-folio manuscript, which is little known and rarely studied. Its obscurity belies its importance. This document can tell us much about ... -
Ernest Hemingway and the reality of the American dream.
Billings, Nathan (2011)Ernest Hemingway's fiction criticizes the American Dream and its myth of success in the early twentieth century. In The Sun Also Rises, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," Hemingway ... -
Feminine power through the performance of gender and identity : subverting patriarchal standards and the gender binary
Gonzalez, Taylor (2021)This thesis examines strategies for exercising feminine power within patriarchal settings; in particular, it addresses the ways in which female characters access varied forms of power through gendered performances that ... -
From Ainulindalë to Valhalla : J. R. R. Tolkien's musical mythology and its Eddaic influences.
Whobrey, Megan A. M. (2013)When designing his mythology for Middle-earth, J. R. R. Tolkien drew from his extensive knowledge of the numerous established mythologies of the ancient and contemporary world. However, his primary fascination and inspiration ... -
I dream of Major Nelson.
Little, Amy (2014) -
Illustrating with type: a typographic exploration of nursery rhymes
Gabbard, Delana (2010)Developments in visual communication are progressively affecting the way audiences receive and process information. In today's image-dominated environment we seek quick references to aid our interpretation of information ... -
In the shadow of the giant : the impact of the industrial city on identity in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature
Dostal, Michelle T. (2014)The Industrial Era in America ushered in a time of unprecedented economic growth, yet unfortunately, the industrial-consumer culture created by this growth fostered a devaluation of the American individual during this time ... -
Mirrors and windows : recognizing the experience of a woman of color in Jane Eyre
Dinh, Katelyn N. (2021)This thesis aims to present the character of Bertha in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre as a representation of feminism and Jane's transformation into an independent player in her relationship with Rochester by examining the ...