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The Evangelicalism of Alexander Carson
… examines the evangelicalism of Alexander Carson (ca. 1776- 1844) using David Bebbington's evangelical quadrilateral--biblicism, crucicentrism, conversionism, and activism--as a framework. Chapter 1 gives an introduction to the study and a biographical sketch of Carson's life and ministry. …
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Symbolon: The Poetry of Anne Carson
This study examines Anne Carson’s use and abuse of the lyric form, elucidating how Carson reinvigorates the lyric poem with the power of the sublime, and theorizing the relationship between poetry and knowledge. Through three critical and historical inflections, “Symbolon: The Poetry of Anne …
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The Carson-Pirie-Scott Building in Chicago
The dissertation is a history of Louis Sullivan's Carson-Pirie-Scott Building in Chicago, originally the Schlesinger and Mayer Store, built 1899- 1904. Carson-Pirie-Scott was the last major structure designed by Sullivan and has long been considered a pivotal work in the history of modern …
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Adolescent Transformation In the Short Stories of Carson McCullers
<p>Carson McCullers's neglected short stories "Sucker", "Like That", and "The Haunted Boy" depict stark adolescent crises. Her character analyses dramatize important elements of many theories of adolescent psychology. Each of these stories depicts what happens when something goes horribly wrong in …
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Breaking the Silence: Examining Rachel Carson and the Environmental Movement
Rachel Carson has achieved legendary status in the environmental movement. Her literary contributions introduced generations of people to the intricate splendors of the sea, and she is credited with introducing and legitimating the idea of ecology in public discourse. Carson's final work, Silent …
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The Feeder: A Study of the Fiction of Eudora Welty and Carson Mccullers
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Distribution and Transport of Nitrate in an Unconfined Alluvial Aquifer, Carson Valley, Douglas County, Nevada, 2009.
Residents of Carson Valley, Douglas County, Nevada rely on groundwater from an unconfined alluvial aquifer for drinking water and agricultural irrigation (although the Carson River is also used for irrigation). Since the 1970's, there has been a rapid increase in population in several parts of the …
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"Eolas to Ma:" Construction of Postnational Space in the Interstitial Visions of Heaney, Carson and Morrissey
… SPACE IN THE INTERSTITIAL VISIONS OF HEANEY, CARSON AND MORRISSEY MAJOR PROFESSOR: Dr. Michael Molino In his 1997 work Postnationalist Ireland, Richard Kearney addresses the issue of the Irish community today. He notes how an Irish diaspora of seventy million "challenged the inherited …
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Creating a Culture of Scripture Intake and Prayer Using the Psalms at United Baptist Church in Carson, California
… using the Psalms at United Baptist Church in Carson, California. This instruction increased knowledge and enhanced the practice of basic spiritual disciplines among the members of this church. Chapter 1 explains UBC's ministry context, rationale, purpose, goals, research methodology, …
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Hopelessness and Despair: Alienation and Oppression in <em>The Heart is a Lonely Hunter</em> by Carson McCullers.
<p>The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter thrust Carson McCullers onto the literary scene at the age of 23. The year was 1940, and anticapitalistic fervor was at its peak. McCullers, familiar with the writings of Karl Marx, expresses in this novel her concern for the exploited classes, her disdain for a …
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The Functions of White Nationalism Online: A Content Analysis of White Nationalist Thematic Discourse Surrounding the Eve Carson Homicide
… 2008 murder of UNC student body president Eve Carson, a 22 year-old white woman, by two young black males elicited heated discussion among White Nationalists. This paper analyzes, via content analysis, the thematic discourse surrounding Carson's homicide among White Nationalists on two popular …
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“Whispers Out of Time”: Memorializing (Self-) Portraits in the Work of John Berryman, John Ashbery, Anne Carson, and Nan Goldin
… John Ashbery, the classicist and writer Anne Carson, and the photographer Nan Goldin—who expanded traditional definitions and practices of portraiture. Their works—<em>The Dream Songs</em>, “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,” <em>Nox, </em>and <em>The Ballad of Sexual Dependency </em>(and “The …
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Carson McCullers' altered vision : meaningful patterns in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and The Member of the Wedding.
… shift in tone between the first two decades of Carson McCullers' writing. Indeed, she makes The Member of the Wedding a more life-affirming and less fatalistic version of certain sections of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by subtly rewriting three characters from the first novel into the later …
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Redefining the Gothic: How the Works of Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams & Flannery O'Connor Retained Gothic Roots and Shaped the Southern Gothic
… thesis is to explore the commonalities between Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams and Flannery O’Connor, particularly in terms of three main themes: isolation, the pervasion of American normalcy and gender roles. While each of these authors clearly inserts some autobiographical information …
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Distorted Traditions: the Use of the Grotesque in the Short Fiction of Eudora Welty, Carson Mccullers, Flannery O'connor, and Bobbie Ann Mason.
This dissertation argues that the four writers named above use the grotesque to illustrate the increasingly peculiar consequences of the assault of modernity on traditional Southern culture. The basic conflict between the views of Bakhtin and Kayser provides the foundation for defining the …
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