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Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
To retrieve all theses and dissertations associated with a specific department from the library catalogue, choose 'Advanced' and keyword search "university of alberta dept of english" OR "university of alberta department of english" (for example). Past graduates who wish to have their thesis or dissertation added to this collection can contact us at erahelp@ualberta.ca.
Items in this Collection
- 2Sims, Daniel
- 2Zhira, Maxwell
- 1Adell, Rebecca Jemima
- 1Allen, Tana Joy
- 1Anderson, Greg J.
- 1Anderson, Rebecca Diane, 1975-
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Spring 2017
Ovid’s Heroides is unique for its presentation of female speech. It is a collection of letters written in elegiac couplets, each one narrated by a different mythological heroine. Each heroine is familiar to Ovid’s audience because she has already appeared in works of other authors. Each letter is...
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Catalysts of Change: The Company of Young Canadians and its Involvement with Indigenous Peoples in Western Canada, 1964-1974
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Several programs initiated during the 1960s were intended to address poverty in Canada through community development and mobilizing youth; some of these were federal, some provincial and some were private/locally designed programs. The Company of Young Canadians (CYC) was one of these. It was...
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Spring 2022
Human space travel in the United States was the culmination of years of research, immense technological progress, and enormous collaborative projects, particularly in the 1950s and 1960s. It was also, as this thesis argues, a product of imagination—that is to say, a consequence of space travel’s...
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Conceptions of the Rocky Mountains: A Comparison of Peter Fidler and David Thompson and Their Mapping Strategies
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This thesis explores the ways in which Europeans conceptualized the Rocky Mountains by comparing the views and mapping styles of David Thompson and Peter Fidler. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) needed to establish inland trade to effectively...