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Wraparound School Supports: Exploring Students’ Experiences of Meaningful Relationships with Caring Adults
DownloadFall 2022
Relationships are not only important to healthy youth development but may be the key ingredient which make intervention programs with youth successful. This study used data from evaluation of a wraparound school initiative called All in For Youth which has, among others, an aim of building and...
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Writing (fictional) lives: the relationship between biography and fiction in the work of Carol Shields
DownloadFall 2009
This thesis examines the intersections between biography and fiction in three novels and one biography by Carol Shields: Small Ceremonies, Swann, The Stone Diaries, and Jane Austen. By writing about biography and biographers in each novel, Carol Shields foregrounds the subject of biography and...
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Writing and Imagining the Crusade in Fifteenth-Century Burgundy: The Case of the Expedition Narrative in Jean de Wavrin's Anciennes Chroniques d'Angleterre
DownloadFall 2010
Desjardins, Robert Byron Joseph
Scholars have long been attentive to the cultural legacy of Valois Burgundy – a site of remarkable artistic and literary productivity in the mostly desolate cultural landscape of fifteenth-century France. It is only recently, however, that critics have begun to interrogate Burgundian courtly...
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Writing Back Through Our Mothers: A Transnational Feminist Study on the Woman's Historical Novel
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This transnational feminist study on the contemporary woman’s historical novel (post 1970) argues that the genre’s central theme and focus is the maternal. Analyzing the maternal, disclosed through a myriad of genealogies, voices, and figures, reveals that the historical novel is a feminist means...