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Huntsman, L. F. "In margins and in longings ...: the beach in Australian life and literature." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/12333.

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Ellison, Elizabeth Rae. "The Australian beachspace : flagging the spaces of Australian beach texts." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2013. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/63468/1/Elizabeth_Ellison_Thesis.pdf.

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The Australian beach is a significant component of the Australian culture and a way of life. The Australian Beachspace explores existing research about the Australian beach from a cultural and Australian studies perspective. Initially, the beach in Australian studies has been established within a binary opposition. Fiske, Hodge, and Turner (1987) pioneered the concept of the beach as a mythic space, simultaneously beautiful but abstract. In comparison, Meaghan Morris (1998) suggested that the beach was in fact an ordinary or everyday space. The research intervenes in previous discussions, suggesting that the Australian beach needs to be explored in spatial terms as well as cultural ones. The thesis suggests the beach is more than these previously established binaries and uses Soja's theory of Thirdspace (1996) to posit the term beachspace as a way of describing this complex site. The beachspace is a lived space that encompasses both the mythic and ordinary and more. A variety of texts have been explored in this work, both film and literature. The thesis examines textual representations of the Australian beach using Soja's Thirdspace as a frame to reveal the complexities of the Australian beach through five thematic chapters. Some of the texts discussed include works by Tim Winton's Breath (2008) and Land's Edge (1993), Robert Drewe's short story collections The Bodysurfers (1987) and The Rip (2008), and films such as Newcastle (dir. Dan Castle 2008) and Blackrock (dir. Steve Vidler 1997). Ultimately The Australian Beachspace illustrates that the multiple meanings of the beach's representations are complex and yet frequently fail to capture the layered reality of the Australian beach. The Australian beach is best described as a beachspace, a complex space that allows for the mythic and/or/both ordinary at once.

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Ackerson, Christiane Plante. "The Soul of Shakespeare and Company| Sylvia Beach's Journey into Leadership." Thesis, Franklin Pierce University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3567797.

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American expatriate Sylvia Beach (1887-1962) is mostly recognized for her contribution to Modernist literature by publishing James Joyce's Ulysses and avant-garde magazines. However, the objective of this study is to resurrect Beach's legacy as a leader by discovering how Beach, through opening Shakespeare and Company, an English-language bookshop in Paris, led the literary community who expatriated to Paris in the early twentieth century. Beach's journey into leadership began when she bravely opened her bookshop in a foreign country in 1919, at the closing of World War I, during a time when few women owned their own businesses. By creating a place, a home away from home, for the disillusioned and disenfranchised expatriates writers, Beach created a safe environment for the expatriates—a place to find their identity. By befriending them, earning their trust, and gaining their help in the Ulysses publishing venture, Beach created an environment of collaboration among the writers, many of whom remained lifelong friends. Beach's business model was unprecedented, and with vision and boldness, at Shakespeare and Company, Beach exemplified leadership by continually helping others, and thus transformed Shakespeare and Company into one of the most recognized bookstores of the time.

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Livingston, Kimberly S. "Sand Beach." Virtual Press, 1997. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1041889.

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This project consisted of a series of short stories which worked together creating a larger fictional piece in the form of a non-continuous narrative. This non-continuous narrative is in the tradition of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine. The stories in this type of fiction are connected by similar themes and settings, allowing the reader to participate directly in the creative process. The reader helps create the fiction by drawing his or her own conclusions about the characters and places from between the individual stories. By involving the reader more directly in the outcome, this type of narrative creates a more emotional response to the work. Each of the stories in this project were set in a town called Sand Beach, Michigan, and involved four generations of women in a single family. The major themes of the stories were mother/daughter relationships, healing, and redemption. Common images in the stories presented were, Lake Huron, the town of Sand Beach, and a rock in the local region bearing Native American petroglyphs Each of these images participated in the development of the common themes.
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Mostafa, Dona E. "Seagull beach." Scholarly Commons, 1996. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/2295.

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Seagull Beach is a creative work about a woman who moves to a seaside town. While there, she is befriended by an artist and volunteers at the aquarium. The woman, Shell, becomes involved in a mystery involving drug smuggling and murder. Shell and her friend, Linda, solve the mystery through a series of unexpected events. Chapter one establishes Shell in Seagull Beach and introduces Linda. The plot begins with a mutilated dolphin on the beach and the appearance of a bald-headed man. Chapter two takes the reader into the aquarium and expands the cast of characters. The plot is further developed during a party scene when an angry exchange is overheard by Shell. The plot thickens, in chapter three, with the meeting of three men in an all night cafe. Later on, Shell sees a picture of the mysterious bald-headed man, in the local newspaper. Chapter three ends with the discovery of Roger's body. Chapter four has Shell and Linda trying to make some sense of Roger's death. Shell receives Roger's diary on the afternoon of his funeral. Chapter five is an important chapter for this work. It is here that we get a glimpse of a drug encounter that sets up the following scene between the drug smugglers. The use of dolphins as drug runners is also established. In the final two scenes, Shell's RV is ransacked, and the man who killed the dolphin is also killed. The suspense heightens in chapter six as Shell and Linda break into Roger's office. Shell later sees the drug delivery take place and has a confrontation as she walks across a dark parking lot. The work ends with an unexpected revelation and a conversation between Shell and Linda.

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Heller, Caroline. "EQUIVOCAL LIFE:LYRICS OF (NON)LIVINGNESS IN S.T COLERIDGE'S "RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER" (1798) AND CHARLOTTE SMITH'S BEACHY HEAD (1807)." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1374066876.

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De, Avila Elizabeth. "An Analysis of Discourse Present in Sex Education Literature from Palm Beach County Middle Schools| Are Kids Really Learning?" Thesis, Florida Atlantic University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10610503.

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Issues of sexual assault have become pervasive across all social strata in American society. Citizens need to start having conversations regarding these issues. To combat the issue of sexual assault, children need to be educated regarding the multifaceted aspects of sex through sex education in order to understand consent and resources they have available to them. Utilizing grounded theory methodology, this thesis analyzes sex education literature provided to Palm Beach County Middle School students. Using Burke’s theory of terministic screens and Foucauldian theories of power and control; an understanding of the ideological underpinnings of this literature and discourse were acquired. After analysis, suggestions for disclosure and sex education programs are provided.

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Butler, Jan. "Record production and the construction of authenticity in the Beach Boys and late-sixties American rock." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2010. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13024/.

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This thesis explores the paradox that occurred at the time that rock emerged as a new genre in America in the mid-1960s. Recordings were becoming increasingly manipulated in the studio, but at the same time there emerged a growing ideology of authenticity that developed as the decade progressed, first focussing on records, but ending by privileging live performance. The study falls into three parts. The first traces the development of authenticity in relation to music through history and explores its possible nature in order to illuminate the development of authenticity in relation to rock in the 1960s. The second section writes a history of the record industry in the 1960s, focussing on organisational practices, which I argue were strongly influenced by an ideology of authenticity related to beliefs about the conditions necessary to create art in a commercial framework. These organisational changes lead to the adoption by the industry of the figure of the entrepreneur producer. The final section looks at how the industry interacted with the conflicting ideologies of authenticity that were developed in the counterculture in relation to rock, employing rock cultural intermediaries both to bring rock bands into the industry, and to sell their music back to the counterculture from which they came. The more theoretical points of my discussion are exemplified through the use of a case study of the Beach Boys, whose career spans the decade, and who, despite early success as a rock band, experienced difficulty negotiating the changing ideologies of authenticity that emerged as the decade progressed.

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Eckstein, Lars. "Saturday on Dover Beach : Ian McEwan, Matthew Arnold, and post-9/11 melancholia." Universität Potsdam, 2011. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2012/5922/.

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This essay revisits Ian McEwan’s extremely successful novel Saturday, and interrogates its exemplary assessment of the British cultural climate after 9/11. The particular focus is on McEwan’s extensive recourse to the writings of Matthew Arnold, whose melancholy outlook on culture and anarchy McEwan basically translates into the 21st century without much ideological fraction. This relapse into Victorian liberal humanism as consolation for a Western world besieged by the contingencies of terrorism is extremely problematic. Not only does it wilfully ignore the transcultural realities of modern Britain, it also promotes an ahistorical and apolitical mode of critical inquiry which may be called reductive at best in view of the global challenges that the novel addresses.

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Finch, Edward F. Holsinger M. Paul. "An hour or two using naval fiction in the United States history course /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9960413.

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Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 1999.
Title from title page screen, viewed July 26, 2006. Dissertation Committee: M. Paul Holsinger (chair), Lawrence W. McBride, John B. Freed, Steven E. Kagle. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 225-239) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Blackton, Rhona R. "A study of the correlation between the degree of acculturation and scholastic achievement and English gain of ESL students, grades 2-5, Beach School, Portland, Oregon." PDXScholar, 1986. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3560.

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The purpose of this study is to determine if a correlation exists between the degree of acculturation and achievement in English, reading and math of English as a Second Language (ESL) students in grades 2 to 5. This study is intended to provide insights about the acculturating ESL student, and suggests how educators can best meet students' needs.

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Davies, Ben. "Exceptional intercourse : sex, time and space in contemporary novels by male British and American writers." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2582.

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This thesis provides a theory of exceptional sex through close readings of contemporary novels by male British and American writers. I take as my overriding methodological approach Giorgio Agamben’s theory of the state of exception, which is a juridico-political state in which the law has been suspended and the difference between rule and transgression is indistinguishable. Within this state, the spatiotemporal markers inside and outside also become indeterminable, making it impossible to tell whether one is inside or outside time and space. Using this framework, I work through narratives of sexual interaction – On Chesil Beach, Gertrude and Claudius, Sabbath’s Theater, and The Act of Love – to conceptualise categories of sexual exceptionality. My study is not a survey, and the texts have been chosen as they focus on different sexual behaviours, thereby opening up a variety of sexual exceptionalities. I concentrate on male writers and narratives of heterosexual sex as most work on sex, time and space is comprised of feminist readings of literature by women and queer work on gay, lesbian or trans writers and narratives. However, in the Coda I expand my argument by turning to Emma Donoghue’s Room, which, as the protagonist has been trapped for the first five years of his life, provides a tabula rasa’s perspective of exceptionality. Through my analysis of exceptionality, I provide spatiotemporal readings of the hymen, incest, adultery, sexual listening and the arranged affair. I also conceptualise textual exceptionalities – the incestuous prequel, auricular reading and the positionality of the narrator, the reader and literary characters. Exceptional sex challenges the assumption in recent queer theory that to be out of time is ‘queer’ and to be in time is ‘straight’. Furthermore, exceptionality complicates the concepts of perversion and transgression as the norm and its transgression become indistinct in the state of exception. In contrast, exceptionality offers a new, more determinate way to analyse narratives of sex.

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Plett, Taryn. "Storying presence : Aboriginal literature, critical strategies, and Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach." 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/7918.

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"Storying Presence: Aboriginal Literature, Critical Strategies, and Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach" is an examination of some of the many issues that have emerged in current discussions of Native literature and an interpretation of how they relate to Eden Robinson's highly successful Monkey Beach (2000). This project first examines and reviews the current criticism on Monkey Beach and argues that critics have largely evaluated the novel with terms and concepts that emphasize Native identity questions in the text. Moreover, these critics formulate identity questions in language that draws on a dichotomy of civilization and savagery. Gerald Vizenor's theories of deconstruction draw attention away from identity questions and instead shed light on ways in which Robinson builds relationships between her characters, examines human potential for violence, and makes use of humour. Robinson creates a narrative of what Vizenor calls survivance by refusing to imbue her characters with identifiable cultural markers, thus stretching what readers might imagine are the borders of Native cultures. However, Money Beach simultaneously refers to a distinctly Haisla epistemology, and, thus the novel must also be interpreted using an indigenous approach that highlights the relationship between the novels' characters and the land. Although postmodernist and indigenist approaches are in many ways opposed, Robinson uses them in conjunction.

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Balaconis, Zoe Esther. "Virginia beach." Thesis, 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/14017.

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The following is a collection of short stories about a mid-Atlantic beach community, the people that leave it, and those that stay. The stories are loosely linked in that all the characters are neighbors, whether they know it or not.

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Moore, Gerard Joshua. "Contacting the dead: echoes from the Haisla diaspora in Eden Robinson's "Monkey Beach"." 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/4883.

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The purpose of this thesis was to posit an explanation of recurrent liminal imagery in Eden Robinson’s novel Monkey Beach by exploring the ways that the text can be read as an expression of diasporic awareness. The Haisla in Monkey Beach experience a form of exile that is atypical because it occurs within the limits of their homeland. This thesis explores the dimensions of this exile by examining the ways that the Haisla community’s connection to its homeland has been altered in the wake of colonial contact. What this study revealed is that although Monkey Beach exposes disruptions in the connections between the Haisla and their homeland, the adaptation of Aboriginal storytelling techniques to the form of the novel represents both a positive continuation of indigenous traditions and an active resistance of cultural erasure.

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Eckenroth, Lauren D. "Poet/ Editor/ Publisher: a catalogue and selected correspondence of H.D., Bryher, and Sylvia Beach, from 1918 to 1931." Thesis, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/41533.

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Poet/ Editor/ Publisher is an annotated edition of the selected correspondence of Sylvia Beach, publisher and owner of the Shakespeare and Company bookstore, the writer and editor Bryher (Annie Winifred Ellerman), and her partner, the poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle). The years covered by this selection, 1918 to 1931, are some of the most prolific for these women and for modernism. Beach published James Joyce’s Ulysses, H.D. wrote several books of poetry and prose, Bryher established POOL Productions and Close Up, the first magazine devoted to film criticism, and much more. The relationships fostered among H.D., Bryher, and Beach express an unconventional model for creative production—one more concerned with helping each other than making a profit. This model is expressed not only in Bryher’s publishing endeavors and financial support of Shakespeare and Company and other artists in her sphere, but also in the well-documented sacrifices Beach made to bring out Ulysses. Chatty and endearing, the letters demonstrate the way these relationships passed seamlessly from social to professional and back again. They are full of gossip, but also valuable professional advice and encouragement. For Bryher and H.D., who lived in Territet, Switzerland, Beach provided an essential connection not only to a major center of avant-garde art, but also, and more practically, to the mechanisms of distributing modernist writing: publishers, editors, literary journals, and printers. This dissertation joins a recovery of the work of women in the early twentieth century as well as a reconsideration of the roles each woman played in developing the modernist canon. These letters offer evidence of the influence of each woman’s efforts on an international network of artists and insight into the labor behind the great works of modernism.

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