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Lianne Barnes, University of Nevada Reno
In grapheme-color synesthesia, numbers and letters create a color experience that is consistent, automatic, and unique to each synesthete. Recent studies have examined the way viewing graphemes elicits colors as well as the possibility of bidirectional synesthesia, in which viewing colors may elicit graphemes in the minds of synesthetes (Dixon, Smilek, Cudahy, & Merikle, 2000). This thesis addresses the issue of bidirectionality to see if specific colors elicit the information represented by graphemes in a manner that is cognitively accessible to the synesthete observer.
Alexandro Leme, University of Arkansas Little Rock
In 1924, with the publication of the Manifeste du Surréalisme by the poet André Breton the Surrealist movement was officially launched. Surrealist photography at first was mainly produced in the darkroom through the manipulation of negatives often using techniques such as photogram, multiple exposure, solarization, etc. This work endeavors to establish a dialectical reconciliation between the real and the surreal, and between the real and the constructed. Underpinning this study is the premise that a single photograph may shift meaning as it moves from the place where it has been taken to the place where it is published or viewed.
Cecilia Morales, Texas A & M University
This thesis, focusing on seventeenth‐century English writers, examines the genre of Mothers' Legacies in relation to the conduct literature being written around the same time. It discusses the manner in which the women writers of Mothers' Legacies both confirm and deny the ideal form of womanhood laid out by conduct writers. By writing from the place of the mother, these women are fulfilling a socially prescribed role, but by publishing for a wide audience, they are stepping out of their traditional domestic domain. The end result of this thesis is the delineation and explanation for the gap between what seventeenth‐century women are told to do and what they actually do.
