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Few world cities can claim to have had as much of an impact on American literature as the Moroccan city of Tangier. The writers who resided in or passed through the city in the 1950s and the works of literature produced there have re...
M. L. Rosenthal's 1959 labeling of Robert Lowell's Life Studies as "Confessional, initiated a debate about the literary value of autobiographical writing. At the center of this controversy was the taboo subject matter explored by the...
The Tears of a Clown questions the pervasive narrative that men have begun only recently to realize the limitations society places on them as men. Scholars of masculinity contend men now are starting to see masculinity as an unattainable...
Instead of viewing the human self as an autonomous rational being, posthumanism understands the human as a material being shaped by a variety of physical, social, linguistic, political, economic, and historical forces; a material being...
Traditionally, ecopoetics has been interested in texts whose primary goal is to explore place, or locations that are imbued with human meaning or culture, as a solution to the problem of human alienation from the nonhuman world. While...
This dissertation examines the psychological repercussions of the collapse of regional, tradition-oriented unitary narratives and the rise of a mass consumer culture during the early 20th century in America. I demonstrate that there is a...
Troubling the Lineage addresses two persistent gaps in scholarship pertaining to the long poem in the twentieth century: the omission of works by women and the pervasive characterization of the long poem as a "masculine" form. As a...
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