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Documents in the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Library of Congress, and Fogelman Library at the New School for Social Research demonstrate Henry Cowell's tireless efforts on behalf of dissonant counterpoint, a...
These nine stories are a reflection of the shifting culture and rapid economic growth of Northwest Arkansas, the birthplace of Walmart and Tyson Foods. While the stories may have a distinctly Southern flavor in their setting, they are...
Introduction: Evidence suggests that disturbed sleep may constitute an important and modifiable vulnerability factor for acute suicidal risk and completed suicide. Sleep complaints are closely coupled with mood problems, and depression...
Understanding religious imagery and its uses on stage is essential to interpreting drama, beginning as it did in the sacred rituals of ancient Greece. In post-World-War-II America, playwrights divested religious elements of their...
Modernist literature positioned itself as the principal imaginer of what I call a "perception sickness." One character after another--usually an artist or artist figure--suffers from a too-keen perception with dangerous consequences....
This dissertation describes the creation of a myth of America's religious heritage. This myth revolved around an assertion of foundational religious principles that established and supported American freedom. These values and the freedom...
This dissertation is an examination of how American religious historians have described Protestant support for American war from 1702 through 1992. It is a historiography that contributes to the lack of recent American religious...
Feeling powerful or powerless can affect the manner in which one processes persuasive appeals. Previous research suggests that people who lack power tend to engage in careful, deliberate forms of cognition. In contrast, high power has...
War films display how cultures conceive war and how perceptions of war are shaped. Essentially, wars are fought on two fronts, both on the battlefield and as propaganda for national cultures. This study examines Hollywood's depictions of...
This creative thesis tells how, in the summer of 2005, the author'a malingering grad student who had already overstayed his welcome in a vain five-year attempt to forge a novel'drove the entire length of the United States along...
This dissertation novel is the result of a longstanding desire by the author to fictionalize an incident firmly embedded in her family lore concerning the immigration of her grandmother's parents to America, the tragic death of her great...
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...
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...
This dissertation presents evidence, using the vehicle of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's philosophy, that Charles Dickens remained an optimist, contrary to critical opinion that claims he became a dark pessimist during the latter half of his...
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