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The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the origin of the naturalistic sensibility in modern Korean literature. To this end, this study focuses on the Korean writer Kim Tongin and his analogous relationship with his western...
In this thesis I argue that Dos Passos's politics, at least as they are manifested in his writing, do not follow any one party line, and that producing novels which suggested a strict adherence to any single political group would be...
In this thesis, I explore the carrier narratives of Mary Mallon, or "Typhoid Mary, and their intersections with developments in medical science and immigration policies at the time. To construct this case, I sought texts within the much...
Shirley Temple Dreams is a collection of linked stories about Japanese Americans before, during, and after World War II, the times ranging from the turn of the century to the postwar fifties. Eleven stories are structured into three...
In this thesis, I focus on the early from 1870 to 1940. I confirm that they did try to preserve their ethnic identity through language by applying Benedict Anderson's theory "imagined communities." In the first chapter, I explain the...
The third quiet revolution to which my title refers is occurring now. In both literature and history, important changes are taking place, with more and more scholars seriously questioning the methods of each discipline, the validity...
The West End, a novel set in Vancouver, Canada in the years directly preceding the handover of Hong Kong in 1997, is the story of two sisters, Claire and Hannah Stephen, whose love of art and the environment is challenged by the...
The primary purpose of this descriptive study was to examine the different ways first-year writing (FYW) is conceived at colleges/universities throughout Florida. Hence, much like Richard Larson's 1986 study, the researcher analyzed FYW...
To study Southern literature is to inevitably study the search for Southern identity. Challenged by issues of gender, race, and class, the Southern literary tradition is immersed in the search for a static, definitive concept of Southern...
A history of Capital, like a history of religion, reflects little more than the current fashion in historical time. A metaphysics of Capital, derived from the preponderance of a capitalizing bare life, supports the idea that Capital has...
Texts of a Nation: The Literary, Politcal, and Religious Imaginary of Pakistan
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This study focuses on the foundational texts of Pakistan. Most theories of anticolonial nationalism have a strictly culturalist emphasis, of which the works of Partha Chatterjee and Benedict Anderson are two good examples. I suggest that...
This thesis is composed of two parts and makes use of two literary genres: the traditional essay, and a literary form called fictocriticism developed by anthropologist Michael Taussig. Both are integrated in an exploration of the rural...
My thesis, entitled Behind Closed Eyes, is a novella that intends to explore the struggle for identity that an American-born Korean must contend with—the issues of assimilating in America while yearning for roots. There is the innate...
In Hard Facts, Amiri Baraka's first volume of Marxist poetry, the poem "When We'll Worship Jesus" catalogues the poet's disillusionment and ambivalence about accepting religion as a possible weapon to combat racial and economic injustice...
This project is an attempt to reinvestigate the concept of subalternity in the context of the information age while building its foundation on the previous contentions offered by such critics as Ranajit Guha and Gayatri Spivak. Tracing...
This thesis examines the way in which Hip Hop affects language, communication, and the way it reshapes meaning. The poetics of Hip Hop document variations in slang and colloquialisms and other innovations in language. Through the textual...
Studies of Catholic American literature have preferred analyses of authors whose work demonstrates a reverence to the faith they openly acknowledged. However, with the exception of Paul Giles's American Catholic Arts and Fictions, most...
The encompassing claim of this study is that Tolkien operated as a social critic through his fictional writing, and that Tolkien's developing social criticism has its roots in his critical interpretations of The Battle of Maldon and SGGK...
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