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"Because the Southern Authors' Award concerned books about the Southern region, this writer sought to evaluate their contribution to Southern literature through the reviews appearing in the Book Review Digest. This medium was chosen,...
This dissertation explores the role of food representation and identity in Hispanic cultural production as they participate in establishing resistant agency despite historical contexts of authoritarian oppression. Accordingly, I explore...
The subject of my doctoral dissertation is the abduction and illegal adoptions of children of Republican parents during the Franco dictatorship (1939-1975) and the continued struggle of thousands to acknowledge and resolve this violation...
This project engages Antonin Artaud's highly influential critical volume, The Theater and Its Double, through the dual critical lenses of Psychoanalysis and Deconstruction in order to generate responses to questions posed by Artaud’s...
In my paper, I investigate how money is depicted and the way it plays a primary function and catalyst in its interactions with the other protagonists, how attitudes toward money manifest in the characters’ actions and reveal their...
The lives and landscapes that exist within these poems serve as catalysts for reflections upon issues related to personal familial conflict, the attempt to construct a pragmatic, moral structure while struggling with the influence of...
Since the 1990s, a large number of texts has been labeled as ‘pop literature'. Although the definition of this term varies broadly depending on the research interest, most scholars come to the conclusion that adolescence and the search...
"The purpose of this paper is to present the life and works of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings by writing her biography with a summary of her contributions to the field of regional literature. The writer of this paper, a native Floridian,...
"This paper gives a brief account of the life of William Maxwell under such aspects as childhood, education, travels, writings and awards. A discussion of his novels presented in the order of publication will include critical reaction to...
The Paper Machine is a collection of narrative and contemplative poems whose speakers explore the significance of domestic relationships that shape everyday life. Works in this series of poems engage rural and urban southern settings in...
Adrienne Rich explains that the contemporary concept of the home and the domestic sphere is a cultural construct rather than an essential, inherent biological identity. She asserts that the “nineteenth- and twentieth-century ideal of the...
Blood We Did Not Spill, a historical political novel, begins in June 1997 when a young Indian Police Services officer stops at a small town to visit a retired police officer—delusional and very sick—on behalf of her boss. She sees him...
This dissertation examines the ways in which Lydgate's Troy Book, both the textual and visual narratives, functioned in fifteenth-century England. As Henry V sought to legitimate his claim to the throne usurped by his father, he...
Though the influence of penny fiction on the sensation novel was widely recognized by Victorians and is acknowledged by modern critics, there has been little examination of the relationship between these genres. My dissertation addresses...
The dissertation manuscript Gog chronicles my experiences as a Jehovah's Witness from a working-class family, investigating larger issues of poverty, religious persecution, and generational cycles of violence while also exploring the...
My dissertation, The Alchemy of Sexuality in Early Modern English Lyric Poetry examines the complex relationship of poetry, sexuality and religion to alchemy in early modern England. I analyze poetic representations of transgressive...
Darker Matters: Racial Theorizing through Alternate History, Transhistorical Black Bodies, and Towards a Literature of Black Mecha in the Science Fiction Novels of Steven Barnes
This dissertation seeks to provide a critical investigation of several novels written by African American science- and speculative fiction author, Steven Barnes. In exploring Lion's Blood (2002), Blood Brothers (1996), the Aubry Knight...
When news of the most recent Kuomingtang invasion arrived, Ping and the other platoon members were more interested in its carrier, a new comrade that would join their unit--a girl this time--named Yong. She had transferred to Iron Well...
Literary Violence in the Age of Depression explores violence in contemporary literature and popular culture by evaluating the decline of social bonds in American society and the heightening of Mertonian strain that developed in the wake...
The poems in Dear Bright explore the possibly of love in a deeply anxious world. They are often epistolary, addressing the eponymous Bright through a series of imagined universes in which the speaker and Bright can create and recreate...
In this dissertation I examine the gendering of cannibalistic consumption in early modern literature by analyzing literary moments in which a woman is a cannibal or victim of cannibalistic consumption in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie...
The formation of the ideal man in the 18th Century German Enlightenment is based on the concepts of Bildung and Einbildung—the idea that one should not simply look at the world, but observe it and attempt to incorporate it into oneself....
Mapping the Poetics of Early Modern Garden and Lyric Traditions explores the reciprocal relationship between the poet and his surroundings by examining how the major aesthetic conventions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries take...
My thesis is an experimental project that explores the connection between aesthetics and meaning-formation. The inspiration for the project emerged out of my research into the work of a group of poets known as infrarrealistas, whose most...
The purpose of this project is to explore the representation of gender and power in three selected works by the Peruvian writer Aurora Cáceres. The three specific works selected are her: novel La rosa muerta, travel log Oasis de arte, ...
This dissertation explores the recollection of historical memory in a number of significant literary and cinematic texts produced during the first thirty years of the Francoist dictatorship. Ironically, the first quarter-century of post...
Preliminary List of Persons to Whom Notices of Mrs. N. W. Eppes's Book, "The Negro of the Old South" Should be Sent.: (Furnished by R. M. Harper, Oct. 9, 1924
ABSTRACT Dan P. McAdams has noted that “over the past three decades, a growing number of philosophers, social scientists, and empirical psychologists have developed theories and research paradigms around the fundamental proposition that...
From 1934 — when guidelines for Socialist Realism were established at the first All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers — to Stalin’s death in 1953, Soviet folklore deliberately promoted the new social order and encouraged the rural masses...
Overwriting Literature and Other Acts of Cultural Terrorism in the Control Era examines American experimental writers and artists who compose in what Gilles Deleuze called the control era. This project locates the beginning of the...
The poems in The Lubbock I Carry primarily operate according to traditional free-verse poetic convention, working to render, as a means of both illumination and interrogation, the emotional and physical landscapes of the past, how they...
The power of Confessional poetry derives in large part from its reputation for telling the truth. Indeed, the very term “confessional” indicates the genre’s status as a discourse of truth. Recent scholarship on Confessional poetry has...
This project seeks to examine the way in which modernist novelists John Dos Passos, Claude McKay, Louis Aragon, and Virginia Woolf depict urban spaces in the early-twentieth century metropolises of New York, Paris, and London. These...
The Emperor of Shoes follows a long tradition of 20th century Jewish-American writers--Bellow, Roth, Paley and Olsen, to name a few--addressing issues of work and commerce in America. My novel, however, carries this tradition into the...
This is a novel that takes place primarily in 1947 – 1948—the immediate postwar period—in a fictional British Caribbean island named St. Francis. St. Francis, while a distinct fictional space, is strongly based off the island I grew up...
Italy has a rich history of excellent literature and, perhaps most significantly, excellent poetry. The poetry of Gabriele d'Annunzio (1863-1938) is sensual, evocative, and evokes powerful images. Not surprisingly, his poetry was highly...
Though many scholars have already remarked upon the Caribbean as a site of cultural and culinary convergence, this study specifically addresses the role of women, desire, and food within literature of the region. Existing research on...
As Close As Hands focuses on the lives of twin sisters, Beth and Rachel Berkowitz. After years of being teased by classmates about their Jewish noses, they hatch a plan to raise money to have them altered. Once in college, with jobs...
Flowers as Mind Control is a debut collection of poems that mixes the Welsh notion of Hiraeth and memories with a fiery, insatiable need to "power through." It also blends narrative elements with lyric ones. Here I try for a raw edge...
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