Browsing by Author "Keresztesi, Rita"
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Cloud, Calf, and Cannon: An Ecological Reading of "War and Peace"
Hill, Ian (2022-05-14)This essay engages in an ecocritical–spatial reading of Leo Tolstoy’s "War and Peace" focused on the narrator’s conscientious and equitable treatment of nature, animals, and topography. Where traditional historical–temporal ... -
Domesticity, Utopia, and Biopolitics: A Critical Study of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Moving the Mountain
Nepomnick, Allison (2018-05-11)With the rise of first-wave feminism in United States, often characterized by the movement to secure women the right to vote and enact a voice in the public sphere, the early twentieth century indicated a clear ideological ... -
Making and Unmaking Masculinity: Paradigms of Success and Failure in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
La Shot, Derek (2016-05-13)This project focuses on the late-nineteenth and early twentieth century depictions of success and failure in prominent fiction and addresses how these concepts played a vital role in the construction of masculinity during ... -
The Masculine Dilemma: Entanglement of Violence and Maleness in "The Only Good Indians"
Witt, Jacob (2022-05-14)This thesis examines the four Blackfeet male protagonists within Stephen Graham Jones’s "The Only Good Indians" in order to investigate stereotypes often applied to masculinity, specifically Indigenous masculinity. Examining ... -
Misogyny and murder: crime fiction by women from 1947-1959
Brown, Brittney (2022)This project demonstrates that American women authors from 1947-1959 repurposed the crime genre to critique and engage with misogyny and sexism of the day. Hardboiled crime fiction, which was at its peak popularity in ... -
THE MUSLIM FEMALE BODY IN TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY DISCOURSES BY ARAB AND ARAB AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS
El Gendy, Nancy (2014-08-15)Abstract The Muslim Female Body in Twenty-First-Century Discourses by Arab and Arab American Women Writers employs a culturally symptomatic approach in its reading of various modes of representation of the Muslim female ... -
Noise and Fragile Symphonies: Animality and the South African Sonic Genre in The Whale Caller, Disgrace, and Nineveh
Mason, Samantha (2019-05-11)When establishing an interspecies ethics, it is often the gaze that is used to establish the agency of the animal Other in the absence of logocentric speech. However, when considering the physical realities of the nonhuman ... -
Racism and Resistance: Contextualizing Sorry to Bother You in the Neoliberal Moment
Bozarth, Hayden (2019-05-11)The goal of this paper is to discuss the historical and theoretical framework of neoliberalism through three films that place the Black body at the center of neoliberal economic and ideological systems: Sorry to Bother You ... -
Silence of the Limbs: Dismemberment, Female Bodies, and Literary Pieces
Green, Makenna (2016-05)Using a postcolonial, feminist approach grounded in psychoanalysis, this dissertation focuses on novels that feature dismembered bodies of women. Some particularly profound twentieth and twenty-first century novels written ... -
Staging American constraint: from containment to confinement post 1945
Pickens, Mark Jr. (2020-05-08)An analysis of American plays from the mid-late 20th century, this study explores dramas representing and resisting social constraint on stage. It organizes its discussion around two primary forms of constraint understood ... -
(Un)decidable Stereotypes: Anti-Racist Satire in Popular American Literature from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Mid-Twentieth Century
Seto, Takahiro (2022-05-13)This dissertation examines the satirical strategy that employs racial stereotypes to critique racism. I read the work of Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Charles W. Chesnutt, Dorothy Parker, and Langston Hughes and explore how this ... -
“Why Would They Bury Her When She Can Still Walk Around” : Examining an Indigenous Gothic
Rosillo, Tatiana (2022-05-14)In “Why Would They Bury Her When She Can Still Walk Around” : Examining an Indigenous Gothic, Tatiana Rosillo adapts the genre conventions of the literary Gothic to examine Indigenous genre media and analyze what an ...