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Rewriting empire: Rewriting canonical British texts from a postcolonial perspective.
(2001)
In this dissertation, I examine several postcolonial texts that rewrite or revise an earlier English work. My objective here is to uncover the reasons why this is such a popular method of writing for postcolonial authors ...
A genealogy of eccentricity.
(1998)
Finally, in the Victorian era, the eccentric lost yet more cultural power and even began to disappear. Eccentricity was idealized by many, but this only made the eccentric seem a mere (and foolish) idealist. Additionally, ...
From ambivalence to acquiescence :
(1981)
A novelist's success depends a great deal on the reader's memory. Although a work of fiction must tell its own story, the use of structural patterns and devices found in previous and contemporary works can be used by a ...
Severall Coloured Ribbons :
(2000)
The dissertation establishes a connection between Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle's system of natural philosophy and her theory of creativity, her conception of the free use of the imagination. In her natural ...
'Daughter of Zion': Elizabeth I and the relationship of virginity to monarchical power.
(2000)
The argument of the dissertation involves the meanings of virginity and the representations of Elizabeth I during her reign and in the century after her death. Elizabeth has long been associated with the term "Virgin Queen, ...
The Materiality of Disability in Animal’s People
(2019-05)
Metaphors are useful tools for understanding large, complicated issues, but they are inherently limiting. Particularly in a disability context, the application of metaphor relegates the material differences of a disabled ...
The function of humor in the works of John Milton /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1975)
Timely materialisms: Modernism, subjectivity, and language.
(2001)
In Timely Materialisms: Modernism, Subjectivity, and Language I examine some major figures in literary modernism in relationship to the critique of scientific positivism, particularly as it plays out in the human sciences. ...
“The Lord That Counseled Thee to Give Away thy Land”: The Wardship Controversy in the First Quarto Version of King Lear
(2019)
This thesis argues that the 1608 First Quarto (Q) version of William Shakespeare’s tragedy King Lear responds to then-ongoing popular agitation in England against the institution of wardship. Q implicitly affirms routinely-made ...