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"Reservation of the mind": The literary native spaces in the fiction of Sherman Alexie.
(2000)
This dissertation is dedicated largely to the contradictory nature of what the literary reservation space means in primarily the works of Sherman Alexie, but also including N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Louise ...
Holy terror: The vampire as numinous experience in British and American literature.
(2000)
This dissertation investigates the experience of the numinous in a specific category of Gothic literature, which employs a vampire as the primary focus of its action, regardless of whether that figure is literal or metaphoric. ...
The literary mark: Linguistic oppositions and literary analysis.
(2000)
This study uses the linguistic concept of markedness as a method for analyzing literature. Because markedness is rarely used when examining literature, I spend the first part of the work explaining the concept and how it ...
Performative designs: Female identity in Louisa May Alcott's sensational and sentimental fiction.
(2000)
This is a study of Louisa May Alcott's conceptions of female identity in her sensational and sentimental fiction. Presenting a historical and cultural analysis of the sentimental notion of femininity, I analyze how Alcott's ...
The Native American postmodern-mimetic novel.
(2000)
This dissertation examines a new literary phenomenon---the Native American Postmodern---Mimetic novel. This genre is heralded by N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn, and it is exemplified by his subsequent novel, The ...
A disarming laughter: The role of humor in tribal cultures. An examination of humor in contemporary Native American literature and art.
(2000)
Non-Indians have long considered Indian people to possess little or no sense of humor because they trustingly accept prevailing stereotypes. This dissertation dispels this assumption by showing that humor has served, and ...
National stereotypes about Germans in American travel writings, 1815--1914.
(2000)
In the early nineteenth century, Americans believed Germans were sluggish, phlegmatic, kind, and devoted to beer-drinking. By the end of the nineteenth century Americans perceived Germans as efficient, hard-working, ...
Seymour Barab's "Songs of Perfect Propriety, Volumes I and II": The relationship between Barab's music and words by Dorothy Parker.
(2000)
With Songs of Perfect Propriety, Seymour Barab has offered singers, especially female ones, a chance to express themselves more personally through his music and the words of Dorothy Parker, an opportunity not often given ...
Go back the way you came :
(2000)
Go Back The Way You Came by Joey Brown is an original, full-length literary novel. The novel is preceded by a critical introduction entitled Writing in the Dirt: A Look at Identity Landscape in the Work of Female Novelists ...