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Reddening the hearts and minds: The frontier myth and American identity in Vietnam War literature.
(1999)
I provide many examples from films and novels to illustrate a pattern resulting from the Vietnam War's threat to the frontier myth. The frontier myth is re-established in Vietnam War literature through a roughly chronological ...
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, ...
The "supramundane": The Kantian sublime in Lovecraft, Clarke, and Gibson.
(1998)
Failure of understanding is the basis of Kant's theory of the sublime. As shown in the Critique of Judgement, this painful experience allows insight into the sublime. The failure delineates the limitations of our capacity ...
Naming the violence: Women's domestic violence narratives.
(1998)
Long before our twentieth-century, psycho-socio-political understanding of domestic violence, women wrote about this form of oppression in their letters, diaries, journals, essays, novels, poetry, and tracts. These highly ...
Hacking away with an ax: Henry Miller and modernity.
(1999)
Miller attacks his world as fundamentally flawed. The world he critiques, however, still exists. The shape it was taking in the early part of the century has only become clearer with an urban crisis and mass lay-offs of ...
A theory of conflict and cooperation within interlocutor relationships in the discourse of synchronous computer conferencing.
(1998)
This project investigates the dynamics of conflict and cooperation in the construction of interlocutor relationships in synchronous computer conferencing (SCC). Chapters One and Two of the dissertation present my qualitative ...
"Can the sensational be elevated by art?" :
(1997)
Since few scholars are acquainted with Braddon, I spend Chapter 1 recounting her background and the works of previous scholars about her. Chapter 2 delves into the serialized mode of production in order to contextualize ...
"Our obligation to memory": Home environment, public service and feminism in the works of Jane Addams, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Willa Cather.
(1999)
Some turn-of-the-century American women writers such as Jane Addams and Willa Cather use various ideas of memory and domesticity around which to build a "conservative" feminist theory through which to draw women's traditions ...
A reconsideration of "Christian humanism" in the English Renaissance: Historicizing More, Elyot, and Spenser with a focus on Tudor nationalism.
(1997)
Chapter Two addresses Sir Thomas More as a Catholic humanist, who represents English humanism before the Henrician Reformation and nationalism. Henry's break with Rome gave momentum to the development of Tudor dynastic ...
The spatial discourse of realism and modernism in American fiction, photography, and poetry.
(1997)
The first three chapters establish the principles and methods underlying the spatial practice of realism. In Crane's Maggie, A Girl of the Streets, Howells's A Hazard of New Fortunes, and Riis's How the Other Half Lives, ...