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Dangerous eloquence: Hate speech tactics in the discourse of Asa/Forrest Carter from 1954--1974.
(2004)
This study takes as its subject the political life and writings of Asa Earl Carter and the literary writings he produced under the name Forrest Carter during the period of 1954 through 1974. As part of this study, I offer ...
The feminist imaginary in the early writings of the poet/critic Susan Howe.
(2003)
Susan Howe's early work---the poetry collected in Frame Structures, Europe of Trusts, and My Emily Dickinson, reveals the emergence of a feminist imaginary. The feminist imaginary is writing which participates in the rupture ...
Mixedblood Metaphors: Allegories of Native America in the Fiction of James Purdy
(2009)
"Mixedblood Metaphors" analyzes the Native American aspects of seven novels, one novella, and a few short stories by the U.S. author James Purdy (1914-2009). Purdy's engagement with indigeneity includes the creation of ...
Contextualizing Byron's homographic signature: Explorations of his other self and voice.
(2001)
The redefinition of the sodomite in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century discourses on sexuality produced a new sexual subjectivity in England. The sodomite became a more visible figure in the eighteenth century, but in ...
Ashes Over the Southwest.
(2005)
Ashes Over the Southwest was a dissertation written in fulfillment of an interdisciplinary PhD between the English and Journalism departments at the University of Oklahoma. The key areas of concentration within the departments ...
Hamlet in the cinema :
(2007)
Realizing that films are a different medium than stage productions, this examination of the films of Laurence Olivier (1948), Tony Richardson (1969), Franco Zeffirelli(1990), Kenneth Branagh (1996), and Michael Almereyda ...
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 ...
Female fear: The body, gender, and the burdens of beauty.
(2001)
The popularity of beauty culture is a constant reminder of the ways in which the female body is associated with fear. The decisions regarding participation in beauty culture seem to revolve around the fear-inspired need ...
From orality to literacy: The intellectual traditions of black South African women.
(2003)
Black women in South Africa have a long history of intellectualism as evidenced by their expertise as oral performers, rehearsing and revitalizing vibrant storytelling traditions that have been inherited by matrilineal ...
Resisting madness: Women's negotiation of social control in early modern English literature.
(2000)
The first chapter deals with studies of madness and gender, referring to Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy as well as Erik Midelfort's and Michael MacDonald's analyses of mental illness during the Renaissance. This ...