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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 ...
Women and the avant-garde: Sexual difference in discourse and art, 1900--1950.
(2002)
This study seeks to understand the critical influences shaping the literary and artistic exchanges between women and the modernist avant-garde. It analyzes texts disclosing expressions of gender and sexual difference ...
We still tell stories: An examination of Cherokee oral literature.
(2002)
A primary objective of the study is to show that Cherokee Indians are not antiquated human beings stuck in history, but a modern, contemporary people with deep ancestral connections to their heritage. The stories they tell ...
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 ...
The life and work of Gretel Karplus/Adorno: Her contributions to Frankfurt School theory.
(2004)
This dissertation uses the insights of contemporary rhetorical theory and feminist biography to acknowledge the contributions of Gretel Karplus/Adorno to the productivity of her husband, Theodor W. Adorno, of her dear ...
Bells and whistles: The mass (re)production of female bodies for male consumption.
(2003)
In this work I examine the way female bodies are constructed by contemporary ethnic U.S. women writers in the clash of cultures, thus involving a process of negotiation between the dominant culture and ethnicity. Of special ...
Red Scare rhetoric and composition: Early Cold War effects on university writing instruction, 1934--1954.
(2004)
This dissertation investigates composition and communication philosophies and practices from the years 1934--1954. Generally speaking, writing instruction suffered during the Cold War because the political climate reduced ...
Antimodern strategies: Ambivalence, accommodation, and protest in Willa Cather's "The Troll Garden".
(2004)
In this project I argue that Willa Cather's earliest collection of stories, The Troll Garden (1905), demonstrates the antimodern ethos of the American fin de siecle period as characterized by both progressive rhetoric and ...
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, ...