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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 ...
Scripture, Sects, and Shakespeare: Rupture and Reconciliation on the Early Modern Stage
(2019-05-02)
Scripture, Sects, and Shakespeare: Rupture and Reconciliation on the Early Modern Stage explores how Shakespearean drama is shaped by and responds to the Protestant Reformation's crisis of hermeneutical authority. With the ...
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 ...
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 ironic vision in the fiction of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and William Faulkner /
(1983)
Similarly, these authors debunk the myth of the brave new future. In a fallen, "irremediably flawed" world there is a disjunction between past and present which prevents continuity of culture, ethics, traditions, and family ...
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 ...