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J. M. Coetzee's 'Postmodern' Corpus: Bodies/Texts, History, and Politics in the Apartheid Novels, 1974-1990
(2011)
This dissertation examines the apartheid novels of the South African writer J. M. Coetzee. Using postmodernism as its main theoretical framework and working at its intersections with feminism, postcolonialism, and ...
VFVSTETV (TO SERVE): AN INTRINSIC ANALYSIS OF MUSCOGEE PLAYWRIGHT ELAINE ANDERSON'S PLAYSCRIPTS
(2011)
Members of the Muscogee Nation have encountered and endured several challenging events (the Civil War, allotment, Oklahoma statehood, etc.) since the removal of their ancestors to Indian Territory. A number of writers ...
Sentimental Boundaries in Mark Twain's Novels
(2018-12-14)
In this dissertation, I discuss Mark Twain’s major novels in terms of sentimentality and boundary-making. Indeed, Twain is concerned with male sympathy toward other men in many of his major works: Tom Sawyer’s compassion ...
Pivotal Moment: Personal Histories of First-Year Composition
(2017-05-12)
This project links historical close readings of pivotal figures in the creation of first-year composition (FYC) labor practices to contemporary debates about how to best advocate for and reform contemporary labor conditions, ...
White Pathology: The African American Critique of Black Pathology Discourse at the Turn of the Century
(2018-05)
This project examines the ways African American authors from the turn of the twentieth century challenged racist violence and white supremacy and sought to create nuanced political responses and strategies. I focus on how ...
Leisure and Conversation in the Fin de Siècle Novel
(2017-12)
This project examines images of leisure in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Golden Bowl, and Howards End. These novels, all of which are set in Britain, depict the rapidly changing ...
"Languages for America": Race, Dialect, and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
(2011)
I argue the process of institutionalizing linguistic stereotypes began as authors during the nineteenth century pursued ways of characterizing the voices of literary figures using nontraditional languages. Literary dialects ...
The Denial of Neoliberalism: Genre in Contemporary American and World Anglophone Novels
(2017-05-12)
In this dissertation, “The Denial of Neoliberalism: Genre in Contemporary American and World Anglophone Novels,” I examine narratives, which demonstrate conflicts within the laissez-faire ideology. Neoliberalism presents ...
Imagining Irishness: Evolving Representations of National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Genre Fiction
(2012)
Though it has garnered some attention from recent scholars, the field of nineteenth- century Irish literary studies remains neglected. It seems to occupy a rather nebulous space, too "foreign" to be exactly Victorian and ...
Making and Unmaking Masculinity: Paradigms of Success and Failure in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
(2016-05-13)
This project focuses on the late-nineteenth and early twentieth century depictions of success and failure in prominent fiction and addresses how these concepts played a vital role in the construction of masculinity during ...