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Gothic Modernisms: Aesthetics, Politics, Culture
(2011)
I analyze the persistence of Gothic conventions in the works of four major British modernist writers: Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, and D. H Lawrence. These writers depict cultural, political, and aesthetic ...
The British Image of Empire in the Victorian Novel
(2011)
In my dissertation, I analyze six novels from five British authors, beginning with William Makepeace Thackeray's <Vanity Fair> (1847) and moving on to Charlotte Bronte's <Jane Eyre>, Emily Bronte's <Wuthering Heights>, ...
Gothic Modernisms: Aesthetics, Politics, Culture
(2011)
I analyze the persistence of Gothic conventions in the works of four major British modernist writers: Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, and D. H Lawrence. These writers depict cultural, political, and aesthetic ...
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 ...
"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 ...
BIFOCAL LENSES: MEETING SPACES OF JEWISH-AMERICAN AND "MAINSTREAM" AMERICAN LITERATURE
(2011)
This dissertation critically examines the concept of Jewish-American literary hyphenation, analyzing its historical and theoretical consequences (chapters one and two), then applying the results of that analysis to three ...