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Holy terror: The vampire as numinous experience in British and American literature.
(2000)
This dissertation investigates the experience of the numinous in a specific category of Gothic literature, which employs a vampire as the primary focus of its action, regardless of whether that figure is literal or metaphoric. ...
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 ...
The Holy Land in transit: Colonialism and the quest for Canaan.
(2003)
Through a comparative analysis of colonialism in the New World and Holy Land with attention to how politics influence literary production, I examine the process by which settler societies transform theological narratives ...