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Writing in the Age of Speed
(2009)
This dissertation argues that speed characterizes the world of technology in the twenty-first century. The ideologies inherent in technologies have always been of enormous interest to historians, philosophers, and political ...
Timely materialisms: Modernism, subjectivity, and language.
(2001)
In Timely Materialisms: Modernism, Subjectivity, and Language I examine some major figures in literary modernism in relationship to the critique of scientific positivism, particularly as it plays out in the human sciences. ...
Acts of empathic imagination: Contemporary Native American artists and writers as healers.
(2001)
This dissertation uses the model of Native American "Morning Prayers" to establish four geographic and cultural regions within the United States as the means to discuss the relationship between health and contemporary ...
Who Shall Gainsay Our Decision? Choctaw Literary Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century
(2009)
This study examines the writing of a group of young Choctaw intellectuals, the first generation of that society of American Indians to embrace literacy as a fully viable tool of discourse. Working in the pre-removal period, ...
Into the fold: The folded narratives of Henry Miller, Djuna Barnes, William S. Burroughs and J. G. Ballard.
(2006)
Frequently, literary critics have overlooked the narrative possibilities of authors who have been profoundly affected by the surrealists. They use various metaphors to describe their narratives such as hallucinatory, ...
The art that will not die: The story-telling of Greg Sarris and Thomas King.
(2001)
This study addresses the importance of the continuance of storytelling through the written medium in the understanding of one's individuality in relationship to place the community. More importantly, it investigates the ...
Prefacing the poetess: Gender and textual presentation in seventeenth-century England.
(2000)
A.B.'s Covent Garden Drollery (1672) is important to the history of the anthologized preface. The prologues and epilogues in the drollery participate in the discourse of the professional woman in theatre, representing women ...
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. ...
A performance history of John Dryden and Henry Purcell's "King Arthur".
(2004)
Primary source documents considered in this study are Dryden's text published in 1691 and reprinted in 1695, and several manuscript scores by Purcell dating from the 1690's and very early 1700's. Additionally, a notated ...
Dissent: Detroit and the underground press, 1965--1969.
(2001)
The relationship between Detroit's underground presses---which included The Fifth Estate, Creem, Sun, the Artists' Workshop Press , the Inner City Voice, the South End Press, The Broadside Press, and Guerrilla---and the ...