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INCORPORATING MULTIPLE HISTORIES: THE POSSIBILITY OF NARRATIVE RUPTURE OF THE ARCHIVE IN V. AND BELOVED
(2010)
Novels of the twentieth century are grappling with the questions of identity in relation to history, but a self-reflexive history, a history that is always suspicious of itself. Alienated from cultural, religious and ...
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>, ...
REPRESENTATIONS OF MALE MEDIEVAL LITERARY CHARACTERS AND THE MEDIEVAL UNDERSTANDING OF GENDERED CHARACTERISTICS
(2019-05)
This dissertation analyzes how medieval society understood the way gender characteristics were composed and balanced in a person by applying classical theories on biology, the humors, physiognomy, and astrology to medieval ...
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 ...
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 ...
THE MUSLIM FEMALE BODY IN TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY DISCOURSES BY ARAB AND ARAB AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS
(2014-08-15)
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The Muslim Female Body in Twenty-First-Century Discourses by Arab and Arab American Women Writers employs a culturally symptomatic approach in its reading of various modes of representation of the Muslim female ...
NATIVE STORIES: AMERICAN INDIAN REPRESENTATION AND SELF-REPRESENTATION IN RHETORIC AND LITERATURE
(2018-05-11)
ABSTRACT
In this dissertation, American Indian Representation and Self-Representation in Rhetoric and Literature, I examine both positive and negative representations of American Indians in the genres of poetry, fiction, ...
The Spiritual Rhetoric of Early Methodist Women Susanna Wesley, Sarah Crosby, Mary Bosanquet Fletcher, and Hester Rogers
(2013)
This dissertation examines the rhetorical features of letters and journals composed by Susanna Wesley, Sarah Crosby, Mary Bosanquet Fletcher, and Hester Rogers, all prominent and influential women in the early years of the ...
Imagining Choctaw: Self-Imagination and Settler Colonialism
(2017-08-01)
As Native American tribes work towards self-determination, they must first fully imagine who they are and who they want to become. Self-imagination, the act of conceptualizing ourselves, is requisite for self-determination. ...
The Pursuit of Privacy in Medieval Landscapes
(2015-05-08)
The Pursuit of Privacy in Medieval Landscapes identifies the ways in which individual pursuits of privacy in the medieval world are shaped by the landscapes in which those pursuits occur. There is a correlation between the ...