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Beyond Good And Evil: Sister Leopolda's Traumatic Will To Power
(English, 2007-08-23)This is an in-depth analysis of one of Louise Erdrich's most extraordinary characters, Sister Leopolda. I examine Leopolda first as a trauma victim who has suffered the loss of family, witnessed the death and assault of ... -
Marriage Or Career? Domestic Ideology In George Gissing's The Odd Women
(English, 2007-08-23)Although George Gissing is acclaimed for his progressive thoughts on liberating women from patriarchy by establishing financial independence, some critics challenge such praise for Gissing by arguing that he is still ... -
"The Curse Never Fell Upon Our Nation Till Now": History And Fear In Philip Roth's The Plot Against America
(English, 2007-08-23)In The Plot Against America, Philip Roth questions the common perception of historic "inevitability" by creating a counter-factual history, placing himself and his childhood family into a fictional World War II America. ... -
Sunday In The Park With George: A Musical Curation By Stephen Sondheim
(English, 2007-08-23)This analysis serves to reveal the strong interconnectedness between museums and theatre (mentioned only briefly by other scholars) as uniquely demonstrated by Stephen Sondheim's musical, Sunday in the Park with George. ... -
Shades Of Scarlett: Cultural Images Of Historical Southern Women
(English, 2007-08-23)The white antebellum/Civil War-era woman occupies an evolving archetypal status in American cultural consciousness throughout the twentieth century. In 1936, extending a one-hundred year tradition of featuring Southern ... -
Hold Your Tongue: Female Speech And Male Anxieties In Early Modern England
(English, 2007-08-23)For early Modern England, containing female speech was essential to maintaining order. Through their speech, women could raise questions about and subvert patriarchal power. The frequency of this trope shows that there ... -
Colorblind Fraternity: Unseating Racism, Males,
(English, 2007-08-23)This thesis examines four works by Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Typee, Omoo, and Benito Cereno as examples of a minority of nineteenth-century American literature that deconstruct negative black male stereotypes and promote ... -
The Parody Of Romance
(English, 2007-08-23)In Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature, Janice A. Radway studies the romance formula, identifying a set of generic criteria which offer its readers escapist purposes. Christian writers have ... -
"Black Sounds": Hemingway And Duende
(English, 2007-08-23)Along with his efforts to revitalize the Spanish arts in the 1920's and 1930's, Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca gave an address entitled "Play and Theory of Duende" in which he claims duende as a distinctly ... -
"Is This Her Fault Or Mine?": An Examination Of The Overregulation Of Sexuality In Measure For Measure As An Argument Against Early Modern Anti-theatricalism
(English, 2007-08-23)The early modern anti-theatricalist movement sought to permanently close the playhouses, arguing that theaters breed immorality through their association with prostitution and the female body. This thesis examines how ... -
Ladies And Loners: A Comparative Gender Study Of The Romance And Popular Western
(English, 2007-08-23)Despite the efforts of readers, writers and cultural critics, the fact remains that romance and the Western genres are considered low art. The real impetus behind this paper is not whether or not or even why they are ... -
The Magical Sublime: A New-old Lens On Magical Realism
(English, 2007-08-23)While magical realist critics often refer to magical realism's generic heritage of primitive cultures and indigenous mythology, Franz Roh's magischer realismus, and Surrealism, I will point to the sublime as a less recognized ... -
Death Of The American Dream: The Revolutionary Meaning Of Infant Mortality And Mourning In Hannah Webster Foster's the Coquette
(English, 2007-10-08)This thesis explores the broader implications of Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette through an acknowledgment and assessment of a male audience. The Coquette is a seduction narrative that is linked through form and ... -
Freeze-Frame: Time And Vision In Three Early Welty Stories
(English, 2007-10-08)Eudora Welty's early short stories provide a fitting career transition from photographer to writer. In particular, her creative figuration of time--enriched by her employment of photographic vision--graces her earliest ... -
Falling Into The Rabbit Hole: Monstrosity, Modesty, And Mary Toft
(English, 2008-08-08)The obstetrical hoax perpetrated by Mary Toft in eighteenth-century England is worth the further attention of English scholars, not only because numerous literary texts are inspired by or linked to the incident, but also ... -
Feeling Better Than Most People Think: Nature And The Body In Wallace Stegner's All The Little Live Things And The Spectator Bird
(English, 2008-09-17)Much of the critical scholarship on Wallace Stegner has focused, and continues to focus, on his role in the conservationist movement, on his environmental non-fiction, or on his skill as a teacher of writing. While these ... -
Lilith Rising: American Gothic Fiction And The Evolution Of The Female Hero In Sarah Wood's Julia And The Illuminated Baron, E.D.E.N. Southworth's The Hidden Hand, And Joss Whedon's Buffy The Vampire Slayer
(English, 2008-09-17)The construction and gendered identity of the female hero has long been a pressing concern of feminist criticism. A female hero capable of sustaining a role as a central protagonist in terms of complexity of character and ... -
Cracked Foundations: St. Antony, Textual Production, And Genre
(English, 2008-09-17)St. Antony is a saint who defies description. The foundational text about Antony--Athanasius' Life of Antony--is a text that introduces many of the paradigmatic elements of the hagiographic genre yet actually subverts ... -
Maternal Bodies, Ojibwe Histories And Materiality In The Novels And Memoirs Of Louise Erdrich
(English, 2009-09-16)This thesis examines uterine metaphors and birthing scenes in the novels and memoirs of Louise Erdrich. Specifically, it examines convergences between these images and material feminisms, as well as Ojibwe spirituality and ... -
Negotiated Authorship: A Rhetorical Analysis Of Professional Writer Job Postings
(English, 2009-09-16)This qualitative study (a rhetorical/discourse analysis) explores the genre of job postings, particularly postings for writing-related jobs in the financial services sector, to determine how words like "author" and "writer" ...