Browsing Department of English by Title
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The Cambridge History of American Literature
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Canons by Consensus
(University of Alabama Press, 2004) -
Century Readings for a Course in American Literature
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Chaucer's De-colonized Custance
(English, 2014-07-14)Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale (MLT) contains several non-Western views, religious practices, cultures and laws. Most importantly, within the MLT readers can discover an alternative to viewing non-Western people as enemies. ... -
Chicken And Dumplings: The Motif Of Food In Appalachian Literature
(English, 2011-03-03)Food is an important element of literature. It can help to establish setting, conflicts, a hero and heroine, relationships with nature and other humans, comfort to readers as well as characters in fictional texts, class ... -
Children Of Israel: Jacob Figures And Themes In The Novels Of Chaim Potok
(English, 2011-03-03)The twentieth-century novelist Chaim Potok made central to his fiction what he called “culture war,” juxtaposing his Jewish-American characters' inner spiritual lives with key elements of Western secularism. In five of ... -
Colonial American Writing
(Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc, 1950) -
Colonial and Federal to 1800
(The Viking Press: New YorkDepartment of EnglishUniversity of Texas at Arlington, 1962)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** -
Colonial Shame and its Effect on Puerto Rican Culture
(2017-06-01)I explore how American influence affects Puerto Rican culture through colonial shame. My dissertation is informed by the following questions: (1) In what ways does Puerto Rican culture attempt to move away from colonial ... -
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 Commentary On Female Self-discipline In Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple And Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette
(English, 2011-07-14)This thesis studies Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple and Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette to explore the embedded commentary about the discourse of female selfdiscipline in the two novels. As two best-selling seduction ... -
"A Condition Of Potentiality": American Women's Utopian And Science Fiction, 1920-1960
(English, 2009-09-16)The 1920-1960 period of women-authored United States utopian and science fiction deserves a reassessment. This study focuses on utopian texts and science fiction texts with strong utopian emphasis and recovers 41 women-authored ... -
Confronting The Spectacle Of The Other (than Human): Posthumanism And The Convergence Of Art, Aesthetics, And Ethics
This project argues that humans should recognize the intersection of aesthetics and ethics in literature, film, and art that use or represent nonhuman animals. Too often, the right of artists to express their "message" ... -
Constructing Mothering Performances: The Motherhood Ideal In Caldecott And Newbery Winners, 1980-2014
This project examines representations of motherhood in Caldecott and Newbery winners from 1980-2014 and is informed by feminist literary theory, juvenile literary theory, and motherhood studies. While motherhood studies ... -
Continuing Narratives Of The Pharmakos: Trans-ethical Perspectives Through The Liminal Performativity Of Material Agencies In Drug Genre Film
(English, 2014-12)In American film and television, the drug user or producer is often associated with narratives of the pharmakos, or "scapegoat," seemingly serving to expel the contamination of American identity and ethics. By analyzing ... -
Covers, Titles, and Tables
(University of Texas at Arlington Library, 2011-02-23)The "canon wars" of the 1980s and 1990s spilled over into highly publicized political debates about what types of literature should "represent" Americans and what is the "best" of our literature and culture. Unfortunately, ... -
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 ...