Browsing by Subject "modernism"
Now showing items 1-13 of 13
-
(2013-07-29)Department: EnglishThis is a study of US American literary modernism during the 1910s, ‘20s, and ‘30s, a field of restricted production in which authors struggle for symbolic capital in order to gain position. I identify “the Indian,” in all ...
-
(2013-04-17)Department: GermanHand/Arbeit/Buch/Schrift investigates the persistent absence of the female hand from representation. It suggests that the female hand embodies a pernicious blind spot in the humanist discourse, resisting representa-tion ...
-
(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-29)
-
(2006-06-29)Department: EnglishMost analyses of Michelangelo Antonioni’s films have emphasized themes of alienation, but these interpretations have ignored postwar attempts to address issues of ethical responsibility. As much as Antonioni’s films are ...
-
(2008-09-24)Department: EnglishThis dissertation is a study of the relationship between product branding and American literature and culture around the turn of the twentieth century. By the late nineteenth century, branding had emerged in the United ...
-
(2014-07-21)Department: EnglishThis dissertation examines textual constructions of stillness—representations of waiting, resting, hesitating, sensing, and perceiving—and argues that the still body becomes a trope infused with political significance in ...
-
(2012-07-30)Department: SpanishThis dissertation explores both the Hispanic and Anglo-American modernist traditions from the common standpoint of the palimpsest. Central to the diverse body of modernist writings is the appropriation of French symbolism, ...
-
(2010-08-05)Department: EnglishMy dissertation argues British writers in the 1930s and 1940s all explored the political efficacy of other media in order to create new definitions of Englishness. It aims both to shed light on the relationship between ...
-
(2015-11-23)Department: EnglishUnder the title “Continuous Performance,” Dorothy Richardson’s contributions to the avant-garde little magazine Close Up advance a new theory of film that, consonant with the general aims of the journal, aimed to preserve ...
-
(2008-12-06)Department: EnglishThis dissertation examines the significance of noise for modernist culture. Noise functions as both a literal and figurative presence in the aural culture of the early twentieth century: as the sounds produced by modern ...
-
(2009-06-10)Department: EnglishAlthough the outbreak of “Spanish flu” in 1918-1919 has been labeled a “forgotten pandemic,” it has made a significant mark on literature and culture, especially that of the 1930s. This paper examines three works of that ...
-
(2018-07-26)Department: EnglishThe Literature of Information Overload considers modernist literature’s complicated involvement in the history of the encyclopedia—that is, in the history of formal solutions to the problem of information overload that ...
-
(2015-06-09)Department: English"Understanding Criticism" argues that the dominant narrative of the disciplinary history of literary studies has thwarted an analysis of the entanglement of anti-blackness and literary criticism. In the 1940s and 1950s, ...