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Resounding Footnotes Understanding the Pre-Romantics Through the Footer
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-13)
Labels can be highly problematic metaphysical entities when they suggest and lead to the creation of unity where little exists. When exactly did the Romantic Period start and stop? Some individual works are certainly ...
Trauma in Lyric: A National Reading of 20th Century Postwar Lyric
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-17)
Grounded in postwar German and British poetry, this thesis explores the dynamic tension between the historicity located in poetic language and the trans-temporality of the identification mechanism facilitated by the lyrical ...
Roadblocks to Publishing Obscenity and Blasphemy in Ulysses and The Satanic Verses
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-24)
The publishing industry is in such turmoil—thanks to digital publishing platforms which offer higher royalties and instant gratification to authors—that nearly every day a new story comes to light of a bookstore closing, ...
Campbell, Frye, and Girard: Myths, Heroes & Ritual Violence in Literature
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-18)
In my thesis, I analyze the literary theories of Joseph Campbell, Northrop Frye, and Rene Girard for their ability to address political concerns in literature. In the movement from Campbell -- who treated politics with ...
Speaking with the Subaltern: An Exploration of the Voices of South Asian Women in Literature and Film
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-17)
If the subaltern could speak, what would she say? Would the women of India and South Asia talk about arranged marriages, sati (the sacrificial burning of widows), bride burnings, clitoridectomy, purdah, pativratadharma ...
"I always wanted to be historical" : The Crack-Up of the Self from the Outside
(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-29)
The Perils of Patriarchy
(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-29)
Tracking patriarchal control through three Hitchcock films: North By Northwest, Notorious, and Rear Window.
Gendering the Techno-Orient: The Asian Woman in Speculative Fiction
(Vanderbilt University, 2021-04-27)
This thesis explores the complicated relations between the ontology of race and its gendered aesthetic representations within the phenomenon of techno-Orientalism, the prevailing tendency in textual and visual culture to ...
(Re)Encountering Africa: Repatriation and the African Imaginary in Black Travel Literature
(Vanderbilt University, 2021-05-12)
Orientalism at Home: The Mirror Through Latinx and Jewish American Literature
(Vanderbilt University, 2020-04-29)