Browsing by Department "English"
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(2011-08-02)Department: EnglishRichard Wright's powerful 1940 novel Native Son holds a notoriously vexed place in literary history. Wright has been variously disparaged for his depiction of women, pilloried for his "gratuitous" violence, denigrated for ...
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(2024-03-20)Department: English“A Connected Idea of the Lesson”: Teaching and Learning in African American Literature, examines depictions of the classroom in African American literature in order to understand how well-known writers and activists from ...
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(2020-10-12)Department: EnglishThis study details the construction of the intellectual infrastructure of “culturally relevant teaching” (CRT) by African-American women educators from 1873 to 1913. While CRT is understood to have roots in the pedagogies ...
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(2014-07-28)Department: EnglishJames Joyce scholars in the 1990s and early 2000s tried, without much success, to use hypertext to improve upon existing annotations of Ulysses. Joyce's estate put a freeze on such work in 2003. Now that Ulysses has entered ...
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(2020-11-24)Department: EnglishDuring a discussion of her novel, Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward recalls her experience of Hurricane Katrina: “I sat on the porch, barefoot and shaking. The sky turned orange and the wind sounded like fighter jets” (Ward ...
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(2017-08-07)Department: English“Never give up your lands you now possess, for it is your right by God and nature, for the ‘earth was given to the children of men.’” Quoting Psalm 115-16, the Jamaican preacher Robert Wedderburn announces a political order ...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Dying Man: Vladimir Nabokov and the Scandal of Posthumous Publication (2014-07-15)Department: EnglishIn 2009, the text that would have been Vladimir Nabokov’s final novel, The Original of Laura, was published against the late author’s explicit instructions. Although the controversy surrounding Laura’s publication ostensibly ...
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(2012-08-01)Department: EnglishThis dissertation recovers the long nineteenth-century history of the magic-portrait story, a forgotten genre of prose fiction that climaxed in 1890 with Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. I argue that the history ...
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(2007-12-27)Department: EnglishIn this dissertation, I conceive of three interlocking developments in geography: the revolution of infrastructure, the circulation of goods and print, and the completion of the map of the world. The enclosure of lands and ...
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(2012-07-23)Department: EnglishThis paper examines Herman Melville’s Pierre, and the novel’s critical reception, in order to investigate and theorize the relevance of Melville’s work for Caribbean writers and historians. This work will contend that the ...
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(2021-06-11)Department: EnglishThis dissertation intervenes in discussions about the development of fictionality during the eighteenth century by examining how British authors experimented with fictional practices through the oriental tale. While the ...
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(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 ...
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(2012-08-08)Department: EnglishChristopher Marlowe’s early modern hero, Tamburlaine, The Great is a totalitarian who appears to control every thing and every person on the world-stage with speech-acts. This paper argues that Tamburlaine, The Great Parts ...
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(2017-08-04)Department: EnglishTo know that something has adapted is to know it has survived. Literary adaptation theory has long assumed that the survival there in question is the survival of texts that adapt to new mediums and environments and thus ...
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(2012-08-02)Department: EnglishThis dissertation argues that the literature of a fading, Atlantic-imperial system of mines and plantations had a decisive and under-examined impact upon twentieth-century globalization. Adopting a world-systems perspective, ...
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(2013-07-17)Department: EnglishOctavia Butler’s Kindred and Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring are African diasporic texts that trouble the boundaries of nation, home, time, and genre, as they are traditionally defined. This thesis argues that ...
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(2010-08-16)Department: EnglishMuch recent historically-focused scholarship has revealed the ways in which the deviant criminality in the work of Edgar Allan Poe can be read as ideologically conservative. This criticism is understandably concerned with ...
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(2013-07-16)Department: EnglishScholarly responses to Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker’s 1611 city comedy, The Roaring Girl, usually attend to the play’s captivating depictions of gender anxiety, female eroticism, vocal power, and material consumption. ...
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(2019-07-19)Department: EnglishAlienating Aesthetics considers the relationship between surgical practice and anatomical displays in museums, performance art, theatre, avant-garde film, and medical fictions. This project looks at the purpose of art ...
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(2011-07-29)Department: EnglishCharles Dickens’s novels are full of instances of parental inversion, in which cruel or hapless (and usually male) parents are cared for by their far more capable (and typically female) children. Our Mutual Friend features ...