Browsing by Subject "American literature"
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(2013-08-01)Department: EnglishThis project argues that white American manhood has generic conventions that obscure the nuances of contemporary white manhood. I turn to contemporary westerns where I employ an oppositional gaze to illuminate strategies ...
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(2005-11-28)Department: EnglishThis dissertation investigates how men on the racial margins, whose ownership of masculinity is contested within the American context, co-opt, subvert, and rupture – that is “disidentify” with – conventional registers of ...
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(2019-10-14)Department: EnglishThis paper takes up the problem of representation in literary studies from the standpoint of the study of culture. The presumption that works of literature are culturally representative of the nations in, by, and for which ...