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U.S./Southeast Asian exile narratives, or "refugee literature, tend to be classified as autobiographies, testimonials and personal narratives, and not with other literary genres such as the pastoral. Pastoral representations of the...
Maison is a collection of poems that operates as a novel in verse. As such, the collection probes the construction of genre, the possibility of using linguistic play as a narrative tool, and the reinvention of traditional poetic forms...
Instead of viewing the human self as an autonomous rational being, posthumanism understands the human as a material being shaped by a variety of physical, social, linguistic, political, economic, and historical forces; a material being...
Benedict Anderson has argued that the homogenous time resulting from the emergence of print news and the novel has enabled the "imagined communities" necessary for the production of the nation-state. My project, on the other hand, ...
Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot struggled against conventions and endured criticism as authors. Despite personal turmoil, each eventually civilized some of her rebelliousness, and in her life and writing embraced...
Twentieth-century Americans share a patriarchal, capitalist history with 17th century Elizabethans, one that informs the society reflected in the Verona of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. This thesis shows how Baz Luhrmann's film...
The poems in the dissertation, American Accent, are a unification of the hybrid identity of their writer. The poems explore what it means to be American, geographically and mentally, for a Polish-American 'migr' writer. The poems begin...
During the latter half of the nineteenth century, women publicly confronted the issue of sexual violence for the first time. Feminists campaigned against the state-sanctioned "instrumental rape" perpetrated on women under the Contagious...
The poems in Dispatches from the Sex Doll Factory form a disjointed narrative, one that explores the displaced speaker's negotiation of the world around him. While the story is largely set in the Realdoll factory of San Marcos, ...
My thesis, She Had to Be Bad: The Femme Fatale as Serial Killer in 1950s American Pulp Fiction, considers the femme fatale in light of popular fiction and the characterization of female criminals in popular culture. It does not address...
Gothic short fiction of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in England was immensely popular with readers of all social classes and incomes. This study examines the varying models of paternity in this short fiction, and...
The Cutting Room Floor explores the life of Frankenstein's monster, as narrated by the creature himself. True to Mary Shelley's original book, the monster has no name but recognizes that he is often mistakenly called 'Frankenstein, '...
This study is an attempt to trace changing perceptions of masculinity as expressed by popular literature in the late twentieth century. In this thesis I argue that masculinity is a process and, as such, can be understood differently at...
This thesis examines the employment choices available to single women on a typical 19th-century Georgian estate, represented by Barton Park in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. The word "employment" appears more than 65 times in her...
Five Stories contains the imaginative work of Jason Freels. The thesis concentrates on the craft of writing short fiction, and will demonstrate the creative abilities of the author by successfully producing stories in this form.
Christian Milne's Simple Poems on Simple Subjects contains fifty-six poems, including autobiographical poems, fictional narratives, and songs, all created by the working-class Scottish poet who was born in Inverness in 1773. Milne's...
This dissertation examines the modes and functions of sympathy as they are represented in three forms of modern literature. By assessing the sympathetic aspects of these three popular narratives, I clarify the process by which modern...
Troubling the Lineage addresses two persistent gaps in scholarship pertaining to the long poem in the twentieth century: the omission of works by women and the pervasive characterization of the long poem as a "masculine" form. As a...
The collected stories in the dissertation manuscript, The Widow Sunday, are set primarily in Mississippi, and present a south devoid of reference to contemporary culture. The south of The Widow Sunday is timeless, a microcosm where the...
The history of music scenes is a topic that has been misunderstood. Scholarship has tended to focus on sociological theory as a basis for understanding how and why music scenes exist and motivate youth. While accomplishing important work...
Since the earliest records of culture, mankind has represented its ocularcentric focus through images of sight. Freud theorizes that these images of viewership represent dynamics of power: those who see, actively control, and those who...
Evolution of the American performance culture between 1850-1910 was deeply rooted within broad social and cultural changes. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, and Henry James engage the reflective quality of performance culture to...
The West End, a novel set in Vancouver, Canada in the years directly preceding the handover of Hong Kong in 1997, is the story of two sisters, Claire and Hannah Stephen, whose love of art and the environment is challenged by the...
Postmodern theorists and authors have long argued that history is a constructed system of knowledge, and therefore prone to error. Yet, despite memory's connection to history, postmodern authors have continued to utilize it as a stable...
This thesis is an examination of David Cronenberg's Videodrome. In the course of the thesis I compare a fictional account of terrorist activity to the behaviors and organizational machinery of genuine terrorist organizations such as the...
Few world cities can claim to have had as much of an impact on American literature as the Moroccan city of Tangier. The writers who resided in or passed through the city in the 1950s and the works of literature produced there have re...
The starting point for this work is the exigency of community in the contemporary world. A number of British novels and films written and produced during Margaret Thatcher's term in office illustrate the deep social and economic...
This thesis interrogates the Gothic literary genre of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and proposes using place as a lens through which contemporary critics may read social and political resistance in a given piece of Gothic...
This dissertation is a collection of ten short stories. All are works of fiction composed by the author during the years 2004-2006 when he was a student in the Creative Writing PhD program at Florida State University.
This thesis is a study of the ways in which Michel Foucault's theoretical assumptions about power relations are manifested in the New Journalism of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, and Ron Kovic...
As scholars have conceptualized American Literature, three prominent literary movements or groups of writers were active in the 1920s and 1930s: the Harlem or Black Renaissance; the Lost Generation or Expatriates; the Southern...
In Spring and All, William Carlos Williams asserts that his readers' perception is alienated from the world by a "barrier." In particular, he argues that these readers are alienated from the present moment. This state of alienation is...
Iconic Androgyne" explores the nature of androgyny in both the poetical works of Lord Byron and in the composition of Byron's own persona. Most contemporary scholarship approaches androgyny from a queer theory or feminist theoretical...
This collection, entitled Where the Cottonwoods Grow, is built around the theme of family. Whether it is a good one or bad one, every person has a family of some form. In these stories I explore the familial role through such questions...
This study articulates the reinvention of rewriting in postmodern fiction from the 1980s to present, focusing particularly on the writings of Zadie Smith, Jeanette Winterson, and Emma Tennant. These three authors have made history and...
Comic books printed during the 1930s and 40s contained stories and characters that supported the New Deal and America's entry into World War II. Though comic books are typically seen solely as reflections of the decades; the comic books, ...
This project is an attempt to re-conceptualizes the interaction between memory and the body, specifically the failures and slippages of memory, in the works of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. I contend that Beckett's work (following...
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