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Beyond significant language: Faith, possibility, and trust in Emerson, Poe, and Melville
(2010)
This dissertation examines conceptions and representations of belief—in our relationship to a beyond, to psychology or philosophy of mind, and to others—in the essays and fiction of Emerson, Poe, and Melville. The chapter ...
Seri landscape classification and spatial reference
(2010)
This thesis contributes to the growing field of ethnophysiography, a new subfield of cognitive anthropology that aims to determine the universals and variation in the categorization of landscape objects across cultures. ...
A call to the pen and the gun: The neo-colonial novel as a writer's allegory – An analysis of Ngugi wa Thiong'o's “A Grain of Wheat, Petals of Blood and Devil on the Cross”
(2010)
This in depth analysis of Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s novels A Grain of Wheat (1967), Petals of Blood (1977), and Devil on the Cross (1982) assesses the role of the writer in the struggle against neo-colonialism in Kenya. Ngugi ...
Sexual trauma and the post-traumatic (re)formation of identity
(2010)
This thesis explores the representation of trauma in The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee and selected writings and performances of Karen Finley. While all three create fictionalized spaces ...
Beyond post-dictatorship: Transnational Latin American literature and the violence of writing
(2010)
Beyond Post-dictatorship: Transnational Latin America Literature and the Violence of Writing, maps the literary imaginary of community and the world through the works of Jorge Luis Borges, Juan José Saer, Angélica Gorodischer, ...
Edgar Allan Poe and popular culture in the age of journalism: Balloon hoaxes, mesmerism, and phrenology
(2010)
This study attends to Edgar Allan Poe's interest in pseudo-science, pseudo-information, and popular culture, such as hot air balloons, mesmerism, and phrenology, and examines both the way he uses them in his work and their ...
Flannery O'Connor and the irony of self-creation
(2010)
This thesis examines self-creation in Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood , The Violent Bear It Away , "Good Country People" and "A Good Man is Hard to Find" in terms of the ontological category of "nothing." Specifically, it ...
Sound and silence: Samuel Beckett's audio plays
(2010)
This thesis examines the significance of Samuel Beckett's use of audio technology as a means of presentation for drama in three plays written in the 1950s: All That Fall, Krapp's Last Tape, and Embers. Beckett's foregrounding ...
Two examples of the construction of noble masculinity in English literature at the end of the fourteenth century
(2010)
This project delves into the concept of chivalry – the defining feature of masculinity in medieval English literature. Working closely with two texts; Chaucer’s The Book of the Duchess and the anonymous Sir Gawain and the ...
The (in)justice of cinema: Glimpses of law at 24 frames per second
(2010)
This project seeks to examine the relationship between film and the law, both formally and in terms of the social and cultural representations of justice and the American legal system they present when applied in tandem. ...