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Rational territories: Literature and the place of reason, 1650–1750
(2010)
“Rational Territories: Literature and the Place of Reason, 1650-1750,” examines the link between reason and place in the literature of the eighteenth century. In some of the eighteenth century’s best known texts, rationality ...
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, ...
Portraits of confused identity: The poems of the Pearl poet
(2010)
This paper will focus on the question of identity in the poems of the Pearl poet and how such identities are shaped. Through multiple character traits, I examine not only how the audience plays a role in identity formation, ...
Green place: Sustaining historic buildings
(2010)
Statement of issue/problem . As we move towards a sustainable future in design, architecture and lifestyle, the major issues with developing sustainably in a built environment that seem to arise are existing structures and ...
Masculinity under the influence: Feminization, romanticism and the transformative vampire in Bram Stoker's “Dracula”
(2010)
In this paper I question Dracula 's position as a novel that expounds and instigates fin de siecle anxiety regarding gender positions. I propose that rather than a novel which heightens anxiety surrounding gender norms, ...
Walt Whitman in Winesburg: Willing liminality and Sherwood Anderson's “Winesburg, Ohio”
(2010)
This thesis examines the ways in which Walt Whitman’s poetry, especially “Song of Myself,” is helpful in reading Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio . In his poetry, Whitman describes liminal scenes—spaces with boundary ...
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 ...
A grammar of Bao'an Tu, a Mongolic language of northwest China
(2010)
The present study is a grammatical overview of the Bao’an Tu language (one of the varieties included in the designation ‘ISO6393-3:PEH’, also known as ‘Tongren Monguor’, ‘Southwestern Monguor’, or ‘Tongren Tu’). Bao’an Tu ...
Politics out of trauma: Asian American literature and the subject formation of Asian America
(2010)
This dissertation unravels the complex relationships between trauma, politics, and the subject formation of Asian America in order to challenge the assumption that the subject's experiences define the political grounds of ...
In labor her best teacher: Nineteenth-century women's work as a Transcendentalist Bildungsroman
(2010)
“In Labor Her Best Teacher: Nineteenth-Century Women's Work as a Transcendentalist Bildungsroman ,” examines the synthesis of Transcendentalist theories of self-development in relation to women's labor from the 1860's and ...