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The article system of UMONHON (Omaha)
(2005)
The definite article system of Omaha consists of eleven post-clitics (enclitics) which are each mono- or di-syllabic. This article system has been shown to encode shape, position, movement, and animacy (Dorsey m.s., Anonymous ...
Wanderings: (Back) toward a poetic historiography
(2005)
"Wanderings: (Back) Toward a Poetic Historiography" considers how the long-standing American tradition of wandering in the wilderness is adopted and adapted as a method of historical inquiry by three twentieth-century ...
The body politic of the beautiful: Gender, sexuality, and race in later-eighteenth-century aesthetics
(2005)
This dissertation explores the cultural politics that underwrite British writings on beauty from the last half of the eighteenth century. At the historical moment when the human body is claimed to be the paragon of loveliness ...
Straying aside /bodying athwart: Without the lines of traumatic history in Walt Whitman's “Specimen Days” and W. E. B. Du Bois' “The Souls of Black Folk”
(2005)
Strays: letters, words, sentences, bodies, body parts, identities, sense. What will not be re-collected into meaningful form, into a story one might tell about one's self or one's nation. In Straying Aside/Bodying ...
Predicaments and resolutions: A study of dramatic structure in Stoppard, Chekhov, and Shakespeare
(2005)
Beginning with the premise that all drama issues from essential human predicaments, this study examines select works from three major playwrights over the last four hundred years--Tom Stoppard, Anton Chekhov, and William ...
Theaters of forgiveness
(2005)
The dissertation analyzes post-Holocaust conceptions of forgiveness. My guiding assumption is that the Abrahamic heritage of forgiveness is marked by two contradictory demands: first, that one forgive on certain conditions ...
Singing machines: Musical intelligences and human instruments in science fiction and film
(2005)
Singing Machines: Musical Intelligences and Human Instruments in Science Fiction and Film examines the ways that musically-inclined machines and instruments function in science fiction. The texts under investigation ...
Tears, humor and "the critical and clinical": Reading the baroque and sympathy in "Clarissa", "Tristram Shandy" and Deleuze
(2005)
This dissertation will examine the critical and clinical relationship between Clarissa and Tristram Shandy by reading the thought of Deleuze. In the history of the early Modern English novel, Clarissa and Tristram Shandy ...
Bilingual access to interlingual homographs: An examination of effects of sentential context, word frequency, and proficiency
(2005)
Support for the exhaustive activation of multiple meanings of interlingual homographs like coin (meaning money in English and corner in French) comes primarily from studies presenting homographs in isolation (e.g., Beauvillain ...
Intertextuality, female alliance and literary genealogy in the eighteenth-century British novel
(2005)
This dissertation attempts to construct a genealogy of intertextual relations between generations of women in the eighteenth-century British novelistic tradition. Reading generational relations between women novelists in ...