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    "A song along the keyboard": Popular music and literature in postwar American culture 

    Sirkin, Jeffrey Stephen (2007)
    This dissertation draws together the history of recording technologies with theoretical discussions of art, music, and celebrity culture, and pairs these with literary explorations of music from the postwar era. Framed by ...
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    Agencies and associations: Women writing Indian reform in nineteenth-century America 

    Jacobson, Lori L. (2007)
    As a study of women's Indian reform writing of the nineteenth century, this dissertation articulates the complex and interactive human agencies produced by the association of Native Americans and white women. When white ...
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    Apocalyptic incarnations: The aesthetics of fear and catastrophe in the nineteenth-century literary imagination 

    Pelletier, Kevin D. (2007)
    Whether it appears in the fire and brimstone rhetoric of Jonathan Edwards' sermons, the doomsday paranoia of the Nuclear Age, or the season-to-season calamities of television's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the apocalypse has ...
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    Becoming American in Sam Shepard's West and Asian American West 

    Nam, Jeongsub (2007)
    This dissertation searches for meanings of becoming American through comparative studies of the American West as a psychological locus for establishing American identity in Sam Shepard's plays and films, and several Asian ...
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    Early modern, multicultural England: Literature and immigration in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England 

    Oldenburg, Scott (2007)
    This dissertation challenges recent scholarship on the construction of Englishness and early modern national identity by examining the ways in which early modern writers addressed the issue of immigration from the continent ...
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    Transforming women's labor in early modern literature: Sex, gender, class, identity 

    Greenberg, Rachel Leah (2007)
    "Transforming Women's Labor in Early Modern Literature" explores how women's labor is portrayed in sixteenth- and seventeenth century early modern English literature in tandem with the emergence of a steadily growing market ...
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    Indians and the national unconscious: Discourses of nationalism and democracy in the United States and Bolivia, 1780--1850 

    Goble, Luke J. (2007)
    In the period of transition from colony to independent nation-state, texts from both the United States and Bolivia used representations of indigenous peoples for the purposes of independence and nationalism. A comparison ...
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    Sidewalks of desire: Paradoxes of the postmodern flaneur in contemporary queer fiction 

    Ivanchikova, Alla (2007)
    Sidewalks of Desire: Paradoxes of the Postmodern Flaneur in Contemporary Queer Fiction discusses the concept of the flaneur and analyzes the modes of appropriating this figure as the trope of writing queer sexuality. I ...
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    Queer comedy: Laughter and stigma: fear and rebellion in modern and contemporary drama 

    Chase, Anthony J.W. (2007)
    The dissertation discusses comedy from the perspective of queer theory, or the study of stigmatized subjectivity. Each of the five chapters examines the idea of comedy using a different literary moment and in so doing, ...
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    The city of Dionysos: A social and historical study of the Ionian city of Teos 

    Strang, Jonathan Ryan (2007)
    The present study focuses on tying together all the archaeological, architectural, and epigraphic research on the ancient Greek polis of Teos in Ionia. The work falls into two distinct parts. The first section surveys the ...

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    AuthorChase, Anthony J.W. (1)Goble, Luke J. (1)Greenberg, Rachel Leah (1)Ivanchikova, Alla (1)Jacobson, Lori L. (1)Nam, Jeongsub (1)Oldenburg, Scott (1)Pelletier, Kevin D. (1)Sirkin, Jeffrey Stephen (1)Strang, Jonathan Ryan (1)Subject
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    Communication and the arts (4)Nineteenth century (2)United States (2)West (2)Aesthetics (1)Apocalyptic (1)Asian-American (1)... View MoreTypeDissertation/Thesis (10)... View MoreDate Issued
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