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    Disguise, disease, and transformation: Public and private expressions of non-normative identities in The Pagoda and A Small Gathering of Bones 

    Klassen, Tress (2015)
    This project aims to examine the fictional works of Patricia Powell, specifically The Pagoda and A Small Gathering of Bones through the theoretical lens of Hannah Arendt, as well as supplemental theoretical works regarding ...
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    Ungrateful city: The collected poems of John Wieners 

    Dewhurst, Robert Stuart (2015)
    John Wieners (1934-2002) was a central figure of the "New American" poetry, whose work has been critically untended since his retirement from public life in the mid-1970s. After graduating from Boston College in 1954, ...
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    The power dynamics of sound in Dionysiac cult and myth 

    Lamberto, Katie Ann (2015)
    A particular range of sounds express the presence and power of the god Dionysos. Β[varrho]óμιo[varsigma], an epithet almost exclusively applied to Dionysos, especially connotes powerful sounds from the natural world, ...
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    (De)forming woman: Images of feminine political subjectivity in Latin American literature, from disappearance to femicide 

    Martinez-Raguso, Michael (2015)
    The question at the root of this study is why the political formation of state power in Latin America always seems to be accompanied by violence against women. Two threads run throughout: an analysis of the relation between ...
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    Archives Unbound: Modern Literature and the Rise of Information Science 

    Squires, David (2015)
    "Archives Unbound: Modern Literature and the Rise of Information Science" complicates a tendency in literary criticism to treat archives as fully integrated systems of power, knowledge and memory. Instead it shows how the ...
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    Linguistic avoidance and social relations in Datooga 

    Mitchell, Alice (2015)
    This dissertation investigates an unusual sociolinguistic practice in Datooga, a Southern Nilotic language spoken in northern and central Tanzania. In Datooga, an elaborate avoidance vocabulary has developed out of a ...
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    Paradise collapsed: Re-imagining the American past and utopia in the historical romances of Hawthorne, Faulkner, and Morrison 

    Kim, Jungmin (2015)
    This dissertation aims to research some of the major American novelists' works of the historical romance genre and investigate the ways in which these writers experiment with the genre in order to convey the immanent truth ...
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    Learning Latin as a 2nd Language, Using Latin for a 3rd: A Linguistic and Pedagogical Investigation of Neo-Latin Foreign Language Textbooks 

    Roth, Kevin Richard (2015)
    Neo-Latin emerged during the Renaissance as a conscious effort to rid the language of the features that distinguished the Medieval form from the 1st century BC Classical purity of Caesar and, especially, Cicero. Although ...
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    The music of silence: Neobaroque and exile in the narratives of Julio Cortazar 

    Perez Mukdsi, Andrea (2015)
    In The Music of Silence: Neobaroque and Exile in the Narratives of Julio Cortázar , I explore music's omnipresence in Cortázar's fiction. I examine the way he uses music-related cues in his novels and short stories to ...
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    Political Subjectivity from Religious Melancholy to Poetic Agency 

    Aldinger, Joseph M. M. (2015)
    "Political Subjectivity from Religious Melancholy to Poetic Agency" investigates religious loss as a politically germane topic within early modernity. I consider religious melancholy as a new strategy for imagining political ...
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    AuthorAldinger, Joseph M. M. (1)Dewhurst, Robert Stuart (1)Kim, Hyemin (1)Kim, Jungmin (1)Klassen, Tress (1)Lamberto, Katie Ann (1)Martinez-Raguso, Michael (1)Mitchell, Alice (1)Perez Mukdsi, Andrea (1)Roth, Kevin Richard (1)... View MoreSubject
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    Communication and the arts (2)Africa (1)American history (1)American poetry (1)Arendt, hannah (1)Argentina (1)Aurality (1)Avoidance register (1)... View MoreDate Issued
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