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Irish modernism and the problem of metaphor: Interactions between the imagination and the materiality of language in the literature of Beckett, Joyce and Yeats
(2011)
"Irish Modernism and The Problem of Metaphor: Interactions Between the Imagination and the Materiality of Language in the Literature of Beckett, Joyce and Yeats" examines the unconventional role that metaphor plays as an ...
Innumerable forgettings: Bearing witness to disaster in Douglass and Morrison
(2011)
"Innumerable Forgettings: Bearing Witness to Disaster in Douglass and Morrison," is a study of memory, history, forgetting, and the act of bearing witness to traumatic experience. Frederick Douglass's personal narrative ...
Wordsworth: visionary poet of the natural world
(2011)
This thesis responds to two questions recently reformulated by Paul Fry and Simon Jarvis, respectively: (1) Is Wordsworth a nature poet?; and (2) Does his poetry qualify as "philosophic Song"? My answer to both questions ...
Under the Influence: Ethics and Domesticity in Prohibition-Era Literature
(2011)
Under the Influence: Ethics and Domesticity in Prohibition-Era Literature explores the ways in which the representations of drinking and drunkenness in Prohibition-era fiction are part of a larger project of modernism that ...
Fallen beauty: Aesthetics and ethics in decadent literature
(2011)
Fallen Beauty presents a genealogy of literary decadence before interpreting the shifting relation between aesthetics and ethics in three representative novels, including Joris-Karl Huysmans’s Against Nature, Oscar Wilde’s ...
Ontoterrorem ; or, power, ontological-terror & protestation: (Re)conceptualizing language, thought & the body as structures of possibility
(2011)
" Ontoterrorem ; or, Power, Ontological-Terror & Protestation" attempts a (re)conceptualization of Language, Thought & the Body as structures of possibility. While I feel it is utterly impossible to ‘definitively’ ...
Visions of the city: Wittgenstein and linguistic modalities in modernism
(2011)
This thesis asserts that Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy, expressed primarily through his formulation of the private language argument, offers a uniquely illuminating perspective to the works of Virginia Woolf and T.S. ...
Ordinary transcendence: Christianity, authority, and crisis in American literature and culture, 1865–1990
(2011)
This dissertation examines representations of social authority in popular culture at times of crisis in the United States since the Civil War. My analysis focuses on popular depictions of Jesus as an ideal leader whose ...