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"O that equal Loves might inspire thee and me:" Subjective Readings of Homonormativity and the Metaphor of Love in Elizabethan Pastoral Literature, and Late Renaissance Pastoral Elegy
(2013)
This project focuses on the intimate bonds of male same-sex love and friendship that either co-existed, or existed within the mode of pastoral during the English Renaissance. By using psychoanalysis and queer theory, as ...
Urban solution from the literary examples of “Love in the Time of Cholera” and “The Jungle”: The human body and the bios in ethics, politics, and the biopolis
(2013)
This paper deconstructs the situation of the human body and other aspects of the bios in Love in the Time of Cholera and The Jungle . I argue that political and ethical ideologies and systems serve to elevate the lives of ...
Human menageries: Freak show legacies in contemporary American literature and popular culture
(2013)
Human Menageries: Freak Show Legacies in Contemporary American Literature and Popular Culture Human Menageries examines representations of freaks in late-twentieth century and early-twenty-first century American literature ...
"A circle within a circle. A series of concentric circles": Cha's poetics of process in "Dictee" and other texts
(2013)
This thesis works towards a formulation of a poetic of process in the work of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. In Dictee and her other works, poet and video artist Theresa Cha demonstrates a poetics of process and becoming. Through ...
Social perspectives on the zombie revival
(2013)
Times of political, economic and social upheaval in the United States have influenced the popularity of zombie media including films, television series, literature, and video games. The success of George A. Romero's earliest ...
How did she get where she's going? Geography and the implications of movement in the works of Kathy Acker, Katherine Dunn, and Grace Krilanovich
(2013)
A study of the spatial metaphors and limitations on transgressive female characters/runaways in novels by Kathy Acker, Katherine Dunn, and Grace Krilanovich, presenting the broader traditional justifications for violence ...
Teyotsi'tsiahsonhátye; Meaning and medicine in the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) story of life's renewal
(2013)
For the past ten millennia, the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) have been telling their story of Earth's creation. For the past four centuries, this story has been recorded and reinterpreted by Europeans; first as paths to Christian ...
Absent witness: Trauma and contemporary American poetry
(2013)
This dissertation engages with North American poetries, written after 1970, which witness, represent, and respond to traumatic events by utilizing the event's documentary trail. This dissertation treats the work of three ...
Maternity, masculinity, and the Civil War in American poetry 1850–1914
(2013)
Examining nineteenth-century poetry in terms of how it was valued—and used-—in its time, Maternity, Masculinity and the Civil War in American Poetry 1850-1914 explores a political dimension of poetry's cultural work that ...
Hounded beyond all bounds of reason: Morality and the sublime in American literary naturalism
(2013)
American literary naturalists use theories of the sublime derived from Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant that have gone largely unexplored by scholars yet appear unique to the writing style. Significant characteristics from ...