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Mark Twain's secret writings
(2016)
Mark Twain’s life-long fascination with enciphered literature is a little known aspect of his otherwise exceptionally well-documented literary career. Apart from a handful of articles tangentially touching on the issue of ...
Exploring the cognitive underpinnings of the correspondence between verb meaning and syntax
(2016)
This dissertation explores the cognitive underpinnings of the linguistic observation that there is a strong correspondence between the meanings of verbs and the syntactic contexts in which they occur. Building on the ...
Rhetoric and new contractarianism for figures of gentility in early modern novels
(2016)
This dissertation explores the literary representations of British gentility in the early modern fiction as they embrace discourse of enlightened social exchanges, sentimental reforms, and modern contractarianism in an ...
The Andalusian faces of Spanishness: Myth, icons and identity in Andalusian theatre of the Second Republic
(2016)
In Spain during the 1930s, the democratically elected Second Republic government imposed progressive reforms designed to modernize the nation. However, conservative factions opposed these changes in favor of a return to ...
The martyr and the traitor: Violence and resistance in world literature and cinema
(2016)
This dissertation examines the way systemic capitalist violence and resistance to it can be articulated through the three figures of the martyr, the disappeared, and the traitor. Focusing on the literary tropes of the ...
Architectures of angst: Spatial poetics in 20th century existential literature
(2016)
This dissertation represents an attempt to respond to a lack in literary criticism; namely, it considers the role the constructed spaces in literature have in literary analysis within an existentialist framework. This ...
Domestic wilderness: American gothic, sexuation, and skepticism
(2016)
“Domestic Wilderness: American Gothic, Sexuation, and Skepticism” asserts that the American gothic tradition is a unique response to European skepticism and that it takes the form of narrativizing the problem of sexual ...
Confrontando caras: Confronting language, facing cultural identity
(2016)
Ethnic identity can be subject to both passive and overt review, which has the potential to cause traumatic fracture of identity. I am a second generation American-Puerto Rican, which can be defined as a person born in the ...
Two sides to the story: Multiple versions of stories in twentieth century narrative
(2016)
A number of contemporary writers of literary fiction are attempting to tell mimetic stories in their books. But this raises the question, how can writers tell realistic stories once many modernist and postmodernist writers ...
Confrontando caras: Confronting language, facing cultural identity
(2016)
Ethnic identity can be subject to both passive and overt review, which has the potential to cause traumatic fracture of identity. I am a second generation American-Puerto Rican, which can be defined as a person born in the ...